The Anthony Cumia Show - April 14, 2025


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


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Length

11 minutes

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179.71

Word count

1,980

Sentence count

173

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

11

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Hate speech

6

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Summary

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Comedian and actor Jim Norton joins me to talk about his new show on Fox Sports Radio New York, and we talk about the future of the morning radio show and much more. It's a very special episode, and I hope you enjoy it.

Transcript

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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. 0.98
00:04:15.660 I look like a buffoon. 0.69
00:04:16.940 Plus the 24 font size on the phone doesn't help either. 0.96
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 0.57
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 0.87
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 0.95
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. 1.00
00:08:13.060 But, yeah, like 0.89
00:08:14.480 EROC has been the rat
00:08:16.780 of XM Satellite Radio, Sirius XM. 0.72
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. 0.98
00:09:06.560 And it's so weird that that technology went from having to put a satellite up orbiting the goddamn planet. 0.90
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. 0.88
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. 1.00
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. 1.00
00:09:55.840 It just kind of spills out. 1.00
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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