The Anthony Cumia Show - April 08, 2026


Escape From Iran ｜ 04-05-26

Hosted by
Anthony Cumia
Mentioned
Trump Easter Hitler Fernando Mateo
The Anthony Cumia Show ｜ 04-05-26 Radical Islam and the Historical Reset for Peace ｜ 04-05-26

Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

178.92

Word count

1,644

Sentence count

99

Harmful content

Toxicity

12

sentences flagged

Hate speech

16

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Summary

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On this episode of the WBC Minicast, host John Rocha talks about the rescue of a downed U.S. Air Force One pilot, the President's tweet about Iran, and more. Sponsors!

Transcript

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00:01:00.080 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
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00:01:05.300 This is the 77 WABC
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00:01:11.060 First, I want to make sure
00:01:11.960 that in case you've been doing Easter stuff
00:01:14.000 all day, which you have the right to do,
00:01:15.700 some of you go to these
00:01:16.640 morning masses for Easter
00:01:19.820 and then you're with your family and all that kind of stuff
00:01:21.780 and I really respect that.
00:01:23.840 Maybe you missed the fact that we got him.
00:01:25.560 We found that second aviator who had been on the run trying to save his own life since his F-15 was shot down on Thursday over Iran.
00:01:35.580 He was hiding out.
00:01:37.480 He probably had to use some of his weapons as well to stay alive, was able to get a message to American rescuers, a massive effort by Delta forces both in the air and on the ground, a little bit of help from Israel as well.
00:01:51.340 And he was rescued.
00:01:52.820 He's safe out of the country. And all those ground forces who did engage in some firefights with the IRGC and besieged police forces, they're all out safely. We haven't heard about any other serious casualties from this. This is a major, major, probably one of the most difficult extractions and rescue missions in the history of the world.
00:02:13.040 This reminds me of the Entebbe raid that the Israelis carried out in 1976 on July 4th weekend, no less.
00:02:20.780 But this, to me, was also a major Herculean effort by the United States, an amazing effort.
00:02:26.760 And don't forget the co-pilot himself, this guy in particular was a weapons officer, his efforts to stay alive.
00:02:34.600 He also saved his own life in many heroic ways.
00:02:37.460 We're going to find out more about it.
00:02:38.720 And if you're a Hollywood screenwriter or a wannabe screenwriter, let me give you two pieces of advice.
00:02:44.340 First of all, spend the next couple of days hoovering up every bit of information about this rescue that you can get so that you can write a good screenplay.
00:02:51.300 And my second bit of advice is, please don't worry about the ethnicities of anybody involved.
00:02:56.820 Please don't make this into a Rainbow Coalition nonsense.
00:03:00.240 Just tell us the story.
00:03:01.400 The story tells itself.
00:03:02.960 It's fantastic.
00:03:03.700 If you want to use some artistic license, don't make it political license.
00:03:07.720 do something like they did in the movie Oppenheimer, where they had some imaginary
00:03:12.040 things going on in the minds of the people speaking. It wasn't a political message. It
00:03:16.360 was an artistic message. That you can do. Go for it. But please, don't make this into a political
00:03:21.200 harangue. Just make this into an exciting story. So those are my two pieces of advice. That is
00:03:25.460 still the biggest news of the day. But we have a number two contender in just the last few hours.
00:03:30.680 Number two with the bullet is President Trump's... He actually posted this, folks. He posted on his
00:03:36.800 true social page a obscenity-laced threat to iran the man is getting frustrated i've been
00:03:42.640 i've been frustrated with iran for a long time so if you're looking for me to to clutch my pearls
00:03:47.680 over what president trump had to say to iran you've got the wrong guy uh i'm going to give
00:03:53.580 you a paraphrase of what he said because i want to keep my fcc and this station's fcc license
00:03:57.880 but basically what he said is quote tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped into 0.99
00:04:03.280 one in iran there will be nothing like it open the effing straight you crazy bastards or you'll 1.00
00:04:09.020 be living in hell just watch praise be to allah just watch so there you go that's president trump's 0.99
00:04:16.340 message to the iranians he's given them another 24 hours we were looking at a monday deadline
00:04:21.720 for them to open up the straits of hormuz from president trump or they would get holy hell he's
00:04:26.660 giving them another day now so now it's tuesday he really wants these people to do this peacefully
00:04:31.200 I don't know if he's going to get that from them, honestly.
00:04:34.180 These are religious fanatics, and they are also—and you've got to stay with me here, folks,
00:04:40.100 because I know a lot of you don't know your history as well as you should have, and that's okay. 0.91
00:04:44.560 But radical Islamism is absolutely an offshoot of Nazism,
00:04:49.600 and I'm not saying that just because they have similar enemies.
00:04:53.000 No, you have to understand, read your history.
00:04:55.640 The Nazis made a significant investment in radical Islam.
00:04:59.260 They made a significant investment in the Muslim Brotherhood, starting in the late 1920s, early 1930s.
00:05:06.000 This is all documented.
00:05:07.740 The Islamist leader of what was then Palestine, the Palestinian-British mandate, al-Husseini, was also known as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spent the entire war as Hitler's guest in Berlin.
00:05:20.980 And he did a daily radio broadcast. I'm ashamed to say I'm also a radio broadcaster. That was broadcast all over the Arab world, also heard in Iran, which is not an Arab country, by the way. It's a Muslim country, but not an Arab country.
00:05:34.120 these people were absolutely trained by adolf hitler joseph mengele the whole rotten crew 0.98
00:05:42.580 and that whole rotten crew chose suicide instead of surrender chose radicalism instead of sanity
00:05:50.140 every single time and the last thing that hitler did his last order as the leader of germany was
00:05:55.600 to flood the subway tunnels of germany because he knew that the german people were hiding out
00:06:01.260 in those tunnels so they could survive Allied bombing and Russian bombing attacks. 0.99
00:06:06.040 If he was going to commit suicide, he wanted them all to commit suicide. 1.00
00:06:09.220 And that is something that we need to expect from these disciples of the Nazis, the Islamist 1.00
00:06:14.080 Iranian leaders. 1.00
00:06:15.340 If you don't expect that, you don't know your history.
00:06:18.780 Now, President Trump is doing the right thing morally by demanding their surrender, but
00:06:21.860 I hope he knows there's a thin chance they will.
00:06:25.200 Their response so far has been incredibly defiant, despite their weakness.
00:06:29.360 They have an official response. The IRGC has responded to Trump's latest ultimatum by saying that the Strait of Hormuz will never reopen. There's going to be a new world order in the Strait of Hormuz. I mean, just all the fiery rhetoric they could pull out of their turbans. That's what they decided to answer President Trump with, which is really a disgrace.
00:06:50.260 because there are 90 million people in Iran, most of whom don't want any war anymore. 0.67
00:06:55.340 And they're going to put these people in harm's way.
00:06:57.320 I talked with Fernando Mateo on many of these stations.
00:06:59.980 You heard him with me.
00:07:01.600 Not all of you, but some of you heard him.
00:07:03.440 And we were talking about how the people of Iran,
00:07:06.020 the civilian death toll from this war in its sixth week, is really low
00:07:10.440 considering how many bombs have been dropped on this country.
00:07:13.780 The precision, the morality, the technology,
00:07:16.640 All of that adding to a tremendous aura and feeling of confidence among the Iranian people.
00:07:23.580 The civilians know that they're safe.
00:07:25.900 When the bombs start dropping and they know they're safe from the Iranian police for a few minutes, they come out and cheer it.
00:07:32.380 Because they know the Americans and the Israelis aren't targeting them. 0.85
00:07:36.160 This isn't an immoral war where a bunch of civilians are dying.
00:07:39.520 It's a very precise war, and it's going to take some time.
00:07:43.540 but it's it's going extremely well i feel sorry for the people who think that we're losing this
00:07:49.340 war in iran you were living in a delusional world and you should have your car keys and
00:07:53.060 sharp objects taken away from you if you believe we're losing this war to have the number of
00:07:58.260 casualties that we've suffered which is incredibly low everyone is too much don't get me wrong as
00:08:03.200 far as the human aspect of it but from a strategic standpoint we are not paying the kinds of prices
00:08:09.960 that people were predicting we would have to pay.
00:08:12.580 And there has been a tremendous amount of success. 0.97
00:08:16.360 But these people who lead Iran are radical maniacs. 0.97
00:08:20.340 And they can't be fixed. 0.92
00:08:23.000 Hitler wasn't someone who we could fix by sending him to a sensitivity training program. 1.00
00:08:28.000 The mullahs aren't people we can fix by teaching them what the pride flag means. 0.98
00:08:32.720 That's not going to happen. 1.00
00:08:34.480 These people are intent on not only our death, but the death of other people, 0.99
00:08:38.300 their own people, their Muslim neighbours, and on and on down the line. 1.00
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