Opie is here, and his show starts now.

Wow.

The Jay Giles Band, Whammer Jammer.

Oh, yeah, that was good.

That was just shitty news, finding out that Mr. Giles died.

Oh.

At the age of 71.

Found him in his home up there in Massachusetts.

Damn. That's two, Charlie Murphy and Giles. And then we find out right before today's show that Charlie Murphy died of leukemia at the age of 57. God, damn, I didn't know he was sick. He was in here a couple times. He was funny as fuck. Oh, I'm so sad about Charlie, man. Funny as fuck. I was at Bonarue with him one year, and just because you have to ride in a van from Murphysboro down to Bonaroo.

Right. So I was, I, you got to listen to him for 25 minutes down in the van and 25 minutes on the way back. And it was some of the fucking craziest, funniest shit I had ever heard of my entire And off the cuff Off to cuff, shit. Oh, yeah. Not doing material.

No. Just fucking living his life. He feels a good hang. He had seen John Claude Van Dam on the Larry King show. And, uh, right there. That's it. That's it. That's it. You don't even have to say anything else. Because in our minds, we're all like, okay.

I'm thinking it's coke-induced. You don't even have to say anything else. Because in our minds, we're all like that.

I'm thinking it's coke-induced. From Van Dam. No, no. He's a, Charlie's a dog guy. He likes dogs. And John Claude Van Damme had this Rottweiler that had cancer. And John Claude wouldn't put the dog down. so instead of it being a big old healthy 150 pound Rottweiler, it's got all of

its legs amputated. It weighs about cancer and John Claude wouldn't put the dog down. So instead of it being a big old healthy

150-pound Rottweiler, it's got all of its legs amputated. It weighs about 80 pounds. A lot of the hairs falling off. It's blind, can't see. And he won't put the dog down. And he's telling that John Klug keeps going, he's, when I whisper in his ear, his little tail still wiggles. He still knows it's me, still knows it's me.

So Charlie Murphy has seen this, and it is making Charlie Murphy fucking livid. Because he thinks it's animal views. Yes, he thinks it's cruel. He thinks it's the meanest thing. I thought he was going to jump out of the goddamn van. He was so fucking mad telling the story. And then he kept saying, I'm telling you all, in the next two of it, Marina Franklin was there. And I'm trying to think, who else? Somebody else that can vouch for this. He kept saying, I guarantee you, I'm going to see this motherfucker in L.A. in the next couple of weeks somewhere, and I'm going to beat the fuck out of him. I don't care. And he keeps going, fuck the muscles from Brussels. Fuck the muscles. Because he's going to be a whipped fucking ass when I see him on Sunset Boulevard because I have had a number of this shit. And so we're, we don't, he's halfway mad, but it's funnier than fuck. Right. Yeah. But he's genuinely angry about it. And, oh yeah, I was, we're on the way about, we're not, so then we started, Marina started spinning and we're like, this should be a show is Charlie Murphy animal cruelty court. Charlie Murphy's the judge. Yeah, he goes on there with your pet and you tell your story and then he decides what the humane thing is to happen with your animal. But just, I mean, like he said, off the top, just anything. Literally, he had just seen it on the news the night before and Marina went like, what did you, what did you do last night? He goes, I'll tell you what I'm fucking gun it. I'm going to him. I'm going to kill motherfucking chocolate. He just totally snapped. Those are my favorite comedians that see something on the news, and that night they could

fucking make it funny on a stage.

Topical, topical comics.

And you would assume that, yeah, well, the majority of the guys do it.

No, they don't.

No, they do not.

Thank you.

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