Name: "The State of Opie & Anthony" with Jim Norton (from Joe Rogan Experience #523)
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Watch the stand-up comedy video '"The State of Opie & Anthony" with Jim Norton (from Joe Rogan Experience #523)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-07-25. Transcript available.

"The State of Opie & Anthony" with Jim Norton (from Joe Rogan Experience #523)

hello freak bitches what a week young jim norton has had what a week yes what a
week
sirius satellite radio has had what a week censorship has had what a week anthony
cumia
has had what a week all the the people online that love the bitch and piss and
moan and complain
and get very excited when something fucked up goes down yeah well something
fucked up went down
when if you're listening to this if if it's sometime in the future uh because
these recordings will be
saved forever this is today's date is july 17th 2014 approximately a week ago
anthony cumia was
taking photographs anthony of the opian anthony show which our pal jim norton
is also part of
was he was downtown in new york taking some photographs and from there on it's
a bunch of
you know what what he says and what i'm sure the woman who beat the shit out of
him would have a
different story but he was taking some photographs one of one of the
photographs was of this uh what
are those things called when you uh those things when you walker scaffolding
scaffolding he was walking
through the scaffolding a woman was coming towards him it looked like he was
just taking a bunch of
cool photos of new york there's a bunch of them that he put up on his instagram
anyway this woman
got upset that he was taking a photo of her probably thought that he was pervin
um got mad at him
violence ensued she hit him and he went on twitter and went on this rant about
violence about the black
community and their propensity for violence about this woman calling her an
animal which she did and
uh serious fired him and which left a fucking huge hole in uh my entertainment
world uh the opian anthony
shows my all-time favorite radio show i listened to it all the time and now all
of a sudden it is no
more yeah it's uh you know it's a huge hole too like i no one panicked like me
because opie and anthony
both have kind of fuck you money jim norton doesn't so selfishly thinking i'm
like well there goes
everything because the show's done well you are always going to be great
because you're a funny comic
and you can always work and you never have to worry about that but um it is a
crazy thing
uh that you know all of a sudden like that for things that he said on the show
a hundred times
i think what i'm sorry i think what happened was he tweeted like he told i
talked to him
multiple times since then he was walking and people don't believe that he was
actually taking
legitimate new york photos that was one of the points of contention people like
he was being creepy
but he really wasn't like anthony has had this giant hubble-like camera in the
studio um every
day for probably six months now he's getting into photography it's what he's
been doing so that was
not unusual at all to hear he was out and about taking photos that's legit and
i guess this woman
got angry and i i talked to him and he said that she just said something like
you you know this white
boy's taking my picture you white motherfucker whatever she said she clocked
him and he kept
defending himself and as he's putting his arms up she is going um don't touch
me like you know that
thing like that a woman might do to prevent you from hitting her like and you
could see how
frightening that would be because then people think you're beating on this
woman right so he's putting
his hand up and you know i know ant well enough to know he's not going to just
punch a woman in the
face so she's doing that and i think a few black guys came around and they didn't
do anything to
ant but they were like you know don't touch her so um you know ant who is
always armed and he's
licensed to carry um didn't hit her it didn't pull out his pistol and uh went
home and i guess was
really upset and and went out on like you said a twitter rampage and um i knew
it was bad the next
morning when i saw it because my ex-girlfriend called me and she's like what
happened with anthony
got beat up by a woman and i'm like i don't know so i looked and i saw the
tweets i'm like oh i
actually texted him about one i don't think i've ever done that before there
was one that i texted
about i'm like is that you all right man is that he's like yeah i'm fine i'm
like okay it was scary
wow um yeah the the thing about ant is he's developed this sort of style of
communicating
on the show where he he goes on these long hilarious entertaining profanity
filled rants
and there's one thing about hearing it but there's another thing of like seeing
it in a text form
it's just it's not the same it looks things don't don't look good in print
certain things and i think
what happened was is in the middle of like when you have you have a contextual
conversation it's like
you have people there's inflection there's another guy next to you going well
hey what do you mean by
that and then you're clarifying it or it's just it's a different energy when
you're tweeting and
you're that mad like i think he like any type of an assault even if it's a
woman hitting you and it's
not life-threatening it's still like you know an hour later you're like what
the fuck just happened
like i think it just freaked him out and she hit him a couple times five times
or so and he she sent me
pictures of his face and he had like little you could see that he had been
struck i mean he wasn't
making it up and so he went on and when i looked at the the flow of things like
i know anthony and i
know what he's saying he was not calling all black people animals he wasn't
because he's never said
that he's talking about a behavior of this woman and i i think that what
happened was he was so mad
and when you're tweeting that aggressively and you've just you're fucking
dealing with this in your head
that sometimes things come out jumbled and muddied and like if you know and you
know what he's saying
people who don't know him are reading this going what does he mean he's saying
that there's violence in
black people and their animal like people are putting these pieces of a puzzle
together and they're making
a picture and it was like it just i know him well enough to know that in a
conversation if someone
said are you trying to say black people are animals he would go no not at all
it's a behavioral based
you know i mean because he said that about white people too so i mean it was
just one of those
things where once it was in print it's even in context we lie as a country like
you know like
when cancel colbert came out the the activist knew the context that he was
making those asian
jokes in and didn't give a fuck she still wanted to sink him she's like no no i
get it he was trying
to you know show the difference between the the same thing between this and
native americans and how
ridiculous is but i don't care so we've gotten to a point now where we don't
even pretend to not
understand the context anymore we admit that we understand the context that we
go after people
anyway so something like this is bound to uh to sink you because it can be
taken both ways unless you
actually sit there and talk to the guy and each tweet has to come out like a
film each tweet has to
be a beginning middle and end with no explanation needed around it in order to
to to be survivable
right sense well you know what the big a big key to what you said that it could
sink you well it only
sinks you if you work for a company and in my opinion that's unnecessary in
this day and age it's
unnecessary and i i think you guys and i think anthony for sure would be far
better off with a podcast
anybody can get a podcast and put it on their phone now everybody's phone has a
little jack that sticks
into your car and you play your phone through your car everybody has that now i
mean it's not an
uncommon thing it's more common to have that jack than it is to have satellite
radio most people have
to get a satellite radio thing installed in their car most people already have
that jack right you know
it's just it's so goddamn easy and i get i bet you could get all the same
sponsors i bet you could
get all the same sponsors and you would have no middleman and you don't look at
the studio it's not
doesn't take much to put something together you know a little bit of time a
little bit of effort
you know you gotta know someone who's an engineer know someone who knows how to
put the stuff together
and set up the microphones but other than that what's the difference between
this and satellite
radio i'll tell you what the difference is nobody can fucking fire you you can
go on some
cunt rampage that fucking animal cunt and no one you know people might say i'm
not downloading your
podcast anymore but at least you have the opportunity to communicate to explain
yourself and if the people
decide that they don't like your character based on one thing that you said or
one rant that you went on
that is their decision but it's not the decision of a company right and when
things get you know
companies are squirrely man they have fucking shareholders and stocks and they
have responsibilities
and all you need is a few slacktivists that start web pages and you know fire
anthony and anthony kuma we're
going after those sponsors we're gonna let them know we're boycotting mostly
just noise mostly nonsense
mostly just soft targets but all you need is a few of those in a a fucking a
company will panic they do what
happens is you know it's a billion dollar company so you get guys like you know
scott and jim who runs
it who you know they're just the fourth of july weekend was coming and then all
of a sudden they're
getting phone calls from the new york post and the washington post and although
all the press
obviously has a narrative and they did a shit job but the washington post i
thought was the worst
offender with the way they covered it because the woman wrote things that was
just really it was
revolting to read which right she was talking about anthony saying that these
guys came around
and she was saying like you know oh well i guess if a bunch of african-american
or however she said a
bunch of gentlemen want to defend someone from defaming an african-american
woman it's okay like
that's what was happening she wasn't acknowledging that anthony was being hit
she acted like these guys had
read his twitter feed and not like it it was just like she read the twitter
feed in the future in the
future it was repulsive all this well a woman who looks like the fucking fake
deaf interpreter from
mandela's funeral is beating on anthony but uh
that's a meme that guy's a meme he's rules but uh the company these guys just
get all of a sudden
they're just they're home and they're getting phone calls in the office the day
before vacation
so what are your comments and they probably weren't even that familiar with it
until they're getting
calls from the paper and they're like what do we do with this and then this is
what the press does
and this is why you got to hate that because i think sirius was going to try to
write it out that's my
opinion because they knew a holiday weekend was coming and uh this is purely a
guess because no
one was saying anything and then all of a sudden the press starts going we have
not had a comment
from sirius satellite radio so we're assuming that they agree with mr kumi's
opinions they do this
sneaky shit to push you into defending yourself so now the company with
shareholders like you said has to go
well how do we tell people that we don't agree so it's not like if the press is
the made them do it but the press
understands how to corner you into giving a statement a definitive statement
because they know that you're
not used to this they know that these guys coming to work uh in management
positions are not used to
getting phone calls going how do you feel about this statement and that
statement you know it was really
it was a very frustrating thing when i saw what the press did with it that that
to me is always who my
biggest complaint is with always it's the press there's no nuance to the way
they report on certain things
like this b