Opie & Anthony: Erock's Lateness Causes a Staff Fight (02/04/08) 

"stop languishing in vagueries and fucking say something of substance" what a beautiful sentence

"Are you habitually late?" "Habitually? No. A lot? No, but" LOL

I love how Opie, Anthony and Jimmy completely shut the fuck up to get every ounce of this argument out LOL I wish I was there to see how awkward they looked. These were the best O&A days lol

Danny somehow managed to get in a fight with staff when he wasn’t even in the studio

Opie saying sam is going to "get a sweet promotion someday" Oh if you only knew.

I always found it so sweet how Anthony would defend Danny. Love is a partnership and Anthony always held up his end of that bargain. The world would heal if we could all love like they did.

The best part about all these on-air fights is Jimmy going 'Oooh' after their insults to instigate it more.

I like how this would normally be an HR behind-closed-doors conversation for any other job 😅

I love the Jimmy "Ohhhh's" trying to instigate shit, lol

Doc are you telling me... That you built a time machine... Out of a DeLorean?

Dude kind of lost some bass in his voice when Erock snapped lol. Erock sounds like Marty McFly when he yells lol

Danny is the type of guy who escalates barroom arguments into stabbings

love this shit. why is other people fighting so damn funny?

I love how Jimmy keeps stirring the pot while analyzing Erock.

I don't get all the Erock hate. Dude owned the argument except for the late part which he admitted was shitty.

This is why I love this show, when coworkers start fighting they just let it happen

Erocks high pictch scream had a lil Bart Simpson in there

It's so good that Danny worked all those years as an intern and then got the boot. Sweet. sweet comeuppance.

Than looks like a manager at a Game Stop and Erock is his trainee.

13:15 ‘they’re not upset the boss comes in later’ one of the best lines from this argument

E-rock sounds like a 14 year old when he starts yelling.

The clip ends with Opie stepping on Norton's joke. Classic O&A.

This is probably the best segment I've heard with Opie. He actually seems to fully understand in this case that he needs to stfu and allow the funny to happen around him. He even has a couple of good timed lines as well. Like an albino deer.... so so rare.

Danny wasn’t even in the office that day and still had an on air argument

31:01 “stop languishing in vagaries, fucking say something of substance” is still maybe the funniest thing I ever heard on the radio.

Get em Erock! Stand your ground.

Team E-Rock he's been with the show this long for a reason in my opinion

It always strikes me as interesting that you can see someone and immediately know they’re an O&A fan/employee. Both these photos look like they were born to work on O&A

Than looks like he picks up a lot of Lot Lizards

How was Danny able to take and break anthonys heart so quickly?

Haha, I love it when E-Rock responds to the late comment. "Habitually? No. Alot? ... no."

Erock sounds like Michae J Fox when he shouts.

Erock was a baller, everyone was jealous.

Wow Than lost steam so fucking quick when Erock responded to every point he threw out. Fuckin Spider!

O&A were too fucking cheap to pay chump change for their own promotion through Steve’s website. They wanted the company to pay for it all because that’s what they did for Howard. They were never going be treated the same as Howard while working for the same company. They could’ve put up a few thousand dollars and made their show amazing with a visual element, but instead, they bitched about how the company favored Howard. They didn’t know their own value. Ant had his own studio in his house at the time and he claimed it only cost him around $10k. You can’t tell me that they couldn’t have pooled together $20k-$30k to buy their own studio equipment and rented a studio space. They didn’t look at the bigger picture.

Look at that picture of Than and remember how Jay Mohr called him "C3P-Olerud"

The little Jimmy ooos hither and thither never, ever get old.

Once again I find myself here, enjoying these hilarious clips on a lazy, cold sunday in december.

40:05 “People are like ‘Oh wow, shocking line by Ope’” No…they’re not.

I'm listening to this while running late for work once again.

danny was fired haha

I realize that Erock's lateness is perceived as elitist and unfair, but I believe him when he says he puts in more than his fair share in the after hours and at home. I believe his real problem is that he has anxiety about performing under pressure and working under a daily deadline. He's aware of what the show expects of him, and he prepares well for each day (his biggest critics find fault with his lateness, but rarely site specific examples of how his performance is lacking due to it). He clearly does his job better once the time crunch and frenetic pace of each morning in the studio (when everyone else's adrenalin is at it's peak) is over for the day. Anxiety like this can cause self sabotaging behavior (inexplicable habitual lateness) in order to avoid or postpone exposure to the trigger. It's easily mistaken for 'poor time management' because they crave independence and they need more privacy in order to focus. Trying to micromanage Erock's compliance (money jar, daily consequences for tardiness, etc.) will only have temporary results.

Cant stand danny

Such a toxic work environment. Haha love it

You built a time machine?? Out of a DeLorean?

Clips like this make me believe Sam and Travis deserved to take over the show.

i love the staff fights

40:10 A rare moment of honesty for Opie. He was indeed furious when he was passed up by Sam.

"Blockbuster trade" WE GET IT! Holy shit say it again, please, say it again

Jimmy's line around 45:46 LOL

All the “oooh”s from Jimmy 🤣

Lol Opie is a star here because he isn't yelling hold on every 10 minute

46:14 the delivery of Opie trying to rework Jim's joke is textbook chipperson

So erock is basically there version of benjy bronk

I love on-show fights.

Explains why Rockstar quality has been going down hill if these guys were brought on board.

"Oh Wow, shocking line by Ope!"

It was Opie all along that couldn't get along with everyone

God, I knew he was going to put “everybody hurts” on. What a hack.

It's a sign of intelligence being late all the time.

2 things: 1. Danny is a baby boy who can’t even handle Eric lightly using him as an example, got offended and had to call in at [presumably] 8AM when he called in sick… 2. Eric is a lazy, slovenly lump

45:57 LOL - Danny says "I do", but (...) - No, he's being proposed to by a liquor bottle

Love that pic of erock in the thumbnail

Milking the clock

@17:40 "we are all in charge of Sam" If they only knew how things would change. Lmao

Erock is fighting with obesity

21:55 wait for opies response. Most I think I’ve ever laughed at one of his lines. For whatever silly reason

The third time Everybody hurts starts playing and they're talking about sports is my favorite part

Love these guys so much didn't hearabout them until two months ago because I live in scotland

Hogie boy tears this bearded nothing to shreads.

One of my favorite fights. lmao

Opie was so funny during this bit...oops I meant Jimmy

Anybody: *says anything* Jimmy:oooooh!

33:54 “time wasting bag of shit? Is that what youre calling the boss?? I dont like it.” -Jimmy

I wish so badly I could have been a part of the O&A glory faus

"... and tedious" hahahahaha

Wow that propose to liker bottle line from jimmy was so fast and good

The gulping is maddening!!!!

anyone else listen to this bit to motivate them in the morning to make it to work on time?? 😅

"C-3POlerud"

4:09 Erock instantly loses his testosterone.

I hate that Danny didn’t come to work, then he calls in to argue with Erock. They gave him way too many passes for shit that other people would’ve been trashed for. Which made him gave him a lot of self entitlement.

This is one of the best staff fights but I find it funny in hindsight. Most of the people raking erock over the coals for not being punctual and/or hard working enough ended up being complete go nowhere failures. Danny for example, got fired from sirius, burned bridges horrifically at rockstar and was last seen trying to start a shitty, generic “pop culture” podcast which failed miserably and led to him being institutionalized and later seen sleeping on his father’s couch. He’s pretty much completely unemployable except as a dishwasher, bartender or street sweeper. O&A both got fired for stupid, unprofessional antics and have been phoning it in for years. Jimmy, by his own admission, would show up right as the show would start and would frequently sleep on air or write parts of his books. The only reason sam is still working is bc he’s a conniving, backstabbing shithead who’s loathed by nearly every former employee/intern but knows how to play office politics. Than tried to become a standup comedian but just ended up working at rockstar. It’s not as if show prep was high rise construction or working as a surgeon. As far as I can tell they were mostly doing audio editing on a deadline. Real hard work. At least erock is content enough to enjoy playing with legos and ghostbusters action figures despite his head ballooning up to rocky dennis proportions.

33:50 Jimmy letting his true feelings out through a joke 😂

Yes Definitely Than. From what I can gather Erock was surpassed as a producer because of his lazyness. Than and Danny overtook Erock. Danny and Than are both gone. Danny got fired for Trying to take a pornstar to a Sirius-XM 'One Direction' interview. Not sure about Than.

sounds like Than and Erock are reading lines 😅

Instead of Jerry, Jerry! We're screaming Opie, Opie!

Go Erock! Dont take this shit.

There’s not enough information there to decide who is right. They keep talking about E-Rocks start time is 5am but what what time is his day supposed to finish? If he is paid salary than I believe if he stays late, he should be able to come in a little bit later. As long as he takes care of what he needs to at the end of the day to make sure the morning runs smoothly without him there than I don’t see the problem. Do they want him to stay late by himself to take care of things that THEY don’t take care of and then get there in the morning to help THEM do things they need to do?

Lmfao Erock always starts shit

I miss Steve.

LOL...how many of these are there where E-Rock is late? Gotta be at least 10 of them. xD

WHo's he fighting with? He sounds like Peter Griffin without the boston accent.

I enjoyed this a lot over a decade later

Who is yelling at Erock at the beginning? Ive only been listening to O&A for a year.

Erockshells?

Kinda cringe how Travis tried to act tough and yell at Erock. God damn, and Erock just took it lol.

Erock sounds like a different person when he yells

theyre shitting on erock but theyre all inbreds

jobs are so annoying with being there at a certain time. if you do 8 hours of work that should be all that matters.