Opie & Anthony and the Voyeur Bus Incident
Why Are You Laughing?
Blind Mike Project
4.9 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Opie and Anthony Voyeur Bus incident is one of the most infamous moments in shock radio history. While broadcasting on WNEW in New York City, Opie and Anthony staged a stunt involving a clear bus displaying nudity while driving through Manhattan. The bit quickly spiraled when police pulled the bus over, leading to arrests that included comedians Jim Norton and Lewis Black, along with members of the Opie and Anthony staff.In this episode of Why Are You Laughing?, we break down how the Voyeur Bus stunt came together, why Opie and Anthony pushed the idea, and how it reflected the anything-goes mentality of early two thousands shock radio. We walk through the police response, the arrests, and the media backlash that followed, without overstating the consequences or misrepresenting what happened next.We also discuss why the Voyeur Bus remains such a defining chapter in the Opie and Anthony legacy, how it reshaped public perception of the show, and why it still stands as one of the clearest examples of radio testing — and crossing — its limits.FOR ALL THINGS BLIND MIKEhttp://blindmike.netFOR ALL THINGS CRAIGGERShttp://www.verygoodshow.orgFOR ALL THINGS HACKRIDEhttp://hackridethedemon.comFOR ALL THINGS DJ ELECTRA FRYhttp://djelectrafry.com
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson. |
| 0:03.0 | We got some dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country. |
| 0:07.0 | Stop laughing. |
| 0:10.0 | And when I do, start, |
| 0:13.0 | also y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too. |
| 0:17.0 | Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth. You fucking guys are |
| 0:23.1 | unbelievable. |
| 0:25.1 | Why are you laughing? Evening, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, |
| 0:29.3 | a history of comedy, a podcast. And today, I'm pleased to introduce to you. I'm not |
| 0:35.0 | comfortable in the new studio yet, but opie and anthony the voyer bus |
| 0:39.8 | scandal this was uh i'm amazed that we haven't covered this yet to the point where as i was |
| 0:46.8 | clipping it i texted uh the wardhog as our archivist and i texted him and said have we done |
| 0:52.3 | the voyer bus yet and he's like i don't think so And what he said is maybe I took a clip in one of the other Opie and Anthony episodes or something like that. That could be. I did have a real deja vu. So, hey, this will be way better than the first time if we did do it. But I'm pretty sure we didn't. And I know Craig is deleting all the |
| 1:10.9 | bonus episodes we do anyways. So I guess it doesn't matter at the end of the day. |
| 1:14.5 | Anything done and vaulted podcast. I've deleted. Craig's destroyed it. Uh, but yes, we are, uh, doing a bonus |
| 1:23.8 | episode here in a new studio, the first time ever. So ever so uh i'm not used to doing this yet but i |
| 1:28.8 | hope i'm framed and sound good and everything it seems to be uh all systems go so you up and up right now |
| 1:35.3 | uh so this is it's the first w ne w episode we've done in a while um this is actually the fall of |
| 1:43.6 | 2000 i believe it's november 30th 2000 so it's a done in a while. This is actually the fall of 2000. |
| 1:44.8 | I believe it's November 30th, 2000. |
| 1:47.8 | So it's a different world. |
| 1:48.9 | The towers are still up. |
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