The Anthony Cumia Show - May 13, 2026


Anthony Cumia and Jim Norton Reflect on Their Long Careers in the Industry ｜ 05-10-26


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00:01:00.140 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
00:01:02.620 It's me. Taxi.
00:01:04.040 I'm kidding. I don't know what we're going on.
00:01:05.320 This is the 77
00:01:07.180 WABC Minicast.
00:01:11.100 It's the
00:01:11.780 Anthony Cumia Show
00:01:13.260 with Jim Norton
00:01:15.260 joining us.
00:01:18.120 I'm putting up a post on
00:01:19.320 That's an old man thing. I was just putting it up
00:01:21.880 on those Instagram
00:01:23.780 of stories to let people know that we're on and i just put the volume on full blast as you come on
00:01:28.160 my stories it it does feel weird um when you're not a kid and you're using the internet and
00:01:36.660 it's business at this point you know you're plugging stuff you're almost said yeah you're
00:01:42.480 promoting stuff and uh you know but still i i consider myself pretty tech savvy so i'm not
00:01:49.820 there's plenty of things for me to be embarrassed about sure but not uh sure thank you but not uh
00:01:55.940 that i can't understand you're not a technological just a blithering idiot with technology i think i
00:02:02.280 just skated beyond that um boomer thing yeah yeah i'm more gen x i think than boomer when it comes
00:02:08.940 to tech because boom watching boomers struggle with their phone i have a jitterbug phone in case
00:02:14.700 my heart gives out i press the big button and yeah it's it's interpersonal relationships that
00:02:20.820 you've totally hit the wall that is where i'm completely devoid of any uh raymond from sit
00:02:28.020 talk at new york raymond how are you sir yes i'm fine how are you sir very good good uh first time
00:02:38.580 call-off to your show.
00:02:40.660 Yeah, I got
00:02:42.780 a couple questions for Norton.
00:02:45.280 Oh, Jimmy Norton.
00:02:47.860 Yes, of course, sir.
00:02:50.100 So, the funniest
00:02:51.060 thing I've ever heard you ever say
00:02:52.760 is you got
00:02:53.960 two free seats on the Challenger.
00:02:58.720 I don't remember saying that.
00:03:00.580 I don't remember that.
00:03:01.480 I did not remember that I said that.
00:03:03.440 It was a couple of months ago.
00:03:05.160 A couple of months ago?
00:03:06.100 That's the swanniest dancing I've ever heard about in my life.
00:03:08.500 Well, I could understand how that would be funny with a setup.
00:03:11.740 Yeah, like you go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, two free seats on the Challenger.
00:03:15.420 Where did I say it, sir?
00:03:16.660 Where did you hear me say that?
00:03:17.760 Give us some context.
00:03:19.060 What were you doing?
00:03:19.900 Who were you with?
00:03:22.000 Don't lie, because we'll know.
00:03:23.460 Don't lie or I'll know.
00:03:24.840 Yes.
00:03:25.320 What is your worst memory from childhood, besides telling a story that goes nowhere on the radio?
00:03:31.040 What's my worst?
00:03:32.360 Yeah, it was 1986.
00:03:34.040 Yeah, I got you.
00:03:35.440 Okay.
00:03:35.980 All right.
00:03:36.360 Raymond, thank you so much for the call, Raymond.
00:03:38.580 Yes.
00:03:38.840 Isn't it great when you could just push a button?
00:03:41.360 Remember, 246, Raymond.
00:03:43.800 Yes, yes.
00:03:45.380 Kevin, Kevin from Long Beach, New York.
00:03:49.200 What's up, Kev?
00:03:50.880 How are you doing, Ed?
00:03:51.740 Hey, this is a treat.
00:03:52.860 How are you doing, Jimmy?
00:03:53.740 Hello, sir.
00:03:54.240 Great.
00:03:54.720 Of course, it's a treat.
00:03:55.900 Yeah.
00:03:56.580 I was talking before about the old ONA shows.
00:03:58.940 I am, like, addicted.
00:03:59.920 I mean, I heard them all back then, but, you know, I'm 68 now, so I've forgotten quite
00:04:04.440 a bit.
00:04:04.720 Oh, you are.
00:04:06.160 Hey, tell me about it, right?
00:04:07.300 Am I right?
00:04:08.180 Putting your shoes in the refrigerator, I understand.
00:04:12.960 Car keys are in your cereal bowl.
00:04:15.240 Honey?
00:04:16.360 His wife's eating cat food.
00:04:17.900 I remember the O&A show.
00:04:20.160 That's great.
00:04:20.760 You're like Gene Hackman and his wife.
00:04:22.100 Your dog's just in the cage.
00:04:23.220 No one's walking them.
00:04:24.340 She's taking the medication.
00:04:25.920 You're driving for a Starbucks.
00:04:27.040 She's eating mice feces.
00:04:30.760 Go ahead, sir.
00:04:31.740 Sorry.
00:04:32.260 Yes, Mark.
00:04:33.020 Or Kevin.
00:04:34.080 Sorry.
00:04:34.500 Kevin, yes.
00:04:35.420 And that's what I miss is the brutality of the humor you guys used to do back then was just, you never heard anything like it before.
00:04:43.040 I mean, you heard Rickles and stuff, but this was like Rickles on 10, you know, it was just great.
00:04:48.700 And my son used to get into it.
00:04:50.200 So we, you know, go back and forth.
00:04:51.220 Your son is attempting to bring an outside joke into this situation.
00:04:56.640 Your son needs to be corrected.
00:05:00.700 Hey, you're the senile caller.
00:05:03.100 Didn't you leave your keys in the fridge and then give your wife cat food?
00:05:06.440 I'd keep going, but it might be a problem on terrestrial radio.
00:05:09.760 I'm literally one line away from losing to this gig.
00:05:16.520 Yes, Kevin.
00:05:18.600 Were you a WNEW guy or a SiriusXM guy?
00:05:23.980 Yeah, yes.
00:05:24.920 All of it, all of it.
00:05:26.140 All right.
00:05:27.680 Good to hear.
00:05:28.420 to him on youtube and i go every day i listen to him every day and just you know this is great to
00:05:34.800 hear but how prescient you guys were politically yeah you know a lot of people uh kind of forget
00:05:41.640 because it cost me my job no we we would touch on politics and things like our job and it was
00:05:48.480 sorry but it was all funny like there are clips from when obama got elected and i remember that
00:05:57.060 and people would think oh anthony just bitching about obama which is true i did but it was done
00:06:03.940 in a way that was a funny shock jockey kind of show it wasn't just bitching the songs yeah that
00:06:11.520 um drew boogie made using some of the phone calls that that we'd get and things like that
00:06:17.520 that differentiated us from a lot of the just political shows that were bitching about it and
00:06:23.600 And people will say, like, well, you know, why are you funny?
00:06:29.040 Why don't you do it?
00:06:29.820 Just because you're talking politics doesn't mean you can't inject a little humor into the gym.
00:06:34.400 Sure.
00:06:35.040 I love to talk politics and make little jokes about, you know, the Dems and the Repubs.
00:06:42.980 Oh, forget it.
00:06:43.900 I'll inject a little humor.
00:06:45.220 You know what?
00:06:45.600 I say libtards.
00:06:47.320 Oh, that's a good one.
00:06:48.180 I say cuck.
00:06:49.780 Is anyone still using libtard?
00:06:53.040 I guess they are.
00:06:54.680 They are online.
00:06:56.560 You'll read somebody.
00:06:57.340 Somebody you like will put something on Instagram and they'll say LibTart.
00:06:59.880 You're like, oh, God, shut up.
00:07:01.160 I replaced Lib with Re.
00:07:03.200 It's a lot more accurate.
00:07:04.940 Anyway, thank you, Kevin.
00:07:06.780 I do appreciate your call.
00:07:09.900 Sure.
00:07:11.000 There are a couple of things I wanted to get to.
00:07:14.260 What did you want to get to?
00:07:15.300 Well, a couple of things.
00:07:17.600 I was talking about New York.
00:07:19.300 I started this top of the show.
00:07:20.760 But then, of course, Tangent.
00:07:24.040 Mother is calling for Mother's Day.
00:07:25.800 Sorry.
00:07:26.360 Oh, tell Mom I sent.
00:07:28.280 I can't answer it now, but I sent.
00:07:30.500 My mother's dead.
00:07:32.640 And her health won't allow it.
00:07:36.200 I sent my mother a message before, and my dad just texted me and goes,
00:07:40.120 hey, don't forget it's Mother's Day.
00:07:41.260 I'm like, I left a message.
00:07:42.480 So now Mom is calling.
00:07:44.400 Yeah.
00:07:45.620 But I'll tell her I'm on the radio.
00:07:47.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:48.680 That's great.
00:07:49.600 What's it like having a mom?
00:07:50.700 Is that awesome?
00:07:51.880 I mean, it really, it makes you feel glad to be alive, and I can't imagine not having one.
00:07:58.680 It's wonderful.
00:07:59.680 It gives me a reason to wake up every day.
00:08:01.520 Yeah.
00:08:01.980 I'm like, meh, you know.
00:08:03.500 You're an orphan.
00:08:04.160 Life goes on.
00:08:04.980 You're a little orphan.
00:08:05.700 I'm a little orphan child.
00:08:07.360 Yeah, you are.
00:08:08.320 You're like little orphan.
00:08:09.000 It happens.
00:08:09.700 Little orphan Anthony.
00:08:10.640 You know, I think a lot of people my age, and sometimes it's like, you don't want to
00:08:17.440 see them at an age where they're just falling apart.
00:08:20.720 I don't think, you know, there's a plus and a minus to that.
00:08:24.220 A lot of people's moms, they're healthy, vibrant people.
00:08:27.900 And others, you know, what are you going to, the next five years, you got to.
00:08:31.680 And I think that's going to take up your memory of them and maybe negate all those wonderful times you had in your youth.
00:08:40.600 Probably.
00:08:41.240 But, I mean, I figure at that point, it's just I'm making up and kind of.
00:08:44.540 Just to offer.
00:08:45.200 A small caliber weapon.
00:08:49.800 yeah offer a vacation to a hey you want to take a trip to a little pod in sweden in the woods
00:08:56.180 i think canada canada will do it yeah they'll they'll do it this is wonderful it's air
00:09:03.080 conditioned oh this is so nice breathe deeply yeah press that red button because there's no
00:09:07.820 going back you're looking through the will she does it that is an insane prospect that we've
00:09:16.580 gotten to that point yeah it's kind of this soylent green part of that movie soylent green
00:09:20.980 was the fact that people were able to uh pick their own day of demise and they put them somewhere
00:09:27.960 nice and they showed them great movies and uh images of their youth and then they killed it
00:09:34.180 and we thought that was science fiction that was something that was never going to happen
00:09:38.080 and now in certain parts of the world yeah you could just be like ow my knee hurts
00:09:41.980 kill me i mean i kind of like it i support you do sure because you want to kill yourself every
00:09:47.640 day though i know i know you just want it available i would literally on my phone instead
00:09:51.780 of my dog i have a picture of a pod going soon no but it's more like hey look you can do it anyway
00:09:56.920 you can stab yourself you can shoot yourself it's a possibility in real life anyway yeah why not do
00:10:03.100 it in a way that is out of everybody else's way that is cleaner that is more peaceful there's no
00:10:09.020 there's no mess yeah you don't have to pretend you're running to catch a frontier airlines flight
00:10:14.760 oh we have sorry we have a uh a severed finger allergy in the coach so please no severed fingers
00:10:26.220 do you think it brings up like uh religious uh aspects or or um moral uh implications
00:10:35.960 because it does seem like if you just kill yourself there's a stigma on that and there's uh religions
00:10:42.880 that say now you can't do this that that uh is it except i wouldn't think even that other people
00:10:49.940 pressing the button or putting you in a machine uh i don't think the catholic religion is hip on
00:10:55.480 that one no none of them are but i've seen a lot of these like real conservative guys going like
00:10:59.360 yeah this is terrible to have you should be uh and then they're for the death penalty so i guess
00:11:04.220 It's like the state can decide to kill you because you're a bad boy.
00:11:06.720 Well, it's not like the woman with leukemia just offed five people in the subway.
00:11:10.180 No, but she's probably driving slow, draining the inheritance.
00:11:12.800 Those are penalties where death is the appropriate punishment.
00:11:15.320 I can't disagree with that.
00:11:16.980 I have my eye on Alexis, you old bag.
00:11:18.860 You got to go in for another drip into your stupid porch.
00:11:26.580 Yeah, I never got the – because liberals will say that.
00:11:31.200 and they'll say oh you're you're against abortion but you're for the death penalty it's like yeah
00:11:37.300 how do you see that as a bad thing abortion is different abortion is like a kid like i get that
00:11:43.620 argument but like if you're an adult and you want to kill yourself you should just be able to like
00:11:47.140 i don't care if people do it i don't either i've been leaving flyers around the house
00:11:50.960 that's right you're married i am married i'll leave a flyer i'll be like oh a nice train ride
00:11:58.460 up the honeymoon's over oh boy i love it it's uh how is how are things going with you and the
00:12:07.960 they're good i mean like it's it being married is a challenge but it is it's it's just sharing
00:12:13.980 your space and like the the things that everybody complains about all the time yes you and your
00:12:20.240 wife you're like wait there was a viagra here you know how it is yeah yeah at least you don't
00:12:25.840 enough to argue about that uh toilet seat thing that couples always argue about get it oh i tripped
00:12:32.680 over that one didn't i i mean it was it was a cute effort that's a dark toilet toilet seat thing
00:12:39.140 i'm not i'm not but then you explain it that couples will occasionally yes yes the toilet
00:12:44.120 paper going over or under well that's a big controversy yeah no it's it's okay i mean uh
00:12:50.160 i love her but the idea of being married is like my my you know i was miserable when i was single
00:12:55.080 didn't you know you were getting into that though you couldn't have thought like oh marriage is
00:12:59.480 going to be better than just living with someone or anything did you live with a girl for no she's
00:13:05.220 the first one i ever lived with whoa during the pandemic oh that's crazy but that's like when
00:13:09.740 someone gets lung cancer from smoking and you go well didn't you know i like how you equate it to
00:13:14.500 a terminal disease absolutely and i'm putting i'm putting this on the word i'm saying that would be
00:13:18.580 a preference um but no you know it's like when you're doing something you don't always realize
00:13:23.960 the other but it's not that bad i mean i'm happy to be married i don't want to get divorced i mean
00:13:28.240 no no but that's what keeps a lot of marriages together is i don't want to get divorced doesn't
00:13:32.340 mean you're you're doing great like i didn't want to get divorced either i stayed married for nine
00:13:37.740 years in a marriage that i knew was done in one year yeah one year after i got married i'm like
00:13:43.740 this is an abomination against jesus i knew it was just terrible but then getting the radio gig
00:13:53.000 that took up all of my energy and thought and creativity and i was just like this is just
00:13:59.000 yeah i got a little bit of an albatross with me dealing with that noise yeah yeah yeah um
00:14:03.880 and then you know nine years later i uh sacrificed a million dollars and said i'm out of this yeah
00:14:10.140 but i i didn't really know what i was getting myself into maybe i did unconsciously i was a
00:14:16.940 older i think i'm married to you yeah i was 30 30 i was 30 i was in my 50s oh my goodness yeah
00:14:23.200 but you know you you love your wife yes i do that's what happens and and you know you what
00:14:29.620 is it about it is it is it the constant companionship no because i'm on the road and
00:14:37.260 stuff and it's not about the the hookers that i really want to see but can't it's not not not
00:14:42.780 to guess who's in town and i can't go no it's not about that it's really about when you when
00:14:47.760 you're single you're like i don't know what's next there's this really weird delusion you have
00:14:51.720 that there's still like you don't know where it's gonna go hope yes that just goes away jimmy it
00:14:57.300 does go away it's like it's like what i know how miners feel when the hole closes and everything
00:15:01.220 collapses i'm like oh yeah oh i know how miners feel too but the other way no it's the same way
00:15:08.900 The hole collapses and it's over, Johnny.
00:15:15.120 Yeah.
00:15:15.760 But you know that feeling of there's no light at the end of the tunnel because I've already, like now I'm married, so I know who I'm going to be with.
00:15:22.240 Even though she's the one, like there's no one else I should be with.
00:15:24.940 It's irrational and it's childish thinking.
00:15:28.160 It's not like anything she's doing.
00:15:29.480 It is.
00:15:29.600 It is immature thinking.
00:15:31.680 At some point you have to, you know, my uncle Tony told me once.
00:15:36.440 Oh, no.
00:15:37.020 I know.
00:15:37.660 Well, he's rubbing his beard on me.
00:15:41.760 No, smell the pillow.
00:15:44.000 He said, you know, what are you looking to do?
00:15:47.860 Like as far as relationships go, because I was a mental patient, just madhouse.
00:15:52.080 I broke up with a girl after nine years and every subsequent relationship was pretty much
00:15:57.220 nine years.
00:15:58.220 Yeah.
00:15:58.440 I'd only had a very limited amount of girls, but they were monogamous, long term relationships.
00:16:03.800 And then after the last one, that was about 2009, somewhere around there, I just went, yeah, I'm going just nuts.
00:16:15.960 I'm going to be the guy that I wasn't in my youth.
00:16:19.740 That you couldn't be.
00:16:20.460 That I couldn't be.
00:16:21.220 Yeah.
00:16:21.800 And it was great.
00:16:23.300 It was fun, but it was a little nerve-wracking, a little challenging.
00:16:27.040 Sure.
00:16:27.340 I got caught a few times being a bad boy.
00:16:31.200 That's the worst.
00:16:32.000 It's so bad.
00:16:33.800 When you just know.
00:16:35.400 How'd you get caught?
00:16:36.300 What's one of the ways you got caught?
00:16:37.820 One of the ways, my rat passport got me.
00:16:45.000 I was going to the Bahamas with my girlfriend, and I had my passport.
00:16:53.860 We both had our passports, and she was looking at hers and going,
00:16:56.780 oh, I've been here, here, here.
00:16:58.500 She goes, where have you been?
00:17:00.520 And I'm like, oh.
00:17:01.440 so she starts looking through the stamps and my passport and she sees halifax canada during a time
00:17:09.180 during the month and year that we were still together we had been together and she knew that
00:17:14.820 uh ray lynn lived up in in canada but didn't she remember you told her i'm going to halifax
00:17:20.760 well you hadn't said you were doing something else did you oh jimmy oh no i said i'm going
00:17:26.620 up to halifax i'm building a schooner they want me to help build a schooner for them in halifax
00:17:33.240 oh no yeah were you at the airport going to the bahamas no we were still at home
00:17:38.640 but uh yeah that caused a big fight i've had the phone thrown at me so many times
00:17:45.680 because i was in the bathroom i'm doing and and it must have buzzed the girl picked it up and then
00:17:51.620 just opens the door i'm trying to have a nice peaceful defecation sure and the phone flies at
00:17:57.620 my head i'm like all right that's why i've i've removed all notifications years ago two o'clock
00:18:04.120 in the morning the vibrate on the wood nightstand oh and they're going who is that i'm like my friend
00:18:14.020 in la he's cheating yeah he's cheating he's cheating yeah absolutely and i told you there
00:18:19.680 There was one hooker I used to see, and I had put-
00:18:23.920 She's a hooker!
00:18:25.400 Yeah.
00:18:25.980 But I put for her name because she was texting, and I just went into the bathroom, and I put Anthony as her name, and I said I was talking to you.
00:18:33.580 I'm a hooker.
00:18:34.300 Yeah, but she didn't believe it.
00:18:35.860 Didn't buy it.
00:18:36.680 No, she had seen the girl's name already.
00:18:38.540 No, the fake names are so rookie.
00:18:40.740 It doesn't work anymore.
00:18:42.700 Like, I had President Trump, and it was-
00:18:45.560 Why is he sending you a picture of this?
00:18:47.060 Oh, I don't know.
00:18:48.540 I love it.
00:18:49.680 All right, what is it, 40?
00:18:52.020 Oh, look, we got time.
00:18:54.060 We got a minute.
00:18:55.500 All right, I'll just wait.
00:18:57.520 I'll use the minute in like 30 seconds.
00:18:59.860 Is that okay?
00:19:00.280 Oh, wait, but that's 30.
00:19:01.660 That's right.
00:19:02.220 Imagine if we didn't know what to say.
00:19:03.060 We was like, I have a lot of crazy stuff going on, just hoping to stretch to a minute.
00:19:06.480 Oh, there have been some shows.
00:19:07.880 Sure.
00:19:08.400 You know, you've had guests where you're like, let me get my dentist.
00:19:12.260 Is it safe?
00:19:13.400 Yeah.
00:19:13.580 Is it safe?
00:19:14.560 Right after sitting down going, how you doing?
00:19:16.780 and you're like, 59, 45 left.
00:19:20.740 Yuck.
00:19:21.340 Your eyes are burning holes in the clock.
00:19:23.960 But you want to say to people, have you never talked into a mic before?
00:19:27.300 Yes.
00:19:27.540 How do you not go back and forth?
00:19:29.200 And they seem to be, like, they're the ones here to promote something.
00:19:33.900 Talk about it.
00:19:34.940 Talk about it.
00:19:35.860 I just discussed that.
00:19:37.500 There was Seth Rogen.
00:19:39.320 Of course, the Paris Hilton one was a classic example of somebody not really.
00:19:44.440 She was early in the morning, didn't want to be there, yeah.
00:19:46.400 give and take but um yeah maybe we'll talk a little about the seth rogan thing because it
00:19:51.860 involves not with us yeah not only that though but the whole weed thing we'll get into it back
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