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Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

spudsbuckley posted:

Mine is when Joe got annoyed at Troy mocking him on air and saying he wasn't funny because it was a threat to Joe's "livelihood" to have a non-comic roasting him. Think it was back in early Opie and Jim days and he never came back on again.

It must have been a while before that, Troy was banned from the air before O&A ended. Something about Troy taking a date to Joe's show and being embarrassed at how bad it was.

Didn't that whole thing involve Joe's terrible KKTITN tattoo as well?

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Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
Some other Fez is crazy clips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW4AfjpzITQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndGxDr70b84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Pk84SKo88

Edit: Also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-oZOoMRCAc

Stotty fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Apr 9, 2018

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:

I finally had a chance to listen to some of their DC stuff and it really was amazing how quick Fez was with the comedy. He was pretty solid and quick with the lines....but honestly, seeing what happened when he went to New York, he probably should have just resigned and went back to Florida after DC was done. Fez is only going to be happy if he's back home, and nothing will ever change that.

The whole trip for him to Sirius and the resultant multi-year collapse was just a waste of time and effort. And the career sabotage he did to himself instead of trying to make it in New York is something extraordinary to behold. I don't think he's gay, he's just not sane, nor never will be.

Ron always gave the impression it was the other way round, Fez loved New York and it was the move to DC that pretty much set him into his slow decline.

Fez didn't want to go and proclaimed that he wasn't going to enjoy it and wouldn't make friends with anybody down there before even giving it a chance. He was constantly itching for a move back to New York and believed that all his problems would be solved once he was back there - but hey, mental illness doesn't work that way.

It's strangely compelling listening to all the archives of R&F stuff on youtube especially when they're not in chronological order - a real mixture of feeling sorry for Fez and his problems, then being really frustrated and annoyed by him in the next clip.

Anyway, have some more Fez is crazy clips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14txIEqKeMk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6zTLD7oKvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbXmBWN0AbQ

Stotty fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Apr 9, 2018

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
I don't know if he's passed out yet, but he has already failed to deliver on assignments and stormed out of the studio in the middle of the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNCSi-8ab50

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
It's 10 years since the St Patrick's Day meltdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg7chXk76do

Don't choke on that slice of pizza there, fatty.

Stotty fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Mar 17, 2020

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

Animal-Mother posted:

What's a good starting point for getting into Ron and Fez?

I've always enjoyed this clip:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4jWV1DKiyo

Other notable bits:-

Cakehorn Saga
Fabreze the Fainting Goat
Davey Mac's Inventions
Davey Macs Power Hour

Going earlier:-

Billy Staples Mystery Date
Billy Staples Anthrax Scare
Orange Ball of Failure
Billy Staples Falls Up the Stairs
Al Dukes Drinking Challenge

Finally, The Midnight Rider Saga

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
I'll throw in the Paul-O bachelor party too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24eGghVRJy0

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
Your mom's box

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
An organ like in this version?

Have you tried https://www.whosampled.com/Cliff-Nobles-%26-Co./The-Horse/ There's covers & samples.

The Willie Mitchell one seems to have an organ sound, but you said you've already listened to that and it wasn't the one.

Stotty fucked around with this message at 11:36 on Nov 8, 2020

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

Pontificating rear end posted:

I remember Shelby was the best intern- really sharp and funny and an easy hire to choose. And then he got paid for it and became Fez junior, freezing up on air and slacking in his creative duties. It's like Fez infected him somehow with his craziness. Toxoplasmosis maybe.

Was Shelby the one that got in trouble with HR for lying about his college course or something, or am I remembering that totally wrong?

Ron & Fez did typically burn through producers really quick - I guess the nature of the type of show they did was pretty demanding. Probably made worse by the additional pressure put on the producers when one of the main hosts is mute for 95% of a show. Fez also really took a massive dislike to him once he was hired.

Still, Fez making Shelby to go to Thanksgiving dinner with him and pretend to be his twink lover to upset his elderly mother is peak Ron & Fez.

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

Mob posted:

I think during the Breakfast Poster bit(Fred from Brooklyn in again) Fez threatened Zito and Zito basically said "bring it on" and Ron lost his entire loving mind.

I believe that was the "you'll wake up in the hospital thinking 'thank god Ron is in prison and can't get to me'" time.

edit: found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIgB-VTeIO4

I can never fully tell with Ron & Fez stuff, but I'm fairly sure this was a work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCIPAEKopDA&t=3360s

For more context, the whole bit started here I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54LJh9AR0BE

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

Stefan Prodan posted:

well I don't know why they would be baffled by his connection loving up, like there's just no way Ron would ask him a question about Denzel Washington and he would simply say "Washington" and then 3 seconds later insist he had said a full sentence, imo, I think his audio was just cutting out


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xNKv6lqDY&t=98s

Stotty fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jan 28, 2021

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
There's a new-ish channel on Youtube that seems to be actively uploading some older WNEW/WJFK Ron & Fez clips, a few of which I don't remember hearing before

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRReDS8aCnI1DaK4snZNy3g

Fair bit of Billy Staples & Al Dukes on there, some Joe Poo etc.

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
Mikey Boy ran RonFez.net I think.

He was involved in some of the siren series quizzes and was in the studio from time to time.

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
His phone calls to the show in the past couple of years have been really good, he was the old Fez again.

At least the Bucs won the Super Bowl one last time.

Hopefully he's resting easy in the refrigerated truck on the way to Northern Virginia.

Stotty fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Aug 14, 2021

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
I got into Ron & Fez pretty late, I think the show might even have finished before I started going back through the old archives - thanks to whoever originally linked the madness that was the Midnight Rider saga on here.

He seemed to be doing pretty well happiness wise after leaving the show. Whenever he called in he was like the old Fez again. Though seeing the pictures from the Thanksgiving shows and the funeral for Ron's dad, it seems like he never really got his diet under control.

As we're posting clips, remember how happy he was when he got on the Pride Parade float

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tpLxS2GMBI

Some other classic bits from better times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yc6Ktta2DI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ymfgitvgk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ipbhuZsk8

I hope his fiancée in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada is ok.

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSUE4_Y2QEE

For anybody wanting to listen.

It's a rough listen from the start.

Stotty fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Aug 16, 2021

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
The new Opie and Dopey.

Big fan of Ronnie P.

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7WrMB-6wAs

This one?

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

Morter posted:

Is it on YT at all? No need to link, a y/n would work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFJgruH7co

It's up on YT if anybody still wants to listen

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

Sankis posted:

gently caress i really need to listen to some old r&f stuff again. Is this poo poo all on YouTube at this point?

rip fezzie

edit: gently caress it. maybe i just find and download the entire XM run of Ron and Fez. That's gotta be somewhere, right?

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Ron+and+Fez%22
https://www.youtube.com/c/OhBuddays
https://www.youtube.com/c/BigCatPosse
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDcDSFLXLeC4zwxfsndzLcw
https://www.youtube.com/c/DiscoDog
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPDhu334ygJ08guKjyhL7lg
https://www.youtube.com/user/RonsCigarBJJ
https://www.youtube.com/user/RonAndFriEndZ
https://www.youtube.com/c/steveyknight

Knock yourself out

Stotty fucked around with this message at 22:00 on May 1, 2022

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
Wasn't the whole thing about Fez's vitiligo that he took roofies recreationally and feel asleep on the beach and got sunburned so bad it it gave him vitiligo?

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

Smugworth posted:

Remember when Shelb got annihilated by Ron during the angry days when he suggested no one listened to O&A

I just assumed, given the slight peek behind the curtain we got after Fez passed away, that was 100% a work.

I think it was maybe Paul MCartney didn't stop to do the O&A show? I just figured it was a tongue-in-cheek jab at them because they seemed tremendously offended that he didnt do their show.

Going back to the Earl talk, i just started listening to some really early XM shows. Jan 2006 and Ron and Fez are already fed up with Earl's screw ups, 3 months in to the gig. It's amazing he lasted as long as he did. Everything from organisation to production pieces and booking guests. He was discussing his upcoming employee review and though he deserved something like a 10-15% pay raise after 3 months in the job.

Followed this immediately with the Grammy recording incident.

Such a thoroughly odd man.

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

T Bowl posted:

The story is that Shelby got fired because he lied on his resume that he had graduated from college but was missing like one class and didn't actually graduate.

The truth is he made fun of Opie and Anthony and said why would Paul McCartney ever go on their show... Which would be funny if it came from one of their comedian buddies but because it was a low end associate producer who was newish they were pieces of poo poo and I think they had him fired and then Ron used it as an excuse that he wasn't doing his work.

Shelby also recently tweeted that he made $33,000 at SiriusXM when someone posted something about how 100k in New York City is like making 36k in small markets.

Shelby was an intern when the Paul McCartney thing happened and later became a full employee, so this isn't correct at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbXmBWN0AbQ

I believe this magical piece of radio post-dates the whole Macca bit.

Stefan Prodan posted:

I thought Fez was making a bunch and they alluded to that a bunch in terms of like how little he did with his money and how he wouldn't give up any so dave could stay etc

I'm pretty sure he was on an equal footing, they alluded to that a lot on the show. Ron lamenting how they both got equal pay despite the split of work etc. I think Fez also mentioned he was paying for his Niece/Nephew's college etc. Some bit where they talked about hiring some gospel choir for a family event that he had to foot the bill for. Shoot or work, there was a period where he offered to pay Dave all his childcare costs so Casey could go out to work. I think it's fair to say Fez was doing alright.


Sankis posted:

Is there a site with the R&F archives these days? Archive.org was pretty barren when i last looked

Here ya go budday

Stotty
Apr 5, 2004

AndrewP posted:

Has East Side Dave made an appearance on the show in the last decade?

He did a phone in during Bennington era I think.

Pepper Hicks was on the shitlist for some reason and Dave had been to see Ron doing standup.

I think he made some misguided "threats" around the time he left XM and that got him a ban from the building.

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Stotty
Apr 5, 2004
He can add it to the fat payout he got from conEd.

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