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Mr. Tomlinson has just threatened Leslie Varney, a female publisher whom he has been attacking on Twitter from behind a block for more than a year, to be sued into poverty with a lawsuit that will presumably be funded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
- Mr. Tomlinson's 2021 lawsuit was funded in secret by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a 501(c)(3) charity, to the tune of $100,000 without the knowledge or consent of their donors or members. They also agreed to pay any sanctions in case he lost (which he did).
- All parties involved signed NDAs so that the general public would never know.
- To this day, SFWA has never acknowledged its funding of the lawsuit, and actively instructs the few people in the know to ignore all inquiries into it.
- Is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America funding Mr. Tomlinson's lawsuit against the Milwaukee Police? If they are, the general public probably wouldn't know due to their history of funding expensive lawsuits in secret.
- You can use IRS form 3949-A to report SFWA's activity if you reasonably believe that it is illegal for a 501(c)(3) charity to secretly fund frivolous nuisance lawsuits for one of its members.
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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal (himself) to a troll.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never shown this video footage during any of his media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergences (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
Question for Non-Radio/Americans Funsters?
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I’m an American zoomer who was way too young for O&A when I found them. I no joke think I was 11 or 12. The first thing I watched was a recommended VideO&A of them reacting to the Irish Anti-Speeding PSA. I couldn’t even guess that they were on the radio because they were cursing and being offensive and my only experience up to that point was hacky local zoo radio. Then over the next 2 years I dabbled in and out figuring out who’s voice was who’s, who and what they were, etc. Then after Ant was fired I found the subreddit and all is history.
Oh i’m a fucking idiot you said non Americans.
Can strongly relate with that.
Non Americans don't matter. I too was way past radio prime. I knew standup from comedy central so I had heard all the cellar comedians individually but didn't know they had a gay ass table
I also encountered OnA through Newgrounds animations, I legit thought it was retarded someone would animate a white guy and black talking about race. Not even joking I was certain Anthony was black. Turns out that faggot was Cokelogic
I think I found the show when Patrice died, I was all in wit da Elephant in the Room. I listened to a bunch of clips and wondered why Jim Norton (who I remember Norm owning at the Saget roast) was in so many clips
Then I read the Wikipedia. Another funny story, the only regular who I literally never heard of was Vos.
From the Joe Rogan Experience podcast
I also am American who will ignore your question to blather about myself. I too was a tad young to be listening to it. I had them on in the background not ever really committing them to memory until late 99 I started liking them because they were just unapologetically stupid.
I was ALL IN when the station went with Opie's vision. Fired all the music jocks and went ALL TALK. Brought in Ron & Fez. It was a fantastic couple years. Them getting fired in 2002 and R&F eulogizing them actually made go lay down in bed and feel depressed as a little dumbass kid. Lol
I was still a kid when they came back on XM, didn't really care to pirate the show until Howard got so fucking terrible somewhere in 2009 around the Tiger Woods scandal took me back as a full time listener and I've since gone back to listen to 2004-2009 and it was a lot of hack and internet viral shit that doesn't hold up.
I was ALL IN when the station went with Opie's vision. Fired all the music jocks and went ALL TALK. Brought in Ron & Fez. It was a fantastic couple years. Them getting fired in 2002 and R&F eulogizing them actually made go lay down in bed and feel depressed as a little dumbass kid. Lol
I was still a kid when they came back on XM, didn't really care to pirate the show until Howard got so fucking terrible somewhere in 2009 around the Tiger Woods scandal took me back as a full time listener and I've since gone back to listen to 2004-2009 and it was a lot of hack and internet viral shit that doesn't hold up.
OP's title is retardedly formatted so all Americans hereby have my permission to answer.
I was at a friend's birthday in 2014 when we were in high school. This kid about to be shipped off to the Marines had sucked down like 4 joints and was telling me about how Ant from "Opie and Anthony" got fired to tweeting shit about a nigger. I wasn't sure what he was talking about.
I played a lot of GTA 4 and EFLC around that time too. I enjoyed the fuck out of them and would read about them online a fair bit. There's a biker in both Niko and Johnny's story named Jason Michaels and I thought he had a funny squealy voice so I looked up this "Bill Burr" guy who voiced him. I came across some skit and it made me go haha so I kept looking up Burr clips on Youtube.
Like an absolute rube faggot I would sometimes play the Monday Morning Podcast (I should be killed) and one time Burr brought up how fucking funny he found Anthony... the irony. He was laughing his ass off about how he'd give a deadpan "ohh boy..." when it came to emotional shit like Mr. Two Bad Knees's speech.
Being a colossal faggot, I liked some of those grifter Skeptic videos in the mid 10s that were the first vocal beacon against PC bullshit. This replay was linked in the suggested, and I knew Burr endorsed it, then the rest was history. I listened to a few hundred of them over the next couple years, particularly when driving to college, and, while I was upset that it was over before I even knew about it, I joined da sub right around when Ant made the Greggshells video. Things seemed positive... Then uh, everything else happened.
I was at a friend's birthday in 2014 when we were in high school. This kid about to be shipped off to the Marines had sucked down like 4 joints and was telling me about how Ant from "Opie and Anthony" got fired to tweeting shit about a nigger. I wasn't sure what he was talking about.
I played a lot of GTA 4 and EFLC around that time too. I enjoyed the fuck out of them and would read about them online a fair bit. There's a biker in both Niko and Johnny's story named Jason Michaels and I thought he had a funny squealy voice so I looked up this "Bill Burr" guy who voiced him. I came across some skit and it made me go haha so I kept looking up Burr clips on Youtube.
Like an absolute rube faggot I would sometimes play the Monday Morning Podcast (I should be killed) and one time Burr brought up how fucking funny he found Anthony... the irony. He was laughing his ass off about how he'd give a deadpan "ohh boy..." when it came to emotional shit like Mr. Two Bad Knees's speech.
Being a colossal faggot, I liked some of those grifter Skeptic videos in the mid 10s that were the first vocal beacon against PC bullshit. This replay was linked in the suggested, and I knew Burr endorsed it, then the rest was history. I listened to a few hundred of them over the next couple years, particularly when driving to college, and, while I was upset that it was over before I even knew about it, I joined da sub right around when Ant made the Greggshells video. Things seemed positive... Then uh, everything else happened.
I was a Rogan fan in 2006-7 and I'd listen to his appearances on the show, and then transitioned into just listening to O&A.
There were sites dedicated to uploading episodes in mp3 format. The first non-Rogan appearance I listened to was the one where Colin called Anthony a back alley Tunisian knife fighter.
There were sites dedicated to uploading episodes in mp3 format. The first non-Rogan appearance I listened to was the one where Colin called Anthony a back alley Tunisian knife fighter.
A clip came up on YouTube recommended is how I found it. Other than Howard Stern very little American radio made a impact over here and thats only when he was interviewing a big name and they said or did something outrageous I think he did a show here for a bit on TV in the 90s I remember seeing him somewhere anyway.
Podcasts obviously changed that
Podcasts obviously changed that
I bought an XM MyFi in 2008-09 and was randomly passing through some of the channels when it landed on 202. They were talking to Mike Rowe and I hung on and listened. I had also just heard Jim on a local AM station down here (South Florida) doing a phoner and thought he was moderately funny so that piqued my interest in checking out O&A. Hung around and learned about Paltalk and started checking out da show from there as well.
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I’ve mentioned it before but I discovered them through Colin Quinn. Always was a fan of Col and listened to some of his appearances on da show one day in the early 2010’s. That’s how i stumbled upon them.
Listened to Howard Stern clips on YouTube, O&A would pop up in the recommendations occasionally.
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Same. I watched Tough Crowd and found out about the show through that
I have Bill Burr to thank (?) for showing me the way : it was a clip about him reading the book by the CIA operative and being dismissive of Anthony playing devil's advocate in favor of US foreign policy. What really won me over was when Bill admitted he was a moron and said his belief in conspiracies fell through because he didn't have a long enough attention span, citing as an example Eisenhower's farewell speech and him struggling to realize how it was so groundbreaking.
My father had a cassette of Demented World that we would listen to in his car. It's bizarre to me now how funny my father found that shit considering he was in his 40s. But it was Boston in the late 90s and O&A were a big deal. He exclusively listened to WAAF and I still like most of the music they played. I remember the mayor prank well and I remember how outraged my grandmother was. Rediscovered them right after the WNEW firing when my brother found their bits online.
