It is so frustrating to listen to Opie complain about the end of Opie & Anthony and I did it because I’m in it (around 36 minutes in).

It’s actually a very interesting look at these types of people. The beef with Opie is simple: Anthony Cumia got fired for being an asshole and Opie threw up his hands and walked away. That’s why the fans hate him. They don’t like him for being unfunny and ruining bits but they hate him for turning his back on his partner of 20 years.

Opie didn’t call Anthony and to this day he refuses to discuss the whole thing on Anthony’s show. When something that serious happens you have to talk to the guy. I see this all the time. Shit hits fans and brothers with decades of history go hiding. When Harris Wittels got in over his head with heroin addiction and needed help, everyone in the LA comedy scene turned their backs on him. They didn’t want to deal. After he OD’d however, they posted pictures of themselves with him on Instagram and pretended they were best friends the whole time. I hate those people for the exact same reasons I hate Opie (I’m very sensitive about betrayal for some reason). Jim Norton spoke up and appears on Anthony’s show all the time and nobody sane gives Jim shit. Opie’s reaction to that is, “why aren’t they madder at Jim? Nobody likes me!” Megalomaniacs can’t face the music and say, “Yeah, I pussied out,” so they make it about something else. Opie makes up stories like…

-Everyone thinks I got Ant fired.

-Ant’s mad Jim and I didn’t quit.

-I don’t want to be in the same room as Ant because he’s done “dark things” (I think this is in reference to a fake Opie account Opie thinks Ant created – he didn’t)

-Everyone hates me for continuing to do the show.

-Nobody realizes that the show was already over.

-Ant won’t take responsibility for getting himself fired.

-Gavin is attacking me because that’s the culture of TACN.

All lies. I think Opie is a piece of shit for the same reason everyone else does: He didn’t man up and speak up. That’s it. You can end the show. You can even fire Anthony or start your own show. All that is just business and as EPMD say, business never personal. The problem is that you let your buddy drown (if Opie goes to a Phil Collins concert, the spotlight will be on him during “In the Air Tonight”)

Not only does Opie make it about something stupid like, “People think I got Ant fired” but he gets mad at Jimmy for not speaking up for him later on. That’s right. Norton didn’t speak up for Opie enough. That’s how sociopathic these types of people are. Opie cried crocodile tears on his show after he got one too many hate Tweets and then got mad at Jimmy for being silent during the crying. Opie was dead silent when his buddy of 20 years lost his job but he has the gonads to say, “Hey, why didn’t you speak up for me when I was fake crying about not speaking up for my friend?”

Jean-Claude Romand is a conman who kept lying and lying until he had to kill his entire family to get out of it. When you’re reading the book about him, you keep thinking, “Oh shit, I can’t wait until all this blows up in your face” but it never does. When he goes to jail he finds Christ and all these religious people come to worship how wonderful he is. Even something this evil can find God. He keeps twisting it and making it all about him like a crazy chick PMSing.

-GAVIN McINNES