The Anthony Cumia Show - June 23, 2026


Fathers On Father's Day ｜ 06-21-26


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Length

13 minutes

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140.49

Word count

1,848

Sentence count

120

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Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

11

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Hate speech

10

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On this episode of The Anthony Comey Minicast, host Anthony talks about Father's Day and what a great Dad his late father taught him about life and how to be a good kid. He also tells a story about how he learned to drive a truck from his dad.

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00:00:30.000 This is the 77 WABC minicast.
00:00:40.980 It is the Anthony Comey Show. How is everybody?
00:00:45.460 Another Sunday, a very special Sunday, Father's Day.
00:00:51.400 That's right. It is Father's Day.
00:00:54.600 I hope all you dads out there had a great time.
00:00:58.400 Maybe still having a great time with your families.
00:01:04.200 Always, you know, you've got to get out, especially with social media and texting.
00:01:12.180 You've got to get everybody.
00:01:14.640 You've got to wish them a happy Father's Day.
00:01:17.260 Right?
00:01:18.380 Yeah.
00:01:19.680 And are you a copy-paste person?
00:01:24.460 Oh, boy.
00:01:26.340 You copy-paste?
00:01:27.260 Is that how you do your Father's Day greetings and Christmas and all that?
00:01:32.900 When you've got to cover a few people, you put Happy Father's Day,
00:01:36.600 and then you paste it, but then you can personalize it a little bit.
00:01:41.320 Hey, Bob, Happy Father's Day.
00:01:45.980 You know.
00:01:47.260 Yeah, I'm a cut and paste guy.
00:01:49.420 Doesn't mean I have any less feeling or want to wish them any less of a holiday
00:01:56.620 or Father's Day, but, you know, you can't be typing the same thing 20 times
00:02:03.600 if you know a lot of dads.
00:02:07.740 Yeah, you want to give a call about what we're talking about,
00:02:10.760 anything we're talking about this evening,
00:02:12.320 or maybe you have a great story about your dad you want to tell, you know,
00:02:19.860 you want to enlighten the people as to what an awesome dad that you have.
00:02:25.180 800-848-9222, that would be 800-848-9222.
00:02:33.000 My dad passed away many years ago, like in the 90s,
00:02:40.500 and he was quite the character, quite the card.
00:02:46.160 I learned a lot from him, but not in the way that a father normally teaches their kid things.
00:02:53.360 There was a lot of, well, I have to make sure I don't do that when I reach the age that my dad was at at the time.
00:03:02.120 A lot of that kind of stuff, but fun.
00:03:04.840 Not crazy abusive or neglectful in a lot of ways, you know.
00:03:12.360 I remember being hungry a few times during my childhood.
00:03:17.480 We were out in Southern California, Orange County down there.
00:03:23.020 He lived in Laguna Beach.
00:03:24.360 This was after my mom and dad got a divorce and dad winged it out to the West Coast.
00:03:31.380 He figured he wanted to be as far away from my mom as he could possibly be
00:03:38.680 and still be within the contiguous United States.
00:03:44.300 So he went out to California to become a cowboy.
00:03:50.460 and uh not not like the village people cowboy perish the thought but uh yeah he bought himself
00:03:57.620 a horse had a little ranch and uh i'd go out there to visit me my brother and my sister
00:04:05.620 and i wound up staying out there for a few years with him and uh it was uh i i'm very thankful
00:04:13.960 Some of those times were a little rough, like I said, hungry.
00:04:18.220 There was a lot of irresponsibility that I saw with Dad.
00:04:23.980 But he taught me a lot of things, you know?
00:04:28.360 Guns.
00:04:30.080 Guns.
00:04:30.580 That was one thing he was pretty responsible about is teaching his kids,
00:04:35.340 you know, me and my brother especially, about gun safety.
00:04:39.560 That was a big thing.
00:04:40.920 You didn't just grab a gun and start blasting away, and that was pretty cool.
00:04:45.980 As far as driving goes, I was probably 13, 14 at the time, and dad teaches you to drive, right?
00:04:55.560 How I was taught to drive was he threw me the keys, just threw me the keys, and I jumped in,
00:05:02.780 And it was a standard transmission, an old Ford pickup truck with three on the column.
00:05:12.680 And that was it.
00:05:14.080 You learned how to drive.
00:05:15.840 It's like the old, you know, throw the kid in the pool, teach him how to swim.
00:05:20.280 That was great. 1.00
00:05:21.480 You know, little life lessons on girls.
00:05:25.520 Little Anthony there falling in love with a girl at school.
00:05:30.340 and dad just, you know, looking, going,
00:05:32.420 ah, God, don't let that eat you up inside.
00:05:36.620 What's wrong with you?
00:05:38.240 Smoking his Tarryton cigarette. 1.00
00:05:41.660 Son of a bitch. 1.00
00:05:43.040 That's what he was saying. 1.00
00:05:44.540 He'd look at me and just go, pfft, with a cigarette.
00:05:48.680 Jesus Christ, what are you doing?
00:05:51.100 What are you doing, Anthony? 1.00
00:05:53.720 I think it was trying to say, like, bros before hoes 0.99
00:05:57.820 or something to that effect. 1.00
00:06:02.140 But it was a lot of fun.
00:06:04.720 And then I came back out to New York
00:06:06.480 and was visiting my mom for the summer,
00:06:10.180 and I looked around and was like,
00:06:11.660 I think I better stay here.
00:06:13.840 I think I was kind of putting myself in a position
00:06:19.840 where I don't know if I would have gotten to the point I am now.
00:06:24.960 I don't know.
00:06:25.720 I think I'd be wearing a cowboy hat and boots and drinking a lot during every hour of the day with my buddies around the ranch.
00:06:38.500 That's what dear old dad was doing.
00:06:41.540 So it was awesome.
00:06:43.500 It was fun.
00:06:44.640 You know, you might listen to this and go, how was that fun?
00:06:47.620 It was a blast.
00:06:48.860 Riding horses.
00:06:49.480 i got a horse at that age you know young teens and uh pistol and i'd ride up into the the hills
00:06:58.360 of orange county san juan capistrano where the swallows come back every year and uh ride up
00:07:04.700 there and go shooting and it was great it was like the last bit of the the old west not quite
00:07:12.180 the 1800s old west but what california the west coast if you lived anywhere between like san diego
00:07:19.220 in L.A., in those rural suburbs of the cities down there.
00:07:25.580 It was kind of cool.
00:07:26.580 You had your Laguna Beach surfer, stoners, and then San Juan Capistrano.
00:07:32.220 There was a lot of horses and equestrian people.
00:07:35.380 And Dana Point was another one. 0.97
00:07:38.020 I went to Dana Hills High School with Nicole Brown Simpson.
00:07:43.320 I was a freshman.
00:07:44.320 She was a senior.
00:07:45.260 I was trying to tell her about that boyfriend
00:07:48.900 but what are you going to do
00:07:50.500 yeah so that was
00:07:52.980 dear old dad
00:07:53.960 God bless you know rest in peace
00:07:57.220 for Father's Day
00:07:59.040 that was a dear
00:08:00.620 dear old dad let's go to Jim
00:08:02.380 Jim Jim in
00:08:04.560 Oakland New Jersey what's up Jim
00:08:06.980 how are we
00:08:09.120 doing well
00:08:10.880 doing well glad you could pop in
00:08:13.020 join us this Sunday 0.98
00:08:14.200 yeah i lost my father a month ago ah that's a camel smoker yeah camel smoker you know copd 0.98
00:08:23.700 better than a pole smoker right am i right 0.89
00:08:26.380 but uh yeah he uh lost his sight during covid he was in a freaking nursing home so 0.96
00:08:37.480 Oh, Jesus. 0.94
00:08:38.400 It was rough, man.
00:08:39.920 It was rough.
00:08:40.960 Yeah, you know, there's something to be said.
00:08:44.620 Like, my dad, genetically, my dad's side of the family was just horrendous
00:08:50.620 with cardiovascular issues.
00:08:54.340 So he wound up dying, like, I don't want to get too morbid or whatever
00:09:00.040 when we're talking about this, but he died, like, 58 years old.
00:09:03.860 um and there's there's something to be said because like obviously i would have liked more
00:09:11.660 years with him that would have been nice but i didn't have to watch him degrade and and you know
00:09:19.080 you you want to be around you want to watch him i'm not saying it's better or any worse
00:09:23.320 it is what it is but i hear some of these horror stories and it's like that would just kill me to
00:09:28.900 watch my dad for 10 years 15 years just deteriorating away so i don't know i don't know
00:09:37.100 any different because he did die at a young age like that but uh i don't know it just i didn't
00:09:44.620 have to watch that i'll tell you yeah he had to go into a nursing home i kept him out of a nursing
00:09:51.580 home for a year and a half i he went blind i pushed everything against the wall he didn't want
00:09:56.720 ago and he was around his apartment knew where everything was and i kept him there this is the
00:10:03.280 man i'll tell you this when i was nine years old handed me two kids albums and said here you'll 0.61
00:10:09.200 like these guys and i looked at the albums and i said holy shit who are these oh watch the language 0.66
00:10:14.820 my friend sorry that's that bad s word you just used we uh hopefully into home base up there in 0.92
00:10:22.660 new york they uh pushed the dumb button i apologize that one all good yeah yeah so i had to put him
00:10:30.620 into you know uh medicaid medicare whatever and it was horrible watching him for the last five
00:10:38.280 years terrible terrible but you know if if you got a dad out there enjoy your father uh you know
00:10:46.860 So smooth over any of those rifts that you have that don't really matter
00:10:52.780 because I know a lot of people don't want that.
00:10:54.880 1,000%.
00:10:55.520 Everybody listen to what he just said, 1,000%.
00:10:58.420 Yeah, you want to do that.
00:11:00.240 And, you know, if you don't have a dad, if your dad passed away,
00:11:04.080 remember those fun, good times like when me and my dad
00:11:09.240 and a bunch of his friends got thrown against the wall by cops
00:11:13.040 at a bar in Capistrano
00:11:15.280 because we were fighting with some tourists that had come into town.
00:11:19.840 And I remember that.
00:11:22.020 That was a fond memory.
00:11:24.620 Very cool, man.
00:11:25.860 Jim, thank you.
00:11:26.700 And sorry to hear about your pop there.
00:11:29.220 You know, that first Father's Day without Dad is a tough one.
00:11:33.480 That's a tough one.
00:11:35.320 There he goes. 0.97
00:11:36.260 Potty mouth. 0.93
00:11:37.300 I guess his dad didn't teach him to watch your language,
00:11:40.780 Watch your P's, Q's, and S-words when you're on broadcast radio, my friend.
00:11:46.940 I know when you talk to me, it all sounds very relaxed, doesn't it?
00:11:49.960 Like we're all just hanging out.
00:11:52.380 These are federally regulated airwaves, my friends.
00:11:57.240 Watch the potty mouth.
00:11:59.660 All right.
00:12:00.700 Back in a matter of moments with your calls, a lot going on.
00:12:05.680 And happy Father's Day.
00:12:07.300 Back in a moment.
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