The Anthony Cumia Show - April 14, 2025


Anthony's Redemption Arc ft. Jim Norton and Erock ｜ 04-13-25


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11 minutes

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Word count

1,980

Sentence count

173


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00:01:00.100 I took the segment thing and threw it away because my guest will be here. Comedian,
00:01:06.960 extraordinaire, actor, mediocre, and a good friend of mine, Jim Norton. Jimmy. Delighted.
00:01:14.320 I am, like I said, I'm stunned that this is even a thing. It is crazy. We're on radio in New York
00:01:20.520 again and uh looking out the window at car like it's so bizarre to be on regular radio in new york
00:01:25.560 it is and and i was thinking about that the last time this happened was k-rock i think that was
00:01:30.620 the last time we were on broadcast radio together we would do k-rock uh in the morning and then do
00:01:36.400 the walk over to xm satellite radio and uh that was many many years ago i remember that you had
00:01:43.420 to put the shopping cart had to be pushed and all the equipment it was such a nightmare oh it had
00:01:47.460 like some kind of archaic satellite system in it and you know yes yeah yes steve would you know
00:01:54.700 push it and you would buy um inappropriate magazines from the uh magazine stands right
00:02:01.100 yeah something inches yeah yeah it was uh it was really fun but it was inconvenient
00:02:08.780 it kind of you know broke the show up a little bit some days were great yes some were like oh
00:02:14.040 my God, get us over to the studio, but Rich Voss used to stop at some of the restaurants
00:02:19.220 along the way and do impromptu, spontaneous stand-up for people that, you know, it was
00:02:24.760 early in the morning, they're just trying to get their bagel and coffee, and they're
00:02:27.040 like, ah, sir, what are you eating there, sir?
00:02:30.240 And the last thing they wanted was just to be teased by an abrasive man.
00:02:34.080 He's just so abrasive.
00:02:35.580 Even when people like him, they don't really like him because he's just abrasive.
00:02:38.480 No, no.
00:02:38.840 So if you're minding your business having your coffee in the morning, that's the last
00:02:41.800 thing you want.
00:02:43.040 My voice is a little scratchy, you can tell, but a little cold.
00:02:45.840 Oh, what was it in the back of it?
00:02:49.180 There he goes.
00:02:50.840 Oh, boy.
00:02:51.300 I thought what you think.
00:02:52.160 Just dab it in a little NyQuil and shove it back there and see how you do.
00:02:59.060 Yeah.
00:02:59.900 I'm a little clogged.
00:03:00.900 Oh, my bad.
00:03:02.360 Also, E-Rock is sitting in just to watch, but I have to acknowledge that he's here.
00:03:07.480 E-Rock's been such a part of our satellite radio thing over the course of the years.
00:03:11.680 And then he was working with me over at Compound Media for almost a decade.
00:03:16.100 So, Iraq, how are you, sir?
00:03:18.260 I'm good.
00:03:18.780 I'm here because I didn't think you'd have enough to make fun of for three hours.
00:03:21.620 So I figured I might as well come in.
00:03:23.300 It was fodder.
00:03:24.100 Yes.
00:03:25.140 I'm trying to put up a little.
00:03:26.540 Fodder for a feeder.
00:03:28.440 Fodder and fodder every day.
00:03:29.620 It's so mean, I know.
00:03:30.840 Hold on a second.
00:03:32.700 I'm trying to put up a little post.
00:03:35.180 Oh, you're posting on social media?
00:03:37.220 I really am an old man at this point.
00:03:39.280 I got my glasses on.
00:03:41.440 I'm hitting the wrong buttons.
00:03:42.720 I'm panicking.
00:03:43.740 It's so hard to keep up with it.
00:03:46.100 And you don't want to, if you make one mistake, you could be brilliant at posting in the internet.
00:03:51.740 If you make one mistake in front of people, it's like, okay, boomer.
00:03:54.660 Yeah.
00:03:54.960 All right, boomer.
00:03:56.280 It happened.
00:03:57.100 I was doing a sales meeting here from my house and I, it works every single time.
00:04:02.720 And then I'm there on camera going, wait, they can't hear me.
00:04:06.620 And it's just me pushing and trying to sign language the sponsor and the sales staff.
00:04:12.480 And I'm like, wait, one minute.
00:04:13.800 I got it.
00:04:14.580 Like, I'm just a buff.
00:04:15.660 I look like a buffoon.
00:04:16.940 Plus the 24 font size on the phone doesn't help either.
00:04:20.340 Yeah.
00:04:20.540 Well, that's, you know, but I got my crazy big glasses.
00:04:23.560 These are my sheriff chief Brody glasses from Jaws.
00:04:26.960 God, they are chief Brody glasses.
00:04:28.660 Yeah.
00:04:28.840 Yeah.
00:04:29.060 Awesome.
00:04:29.700 It's a, you have a Quentin.
00:04:31.040 Jimmy I know it's so good uh it really is it's uh it's been so long yeah and like I said I was
00:04:43.560 never I wasn't looking for a gig sure and they in their in uh infinite wisdom here they decided
00:04:51.000 to hire me because you you know you were over at Sirius XM Satellite Radio with the Opie and Anthony
00:04:55.820 show and uh back in 2014 i guess it was i i got the boot it was july 4th weekend yes we were off
00:05:04.460 i remember where i was when my ex jen called me and told me that something happened what what uh
00:05:09.940 was her birth name well it's funny because that is who i was on a date with not jen but let's just
00:05:19.080 say another young lady oh okay wow it goes back that far oh god oh my way not with nikki was
00:05:24.740 another girl but yeah it's just before i met nikki okay okay so yeah it was you know uh back
00:05:31.340 that i remember because i had just also bought a brand new jaguar because the money's just rolling
00:05:37.380 in nothing can stop us and uh i'm like oh god what am i gonna do um it was like i i talk about
00:05:47.220 not having regrets and it's easier when once you go through especially years yeah to look back and
00:05:54.000 I go, well, I'm happy where I am now and what's going on.
00:05:56.740 But at that moment, and you were through one of those also at NEW when we got fired for the Sex for Sam, St. Pat's Cathedral debacle.
00:06:06.520 And there's nothing worse than right when it happens.
00:06:10.820 And our agent calls and goes, they're terminating you.
00:06:17.120 Like, oh, my God, what am I going to do?
00:06:18.880 Did I screw this up?
00:06:19.740 Am I going to be back on a ladder and a rooftop putting in air conditioning and heating?
00:06:24.780 It was frightening.
00:06:26.100 Yes.
00:06:26.340 And then you do realize, and it's kind of comforting that in a few years, it takes that long sometimes,
00:06:33.460 you realize like, oh, I wouldn't be where I am now if it wasn't for that.
00:06:37.640 And I always look at it like I'd have been fired 15 more times after that.
00:06:42.260 Yeah.
00:06:42.520 So it doesn't really matter.
00:06:44.320 But that was some stressful times.
00:06:48.220 It is losing a gig.
00:06:49.740 I remember when it happened at NAW.
00:06:51.020 It's terrifying because you're like, I'm never going to make the money again.
00:06:54.640 I'm never going to make this money.
00:06:56.460 I have no future.
00:06:57.860 There's nothing going to happen.
00:06:59.540 But you were right.
00:07:00.220 I was just going to say it.
00:07:01.700 I knew I was too long of a setup.
00:07:03.500 I was just about to say, and I was right.
00:07:06.320 But I handed it to you.
00:07:08.280 Thank you.
00:07:11.520 I handed it to you, and then I tied my shoes, and you put it where your shoes were.
00:07:15.880 But it's so bizarre when you lose a gig.
00:07:18.220 Like, you're like, nothing is ever going to come around again.
00:07:21.000 And even now I'm not with serious.
00:07:23.000 I'm not, uh, there wasn't a firing.
00:07:24.960 It was just, it was, it was kind of the way they did it.
00:07:27.420 But when you get that call, like, yeah, we're not going to renew.
00:07:30.220 I was like, all right.
00:07:31.360 And it's funny.
00:07:32.220 You miss knowing that the money's there.
00:07:34.180 Yes.
00:07:34.660 But it's nothing in my life has changed.
00:07:36.220 Like nothing.
00:07:37.160 Yeah.
00:07:37.600 I've seen no change whatsoever.
00:07:39.460 But, but I don't know.
00:07:41.740 Financial stability is a huge thing.
00:07:44.000 Yeah.
00:07:44.320 And having a steady check come in, you almost take it for granted.
00:07:48.220 after a while, and you don't realize
00:07:50.640 that, well, I might not need
00:07:52.660 that. And it gives you a little
00:07:54.560 bit of power over
00:07:56.600 your future. You can go on and
00:07:58.580 do what you want to do. I wanted to go
00:08:00.500 away every single weekend at work, and I wanted
00:08:02.460 my wife to hook at a bus station. So we're
00:08:04.480 both kind of doing what we need to do to pay the bills.
00:08:07.000 That's what she was meant to do.
00:08:08.480 Hook at a bus station.
00:08:13.060 But, yeah, like
00:08:14.480 EROC has been the rat
00:08:16.780 of XM Satellite Radio, Sirius XM.
00:08:19.400 He tells me everything going on.
00:08:21.400 And it's great because they just are making terrible decisions
00:08:25.400 as far as talent goes and the whole thing of getting a celebrity with a name.
00:08:32.260 You know, just stick with you.
00:08:33.520 Absolutely.
00:08:34.620 Nothing that will help you, not at all.
00:08:37.260 I'm trying to say it without cursing.
00:08:39.400 It is a little tough, right?
00:08:40.800 It certainly is challenging.
00:08:41.800 It all starts with C.
00:08:46.780 Yeah, but that's what I've noticed over the course of the years is like when we went there, it was such a change from radio, especially XM more than Sirius.
00:08:57.880 But it was like this big change and they were all about not doing what radio does.
00:09:03.140 And now XM was.
00:09:04.900 Yeah, XM was not Sirius XM.
00:09:06.560 And it's so weird that that technology went from having to put a satellite up orbiting the goddamn planet.
00:09:13.500 And now you just pick your phone up, and I could listen to Spotify and make my own playlist and things like that.
00:09:20.100 But the only real commodity left is personality-driven.
00:09:24.460 They can't just make that out of thin air and put it on.
00:09:28.680 Well, they try.
00:09:29.880 Yeah, yeah.
00:09:30.360 They try.
00:09:31.060 Yeah, well, they hire these celebrities, big names.
00:09:34.320 Sure.
00:09:34.740 And they give them hundreds of millions of dollars, and they don't bring anybody in.
00:09:40.960 Because they're not really that interesting.
00:09:42.280 Like, most of them are very guarded.
00:09:44.400 Like, they haven't had to make a living talking about their personal life on slow news days.
00:09:49.140 Right.
00:09:49.360 Like, the most garbage comes out, like, when nothing's going on in August, and then all of a sudden, like, oh, I like women who have penises.
00:09:55.840 It just kind of spills out.
00:09:57.500 It spills out.
00:09:59.400 It spills out when there's a slow news day.
00:10:01.240 It certainly does on your back.
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