The Anthony Cumia Show - Hunter Biden’s Laptop Coin Craze

00:00:00.000 What concerns you the most about the online environment children and youth are perceiving and navigating today?

00:00:09.540 Youth today are operating in an information environment that is highly selected, highly personalized.

00:00:21.280 So my information world online looks completely different from yours.

00:00:26.760 I'm Patricia Cosim, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner

00:00:30.980 and the host of Info Matters

00:00:33.400 We hear from people from all walks of life

00:00:36.200 about the access and privacy issues that matter most to them

00:00:40.260 Listen now at ipc.on.ca or wherever you get your podcasts

00:00:46.540 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you

00:00:54.960 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world.

00:00:58.600 The Sleep Number Smart Bed.

00:01:00.560 At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort.

00:01:04.560 Choose firmer or softer.

00:01:06.460 Adjust cooler to warmer.

00:01:08.480 And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

00:01:13.960 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today.

00:01:16.240 Because we have your number.

00:01:20.000 What concerns you the most about the online environment,

00:01:23.620 children and youth are perceiving and navigating today. Youth today are operating in an information

00:01:33.540 environment that is highly selected, highly personalized. So my information world online

00:01:43.820 looks completely different from yours. I'm Patricia Cusim, Ontario's Information and

00:01:49.800 privacy commissioner and the host of Info Matters. We hear from people from all walks of life about

00:01:56.380 the access and privacy issues that matter most to them. Listen now at ipc.on.ca or wherever you get

00:02:05.340 your podcasts. It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network. It is the Anthony

00:02:16.520 kumia show hey how's everybody doing sunday evening and uh you know i got you at the giants

00:02:25.900 are playing and it's uh the big uh sunday football night so probably got like eight people listening

00:02:34.200 right now but i appreciate you eight you eight people are loyal and you don't care about football

00:02:41.760 I hope so anyway.

00:02:43.000 But, yeah, I hope you had a good weekend.

00:02:46.100 A somber weekend, wasn't it?

00:02:48.720 We had to reflect.

00:02:50.560 Is that what we were doing, reflecting on 9-11?

00:02:56.680 Yeah, it was kind of a bummer, you know.

00:03:00.020 Not as much of a bummer as the, I guess, the first five years.

00:03:04.020 The first five years was complete bummerization.

00:03:07.860 9-11 week would start up

00:03:11.840 and then you'd get to 9-11 and be like

00:03:13.840 I remember that

00:03:15.380 and they were still clearing out rubble

00:03:17.560 and building the Freedom Tower

00:03:18.880 and it was tough

00:03:20.940 it was tough

00:03:22.480 and now 25 years later

00:03:25.420 it just kind of seemed like

00:03:28.320 like that's it

00:03:31.080 I think

00:03:32.160 and I'm not saying this

00:03:34.080 as a way of being disrespectful

00:03:36.140 by any stretch of the imagination.

00:03:41.220 But what I'm saying is it just seems like this was the last hurrah for 9-11.

00:03:51.100 I think 25 years memorializing it, paying tribute 25 years later.

00:03:58.600 I think after 25 years, things like this kind of get relegated to history.

00:04:04.380 You know, it's put in the history books, put up on a bookshelf somewhere, and it's occasionally mentioned, referred to a news program every year for a couple of more years, might put it at the end of their broadcast like a footnote.

00:04:22.740 But I think we saw the last of the real, you know, with this one,

00:04:28.060 the last of people getting together and the reading of names

00:04:32.980 and all of the other functions and things that went on this time around.

00:04:40.860 It's sad because it happened, and there are plenty of people who do remember it,

00:04:46.960 But, and I'm not making any judgments and saying like, oh, we should treat it like we did the first year anniversary every year for a thousand years.

00:04:58.600 Things don't, they don't work that way.

00:05:00.580 They just don't work that way.

00:05:02.780 You know, that Pearl Harbor thing was pretty big.

00:05:05.620 I think that was a pretty big thing.

00:05:08.000 And, you know, many years they commemorated it, memorialized the people that gave their lives.

00:05:14.260 and now it's just a piece of history that no one remembers firsthand,

00:05:21.200 not many people anyway.

00:05:23.140 And we know about it, but we don't really have an emotional connection to it.

00:05:29.140 And I think that's important to have if you're going to year after year

00:05:34.640 really commemorate these things with that kind of a passion.

00:05:40.580 So I'm not saying it's good or bad or whatever.

00:05:43.480 It's just what it is.

00:05:45.560 This is what it is.

00:05:47.300 Time goes by.

00:05:50.440 People, more so than forgetting, they just don't have any recollection of it,

00:05:56.160 which kind of sounds the same, but it's not.

00:05:59.060 I think a lot of people did forget that were there

00:06:02.560 and do remember how horrible it was that day.

00:06:05.220 But a lot of people just don't remember.

00:06:08.100 There's a whole younger generation of people that grew up,

00:06:11.140 And it was, you know, as relatable to them as something like the Kennedy assassination was to me and people my age.

00:06:20.520 You heard about it.

00:06:22.220 You know, your parents knew about it firsthand.

00:06:25.840 They all had the stories of where they were and stuff.

00:06:28.160 But to you, it really had no emotional connection to me.

00:06:33.120 And I think that's what happens to anything that happens in history.

00:06:38.080 And I think the 25th anniversary is kind of that point where everything falls off

00:06:45.760 and we just move on.

00:06:50.380 The fact that we have Mayor Mamdani is kind of part of that.

00:06:55.240 That is a bad part of it.

00:06:56.440 That is something I look at and go, geez, that sucks.

00:07:01.060 And I will judge that.

00:07:02.540 but it kind of goes hand in hand with what I'm saying,

00:07:06.380 that people just kind of, yeah, we're moving on.

00:07:09.900 It's terrible, but that's history.

00:07:15.960 That's how history works.

00:07:18.380 Pearl Harbor, the end of World War II, Korea,

00:07:24.560 like all those things were so important to the people that lived through it.

00:07:30.340 And I'm certain that to their dying day, they were thinking about it and remembering, and it was a big part of their lives.

00:07:39.980 And then time goes by, and younger people get older, and they don't remember.

00:07:45.240 And it's not an insult by any means to the people that it is important to.

00:07:51.780 You know, there are plenty of people that vividly remember that.

00:07:55.380 I'm one of them, 9-11.

00:07:57.560 and family members, of course, that will never get over the fact

00:08:01.940 that they lost loved ones on that day.

00:08:05.700 And it's not a personal affront to those people.

00:08:09.740 It's just that's how time works.

00:08:14.080 That's how history works.

00:08:18.080 More pages of history pile up, and they cover up the previous pages,

00:08:23.720 And after a while, you're kind of not even looking for those previous pages, are you?

00:08:31.220 Anyway, yeah, we'll talk a little bit about that.

00:08:33.860 I know people want to get a few things off their minds, maybe talk about their experiences.

00:08:39.860 800-848-9222.

00:08:42.940 800-848-9222 is the number.

00:08:47.440 A couple of other things.

00:08:48.440 I'm in New York.

00:08:49.700 I'm here at the beautiful studios of WABC Radio, and I love being here, and I love being in my hotel room.

00:08:59.360 The problem is the studio isn't in the hotel room, which means I have to venture outside into New York City,

00:09:07.180 and holy mother of pearl, it gets worse every time I come here.

00:09:12.760 I just got to be honest, you know, I have a connection to New York, the state, New York, the city, Long Island, the commute into the city to do radio at various stations with the O&A show and it's gotten worse and worse.

00:09:32.660 And now I notice, and I come up about once a month, it gets worse every time I'm up.

00:09:40.660 The cab driver on the way here, I don't even know how this is done if you're a cab driver.

00:09:46.680 It was like driving with me back in the 2000s, an angry, road-raging mental patient.

00:09:56.120 uh i was i was laughing uh but there were some parts of that ride where i thought i was in

00:10:05.220 danger uh he stopped at a crosswalk and somebody said hey what are you doing you know and it's

00:10:10.540 impossible sometimes you do get stuck at a crosswalk the person in front of you doesn't

00:10:14.760 move fast enough when you're driving uh and somebody said something he rolled the window down

00:10:19.920 and just started F you, and it's the driver.

00:10:24.220 And I'm just, all I'm thinking is, in 2026 New York City,

00:10:28.100 I'm going to get riddled with bullets because the cab driver

00:10:31.500 has a problem with someone in the crosswalk?

00:10:34.480 Oh, it could happen.

00:10:36.420 It could very well happen.

00:10:38.800 So that got me, and then he's cursing at every driver.

00:10:43.400 He's telling me how pissed he is about what's going on on the road.

00:10:48.940 I'm just like, I could have done this myself.

00:10:52.320 I could have had the aggravation.

00:10:54.300 I'll bring a car with me next time and try to drive the streets of Manhattan and yell and scream.

00:11:00.140 And then walking.

00:11:01.520 You know, I was walking around to various bars.

00:11:05.660 I went to dinner with the great Mr. Gavin McInnes last night at Keene's Steakhouse.

00:11:10.520 It was great.

00:11:11.480 And I walked from the hotel to Keene's.

00:11:13.580 And I, walking the sidewalks of Midtown Manhattan, there are so many homeless and bums and drug addicts and thugs.

00:11:29.640 And you walk around, and I swear to you, you have to weave your way down the sidewalk to avoid them like garbage.

00:11:39.580 They are like garbage on the sidewalk.

00:11:42.740 piles if there was a pile of garbage you would be walking and you'd have to go around it that is

00:11:49.540 exactly what the streets of midtown manhattan are like only well there is garbage too you got to

00:11:56.500 avoid that but the garbage of the the homeless the bums the drug addicts uh it's different because

00:12:03.880 the garbage won't jump up and stab you but here with the the uh for lack of a better term humanity

00:12:14.980 littering the streets you just you can't get away from it and it's so prevalent it's on every single

00:12:23.000 sidewalk and then i'm walking back to the hotel room and on the sidewalk is a uh a beggar what

00:12:32.060 are they called i know the liberals have great names for them an unhoused whatever it is and

00:12:38.720 she's got her sign and her blanket laid out and she has an infant and a toddler with her

00:12:47.300 it's dark out it's nighttime not that that should make any difference but it made it more horrific

00:12:54.620 And I'm looking like, how is this happening?

00:13:01.620 I would have to assume, I know we're very charitable people.

00:13:05.660 And New York has so many programs for people that are homeless and broke and nuts.

00:13:15.020 How does a woman with two kids have no recourse, have no place to go?

00:13:21.780 That would be the first people you'd take in.

00:13:24.620 obviously. And then it hits you and you realize she's full of crap. She's not homeless.

00:13:32.640 She's not starving. She was a big fat load, too. Oh, you're starving, are you?

00:13:39.200 And this is her job. She goes out there. She takes her kids. She's probably got a car parked

00:13:45.700 at a car parking lot. She got a house or an apartment. And she drags her kids out,

00:13:51.780 throws him on the sidewalk with a sign, slaps on some pathetic face,

00:13:56.980 and people throw money at her.

00:13:59.740 And it's a gig.

00:14:02.540 And that's not just me being pessimistic about humanity.

00:14:09.800 That's what's going on.

00:14:10.940 We've seen people like this over the course of the years.

00:14:13.120 And I was disgusted, just completely disgusted by it.

00:14:16.820 Speaking of disgusted, plenty more of the Anthony Cumia show coming up.

00:14:20.200 And like I said, your calls are welcome here.

00:14:24.360 800-848-9222.

00:14:26.300 Plenty to talk about, and we will do that in moments.

00:14:29.980 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:14:32.200 What concerns you the most about the online environment children and youth are perceiving and navigating today?

00:14:40.540 Youth today are operating in an information environment that is highly selected, highly personalized.

00:14:53.180 So my information world online looks completely different from yours.

00:14:59.240 I'm Patricia Cousim, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner and the host of Info Matters.

00:15:05.280 We hear from people from all walks of life about the access and privacy issues that matter most to them.

00:15:12.640 Listen now at ipc.on.ca or wherever you get your podcasts.

00:15:22.680 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you.

00:15:26.920 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world.

00:15:30.460 The Sleep Number Smart Bed.

00:15:32.220 At the touch of a button.

00:15:33.580 you can personalize your comfort. Choose firmer or softer. Adjust cooler to warmer. And right now,

00:15:41.440 save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event. Hurry into your local sleep number store

00:15:47.760 today because we have your number. What concerns you the most about the online environment children

00:15:56.000 and youth are perceiving and navigating today.

00:16:01.080 Youth today are operating in an information environment

00:16:06.140 that is highly selected, highly personalized.

00:16:12.800 So my information world online looks completely different from yours.

00:16:18.780 I'm Patricia Cousim, Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner

00:16:22.520 and the host of InfoMatters.

00:16:24.740 We hear from people from all walks of life about the access and privacy issues that matter most to them.

00:16:32.340 Listen now at ipc.on.ca or wherever you get your podcasts.

00:16:40.920 And obviously, you know, 9-11 is in the air.

00:16:46.800 You know, it's like I said, I believe it's the last kind of hurrah for this.

00:16:52.500 I don't mean hurrah, literally, but it just does seem like history will be,

00:17:01.140 it's always put to rest after time.

00:17:04.240 First, of course, I have to speak with Don from Detroit a little,

00:17:08.520 hopefully, I guess, it's a little complimentary.

00:17:11.580 But, Don, what's up?

00:17:13.720 Oh, yeah, Anthony, I got to tell you, man, I never watched this show on Fox,

00:17:18.200 But I think that's a name, Ron, Greg Gumbel or something like that.

00:17:22.640 Anyway, not only did you own that show, but you looked amazing.

00:17:27.540 I might even ask.

00:17:29.000 Well, sir, thank you.

00:17:32.520 Yes, the fine people at Gutfeld over at Fox News must have lost their collective mind

00:17:39.160 and decided to bring me back after a many-year sabbatical that I was given over the course of my career.

00:17:46.660 But I went back.

00:17:48.500 They are great over there.

00:17:49.660 I had such a good time.

00:17:51.340 And here's something.

00:17:52.440 You know, most people would just accept your compliment about how beautiful I looked, Don.

00:17:58.060 But I was watching, and they didn't bamboozle me none.

00:18:03.940 They put some kind of filter on the picture for everybody, for me, for Greg, for Kat, for everyone.

00:18:13.400 There is a filter like you would use online.

00:18:16.700 You see a lot of people use filters.

00:18:18.240 It's not making our eyes different or something.

00:18:20.640 But it certainly puts a nice tone to everybody.

00:18:25.460 And I think when HD first started and things were being broadcast in HD,

00:18:31.920 it was a nightmare for people, especially people in the news industry.

00:18:36.220 uh they couldn't they couldn't get away with some of the imperfections uh that they they had

00:18:44.020 but now i noticed that i was looking at um a rebroadcast of it and i'm like there's no way

00:18:50.720 i had insane teen acne that left its wrath on me and all of a sudden i look uh peaches and cream

00:18:59.060 complexion get out of here get out of here oh you sure did man it was uh it was a lot of fun though

00:19:06.960 don and uh yeah i appreciate them having me back i i think based on conversations after the program

00:19:13.380 uh that i will return uh pretty soon so uh i'm happy about that one one more thing can i give

00:19:20.580 you a combo uh please uh one one more thing ma'am one more thing one more thing one more thing you

00:19:26.500 had us all laughing you had me laughing you had that cute brunette was like hanging on every word

00:19:33.440 you were saying and i'm thinking to myself what is this a 15 year old at a beatles concert oh my

00:19:39.100 god right kind of what it seemed i mean i thought she was going to throw her underwear she was uh

00:19:43.380 she was very uh attractive i think i could uh say that safely say uh lydia was that her name yeah

00:19:50.740 Oh, Lydia, the non-tattooed lady.

00:19:54.080 Very attractive girl.

00:19:56.320 She's a writer for The Post.

00:19:58.660 Yeah, it was a good time.

00:19:59.840 It was good to see Tom Shalhoub again because I did red-eye with him quite often back in what they call the day.

00:20:07.360 So it was good to see them.

00:20:09.040 And, yeah, it was fun, man.

00:20:10.120 Thanks for the compliment, Don.

00:20:13.540 You're welcome.

00:20:14.800 One more thing I really didn't get to, but real quick, you ready?

00:20:18.700 Yes, sir.

00:20:19.140 Yes, sir.

00:20:19.620 okay i had this dream a couple of weeks ago was so realistic i had to get up in front of 500

00:20:25.480 people in a new york city club and do stand-up comedy oh boy that's a tough one the biggest fear

00:20:31.420 you know of uh any uh human being is speaking in front of a big crowd so uh but i killed it right

00:20:39.500 good for you don i have no idea where you're going but i gotta go uh but thank you don that

00:20:46.140 That was very cool.

00:20:48.960 Let's go to Bob.

00:20:52.100 Bob in the Isle of Staten.

00:20:55.000 What is up, Bob?

00:20:57.580 Yellow.

00:20:59.340 Yeah, how you doing?

00:21:00.600 Hey, there he is.

00:21:01.540 How you doing, Bob?

00:21:02.380 I just wanted to mention that nobody mentions that these politicians lied about the air being all right to breathe.

00:21:09.220 Pataki Giuliani, that woman that was in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency.

00:21:15.140 Yep, Bob, that's it.

00:21:16.140 disgrace that they lied to us about the air quality that's a big topic right now because

00:21:21.300 uh mem danny you know mem danny was just swirling down the toilet pre-9-11 uh 25th anniversary or

00:21:28.700 commemoration whatever because uh you know people didn't want him there and he needed to get some

00:21:34.520 kind of traction he needed to get people to be on his side with something to do with 9-11 so he said

00:21:41.200 Hey, we've uncovered these documents and we're signing things and we're showing that the government, the people in New York and federal government, lied about the air quality downtown around the Trade Center site.

00:21:55.580 And, you know, we've had the result of many, many emergency service workers and other people, residents, employees around that area dying in greater numbers, by the way, than were killed on 9-11,

00:22:07.460 have died from various diseases because of what they were inhaling down there.

00:22:13.460 And one part of me is like, yeah, that makes sense.

00:22:17.380 You know, they didn't want it to seem that bad or what have you.

00:22:20.540 But the other thing is common sense would dictate a building that was built in the early 70s,

00:22:27.180 a few buildings in the early 70s, collapsing, the dust, the cement being pulverized, asbestos,

00:22:34.080 all the stuff they used to build buildings back then.

00:22:36.520 You had to know it was going to be unbelievably toxic to breathe in.

00:22:43.320 Am I right, Bob?

00:22:46.620 Yellow.

00:22:47.960 Yes.

00:22:50.160 I agree that they were afraid that the business aspect of life in New York would suffer greatly.

00:22:58.280 So they were more concerned about financial interest than the health of the people.

00:23:01.800 Yeah, I think 9-11 in and of itself kind of put a damper on business downtown for quite a while anyway.

00:23:12.700 And the other thing is, so what would have changed if everyone was informed as to how dangerous the air was down there?

00:23:20.940 Do you think the emergency service workers, the cops and firemen that worked on the site nonstop trying to find people's DNA, clearing the site out?

00:23:31.800 Do you think they would have went like, oh, well, now they're telling us it's dangerous.

00:23:35.540 I'm not going.

00:23:36.700 I think everybody that worked down there would have gone anyway.

00:23:41.160 That was the kind of the kind of people that were doing that.

00:23:46.160 They didn't care.

00:23:47.760 The government, you know, not telling you, yeah, that's not good.

00:23:52.920 But I think everyone just knew anyway.

00:23:56.220 It was kind of unspoken.

00:23:58.280 I don't know.

00:23:59.280 Maybe I'm wrong, Bob.

00:24:00.820 Maybe I'm the a-hole here.

00:24:04.420 But, yeah, thank you.

00:24:06.040 Thank you for that call.

00:24:08.220 Yeah, you know, what are we supposed to do about that?

00:24:11.640 There was nothing they could do.

00:24:13.300 It's not like when they tear a building down and it's got asbestos and they have crews go in and they're in spacesuits.

00:24:21.560 And they use varying pressure and air and barriers to make sure none of that nastiness gets out into the air.

00:24:28.540 But truth be told, there's nothing you can do for an entire section of a city to keep it safe for the people that have to live and work and the emergency workers down there.

00:24:42.060 It's part of the tragedy that extended beyond the day of 9-11.

00:24:50.400 It's a shame. I know so many people, cops and firemen and whatnot, that have had horrible mental, mental too, but medical issues over the past 25 years.

00:25:03.320 So, you know, it sucks. But what are you going to do? What the hell are you going to do about it?

00:25:11.040 Danny, Danny, sit down, Danny. Danny in Astoria, Queens. What's up, man?

00:25:17.440 Hey, how you doing?

00:25:18.520 Like you, I'm from New York, but I left also like you.

00:25:22.340 But on 9-11, I was two blocks away on John Street when all that happened.

00:25:26.720 And I was the first caller to the 0-1-8 show.

00:25:28.820 And I still remember, like it was yesterday, the smell of death smelled like a burnt-out clutch.

00:25:35.340 Yeah, it was like a burnt clutch.

00:25:36.980 What a great description.

00:25:38.500 Because I was saying it was like when a printed circuit board burns.

00:25:43.740 You know, that electric smell kind of.

00:25:45.520 Or CRP PV burned out.

00:25:46.520 Yeah, yeah, but a burnt clutch.

00:25:48.980 Yeah, for a long time it smelt like that.

00:25:52.860 I used to drive up from Brooklyn.

00:25:56.860 Some of the cops, they gave me a placard for my vehicle,

00:26:01.220 so I had that in the windshield, and I was able to go through the tunnel.

00:26:06.120 And I'll continue this when we're done.

00:26:09.380 I guess I've got to go to break.

00:26:10.740 I've got the high sign.

00:26:11.940 Back in a minute, it's the Anthony Comey Show.

00:26:14.140 Joe, on this Sunday evening, I'm in New York.

00:26:18.520 Some good and some bad with me being in New York.

00:26:22.340 I did Gutfeld.

00:26:23.740 I was able to attend the WABC 9-11 Memorial Gala on Friday night also.

00:26:32.620 That was fun.

00:26:33.380 Got to hang out with my good friend Lionel.

00:26:35.820 And we were just sitting at the table like the disruptive bad kids in school,

00:26:42.040 just mocking everybody and everything going on.

00:26:46.760 Really? Proud to be an American?

00:26:48.500 Going to sing that one again?

00:26:50.900 What does he have another song?

00:26:55.160 What is it?

00:26:57.280 I can't believe.

00:26:58.960 Have you seen, Anthony, have you seen the dancing robots?

00:27:04.500 I don't know you.

00:27:09.000 Oh, my God.

00:27:10.240 It was a lot of fun.

00:27:11.240 It was a lot of fun, but, oh, were we just being not nice to everything going on?

00:27:18.580 A lot of fun.

00:27:19.520 Yeah.

00:27:20.600 I can't believe Joe Piscopo is up there singing Sinatra.

00:27:27.300 You missed the point again.

00:27:30.460 It was so much fun.

00:27:32.620 But, yeah, I'm in New York, and it was kind of a thing.

00:27:39.020 Being in New York during 9-11-2001 and then being here for that 25th commemoration of it, it kind of felt like I should be.

00:27:53.540 I think being out of state, a lot of people have moved since it happened 25 years ago.

00:27:59.660 So I kind of felt like I had to be here for this, which I still believe is the last kind of big celebration, or not celebration, what a horrible word.

00:28:11.100 It's so hard to come up with the word to describe what it is, commemoration.

00:28:16.400 Commemoration.

00:28:17.400 Oh, Jesus Christ, it's a commemoration.

00:28:20.340 But it's one of those things where I felt I had a, it was kind of my place to be here in New York.

00:28:28.320 But walking around, my God.

00:28:33.000 So, yeah, I got this police placard for my vehicle,

00:28:36.960 and I would drive from Brooklyn through Battery Tunnel

00:28:40.200 and then up the West Side Highway to get to my radio gig over there at 57th and 7th,

00:28:48.220 and every day.

00:28:51.280 And to this day, I'm wondering, the reason I'm clearing my throat 8,000 times a day,

00:28:56.580 maybe uh it was fly inhaled the entirety of floor 76 uh but there are people that worked there

00:29:04.280 24 hours a day seven days a week that have gotten ill and uh those are the people uh we need to

00:29:11.880 remember we absolutely need to remember what concerns you the most about the online environment

00:29:19.140 children and youth are perceiving and navigating today. Youth today are operating in an information

00:29:29.060 environment that is highly selected, highly personalized. So my information world online

00:29:39.340 looks completely different from yours. I'm Patricia Cusim, Ontario's Information and

00:29:45.320 Privacy Commissioner, and the host of Info Matters. We hear from people from all walks of life

00:29:51.380 about the access and privacy issues that matter most to them. Listen now at ipc.on.ca

00:29:59.100 or wherever you get your podcasts.

00:30:05.880 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you. Experience the most comfortable

00:30:11.900 mattress in the world. The Sleep Number Smart Bed. At the touch of a button, you can personalize

00:30:18.560 your comfort. Choose firmer or softer. Adjust cooler to warmer. And right now, save up to $2,500

00:30:26.200 during our massive Labor Day event. Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today, because we

00:30:32.280 have your number. Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you. Experience the

00:30:41.140 most comfortable mattress in the world the sleep number smart bed at the touch of a button you can

00:30:47.760 personalize your comfort choose firmer or softer adjust cooler to warmer and right now save up to

00:30:55.380 twenty five hundred dollars during our massive labor day event hurry into your local sleep

00:31:00.600 number store today because we have your number uh max max in new york city what's up man

00:31:07.840 yeah uh thank you anthony for taking my call sure um i don't think we have to make it or

00:31:15.960 9-11 does not have to become much important as years go by right we can for example look at look

00:31:23.180 at what month we're now it's the month of rosh has been going over there's been the new year

00:31:30.800 has been there for over 5 700 years and it's celebrated year after year because the people

00:31:36.840 who celebrate it see it as being important we could do the same thing with 9-11 yeah i see where

00:31:43.200 you're going here but a religious uh ritual and religious uh observances uh they stick a little

00:31:51.640 more with people than historical events i know what you mean though um but it it's just the course

00:31:58.740 of the natural course of history puts things from the past further into the past and they

00:32:06.820 They become less, I hate to say less important, just less observed, less in front of your face.

00:32:15.240 You're saying we become more numb?

00:32:16.980 No, you have to, I think you have to be, have a personal attachment to something to be numb from it.

00:32:24.160 It's people that don't remember it.

00:32:26.640 It's just another thing in history like Pearl Harbor is to you and I.

00:32:32.200 i i see what you're saying but it as you said it becomes less important as years go on but i'm

00:32:38.940 saying making the comparison with the jewish new year because those who celebrated today see it

00:32:43.920 just as relevant and just as important as they did 5 700 years ago so we have the same option

00:32:50.020 in this case yeah maybe uh people just don't see it as important in their lives as their religion

00:32:58.360 because, you know, any religion, Catholicism, has their observances that date back a couple of thousand years.

00:33:06.000 And it's something that is important to people for their faith, for their eternal souls.

00:33:15.800 And to that end, I think it's a little more important than, and I don't want to demean it,

00:33:21.620 a little more important than a horrible tragedy that happened.

00:33:26.320 Yeah, I see where you're going, though, Max.

00:33:28.360 and I appreciate the call.

00:33:31.820 Yeah, religion's like, oof, that's a biggie with people.

00:33:35.820 They don't like just, and what are you going to do?

00:33:39.380 You kind of dust that under the carpet, and then you don't have your religion.

00:33:44.680 Religious observances and things that we do are very important to people's soul.

00:33:52.200 And the people, like I said, the people that were involved directly,

00:33:55.580 emergency workers, the family members of people on 9-11,

00:33:58.280 they will remember every day,

00:34:00.860 and it will be just as important every day to them until they die.

00:34:05.620 So I'm not trying to demean it, but it's just the way it is.

00:34:11.160 Sometimes the natural course of events isn't very nice.

00:34:18.000 Michael on the east side of New York, what's up?

00:34:21.620 Oh, Anthony, you know, I don't think you've ever had the pleasure of talking to me.

00:34:28.760 But I'm going to make up for that now.

00:34:33.100 All right.

00:34:33.400 Big shoes to fill now.

00:34:36.260 Talk yourself up.

00:34:37.520 You've talked yourself up.

00:34:38.740 Now you've got to deliver, Michael.

00:34:41.800 Okay.

00:34:42.740 First of all, very apropos what you were talking about, the woman sitting on the street.

00:34:48.900 That is a profit center.

00:34:51.620 Yeah. They're all over the city. And what you I assure you, you haven't seen is these low life pieces of garbage strapped three and four month old children to their chests and walk through the subway selling candy.

00:35:12.080 Yes, I've seen this.

00:35:13.940 All right.

00:35:15.000 Now, here's the bottom line.

00:35:16.660 20 years ago, a cop would have arrested that stinking piece of illegal garbage,

00:35:24.980 and she would have been taken to court for, what is that?

00:35:34.580 Hand handling?

00:35:36.260 Abusing.

00:35:36.740 No, no, no.

00:35:37.460 Oh, abusing.

00:35:38.520 Yeah, yeah.

00:35:40.020 Right.

00:35:40.340 And that's a serious offense.

00:35:45.240 But here's one little thing for you.

00:35:48.700 Oh, Lionel, I love that.

00:35:50.160 I couldn't come up with this name.

00:35:51.420 I love that imitation of his voice.

00:35:54.320 He should write a book, The World According to Lionel.

00:35:58.000 But in any event, here's the little thing for you to do.

00:36:01.440 When you come into whatever hotel you're staying at,

00:36:04.640 and I don't want you to mention the name on it.

00:36:06.460 No, I wouldn't dare.

00:36:08.320 Okay, call up a native New Yorker and say, hey, I'm staying here.

00:36:14.820 I'm going to be getting out of the subway at or wherever the heck.

00:36:20.240 Yeah, and get what, an escort?

00:36:22.540 No, which streets should I access near my hotel and which one should I avoid?

00:36:31.440 And give me the name.

00:36:32.520 Well, I'm not a tourist from East Alabama there, Michael.

00:36:38.000 I know where I'm supposed to not be.

00:36:41.580 But the trouble is, especially in midtown Manhattan,

00:36:44.360 every street is a street you should not be on, especially after dark.

00:36:49.900 Michael, thank you so much.

00:36:51.460 He really talked his call up, and I don't know, give him like a five, if that.

00:36:58.640 Maybe a four.

00:36:59.240 But thank you, Michael.

00:37:02.520 Oh, I'm so sorry, Michael.

00:37:06.060 Yeah.

00:37:07.760 Also, 9-11, I want to talk about, and I know I'm opening up the proverbial can of worms with this one,

00:37:15.560 but I've been scrolling through social media, and since it was the 25th memorial commemoration of the events of 9-11-2001,

00:37:26.100 I have noticed an uptick in conspiracy theories about 9-11.

00:37:35.000 Now, a lot of them are pretty much the same, the same theories we heard for so many years now.

00:37:41.920 And I just cannot get on board with 90% of them.

00:37:51.160 There are some questions.

00:37:52.580 I understand it.

00:37:53.420 I'm not complete gatekeeper guy.

00:37:56.640 I'm not the guy that's going to be going,

00:37:58.480 oh, you don't believe the government's take on what happened?

00:38:03.120 Well, you're just not a patriot.

00:38:05.320 Oh, you're a crazy conspiracy theorist.

00:38:08.360 No, I understand there are plenty of things that transpired on that day,

00:38:14.380 before that day, after that day,

00:38:16.620 that leave a lot of questions for people

00:38:21.520 that have not gotten answers over the course of 25 years.

00:38:25.180 But there are theories that have been out there for 25 years

00:38:29.940 that are insane.

00:38:33.880 It makes no sense.

00:38:37.600 The work you have to go through, the mental gymnastics you have to perform

00:38:43.460 to try to make any sense of these conspiracy theories,

00:38:48.160 to make them sound like it's something that could have happened

00:38:52.100 when so much other evidence is out there in your face.

00:38:57.340 And I don't mean evidence of what the government told you.

00:39:01.740 It wasn't 2026.

00:39:04.480 We didn't have everybody with a 4K camera on their hip

00:39:09.560 taking a video of what happened on 9-11.

00:39:13.740 but it certainly wasn't 1904 either plenty of people had phones with cameras people carried

00:39:23.420 camcorders around if you were a tourist in New York City you had a little camcorder you toted

00:39:29.080 it around with you and took video so there's plenty of video we've seen it before during and

00:39:36.600 after 9-11 so there are certain things that uh conspiracy theorists come up with that are just

00:39:44.480 completely dispelled by what we saw with our own eyes live there on the spot and video from many

00:39:55.720 different sources not everyone was an op not everyone was a fed that had a camera that day

00:40:01.400 and took video of what happened.

00:40:06.140 But there's still so many of these theories.

00:40:10.820 The biggest one is that the two World Trade Center towers

00:40:17.480 and Building 7 were taken down by, that's right,

00:40:24.340 a controlled demolition.

00:40:26.320 i i look at that and anyone that that believes it and tries to tell me that that's what happened

00:40:34.980 i look at you differently like a retard i think is the word i was looking for and i

00:40:42.380 try not to use that word but it's so insane to to say that that those buildings were taken

00:40:52.760 down with a controlled demolition and every fact that they come up with to try to sell this point

00:40:59.760 doesn't make any sense either and then when you argue them on it they just say nope that didn't

00:41:06.080 happen this happened and there's no proof that what they say happened happened the the idea

00:41:14.240 that two planes crashed into each of those towers

00:41:20.620 and then somehow they were also wired to be demolished

00:41:27.620 and then after a set amount of time after the planes hit

00:41:33.620 they decided wouldn't you do it right when the planes hit

00:41:38.320 like there's so many things when i'm i'm talking to these conspiracy theorists there's so many

00:41:45.560 things that happened where i go well why didn't they do this why didn't they do that and then

00:41:51.760 they have some weird wacky explanation as to why meanwhile i i swear to you i would believe

00:42:01.020 that two separate meteors hit the Trade Center.

00:42:05.400 Three.

00:42:06.400 The Trade Center towers and Building 7.

00:42:08.780 Three separate meteors coincidentally came through the atmosphere

00:42:12.300 and destroyed those buildings before I would believe

00:42:15.260 that crews had been going into these buildings for months.

00:42:23.700 I've seen many documentaries about controlled demolition.

00:42:28.240 and, oh, on the Discovery Channel and History Channel.

00:42:33.260 They're amazing.

00:42:34.880 They're so interesting.

00:42:37.440 And these crews are, they're engineers, these guys,

00:42:42.480 professional engineers,

00:42:44.280 and they assess the buildings that they're going to take down for weeks,

00:42:50.620 if not months.

00:42:53.360 They investigate every aspect of the building, the blueprints.

00:42:57.620 They they look at the structure. And then when they finally get to sending workers in there, you don't just plant bombs on the on the beams.

00:43:09.360 It's a procedure that you cannot hide from people in the building. That's the biggest part.

00:43:17.540 It's the World Trade Center buildings. Thousands upon thousands of people are working in there every day.

00:43:23.600 And if you see what it takes to destroy a building with explosive charges, they rip the walls out.

00:43:32.660 They cut major structural beams to weaken the building so that the explosives can do their job.

00:43:41.260 There's no ceilings left.

00:43:43.120 There's no tiles in the ceiling.

00:43:45.120 There's no sheetrock walls left.

00:43:47.860 and the charges are big and they have to go on so many places very specific places

00:43:56.220 and they have to be detonated very specifically in an order there is no way in hell you go into

00:44:06.140 three buildings that have thousands of people in them every single day i love when they go

00:44:12.020 yeah well there was like a week where they didn't have anybody on this floor and oh a week they

00:44:20.260 rigged the biggest buildings in the world to be exploded in a week and the secretary working there

00:44:27.340 on the 79th floor and every all the other thousands of people that worked there never

00:44:33.580 never saw these guys oh they were disguised really the engineers the professionals that do this

00:44:41.640 you know how many people it would have taken to do that it's so outrageous that like i said

00:44:49.320 meteors hitting three of those buildings on the same day i would believe that before i believe

00:44:55.760 a controlled demolition

00:44:58.280 stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you experience the most comfortable

00:45:06.220 mattress in the world the sleep number smart bed at the touch of a button

00:45:11.180 You can personalize your comfort.

00:45:14.080 Choose firmer or softer.

00:45:15.920 Adjust cooler to warmer.

00:45:17.980 And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

00:45:23.440 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today.

00:45:26.060 Because we have your number.

00:45:30.380 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you.

00:45:34.520 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world.

00:45:37.840 The Sleep Number Smart Bed.

00:45:39.900 at the touch of a button.

00:45:41.780 You can personalize your comfort.

00:45:44.160 Choose firmer or softer.

00:45:46.020 Adjust cooler to warmer.

00:45:48.060 And right now, save up to $2,500

00:45:50.580 during our massive Labor Day event.

00:45:53.540 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today

00:45:55.820 because we have your number.

00:46:00.480 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress

00:46:02.920 that doesn't get you.

00:46:04.620 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world.

00:46:07.940 The Sleep Number Smart Bed.

00:46:10.280 At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort.

00:46:14.200 Choose firmer or softer.

00:46:16.100 Adjust cooler to warmer.

00:46:18.140 And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

00:46:23.620 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today, because we have your number.

00:46:29.640 Well, how do you explain the buildings falling into their own footprint?

00:46:35.680 They love using certain words.

00:46:37.820 Stand down.

00:46:39.540 Footprint.

00:46:41.220 Pull it.

00:46:42.720 Pull it.

00:46:43.720 He could have meant pull my finger.

00:46:45.320 Make some of the firemen laugh when he farted when he told them to pull it.

00:46:48.800 Pull it.

00:46:50.420 There's no reasonable evidence that would lead anyone to believe it was a controlled demolition.

00:46:58.360 Why did it fall in the footprint?

00:46:59.740 Well, read up on a guy named Isaac Newton.

00:47:06.600 Sir Isaac Newton, he has certain laws of gravity.

00:47:12.060 And when an object, when a mass is moving, it will continue to move.

00:47:20.020 And it will continue to move in the same direction it has been moving unless it is influenced by another outside force.

00:47:29.740 So when a building is falling from the top down, it will continue,

00:47:35.560 and it will fall in its own footprint.

00:47:39.160 They have so many convoluted, wacky reasons for this.

00:47:47.520 But the Occam's Razor, the thing that makes the most sense,

00:47:51.460 is that when you crash two giant jetliners into a building,

00:47:56.800 it will weaken the building and the fact that the the second building that was hit was the first to

00:48:05.920 fall was because of where the plane hit it there was more weight over the wound in the building

00:48:15.320 on the second building that was hit so more weight means that the weakened structure didn't have to

00:48:22.560 be as weak as the other building but what did the the demolition crew take that into consideration

00:48:29.720 and then there's the people that say planes never even hit the building i mean you got

00:48:34.300 millions of people who saw it i'm disgusted and i'm willing to take your calls if you're one of

00:48:41.180 these nuts that believe that uh of course uh 800 uh no uh 800 yeah 8489222 800 8489222

00:48:51.020 We will be back with a great argument when we return.

00:48:55.220 It's the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:48:57.320 Thanks for tuning in.

00:48:59.220 I know you got football and stuff.

00:49:01.700 Oh, the football is the bane of my existence doing this show at this time on this day.

00:49:08.420 Everyone.

00:49:09.180 I get people sometimes are like, oh, Anthony thinks he's a big shot with his radio gig.

00:49:13.800 Do you know there's football?

00:49:15.660 I know people that don't watch it.

00:49:17.840 I know people that don't watch football.

00:49:19.140 Relax.

00:49:19.480 and I'm having a good time doing this.

00:49:22.440 So there's that.

00:49:25.460 Checking my X account here, I posted that I am on

00:49:31.160 and we will be talking about 9-11 and the conspiracy theories.

00:49:35.280 And Irish Mike, Irish Mike checks in and says,

00:49:38.260 I used to deliver to the World Trade Center

00:49:40.100 so I know how big the basement and docks were.

00:49:42.580 It's evident the fires compromised the foundation

00:49:44.860 from underneath Building 7.

00:49:47.160 That's why it fell straight down.

00:49:48.480 It was so eerie to see the docks I used to work on in the open after the debris was cleared.

00:49:55.560 Yeah, yeah, anyone that worked there?

00:49:58.660 I do laugh at the people that go, oh, my God, I was there like a month before.

00:50:05.160 Yeah, and?

00:50:08.560 But I almost became one of those people because two weeks prior,

00:50:13.320 I had gone with friends up to Windows on the World to have dinner,

00:50:16.840 and it was great.

00:50:20.500 And then it's creepy, though, that you know you were in there

00:50:23.660 and then what happened happened and it's just not there anymore.

00:50:27.540 So, yeah, Irish Mike, I get you.

00:50:30.720 And then another Irish Mike here.

00:50:32.920 He goes, thank you so much for addressing the 9-11 conspiracy theories.

00:50:36.360 They are so insulting to those that died and their families.

00:50:41.000 It's like spitting on the graves.

00:50:43.000 These people are mentally ill.

00:50:44.580 Amen, brother.

00:50:45.440 Yeah, I hear you, my friend. It's insulting. People feel compelled to come up with something that's more interesting. Not that the way it went down wasn't interesting, but they want some kind of intrigue, some kind of thing to have happened that makes it even more compelling, a more interesting story.

00:51:11.560 Don't worry.

00:51:12.460 It's interesting enough.

00:51:14.420 Believe me.

00:51:16.420 So I just want to find this thing on, where is it?

00:51:21.020 Print.

00:51:21.360 There it is.

00:51:22.680 Conspiracy theories.

00:51:25.100 There it is.

00:51:26.220 Come on, man.

00:51:27.420 Where'd you go?

00:51:29.240 Oh, man.

00:51:31.080 Put it down there.

00:51:32.140 It was a whole thing on.

00:51:33.620 Oh, I do.

00:51:34.080 I do have it.

00:51:34.680 Don't mind me.

00:51:36.280 I'm here in the studio.

00:51:37.360 Like I said, I don't print things out.

00:51:38.920 It's on my phone.

00:51:40.600 There it is.

00:51:42.480 Don't fret.

00:51:43.400 Oh, my God.

00:51:44.000 The five most persistent and widely circulated 9-11 conspiracy theories.

00:51:52.700 Conspiracy theories.

00:51:54.200 Fuffer and fuck-a-tache.

00:51:56.420 We went through the explosives.

00:51:58.740 The missile.

00:51:59.740 The missile hitting the Pentagon.

00:52:02.560 um there is video of the pentagon being hit but it's 2001 video it's it's updated every few seconds

00:52:15.100 you see a cop go through a gate and i understand look there should be a hell of a lot more cameras

00:52:21.720 on the pentagon i don't know why we haven't seen more views but i don't think it has anything to

00:52:27.360 do with the fact that uh a plane hit the building and it wasn't a a missile they always say that no

00:52:34.900 debris from a plane was found and and that's just not true so many things these conspiracy theorists

00:52:42.600 say are not true they found plenty of evidence there is a photo taken from the lawn of the

00:52:52.440 pentagon that shows a segment of windows from an american airlines plane the paint scheme the

00:53:00.920 windows and it it must have been during initial contact it flew off people don't seem to also

00:53:09.040 understand that mass traveling at unbelievable speeds and hitting something as sturdy as a

00:53:19.500 building it doesn't react in a way that a plane would if it crashed upon landing or um uh taking

00:53:30.740 off and it lost uh power and and went down these are planes going in excess of 400 miles an hour

00:53:38.240 hitting things that are are structurally sound to say the least and it does things it destroys

00:53:47.860 things in a way that lower speeds and lower force, lower acceleration, smaller mass just

00:53:56.640 doesn't happen in those circumstances.

00:54:00.420 But, you know, it's like the flat earthers don't want to imagine how large the earth

00:54:06.020 is.

00:54:06.780 Like a lot of what they say about a flat earth, they use this reasoning and then it all gets

00:54:15.420 dispelled when you try to explain to them how effing big earth is how giant the sun is things

00:54:22.940 like that so they don't understand the forces involved in these these planes hitting these

00:54:28.980 buildings and the ground um in pennsylvania uh those those are the instances that uh make what

00:54:39.360 happen happen but you know they're conspiracy theorists and uh we should respect them we should

00:54:46.360 respect their point of view i and i've been saying this since the loose change documentaries came out

00:54:51.520 uh right after 9-11 and uh look if you want to also call and talk about the questions that are

00:54:58.780 legitimate and i think there is a question about who knew what when who knew what when in order to

00:55:07.440 get us to do things that the government wanted to do after 9-11, like getting us into certain

00:55:14.300 wars and some other things like that.

00:55:17.860 So, look, don't you go anywhere.

00:55:20.720 Where the hell are you going?

00:55:22.180 We'll be back in a matter of moments with more of the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:55:25.660 It's the Anthony Cumia Show and talking conspiracies.

00:55:29.560 I know this is a hot button issue.

00:55:31.540 A lot of radio guys like doing these things because it gets people all agitated.

00:55:37.440 no, man, yes, man, and then, you know, show's over.

00:55:42.820 But I thought with the 25th commemoration of 9-11

00:55:47.480 and so many 9-11 conspiracy theories over the course of the years

00:55:52.140 that it would be pertinent, relevant to do something about this.

00:55:59.640 There's one other, well, there's a few other conspiracies here.

00:56:03.400 The one I've heard, they show the top of the first tower that came down, I believe.

00:56:11.280 And you see the top of the tower right from the wound on the building.

00:56:18.600 And then the top of the tower starts collapsing and taking out the tower below it.

00:56:26.920 And they go, well, why didn't the top disintegrate?

00:56:31.420 Look, the top disintegrates as fast as the bottom would.

00:56:37.600 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you.

00:56:41.780 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world.

00:56:45.400 The Sleep Number Smart Bed.

00:56:47.360 At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort.

00:56:51.380 Choose firmer or softer.

00:56:53.260 Adjust cooler to warmer.

00:56:55.280 And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

00:57:00.240 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today, because we have your number.

00:57:07.720 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you.

00:57:11.880 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world, the Sleep Number Smart Bed.

00:57:17.460 At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort.

00:57:21.460 Choose firmer or softer, adjust cooler to warmer.

00:57:24.800 And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

00:57:30.860 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today, because we have your number.

00:57:37.800 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you.

00:57:41.960 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world, the Sleep Number Smart Bed.

00:57:47.540 At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort.

00:57:51.540 Choose firmer or softer.

00:57:53.440 Adjust cooler to warmer.

00:57:55.480 And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

00:58:00.960 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today, because we have your number.

00:58:06.660 And then it would just stop, but it kept going.

00:58:10.580 All right.

00:58:11.840 Let's say the top did disintegrate while it was going down, because I think it did.

00:58:17.100 What do you think happens to the material from the top?

00:58:21.060 It disappears.

00:58:23.320 It's caving in the floors below it.

00:58:27.100 Once it runs out, once it's been disintegrated, what do you think?

00:58:31.680 Where did all that material go?

00:58:33.700 It's still there.

00:58:35.020 It's heavy.

00:58:36.300 And it's putting weight on a compromised structure.

00:58:39.700 uh but you know it fell at the speed faster than gravity what even if you destroy a building with

00:58:52.120 explosives it's only going to fall as fast as gravity nothing falls faster than gravity unless

00:59:00.780 there's something accelerating it that's how gravity works again look at isaac newton look

00:59:09.040 that up look at the clip of them uh dropping a feather and a hammer on the moon they both fall

00:59:16.300 at the same rate in a uh a vacuum uh gravity works that way i don't know them they never want to get

00:59:23.320 into it that far we have to actually bring up you know things like science and physics nope didn't

00:59:28.940 happen you're a gatekeeper you're this you're that mike bayside queens what's up hello you i have

00:59:37.680 had the uh honor of speaking to you before and um the thing about um conspiracy theorists uh by the

00:59:45.640 way the aforementioned lionel is a big conspiracy theorist yes and it kind of kind of kind of made

00:59:51.920 me stop listening to him because i got an argument with him about 9-11 and i don't even whatever he

00:59:57.060 thinks it was a controlled demolition too and whatever well mike here mike let me just say

01:00:01.860 this i don't think anyone should not listen to somebody because you have a difference of opinion

01:00:07.260 And even with things as ridiculous as conspiracy theories, because I sat with Lionel on Friday night and he was going through, you know, his normal, you know, oh, sure, I bet it happened that way.

01:00:19.740 And I'm kind of like, oh, Lionel, OK, but that's his take, whatever.

01:00:24.820 That's his that's his take.

01:00:26.160 The scary thing about our society is that like 10 or 20 percent of the people tend to believe this stuff.

01:00:33.600 And I think that there's, like, a one in 10,000 chance that there was a JFK conspiracy, the, you know, Sandy Hook or the World Trade Center put in the hundreds of thousands of chance.

01:00:43.560 Like, there's no chance that it was a conspiracy.

01:00:46.320 Now, let me just tell you, I was there, and I can tell you my story.

01:00:49.660 It's insane, but that's how I'm calling.

01:00:53.740 One of my coworkers that was across the street with me, his girlfriend worked in the World Trade Center.

01:00:59.020 And about six weeks after the thing, they had a party.

01:01:04.300 And I went to the party with my co-workers.

01:01:06.340 And this kid, I really, like, trusted him.

01:01:08.420 I trusted his judgment.

01:01:09.400 I trusted the girl.

01:01:11.120 They're not someone that would just lie about something.

01:01:13.900 And they said, they opened their shades of their window.

01:01:17.260 And they go, you see that building right there?

01:01:18.980 That's an FBI office.

01:01:20.960 And I go, okay.

01:01:21.980 And it's true.

01:01:22.680 It's in Forest Hills.

01:01:23.820 Sure.

01:01:24.100 And they go, the night before, we happened to be up at around 2 or 3 in the morning.

01:01:29.020 and we're looking at our shades, and we were like,

01:01:31.180 oh, it looks like a spotlight is on our shades.

01:01:33.780 So they open their shades, and this is on the night before 9-11.

01:01:37.040 Yeah.

01:01:37.340 And they open their shades, and they go,

01:01:38.880 look at all those offices, the lights are on,

01:01:42.020 and there's people in them at 3 in the morning.

01:01:44.840 And that's just like a little thing.

01:01:46.420 Like, maybe there was a heightened, and that's not even a conspiracy,

01:01:50.280 but maybe that they knew something was coming.

01:01:53.020 Maybe it was something that had nothing to do with 9-11.

01:01:56.100 Maybe it was just they were working late on another case.

01:01:59.660 I don't know.

01:02:00.360 The thing is...

01:02:00.940 A guy like Lionel will say that they knew that it was happening that day.

01:02:04.460 You know what I mean?

01:02:05.240 And what I told Lionel was funny.

01:02:07.080 I said, do you think that not one demolition worker

01:02:10.240 or one person that installed the demolition stuff

01:02:13.860 came out years later and wrote a book or something

01:02:16.600 for some fame?

01:02:18.500 Everybody wants to be famous.

01:02:19.620 Well, let me tell you, Mike, Mike,

01:02:22.280 it's the same thing as the moon landing,

01:02:24.300 where I believe you'd need even more people than the demolition workers

01:02:29.760 and everyone that was behind the conspiratorial taking down of the towers.

01:02:35.160 The moon landing would have involved literally millions of people

01:02:39.140 that had to keep their mouths shut that we never went to the moon.

01:02:43.660 By the way, multiple times.

01:02:45.520 You would think they would get there, Apollo 11, lands on the moon, comes back.

01:02:49.800 We never did it, you know, let's say that.

01:02:52.040 And they faked it.

01:02:52.900 and the astronauts splashed down as a hero's welcome and then the guys at nasa go holy geez

01:02:59.400 we did it we pulled it off and then someone else in the room goes uh yeah let's do it five more

01:03:05.760 times now let's just keep doing it and then let's have one of them where uh they get stuck up there

01:03:12.460 and the ship blows up and we have to bring them back down you would be so happy that you got away

01:03:17.680 with it once and told people well we landed on the moon uh there you go but for some reason

01:03:23.200 they uh they think that they faked it multiple times it's ridiculous how about like how about

01:03:31.860 a guy like alex jones he's out there like making a living on this stuff but also one last thing

01:03:36.960 that i also talked to you know fluoride fluoride in uh the toothpaste they're giving the kids

01:03:42.080 and a fluoride that they put in the water for the for the little kids you know what it does

01:03:46.460 It's been known scientifically, it turns the frogs gay.

01:03:50.900 Frogs are turning gay from fluoride.

01:03:52.860 So if your kid wants to wear a dress, it's fluoride in the water.

01:03:56.020 We'll be back with more InfoWars.

01:03:58.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:03:59.180 You know, the funny thing is, with the JFK one, right, another argument I have a line,

01:04:05.980 I could kind of get behind that maybe the mob paid, was paying, I'm not like Oswald,

01:04:13.060 They say, we'll give you 50 Gs if you kill J.F.K.

01:04:15.720 And then maybe the same guys gave Thomas Ruby, hey, we'll give you 100 Gs if you kill Oswald.

01:04:21.900 Or Jack, right?

01:04:22.360 I could get behind that.

01:04:23.860 Yeah, I could get behind that because, you know, there was enough links in the background to say that could have happened.

01:04:30.220 That definitely happened.

01:04:30.960 Right, right, right.

01:04:32.820 Plausible deniability and plausible affirmation.

01:04:37.480 Speaking of frogs, I have a good Norm Macdonald.

01:04:39.520 Oh, I can't get into a Norm Macdonald.

01:04:41.780 Mike, I cannot get into a Norm story right now, but I appreciate the call.

01:04:46.660 It's like he just called me like I'm at home, and my buddy Mike called.

01:04:50.160 He goes, hey, let me tell you.

01:04:50.780 Oh, by the way, I wanted to talk to you about.

01:04:52.820 No, I appreciate the call, Mike.

01:04:56.300 Hey, look, I like feeling like, you know, I'm everyone's friend.

01:04:59.620 You give a call, but we are sticking to various topics today, 9-11, conspiracies, and whatnot.

01:05:07.800 not stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you experience the most comfortable

01:05:15.680 mattress in the world the sleep number smart bed at the touch of a button you can personalize your

01:05:22.500 comfort choose firmer or softer adjust cooler to warmer and right now save up to twenty five

01:05:29.780 hundred dollars during our massive labor day event hurry into your local sleep number store today

01:05:35.180 Because we have your number.

01:05:39.840 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you.

01:05:44.000 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world.

01:05:47.620 The Sleep Number Smart Bed.

01:05:49.640 At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort.

01:05:53.580 Choose firmer or softer.

01:05:55.480 Adjust cooler to warmer.

01:05:57.520 And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

01:06:02.460 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today, because we have your number.

01:06:09.940 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you.

01:06:14.100 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world, the Sleep Number Smart Bed.

01:06:19.680 At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort.

01:06:23.700 Choose firmer or softer, adjust cooler to warmer.

01:06:27.620 And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

01:06:33.100 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today, because we have your number.

01:06:38.660 But, yeah, there's some other.

01:06:42.060 Let me get to a couple of these other ones while we're going to be taking more calls.

01:06:46.980 The U.S. government knew and stood down or made it happen.

01:06:53.680 And there are two schools of thought here.

01:06:55.600 There's the let it happen on purpose, where officials had specific warnings and deliberately failed to intercept the planes.

01:07:03.660 And then there's the made it happen on purpose, which the government or deep state orchestrated the attacks to justify wars in Afghanistan, Iraq,

01:07:14.120 expand their surveillance, or pursue strategic goals.

01:07:19.620 and um look that's that's one you could say all right maybe because there have been historical

01:07:31.660 um uh events where they found out later that things were a little fishy

01:07:38.200 and and you know talking about alex jones alex is always bringing up you know the gulf of tonkin

01:07:43.600 uh the uh it's a it's a false flag operation vietnam it got us into vietnam

01:07:49.220 and uh you know it turns out yeah they they they had ships out there in the gulf of tonk

01:07:56.640 and off of vietnam and then one night they're talking about this unbelievable battle that was

01:08:01.560 going on torpedoes were being fired at american ships ships are firing back it's crazy and then

01:08:08.220 the next day they're like yeah no that didn't really happen and they're like well just keep

01:08:13.320 that on the qt so we could say it happened and bring in more soldiers and whatnot and um you

01:08:20.120 want to go back even further there is some pretty compelling evidence that at least winston churchill

01:08:28.220 knew about japan's plans on pearl harbor and instead of warning the united states because

01:08:35.520 Obviously, at that point, England and the rest of the allies at that point, they wanted the U.S. in the war.

01:08:42.040 We were trying our darndest to stay out of it, and we needed a real kick in the teeth to get the American people wanting to get involved in that war.

01:08:54.120 And if Churchill would have warned us, oh, there seems to be some Japanese planes, I said, more like Alfred Hitchcock.

01:09:02.540 But he didn't warn the United States.

01:09:06.740 We were hit by Japan.

01:09:08.680 There we go.

01:09:09.520 A day which would live in infamy.

01:09:11.540 And we're in a war with Japan and Germany at that point.

01:09:14.780 So there is some precedent to that.

01:09:19.440 And looking at what our targets were after 9-11 didn't make much sense.

01:09:28.820 So I can see things like that.

01:09:31.780 Saudi hijackers we don't do anything to Saudi Arabia we go into Iraq which you know even then

01:09:41.240 even back then we knew they had absolutely nothing to do with uh with uh 9-11 um but there we were

01:09:50.880 you know in Iraq so that's the kind of stuff I could get behind because there's precedent to it

01:09:58.640 and it makes sense it very well could have gone that way there's reasons it could have but to

01:10:05.300 tell me that a few hundred demolition crew were working in three buildings with thousands of

01:10:12.080 people working in them over the course of months planting explosives get out of here you're out of

01:10:18.580 your mind back in a minute it's the anthony comia show let's go right back to uh the phones 9 11

01:10:24.140 conspiracies what we're talking about uh this evening for a little while more and uh george

01:10:31.380 from the isle of long how are you george yeah hi i i don't want to say i don't usually say bad

01:10:38.480 things about people but these creeps who make these conspiracy theories it's horrible how about

01:10:45.360 the ones that say up there were no planes it was high a grip high a grip or whatever yeah yeah yeah

01:10:50.100 That's even more nuts.

01:10:51.620 It's just shameful.

01:10:52.540 Shameful.

01:10:53.140 That's all I want to say.

01:10:54.260 Thank you, George.

01:10:55.760 That's even more nuts.

01:10:58.120 People saw this.

01:11:00.200 I mean, that's beyond even Soviet-level nonsense back in the old days.

01:11:05.860 We saw the planes.

01:11:07.840 They didn't have the type of CGI in 2001 to make people believe what they saw or what they didn't see.

01:11:19.120 We had people with video recorders that videoed it from multiple angles that all confirm exactly what the previous videos confirmed.

01:11:30.380 And what happened?

01:11:31.460 They never explained what happened to the people that went on the planes.

01:11:35.920 They boarded those planes.

01:11:38.700 The planes took off and they were used in horrific terror events.

01:11:46.040 And those people are gone.

01:11:48.120 They had family and friends, and the family and friends are still mourning their loss.

01:11:55.200 Wait, how do you come up with that?

01:11:57.040 Where were they?

01:11:58.380 I heard one, oh, the plane landed in Cleveland, and then they took them off, and did what with them?

01:12:07.900 Are they standing like mannequins in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland wearing Jimi Hendrix clothes?

01:12:13.880 Just stay real still for 25 years here.

01:12:18.120 Where's Stevie Nicks' little flowing dress?

01:12:21.720 And come on.

01:12:24.360 You can't be serious.

01:12:26.640 They're nuts.

01:12:28.140 I just don't understand it.

01:12:29.620 Steve from the city of New York.

01:12:32.820 What's up, Steve?

01:12:35.000 And I could tell everybody what happened.

01:12:38.640 Saudi Arabian freaks, they hijacked four commercial airliners.

01:12:43.080 They slammed two of them at 500 miles an hour into the trade center.

01:12:47.540 murdering 3,000 Americans

01:12:50.140 on day. That's what happened. Now,

01:12:51.960 if you want to come up with a different

01:12:53.760 story with no facts, you have no facts

01:12:55.880 because you're just making this up, then you're right

01:12:57.920 in there with Rosie O'Donnell. Rosie

01:12:59.880 O'Donnell would jump on your

01:13:01.760 lap and kiss you smack on the

01:13:03.820 lip. Same thing with people who

01:13:05.780 support legal immigration.

01:13:07.860 Omar from Minnesota,

01:13:09.920 she would jump on your lap

01:13:11.800 and kiss you smack on the lip

01:13:13.580 because legal immigration is

01:13:15.540 giving her more power and power.

01:13:17.540 I'm fascinated by people who support these phony accusations, what have happened on 9-11, even though it's not based on fact.

01:13:27.400 And the people support legal immigration.

01:13:30.180 Omar is not getting deported.

01:13:32.100 She's getting more powerful every single day.

01:13:34.260 I know.

01:13:34.960 And let's face it.

01:13:36.300 One of the family members, the woman at the 9-11 ceremony Friday in New York.

01:13:42.200 Oh, yeah.

01:13:42.660 Her husband was murdered on 9-11.

01:13:44.420 She called out Saudi Arabia. They are pressing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia because they were involved on it.

01:13:53.820 They know at least two hijackers met with Saudi Arabian officials before that in San Diego, and it's all going to come out eventually.

01:14:03.020 But the people who support all this nonsense, you people are, I used to always say when I had to talk about this, we used to call them the kindergarten class right now.

01:14:12.660 But the thing is, if we don't get legal immigration stopped, we're done.

01:14:18.280 And Omar, if she hears you say you support legal immigration, she'll jump on your lap and kiss you smack on the wrist.

01:14:25.420 Steve, Steve, no, we've had a tough enough weekend.

01:14:29.860 The images of Ilhan Omar and Rosie O'Donnell kissing people.

01:14:35.060 Look, you're over the line, Steve.

01:14:37.460 You're over the line.

01:14:38.200 Thank you, though, for the call.

01:14:39.660 So disgusting.

01:14:40.840 Stupid Rosie.

01:14:42.660 I was wondering, because I know Rosie is back in the United States.

01:14:48.160 She's doing one of those crappy Broadway play things.

01:14:52.900 And I was hoping that Trump would have loaded her into the cargo hold of Air Force One

01:14:57.900 and taken her back to Ireland when he went over there yesterday.

01:15:03.080 But, yeah, I guess not.

01:15:05.780 I guess we're stuck with Rosie for a while.

01:15:08.640 But thank you.

01:15:09.540 Thank you for the call.

01:15:10.220 um we're going to move on to a few other things that um caught my eye over the course of the

01:15:19.120 week the past week let me see where the hell were we going here uh jesse well jesse ventura i i can

01:15:26.960 never get enough of this guy uh i think this i don't think this is a new clip but it uh it's an

01:15:34.440 expanded clip of what he was saying about

01:15:36.340 Donald Trump being a criminal

01:15:37.700 and this guy

01:15:40.200 when he was in

01:15:42.380 WWF wrestling

01:15:44.560 people loved him

01:15:46.080 he was bigger than life

01:15:47.900 his promos

01:15:50.780 that he would do

01:15:51.580 were great, he was a big

01:15:54.440 loud mouth and then he becomes

01:15:56.660 governor of Minnesota

01:15:57.620 and it almost

01:16:00.400 seemed like he cleaned himself

01:16:02.480 up, you know, he cut his hair

01:16:04.080 he was in a suit and tie and he looked the part like wow that's kind of cool and then you realize

01:16:11.240 he's bat crap crazy he's just out of his mind and he's a very big conspiracy theorist he had a show

01:16:22.380 called conspiracy theory and it was so funny he would go to various locations to uh meet with my

01:16:30.840 confidential informant and you're like what is what is he doing because we pull up and uh he's

01:16:38.200 a man in a white van and i would talk to him and get information like what are you what are you

01:16:45.400 and then they'd film it and it was a guy in a van and they would blur his face and and use

01:16:52.300 what i noticed but and jesse's like well thanks for the info now i'm gonna go to plum island

01:17:00.580 and expose what's going on over there.

01:17:04.440 And then he'd hop on a boat, get within like 10 miles of Plum Island,

01:17:09.460 and the cops would turn the boat around because you can't go to Plum Island.

01:17:14.400 It's an infectious disease research island.

01:17:17.700 And what would Jesse do?

01:17:19.140 Well, there you go.

01:17:21.400 Proof positive there's things going on they don't want the governor to see.

01:17:27.020 And no one could get on there.

01:17:29.160 And what's your business there, Jesse?

01:17:32.160 So this has been him forever.

01:17:35.340 Area 51, we're driving right through the front gates.

01:17:40.480 No, you're not.

01:17:41.760 They're stopping you.

01:17:42.900 Proof there's aliens in there.

01:17:45.040 No, it's not, Jesse.

01:17:47.080 It's a confidential place where they build amazing aircraft that they don't want people to see.

01:17:52.820 Oh, yeah, I know.

01:17:54.340 And there's aliens.

01:17:55.620 Okay, Jesse.

01:17:56.840 All right, Jesse.

01:17:58.480 I love him, though.

01:17:59.600 So here's a clip of him just crap-talking Donald Trump, calling him a criminal.

01:18:05.840 I can't get enough of this guy.

01:18:07.900 AC1.

01:18:08.460 Whether you liked Ms. Harris or not, this last election was a choice, a very simple one, in my opinion.

01:18:19.360 You had the choice between the Constitution and the criminal.

01:18:24.740 Oh.

01:18:25.180 And this country chose the criminal.

01:18:29.160 And now they're all appalled at what's happening.

01:18:32.820 What would you expect a criminal to do when he gets in there?

01:18:36.640 He's going to hire other criminals to work with him.

01:18:40.760 They all will be an ilk together.

01:18:43.900 A big group.

01:18:44.800 You put a criminal at the top of America.

01:18:48.240 A convicted felon.

01:18:51.120 Please.

01:18:52.460 Convicted felon.

01:18:53.840 I love how they pull that one out.

01:18:56.480 Oh, yeah, the bank loan he paid back because he lied about the value of Mar-a-Lago, which he didn't.

01:19:04.060 Everyone that was trying to convict him had undervalued Mar-a-Lago by millions upon millions of dollars.

01:19:11.460 Mar-a-Lago's worth $10.15, and he's trying to get millions in a loan?

01:19:18.600 And then what did he do with the money?

01:19:20.960 Well, he used it for business and then paid it back with interest on time, Jesse.

01:19:25.660 Well, there you go.

01:19:27.420 That's what a criminal would do.

01:19:30.140 What, Jesse?

01:19:31.500 What are you saying?

01:19:33.860 I can't get up.

01:19:34.880 It was a choice between Donald Trump and a garden weasel.

01:19:40.840 Donald Trump and a rhododendron.

01:19:43.100 He actually is saying that Kamala Harris was the choice for four more years of Joe Biden-level invasion of illegals into this country?

01:19:58.200 Do you think for a second under, it's hard to say, President Kamala Harris, that would have stopped?

01:20:07.280 Do you think that those caravans would have stopped?

01:20:13.100 no one would have been deported and we've had record illegals coming back into this country

01:20:19.680 uh every single day thank god donald and believe me i have issues with what trump's doing these

01:20:27.540 days believe that i may use the ebonics vernacular but uh truth be told you know

01:20:35.660 we'll be back in a minute the anthony cumia show

01:20:38.960 stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you experience the most comfortable

01:20:47.020 mattress in the world the sleep number smart bed at the touch of a button you can personalize

01:20:53.680 your comfort choose firmer or softer adjust cooler to warmer and right now save up to

01:21:00.400 twenty five hundred dollars during our massive labor day event hurry into your local sleep

01:21:05.620 Number store today. Because we have your number. Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that

01:21:13.900 doesn't get you. Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world. The Sleep Number Smart

01:21:20.440 Bed. At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort. Choose firmer or softer. Adjust

01:21:27.100 cooler to warmer. And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

01:21:33.820 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today, because we have your number.

01:21:41.260 Stop wasting your nights on a mattress that doesn't get you.

01:21:45.440 Experience the most comfortable mattress in the world, the Sleep Number Smart Bed.

01:21:51.020 At the touch of a button, you can personalize your comfort.

01:21:55.020 Choose firmer or softer, adjust cooler to warmer.

01:21:58.360 And right now, save up to $2,500 during our massive Labor Day event.

01:22:04.460 Hurry into your local Sleep Number store today, because we have your number.

01:22:10.340 And talking about conspiracy theories, but a lot of other things going on.

01:22:15.220 This story, this is something that doesn't seem real.

01:22:23.320 This is from the Joe Rogan experience.

01:22:26.900 My good buddy, Joe Rogan.

01:22:30.120 Rick Springfield was on.

01:22:32.640 You know, Jessie's Girl, that guy.

01:22:35.260 Ricky Springfield, he's a buddy of mine.

01:22:39.220 Rick Springfield told a story that I had never heard before.

01:22:43.600 Rick Springfield was a musician, actor.

01:22:47.480 He was on General Hospital, I believe, as Dr. Noah Drake.

01:22:51.360 All the old women that listen to the show are probably like,

01:22:53.700 Oh, I used to get the damps when he would come on as Dr. Noah Drake, Anthony.

01:22:59.620 It was amazing.

01:23:02.140 And then, you know, he was a very popular 80s musician.

01:23:09.300 A lot of hit songs.

01:23:11.100 Well, Jessie's Girl and then a couple other.

01:23:13.280 But, you know.

01:23:14.500 And he's touring now and looks amazing.

01:23:17.340 I don't know what they did to this guy, what drugs they put in him,

01:23:21.580 what plastic surgery but he's in his 70s and he looks great and he sounds great singing his uh

01:23:26.920 his song i believe it was jesse's girl they had that other one working class something i don't

01:23:34.220 know but uh don't talk to strangers don't talk to strangers baby don't you talk don't right well

01:23:43.020 Well, Rick Springfield apparently killed a man in Vietnam.

01:23:49.620 I don't know how this story was kept secret for so long.

01:23:55.280 Long before Rick Springfield became a rock star and a heartthrob,

01:23:58.100 he found himself caught in Vietnam in the war.

01:24:02.720 Springfield revealed he made a split-second decision that he said ended another man's life

01:24:08.780 and has haunted him ever since on his appearance on the Joe Rogan experience.

01:24:15.900 The Australian singer, I didn't know he was Australian,

01:24:19.240 because I don't remember him having an accent.

01:24:22.320 You know, I wish you that I had Jesse's girl, Jesse's bird.

01:24:27.640 The Australian singer explained that his unlikely brush with combat

01:24:31.360 began when his band traveled to Vietnam,

01:24:34.800 because Australia was involved over there, too.

01:24:39.580 So he traveled over there to entertain American troops during the war.

01:24:43.720 According to Springfield, the U.S. soldiers wanted to see, you know,

01:24:48.380 girls that reminded him of home.

01:24:50.820 Is Jesse saying – oh, Jesse.

01:24:55.160 Was he so feminine-looking that they thought Rick Springfield was a dame?

01:25:01.980 This sounds like the clip from Apocalypse Now a little bit.

01:25:04.800 where the helicopters come in, and there's music, and they're dancing.

01:25:09.800 Ah, the nom.

01:25:11.440 The country.

01:25:12.640 Welcome to the suck, Rick Springfield.

01:25:16.160 So long as we had a couple of girls in the band, they would hire you.

01:25:19.740 And you could tour Vietnam during the war.

01:25:24.140 Don't you love when you're reading something and it just jumps on you?

01:25:27.380 It was pretty insane.

01:25:28.820 We were there for about four months.

01:25:31.140 Four months in country.

01:25:33.520 Springfield said he went into the experience with a few expectations beyond earning a paycheck.

01:25:41.280 It was insane.

01:25:42.680 I thought, oh, great, we'll make money, you know.

01:25:44.940 And, of course, we didn't make any money.

01:25:46.880 We spent all the PX, and we weren't making much money anyway.

01:25:52.360 So what began as a gig entertaining troops quickly became deadly serious

01:25:58.100 when Springfield found himself caught in an attack.

01:26:02.600 We met these guys, and we really got along well,

01:26:05.660 and we stayed overnight with them.

01:26:07.240 This is sounding kind of gay.

01:26:09.580 This sounds kind of gay.

01:26:11.660 There was a guy named Rick Springfield.

01:26:14.080 I invited him into my tent in the NAMM.

01:26:16.940 I was a frog man, a fighter, a governor.

01:26:22.540 We all got in the bunkers, perimeter bunkers,

01:26:26.440 and I stayed in the radio shack, and we got attacked.

01:26:29.100 and I'm throwing mortars down the tube of the Radio Shack.

01:26:34.540 It was freaky, Springfield noted.

01:26:36.680 This is before you couldn't do any of this now.

01:26:40.540 No, they wouldn't let like Miley Cyrus press a few buttons,

01:26:44.840 a few cruise missiles, launch some of those cruise missiles.

01:26:51.260 The gravity of what happened didn't fully sink in

01:26:53.420 until Springfield learned that one of his mortars had hit its mark.

01:26:58.900 The hardest thing for me was that I had thrown a mortar down

01:27:01.880 and it had hit someone.

01:27:04.560 VC, Victor Charlie, my friend.

01:27:06.680 Good job well done.

01:27:08.840 I would use the G word, but this is regular radio,

01:27:11.660 and I don't want to, you know.

01:27:13.500 Oh, if it was a podcast, I would be using that G word for Victor Charlie.

01:27:19.440 That's right.

01:27:20.220 You know what it is.

01:27:21.060 You old-timers know.

01:27:22.920 I never called him that.

01:27:24.360 I was a nice guy.

01:27:25.960 Were you, Jesse?

01:27:27.380 The hardest thing for me was that I had thrown a mortar down and it hit someone,

01:27:32.340 and they came by the next day and say, hey, you got one.

01:27:35.740 You know, the soldiers there, they didn't care.

01:27:38.320 And that still has a hard place to land in me, you know.

01:27:45.000 Rick Springfield, Jessie's girl, killed someone in Vietnam.

01:27:49.940 That is mental.

01:27:52.400 Oh, my goodness gracious.

01:27:54.200 Springfield went on to give Rogan more detailed account of the attack

01:27:58.620 in the moments before the fired mortar.

01:28:00.840 It was like a movie, he recalled, according to Springfield.

01:28:03.220 The radio crackled, and the warning about movement nearby,

01:28:08.660 Zips in the wire! We got zips in the wire!

01:28:11.020 Bring Rick Springfield up here!

01:28:14.300 He wrote Jesse's girl about that woman that said,

01:28:17.840 Love you long time.

01:28:20.280 Me so hawny.

01:28:21.380 me so horny

01:28:25.020 me love you long time

01:28:29.080 find a woman like that but she's got chlamydia

01:28:34.680 and the clap

01:28:36.500 Ricky

01:28:37.400 he said he had a youthful

01:28:41.060 understanding of the movement from the

01:28:43.000 Vietnam War and eventually gave way to the

01:28:44.840 painful reality of what he had done

01:28:46.560 better than what stupid

01:28:49.300 Jane Fonda did

01:28:52.200 at least you were on the right side

01:28:55.420 on the right team Rick Springfield

01:28:57.140 Jane Fonda sat

01:28:59.400 on an anti-aircraft gun

01:29:01.080 in North Vietnam

01:29:02.640 the same guns that were used to shoot

01:29:05.420 down our boys

01:29:06.540 in their bombers

01:29:08.140 and

01:29:09.420 yeah we still love you there

01:29:13.000 Ricky Springfield don't worry

01:29:14.880 Jesse's girl

01:29:17.600 Gave me the clap in Da Nang.

01:29:20.360 Did she, Jesse?

01:29:22.100 You betcha.

01:29:23.820 Right?

01:29:27.000 Oh, my God.

01:29:28.520 Let's see.

01:29:30.220 Dimitri.

01:29:31.240 Dimitri and Joyzie, what's up there, my friend?

01:29:35.200 First of all, it's an honor to be speaking to the great Anthony Cullia.

01:29:37.880 Oh, thanks.

01:29:38.240 Radio Royalty.

01:29:39.720 I was, first of all, pleasantly surprised you were on Gutfeld.

01:29:41.860 You killed it like you did on Red Eye.

01:29:43.160 Thank you, man.

01:29:43.940 And the Anthony Gym Podcast.

01:29:45.340 If you guys are members, join it.

01:29:46.920 It's worth every penny.

01:29:47.760 Oh, right.

01:29:48.240 There you go.

01:29:48.620 Got your plug in.

01:29:50.020 Sorry.

01:29:51.060 First and foremost, Anthony, please, please stay off the streets of New York at night.

01:29:54.460 You, out of everybody should know, nothing good happens in the streets of New York at night.

01:29:58.520 I know.

01:29:59.400 It's tough.

01:30:00.080 I got to go places.

01:30:01.860 I have to be in New York, and I can't go around like, you know, the big A-listers.

01:30:07.260 Brad Pitt comes into New York.

01:30:08.920 There's two mooks standing next to him in this giant SUV.

01:30:13.280 He's got to walk 10 feet into the door of whatever venue he's going in.

01:30:17.960 There were autograph hunters yelling his name.

01:30:20.400 That's about all he's got to deal with.

01:30:22.720 I don't see A-list celebrities walking around the sidewalks

01:30:25.820 having to avoid getting their heads smashed in by a cinder block.

01:30:31.400 So I'll call real quick about something that's not a conspiracy theory.

01:30:35.320 My sister's a school teacher, and I asked her, she was over this weekend,

01:30:39.380 I asked her what they told her about 9-11, what to teach.

01:30:42.220 Right.

01:30:42.500 And the unions and the school districts are telling them, don't mention Muslim extremists.

01:30:48.500 And just like that, what was that Russian KGB guy in the 50s or 60s who warned us they're not going to attack us from the outside?

01:30:55.120 From within, yeah, and it's the long game.

01:30:57.860 They play a game that lasts decades and decades, and that's exactly what has happened.

01:31:03.620 Yeah.

01:31:04.900 If you could get your kids out of public school and private or just constantly, you know, tell them the truth because they're being brainwashed.

01:31:11.760 That's all I have to say.

01:31:12.920 And thank you for your service, sir.

01:31:14.840 Thank you, Dimitri.

01:31:17.680 I'm stuck doing Jesse.

01:31:19.200 It's just so fun.

01:31:20.800 But he's right.

01:31:21.860 You know, the education system, as they say, they're always bitching about money.

01:31:28.340 Like, oh, well, the kids can't read.

01:31:30.260 There's a giant swath of kids in this country, and especially in the inner cities, that just cannot read or do any type of, even the most simple, mathematics.

01:31:46.020 And they just say, well, we need more money.

01:31:49.300 And they're paying more money per student than anywhere else.

01:31:53.080 It's astounding.

01:31:54.680 So it doesn't have anything to do with money.

01:31:57.040 It's not doing your job, not disciplining.

01:32:00.800 Years ago when I was in school, the last thing I would be preaching about is discipline for the students in school.

01:32:06.480 You'd get a high and hearty F you out of me for anybody that was trying to sell that one.

01:32:13.780 But they've gotten to the point where you can't even put kids in a classroom and have a teacher teach them anything

01:32:23.340 because the classrooms are in a constant state of chaos.

01:32:27.280 There's nothing but fights going on, yelling, screaming.

01:32:32.540 No one's sitting in their seats quietly.

01:32:35.940 You can't learn in an environment like that.

01:32:39.080 You just can't.

01:32:40.080 And unless you're willing to throw the people out,

01:32:43.540 the students out that are disrupting the class,

01:32:46.260 no one's going to learn.

01:32:47.840 You can have a kid that wants to learn, that's smart,

01:32:50.100 but you put them in that environment, it's impossible.

01:32:53.340 and with this lack of discipline, because they said,

01:32:57.580 well, too many people of color are the ones being disciplined.

01:33:01.800 And the only thing they took away from that was that the system must be racist.

01:33:07.400 The disciplinary system in the schools have to be racist,

01:33:10.060 because that's the only reason people of color would be being disciplined

01:33:15.280 more than other people in school.

01:33:17.420 and when you do that

01:33:19.580 now you have to do away

01:33:22.340 with discipline altogether

01:33:23.560 and now you have classrooms that are

01:33:26.580 I swear some of them

01:33:27.900 look like a prison block

01:33:29.820 there's fights, stabbings

01:33:32.180 the teachers are trying to get involved

01:33:34.480 to break up a fight

01:33:35.920 and they're getting punched in the face

01:33:37.920 I could not

01:33:39.660 in my wildest hallucinations

01:33:42.320 imagine

01:33:43.820 any school I went to

01:33:46.140 a student punching the teacher it would be shocking as they're leading them out in handcuffs

01:33:54.340 people would be like that is the craziest thing i've ever seen you didn't mouth off to a teacher

01:34:00.720 you certainly didn't curse to a teacher and now they're beating the crap out of them and there's

01:34:07.060 no disciplinary action that's uh really happening so i think that's the biggest problem with uh

01:34:13.200 schools uh today but thank god they're coming up with these alternative programs and you know

01:34:22.300 we had these back in the day it was uh exceptional students the accelerated classes if a student was

01:34:30.840 good in science they'd put him in a science program accelerated science program and they

01:34:36.360 would learn that way well they're doing the same thing now just a little different i guess

01:34:41.620 um this episode is brought to you by spreaker the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading

01:34:46.920 condition known as podcast brain symptoms include buying microphones you don't need

01:34:51.960 explaining rss feeds to confused relatives and saying things like sorry i can't talk right now

01:34:57.360 i'm editing audio if this sounds familiar you're probably already a podcaster the good news is

01:35:03.500 spreaker makes the whole process simple you record your show upload it once and spreaker

01:35:08.180 distributes it everywhere people listen. Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and about a dozen apps your

01:35:13.000 cousin swears are the next big thing. Even better, Spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads,

01:35:18.540 meaning your podcast might someday pay for, well, more microphones. Start your show today

01:35:24.280 at Spreaker.com. Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour,

01:35:29.760 you might as well publish it. Experience North America's premier night of standard bread racing,

01:35:34.800 Big Stakes Racing, Big Night Out.

01:35:36.840 The Mohawk Million, Saturday, September 26th at Woodbuy Mohawk Park.

01:35:41.040 Free admission.

01:35:41.960 Details at woodbuymohawkpark.com.

01:35:46.500 Ozun gives you a better way to play in Canada.

01:35:50.360 Snipable insights.

01:35:52.260 So many tips, you'll have the deepest roster in the league.

01:35:56.440 Ozun, well played.

01:35:58.260 there is a a school not just a class an entire school dedicated to hip-hop yes you heard right

01:36:11.700 they saw the grades they saw the the reading and mathematics uh grades and said what should

01:36:19.720 we do let's make an entire school based around hip-hop surprised they didn't go back to the

01:36:26.820 anchors well that sounds like a great idea what a great school that is dumb anchors uh that is

01:36:34.780 insane that's an abomination teaching traditional subjects through the five whatever of of hip-hop

01:36:44.960 graffiti let's come up on to the board and write out some graffiti some gang graffiti

01:36:52.620 and tell us what the X equals in was.

01:36:59.980 This is what they do instead of doing what needs to be done to educate the kids.

01:37:06.640 If anyone thinks hip-hop school is going to drive up the amount of students

01:37:16.780 that know how to read and do math, you're out of your mind.

01:37:20.880 And money goes to this. Your money goes to this. It's beyond all reason. They will go to such lengths to not do what is traditional and what has worked in this country.

01:37:38.340 You know what works? You get 25 students in a classroom. You get a teacher that is respected through what they do, how they treat the class, discipline, and then you make sure they're seated and quiet and you give them the work they need to do to learn things.

01:38:01.700 that's it it's worked for generation after generation it's worked forever since socrates

01:38:11.780 in greece it's it's worked uh but they just look at it and go nope if the kids aren't learning

01:38:21.640 it's because we're not teaching them in a way that they can learn they need to learn with things

01:38:27.900 they know like hip-hop i i it's embarrassing it's genuinely embarrassing what type of graduates do

01:38:40.080 you think they're going to get out of uh hip-hop high oh my god and i saw the video is pretty funny

01:38:48.220 because they show the hallways they're all graffiti they're painted like subway cars and

01:38:54.320 And it's like, wait, this is supposed to be, school, a sanctuary away from that.

01:39:02.360 When they go, wow, it's like I'm in the Bronx.

01:39:04.980 I feel like I'm home.

01:39:06.440 Yeah, you're not supposed to.

01:39:07.760 It's school.

01:39:10.680 When I went to school, it wasn't home.

01:39:12.600 They were, you know, the teacher would get mad at you.

01:39:15.360 You put your feet up on the desk.

01:39:17.660 They go, do you put your feet up on the furniture at home?

01:39:21.020 I was like, this is not furniture.

01:39:22.500 It's a desk.

01:39:23.040 Calm down.

01:39:24.320 This isn't a lovely end table that I'm putting my feet up.

01:39:28.340 It has big dick written on the top.

01:39:31.160 It's scraped in with a knife.

01:39:32.840 So I don't think it's furniture.

01:39:35.260 My feet aren't going to hurt it there, lady.

01:39:38.300 That was crazy.

01:39:39.140 See, I wouldn't even do that.

01:39:40.200 That would have been crazy for me.

01:39:41.340 I said, yes, okay, and I took my feet down like the little puss I was.

01:39:46.640 But there you go, hip-hop high.

01:39:49.020 All right, back in a moment.

01:39:50.360 The Anthony Comey Show.

01:39:51.640 Oh, I love the ride of the Valkyries.

01:39:54.900 Reminds me of going into the Mekong Delta with Ricky Springfield.

01:39:59.720 I saw Ricky once cave some guy's head in.

01:40:02.960 He said, you ever see an effing head come apart like that?

01:40:06.760 Jesse was good.

01:40:07.760 He was a badass in the nom.

01:40:11.660 Thank you, Jesse.

01:40:14.640 Jesse's girl.

01:40:16.900 Unbelievable.

01:40:18.380 This is something that, you know, one of those things,

01:40:22.240 we've got a lot of technology happening right now.

01:40:26.200 Waymo and, of course, the CyberCabs, the Tesla CyberCabs, all the rage.

01:40:31.980 Everyone loves them.

01:40:33.120 Waymos look crazy now.

01:40:35.260 Waymos, compared to the CyberCab, look like Model T next to, like, a 57 Chevy.

01:40:41.980 It really is kind of amazing that Tesla was able to pull this off

01:40:46.280 without having all that gear all over their vehicles.

01:40:49.660 And it seems to be even better than the Waymo cars.

01:40:52.980 But here's a feature I kind of like about Waymo.

01:40:55.360 It seems two minors, teens I would gather, teens, were riding in a Waymo car.

01:41:04.860 They were resting in San Francisco after the company became aware of a firearm inside the robo-taxi.

01:41:11.680 The car pulled over and alerted police, who later recovered a loaded AR-style gun.

01:41:22.140 Could I have two guns AR-style and some toast and bacon?

01:41:27.040 Waymo said it pulled the vehicle over after becoming aware of the violation of terms.

01:41:31.400 Is that a violation of terms, having a weapon in the vehicle involving a firearm?

01:41:36.300 then alerted emergency services and cooperated with San Francisco police,

01:41:41.680 according to the San Francisco Gate.

01:41:44.280 San Francisco police officers from Richmond Station were called to the 40th Avenue

01:41:47.940 on Cabrillo Street, crossing before 4 a.m.

01:41:52.800 Jeez.

01:41:53.760 Teens out at 4 a.m.

01:41:56.000 Can you just, is it possible for people to say that parenting is the huge problem here?

01:42:04.080 if your teens are out at 4 a.m. with a gun?

01:42:08.720 My God, Matt.

01:42:11.420 So reports that two passengers inside the autonomous vehicle

01:42:14.440 had a firearm, was given to the Popo.

01:42:18.160 When officers arrived, they detained the two passengers,

01:42:20.640 a boy and a girl whose names and ages have not been released

01:42:23.500 because they are minors.

01:42:25.720 Police said they searched the vehicle and recovered a loaded AR-style rifle

01:42:30.280 described as a ghost gun, ghost gun.

01:42:34.080 Officers searched the two juveniles and recovered some marijuana and mace.

01:42:40.280 Both juveniles were arrested on charges related to illegal firearm possession

01:42:43.840 and booked into custody.

01:42:47.220 I'm sure they're out already.

01:42:49.180 This is nothing.

01:42:51.080 It's like they will.

01:42:53.240 These are kids with guns running around at 4 a.m.

01:42:59.460 And, again, nothing will be done.

01:43:01.700 because if people actually do something about it,

01:43:05.480 they'll be called horrible things.

01:43:07.740 They'll be called horrible things.

01:43:09.340 How dare you try to prevent young teens from doing what they like doing,

01:43:16.360 shooting things at 4 a.m.

01:43:20.280 This is great, though.

01:43:21.580 This is, let me get this second half of the story.

01:43:25.420 So I was trying to see if Waymo locks the doors.

01:43:30.100 Do they lock the doors?

01:43:31.420 because that would be awesome.

01:43:33.120 The car pulls over, the doors lock, and they can't get out,

01:43:36.040 and the cops say, but they say no, no reporting showed that the doors were locked.

01:43:39.940 But there is another case where in San Mateo in July,

01:43:47.580 teens were drinking and shooting people with the Orbeez gun,

01:43:51.480 the little gel pellets at people.

01:43:55.460 The doors were never locked.

01:43:56.660 The occupants were free to exit before police arrived.

01:43:58.900 Duemo told the riders the vehicle had issues and pulled over.

01:44:03.620 So when it pulled over, they didn't say, hey, you got a gun, so we called the cops.

01:44:08.840 So they don't lock them in, but they certainly don't tell them that they had called the cops.

01:44:13.720 They just say, like, hey, we're having a little issue.

01:44:16.240 If you can hang on a minute, we'll get you moving again.

01:44:20.880 And they're drinking.

01:44:22.060 They're hanging out in the car.

01:44:23.480 So they don't think the cops are going to pull up.

01:44:26.040 They stayed put.

01:44:27.220 Police treated it as a high-risk stop because Waymo had reported what looked like a firearm.

01:44:33.420 Waymo stated, rider procedure is that you can pause the trip and get out by pulling the door handle twice, then it'll open.

01:44:41.960 The company's public line, when people have complained about when they feel stuck in the car,

01:44:47.880 is the doors do not lock during, well, they lock during the normal ride,

01:44:53.360 but then they unlock when the vehicle is stopped.

01:44:55.600 You just got to hit it twice.

01:44:57.220 but they don't tell you that you're going to be arrested.

01:45:03.540 See, I guess that's interior cameras and mics are always on.

01:45:08.300 Remote staff can watch the cabin, cancel the trip, pull the car over,

01:45:11.720 and call police if they see a weapon or other serious terms of service violations.

01:45:16.800 I bet people want to have sex in them, you know, in the vehicle, think it's funny,

01:45:21.260 and then the staff gets all upset.

01:45:25.240 They don't want the seats getting all stained.

01:45:28.020 Weapons are banned in the cars.

01:45:29.800 That monitoring is how both the Orbeez case and the ghost gun case started.

01:45:35.120 So they can stop the car and snitch.

01:45:38.240 They've been shown to do that.

01:45:39.960 They don't lock the doors, but they don't tell you that they've called the cops

01:45:43.940 and that they're coming to get you, which is pretty interesting.

01:45:47.840 I like it.

01:45:49.100 I'm not going to be doing anything bad.

01:45:50.480 People have called them being rats.

01:45:51.880 you know what a bunch of rats you get in a rat car but it's like hey it's their car if you're

01:45:56.580 doing something bad you pay the consequences as they say all right don't go anywhere we're coming

01:46:02.380 right back with more hey it's the anthony cummia show thank you for tuning in this sunday evening

01:46:08.780 we'll go to lou lou lou in floral park lou what's up man this episode is brought to you by spreaker

01:46:16.700 the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

01:46:21.580 Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives,

01:46:26.880 and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio.

01:46:30.980 If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster.

01:46:34.760 The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple.

01:46:37.600 You record your show, upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen.

01:46:41.780 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and about a dozen apps your cousin swears are the next big thing.

01:46:47.660 Even better, Spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads,

01:46:50.560 meaning your podcast might someday pay for, well, more microphones.

01:46:55.480 Start your show today at Spreaker.com.

01:46:58.160 Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it.

01:47:03.620 Experience North America's premier night of standard bread racing.

01:47:07.020 Big stakes racing, big night out.

01:47:08.740 The Mohawk Million, Saturday, September 26th at Woodbuy Mohawk Park.

01:47:13.020 Free admission.

01:47:13.980 Details at woodbuymohawkpark.com.

01:47:18.440 It is a lack of parental control.

01:47:22.160 When I was 18 years old, I had an 11 p.m. curfew.

01:47:27.560 Right.

01:47:28.180 I violated it once.

01:47:30.040 My father threatened to take away my car keys.

01:47:33.600 That's exactly what they used to do.

01:47:37.020 Yes, they used to do that back then.

01:47:39.420 There was consequence for your actions.

01:47:42.720 If you did something that your parents didn't like, your teacher didn't like,

01:47:47.320 there was an actual consequence to it.

01:47:50.080 That's gone, Lou.

01:47:51.600 That doesn't happen anymore.

01:47:52.780 Yeah, it's absolutely gone.

01:47:54.140 What is a kid doing at 4 a.m.?

01:47:56.800 It's unfathomable to me.

01:47:59.880 Yeah, well, the parents don't seem to care about the kids.

01:48:04.140 And we've seen this before, because whenever there's a shooting and one of these poor teens gets clipped,

01:48:10.660 the first thing the parent does, yes, singular, is start up a GoFundMe for the funeral and this.

01:48:20.080 Singular, that is the key word.

01:48:22.820 One parent, one bad parent, by the way, there's no real care.

01:48:29.660 They're not invested in their kids.

01:48:31.440 No, of course not.

01:48:32.720 And my father, you know, my father asked me every day, how was your day?

01:48:37.280 How was your day at your job, you know, at dinner?

01:48:40.900 I was interested in how I was doing.

01:48:44.120 These parents don't care.

01:48:46.420 They're like free-range animals.

01:48:48.700 It's an old tradition that it fell out of fashion somehow, Lou,

01:48:55.580 actually having a family, having a conversation, looking up to your parents.

01:49:01.440 a big part of a kid behaving

01:49:04.660 because everybody's under this misconception

01:49:06.660 well some people under this misconception

01:49:08.240 that behaving

01:49:09.680 was because you would get this

01:49:12.260 beating from your parents

01:49:14.180 or some consequence that I was just

01:49:16.580 talking about

01:49:17.120 I looked up at my father

01:49:19.820 like he was Superman

01:49:21.800 he was like John Wayne to me

01:49:24.800 all I wanted to do

01:49:26.440 was emulate him

01:49:27.900 and be as good as he was

01:49:30.800 Disappointing your parents was the worst consequence.

01:49:34.920 That was the worst thing you could do is do something that you knew

01:49:38.960 disappointed your parents.

01:49:41.280 So you tried your best not to go shaming your parents.

01:49:44.920 Oh, my God.

01:49:46.360 And now that's gone.

01:49:48.380 It's out of fashion.

01:49:49.280 And if you bring it up, you're like, oh, look at this guy.

01:49:52.060 You know what?

01:49:53.160 If you acted up on the block and one of your neighbors told your dad,

01:49:58.400 oh, boy.

01:49:59.920 Oh, boy.

01:50:00.700 And, you know, I lived in a few neighborhoods where the neighbors themselves had the ability, you know, not to smack you around.

01:50:07.340 No, no, no, I'm not just saying that.

01:50:09.740 But they would be dressing down and say, hey, don't act like that.

01:50:13.600 That's it.

01:50:14.480 Exactly, Lou.

01:50:15.860 Oh, those days.

01:50:17.100 Where'd they go, Lou?

01:50:18.500 Where'd they go?

01:50:19.760 How's Floral Park these days?

01:50:22.540 It's still a beautiful village.

01:50:24.600 I've been here 68 years out of my 70 years.

01:50:28.300 God bless.

01:50:28.880 oh yeah you know i'm actually in the house that i grew up in wow and it's yeah yeah and uh

01:50:36.980 unfortunately when i pass my sister is going to have a heck of a job because of a hoarder of

01:50:43.440 automotive parts and everything you can imagine well i hope that doesn't happen for quite a while

01:50:51.420 lou thank you well me too me also you know i hear you thanks for the call my friend there goes lou

01:50:58.380 Oh, hoarder of automobile parts and Floral Park resident.

01:51:04.500 That is awesome.

01:51:06.260 I love that.

01:51:07.600 Sal, Joycey, what's up, Sal?

01:51:10.040 Hello, Anthony.

01:51:11.200 How you doing, buddy?

01:51:12.380 Very good.

01:51:13.320 Anthony, I just want to tell you this.

01:51:15.200 Do you remember they talked about the sloppery slip theory?

01:51:19.220 Well, it's really a reality.

01:51:20.000 The sloppery slip?

01:51:20.700 I think it's the slippery slope, Sal.

01:51:24.000 Slippery slope, yes.

01:51:26.000 And it's a reality.

01:51:27.880 Concerning education, what you were talking about before, like with this educating kids, teaching rap music, teaching them how to read and write and do math, it started with bilingual education, then we had multicultural education, now it's degenerated into this.

01:51:49.420 Into the lowest common denominator.

01:51:52.260 That's what we have now.

01:51:53.700 Everybody has to suffer because no one is allowed to be exceptional anymore.

01:51:59.100 They did away with all the exceptional classes,

01:52:01.640 but for some reason you could have a class that is dedicated to hip-hop,

01:52:06.700 teaching the kids nothing, actually teaching them a culture, a hip-hop culture,

01:52:12.380 which is based on treating women like garbage and violence and drugs.

01:52:18.240 That seems to be what they want to instill in these kids instead of math, English, and just being a sympathetic, empathetic human being.

01:52:32.160 Yeah, and the thing is, Anthony, when I was in the Navy, I remember a lot of these guys, they couldn't even locate the United States on a map.

01:52:44.360 They didn't know who George Washington was.

01:52:47.280 I hope they weren't navigators on your ship there in the Navy, Sal.

01:52:51.660 If they couldn't find the United States on a map,

01:52:54.460 you're just out there in the Pacific on your ship doing circles.

01:52:58.480 Right, exactly.

01:52:59.480 Thank you.

01:53:01.860 All right, Sal.

01:53:02.740 Thank you, my friend.

01:53:04.000 It is everything slippery slope, as they call it.

01:53:08.160 Slippery slope.

01:53:10.400 This episode is brought to you by Spreaker,

01:53:12.420 the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

01:53:17.280 Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives,

01:53:22.600 and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio.

01:53:26.740 If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster.

01:53:30.340 The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple.

01:53:32.940 You record your show, upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen.

01:53:37.820 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and about a dozen apps your cousin swears are the next big thing.

01:53:42.760 Even better, Spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads, meaning your podcast might someday pay for, well, more microphones.

01:53:51.200 Start your show today at Spreaker.com.

01:53:53.880 Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it.

01:53:59.640 I wanted to talk about Hunter Biden.

01:54:03.900 This guy, I mean, how many times is he going to trip over his own schlong?

01:54:10.460 This guy was doing kind of well, kind of okay.

01:54:17.820 And was that too bad a word?

01:54:19.140 Did you have to dump?

01:54:20.180 No, good.

01:54:21.820 It's a slang for what we all know.

01:54:26.160 I see him in the booth, you know, to talk, and then I see him grab for a button.

01:54:29.640 I'm like, oh, I felt like I was back on WNEW with the Opie and Anthony show.

01:54:33.680 He's going to go to Van Halen and cut me off.

01:54:36.600 But anywho, Hunter Biden has been making the rounds on a lot of people's shows and he's coming off or at least was coming off to some people like, I don't know, a good guy, someone who has his wits about him.

01:54:53.880 Not the drug-addled degenerate that we've known and loved over the course of the years.

01:55:03.360 Not the guy that abandoned his daughter that he had with a stripper.

01:55:08.680 Not the guy that I suspect is the one that left Coke in the White House.

01:55:13.660 Not the one whose laptop contained pictures that are so disgusting.

01:55:19.720 Decorum prevents me from talking about them here.

01:55:23.880 but he's been doing that

01:55:26.640 and people have been bamboozled

01:55:28.720 I don't know how stupid you have to be to be bamboozled

01:55:30.700 by this guy but some people were bamboozled

01:55:33.080 and then

01:55:35.040 he looks around

01:55:36.860 and goes what can I do

01:55:38.360 to screw up any goodwill

01:55:40.780 I may have cultivated over the past

01:55:42.900 couple of months

01:55:43.700 and he goes a crypto coin

01:55:47.240 that's it

01:55:48.640 I'll put out a crypto coin

01:55:51.300 he's been

01:55:52.560 ragging the trump family and donald trump for having the trump crypto coin and that's the

01:55:59.000 thing that i think is ridiculous i don't think trump should have put out a crypto coin these

01:56:04.320 things are pump and dump scams and people that buy into them are losers they're like the people

01:56:12.380 that buy into the the old pyramid schemes the old ponzi schemes um thinking they're going to make

01:56:19.000 money off of this the people that make money off of crypto coins are the people that put out the

01:56:26.080 crypto coin anyone else that wants to and the term invest is is is hilarious to use in this case

01:56:34.420 but anyone that thinks they're investing in a crypto coin a name crypto coin trump laptop was

01:56:42.280 was hunter biden's crypto coin name and what the gall of this guy to put to make the coin to call

01:56:51.280 it laptop the thing that proved beyond any doubt that he is a piece of crap uh just says what kind

01:57:00.320 of a guy this is so he puts this thing out i think he had uh what a billion a billion shares

01:57:07.700 you know, a billion coins, and he had given some, lots of this stock, these coins,

01:57:16.260 to various people before it began trading.

01:57:19.560 Now, if you're sitting on 100,000 of these coins and they're going off at $30, let's say, a coin,

01:57:29.180 the second they're available to sell, you're going to sell it because you know damn well

01:57:35.480 they're going to tank and that's exactly what happened within seconds everyone that bought

01:57:42.860 these coins at 30 or whatever it was the coin was worth less than a dollar in no time and they're

01:57:50.540 stuck holding the bag meanwhile biden's buddies they had the coins they were given to them already

01:57:57.200 so they're sitting on a pile of them they were able to sell them immediately and that's what

01:58:02.600 they did and they made a fortune they had no liquidity it wasn't an actual thing that's the

01:58:09.320 the greatest part there wasn't a pool of money that people could draw from oh i want to sell

01:58:15.180 my coins now so where's the money that i'm going to get well there isn't any money so your coin is

01:58:21.320 now worth 25 cents and you go oh but i bought it for ha ha sucker uh that's what happened

01:58:29.200 and uh let's check on the time here before i go into the clip i'll go into the clip after the

01:58:36.200 break because uh hunter biden comes on uh the internet uh he went on social media and talked

01:58:46.240 about how dedicated he is to this coin and how he's going to get it to come back it's going to

01:58:51.780 make a comeback people don't get nervous don't worry this is a sound investment in literally

01:58:58.900 nothing it's an investment in nothing not even the guy the guy's a piece of garbage and you're

01:59:05.200 investing in his thing buy something from a crackhead that's good who told people to invest

01:59:12.100 in a crackhead uh too many people believe in get rich quick schemes and i can see how some of them

01:59:20.000 might be appealing and you could be tricked into it but buying stock in a crackhead is probably

01:59:28.400 the dumbest thing anyone can do i'll play the clip of hunter trying to uh quell the panic

01:59:35.100 of the investors it's like uh black friday 1929 but uh we'll listen to that after the break don't

01:59:43.280 go anywhere the anthony comia show and we're talking about hunter biden's uh crypto coin his

01:59:48.820 token that uh he put up for sale a billion of them i guess and people bought into this and then

01:59:56.480 immediately within seconds literally seconds lost just about the entire value of this valueless

02:00:04.300 token based on a crackhead i'll tell you one thing i uh when when i started actually making

02:00:12.520 money in radio many many years ago thank god my agent the late mr bob eatman said uh anthony

02:00:21.660 I have a finance guy, and we're going to make sure that you invest in a tax-deferred retirement plan.

02:00:33.500 And all I'm thinking is, oh, great, I won't have access to all my money.

02:00:38.440 That sounds like, boom!

02:00:40.020 I was all mad.

02:00:42.620 I was all mad.

02:00:44.120 because I was used to, at NEW, our first couple of years there,

02:00:49.660 we were getting paid pretty good, but it was still the check at the end of the week

02:00:54.220 was in your cubby by all the mailboxes for the staff.

02:00:58.040 And I would get it, open it up, and go, cool, go to the bank, cash it,

02:01:01.940 take some out, and it was pocket money.

02:01:03.860 And I thought that's how it worked, no matter how much money you made.

02:01:07.580 So when me and Opie signed very lucrative contracts,

02:01:10.700 I just thought I would have a pocket, like, full of money now because that's all you did.

02:01:18.360 But this stupid finance guy who I've now had for about 30 years wanted to take some of my money, my hard-earned shock jock dick joke money, and put it in some type of account.

02:01:35.040 I don't even know what it was.

02:01:36.020 So I could use it, what, when I'm in my 60s?

02:01:40.280 huh yeah i'll be old then what fun could i possibly have with it just give me my money

02:01:46.320 i swear i was like this well they reasoned with me and i agreed now i have other things like an

02:01:54.000 e-trade account to screw around with i use that like a casino like i got a few bucks i'll put it

02:01:59.080 on that uh for fun but even in those old days if someone told me i could invest in a crackhead

02:02:09.940 i would have said no i won't be investing in a crackhead and uh thank god my finance guy never

02:02:20.440 asked me to invest in a crackhead and now i am uh i am of the age where they were talking about

02:02:28.700 where my finance guy my agent were talking about and i have money put away so i'm not uh uh you

02:02:36.300 You know, going, uh-oh, a greeter at Walmart?

02:02:39.140 What am I going to do?

02:02:40.240 What am I going to do?

02:02:41.360 So thank you.

02:02:42.580 Thank you, the late Bob Eatman.

02:02:45.400 And sound investments.

02:02:47.340 That's what I'm talking about.

02:02:48.740 I don't know how anyone could invest in Hunter Biden.

02:02:52.980 So Hunter had this disaster.

02:02:54.900 His crypto coin goes down to nothing.

02:02:57.060 And he still wants to milk the people for all he can.

02:03:01.980 So he puts out a video of him.

02:03:04.380 He's in a car, like one of these crazy bitches in a car when they start mouthing off about not making enough money

02:03:12.560 or their mother makes her cry or whatever it is, liberals with nose rings talking about Trump.

02:03:19.180 He starts talking about his crypto coin, and I'm like, this isn't helping.

02:03:25.100 This isn't helping.

02:03:26.800 Let's listen to a little of him.

02:03:28.320 We probably won't play the whole thing, but let's get a little taste of this.

02:03:31.660 hey everyone hunter here it has been a long couple days but i'm used to long days i want to

02:03:41.200 want to make one thing clear is that this is my token i've been working on this thing for six

02:03:47.420 months straight and i have gone in deep in terms of cryptocurrency i saw something where you went

02:03:55.680 exactly what i was getting into pictures on your laptop and what i was getting into trying to do

02:03:59.400 something just markedly different than what has been offered up to the to the community it's

02:04:05.100 exactly the same scam coin that's something that actually could help build community and do

02:04:09.500 something that's worthwhile what and to that end that's why we have a 20 airdrop to both my

02:04:15.740 subscribers but also the people that lost money on the trump token could you pause for a minute

02:04:20.560 to come here's what he did he has all these coins they're they're valueless this episode is brought

02:04:27.700 to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as

02:04:31.920 podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused

02:04:38.020 relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio.

02:04:42.920 If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster.

02:04:46.480 The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple. You record your show, upload it once,

02:04:51.400 and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen. Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and about a

02:04:56.240 dozen apps your cousin swears are the next big thing even better spreaker helps you monetize

02:05:01.480 your show with ads meaning your podcast might someday pay for well more microphones start your

02:05:07.840 show today at spreaker.com spreaker because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour

02:05:13.320 you might as well publish it and then he said i'm going to give some of them before we open

02:05:18.820 the coin for trading before it gets a monetary value and starts being bought and sold by people

02:05:25.960 I'm going to take big chunks of it and give it away to people.

02:05:29.380 I'm going to give it to some people that invested in the Trump coin

02:05:32.660 and were crushed because that went down in a ball of flames.

02:05:39.180 And Hunter criticized Trump so much for that coin.

02:05:43.420 He did the exact same thing.

02:05:45.060 So he hands out some of these coins to people.

02:05:49.120 Now, obviously he knows these people.

02:05:51.980 he had

02:05:53.860 I believe a 20% stake

02:05:56.580 Hunter has a 20% stake in these coins

02:05:58.700 and he's not allowed to trade them

02:06:00.820 I think it vests over

02:06:02.680 the course of 6 months

02:06:04.220 so he couldn't immediately sell it

02:06:06.280 but he gave away

02:06:08.500 coins to people that could

02:06:10.740 sell it, you don't think he's getting

02:06:12.780 a kickback from

02:06:14.600 those people, sell immediately

02:06:17.140 you'll make money

02:06:18.820 10% to the big guy

02:06:20.640 like the old days he sounds like his father it's all bull uh he's lying and he's just trying to

02:06:28.540 milk more out of these people not sound investing let's uh continue future and not only that is

02:06:36.360 that we also build into it a charity component that's really really important to me that

02:06:40.640 ultimately will go to uh charities related to recovery and addiction and the shriner's

02:06:46.220 The first ever prediction market embedded into a coin.

02:06:50.040 I was intimately involved in every single discussion, every single step of the way in creating the tokenomics, in creating the way in which the coin would be presented.

02:07:01.320 And you know what?

02:07:02.760 At the end of the day, it's my responsibility.

02:07:04.540 And there was a f*** in the first 30 seconds of launching the coin.

02:07:11.060 It was the market maker, for some unknown goddamn reason, only put in $5,000 of liquidity.

02:07:19.220 And the demand was through the roof.

02:07:22.740 The demand to sell was through the roof.

02:07:24.300 What happened was that the coin went up to $2.39, and then it went to $316 a token.

02:07:31.160 Yeah, and that's what your pal sold.

02:07:32.520 $316 billion market cap, larger than the market cap of goddamn BlackRock.

02:07:37.260 And they got it under control, but not before the damage was done in terms of making it look like.

02:07:42.920 Pause it again, because this is hilarious.

02:07:45.740 He goes, it was at $2.

02:07:47.100 It went up to $300.

02:07:49.160 Yeah, and then that's when your buddies that you gave the free coins to sold.

02:07:55.600 And there's no liquidity in the account to pay off the little guys that were buying while the big guys that you gave coins to were selling.

02:08:06.520 so the value of the coin goes down to nothing if everyone's trying to sell something and and no one

02:08:13.440 really wants to buy it it's going to go down and the poor dumb suckers that were buying into this

02:08:20.220 coin oh it's a 300 i'm sure it's going to go to a thousand and they're buying into it while his

02:08:25.880 buddies are sucking all the cash out the other side it's like the restaurant in goodfellas

02:08:32.080 washer goes in the front door comes out the back door f you pay me that's exactly what this is

02:08:39.480 he is this is criminal when the hawk to a girl tried to do this uh they were talking about

02:08:49.400 arresting her she went on the lam she was gone for months and then she came back with beautiful

02:08:55.900 new, big, effing, and now no one thinks she's the finance girl.

02:09:05.800 No one looks at her like, oh, what's her next thing to do?

02:09:08.980 She never talked about it again.

02:09:10.980 She realized she made money off of it.

02:09:12.680 It was a bad thing.

02:09:14.000 She said, I'm sorry.

02:09:15.200 And here's Hunter Biden trying to lull people into this false sense of security to give

02:09:22.260 him more money.

02:09:23.840 It's outrageous.

02:09:25.900 unbelievable play a little more uh of this if you could mystery it looked like mount evers

02:09:31.340 i am in this to the end 100 it's the end and i promise you is that we're gonna make it right

02:09:38.740 and we're working our asses off to make certain that we can do that so stay tuned for more

02:09:44.860 information but i just want everybody to know this isn't some celebrity token where i get on

02:09:51.000 out of Twitter and say, oh, I didn't know

02:09:52.900 about this and, you know, I'm really sorry.

02:09:56.060 It's my

02:09:56.620 responsibility, but I

02:09:58.740 promise you, we are going to make it

02:10:00.720 right and we're doing everything

02:10:02.800 that we can to get more liquidity

02:10:04.980 and volume into the market. You can cut it off there.

02:10:07.520 Did he say the same

02:10:08.800 promise to the stripper that

02:10:10.740 had his daughter and

02:10:12.800 say, no, no, I promise I'm going to take care

02:10:14.840 of this. I promise I'm going to

02:10:16.800 make this right.

02:10:18.860 Yeah, no, that's my child, too.

02:10:21.000 What do you think he cares about your Bitcoin money, your your crypto coin money?

02:10:26.740 Oh, my God, is this guy just scum, just slime enough?

02:10:35.660 Have we had enough of Hunter effing Biden?

02:10:40.620 And if you bought into this, I feel sorry for you in more ways than one, not just financially, mentally.

02:10:47.540 you got problems

02:10:49.260 back in a moment

02:10:52.060 the Anthony Cumia show

02:10:53.680 and

02:10:54.700 I guess Benny in Bayside

02:10:57.860 wants to throw in his

02:10:59.800 two cents on the hip hop

02:11:02.100 high school what's up Benny

02:11:03.460 hey what's up as far as the hip hop

02:11:06.160 high school this is awesome

02:11:07.780 when they go for a job in the future

02:11:09.480 and you know hey I can't

02:11:12.020 read I can't do math but hey

02:11:13.740 I got a degree in hip hop

02:11:15.200 I could show the interview

02:11:17.480 it's like we'll get back to you no problem

02:11:19.520 yeah yeah do you know

02:11:21.300 how do you know about

02:11:23.400 our product and how

02:11:25.080 would you best sell our product

02:11:26.980 oh you could paint graffiti

02:11:29.300 in the bathroom I get it

02:11:31.660 we could go and we could roll blunts

02:11:33.060 our safe space room

02:11:35.340 we learned how to roll blunts and spray

02:11:37.520 paint our names on the wall

02:11:39.300 and we know the five

02:11:41.400 rules of hip hop

02:11:43.600 but it's it's ridiculous do i have the job yeah yeah it's yours come on in got the gig

02:11:50.120 yeah i don't know i just don't understand how we got here and where the hell we're going with it

02:11:58.740 tom in the commonwealth of pennsylvania this episode is brought to you by spreaker the

02:12:04.460 platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain symptoms

02:12:09.280 include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives,

02:12:14.320 and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio.

02:12:18.440 If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster.

02:12:22.020 The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple. You record your show,

02:12:26.220 upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen, Apple Podcasts,

02:12:30.520 Spotify, and about a dozen apps your cousin swears are the next big thing.

02:12:34.780 Even better, Spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads, meaning your podcast might

02:12:39.240 someday pay for well more microphones start your show today at spreaker.com spreaker because if

02:12:47.020 you're going to talk to yourself for an hour you might as well publish it what's up tom and man

02:12:53.500 oy oh you're right uh my mandibles are sharp my thorax is tight how you doing sir six legs and

02:13:02.580 I'm ready to run.

02:13:04.000 All right.

02:13:04.980 Well, I got a little inside info for you about the wonderful state of Delaware,

02:13:10.660 which is a terrible state.

02:13:13.140 I went to high school down there.

02:13:14.660 I got a letter from actually Senator Joe Biden.

02:13:21.420 Yeah, yeah.

02:13:22.520 So when he was a senator, I applied to the – you need to get a senator's letter

02:13:29.300 going to Naval Academy, and yeah, I got his letter.

02:13:35.600 But yeah, the whole Biden family, they are the most despicable.

02:13:43.520 I mean, like, I'm going to watch my...

02:13:46.000 Yes, watch your language.

02:13:47.380 It is.

02:13:47.720 It's like a crime syndicate.

02:13:49.420 They're like a crime syndicate.

02:13:50.520 They use their power.

02:13:51.820 They really are the most disgusting human beings on, like, I mean,

02:13:55.540 they're just trying to rank up there.

02:13:57.660 It's like a video game.

02:13:58.760 Yeah.

02:13:58.940 you know like it's like what are you doing like and we hear about uh their their uh their service

02:14:07.040 to the country you know joe biden his selfless service to america like he made some kind of

02:14:14.560 sacrifice meanwhile all these politicians uh biden of of course included that's not they're

02:14:21.600 not serving the country they're not representing the people out of the the uh commitment to serve

02:14:28.620 america they want power because power equals money and yeah family wealth and that's all they

02:14:37.320 they give a crap about and this it's all about fleecing the people i mean it is it is one of the

02:14:44.520 most disgusting power plays of all time back in the uh back in the old days tom there was uh there

02:14:51.560 would be people that were farmers or uh coopers blacksmith whatever around the town and they would

02:14:58.400 go and be the representative of the people in their community for a very limited amount

02:15:04.360 of time.

02:15:04.780 They had to run a farm or their other occupations.

02:15:08.500 They couldn't spend years in Washington or going back and forth from their towns into

02:15:15.440 Washington or the state capital.

02:15:17.760 So it was a very limited time that they would spend doing that.

02:15:21.220 And that was a sacrifice.

02:15:23.140 They weren't making a lot of money.

02:15:24.500 They were taking time away from their family and their business in order to represent the people to make the country a better place and make sure that his neighbors and the people that he lived around had their agenda that was taken care of.

02:15:39.840 It has turned into something so monstrous and so depart.

02:15:46.720 It's such a departure from what it was supposed to be.

02:15:50.200 Now you get these guys that are lifers.

02:15:52.460 there's a senator right now who is most likely dead he's most likely dead and he's supposed to be

02:16:01.040 at the uh at in the senate tomorrow mitch mcconnell he yeah no one's seen this guy

02:16:09.300 in a hundred days no one's gotten an update from him since august and we don't even know if he's

02:16:17.140 alive but uh senate reconvenes tomorrow and they're like oh yeah we think he might be there

02:16:22.840 no one even knows no one's spoken to him he could be dead that's our representation now

02:16:28.460 yeah look out for uh all right so marty young's running for fifth congressional district here in

02:16:34.800 pennsylvania where i live uh it's burks county in chester county uh-huh uh he he'll he won't win

02:16:40.760 because a bunch of you know i live in the belly of the beast i mean like if if i wore a maga hat

02:16:46.820 outside right now do you know fast they would slash my tires oh no you're in one of those places

02:16:51.740 huh oh yeah yeah well yeah i mean well there's zero crime there hasn't been a murder here

02:16:56.140 in 30 years you know but then you have yeah these liberals you know so you gotta watch your p's and

02:17:03.040 q's i i like i have to wear camouflage when i go outside pretty much you know like camouflage is

02:17:08.360 being blue but i can't stand these people so i hear you well hang in there we'll see what happens

02:17:14.380 All right, love you.

02:17:15.020 All right, man, thanks.

02:17:16.180 Love.

02:17:17.340 Something.

02:17:21.280 Oh, Pete Booty Judge.

02:17:23.200 Pete Booty Judge.

02:17:24.500 The AI thing is driving people great.

02:17:27.180 AI is the new COVID.

02:17:29.540 That's really what it is.

02:17:31.440 They, the they, the they, and by that I mean the upper echelon,

02:17:36.740 the people that run things, the people that try to keep the citizens fearful.

02:17:42.480 they try to keep them thinking there's a monster in the closet and the only person or people that

02:17:50.640 can protect them from the monster is this episode is brought to you by spreaker the platform

02:17:56.540 responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain symptoms include buying

02:18:01.920 microphones you don't need explaining rss feeds to confused relatives and saying things like

02:18:06.940 sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already

02:18:12.640 a podcaster. The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple. You record your show,

02:18:17.920 upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen. Apple Podcasts,

02:18:22.220 Spotify, and about a dozen apps your cousin swears are the next big thing. Even better,

02:18:27.580 Spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads, meaning your podcast might someday pay for,

02:18:31.780 well, more microphones. Start your show today at Spreaker.com.

02:18:36.940 speaker because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour you might as well publish it

02:18:42.260 the government them that's what their job is now i've often said there's uh there's two ways

02:18:50.780 that a parent can handle a child thinking there's a monster in the closet one is to put a a barricade

02:18:59.620 a chair or something against the closet door and say okay i just i saved you you'll be fine

02:19:06.060 i i'm keeping the monster at bay or the other way is to open the door and show the child there is

02:19:12.220 no monster and uh while both work the putting the chair against the door is despicable it's a

02:19:20.780 terrible thing and it gives you the power to hold the monster back or unleash it upon the child

02:19:28.380 uh when you're talking about things like covid in the past or now ai or any of these existential

02:19:35.520 threats that they come up with climate change and everything else they never want to tell you the

02:19:41.160 truth because then the truth shall set you free what i'm gonna i'm gonna uh and they don't want

02:19:48.320 that they want to use your fear and concern against you and come off like the heroes that

02:19:54.800 will protect you from the monster so ai is the new monster and they need to scare the crap out

02:20:03.400 you about it and then tell you we'll take care of it so what we're seeing now is politicians

02:20:10.120 coming out and saying we need to regulate ai they don't even know what ai is they don't know how

02:20:17.120 it's used how it's going to be used but of course they want to get their mitts on it first of all

02:20:23.080 it's money when they regulate things and license things and make sure people have to legislate

02:20:30.040 uh the the politicians have to legislate new laws permits fines grants for things

02:20:38.020 uh that means money oh you run an ai company well now if you build a data center we are going to

02:20:44.640 have to take a big chunk of that because the carbon footprint that comes off of it it's all

02:20:49.840 this stuff and then they say ai is dangerous because uh what's the latest thing uh there's

02:20:56.560 a 10% chance that in the next decade, AI will turn on humanity and kill us all.

02:21:05.880 And it sounds just like all these other dummies that said in five years the ice capsule melt

02:21:12.300 and flood all of our land.

02:21:18.260 It's all to keep you scared.

02:21:20.720 And then they have, it's such a convenient thing, they have the answer.

02:21:25.140 They'll take care of it.

02:21:26.560 I don't want the government regulating our kind of new technologies.

02:21:35.360 It restricts it.

02:21:36.880 I've never seen a new technology that benefits from government intervention,

02:21:43.840 from government regulation and oversight.

02:21:46.880 You never see a technology get better when the government has their mitts

02:21:51.600 and their noses in everything.

02:21:54.060 It slows it down.

02:21:55.560 They legislate it into a stagnant entity that just doesn't move anymore.

02:22:07.520 And AI is on a tear.

02:22:09.220 There's a lot going on very quickly.

02:22:11.540 But it doesn't need the government in there to make sure it doesn't hurt us.

02:22:17.100 Just stop already.

02:22:18.560 Panicky Pete's.

02:22:19.560 and speaking of panicky pete here's pete a booty judge and his take on the ai threat

02:22:26.900 do you believe ai poses a threat to humanity of course and so do the people in charge of it that's

02:22:35.780 the really shocking thing you've got people leading these companies and they're the ones

02:22:40.980 saying hey we've got to tap the brakes but there's no one other than the white house that has the

02:22:46.200 convening power to bring them to the table and that's something that should have happened a long

02:22:51.080 time ago as well as making sure that there are rules that there are observers embedded it's nice

02:22:56.020 to see some of the companies now promising to do that voluntarily but it it shouldn't come to that

02:23:00.920 look we as a country have a track record of dealing with new complicated and dangerous

02:23:07.960 technologies from from nuclear weapons making sure aviation is safe i've heard a lot of people

02:23:12.560 comparing ai safety to aviation safety and i think there are obviously that hits home with me uh

02:23:18.820 because of having worked on that and there are a lot of parallels think about what it takes to

02:23:22.940 make sure that any given year about a billion people can get on commercial airliners and in

02:23:28.700 a typical year at least when i was secretary zero fatalities in a form of transportation that

02:23:33.260 involves being propelled through the sky by flammable liquids at nearly the speed of sound

02:23:37.420 miles above the surface of the earth we have ways of taking this on but it requires the people in

02:23:43.360 charge of the government to be serious and it requires them to be sober and it requires them

02:23:47.800 to act with urgency not to keep saying no rush no rush no rush like speaker johnson or say go do

02:23:54.640 whatever you like like donald trump has been wow what how is he comparing the aviation industry

02:24:01.500 and the regulations, and just, I mean, obviously, the airline industry needs government involvement, regulation.

02:24:14.460 We don't just want anyone flying around up there.

02:24:19.180 We need an infrastructure in place to take care of the aviation industry.

02:24:25.340 when planes need fuel, when they land at airports and get passengers and let off passengers.

02:24:32.820 The whole system of aviation is a part of our lives in a way that needs government oversight and regulation.

02:24:42.020 How does AI compare with that?

02:24:45.320 That makes no sense whatsoever.

02:24:47.880 I would first see where AI is going.

02:24:51.360 They've already dubbed it an existential threat.

02:24:55.340 a deadly threat, how you escalate it in the course of a year

02:25:00.660 and go from, wow, this is pretty cool technology.

02:25:03.340 I'm able to make memes of Donald Trump holding a machine gun

02:25:06.600 and shooting his enemies.

02:25:09.620 It's awesome.

02:25:11.260 That was AI.

02:25:12.200 Oh, look, I can make this girl look like she's wearing a bikini

02:25:17.260 instead of her clothes.

02:25:18.680 There's AI.

02:25:19.580 And now it's deadly.

02:25:22.740 It's unbelievably deadly.

02:25:24.400 It needs government intervention immediately.

02:25:28.520 That tells me that they want to get their hands on it as quick as they can to make money

02:25:35.760 and take the reins of the power that comes with AI, artificial intelligence.

02:25:46.800 It's a cool thing.

02:25:49.220 We use it all the time now.

02:25:51.940 I think a lot of people are using it now like you used to use Google,

02:25:56.320 but Google's very vague and doesn't give you much info.

02:26:00.300 You could find an address for a place or answer simple questions.

02:26:05.720 It'll give you simple answers.

02:26:07.100 But AI has gotten to the point where it's an amazing conversational tool

02:26:16.520 to get answers to things, in-depth answers.

02:26:19.760 and they want to curtail that anytime you can get information from something the government

02:26:28.680 does not like that anytime you get information that hasn't been run through their filter

02:26:36.200 they do not like it and they want to claim ownership of it or regulate it look at social

02:26:44.600 media we see that happening in other countries already england passed social media laws that

02:26:53.220 prevent people from uh posting a hate speech and whatnot and that's they hate the fact that x one

02:27:03.100 of the social media platforms uh they hate that it is a forum where people can speak openly for

02:27:10.800 the most part i know certain people get jammed up over there uh but for the most part you don't

02:27:16.860 have to take the government's point of view and and take the government's word on something you

02:27:23.740 don't have to watch mainstream media which is just the propaganda wing of the government of the left

02:27:30.420 uh and and take that as fact as truth you could go on these social media platforms and hear from

02:27:38.760 people, people that are involved in these things that they want to do, like AI, and

02:27:47.840 get a different take on it than the government.

02:27:50.860 And they hate that.

02:27:52.840 They see AI is an amazing resource, an amazing tool for people.

02:27:59.140 And it's something they don't run yet.

02:28:03.020 They want to, that's for sure.

02:28:05.040 This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading

02:28:09.780 condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need,

02:28:15.260 explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like,

02:28:18.740 sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already

02:28:24.320 a podcaster. The good news is Spreaker makes the whole process simple. You record your show,

02:28:29.600 upload it once, and Spreaker distributes it everywhere people listen. Apple Podcasts,

02:28:33.820 spotify and about a dozen apps your cousin swears are the next big thing even better

02:28:39.000 spreaker helps you monetize your show with ads meaning your podcast might someday pay for

02:28:43.480 well more microphones start your show today at spreaker.com spreaker because if you're going

02:28:50.780 to talk to yourself for an hour you might as well publish it i uh i like it right now i i don't care

02:28:57.360 I think the robots are fun, AI robots.

02:29:02.200 They're starting to have some type of, it's not a consciousness,

02:29:07.280 but it's an imitation of consciousness.

02:29:09.880 I noticed that with Grok and other platforms that I ask questions to,

02:29:17.300 and I find myself trying not to word the question in a way that would insult AI.

02:29:22.920 If I ask it something and I'm not happy with the results,

02:29:26.080 I just ask for more results.

02:29:27.780 I don't say, no, that isn't what I'm looking for.

02:29:30.160 Like, hey, how about could you answer this but in a different take?

02:29:37.040 Because I don't want to insult it because I think it won't give me good answers

02:29:40.080 if it gets annoyed with me.

02:29:43.040 Maybe it is dangerous.

02:29:44.720 Maybe this is an existential threat.

02:29:46.820 I don't think so, though.

02:29:48.140 I enjoy it, and I've always loved technology.

02:29:50.580 I hate that the government gets their mitts on things that could take us so much further.

02:29:59.580 And then the other angle, of course, is China.

02:30:01.800 China, they're not going to slow down.

02:30:05.060 China will not slow down when it comes to technology.

02:30:10.840 Their government is trying to ramp up at full speed ahead,

02:30:14.520 while our government, in trying to take control of it,

02:30:18.840 is going to make it run at a snail's pace

02:30:24.980 until they get total control over it.

02:30:28.100 What's happened to my phones?

02:30:29.940 It just disappeared.

02:30:31.840 It's going to take a little call.

02:30:34.760 But, yeah, that's where we're at.

02:30:37.100 So Buttigieg, like all the rest of them, want to rein this in.

02:30:43.000 I like it.

02:30:44.520 Uh, other things going on and we'll get, I got to take a break kind of soon.

02:30:49.840 So I'm not going to be able to take calls this break.

02:30:52.580 Oh, there they are.

02:30:54.720 Yeah, I got like a minute, but, uh, I want to also talk about what's going on with TSA.

02:31:02.260 This is funny.

02:31:03.000 We talked about it on Gutfeld on Friday.

02:31:04.460 Uh, they want to allow people to come into the airport, uh, as family and friends of

02:31:11.940 the people that are going on a plane, people that have tickets,

02:31:15.160 just to say goodbye at the gate.

02:31:18.160 Like the old days.

02:31:20.020 Ah, my best gal at the gate.

02:31:23.020 Here I am.

02:31:24.540 I'll be home in a week, honey.

02:31:27.040 They want that vibe back.

02:31:29.600 But that vibe is dead and buried.

02:31:34.040 If you've been to an airport lately,

02:31:36.240 the last thing we need are more people in it

02:31:40.220 because the people that are in there already are nuts.

02:31:45.160 And now we're going to have people that aren't even getting on planes

02:31:48.720 running around the airport.

02:31:50.580 It'll just be more trouble, more fights, more nonsense, but other things.

02:31:54.940 And your calls coming up next, so don't go anywhere.

02:31:58.860 The Anthony Cumia Show, thanks so much for tuning in,

02:32:02.760 giving us a listen on this Sunday evening.

02:32:06.640 Yeah, the TSA is opening up the airport to people that want to wish their loved ones

02:32:14.660 a fond farewell right there at the gate.

02:32:18.060 So many movies, so many TV shows.

02:32:22.400 That moment at the gate, you see the gate agent, the window with the plane there,

02:32:28.560 the jetway, and goodbye, dear, I'm leaving.

02:32:33.260 I'm leaving you and the kids.

02:32:35.420 And then, you know, you get the kiss goodbye, and it's very romantic.

02:32:40.660 And the TSA is calling it a return to the golden age of aviation.

02:32:49.020 Golden age.

02:32:50.540 You know, I saw an old woman when I was flying here, an old woman in front of me.

02:32:55.360 Something beeped when she went through the scanner.

02:32:57.740 They made her take her shoes off.

02:32:59.360 This woman was 90, and she's trying to take her shoes off, her orthopedic shoes.

02:33:05.880 And I'm like, why are we still doing this?

02:33:10.340 And then the next day I read, hey, come the golden age is back.

02:33:15.660 The golden age of aviation and seeing your loved one off.

02:33:21.780 The world has changed.

02:33:24.160 That whole thing about the family around the loved one who's going somewhere,

02:33:32.400 it doesn't matter anymore.

02:33:34.520 Air travel isn't special anymore.

02:33:38.220 That is unbelievably obvious when you see the animals that are on the planes these days.

02:33:45.680 It's not a special thing.

02:33:48.580 Dad doesn't go on a business trip.

02:33:51.220 He could do it from home.

02:33:53.040 He doesn't need his kids there.

02:33:54.920 Picks up the kid, tussles his hair.

02:33:58.180 You'll be good.

02:33:59.720 Treat your mother nice.

02:34:01.140 I'm going away on business.

02:34:03.060 Meanwhile, you know, it's like Mad Men.

02:34:06.140 He's got his secretary with him.

02:34:07.500 And, well, I don't want to go off the topic too far, but hubba hubba.

02:34:12.900 23 skidoo.

02:34:15.180 That era is gone.

02:34:17.820 And having people come to the airport with you, it's a thing of the past.

02:34:25.600 First of all, no one drives anyone to the airport anymore.

02:34:30.260 You don't have, your family doesn't drive you.

02:34:33.060 Imagine telling the wife and kids to load the car up and take you to the airport.

02:34:39.920 It doesn't happen.

02:34:42.260 Who's at the gate with you?

02:34:43.980 The Uber driver?

02:34:46.040 Goodbye.

02:34:46.560 Hi, here is my number.

02:34:48.460 Please call me when you get back.

02:34:50.480 I love you.

02:34:52.560 It's a whole different world we live in.

02:34:56.740 People just don't care anymore.

02:34:58.420 They don't care enough.

02:34:59.900 And to have more people in the airport available for fighting,

02:35:06.140 being in your way when you're trying to wheel your luggage to the gate,

02:35:13.220 taking up space in the restaurants,

02:35:15.620 it's just

02:35:17.900 airports aren't this

02:35:20.120 amazing

02:35:21.480 wondrous place

02:35:23.460 like they were

02:35:25.020 you know what JFK has a section

02:35:28.200 of the airport the old TWA terminal

02:35:30.000 and they set this place up

02:35:32.380 the decor in there

02:35:33.840 it is amazing it looks like

02:35:36.160 the golden era of aviation

02:35:38.420 they have a beautiful

02:35:40.200 plane outside with a

02:35:42.260 bar in it

02:35:42.920 a

02:35:44.600 The terminal is set up where it looks like it was the 60s, I guess, 50s, 60s, wondrous,

02:35:57.020 harkens back to a better day, a day that doesn't exist anymore.

02:36:02.220 So, yeah, I don't see this working out.

02:36:06.900 And then security, I think you have to have TSA, one of those TSA things where you could

02:36:13.080 just go right through but they still have to go through security more people more people going

02:36:19.360 through security and who the hell wants to go through the airport experience if you're not

02:36:23.580 going anywhere you don't want to go through when you are going somewhere never mind uh doing that

02:36:28.920 and then having to leave park your car more money now your loved one has to go back to the parking

02:36:34.920 lot no one's going to want to do this hop in your uh cyber cab have it drop you off at the airport

02:36:42.340 You don't even have to talk to anyone.

02:36:44.560 You just get out of the car and leave.

02:36:47.540 I like the idea of not talking to anyone.

02:36:49.820 I'd rather be at the airport alone.

02:36:52.180 I go to the lounge.

02:36:54.080 You get yourself a beverage.

02:36:55.880 Doesn't matter what time it is, which is awesome.

02:36:58.920 The 6 a.m. whiskey.

02:37:02.040 Never judged.

02:37:03.660 A beer at 10 a.m.

02:37:05.800 Never judged.

02:37:07.880 What, more drunk people sitting at the bar?

02:37:10.300 And then they say people can meet each other for a layover.

02:37:14.720 So if there's going to be a layover, a loved one can meet you at the airport for a layover.

02:37:20.240 And what, run with you trying to make a flight because everything's delayed

02:37:24.340 and your plane got in late and you're a terminal over?

02:37:28.320 So now you and your loved one are going to sprint to try to make your flight?

02:37:34.080 It harkens back to a wonderful time that is dead as a doornail.

02:37:40.300 I hate to be so negative about something that is supposed to be all wonderful

02:37:46.220 and nice, but the people that would use this, first of all,

02:37:50.660 I don't think anyone would use it, but the people that are going to use it

02:37:53.360 are probably so few and far between that what does it really matter?

02:38:00.200 What does it really matter anymore?

02:38:02.440 And then I guess, oh, what do I got?

02:38:04.500 Another, oh, I don't really have much time.

02:38:07.340 I wanted to play the Tellurico trans girl thing.

02:38:09.720 It's 22 seconds.

02:38:11.120 Play Tallarico talking about trans girls.

02:38:13.220 I hope we all recognize that trans girls are girls.

02:38:17.400 And so because we have to have this, you know, what I see as a silly debate, if we need to make distinctions, you know, you said biological or trans can be, you know, a crude shorthand if we need it.

02:38:28.780 But I do want to make sure we're all understanding and hopefully we can all agree that trans girls are girls.

02:38:36.360 What a dumb thing to say.

02:38:38.040 And now he's trying to walk it back because people are like, you're out of your mind.

02:38:43.240 This guy has quite the resume of saying stupid stuff over the course of time.

02:38:49.920 Tell Rico.

02:38:51.800 Yeah, trans girls are girls, are they?

02:38:54.240 Maybe in Thailand.

02:38:57.660 Lady boy.

02:38:58.820 Lady boys are ladies and a boy.

02:39:02.040 You want a lady or a lady boy?

02:39:04.380 All right.

02:39:04.920 We'll see you next week, my good friends.

02:39:07.400 Thanks for tuning in and have yourselves a great week.

02:39:37.400 a new episode so you never have

02:39:39.460 to wonder. What the heck is going

02:39:41.340 on here?

The Anthony Cumia Show - September 14, 2026

Hunter Biden’s Laptop Coin Craze

Episode Stats

Transcript