Going on 2 weeks ago, Opie and Anthony had a guest on the show. “Homeless Charlie” told sorid tales from the streets of NYC using colorful language. It was on the XM portion of the show, so it all went over the air like it should of. He turned out to be a great guest, he was really funny and added a great portion to the show. So much so, that he was given an open invite to come back whenever he wanted to.

During the conversation, he said he wanted to have sex with Queen Elizibeth, Condoleeza Rice and one other broad. He used some colorful language and the boys riffed on that for a bit. The show went on as usual. Turns out that XM didn’t like what was said and freaked out. Opie and Anthony made a canned apology at the start of that Fridays show for it. Then on Monday, they talked about it more and said it was pretty much bullshit.

Cue XM freaking out again. They suspended the show for 30 days, taken the program off channel 202 entirely, making it 24/7 Ron and Fez. A tidal wave of cancellations came into XM for it, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-40,000 (me being one of them). This is something that we’d expect from CBS, not XM.

So the big fuss is really over the potential XM/Sirius merger. They don’t want any negative attention, they don’t want regulatory hearings to happen, they want the merger to go through ASAP. O and A were seen by the company as a liability in this regard and made them shut up, it just so happens that it was in the worst way possible. So an XM show was censored. The whole reason for sat radio flew out the window. The whole reason I was paying for radio flew out the window.

Now the boys may be back on XM after the 30 days, but they’re CBS show has taken a noticeable downward shift. Opie and Anthony now aren’t sure what they can even say, would they want to go back to XM? Would they be allowed to say what they want or would they be put on lock down, completely neutering the show? The big rumor is that they will in fact be let go, leaving the 100 million dollar Stern to be the talk “entertainer” on the merged satellite radio company. Just the thought of that makes me sick.