The New York Post featured a very interesting interview with XM's Opie & Anthony in this past Sunday's edition of "Hot Seat." They cover the feud with Howard Stern, the St. Patrick's Cathedral debaucle, and O&A's unprecidented syndication on both satellite radio and terrestrial.

Their logic behind why terrestrial radio was still important to Opie & Anthony - even after already being on XM for over 18 months - is oddly simple. Opie's response? "You get to reach a lot more people." While Anthony's answer was that terrestrial radio brings in "people who don't like you" as well as "the dregs of society, drunk off their ass at 6 in the morning."

There's no question that the dual-syndication deal has done great for Opie & Anthony's career, but whether it's shown similar benefits to XM is a question yet to be answered. Either way, it's an interview well worth the read.

[New York Post]

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Opie and Anthony are challenging Howard Stern's assertion that he could have stopped their upcoming appearance on David Letterman this August 31st, but he decided not to.

The duo played a clip of Stern saying that Letterman's "people" called his agent to see if it was okay to book Opie and Anthony, and that he could have said no but didn't. O&A in turn challenged Stern to "do it!"

On his SIRIUS Satellite Radio show, Howard Stern told his audience that Letterman "asked me how I felt" about the booking, and that the booking came after "a lot of pressure from a certain person" at CBS. Stern claimed that Letterman's staff "weren't into it. They were feeling a lot of pressure."

"Howard says a lot of things that can't be confirmed. We are telling Howard, do it ... go ahead, get us off of Letterman, you lying sack... he thinks he has power over CBS and David Letterman," Anthony Cumia said.

Opie added "his listeners need to know that he's full of shit... We’re begging him to do it because we know it’s just a bunch of crap.”

[via AllAccess] 

UPDATE: Listen to audio of this here (MP3)