Credit: Tom Donnelly & PWInsider.com
Chris Jericho was on the Opie and Anthony radio show Monday morning, from 10:30 to 11:00 AM EST. Chris was speaking with Opie, Anthony, and comedian Jim Norton. Opie and Anthony can be heard Monday though Friday on XM Satellite radio High Voltage Channel 202 from 7 – 11 AM EST, with replays at 11AM, 3PM, 7PM, and 2AM. For more information go to www.xmradio.com.
OPIE: That’s Fozzy, Enemy, Bro.
ANTHONY: Yeah.
OPIE: Chris Jericho in studio.
Y2J: Hey.
OPIE: We talked to Chris Jericho on the phone about that song, I love it, I wasn’t expecting much. I think I told you on the phone because you’re doing kind of a cover band thing.
Y2J: Absolutely.
OPIE: So, my buddy Eddy from Big Brother, the one legged dude.
Y2J: Yeah, that’s right, I forgot about that.
OPIE: He’s the actor in the Enemy video and he was the one who sent it to me and I was like, all right, Eddy’s a friend of mine and we’ve had Chris on the show a bunch, and my expectations were low – I’m not going to lie to you.
J; That’s not a cut down.
OPIE: And then I saw and heard the song and I was instantly blown away by both. Just blown away.
Y2J: That’s very good. People are pleasantly surprised. That’s kind of cool because people are like it can’t be very good because it’s a wrestler singing it, but what difference does it make if it’s a wrestler, or a florist, or a psychiatrist. It’s either good music or it’s bad, and people are digging, so that’s cool for us.
ANTHONY: I think it’s because wrestlers don’t have that record behind them of good records. You look at maybe the Hulkster.
Y2J: Laughing.
ANTHONY: I remember the Hulkster playing a couple.
Y2J: Oh yeah.
ANTHONY: So in the line of wrestlers becoming musicians, you’re pretty much an original.
OPIE: Anthony I got to…
ANTHONY: Stop, you have the Hulkster?
Y2J: You have the Hulk Hogan record there?
ANTHONY: I have to hear some of that.
OPIE: I have the Hulk Hogan record.
Y2J: Is that where he sings gospel muic?
OPIE: This is the one. It’s called Hulk Hogan and the wrestling boot band. It’s Hulk Rules.
Y2J: (Laughing) See there you go – that’s my competition right there.
ANTHONY: There it is.
Y2J: See give us a track off there, Opie.
ANTHONY: There’s so many to choose from.
Y2J: Just give us a song.
ANTHONY: I like the rocking America one. It’s very patriotic.
OPIE: We found the other two that you like. I want to be a Hulkamaniac.
ANTHONY: That’s the one.
OPIE: And Hulkster in heaven. Remember that one?
Y2J: That’s the gospel one.
ANTHONY: That’s the touching one. Let’s hear the rocking one first and then let’s hear the ballad.
OPIE: Well Eric – Eric is like a Hulkster geak – which one is the rocking one?
Y2J: I don’t think any of them are all rocking. I think that’s an oxymoron. It might be an up tempo song, but not rocking.
ANTHONY: How about the one you mentioned?
Y2J: Hulkster in heaven, or I want to be a Hulkmaniac?
ANTHONY: I want to be a Hulkamaniac. That’s got to be one.
OPIE: We’re not comparing this to what Chris Jericho does musically by the way.
Y2J: Please don’t!
Song plays (the old Dave Sullivan song) (lots of laughing during song)
NORTON: Who the f*** enjoys this?
Y2J: NOBODY!
NORTON: How famous are you when people around you actually say this is good?
Y2J: Yeah exactly. People actually green lit that and said yeah, this is good. But then again people green lit William Hung as well, it’s the same s***, right?
ANTHONY: Yeah
OPIE: We have one that beats all of them. The Joe Pesci record.
Y2J: He’s not really singing, is he?
ANTHONY: Rapping.
Y2J: Why?
ANTHONY: People decided that they had to rap because that’s what the kids are listening to.
Y2J: That’s what the kids want to hear.
ANTHONY: The kids want the rap.
Y2J: But of all the stars, Joe Pesci, he’s our man. Why Joe?
ANTHONY: I know. Why did he decide to do that?
Y2J: What kind of street cred does Joe Pesci have?
ANTHONY: None.
OPIE: Well we can play it’s the Bitches that will getcha (Pesci song).
Y2J: Bitches gonna get you?
ANTHONY: It’s the Bitches that’ll getcha.
Y2J: That’s Joe Pesci?
ANTHONY: That’s Joe Pesci.
Y2J: We should have a sample of him saying “I’ll F*** you in the drivethru, F*** F*** F*** you in the drivethru.”
(laughing)
OPIE: Here’s the follow up though.
Y2J: Talk about bringing the show to a screeching halt.
Plays other song
Y2J: Oh my God.
ANTHONY: That could be the worst rhyme I ever heard.
Y2J: He made Wembley rhyme with seat. He made Wembley into a 4 syllable word. Wem-bel-el-ly.
NORTON: And you know the song isn’t true because his father probably scalped the ticket outside
Y2J: Wem-bel-el-ly.
ANTHONY: That is awful.
Y2J: I have never heard of this in existence before. This is the first time I’ve ever heard this record.
ANTHONY: Fantastic.
Y2J: And I guarantee it’s the last.
ANTHONY: Oh – gospel singers in the background.
Y2J: Wow, I would like to see a sound scan of how many records that one sold. How many returns there were as well.
OPIE: Just let it get to the hook.
ANTHONY: Wow.
Y2J: We’ll use that for celebrity skeet shooting and use that as the first target for sure.
NORTON: He’s going to wrestle once again with a 5-year old with Hodkins. That’s really attractive.
ANTHONY: Oh was that horrid.
Y2J: I’m in shock in this point in time. I think we all are. Ladies and gentlemen – this is what you paid your hard earned money for, to get XM and listen to us play Hulkster songs.
OPIE: Someone’s enjoying it.
ANTHONY: (In hulkster voice) That’s right, it’s Hulkster Monday, Brother.
OPIE: Let’s go to Tim in Tennessee.
Caller: (In macho man voice) Macho Man Randy Savage put out some of the best wrestling rap ever recorded.
ANTHONY: Macho Man has some?
Caller: You’ve never heard that?
Y2J: No.
OPIE: Do we have that?
ANTHONY: Are you kidding me?
OPIE: Of course not.
ANTHONY: You are a man amongst men Chris, I gotta tell you. This stuff – the track record of wrestlers making music blows.
Y2J: Now you’re going to have play our song because now we’re getting lumped into this horrible…
OPIE: I’m going to have to defend Chris Jericho.
ANTHONY: I didn’t say anything bad about him.
J. No, no he didn’t. I’m just saying if you’re listening at home and heard what we heard, it’s just spiraling out of control.
OPIE: He’s not releasing his music as Chris Jericho, but as Fozzy, Anthony. That’s the key.
Y2J: That’s the secret.
OPIE: That’s the secret, Anthony.
Macho Man song plays (Be a man)
ANTHONY: This is hardcore. I’m digging it (laughs). Unbelievably bad.
Y2J: That is terrible.
ANTHONY: That is really bad.
Y2J: Here’s the secret. If you’re a wrestling guy and you want to make a record, don’t sing about wrestling, or rap about wrestling.
ANTHONY: Yeah, he’s rapping about wrestling.
Y2J: It’s terrible. That is F***ing terrible.
ANTHONY: (in Macho voice) You F*** with me I’ll stick a Slim Jim up your Ass, Oh yeah.
Y2J: I never heard that either. I’m out of the loop of the wrestling albums guys.
ANTHONY: Thank god, it didn’t influence you.
Y2J: Yeah.
ANTHONY: If you heard this before hand, you might have gone in that direction.
OPIE: We got Schwoogie checking in, Schwoogie!
Caller: Hey guys what’s going on.
OPIE: Hanging out with Chris Jericho.
Caller: Hey Chris I have to ask you something. I know you can’t give a true answer to this, but I want to turn the topic of the conversation back to wrestling. What the Hell is the deal with HHH?. Come on, you’ve got a new champion with Batista and HHH is all over saying how wonderful he is. Booking 101 says that’s not how you promote a new champion, it’s ridiculous. I know you’re unhappy there and you talked about not renewing your contract.
Y2J: Who said that?
Caller: It’s just so…
OPIE: How do you know that he’s unhappy?
Y2J: Yeah, are we buds from another life?
Caller: You gave an interview, I read an interview where you said…
Y2J: That’s a bull shit interview.
ANTHONY: (Rapping like Macho) You gave an interview and I heard the fact, you ain’t renewing your con-ter-act (laughing).
Y2J: I don’t know what happened in that interview. I don’t think I really did that one. Um. Yeah, as far as being unhappy – what can you be unhappy about? You’re working and doing your dream job and having a great life because of it. I mean things never go 100% the way you want them to go but that’s work. I mean, HHH is, is, I mean he’s the star of the show on our show, and that’s how he’s promoted as, and that’s how he’s pushed, and that’s kind of the guy they’re going with similar to how Hulk Hogan was 10 years ago, and maybe some day HHH will have his own record – HHH in Triple Heaven, I’m not sure.
Caller: That’s so politically correct.
Y2J: That’s not being politically correct. That’s just the way it is. You either like it don’t like it, but that’s the way it is. You have to deal with it, because that’s the guy who has the gig right now. In any job you have, someone will get the promotion, someone will be the senior vice president. Are they the best man for the job, I guess we’ll find out and see, but that’s kind of the way the world works.
Caller: Chris. Booking 101 says when you have a new champion all eyes, the focus of the show should be around him, not around the ex-champion trying to get his belt back.
Y2J: But they’ve been doing that for the last five years ever since I was champion, when Benoit was champion it was like that. (Note from Tom – and who was the ex-champ in all those cases?)
Caller: Exactly, that’s the whole promotion, and that’s why the ratings are in the tank.
Y2J: I’m not saying that’s the right way to do things. I’m saying that’s the way it is. You either accept it, or you quit, you know what I mean, that’s the way it is. You either have to deal with it, or you just go work at McDonalds or something I guess.
Caller: Quickly guys, That Hulkamaniac song is like the Insects will get you song by the retards.
Y2J: Is that a real song?
ANTHONY: Yeah, there’s a song…
OPIE: You never heard the insect song?
Y2J: No.
OPIE: Can we find that?
ANTHONY: What was the school name?
OPIE: Here it is.
ANTHONY: Kids of Wheatley High, or something like that. They’re a bunch of mentally challenged children.
OPIE: Retards Chris.
ANTHONY: And they got together and put together an album, Opie. They’re mentally challenged Opie.
OPIE: Or retards.
ANTHONY: And they’re better than the Hulkster.
Song plays
Y2J: Oh my gosh, these poor kids.
NORTON: Poor kids, how about the poor parents.
ANTHONY: (jokingly) This isn’t the kids, this is coming from the first 10 rows at the Garden the other night.
Y2J: (laughing)
Y2J: What are they telling these poor kids? That the insects are going to get them and eat them alive?
ANTHONY: Yeah isn’t that kind of creepy.
Y2J: Yeah I know. It’s like Catholic school.
ANTHONY: Be good or I’ll throw some bugs in your face.
Y2J: Yeah, and they will kill you.
ANTHONY: Why are we playing this now? When there is better music we could be listening to.
OPIE: So are you going to be resigning with the WWE there Chris?
Y2J: Well my contract is up in about 8 months and if you asked me today I’d say absolutely not. We just got back from Australia on Sunday and you can hear the funk in my voice. I’m dead sick. I’m home for 6 days and then we have to wing over to England for 7 days.
ANTHONY: Yeah, we’re going to London to jam with the Stones, man!
Y2J: Yeah, that’s what I’m doing, I’m winging on over there and we’re jamming with Fozzy. We have a German tour, but we got to go to Scotland and England and Germany before that with WWE, and the wheel never ends. I’m a hamster on the wheel I’m chasing after a little pelet of grain, and it just goes and goes and goes. Sometimes it just kind of gets to you in that respect, you know?
ANTHONY: You book the gigs that coincide with where you’re going to be with the wrestling?
Y2J: Sometimes, but this German tour came up before we even had this tour so actually we were able to piggy back it together. A lot of times we have shows after the wrestling shows. We have a show coming up in New York on July 11 at BB Kings right after the Raw show at the Garden, so we do that quite a bit, we play a Fozzy show right after the wrestling show, so they’re kind of connected.
OPIE: He just said he’s not going to resign if asked today.
Y2J: See what’s going to happen now is on the internet they’re going to say on Opie and Anthony he said he’s not going to sing, and all the people in the WWE office are going to read it and say “hey Jericho’s not resigning.” (note form Tom – the office reads the internet?)
OPIE: See these guys get their exclusive interview from the Opie and Anthony show (laughing).
ANTHONY: Wrestling is one of those things that is just huge with rumors being spread on the internet. It’s probably one of the worst industries for that.
Y2J: Oh it’s so bad. And a lot of these people that do it are literally like 14 year old kids. (note from Tom – ugh)
OPIE: They’re controlling everything.
Y2J: The kids are controlling the world, and the guys read it and believe it. Some guys don’t know if they’ve had a good match or not until they read the internet to tell them (Note form Tom - I guess Chris wouldn’t know anything about that, huh?)
ANTHONY: You guys aren’t reading those things, are you?
Y2J: Oh yeah, I sucked this week. A lot of guys do that. They read the internet to see.
ANTHONY: We have this instant feedback, and people are able to put in comments and responses to what we’re saying, and critiques of the show, and funny lines, and things like that. On any given feedback, you get things right next to each other like “you guys rule, I just started listening to the show and you’re the funniest thing I ever heard on the radio.” The next post down says “why are you wasting my time you pieces of s***, you guys suck.” So if you take any of it seriously, instead of doing what you do on a daily basis and enjoy yourself the best you can – to read it and take it to heart, holy s***.
Y2J: And that’s the thing. Totally, as a professional you know if you’ve had a good show inside.
ANTHONY: Right, you don’t need people to tell us.
Y2J: It’s nice to hear if it was good, but you already know. You could get some guys saying it was a great show, and some saying it stunk. That’s the thing with my radio show that I have on XM on the Boneyard. I’ll have, you know I’ll be playing some tunes I like, some more obscure stuff, and I have people like saying this is great, you’re playing stuff I haven’t heard in a long time, and other people saying why are you playing this s***, what are you doing, play some “pour some sugar on me.” I’ll do what I do, that’s why I got the gig in the first place. That’s why you guys are here. That’s how you get to a certain position, you don’t need someone to tell you if it’s good or bad or not. Anyways, how am I doing on this show so far? (laughing)
OPIE: And that’s Sunday’s at 8pm.
Y2J: Sunday’s at 8pm on the boneyard. What channel are we on right now?
OPIE: 202.
Y2J: Ok,
OPIE: We’re hidden. I’ve noticed when you turn on your XM, they have so many channels for the MLB thing that it takes awhile to get 202 into your system. I swear to God.
ANTHONY: Are we buried? What’s around us?
Y2J: We’re like the Easter egg.
OPIE: I think it goes 202, and then 205 playboy, and then all the traffic channels. (laughing) Because people are just listening to those channels like crazy.
Y2J: What’s on the playboy channel?
OPIE: That’s the last premium channel they have.
Y2J: But what is it though? Chicks talking and stuff?
OPIE: Yeah, it’s cool for 5 minutes.
Y2J: Yeah who wants to listen to them talk when you can’t see them, right? It’s like phone sex.
OPIE: They’re ok to tune in as a goof every once in awhile, and some girl is telling a dirty story.
ANTHONY: It would be like being blind and watching porno.
Y2J: And meanwhile it’s some fat chick from Hoboken who’s like 45 years old with 3 kids.
ANTHONY: Those phone sex things that were exposed on Maury or something, and they’re all these pigs talking about how they get these guys off with their voice.
Y2J: You know what I was watching the other day, and we just had Wrestlemania and Roddy Piper was on and they were showing a bunch of Piper clips and they had Morton Downey Junior clips. You remember that guy?
ANTHONY: Of course.
Y2J: You remember how much controversy he caused when he first came out? He was like the biggest Ass Hole.
ANTHONY: How silly does it look now?
Y2J: Now it looks so funny but at the time he had that cigarette and he’d blow it in peoples’ face.
ANTHONY: (Morton voice) Listen buster. He was like someone’s angry dad. Yelling all crotchety and drunk. Any time anyone was having any fun he’d be there to yell knock it off.
Y2J: Turn that down.
OPIE: God got him back though because he was blowing all that smoke in peoples’ face and he died of lung cancer.
ANTHONY: Got the lung cancer.
NORTON: He did that anti-smoking thing before he died.
ANTHONY: yeah.
Y2J: Oh really, he went back on his smoking past?
ANTHONY: After the doctor tells you you have lung cancer you start being good.
Y2J: That’s right.
OPIE: The best anti-smoking ad ever was Yul Brenner talking about how he’s dead now.
Y2J: Oh he taped it before he died?
ANTHONY: Yeah.
OPIE: It’s the creepiest thing ever. He tells you the reason why he’s now dead.
Y2J: Wow. That’s pretty heavy. I’m surprised they showed that.
OPIE: Well it was before everything got so PC.
Y2J: See you could get away with that in the late 70’s early 80’s, but now you never would allow that, right?
NORTON: I don’t know because anything with anti-smoking they might. Anything that goes hand and hand with their own thinking they’ll allow you to do and if it’s anti-smoking they’ll let you.
ANTHONY: You know what it is? It’s got to be more politically correct. Even though it’s anti-smoking it’s exploitation of this poor guy who was fed these cigarettes by the tobacco company.
NORTON: But look at the drunk driving ads they show. They show all these little videos.
Y2J: That’s true.
JN; They’re miserable.
ANTHONY: They’re like, see look at the cute little kid on the swing, shhhhh, oh dead.
Y2J: Murdered.
NORTON: Whoever did that is brilliant.
Y2J: Yeah that gets to you.
OPIE: The whole family is singing happy birthday.
Y2J: Don’t drink and drive ladies and gentlemen.
OPIE: They’re the worst.
ANTHONY: They rope you in like that.
OPIE: They make me feel bad.
NORTON: Yeah, those are miserable.
Y2J: Geez, that put an end to that conversation.
ANTHONY: Certainly did, what a downer.
Y2J: Yeah, I know. Thanks guys.
OPIE: We want to play Enemy today, the whole song from Fozzy, which means we only have a couple of minutes left.
Y2J: This has gone by fast, it’s almost already 11:00.
OPIE: We had a real fast show today, I don’t know if we got anything accomplished.
ANTHONY: It blew on by. I think we took 3 breaks the whole show.
Y2J: That’s great – that’s the beauty of XM – you don’t need to.
OPIE: We just talked for an hour and a half at one point without stopping.
ANTHONY: (reading an instant feedback) “Ask Chris about Lita banging Edge behind Matt Hardy’s back. Watch him squirm.”
Y2J: Watch who squirm, me?
ANTHONY: I don’t know.
Y2J: I’m not squirming about s*** man. That’s a s****y situation and it’s wrong and shouldn’t have happened. You know, I’m not squirming about it. I got nothing to be ashamed of. But it’s bad business man. They fired Matt Hardy as a result and how could you be sitting at home rehabbing your knee and a month later you lose your girlfriend and your job for doing nothing wrong, you know what I mean? So.
ANTHONY: That is rough.
Y2J: Yeah, it’s the s***s.
ANTHONY: All right, so there you go.
Y2J: So squirm on that mother f*****.
ANTHONY: That was John Q from Wackbag.
Y2J: Wackbag?
ANTHONY: Wackbag is one of the websites that we were talking about earlier.
OPIE: And we pretend we don’t read.
Y2J: Exactly.
ANTHONY: And we read every day, every post, and we say we don’t (laughing). And we respond under pseudonyms.
OPIE: Dude, so Chyna’s c***.
Y2J: Gee, there you go, wow.
OPIE: Yay or nay. 2 guys in this room say no f******* way, 1 guy saying it’s the hottest thing ever.
Y2J: First of all I haven’t watched that. I can’t watch it. But it’s bad when Chyna’s c*** is bigger than X-pac’s penis.
ANTHONY: Yeah.
Y2J: That’s the truth, right?
ANTHONY: Very comparable.
Y2J: And you like that?
NORTON: I like a midget thumb c***, big and nasty.
Y2J: Let me ask you a question. If you give the midget c*** h**d, does that make you gay?
NORTON: No, because there’s a p**** attached to it, of course not.
Y2J: But it’s the same motion though.
NORTON: Doesn’t matter, so is nodding. If I nod to tell someone affirmative, does that mean I’m a homo?
Y2J: Well if you have a c*** in your mouth while you’re doing it it’s a different story.
NORTON: No it’s not.
Y2J: It’s a total different thing.
ANTHONY: You should see him eat a banana. He grabs the back of his head and pushes into it.
NORTON: I like a big c***. I’ve always liked a big c***. Because I like the more of it there is.
ANTHONY: Yeah but that’s ugh.
Y2J: That’s like a skin flap where you play skin tag with. It’s like the spleen. It’s not supposed to be there. It has no function whatsoever.
NORTON: I like it big man, and thick and meaty.
ANTHONY: With some nice testacles hanging under it.
NORTON: No, I don’t want a bag under it.
ANTHONY: You want it to be in proportion.
NORTON: No I don’t.
ANTHONY: You want to be able to use your tongue.
Y2J: You don’t want to gag on it. That’s the number one rule. No gagging.
NORTON: When I come within 3 inches of it – you ever see alien, where it jumps out and grabs your face. Grab my face and pull me in.
Y2J: When you come within 3 inches of Chyna you’re there.
NORTON: I really like that.
Y2J: What are we looking at here?
ANTHONY: That’s it.
Y2J: That’s horrible.
ANTHONY: That’s the reaction.
NORTON: That’s a little bigger than I like.
OPIE: That was a natural reaction from Chris Jericho.
Y2J: If you just saw this bottom picture it looks like my son’s genitalia. Small penis and a sack. That’s disgusting. You’ve crossed the line OnA.
NORTON: You wouldn’t work on that for a few minutes?
ANTHONY: With a belt sander maybe.
OPIE: We want to leave with a taste of Fozzy.
ANTHONY: Absolutely.
OPIE: What are we promoting today Chris.
Y2J: The Fozzy record is called “All that Remains” and this song Enemy is being played on like 80 stations across the states. It’s also a big hit on the Boneyard and the Squizz (XM stations) and my show is on the Boneyard every Sunday night at 8pm and I’m wrestling tonight at the Garden. We got some Fozzy shows coming up. I’ve got a lot of stuff going on man. I’ve got a million jobs going on, and I suck at all of them.
ANTHONY: Busy guy.
OPIE: With that let’s thank Chris Jericho for coming by.
Y2J: Thanks for having me guys.
OPIE: Here’s Fozzy.
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