Was there any other show that had the Instant Feedback feature before O&A? Now with streaming it's common to have a chat feature on the side, but they were doing this 22 years ago. People give Opie shit, but people love that live interactivity and for hosts to read their comments.
No and most shows do not allow fan interaction at all anymore. The show also had Paltalk and other chatrooms going constantly where people would feed lines to the show and feed other information. Also sometimes Anthony or Opie would feed information to the pests secretly. Like when we would fuck with Erock or another radio show or whatever, someone from the show would post phone numbers and contact information for the pests immediately to get the ball rolling.
Also sometimes shows would have their own producers sabotage the show and contact O&A. At least a couple of times the pests went to war with another radio show the producers were O&A fans and put callers through on purpose just for the laughs. You could tell that some producers of Scott Farrel were putting people through just to fuck with Scott.
FWIW Danny claims that Opie was the one who came up with Jocktober, and the funniest aspect of it (aside from Scott & Todd and John & Jeff) was the Pests fucking with radio shows' Facebook pages.
Opie came up with Erocktober first in 2007 just as a joke. Where they just ripped on E-Rock for an entire month for no reason. This concluded with Justine Joli getting spanked on air with the famous 'ohhh' sound effect and E-Rock fighting his fiance over his appearances with women on O&A. After E-Rocktober in 2007 there was Po-vember for Master Po which was hilarious as well. The next year they did one day of E-Rocktober then Opie decided to rip on radio shows that did Rocktober to show how pathetic regular radio was. Ripping on Rocktober shows in 2008 instantly was funny and we got Jocktober which morphed into ripping on all radio shows eventually.
The first Jocktober in 2008 is like a rough draft. All the years after that are amazing. Opie was the one who said not to pull clips out of context from radio shows. Just play raw audio from a day or two of shows and it will reveal how much of wasteland terrestrial radio was. Also the show had been doing Jocktober style attacks on other shows before 2008 but nothing on the grand scale of Jocktober where an entire month was dedicated to pests going crazy alongside the show. The pests also produced a lot of Jocktober by telling Sam and the other producers which shows were bad. And sometimes the pests would help crowdsource which shows from various markets were running prep-burger bits like 'war of the roses', the fugitive, top ten lists, and so on.
Jocktober was so insane during the show when pests would harass the radio stations and their social media. We now know that Terry Clifford had a breakdown over the show harassment. Hilariously she still works on radio and outlived O&A. And has a picture of her and her son (Tefft Pattern) holding up a Feed Nana sign. Other radio hosts would contact Sirius and tell them to get O&A to stop. Some shows even sent cease and desists over the use of audio. If you know insider information on O&A they got sent a lot of C&D letters of the years. Probably the most famous being Jimmy getting sued repeatedly by Roy Den Hollander.
Best Jocktober compilations off of top of my head are The Terry Clifford Beatings, John and Jeff Saga, The 92FM Fugitive and Bobo as the Fugitive. But there are many more. And many other non-Jocktober times where the show trashed other radio shows like fighting Mancow, Scott Farrel, "Do the Bit", and so on.
