The Anthony Cumia Show - May 11, 2026


Anthony Cumia and Jim Norton： Corporate Greed Has Sanitized Las Vegas ｜ 05-10-26


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2,940

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219


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00:01:00.160 Listen to all your New Yorkers.
00:01:02.620 We need taxi.
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00:01:05.340 This is the 77 WABC
00:01:08.380 minicast.
00:01:10.660 It is the Anthony
00:01:11.920 Comia Show. Welcome. Another
00:01:13.640 great Sunday evening.
00:01:16.560 So glad you could join
00:01:17.980 us. It seems
00:01:19.960 like it's been a week.
00:01:21.780 Seems that way. But
00:01:23.680 But none of that even matters this evening.
00:01:27.300 Any previous show, any show I do in the future will mean nothing compared to tonight.
00:01:32.420 Because my guest this evening, the inimitable, the incredible, diabolical, Mr. Jimmy Norton.
00:01:41.600 Jim, how are you, sir?
00:01:43.020 Oh, if I was any better, it would be a sin.
00:01:45.480 A guy that doesn't know how to open a conversation in a natural, funny way.
00:01:49.940 By the way, you didn't have to explain it.
00:01:51.900 No, I know.
00:01:52.440 Just say hi.
00:01:53.580 All right, good.
00:01:54.080 Show's over.
00:01:54.780 Stupid.
00:01:55.840 I wound up, before we went on the air, I'm just so happy that my goal was to ruin your
00:02:00.200 night by having Shirley Temple run through your head.
00:02:03.240 Yes, yes.
00:02:03.960 Polly Wally Doodle all the day is stuck in my head every minute of every day, and I
00:02:07.600 hope Polly Wally Doodle all the day, and it did wreck my whole night, because now I'm
00:02:12.660 all sexed up.
00:02:14.020 All right, Anthony, shut up.
00:02:15.600 Did it have to go to that in a second?
00:02:18.180 As it should have.
00:02:19.020 As it should.
00:02:20.020 Of course, I don't know who on this planet wouldn't know that Mr. Jim Norton, a good friend of mine, a comedian extraordinaire, and part of the Opie and Anthony show for almost its entirety in New York.
00:02:37.960 And what a great relationship we've built up over the years.
00:02:41.700 Jimmy, I adore you.
00:02:43.260 Everyone knows this.
00:02:45.420 And I think you're one of the funniest people.
00:02:47.660 Thank you.
00:02:47.980 I've wanted to get you on the show.
00:02:50.020 I'm down in South Cackalacky now.
00:02:52.400 You're in New York.
00:02:53.680 You're a busy comic.
00:02:55.020 I mean, you were just on a world tour with Louis C.K.
00:03:01.160 Yes, Louis is a busy comic.
00:03:03.340 I was a lucky opener.
00:03:05.480 As far as me being a busy comic,
00:03:07.060 I'm very busy hanging up drapes behind the fourth row in comedy clubs.
00:03:12.540 So it looks full.
00:03:15.040 I bring my own curtain.
00:03:17.060 What a loser.
00:03:17.980 I was watching a lot of videos that you were doing from these faraway lands, touring with Louis.
00:03:24.840 And the kind of comparison I made, you're like that little fish under the shark's mouth that tries to grab the crumbs, nibble the crumbs from the Louis C.K. shark.
00:03:35.460 Is that a sucker fish?
00:03:37.400 Well, that's what you are, but I don't know.
00:03:42.440 It's a little thing that attaches.
00:03:45.620 is i know yeah i think they're called pilot fish pilot fish yes maybe but there's a few other things
00:03:50.660 i don't know why i'm helping you figure it out like this is some great insult yeah yeah trying
00:03:54.920 to figure out what is i'm a what is it a barnacle it's no it ends with hole it starts with a part
00:03:59.980 of the body tumor no it looked amazing it was great it looked uh i i would you know what and
00:04:09.440 again because at the top of the hour they played a little um clip uh i was talking about new york
00:04:14.620 and every time I come back to New York
00:04:16.640 I get to compare it to the last time I was here
00:04:18.900 as opposed to people that live here
00:04:20.620 and to see if it's getting worse
00:04:22.320 everybody thinks, Danny, it's got to be getting worse
00:04:24.720 and it is, I think it is
00:04:27.180 but
00:04:28.040 going overseas
00:04:30.760 I couldn't imagine that
00:04:32.600 I come here, I was just in Vegas
00:04:34.560 for a little while and I'm like
00:04:36.240 right when I get there I go, I want to go home
00:04:38.640 I think I'm at that age
00:04:40.880 from Vegas?
00:04:41.560 yeah, Vegas, it sucks
00:04:44.560 I hate Vegas.
00:04:46.860 You love to gamble.
00:04:48.100 I know, but I'll go to Atlantic City.
00:04:49.940 I like to gamble like at the Borgata and stuff.
00:04:51.780 Vegas isn't even about gambling anymore.
00:04:54.440 It's just a terrible place to go.
00:04:57.520 Everyone's awful.
00:04:58.500 The casinos are all just rip-off joints.
00:05:01.100 Not that they've ever been charitable organizations.
00:05:03.260 No, but they're all corporate now,
00:05:04.580 and they nickel and dime you on everything.
00:05:06.720 So it's just annoying the way they just pay for parking.
00:05:11.660 They used to be for free just to get you in the casino, and now they want money for everything.
00:05:15.580 They used to know your name and what you drank.
00:05:17.400 Absolutely.
00:05:17.920 The dancers would kick my tongue out.
00:05:19.420 I loved it.
00:05:20.540 I went to Vegas years ago.
00:05:21.560 My car blew up in the parking lot.
00:05:23.260 I felt like this is old school Vegas.
00:05:25.540 But I don't feel that way anymore.
00:05:29.120 They took the gaming tables out.
00:05:32.620 I was at the Plaza Hotel.
00:05:35.180 There were three blackjack tables.
00:05:37.420 They were all $50 minimum.
00:05:39.340 and and and everywhere that used to be a blackjack table a roulette wheel craps table is now
00:05:46.600 bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing all these slot
00:05:50.800 machines they got uh old people on on oxygen pulling the lever pushing the buttons it's not
00:05:58.420 gaming anymore it's not like you're you're gambling and enjoying the time with people
00:06:03.960 when you walk through though a lot of times i'd be in vegas and a lot of those tables are empty
00:06:07.980 Like you'd be like 11 o'clock or 12 o'clock and you'd be like two or three of them had this.
00:06:11.460 So they probably did the math and said like we could fire these dealers and not have to pay them and get rid of these big empty stupid tables and some old bag will throw money into this machine.
00:06:22.040 At least it's not – we're not paying someone to sit here and make us no money.
00:06:26.420 So the machine is kind of – it doesn't cost them anything.
00:06:28.600 I would think you would try to figure out a way to attract more people to the tables because isn't that the atmosphere you would want?
00:06:35.220 More so than the old people just, every boomer with their inheritance going down the crapper.
00:06:42.220 When you walk in by and people are screaming and someone's having a good time at the table,
00:06:45.380 it does make you stay and watch.
00:06:47.220 Or when somebody would walk by your table and hear you're screaming,
00:06:50.220 you're like, wow, that guy just lost his Jaguar.
00:06:53.000 That guy just lost his house.
00:06:54.940 It was never fun.
00:06:56.000 Whenever I watched you gamble, I was like, let me just go watch Anthony almost give himself a stroke.
00:06:59.840 Doesn't that tell you that you're a mush?
00:07:02.940 Yes.
00:07:03.240 Because I won.
00:07:04.220 Yes.
00:07:04.620 Just never when you were around.
00:07:06.100 Any woman I've slept with would tell you I'm a mush.
00:07:08.880 My two thumbs got really sore from trying to jam things.
00:07:13.220 Oh, I get it.
00:07:14.620 Mush.
00:07:15.140 I was a real mush.
00:07:16.720 Maybe it was me, because when Dice started going to the...
00:07:20.060 Dice didn't like having you around sometimes, too.
00:07:22.000 He was very vocal about people he thought were mushy.
00:07:24.600 He asked me to leave the casino.
00:07:26.360 We were in the Venetian, and he was trying to get a contract.
00:07:29.260 He probably blew maybe $200,000.
00:07:31.760 He had a big duffel bag of cash.
00:07:33.260 Big shells!
00:07:34.620 And he was losing, and he goes, you got to leave.
00:07:37.460 You're bad luck.
00:07:38.600 So I had to leave the casino.
00:07:40.660 The whole casino?
00:07:41.640 The whole casino made me walk out.
00:07:42.700 He didn't want you going over to the wheel to spin it yourself?
00:07:45.840 No.
00:07:46.400 You're making me lose here.
00:07:48.060 Or just get out of my sight like I had to just leave.
00:07:51.340 Right, right, the sight line.
00:07:52.460 Yeah.
00:07:52.700 Because you do get like that when you're betting, especially betting big.
00:07:57.240 I guess so, yeah.
00:07:58.080 Anything that you feel might be, because you can't attribute it to, well, it's a casino.
00:08:03.960 No, the odds are in their favor.
00:08:05.460 I'm throwing money away.
00:08:06.900 Why would you attribute it to that when you know that that's terrible?
00:08:10.520 Why am I even here?
00:08:12.080 Yeah.
00:08:12.320 It must be Jim Norton.
00:08:14.300 Yeah.
00:08:14.640 Coming up behind me like a vulture.
00:08:16.660 Yeah.
00:08:16.860 Blame the little blinking mushy bosomed opener.
00:08:20.640 Yes.
00:08:21.440 Standing there with no self-esteem anyway.
00:08:23.120 I've heard those dice stories.
00:08:26.020 He threw Kenny out many times.
00:08:28.340 Oh, did he?
00:08:28.900 Yeah.
00:08:29.520 Yeah.
00:08:29.860 The mush.
00:08:30.760 Yeah.
00:08:30.880 That's what they, you know, we go.
00:08:32.260 we have to think it's luck we can't think it's math and odds and things like that so and then
00:08:39.640 if you start winning the worst thing that could happen is if you do start winning because now
00:08:43.240 don't even look at me don't come near me the whole trip what are you doing like so you'll
00:08:47.800 stay at the hotel like do you gamble half the time is it every night are they giving you stuff
00:08:52.900 for free there well i don't usually frequent vegas so i wasn't getting comped like i do at
00:08:58.860 the borgata if i call up my guy at the borgata right now i could get a suite and comped at the
00:09:04.680 steakhouses and everything because they know i'm going to put my time in with my ass in the seat
00:09:09.220 yeah and uh win or lose you know yeah it's what it is as long as you're you're gambling and uh i
00:09:16.600 don't have that in vegas because i don't really frequent vegas uh that much but um when i was
00:09:22.500 doing well they were throwing cards at me all the the um the hosts hosts yeah with throwing cards
00:09:29.220 hey give me a call if you need anything and then that stack goes down and you can't find a waitress
00:09:34.980 of course he's banging cocktail waitresses two at a time so you know it's all it's all it's all
00:09:42.500 part of the the machine but i think the machine of vegas has gotten so bad as far as the pleasure
00:09:50.200 of the customers.
00:09:52.580 Now it's just how much money
00:09:54.080 can we take from you
00:09:55.320 and how little can we give you
00:09:57.340 while we're doing it.
00:09:58.180 Well, it's also because
00:09:58.780 everybody's gambling
00:09:59.380 on their phone now.
00:10:00.380 Everybody has an app.
00:10:01.260 Yes!
00:10:01.560 Everybody has all these things.
00:10:02.700 That's why it's killing.
00:10:03.840 Who's going to bring
00:10:04.440 your dumb, fat family to Vegas
00:10:06.200 and have to put your kid
00:10:07.320 on a stupid Ferris wheel
00:10:09.840 that goes through the casino
00:10:10.780 where you could just gamble
00:10:11.940 on your phone?
00:10:12.920 You know, you can leave
00:10:13.760 your pig wife in the house
00:10:15.000 and go park in a Walgreens
00:10:16.600 parking lot and gamble.
00:10:17.900 Little kid's able to see
00:10:18.920 some guy throw himself out a window i mean that is the one part about going on vegas vacation that's
00:10:23.560 nice is you can watch somebody just kind of jump off the top floor completely lose it but yeah i
00:10:29.320 see people with their family in vegas i'm like what are you doing i understand vegas has gotten
00:10:34.860 to the point where it's like yeah you dropped the kids off at the pirate ship like in casino
00:10:38.320 and uh but even if they do have entertainment for kids it's nothing that would compare to disney or
00:10:45.500 things that kids really want to do uh it's such a selfish thing for parents to do for a vacation
00:10:52.280 and i look and go like what what could you possibly be doing because it's only about gambling
00:10:57.560 it's only the wish of going home a winner yeah oh i'm gonna go to the big ball there and see
00:11:05.460 the wizard of oz in the the giant theater and really the sphere the sphere i actually do want
00:11:11.920 to see it's balls i'm sitting in balls over here it's like being born again you've run out the
00:11:19.300 front door and you want up on a napkin or your mouth well well you know i wouldn't i wouldn't
00:11:26.600 be wasteful of course i do that's my vows um doesn't ac suck down by the way isn't ac like a
00:11:35.400 kind of uh it's gotten like really crap i haven't done ac in a couple years but it used to be like
00:11:39.820 kind of fun and vibrant and now it's just kind of down all this legalized gambling and all these
00:11:43.380 casinos popping up it's ruined atlantic city it is absolutely that especially with a place like ac
00:11:49.880 because atlantic city was depending on the fact that new york just did not have legal gambling
00:11:56.460 you got what they had otb for a while they got those places like jake's 58 out on the expressway
00:12:02.860 in Suffolk County where, you know, it's all computer blackjack and it's not table games
00:12:10.240 and people want a real casino and they had to go to Atlantic City or Connecticut.
00:12:16.940 Right.
00:12:17.680 Once online gambling happened and you got these apps to do it, people were just like,
00:12:24.000 why am I driving all the way into the ass end of Jersey to go gamble?
00:12:29.560 And it's hours you can't gamble.
00:12:30.780 When you're in the car, that's hours you cannot be doing it, and you don't have to go to the ATM.
00:12:36.080 You can just literally, on your phone, get money and put it in your account.
00:12:40.300 It's just so, you know, it's made, every addiction is exacerbated by the phone.
00:12:44.540 By the phone, by apps, by science.
00:12:47.800 It's so true.
00:12:48.760 Even drugs, I guess.
00:12:49.760 You could just order drugs on the phone now, right?
00:12:52.580 Yeah, you can.
00:12:53.420 They drop pot off at your house.
00:12:55.320 I'm glad I don't do drugs, because I just, I know that I'd be a very, I'm a naughty boy
00:12:58.900 with just looking at things i shouldn't look at oh i asked you so many years ago like you stopped
00:13:04.980 drinking at 18 no and i was like everyone drinks to excess and to the point where they're so effed
00:13:12.740 up uh what what made you think you could not mature and maybe be able to enjoy and vibing
00:13:21.640 some alcohol you just knew you were a problem i have that that i have that personality man like
00:13:27.960 Like I just, it's like, and if you see me, lack thereof, but if you, if you watch me
00:13:34.140 like on a, like if I'm on a site and I'm looking at it, but whatever, you know, and I'm ripping
00:13:39.080 off layers of skin, you're like, wow, this guy has an addictive personality.
00:13:42.160 It's time to go to bed, Jim.
00:13:43.760 You can't stop.
00:13:45.120 I just can't stop.
00:13:47.080 Yeah.
00:13:47.600 It's addictive.
00:13:48.680 It's, it's weird because at that age, it's such a young age, it's a mature thought to,
00:13:55.260 to think I can't do this.
00:13:57.960 I, I, this will kill me or I will harm people.
00:14:01.900 I love whatever it is, but it's also the opposite because you're like, yeah, I, I'm 18 and I
00:14:08.240 know I can't, I know I can't do this anymore, but I made up for it in other areas.
00:14:11.960 Yes.
00:14:12.400 Yeah.
00:14:12.640 Believe me.
00:14:13.100 Thank God.
00:14:13.680 It is true that addiction can morph into a different thing.
00:14:18.480 It does.
00:14:19.020 Every fat person, you know, believe me, there's something going on there.
00:14:22.180 Every fat person, you know, is it, it's an addiction.
00:14:24.580 They didn't, they didn't just get fat for no reason.
00:14:27.600 It's like they're covering up something.
00:14:29.020 Every bite of a cookie is the wiping out of an uncle's hand from memory.
00:14:33.120 They just see that creepy, hairy hand coming in.
00:14:35.260 They're like, I'll have another cookie, please.
00:14:37.880 I think I'm over for my break, ain't I?
00:14:41.620 No?
00:14:42.320 20?
00:14:42.700 Yeah, about that.
00:14:43.360 Oh, well.
00:14:43.880 Yeah, it's regular radio, Jim.
00:14:45.740 I know.
00:14:45.940 Got to pay the bills.
00:14:46.700 There are commercial breaks.
00:14:47.020 Got to pay the bills.
00:14:48.580 Don't you go anywhere.
00:14:49.900 We got your calls.
00:14:50.940 We'll be taking them live.
00:14:52.400 and more of myself and the great Mr. Jim Norton when we return.
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