How many times can I answer this same question.
People grow apart and going over to his place was getting stale. It was the same shit over and over again. Which I guess wasn't the worst, but then all these WackPack people started being by on the regular, talking show shit, doing Chip impressions...it was fucking misery. Once he admitted to fingering that girl, I tapped out and just tapered off.
He invited me to his house one night and I asked who was there and then said no thanks. He threw a shit fit in texts and then went on the air to call me "miserable".
Opie's ego would never allow it. Some Twitter guy some years ago reached out to me and said he was in DMs with Opie and asked me if it would be OK to let him know I"d be down for a beer. I said, sure. He got back to me a few days later letting me know Opie said no. Lol. So, that's that. You wanna have a beer and talk it out, I woulda been down. Blow me off? Now I'll just put you on blast until the end of days.
I don't think Gregg Hughes, the man who plays Opie, can read a novel. He struggles to get through USA Today articles. Imagine you make assloads of money you don't deserve right? And then your ego gets SO big that you decide you need a full time butler that you take to work with you. Now that butler might also get Anthony's sandwich or get his car. Fucking Opie had the absolute balls to try and ask Anthony to pay for HALF of Kenny's salary because "he does stuff for you, too." This fucking guy has Kenny up at the asscrack of dawn to pick him and chauffer him 20 blocks to the studio. Take a fucking cab, asshole. Kenny, I need my yogurt. Kenny, I need my poptarts. Kenny I need my oatmeal. Kenny, take me home. Kenny, wake me up. Kenny, protect me while I say dumb shit to people who could rip me in half. Also, Anthony, YOU pay for half. Fucking guy.
Great guy. This is why you never got a second animation festival either. Opie DEMANDED a $10,000 "appearance fee" to appear at his own show's event. He was the person who was adamant we have a second festival. If Opie gets $10K to appear, then Anthony will demand he be matched, and then Jim will ask for a chunk since everyone else is being paid. And POOF there's your profits. So, no show. Thanks Op, for being a huge fucking stupid asshole.