The Anthony Cumia Show - August 06, 2025


Anthony Cumia & Sid Rosenberg Fill In for Kilmeade and Dive Deep Into Radio Rivalries and NYC Politics ｜ 08-06-25

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trump reaction to Rubio
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Anthony Cumia
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Trump Opie Siggy Flicker Hollywood Howie Sidney Sweeney Heather Graham Ronald Reagan Marco Rubio Sid Rosenberg Jill Nicolini Scott Kaplan Kathy Hochul Nancy Reagan Lou Cervelo Rick James Nancy Mace DiBella Mel Karmazin Jack Stain Don Lemon John Katsimatidis and 31 more
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On this day in 1996, Rick James passed away at the age of 31. It was a sad day for the sports world, but it was a day that will live in infamy for many of us. On this episode of the Red Apple Podcast Network's Red Apple Classics, host Sid Vaynerchuck and co-host Anthony Cumia discuss the loss of a beloved sports radio host and the impact it had on the sports landscape.

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00:01:00.160 It's the Anthony Cumia
00:01:01.940 Show. Entertaining and
00:01:03.720 informative. On the Red Apple Podcast
00:01:06.100 Network.
00:01:07.680 As we talked about during the first
00:01:09.780 four hours today,
00:01:12.080 it was on this day, 17,
00:01:14.040 no, excuse me, 21 years ago
00:01:15.880 today. 21 years ago
00:01:17.820 today, Rick James died.
00:01:20.380 In the world, there's been a very
00:01:21.780 dark place.
00:01:23.460 Super Freak by Rick James. 0.87
00:01:25.660 That was that Jack Stain Don Lemon right there with some broad that no one's ever heard of. 0.97
00:01:30.300 And that was me on the Howard Stern Show.
00:01:32.480 That was 17 years ago.
00:01:34.880 So Howard, he ain't going anywhere.
00:01:36.780 As Lisa G told us on the show this morning, he'll take less money, $100 million is a lot.
00:01:42.060 He'll take less.
00:01:42.840 He'll stick around.
00:01:44.240 But how lucky are we that with Brian Kilmeade on vacation, if you listened yesterday,
00:01:49.200 You heard the brilliant stylings of one Anthony Cumia,
00:01:52.780 who does a tremendous job on this station, 8 to 11 p.m. every Sunday night.
00:01:57.740 And you're going to get Anthony back today, but you're getting Anthony with me.
00:02:00.240 So no Opie and Anthony.
00:02:01.560 Instead, it's Sidney and Anthony. 0.94
00:02:04.100 Here he is, the great Anthony Cumia from some Guayasha town in South Carolina.
00:02:08.540 Good morning, Anthony.
00:02:10.140 Thank you, Sid.
00:02:11.260 Yes, it's a Sidney and Anthony.
00:02:15.260 I'm back to being a co-host.
00:02:20.340 And, well, you know, much better than Opie, Sid, I must say.
00:02:25.640 But not as good as maybe Sidney Sweeney.
00:02:28.120 That would be a good Sidney.
00:02:29.360 I wouldn't mind that, Sidney.
00:02:31.640 I got to tell you, I wouldn't mind it either.
00:02:34.180 And I don't know what the big deal is about her.
00:02:36.380 We will talk about that at some point during this hour because I think she's great.
00:02:41.180 But let's get to Howard, because my first job ever in New York was at any WFM.
00:02:48.920 My former partner, Scott Kaplan, who is now in San Diego slash Los Angeles.
00:02:53.360 And I came up from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
00:02:55.680 We made a deal, got a job doing mornings at the station, 2000.
00:02:59.360 And at the time, you and Anthony were the biggest thing in New York, even bigger than Stern.
00:03:03.820 No, you and Opie, right?
00:03:04.640 Even bigger than Stern, right?
00:03:05.860 Big time.
00:03:06.420 Ron and Fez and Leslie Gold and Donna Mike.
00:03:09.040 And you guys really ruled the roost, and it really bothered Howard Stern.
00:03:15.000 How much did it bother Howard?
00:03:16.900 Bothered him to the point where he tried to shut us down.
00:03:19.740 We were all working for the same company, Infinity Broadcasting,
00:03:22.940 and he was constantly calling the big boss, Mel Karmazan,
00:03:27.700 to tell us to stop talking about him, shut up about this,
00:03:32.200 don't do that promotion. 0.98
00:03:33.860 He was terrible.
00:03:35.520 He was one of the most, we're talking about him like he's dead, one of the most insecure people.
00:03:41.620 I think everyone knows that.
00:03:42.860 He's a very insecure guy.
00:03:44.480 So he couldn't just look at himself, look at the top of the mountain that he was on without wanting to kick anyone that was climbing up that mountain down.
00:03:55.420 So he was very insecure, and he tried to stop us from becoming successful in New York City.
00:04:02.980 And it didn't work, obviously.
00:04:04.940 We did a great job coming to New York.
00:04:07.880 N.E.W. was just a madhouse.
00:04:10.860 It was so much fun, so crazy.
00:04:13.780 And, you know, he continued that big slide into what he is now.
00:04:20.760 And he's not a commodity anymore.
00:04:23.520 He's not viable.
00:04:24.900 He's not relevant.
00:04:26.700 And he's just been this guy hanging on and getting paid a lot of money from Sirius,
00:04:34.400 obviously but it looks like uh that's over but i agree with you sid i don't think he's going
00:04:41.700 anywhere this guy would have left years ago and i think like you said they're going to offer him
00:04:48.220 some money uh much much lower than 100 million a year so they're going to offer him some money
00:04:55.060 and he'll take it he'll snivel he'll talk about how he won he'll be on the air saying i'm not
00:05:01.320 going anywhere see i'm still here right and you know he'll fade further into obscurity there was
00:05:07.060 uh stories that at one point because you did work for the same company and howard had great success
00:05:12.220 in the mornings and you and opie ruled the afternoons that maybe you guys would team up
00:05:17.360 right and it would be howard in the morning and opie and anthony in the afternoons and what i read
00:05:22.200 was that you guys were up to listening to that but howard wanted no part of that what's the truth
00:05:28.060 oh yeah that's exactly what happened i mean obviously that made perfect sense so in the
00:05:33.980 radio world uh why would you ever let that happen because it's it's such a great idea uh so yeah we
00:05:41.380 we wanted to do that we were up for it uh howard in the morning us in the afternoon great team
00:05:46.260 ron and fez in the middays whatever and uh he was dead set against it no way not working with them
00:05:53.440 Because he always said things like, you know, I'm not helping them out.
00:05:57.040 Like him in the mornings, us in the afternoon would be helping us out.
00:06:01.420 Meanwhile, we were definitely doing our own thing.
00:06:04.320 But there had to be a time, Anthony.
00:06:06.680 I know you guys came from Boston and then you took over New York.
00:06:10.480 And look at you, by the way.
00:06:11.880 Congratulations.
00:06:12.480 25 years later, you're still a big deal.
00:06:14.700 But there had to be a time when you were coming up with Open.
00:06:18.620 You guys did a lot of crazy stuff, a lot of stuff similar to Howard.
00:06:21.960 Well, you love Stern.
00:06:22.700 No, you didn't love Stern?
00:06:24.320 Oh, yeah, yeah, please.
00:06:25.860 Any guy, especially you're a New Yorker, you grew up in New York,
00:06:30.320 you're in your 20s or 30s, yeah, you listened to Howard.
00:06:36.240 You loved the show.
00:06:37.920 And look, it was a lot different back then.
00:06:40.740 The whole idea of shock jock was something that was amazing.
00:06:45.540 It was funny, edgy.
00:06:48.400 nowadays what how is someone on the radio going to shock you when you know scroll through take
00:06:56.380 your thumb scroll once on your phone you've seen 20 things more shocking than anyone could ever say
00:07:03.560 on the radio that's what the world we live in today so you know said you got to kind of grow
00:07:10.300 with it you got you don't want to change uh and do a 180 right but you gotta grow expand and and
00:07:17.800 And, you know, be cognizant of where you are in the business and in life.
00:07:23.100 You can't be a shock jock in your 60s or 70, as Stern is.
00:07:28.920 And, you know, him turning off a large portion of his listeners when he said,
00:07:34.620 if you support Trump or your MAGA, I don't want you listening to my show.
00:07:39.900 Well, it seems all those people took him at his word.
00:07:45.020 He said worse than that.
00:07:47.260 He didn't say don't listen.
00:07:48.180 He said he actually called us, and I'm part of that group as well as you, Ant. 0.99
00:07:52.340 He called us stupid, and he also said, you ready for this? 0.99
00:07:55.680 He doesn't care if we die. 1.00
00:07:57.160 He actually said that a lot worse than stop listening to my show.
00:08:00.700 So when was it?
00:08:02.080 Here come a young Opie and Anthony on the ascent.
00:08:05.900 They come from Boston to New York.
00:08:08.360 This guy, Anthony, is great.
00:08:09.700 He does a great dice.
00:08:10.900 He does all these people.
00:08:11.860 And when was it exactly when this love for Stern, which probably was partly influenced your success early in your career, what was the day, what was the time, what happened when it all turned ugly?
00:08:26.660 Yeah, I think it was when we had to have these meetings with Mel Karmazin and some of the bosses, and they told us directly that Howard doesn't want us talking about him.
00:08:39.760 And it just completely, you know, spun my head around.
00:08:44.040 For years, you're listening to this guy.
00:08:45.640 He destroyed DJs in cities that he was syndicated into.
00:08:51.060 We all remember DiBella in Philly.
00:08:54.460 It was a massacre.
00:08:56.160 We thought about killing himself. 0.91
00:08:57.520 Yes. 0.96
00:08:58.780 It was a massacre.
00:09:01.400 And, you know, you almost felt bad for the guy.
00:09:04.660 You were a huge stern finger.
00:09:05.920 You felt bad for DiBella.
00:09:07.140 But you're like, look, that's that's this business. That's what it is. So when me and Opie got to New York, we knew he was going to start ragging us. But we weren't going to turn around and not react to it. And we reacted to it. It was very well received. It was done in a funny way. And he could not take it.
00:09:28.900 So instead of battling like he did with these jocks that were, you know, easy to just roll over, he saw some kind of competition in us.
00:09:38.540 And instead of going with that and showing your strengths and doing what you do, he went to the boss, the big boss, and said, I want them to shut up.
00:09:48.020 They can't talk about me.
00:09:49.240 And that's when I really lost all, all respect for the guy.
00:09:52.780 You lost all respect.
00:09:53.920 But when Mel Comerson tells you to do something, and Mel was paying you guys a lot of money, a lot of money.
00:09:58.460 And Mel, Mel, I don't care if it was I Miss Stern, Opie and Anthony, when he paid you the money, he expected you to listen.
00:10:05.500 But something tells me, Ann, that when he told you to calm down about Stern, that you guys may have gone the complete opposite direction.
00:10:14.360 That was always the motive with the O&A show.
00:10:18.200 Go complete opposite of what the bosses tell us, but in a way where we could turn around and go, oh, I thought, no, I thought you meant this.
00:10:25.600 Oh, oh, sorry.
00:10:26.800 See, we didn't, because when he told us to not talk about Howard anymore, we took the clip from the Kid Rock song where he goes, radio edit.
00:10:36.260 And anytime we wanted to talk about Howard, we talked about him.
00:10:39.180 We didn't say his name, but we just hit the sound clip that said radio edit.
00:10:43.120 Well, we get called into Mel's office again.
00:10:45.900 He's 10 times as mad as he was the first beating and says, we know what you're doing.
00:10:51.560 Don't, don't, you can't say, we were told not to ever say radio edit anymore.
00:10:56.100 Wow.
00:10:56.460 That's how bad it got with this guy.
00:10:59.440 They figured it out.
00:11:00.020 And then you went really the most disrespectful route of all,
00:11:05.420 which was gorgeous.
00:11:06.200 Don't get me wrong.
00:11:06.880 I love it.
00:11:07.700 When my friend Anthony Cumia right here would refer to Howard Stern as Howie.
00:11:15.120 Oh, yeah.
00:11:15.800 He hated that.
00:11:16.780 Oh, Howie.
00:11:17.400 He hated that.
00:11:18.340 Hollywood Howie.
00:11:21.200 Hampton's Howie, we would call him that, where he would get on weekends.
00:11:25.200 We would talk about it. We do a little thing on how we would go hop in the Howie copter from New York and it would it would go all the way out to the Hamptons where he would land and, you know, be with his Hollywood A-list celebrities and then come back to do his show and talk about how he's just like the regular guy and has all the same faults and foibles and fears.
00:11:52.900 and it was all a lie it was all just a lie you know what's funny is with all that back and forth
00:12:00.500 it worked for you right you became you were the best and and the audience loved you the most and
00:12:05.560 you made a lot of money and i don't know this got about a minute to go but i'm gonna ask you this
00:12:09.380 i feel like you never really hated the guy it was just that was the game he was the morning guy
00:12:14.620 you were the afternoon guys like like you hate opie but you never really hated how i don't even
00:12:21.500 really hate opie oh get out of here i i don't like him as a person i think he made my life very
00:12:28.360 difficult during some years that could have just been a dream come true it was always this element 0.73
00:12:34.720 of uh you know my friend adam ferrara the comic he has a great uh phrase he said when he'd come
00:12:41.760 in the house and his wife was mad she wouldn't say anything but he knew he goes because there
00:12:45.900 was just this pissed mist in the house he walked into it and that's what the studio was like when
00:12:52.860 i walked in it's like a piss mist that opiate you know just in the room he's mad and and you knew it
00:12:59.520 and it just made everybody like oh god yeah but howard yeah uh i never hated the guy i i like i 0.59
00:13:07.380 said i lost respect for him i never really saw him they brought him in it was like the bat cave
00:13:12.900 his studio you never saw the guy but but i heard that there were christmas parties where you guys
00:13:17.520 would be in the same room even imus at the same time is that true uh yeah i think there was one
00:13:23.780 one of those parties and then he probably told mel to not invite us anymore to those parties we
00:13:29.280 went to one party as a matter of fact and there was a separate vip room to the company party the
00:13:36.240 viacom cbs party and howard was in that room and we couldn't go in we weren't allowed
00:13:42.820 to go in to the we were you know next to howard we were the show right and we were not allowed in
00:13:49.840 the vip room of the cbs party because howard uh told mel not to let us god that's so fantastic so
00:13:57.040 in the final 30 seconds now of this first segment if um if it is over and it's not you know it's
00:14:02.360 not over you're right he's gonna take less money but if it's over and uh you have the chance right
00:14:07.700 now to deliver the career eulogy thank god he's not dying he's a nice man but the career eulogy
00:14:13.680 to howard stern coming from anthony cumia what would it be oh you know he started out amazing
00:14:23.460 a shock jock perhaps but it was relevant at the time he got an audience that no one else was
00:14:31.580 getting he seemed to be a guy that never apologized didn't make excuses just a juggernaut in the radio
00:14:39.260 industry who just stayed in it too long he's unfortunately you know i was very sad to hear
00:14:46.360 about the uh the horse the carriage horse dying yesterday yeah that's what howard is he's just
00:14:53.120 a guy an old horse pulling the radio wagon until he dies in the street that is really a very
00:15:00.480 emotional, beautiful. Goodbye, Anthony.
00:15:03.180 Thank you.
00:15:04.780 We'll be back right after this.
00:15:07.180 It's the Anthony Cumia Show
00:15:09.180 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:15:13.380 So, Anthony, you'll be happy to know this,
00:15:15.940 that my gym
00:15:16.960 that my buddy Sean Cerrone
00:15:19.140 owns in Queens,
00:15:22.060 Burn Fitness,
00:15:23.080 there's a guy there named Shane Siderman,
00:15:25.380 and he's a financial guy, you know.
00:15:27.560 But he owns, him and his
00:15:29.040 company his buddy his company they own a whole bunch of a uh air and b's uh what do you call
00:15:35.360 that thing again yeah airbnb right and in in charleston so yesterday at the gym that was our
00:15:41.960 conversation because late in my show yesterday my friend nancy mace the great south carolina
00:15:48.640 congresswoman yes came on to tell us that she's officially running for governor what are your
00:15:54.700 thoughts in your home state of nancy mace running for governor well i i like her i think uh she'll
00:16:01.580 do a great job uh better than you know what we've had in the past uh but we got somehow we got to
00:16:11.840 get rid of lindsey graham you don't like him i don't like lindsey really yeah what don't you
00:16:17.560 like about him i don't there's there's uh he just uh he seems wishy-washy yeah if you know what i
00:16:27.020 mean he likes war and um yeah yeah he's a big war guy you know and you like that you like that
00:16:33.780 because you've got more guns in your house than david koresh ever had that's to take care of my
00:16:39.460 own little plot of land here i've staked out my uh my claim down here my homestead and i want to
00:16:47.260 make sure uh no nefarious people try to come and take it i got a dog recently i got a belgian
00:16:54.580 malinois now what he's a maniac i love it aren't those dogs like 200 pounds no they're not they're
00:17:01.580 they're about the size of a german shepherd but uh they're like the army uses um you know special
00:17:06.100 forces what are you preparing for exactly i'm just curious hey said you you do morning radio
00:17:13.800 You're the big guy on campus in the mornings.
00:17:16.280 You don't listen to the news?
00:17:18.480 You don't see what's going on in the world around us?
00:17:21.040 What's going on?
00:17:22.120 I know the Mets lost last night.
00:17:24.400 I mean, the big dogs and artillery and guns.
00:17:30.060 And what am I missing?
00:17:31.140 What am I missing here? 0.97
00:17:32.360 Big balls got beat up in Washington, D.C. from Doge. 0.96
00:17:37.380 Remember big balls? 0.94
00:17:38.440 I know big balls got beat up.
00:17:40.280 19 guys are about to get beat up in Brooklyn this afternoon. 0.77
00:17:42.900 Okay, so what?
00:17:43.880 Trump is ready to federalize Washington, D.C. because of it.
00:17:49.360 Things are, you know, there's some shenanigans, I'll say, going on in this country.
00:17:54.940 And I want the best tools available to me to protect me and my loved ones.
00:17:59.440 I got it.
00:18:00.060 My guess is, I've never been to your house in South Carolina.
00:18:03.460 My guess is, you probably have to travel about 20 miles just to get a carton of milk.
00:18:09.040 Who's coming to kill you there?
00:18:10.420 boy you got quite the concept no i i live i live pretty close to greenville no i love it down here
00:18:19.340 and it's really nice i don't want to make it sound like uh i'm uh absolutely insane with that i just
00:18:24.620 like guns i like shooting you know shooting is fun sure target shooting i'm not a hunter i don't
00:18:30.820 hunt they if it was necessary but uh yeah well it is necessary there's a place right now called
00:18:36.500 gaza they can use your help so i should hunt and then ship the food over to gaza no you should go
00:18:42.240 to gaza what hunt take your guns and go to gaza you want to be a badass but you know on a serious
00:18:51.400 note you still spend a lot of time here in new york city and this will always be your home and
00:18:56.700 your beloved here and revealed you can't even walk down the street without getting love it
00:19:00.300 we love you here and and you know nancy mace is going to run for governor and she'll probably
00:19:04.900 win because South Carolina, where you live now,
00:19:07.100 is a red state. But you've got
00:19:08.960 to admit that Kathy Hochul is one of 1.00
00:19:10.940 the worst governors ever, ever.
00:19:13.260 It just, once again,
00:19:14.940 made my faith in the people of
00:19:16.900 New York go right down the old
00:19:18.720 crapper, as they call it.
00:19:20.740 I don't have any faith. That's why
00:19:22.800 I think Mamdani's going to win. And I
00:19:24.800 don't want him to. I love Curtis. I want
00:19:26.800 him to win. Because you voted for Hochul. 0.95
00:19:28.780 You had a chance to get her out. You could 0.88
00:19:30.760 have Lee Zeldin as your governor.
00:19:33.120 And you voted this
00:19:34.500 this disaster for new york state in and uh you know i i go to new york i talk to a lot of people
00:19:42.980 said you do too do you know anyone that likes this woman or that likes mem danny except for the
00:19:49.460 mental patients you see on on the news or on social media and and they just continue to win
00:19:56.320 and it's beyond me i i haven't what do you think that is because you make a very good point i don't
00:20:01.420 know anybody personally because hey i'm jewish although a lot of jews are voting for mom donnie
00:20:06.680 which i can't figure out but amazing i know i don't know anybody personally and that likes
00:20:11.760 hokul or mom donnie but like you said she won he's probably not definitely here comes curtis
00:20:18.080 but she's probably going to win why is that is that smart people saying people like us
00:20:23.720 just don't vote what's the problem i think that's a big part of the problem they the the mainstream
00:20:29.280 media also is such a propaganda wing for the left that they beat down the republicans and
00:20:36.300 conservatives to the the point where they probably don't go out and vote because they don't think
00:20:41.100 it'll have any effect whatsoever you know i i think between cuomo adams and memdani you're
00:20:49.260 dividing up liberals republicans aren't voting for those three candidates if every republican
00:20:55.380 in New York City went out and voted
00:20:57.360 for Curtis, I honestly think
00:20:59.520 he'd win. Yeah, me too. Me too.
00:21:01.280 But they gotta get off their ass and get 1.00
00:21:03.500 to the voting booths and vote for this 1.00
00:21:05.520 guy. You know, I'm curious, when you were the
00:21:07.360 big star here, Opie and Anthony, and you know,
00:21:09.380 you guys did some news and politics
00:21:11.340 obviously, but you did a lot of entertainment
00:21:13.520 stuff and a lot of dirty stuff, to be honest.
00:21:15.700 Sure. Were you that
00:21:17.220 politically inclined back then? Were you
00:21:19.120 voting? Were you into it? Like, I'll give you
00:21:21.420 an example. I used to work with a guy named Joe Benningo
00:21:23.560 at WFAN. I remember Joe.
00:21:25.240 You know, Joe, right. And he's on this show quite a bit. He was on yesterday. He never cared about politics. And he couldn't tell you. He knew some stuff, but he didn't care. It was if the Mets lost or the Knicks lost or the Jets especially lost. His week was ruined. It was ruined. Trump comes along. And I get Joe on now to talk about the Mets and the Jets. He won't shut up about President Trump. He now watches Fox News instead of SNY. He even watches Newsmax instead of yes. He's gone crazy.
00:21:55.240 Yeah. Is that what happened to you? Well, it was a November evening in the year 2008 when I decided I needed to get a little more politically active. Really? Yeah. Yeah. It was when Barack Obama was elected elected president. Oh, boy.
00:22:17.320 And I just knew, I just knew this was going to be a problem.
00:22:22.820 And, but before that, I was, you know, of course, I, I loved Ronald Reagan, Sid.
00:22:30.160 Well, Anthony was a great supporter of me and my wife, Nancy, with her giant basketball head.
00:22:40.320 So back, back then, I, I enjoyed, are you telling me that Ronald Reagan
00:22:46.020 used to actually refer to his wife's head
00:22:49.080 in public as a big basketball head?
00:22:52.620 Well, if you've looked at it, Sid,
00:22:55.480 you will see it looks like
00:22:58.560 the head of a Mardi Gras float.
00:23:01.960 It's, well, quite large, yeah.
00:23:05.520 So, it's brilliant.
00:23:07.500 Hilarious and brilliant.
00:23:08.560 So one day somebody texts me, they go,
00:23:10.280 you know, I like this guy, Anthony.
00:23:13.420 He's great, he's funny.
00:23:15.120 But I'm not sure I like the fact that he makes fun of Nancy Reagan.
00:23:18.320 I go, are you really sending me this? 0.99
00:23:20.580 Are you nuts? 0.99
00:23:22.280 This is a brilliant impression. 0.99
00:23:24.040 It's hilarious.
00:23:24.860 And he's right.
00:23:25.960 I don't like it when he makes fun.
00:23:28.320 This is how people get.
00:23:29.220 They get crazy and all that.
00:23:30.220 Yeah, yeah, I know.
00:23:31.120 So if I ask you, Ronald Reagan or President Trump, who's Anthony Comey's favorite?
00:23:36.440 Oh, it's Trump.
00:23:37.580 It's Trump.
00:23:37.900 It's Trump.
00:23:38.720 Did you see him on the roof of the White House yesterday shouting?
00:23:42.040 How great was that?
00:23:43.080 It's so funny. And he does this on purpose because all the Democrat social media, liberal social media people were like, oh, this guy wandered onto the roof and he's he's losing his mind.
00:23:57.700 He's got Alzheimer's. And meanwhile, you know, for four years, they sat there and watched that that puppet with with Alzheimer's Joe Biden and never said a word.
00:24:09.060 No. And now, you know, the guys are in construction. He knows he goes up on the roof. He wants to check what's going on.
00:24:16.060 And shouting at the press from the roof was hilarious. It's pure Trump. I think he's really funny.
00:24:24.080 He's he's a president, unlike we've ever seen, and I don't think we'll ever see again. So enjoy it. Enjoy it.
00:24:31.060 Yeah, you say that, and I've got this friend, her name is Siggy Flicker, and she's a very, very popular pro-Israel, pro-America.
00:24:39.360 She was on the Real Housewives of New Jersey years ago, and she moved to Florida now, but she's very, very close with Trump.
00:24:45.100 She's a civilian, doesn't work for Trump, not in politics, but he loves her.
00:24:48.940 He calls her Siggy, her name is Siggy.
00:24:50.580 So a few months ago, he was speaking at West Point, and he invited Siggy because Siggy happens to be best friends with Alina Haber.
00:25:00.200 He actually flew her on Air Force One with Alina to West Point
00:25:05.180 to watch the president deliver his address to the cadets at Army.
00:25:10.520 Unbelievable, right?
00:25:11.640 So he actually calls her to the front of the Marine Force One. 0.52
00:25:16.800 Siggy, come here.
00:25:17.700 So she walks up there and he goes, so let me ask you something, Sig.
00:25:22.540 When I'm done in a couple of years, who would you like to see president?
00:25:27.580 And you ready for this?
00:25:29.520 She started to cry.
00:25:31.380 She said, the thought of you not doing this anymore really makes me sad.
00:25:37.400 I'm a Republican.
00:25:38.220 I love the party.
00:25:38.980 We've got some great people, great people.
00:25:40.960 But I don't even want to think about the day where I can't vote for President Trump.
00:25:45.880 And he was like, that's very sweet.
00:25:47.720 I love you.
00:25:48.260 Thank you.
00:25:48.620 Thank you.
00:25:48.960 Thank you.
00:25:49.320 You know, you know, but she meant it.
00:25:51.140 Now, she ended up saying Marco Rubio, which I think surprised him.
00:25:54.320 I think he thought she was going to say J.D.
00:25:55.840 Vance.
00:25:56.140 He said Rubio.
00:25:56.720 but her reaction i think i'd have the same reaction in yeah it's it's you know we will
00:26:02.820 look back at this uh with great fondness the uh trump years i truly believe that and look
00:26:10.040 not everyone bats a thousand there are people because you know i i i give trump his accolades
00:26:15.520 that he deserves and people get on me oh you you know what about this or that yeah there are some
00:26:21.760 things i don't like that he's doing but pick a president that was 100 with anybody it does not
00:26:28.060 work but overall i i love what he's doing and and just his attitude his you know don't screw with me
00:26:35.500 i'm not apologizing for anything i'm not going to play the usual uh games uh you gotta love it
00:26:41.780 and and we will miss this but i think it will be a a vance um rubio ticket i mean let's see it's
00:26:48.740 It's far off, but I think that's what we're going to see.
00:26:52.020 It's a pretty damn good ticket.
00:26:53.520 So, we're going to take a quick break.
00:26:54.680 Even though Rubio stood you up today, huh?
00:26:56.820 Well, he supposedly, he got called into the office by Mel Carmson.
00:27:02.920 I understand that.
00:27:05.020 By President Trump.
00:27:06.260 So, when we get back, get ready for this now.
00:27:08.180 No one's going to change the dial, trust me.
00:27:10.340 Do you realize, Anthony, we discussed Howard Stern in the first segment.
00:27:14.440 Sure.
00:27:14.700 That on your show, Opie and Anthony, the immense hit that was Opie and Anthony, you guys employed one of the most disliked current politicians in New York right now.
00:27:31.880 Now, don't say anything.
00:27:32.880 Don't say anything. 1.00
00:27:33.940 But you guys employed one of the most disliked, fat, and stupid politicians. 1.00
00:27:43.220 We'll talk about that. 1.00
00:27:44.700 When Anthony and Sid get back, Anthony Cumia and Sid Rosenberg.
00:27:50.920 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:27:57.420 Although I forgot to tell you, I'm working on getting those Oasis tickets.
00:28:02.740 Somebody said they can get it, but I think they performed already.
00:28:05.440 So I guess I'll just get old tickets.
00:28:08.200 But we can't go to the show that I think they already performed.
00:28:10.620 So but if you want the tickets like a ripped ticket, I can get to that.
00:28:14.700 Oh, well, that's one of the greatest gifts you could ever think of getting me.
00:28:18.660 I appreciate that.
00:28:19.420 The best I can do.
00:28:20.620 The best I can do.
00:28:21.740 I'm trying.
00:28:22.380 Yeah, that's what he tried.
00:28:23.080 You see, Anthony, it's very, very hard to make a lot of people happy at the same time,
00:28:26.400 if you know what I'm saying.
00:28:27.420 Oh, very hard.
00:28:28.760 I know that.
00:28:29.360 I know you know that.
00:28:30.220 So one of your guys.
00:28:31.820 Oh, wait.
00:28:32.480 First, I got to mention this.
00:28:34.300 It's a little ironic that it's Wednesday.
00:28:36.380 Why?
00:28:36.620 And the Sidney and Anthony show, it's Whip Them Out Wednesday.
00:28:42.380 But how times have changed. 1.00
00:28:43.620 Now we have to remind people to whip out their Jardians or Lipitor. 1.00
00:28:47.880 It used to be nice.
00:28:49.760 Now it's just kind of tragic.
00:28:52.280 That's a great line.
00:28:53.640 That is a great line and so true.
00:28:56.400 Whip him out Wednesday.
00:28:57.400 Now whose idea was that?
00:28:58.840 That was the Obster's idea.
00:29:00.260 Okay, that was good.
00:29:01.340 We'll give him credit for that.
00:29:02.600 It worked well.
00:29:03.100 You know, I still see cars every now and then with wow stickers.
00:29:06.960 It's unbelievable.
00:29:08.060 So one of the guys, he was an intern for you. 0.98
00:29:11.380 And I think his responsibility was to find a way to shove young, half-naked girls into 55-gallon drums. 1.00
00:29:20.860 That would fit the bill. 0.99
00:29:24.660 So it turns out that he goes on and he becomes this big macher.
00:29:32.020 I don't know if you know this.
00:29:33.000 With the city council, he's in charge of all the money.
00:29:36.660 All the money.
00:29:37.740 To the point where he just ran. 1.00
00:29:39.380 And he lost because he sucks. 1.00
00:29:41.380 But he just ran for Comptroller. 0.98
00:29:44.540 Do you know that your old buddy, the intern for the Opie and Anthony show, Justin Brannan, is a big deal politically in New York?
00:29:52.940 I did not know that.
00:29:54.340 Yeah. 0.99
00:29:54.600 He's a douche, and you hate everything about him. 0.98
00:29:57.720 But he has won here in New York. 0.76
00:30:01.100 you know you would think any any ties to the opian anthony show would preclude you from having any
00:30:08.980 political aspirations whatsoever said this makes no sense at all did they look into this guy's
00:30:15.580 background they did they did wow yeah and he's still because he's a democrat see if he's a
00:30:23.540 republican and he's on the opian anthony show then he's a really horrible person yeah yeah
00:30:28.860 that's true you can kind of uh uh wash some of that ona stink off of you right if you're a
00:30:36.420 democrat or a liberal but not a republican and how about how excited president trump got when
00:30:42.400 he found out because i didn't forget who you mentioned 50 minutes ago but he found out that
00:30:48.820 the lovely sydney sweeney was in fact a registered republican he was very happy yes he brought up the
00:30:56.940 ad the american eagle outfitters ad and said he liked it he liked that ad uh because yeah she
00:31:04.440 she likes guns she's apparently working on cars and some of the viral things i've seen she's uh
00:31:10.680 throwing the first pitch it looks like she she's got great form amongst other things sure there's
00:31:16.920 one problem though what's that her name i could not imagine getting passionate and going oh sid
00:31:24.200 Oh, Sid.
00:31:25.140 Hold on a second.
00:31:26.380 I'm Sid.
00:31:27.100 She's Sidney.
00:31:29.020 Well, you guys, Sidney's no better.
00:31:33.860 Sidney's an old accountant's name or something.
00:31:37.300 You're sitting there calling her Sidney.
00:31:39.400 So how would that go again?
00:31:40.520 Because it reminded me a little bit of Meg Ryan with Billy Crystal.
00:31:43.640 How would that go if you were with Sweeney?
00:31:45.100 Let me hear that again.
00:31:45.740 You'd be like, oh, Sid, Sid.
00:31:50.440 I don't know.
00:31:51.320 So maybe it would be worth it because of, you know, who you're looking at at the time.
00:31:56.520 Sure, sure.
00:31:57.120 Wouldn't be Sid Rosenberg.
00:31:58.280 No.
00:31:58.840 I think you would suck it up and do it, right?
00:32:02.540 I think, right?
00:32:03.260 Yeah.
00:32:03.600 Who was the most famous?
00:32:06.320 Let's go with this because you weren't married at the time.
00:32:07.960 Who was the most famous, prettiest actress, celebrity, entertainer that showed up on 7th Avenue, walked into the studios,
00:32:19.080 And you said, oh, my God, I really have made it.
00:32:23.120 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:24.260 What was the what's her name?
00:32:26.260 Oh, yeah. 1.00
00:32:27.220 Roller girl in Boogie Nights.
00:32:29.120 Oh, she was there.
00:32:30.700 Yeah.
00:32:31.160 What's her name again? 1.00
00:32:32.360 Heather Graham. 1.00
00:32:33.140 Heather Graham.
00:32:34.500 Yeah.
00:32:34.860 Oh, wait.
00:32:35.400 And wait a second.
00:32:35.960 Now, this is urban legend.
00:32:37.600 But the legend is, is that you banged Heather Graham. 0.81
00:32:41.200 I never, especially with.
00:32:44.140 And how did you hear that one?
00:32:46.680 Don't give me your Bill Clinton statement here, OK?
00:32:49.080 No, I'm just saying, especially with people of note, you never want...
00:32:54.700 Wow, I just heard that.
00:32:55.700 I think Rick Delgado.
00:32:59.240 Wow.
00:33:01.160 Because I've never had anyone even ask me that.
00:33:05.840 Well, that's what makes this show number one.
00:33:13.180 So do you expect to get a ton of calls?
00:33:15.840 It's either that or Jill Nicolini, the traffic girl from WPIX.
00:33:20.120 Well, you were with Jill Nicolini.
00:33:21.500 Oh, yeah, the summer.
00:33:22.600 We had a whole summer together.
00:33:24.140 It went from the beginnings of a passionate, loving relationship
00:33:29.220 to unbelievable hate and vindictiveness and cheating by the end of three months.
00:33:35.960 Wow.
00:33:36.140 It was like a 20-year marriage in the course of three months.
00:33:41.280 I actually met her.
00:33:42.920 I met her for the first time.
00:33:44.020 And the Suffolk County PBA, Lou Cervelo, gave me a Lifetime Achievement Award.
00:33:49.100 It was really nice.
00:33:49.800 Ray Tierney, Lou Cervelo, Mike Vandenberg.
00:33:52.520 I love Ray.
00:33:52.780 Yeah.
00:33:53.260 And she showed up.
00:33:54.420 And I'm like, aren't you the one that was with Anthony?
00:33:56.740 And she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:33:57.700 She had nothing bad to say about you, just so you know.
00:33:59.740 No, no. 0.99
00:34:00.040 She's a nice enough gal. 1.00
00:34:01.940 Yeah. 1.00
00:34:02.620 She's cute.
00:34:03.520 So you're going to get a whole bunch of calls and texts that are you think on this Howard Stern stuff?
00:34:08.160 Oh, yeah.
00:34:09.100 Everybody's already going off on it and speculating.
00:34:11.720 But like we said, he's not going anywhere.
00:34:14.280 He doesn't have it in him.
00:34:15.500 I don't know what he thinks he'd do if he wasn't doing a radio show, even if it is two, three days a week, whatever he does now.
00:34:22.480 He'd be lost.
00:34:24.180 Wouldn't all of us?
00:34:25.460 Yeah, that is true.
00:34:26.700 Right?
00:34:27.000 Where the hell do you think I'd do it?
00:34:28.020 I wasn't looking for a job.
00:34:29.740 No!
00:34:30.320 You know what?
00:34:31.300 It's funny.
00:34:31.740 When I first started doing radio and I had my drug and alcohol problems, and my partner Scott Kaplan said to me, I'll never forget this.
00:34:39.440 1999 he goes sid if you think it's hard putting down liquor or cocaine wait till you have to put
00:34:47.080 down the microphone oh and i've been fired and i've been suspended and i gotta tell you
00:34:51.280 he was right it's terrible terrible i don't know what it is it is gotta walk around your house
00:34:56.860 talking to yourself right you mean i can't be alone with my own thoughts for 10 seconds
00:35:03.200 well that's why we're lucky to have you unfortunately we're out of time today but
00:35:08.480 You'll be back tomorrow, and then we want to put you on early tomorrow, too.
00:35:12.940 Yeah, let's do it.
00:35:14.860 We want two of Anthony tomorrow.
00:35:16.760 Anthony Cumia, 8 to 11 every Sunday night.
00:35:20.000 He'll be back at this time tomorrow.
00:35:21.520 Plus, he'll join us early on Sid and Friends in the morning.
00:35:24.360 And as always, that was a spectacular hour of radio.
00:35:27.940 Anthony Cumia, thank you so much.
00:35:29.460 You're amazing, Sid.
00:35:30.180 I love you.
00:35:30.660 Look who's talking.
00:35:31.540 You're amazing.
00:35:32.100 I love you, too.
00:35:32.760 Anthony Cumia right there.
00:35:34.280 We'll take a short break.
00:35:35.200 We'll come back.
00:35:35.840 And we've got the great John Katsimatidis and the former governor, David Patterson, in the house, about to come your way.
00:35:43.660 Thanks for listening to The Anthony Cumia Show.
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