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00:01:06.180 Sunday night, the Anthony

00:01:07.720 Cumia show. Glad

00:01:09.800 you could make it. I can't really tell

00:01:11.720 if you did, but I'm assuming you did, and

00:01:13.840 I'm glad for

00:01:15.840 that. Uh, yeah.

00:01:19.040 Another, uh, 1.00

00:01:20.200 you know, bat 0.98

00:01:21.800 bat crap i could say that bat crap week uh of insanity going on in the world i i look around 0.99

00:01:30.700 i watch the news i see what's happening in the world and uh it's a little 0.99

00:01:38.940 tough to deal with sometimes but i honestly think we live in a parallel universe with a

00:01:48.080 whole nother group of people that have nothing to do with the way we think and act and anything else

00:01:55.980 two completely separate countries right in the same spot there's america and then there's some

00:02:04.820 other america that people occupy the same uh real estate the same structures but their their entire

00:02:16.100 take on how we think and act is completely different. And, and, you know, I've heard this

00:02:28.180 from people. When you say things like this, they say, you're black pilled. You're just pessimistic 0.98

00:02:33.540 about everything. And, uh, you, you don't understand that we've always gone through

00:02:39.320 these separate uh opinions and whatnot during the years in america and i agree to a point i mean we

00:02:49.840 could look back at a lot of instances where we were completely separated by ideology i i remember

00:02:58.260 when i was a young tyke the vietnam war that was a real country breaker there were people that

00:03:07.140 we're completely behind it thought it was the greatest thing we could do fight communism

00:03:12.900 wherever it is the domino theory you know you let one of these countries fall and the rest go right

00:03:20.560 behind it so uh i i get that we've been divided as a nation for quite some time but like this

00:03:30.720 really has it ever felt like we are truly occupying the same space but not the same dimension with

00:03:41.620 some of these people because uh i don't even see them as as the opposition anymore i see them as

00:03:51.140 as aliens as sci-fi monsters as mental patients they don't seem to have anything to do

00:04:00.120 with america as a country they don't seem to want to live in a country uh like america

00:04:08.300 based on those ideals and uh laws rules ethics just the way we act and have acted for many years

00:04:21.480 and and uh yeah i don't mean not having lively debate but but it's like you're debating with

00:04:28.480 someone who's never never lived in this country and has no clue why we're even called americans

00:04:37.940 and uh that's the real thing that's a little boggling here back in the olden days like i

00:04:46.600 was saying vietnam you could have a construction worker the hard hats they called them and uh a 0.88

00:04:53.200 filthy hippie those filthy dirty hippies and they would disagree on a lot of things 0.95

00:05:00.440 but but i i i remember there were one or two things they could agree on 0.99

00:05:06.680 you might disagree on things like the vietnam war uh race relations in the country and then

00:05:14.520 you could completely agree on the economy let's say or maybe you both did like nixon

00:05:21.360 there isn't even the slightest bit of agreement now on anything there is not one thing because

00:05:30.680 it's almost like uh if you agree with anything that this other dimension that occupies the same

00:05:40.700 space in this country uh that you're you're you're agreeing with everything that you are are giving

00:05:50.980 them an upper hand by saying anything that you have in common with them you are giving them an

00:05:59.200 upper hand and that can't be done so you need to disagree with everything and it would be better

00:06:04.460 if it was on purpose you know like oh i have to disagree with this person uh just because i'm on

00:06:11.900 the other team but it's not even that they honestly believe this both sides don't want to agree with

00:06:20.360 the other side because they believe that they are completely separated from the thinking of

00:06:30.200 that opposition the other side now obviously if you're on one of those sides you're gonna

00:06:38.540 think you're right and it's very very hard for us to pull back and not be so myopic get the big

00:06:47.060 picture you know people always say uh you live in a bubble whenever you talk about what you feel

00:06:53.640 passionate about and what your your take is on whatever topic and it's like oh you just live in

00:07:01.800 a bubble it's like not everyone does some people do i get that they don't even want to look at the

00:07:07.900 opposition i know i look at what the other side is saying i see what they're doing uh on a daily

00:07:16.800 basis and and i don't agree with them i i have a very hard time trying to see their point of view

00:07:25.140 because it just looks insane it sounds crazy as a rational person and and i i swear you know

00:07:37.640 obviously people have uh listened to me for for years maybe googled they're new to the anthony

00:07:45.140 show and go like wow okay this guy's been through some stuff but uh i definitely believe i am

00:07:54.140 rational i can look at certain things and say that's bad or that's crazy and uh i think uh

00:08:04.380 i i think i have a a good a good eye for that i look at the other side and and these liberals

00:08:13.060 We saw them this weekend.

00:08:15.480 This nonsense, this hands-off thing. 1.00

00:08:22.500 They're insane. 0.99

00:08:25.340 These are not rational people that you could stand in front of, sit down in front of, 0.97

00:08:32.480 and have a logical, reasonable debate with about what their feelings are about what's going on in the country.

00:08:43.060 what they think would make a better country,

00:08:45.780 why they're so angry at people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

00:08:50.720 I can say why I'm mad at Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, George Soros,

00:09:00.460 what these people have done and are continuing to do to our country.

00:09:04.180 I can give you a reasonable debate as to why I don't like those guys.

00:09:11.400 And it's proven. It's not this emotional, just going off on some tear of emotion.

00:09:18.780 George Soros has financed judges and district attorneys in this country that have a complete liberal political agenda

00:09:34.420 and don't care so much about the rule of law and justice

00:09:39.440 as they do about getting an agenda across.

00:09:42.120 And that is proven.

00:09:44.160 We could come up with things.

00:09:45.740 New York State alone, people like Letitia James 0.95

00:09:50.320 that ran on a platform that I will find something 1.00

00:09:54.780 to put Donald Trump in jail for.

00:09:57.480 And that's not the job of an attorney general

00:10:02.920 or district attorney to pick someone and go,

00:10:07.480 let me find a crime that they did.

00:10:09.620 I think everyone knows that.

00:10:11.760 So you could come up with reasons why you don't like these people

00:10:15.660 and why you feel they're detrimental to the country.

00:10:19.680 Anytime you get into a discussion with these liberals,

00:10:24.980 they don't have any reasonable debate as to why they're so bad. 0.91

00:10:31.900 They're just so mad about about everything based on pure emotion and and some type of mental illness.

00:10:43.260 I've seen so many interviews with people that were at these these hands off protests this weekend. 0.96

00:10:52.960 And my God, they just seem insane.

00:10:58.000 I think there's one kid here.

00:11:00.520 let's get this because it's a hands-off protester he's asked what he's protesting for why he's there

00:11:07.980 give me an answer why you're so passionate that you felt you should show up here listen to this

00:11:13.100 guy because it's insane what are we protesting today donald trump what's donald trump doing

00:11:19.180 that we're protesting well he is up the american uh democracy right now and trying to uh kind of

00:11:25.840 repeal a bunch of constitution like you know rights and uh liberties so is there anything

00:11:32.120 in specific that he's i don't have all the information but um i don't know what are you

00:11:38.560 against um personally i'm against tyrants i'm against tyranny that's what i'm against what is

00:11:44.220 that uh somebody who's coming in and trying to um take over the country and get rid of the rules

00:11:51.240 and regulations that have existed for centuries to keep us citizens safe.

00:11:56.040 And who do you think is doing that?

00:11:57.560 Currently, Donald Trump and Elon Musk and all of his cabinet members.

00:12:01.040 Why Elon Musk, though?

00:12:03.260 The Department of Government Efficiency.

00:12:05.480 He was put in charge of a department that doesn't even exist before this. 0.96

00:12:10.580 And he's not even an American.

00:12:12.320 Who's not an American?

00:12:13.440 Elon Musk.

00:12:14.380 He's from South Africa.

00:12:15.920 I don't know if you knew that.

00:12:16.720 How do you feel about Donald Trump?

00:12:18.380 I think we heard enough of that guy.

00:12:19.500 uh yeah he's not even an american boy you didn't think you'd hear a lib saying stuff like that

00:12:26.540 but uh you know he sounds like a sweet boy anyway but they don't know why they just say he's against

00:12:35.060 democracy he's against this hands off and uh what it turns out to be is they don't know why they're

00:12:43.140 there it's a party it's a get together for them oh we should show up somewhere and and i think

00:12:50.120 a lot of them were paid by people like like george soros and people like george soros but

00:12:55.500 they show up they got signs they got a thousand different agendas it's gay rights trans rights

00:13:02.720 climate change anti-trump anti-elon anti-capitalism they're communists they're 0.60

00:13:11.100 socialists they're they they're holding up different signs israel palestine they can't 0.68

00:13:17.740 get together on one thing they're all fractured but they're there because hey people told us to

00:13:25.620 show up and it's a party isn't it uh i got more to say about this and we will talk more about this

00:13:33.940 uh tonight also of course coming up uh clown of the week uh who who gets the title 0.89

00:13:40.760 and from the Sopranos Robert Finero he played of course that poor bastard Eugene uh

00:13:48.000 Pontecorvo and uh of course your phone call so stick around we'll be right back

00:13:54.340 anthony cumia show thank you for tuning in we do appreciate it stick around course uh robert

00:14:05.460 finaro is it finaro there's an a or an e he's a paisan that's all right i'm cumia well through

00:14:13.200 my life i heard cumia cumia and then there were the things people said uh during uh recess that

00:14:20.060 were very cruel with the first three letters of my last name i'll just say that but uh of course

00:14:25.380 eugene from the sopranos he'll be up in minutes don't miss that i i know a lot of i think people

00:14:33.000 know i know a lot about the sopranos so uh uh i'm gonna it's gonna be a lot of fun talking with

00:14:39.240 robert uh clown of the week right now the anthony cumia show presents the clown of the week

00:14:50.060 Whoa. Wacky. Yeah. Clown of the week. Boy, every week it gets tougher and tougher to find one person. Whittle down one person. Focus that magnifying glass onto one person to receive the prize of being called Clown of the Week because it's insane out there. 0.91

00:15:12.000 This week, of course, Cory Booker.

00:15:15.600 That's who we got, Cory Booker.

00:15:17.900 Cory Booker set a record for filibuster.

00:15:21.260 For those of you that don't know what a filibuster is,

00:15:23.940 it's when a politician gets up to the podium

00:15:26.300 and babbles incessantly, nonstop, for hours and hours,

00:15:32.300 saying nothing but setting a record.

00:15:35.060 It's like, you know, open the Guinness Book of World Records.

00:15:37.920 Hey, there's that fat guy in the piano case coffin

00:15:41.500 or the two fat twins riding the minibikes. 0.88

00:15:44.160 It's that. 0.57

00:15:45.520 It's a contest.

00:15:47.460 You're not saying anything.

00:15:48.980 You're not helping a cause.

00:15:50.940 You're just sitting there setting a record.

00:15:53.800 And Cory Booker, he's a senator from the great state of New Jersey,

00:15:58.740 he decided he's going to get up there and speak for, I believe it was 25 hours,

00:16:05.060 five minutes, beating Strom Thurmond way back.

00:16:10.380 I think it was 1951 Strom Thurmond set this record 24 hours, 18 minutes as he filibustered to try to prevent the Civil Rights Act.

00:16:21.520 That's he was a Democrat.

00:16:24.240 Let's not get crazy here, folks.

00:16:27.600 Strom was definitely a Democrat and had a few skeletons in his closet dressed in white robes, those skeletons.

00:16:34.000 But yeah, but Cory Booker, he beat that 25 hours, five minutes of just rambling nonsense because that's all it is.

00:16:48.100 And I love that the news people, of course, again, the propaganda news media gets out there and they start talking about how brave and courageous and articulate and amazing with things he was saying.

00:16:59.360 no it's like the old dancing contest they used to give uh have back in the old days you set a

00:17:06.340 record congrats uh let's listen to cory though because here's another thing you went on instagram

00:17:11.360 to uh try to be profound listen to this nonsense i think the worst kind of amnesia is to forget

00:17:18.820 our history to forget our ancestors and all the grit and guts resiliency and resolve it took to

00:17:26.400 get us to where we are today so if you're feeling knocked over right now if you're feeling beat down

00:17:31.280 by all the outrageous things happening remember what Fannie Lou Hamer said if I fall I'm gonna

00:17:38.860 fall five feet four inches forward I'm not gonna back down I'm not gonna give up and the cause

00:17:47.000 of freedom not if you get belted in the face that'll knock you backwards you don't always

00:17:53.900 fall forward they always try to seem so uh uh profound especially cory booker all these

00:18:00.180 politicians want to have like a i have a dream moment you know they think everything they say

00:18:07.560 is going to be in a history book in 100 years but they don't have that profound mindset they

00:18:13.900 don't have the ability to to speak eloquently and everyone knows at this point everything is

00:18:20.340 so politically motivated uh that really you believe that talking evoking your your ancestors

00:18:31.100 is is the thing to do and and talking about how awful things are like you're getting through

00:18:37.340 this hardship are we really going through hardships in 2025 is it that difficult for

00:18:45.680 for everybody in spite of uh cory booker and his ilk it isn't as bad as uh people would would

00:18:56.780 imagine it is there are problems that need to be swept up but um it's not quite as bad as

00:19:03.900 everybody likes to imagine so cory booker takes the uh prize this week as as clown of the week

00:19:11.900 He's always in contention, isn't he?

00:19:15.020 Don't go anywhere in moments.

00:19:17.800 Right after this break, actually, Robert Fanaro, I'll ask him,

00:19:23.540 is going to join us from The Sopranos.

00:19:26.080 We'll be back in moments.

00:19:27.520 Anthony Cumia's show.

00:19:29.340 Anthony Cumia's show on this Sunday evening.

00:19:34.820 Great to be here.

00:19:35.940 Thank you for listening and giving me your support.

00:19:39.620 I do appreciate it.

00:19:41.280 The guest tonight, I mean, I've told everybody up there in New York at the station,

00:19:47.920 I said, any Sopranos people you could get me, please get me.

00:19:54.620 I've spoken to a few in the past on my previous programs and whatnot,

00:19:58.700 and I am a huge fan of the show, more so than anybody.

00:20:02.420 People go, oh, no, I'm a fan too. 0.99

00:20:04.400 No, I've watched the damn thing 20 times over.

00:20:07.800 and uh robert finaro how are you my friend anthony it's a pleasure to be here thank you so much for 0.95

00:20:14.360 inviting me on your show i'm doing fine i love it uh you uh of course were eugene ponticorvo

00:20:22.520 on the sopranos and uh a peripheral character until that members only episode which is just so

00:20:32.980 uh pivotal it's a pivotal episode to the entire uh series yeah you were yeah you were uh you were

00:20:43.640 of course uh in that episode featured but a lot of things happened in that episode that's the

00:20:48.960 episode uh it was the first episode of season six and and tony uh gets shot uh at the end of that

00:20:56.300 episode by uncle jr so a lot was going on there but your storyline was pretty pivotal but here's

00:21:02.780 something else you were you were a standout character in so many things memorable uh events

00:21:11.180 of the show when you smash the bottle into paulie little paulie's face it's one of it's one yeah

00:21:21.260 it's one of the best uh like memorable funny moments and again only the sopranos could do

00:21:28.720 those violent moments and have them hysterically funny um but you always popped up in in in moments

00:21:36.280 like that and uh busting balls busting balls never seems to work does it robert oh never does never

00:21:43.460 does yeah both uh those episodes are really pivotal into to the you know my my my time on

00:21:49.760 the sopranos but up until you know members only it was that snapple bottle people would come up to me

00:21:55.780 and it's a nice shot.

00:21:58.020 And I said, will I be remembered?

00:21:59.800 I studied Shakespeare.

00:22:01.320 I did all this classical.

00:22:02.700 I'll be remembered by a snapple button.

00:22:04.520 So when I got the script for Members Only,

00:22:06.260 when David called me up because he called everybody up

00:22:08.340 and he said, I got good news and bad news.

00:22:10.640 And what's the good news, David?

00:22:11.720 Well, the good news is we wrote this show

00:22:13.280 and it's all about you and you're a big part of the show.

00:22:16.120 What's the bad news?

00:22:16.700 You're dead.

00:22:18.820 But when I read the script, what came to mind was,

00:22:23.940 and I don't compare myself with Marlon Brando,

00:22:25.660 When he talked about Waterfront, I could have been a contender,

00:22:27.920 I could have been somebody.

00:22:29.180 It's the way people felt that, you know, they could have been somebody.

00:22:31.920 So I felt like with Eugene, he wanted to get out.

00:22:34.220 How many people want to get out, especially nowadays,

00:22:36.880 from what they're doing, especially with all the 401k?

00:22:39.700 I wish I got out because I got out prior to all this stuff.

00:22:43.080 But anyway, so I knew that it would be a show that people would be remembered

00:22:46.740 and they would feel the pain that I felt.

00:22:50.140 And, of course, they went through it already.

00:22:52.040 So a lot of people do.

00:22:53.240 it was such a great uh episode and and storyline for you because it showed this hope that maybe

00:23:03.560 you could get out of the situation you were in and the delusion of of somebody thinking you know

00:23:11.900 i could just leave i could just pick up and leave i have money you were given that inheritance

00:23:17.680 a couple of million bucks and you think well as long as i have the money i can just start a new

00:23:23.200 life but you got yourself in in so deep yeah that there was no getting out well terry winter who

00:23:29.580 won the emmy award for that particular episode that year you know for the best dramatic episode

00:23:34.060 i was glad you know really blessed to be a part of it they just kept on creating things like my son

00:23:39.520 with the with the drugs and everything making kind of like the walls close in on me you know and so

00:23:45.420 right he kept they kept like oh we're getting a new thing for you to do before you hang yourself

00:23:49.940 so okay um you know so it was just like really a lot of pressure under pressure yeah to fit that

00:23:56.800 into one episode because obviously you were there um from i think season three yes was it yeah you

00:24:03.840 were there uh but but you know season six episode one your storyline really picks up and then comes

00:24:13.880 to fruition by the end of the episode it's the end of you yes or the you know the end of uh

00:24:19.980 eugene of course uh did you have any issues with with the script going well you're kind of wrapping

00:24:28.120 it up pretty quickly here well no i mean the thing was um it was a great script anthony and

00:24:35.540 as i said in the example of waterfront i knew that i'd be remembered for people can empathize

00:24:42.960 with this kind of person, with Eugene.

00:24:45.420 And a lot of people come up to me,

00:24:47.080 and the first thing they say,

00:24:48.100 he should have let you out,

00:24:49.060 should have let you go to Florida.

00:24:50.860 You know, so, I mean, this is what happens.

00:24:53.280 But we didn't know about Tony getting shot,

00:24:56.100 so the scripts were really kept very clandestinely.

00:24:59.140 And there were no leaks.

00:25:00.940 So I didn't even know myself until I watched it

00:25:03.180 that Tony was going to get shot.

00:25:06.300 Yeah, you know what?

00:25:07.100 Another thing is that people don't realize is,

00:25:09.600 because Tony's the bad guy in that episode going,

00:25:12.320 oh come on let Eugene go with his wife and go to Florida what are you a hockey player yeah well

00:25:17.500 what are you Wayne Gretzky you don't retire from this thing of ours yeah nice nice nice thank you

00:25:24.920 it was uh they don't understand it wasn't just Tony the FBI who you had already flipped

00:25:32.340 you'd gone to the FBI uh they told you give up on the Florida dream but everyone for some reason

00:25:39.680 And everyone thinks Tony was the one that kept you from going to Florida.

00:25:43.520 But even if he said, okay, you were never getting out from under the FBI. 0.98

00:25:47.480 No, I mean, you know how many people come up to me and say, you were a rat.

00:25:50.640 And I tell them, I wasn't a rat because I never, nothing I ever said implicated Tony. 0.81

00:25:56.860 I killed myself.

00:25:57.940 You know what I'm saying?

00:25:58.580 I didn't stool out on the guy.

00:26:00.080 I wasn't a stool pigeon.

00:26:00.980 But you know how many people come up to me and say, you shouldn't have said anything.

00:26:03.460 I didn't say nothing.

00:26:04.440 I didn't do anything.

00:26:06.560 It's crazy here in New York City. 0.98

00:26:08.340 These fans are crazy.

00:26:09.320 believe me i understand this and every time i read stuff because you always get questions about

00:26:15.900 the the last episode you get questions about uh things that happened during the entire series

00:26:21.440 uh and and the answer a lot of the actors and and people involved in the show give is well it

00:26:27.840 was in the script you know it was written that way but there is this element where i think the

00:26:33.440 person that played the character and and put that much work into developing the character

00:26:38.740 can make these assumptions on what might have happened that wasn't in the show based on

00:26:45.640 on your knowledge of the character himself and i want to ask you a question that kind of goes

00:26:51.680 on those lines what do you think was the most likely reason eugene would have flipped

00:26:57.220 well to get out i mean i mean that was the only way to get out he would get a witness protection

00:27:05.000 program like some of the people we know i won't name names but that was his you know that was the

00:27:10.900 thing they could get him out and and he would flip but it wasn't going to happen so in that case

00:27:15.600 he was going to in that case when he found that out then that was it but you know a lot of this

00:27:20.400 stuff i talk about in the homemade book the recipe book and all right please yes don't let me stop

00:27:25.960 you go ahead go ahead so we talk i talk about how i met james we did street con named desire

00:27:31.780 eight, nine years prior to Sopranos.

00:27:35.480 Right.

00:27:35.900 And we toured Scandinavia.

00:27:37.800 And one day he came down to Caroline's,

00:27:39.640 found out where I was working.

00:27:40.880 And he was a friend at the comedy club,

00:27:42.980 went up to him at a party,

00:27:43.920 said, I get a job for your friend, Bobby, for now.

00:27:46.340 And he came down.

00:27:47.760 He went with Joe Fay, his driver.

00:27:49.420 And he knew I was at a comedy club.

00:27:50.800 But he tried three or four of them

00:27:52.880 until he found me at Caroline's.

00:27:54.220 He couldn't remember the club.

00:27:55.920 And he offered me an audition.

00:27:57.340 And from then on, in 2000, I began working on the show.

00:28:00.640 I landed a role.

00:28:01.240 He couldn't promise me anything, but he said, I'll get you the audition.

00:28:03.660 So he sent the elevator down as Jack Lemmon said, but all these things are in homemade,

00:28:08.480 but in the book that I wrote and the, and the couple with great Italian recipes, you

00:28:12.740 know, so, and I talk about each, I took eight episodes and I kind of put them together

00:28:17.420 because I'm really not a writer.

00:28:18.640 And when Andrew Angelica, my manager, who was a co-wrote the book said, let's do a book. 0.94

00:28:23.520 I said, you're crazy. 0.87

00:28:24.300 Another book by a soprano or an act is it's nuts. 0.90

00:28:27.520 So if I can bookend it, I'll pick eight episodes.

00:28:30.440 I'll talk about The Sopranos and I'll couple it with a recipe.

00:28:33.120 And it's simple.

00:28:34.100 And it's interesting.

00:28:35.440 Do you have Mario Batelli's green beans and Parmesan?

00:28:39.700 Oh, Tony the Gnocchi.

00:28:41.260 You got it.

00:28:43.800 I got a copy for you, too.

00:28:45.660 I left it at the studio here.

00:28:46.700 Thank you.

00:28:47.300 I'll pick that up this coming weekend.

00:28:49.460 I'm going up to New York.

00:28:51.280 You a New York guy?

00:28:52.600 Yes, I am.

00:28:53.520 Brooklyn born, Coney Island.

00:28:55.520 Oh, man.

00:28:56.800 Okay.

00:28:57.120 Moved over to Staten Island.

00:29:00.200 You are New York.

00:29:01.080 What did you do early days in the city?

00:29:03.320 You mentioned Caroline's.

00:29:04.660 I used to go there when I was doing the O&A show and all the comics would do our show.

00:29:11.920 Caroline's was great.

00:29:12.980 Yeah, it was great.

00:29:13.820 And it's closed.

00:29:14.520 It's such a shame.

00:29:15.840 It really was like a landmark.

00:29:19.560 And they let it close.

00:29:20.740 I couldn't believe it.

00:29:21.640 It was all about money, Anthony.

00:29:22.960 It's always about that.

00:29:24.420 But it should have never happened.

00:29:25.580 The scuddle.

00:29:26.420 It was Broadway, you know, Broadway.

00:29:29.840 And the comedians were great.

00:29:31.100 Charles Fleischer, Seinfeld came in from time to time.

00:29:34.460 And, you know, great Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan, Jimmy, not Jimmy Kimmel, not Jimmy Kimmel.

00:29:42.880 Jimmy Fallon.

00:29:43.680 Jimmy Fallon, right.

00:29:44.700 Jimmy Fallon.

00:29:45.600 I knew Jimmy Fallon when he had a guitar at his tail between trying to get his set.

00:29:50.520 I knew him before he blew up, you know.

00:29:53.020 which is hilarious because he he looks like a kid now yeah when you saw him back in those days

00:29:59.460 it's like a 12 year old was walking around trying to you know i gotta tell you comedy and stuff yeah

00:30:04.960 he was just like he has a guitar and he's so nice he was so nice then i saw him on the set because

00:30:10.520 i did this one of his first films and they cut me out too i'm gonna get him for that you know i did

00:30:16.720 a little small spot and i can't believe i knew this guy went in and they and he let him cut me

00:30:21.760 out best it's yeah that's how it is though you know you've been in it you know you know how uh

00:30:29.280 yeah but us italians anthony we got loyalty and trust we don't do these things you're right

00:30:36.120 you're right it's all about loyalty trust family you know these things it is uh i guess

00:30:44.880 what was i guess that was the reason that david chase chose so many italians to play

00:30:51.440 italians in the sopranos yeah i mean it's really a metaphor for i mean if you watched his

00:30:57.820 documentary which is good yeah i mean it's really a metaphor for his his his whole entire life but

00:31:03.100 he used his life he used um tony soprano as a you know an example of his life it's ironic of course

00:31:09.920 he wrote for northern exposure and everything but it's everything he went through the therapist and

00:31:14.560 stuff like that i mean i'm not saying i don't know anything about that but i i know that you

00:31:18.820 know tony even though he had all that stuff he was still miserable yeah yeah because i would

00:31:24.900 he couldn't get over it you know i would defy anybody to be able to write a character like

00:31:30.900 livia soprano without having lived somebody like that you can't just pull that out of thin air

00:31:38.060 That was an amazingly horrific character in the series.

00:31:44.860 You know, Jules Pfeiffer, the great writer, he just passed away.

00:31:49.140 He wrote some plays.

00:31:50.160 He has this one piece in this play called Hold Me.

00:31:53.980 It's about a person.

00:31:56.440 It's called Pulitzer Prize.

00:31:58.060 He did this.

00:31:58.740 He won the Pulitzer Prize, and his father was never impressed.

00:32:02.480 And he says, I won the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:32:07.460 my father dropped dead who says you can't win them all it's like Tony Soprano and Livia you know

00:32:13.820 yeah yeah yeah well there's so many uh subtle lines in that show that harken back to other

00:32:21.340 things when uh when Livia used to go oh poor you and then when Tony turns to uh Carmela during

00:32:30.500 their big argument um that emmy award-winning argument and he goes oh poor you like those

00:32:37.540 little things and you catch these on the third fourth viewing of the entire series which i

00:32:44.380 i i'm honest with you it may be 10 11 times i i lost count how many times i watched all the way

00:32:50.000 through and you always catch little things like oh i i i didn't realize that connected to this and

00:32:56.880 And that kind of goes into something else I wanted to ask you.

00:32:59.820 You initially tried out or they wanted you for Ralph Cifaretto?

00:33:04.060 What happened there?

00:33:04.920 I auditioned for Ralph Cifaretto.

00:33:06.920 So I did Stanley with James, and he played Mitch.

00:33:12.040 So that Stanley that I did, because he was antagonistic Stanley,

00:33:16.080 and James thought of me for Ralph Cifaretto.

00:33:20.280 So I landed the role, and I signed the contract.

00:33:23.540 But then when we started shooting, there was a chemistry that, you know, and finally David said, you know, you're just too nice, too nice guys.

00:33:33.040 And he didn't like the chemistry.

00:33:34.720 And they tried to, they started graying my hair to make this contrast because we're two big guys.

00:33:40.540 And, you know, it just didn't work, you know, that antagonistic thing.

00:33:44.640 So they chose, you know, Joe Pantaleone, who was great.

00:33:50.180 And then David said, you still want to be on a show?

00:33:53.900 Of course, I want to be on a show.

00:33:55.700 No, I'm out.

00:33:57.100 No, I don't want to be on a show.

00:33:58.780 I'm out of here.

00:33:59.760 So I'm going to be another story.

00:34:01.340 How many stories have you heard, Anthony?

00:34:03.300 Like, oh, yeah, he was there, but they didn't like him.

00:34:05.980 And now he's working, whatever he's working.

00:34:08.620 I turned him down.

00:34:09.860 How many stories?

00:34:11.060 And that band I turned down was the Beatles.

00:34:13.760 I could have been a contender.

00:34:15.160 I could have been somebody.

00:34:16.940 But David didn't like it.

00:34:18.420 They didn't like it.

00:34:18.920 So anyway, James didn't let that happen.

00:34:20.880 I think James, they kept me on the show.

00:34:23.720 Terrence went to some way to create a character.

00:34:25.160 His name is Eugene.

00:34:25.780 Who is Eugene?

00:34:26.380 Don't worry about it.

00:34:27.060 We'll find out who he is as we go along.

00:34:28.800 And that's what they did.

00:34:29.640 A lot of the surprise, we hung out in the studio of Silver Cup.

00:34:32.500 And the writers got to know us and everything.

00:34:34.280 Like we went to the racetrack and that great scene with that.

00:34:37.540 I forgot the character's name.

00:34:38.900 He said, I won.

00:34:39.420 I won.

00:34:39.780 I won.

00:34:40.340 I won.

00:34:40.600 I won.

00:34:40.820 And I don't know.

00:34:42.320 I think Stevie looks at the ticket.

00:34:44.260 He says, oh, you won $3.

00:34:45.900 Yeah, $3.

00:34:46.420 that really that really happened to show that really happened and yeah i don't want to name

00:34:53.340 the name who would it happen to but i say it in a book who would happen to it's it's pretty

00:34:58.060 interesting that you know you as a character eugene's character i mean he was a sympathetic

00:35:04.740 character and that's odd because we see him shoot a man in the face yeah uh we see him you know

00:35:12.120 involved with some pretty terrible things and somehow he's sympathetic whereas ralph uh even

00:35:19.660 when his son was was shot with the arrow and and and he's crying and hugging tony you just could

00:35:26.000 not muster up sympathy for that guy and and i think that might have been what they saw

00:35:30.900 in uh the difference between you playing ralph and um yeah uh what's his name oh my god i'm

00:35:37.720 terrible. Joe Pantaleone. Yeah. Pants. Joey Pants. Yeah. No, I think so. I mean, they got to know us

00:35:43.400 and everything and they got to know who I was as a person, as I said. And they came up with that

00:35:49.120 script. I really never sat down with Terry and asked him, you know, how'd you come up with that?

00:35:53.480 Where'd you get that? Was it a daydream? Was it a dream itself? Did you read about it in a book

00:35:58.260 and just, or, you know, you just wanted to hang me with what's up with that? You know, it was

00:36:02.280 really great. As I said, you know, I think it was a blessing from God for myself. You know what I

00:36:06.800 mean it really was because it opened up it opened up so many doors for me and uh still to this day

00:36:11.580 really it's uh people really remember it you know no doubt i and i you know i wonder a lot of people

00:36:18.100 wonder because it's kind of a common question about uh when you're in that moment and you're

00:36:22.860 filming uh those episodes and maybe not by episode six i think by that point you guys knew that you

00:36:30.040 were on a juggernaut uh but early on even season three when you you came on uh the longevity of

00:36:38.020 this the passion for the sopranos did you did you have that uh that clue um and coming in on season

00:36:47.500 three it wasn't it really was i wasn't apparent to me but as i progressed and i said man this is

00:36:52.860 like the beatles man this is what they must have felt like you know going opening at the zigfield

00:36:57.080 with a million people there and, you know, especially season six,

00:37:00.140 that's the same feeling as the Beatles.

00:37:01.700 I want to play this song again and again and again and again.

00:37:04.520 But you really, Anthony, the main thing is that as an actor,

00:37:07.600 you don't really know what you have when you're doing it.

00:37:10.320 It's like you're standing on a whale and you're fishing for minnows.

00:37:12.960 You know what I mean?

00:37:13.740 You really are like, it's just like that.

00:37:16.660 It just goes so fast.

00:37:18.580 It is.

00:37:19.160 The hindsight you get to.

00:37:20.620 If it happened again on another show, I just, you know,

00:37:23.420 every actor just wants to work.

00:37:25.400 Oh, yeah.

00:37:25.900 You know, so it's a real – it was a real blessing.

00:37:29.100 You know, you can't – listen, you can't get it back.

00:37:31.700 You can't look at yesterday.

00:37:34.380 You got to move on, move forward, right?

00:37:35.960 No, not at all.

00:37:36.700 You could appreciate what you had, and obviously the fans, you know,

00:37:40.940 you could appreciate that.

00:37:42.300 We're going to take a real quick break.

00:37:43.840 We'll come back with you, Robert, and talk about a few things,

00:37:47.360 especially, you know, the members-only jacket, the restaurant,

00:37:51.280 the – all that that you've talked about a thousand times.

00:37:54.360 but i got you and i need to hear about this we'll be back with robert finaro in moments

00:38:00.780 stick around welcome back anthony cumia show we're talking to robert finaro eugene pantacorvo

00:38:08.760 nice sopranos oh you gotta trill those r's man i love it um robert i i i gotta ask you first of all

00:38:17.940 you know everybody that that died on the show got that talk and you you spoke about that earlier 0.94

00:38:24.800 from David Chase but you had to get hey not only die but you're a rat too what what was worse for 0.93

00:38:35.700 you I'm of course leaving the show if you're you're dead but it's like ah do you got to make 0.97

00:38:40.900 me a rat too yeah um you know they add a lot of that stuff because they as i said they wanted

00:38:47.500 the walls to close in on on eugene but no i really never considered myself because i knew

00:38:52.320 the ending that i that i was a rat that i wasn't going to get out so i mean i mean it showed this

00:38:58.020 this compact you know this compassion i guess for my wife and my child you know what i mean to get

00:39:03.960 out so i mean it just added to you know it just added that resistance just made the character

00:39:08.640 we fleshed out the character even more but i you know as i said to you before i really never

00:39:13.980 considered myself a rat because i don't think i would have ever really implicated tony um really

00:39:20.200 wholeheartedly you know what i mean but you had to know anyone would have to know being a rat

00:39:25.740 isn't going to end well it doesn't end well for a lot of the people on the show yeah uh so you

00:39:32.080 know you're probably like ah i was just thinking maybe you thought it might have sullied the

00:39:36.920 character a little bit like ah god i don't want to be a rat before i die yeah no i really never

00:39:41.580 thought about it because i guess i knew the ending you know so i really never thought about it i 0.68

00:39:45.480 really see that's another fan question yeah i'm like and you go dude it's the script shut up

00:39:50.540 well it's like i told you before people come up to me and they say well you know if it did happen

00:39:55.240 that way you're probably right i would have implicated tony and went on the witness protection

00:39:59.260 program right right but uh like um sammy right yeah yeah sammy did that it didn't happen it didn't

00:40:07.140 happen you know so i i also gotta uh ask you because uh your your death scene is one of the

00:40:15.940 most graphic disturbing death scenes in cinema history anyone's uh death that uh how did you

00:40:24.820 feel about that when you watched it back even though you were there doing it did you think

00:40:29.920 like my god that is brutal it kept me on that rope a long time i know it did huh yeah i mean

00:40:35.880 um i think it's one of the longest maybe on television um it's because they usually they

00:40:41.820 show the rope boom and you know they mean right and then they shoot right they um close up of

00:40:47.040 the legs or something close up of something and then they cut away but uh it made it uh and it

00:40:54.100 just that that like a Turkish toffee kind of a thing but you know I did a little research into

00:40:59.380 it like if you see me like kind of with the reflexes and everything like that I I spoke to

00:41:03.960 my brother who's a physician and uh Richard Fanaro my brother and and he and he told me that

00:41:09.080 sometimes when that happens there's a little reflexive action just before you you kick the

00:41:14.480 bucket kind of uh your last breath or whatever if there was a last breath because you're on a rope

00:41:19.560 But so that, you know, I put that in there myself.

00:41:23.320 And, you know, Tim, when I was doing it, you know, he just came up to me and said to me, Tim Van Patten, great director.

00:41:29.200 Yeah, someone directed him.

00:41:30.400 You know, Emmy Award winning director.

00:41:31.820 And he just said, you know, just stay with it because, you know, between takes, just stay with it.

00:41:35.640 We really never stepped away.

00:41:37.700 I stayed with it and stay in that time period, you know, stay in that with that feeling, you know.

00:41:45.580 And I think we captured that moment.

00:41:48.240 And I think his fear really came across, that essence of the fear of losing your life.

00:41:56.920 It's that slow gradient movement off the mortal coil.

00:42:02.080 Because at first, it's a struggle.

00:42:03.820 And then they put on, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but when Terry put in the portfolio,

00:42:09.480 when I was looking at my son, and when I'm looking at the portfolio, I mean, what is

00:42:14.260 that, what do you call those?

00:42:15.820 a i guess a picture the pictures of oh an album yeah yeah the photo album yes um i thought that

00:42:22.100 was poignant that was just great terry writing that and then juxtaposed to on the rope you know

00:42:27.020 what i mean to my art that shot close-up of the eyes it was really cool the way they put that

00:42:31.780 together you know well that was another thing because because you say how these things are

00:42:36.240 usually done and yeah there's kind of a pat thing that they do when someone hangs themselves in a

00:42:42.360 movie to not make it that disturbing and it's kind of been done before uh but this one the

00:42:48.740 transition from you looking at the album and then seeing your face and you just look very pale and

00:42:55.100 very distraught and disturbed and no one knows at that moment that you have a noose around your neck

00:43:01.560 and it was a little not believing not even close but reminiscent of shawshank yeah when uh what's

00:43:09.380 his name Charles Wickham Wickham yeah yes when he hung himself because it was unexpected it looked

00:43:15.120 like he was just going to carve his name up there it's that unexpected thing where everyone just

00:43:19.400 goes oh my god that's insane yeah well as an actor I mean I really there was no method to that just

00:43:25.580 the thought of being up there and doing that itself committing suicide was just uh and you

00:43:31.580 know what it's funny because I had some people some fans call me up and say you know what Bobby

00:43:37.340 really i was thinking about committee and you saved my life i mean believe it or not people

00:43:43.500 have one or two people have told me that and i said wow that's that's cool man i'm glad you

00:43:47.620 you stick you stuck around you know bob just fantastic talk to you i gotta run we're on a

00:43:53.440 schedule here for some reason but thank you robert finero uh your book yes spit it out real quick

00:43:58.840 homemade by robert finnell we'll be in at chico and sons on um um in northfield new jersey tilton

00:44:05.400 road um um april 26 and in bonds and noble in brick new jersey april 27th at 12 p.m both times

00:44:13.860 signing autographs taking pictures and at chico and sons who make the best heroes they are giving

00:44:19.740 away a free hero the eugene with a with a signed copy of the book if you like to have it you know

00:44:24.760 buy the book you know so thanks so much thank you very much thank you bob good talking to you

00:44:28.640 great talking to you thank you later be right back yep that it is the Anthony Cumia show

00:44:36.720 uh I guess we should take some phone calls people uh and I love this they just start calling when

00:44:44.500 the show starts which is I guess that's a good sign that people kind of like what they're listening

00:44:49.260 to uh we were talking earlier uh of course about the the protests over the weekend across the

00:44:57.240 country such organic natural uh protests oh we don't like trump and musk and hands off is the

00:45:06.200 name of the um the protest they had uh hands off what hands off what elon and trump are telling

00:45:15.620 the politicians to take their hands off the taxpayers money and these dopes don't even know

00:45:24.360 what that means but um yeah i don't know let's talk to uh scott from florida who's got a take

00:45:31.720 on this scott how you doing my friend down there in the sunshine state hey anthony i'm doing a

00:45:37.820 great fantastic show thanks for taking my call man appreciate it you know you said earlier those 0.98

00:45:43.960 people protested you said they're nuts and they are nuts and you know how i know they're nuts 0.97

00:45:48.800 hmm they believe the politicians the liberal politicians yeah actually care about oh that 1.00

00:45:56.820 because they're a cult they're insane it is that is the craziest thing anyone can believe

00:46:04.380 and and by the way this is for every politician regardless of party if you think a politician 0.91

00:46:11.740 cares about you you're a mental patient you honestly when they talk about that and we

00:46:20.460 care about our people and americans and they do not care about anything but power and money

00:46:30.920 the best we could do is rein them in enough that they could still do their job without completely

00:46:38.720 robbing us and and uh destroying uh our country so uh i agree with you there i mean i'm 55 and

00:46:49.160 there's a lot of political things that i'm concerned that i'm concerned about and i care

00:46:54.060 about yeah but there's not one conservative politician i've ever voted for would make me

00:47:00.880 get up and go to some rally somewhere right yeah because unless it was kind of fun maybe like the

00:47:07.080 Trump rallies weren't because people were like, oh, I agree with his policies.

00:47:11.040 I think they were like, I just want to go to this because it seems like a fun party.

00:47:15.940 I get that part of it.

00:47:17.260 But no one's going to a politician's event because you agree with how much they care about you.

00:47:24.520 Right.

00:47:25.080 Or or that I'm under some delusional belief that they do care about me.

00:47:29.920 The only thing they care about me is that I vote for them and then they don't care at all.

00:47:33.800 Scott, could you imagine like not having a family that cares about you, friends, even co-workers at some point that you've whittled it down so far that you have to believe a politician cares about you?

00:47:51.580 It could be the saddest thing. Pull a Eugene and find a beam in your basement and take care of business.

00:47:58.440 Brooks was here, definitely, because that's all you have left.

00:48:02.380 uh it's disgusting scott i i definitely appreciate the call and i agree with your sentiment

00:48:08.040 my sir thanks and have a great show later man oh my god uh this is uh dt from my newest home state

00:48:19.460 of south carolina dt what's up my friend w a b c hey anthony thank you a couple weeks ago you

00:48:30.520 You're talking about the celebrities who mouth off politically.

00:48:33.280 They do themselves no favors when they do that.

00:48:36.940 It divides their fan potential and ultimately their revenue stream.

00:48:40.920 And it seems mandatory nowadays.

00:48:43.680 I'm baffled by this.

00:48:45.560 They are compelled to leverage their celebrity status to try to affect social change.

00:48:50.120 But when has that ever worked?

00:48:52.520 I don't think it does.

00:48:53.820 Even dopey program directors, when I first got into radio back in the 1800s, when I first started doing radio, the PDs would say, don't alienate any of your audience.

00:49:08.440 Don't have an opinion.

00:49:10.100 Don't talk about politics.

00:49:11.760 Don't even say you don't like a movie because you're going to alienate half your audience.

00:49:16.260 And while, you know, I couldn't really do that, I think in radio, especially if you're really passionate about your opinions, it comes through and you'll get half the audience that hates you will listen regardless.

00:49:31.200 But celebrities like movie movie stars and they ruined careers, their own careers and legacy by speaking up and putting their nonsense out there.

00:49:44.760 See, you can do that because you're a political pundit, a shock jock.

00:49:48.460 Shocking, right?

00:49:49.460 Have you ever gone to a concert, and between the songs, the singer's got to start mouthing off,

00:49:54.620 hey, we don't like our president, and you guys shouldn't like him either.

00:49:58.900 So brave.

00:49:59.520 And then half the audience is rah, rah, rah, and the other half is like,

00:50:03.280 don't be any better, get to the next song, you know?

00:50:06.100 When is anyone ever taking a 180 politically because of what some dirtball singer says on stage, you know? 0.98

00:50:11.760 and they don't even realize they don't even realize how hypocritical they are 0.84

00:50:16.480 when you get rage against the machine praising the machine they're the ones up there saying you know

00:50:24.600 the machine is awesome uh you come off a little hypocritical it's completely counterintuitive

00:50:31.900 if a person considers themselves an artist shouldn't their primary motivation be to express

00:50:36.880 their craft to the largest audience possible not just for the revenue stream but for the purpose

00:50:42.440 of art which is supposed to be for enlightenment entertainment dt my friend together it's called

00:50:49.360 narcissism it's called narcissism yeah or insanity or insanity i think it's both both of the two

00:50:58.780 thank you my friend uh let's try to get lindsey graham out of there in south carolina 1.00

00:51:04.300 Maybe. I don't know. Thank you, sir. There goes DT from South Carolina. But it's right. It's like, you know, I think it is narcissism. They've already attained what they wanted to. They've achieved this level of celebrity that is bigger than anything we could imagine. 1.00

00:51:22.440 so the adulation they've gotten over the years and continue to get doesn't satisfy them anymore

00:51:29.900 they're addicted to it so they need to do something else so when they start thinking

00:51:38.220 these celebrities that oh people love what i say when i i say things that writers write for me

00:51:46.480 and they love how I dress because a a costume person dressed me like this they love how I move

00:51:55.660 because a director told me to move like this well I've appreciated all that uh amazing the

00:52:04.640 applause and notoriety and popularity I've gotten because of that but I bet if I tell them what I

00:52:14.560 think political ideological how i feel people should lead their lives that's gonna be the top

00:52:23.780 of the heap i'm gonna be amazing and people are gonna love me whoops i screwed up there didn't i

00:52:33.520 yeah they don't want to hear that do what the director says say what the writer wrote for you 0.99

00:52:40.780 because you people are imbeciles they're they're clinically retarded i believe if i may indeed use 0.99

00:52:50.420 that word uh let's go to oh here's one harriet the lovely harriet from brooklyn harriet what's up 1.00

00:53:01.200 I love you.

00:53:03.900 Oh, Harriet loves me.

00:53:06.720 Yeah.

00:53:07.240 You know that Johnny O. Blinsky wrote a review of a George Clooney play recently opened, and he was portraying Edward R. Murrow.

00:53:17.060 Edward R. Murrow.

00:53:18.000 Yes, yes.

00:53:18.700 So he's no Edward R. Murrow.

00:53:22.000 And his wife, his wife wants to put Trump and Netanyahu in jail.

00:53:28.700 in jail she wrote up the papers of the international criminal court so my my um message to george

00:53:38.300 clooney is this if i can borrow from kyle and cartman of south park oh please george george 0.57

00:53:47.860 you are an a ho ah don't his wife did this his wife came up with this yes they drew up

00:53:57.400 Yes, she drew up the papers of the International Criminal Court. 0.96

00:54:01.900 It's not recognized in America.

00:54:03.300 Harriet, Harriet, did you see recently George Clooney got mad because MSNBC had come out and said something about the fact that George wasn't sincere about wanting Biden to step down?

00:54:19.160 That Obama had told him, George, go out there and say that Biden needs to step down.

00:54:27.020 And when Mika over at MSNBC had said that on the air, George lost his mind and called the producers over there and said, Obama never told me what to do.

00:54:40.000 I thought Joe Biden shouldn't be.

00:54:42.180 Meanwhile, Obama told them all what to do. 0.99

00:54:45.400 George Clooney, his dumb wife, all of his dumb friends that we might love from, you know, whatever movies in Oceans 11, Oceans 12, Oceans 83. 1.00

00:54:57.020 they're all pieces of garbage liberal hollywood trash harriet 1.00

00:55:04.080 dreck they're hollywood dreck only a woman named harriet would use a word like dreck i'm not even 0.99

00:55:12.560 going to ask how old you are but i love you too harriet thank you for the phone call miss harriet 0.67

00:55:18.200 i love this am station because i'm certainly not getting girls we would want to put in a 55 gallon

00:55:24.100 drum and drop fish guts on like we did on the old ONA show uh anyway uh we are going to uh discuss

00:55:35.340 more of the hands-off protests I got a little more of that because it's about social security

00:55:41.660 Medicaid and they say don't touch don't touch but the fact of the matter is that none of that has

00:55:48.400 been touched i have proof documented evidence that none of that's been touched but uh you know

00:55:57.220 they put these puppets out there they hand them signs they give them a list of slogans to yell

00:56:01.860 and before you know it uh they're uh protesting they're actual protesters and uh it's just such 0.93

00:56:09.200 garbage uh back in moments if you go anywhere i swear you got to answer to me anthony come here

00:56:15.600 show anthony comia show you know what we got to get right into this because another thing 0.96

00:56:23.320 much like clown of the week uh every single day we see what's called fake news now fake news folks

00:56:32.040 fake news it's the fake news fake stories news moment i'm disgusted with all the fake news it's

00:56:40.400 It's literally propaganda, Soviet-era propaganda.

00:56:44.800 Remember the TASS news agency, Pravda, back in the old Soviet Union?

00:56:50.020 And we'd watch and go, oh, imagine if that ever happened here in America.

00:56:54.880 We would, what?

00:56:56.600 What would you do?

00:56:58.040 Nothing.

00:56:58.540 You'd soak it up, bask in it, and blather it out like it was gospel the next day. 1.00

00:57:06.040 You cowards! 0.96

00:57:07.880 but uh this week the fake news clip again from msnbc i think this is now five weeks running 0.99

00:57:15.240 it's chuck schumer he's lying of course uh about donald trump now look trump i get it

00:57:25.560 we don't all love everything trump does and we'll talk a little bit about that later with the

00:57:32.100 The tariffs and the stock market plummeting.

00:57:36.820 But one thing I don't think you could call Donald Trump would be anti-Semitic.

00:57:44.760 This is hilarious to me.

00:57:47.340 Did you run out of stuff?

00:57:50.180 Did you run out of grab them by the sea?

00:57:54.280 By the boop sea?

00:57:56.260 Did you run out of all that?

00:57:57.980 And now you actually got to go into things that are so outrageously fake.

00:58:04.540 Chuck Schumer is saying that Trump is anti-Semitic, but then he goes, maybe, maybe not. 0.62

00:58:13.400 But he supports anti-Semitism. 0.53

00:58:17.660 He doesn't call it out, which, again, if you don't call it out, then you are.

00:58:23.100 But I think Trump has proven over the years to be a pretty staunch supporter of Israel, much to the chagrin of other people that have issues with that. 0.80

00:58:39.300 But here's here's Chuck Schumer talking about that anti-Semitic, that Nazi Donald Trump.

00:58:48.300 Yeah, look, Donald Trump is, you know, he may not be an anti-Semite, but he certainly 0.88

00:58:56.340 tolerates anti-Semitism in so many ways, calling me a Palestinian, you know, don't tell my

00:59:03.040 mother, but also talking about in Charlottesville, both sides had good people, when he brings

00:59:10.020 an anti-Semite like Fuentes to sit at his table at Mar-a-Lago, when the great replacement 0.51

00:59:16.080 theory, which we all know is a conspiracy theory among the hard right that Jews are trying to 0.98

00:59:21.280 replace the white race with immigrants. Every other president, Lawrence, every other president,

00:59:26.300 Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, whether it's Reagan or Bush or Clinton or Obama,

00:59:33.300 when there was bigotry, their job was to push it down. Donald Trump, he either revels in it

00:59:39.780 or just lets it stay right there. That shows you one of the many, many reasons he doesn't

00:59:45.100 deserve to be president he's not even good at it anymore if he ever was he's not even good at this

00:59:52.840 stuff you got to come up with if you're going to smear your political enemy at least come up with

00:59:59.240 something that's kind of believable anything donald trump supports anti-semitism and then the 0.83

01:00:09.920 Of course, the Nazis are good people. 0.71

01:00:13.420 How many times does this thing have to be debunked? 1.00

01:00:20.020 They pull out the same garbage. 1.00

01:00:23.020 Chuck Schumer is a liar. 1.00

01:00:26.300 Chuck Schumer is terrible for the country and the state of New York. 1.00

01:00:32.160 like New York doesn't have enough problems

01:00:35.480 that the representative of the state of New York

01:00:39.460 should be concentrating on nothing

01:00:42.040 but New York State and its problems

01:00:45.620 and this guy just all day

01:00:48.960 every day, week after week

01:00:51.160 month, year

01:00:52.740 all he can do is just bad mouth

01:00:56.780 Donald Trump to the point where he just makes stuff up

01:01:00.000 anti-Semitic

01:01:02.160 Have you ever seen a president, people that don't support Israel, and I'm not talking about anti-Semites, I'm not talking about people that support Hamas or Palestine or anything, I'm just talking about people that just go, meh, I'd like more attention paid to America than Israel.

01:01:26.240 those people they look at donald trump like he's orthodox jew they look at him like i can't believe

01:01:36.060 how much support this guy gives to israel but chuck schumer is now trying his hardest

01:01:42.500 and you see what he did there he couldn't quite push him into donald trump's an anti-semite he's

01:01:48.860 well maybe not an anti-Semite he supports anti-Semitism like really really because if

01:01:59.360 you want to go down that road Chuck Schumer if you remember I guess it was about a year ago

01:02:06.180 he declined a request by Netanyahu to address the Dems last year all the Dems Dem Dems

01:02:15.240 uh they didn't want netanyahu to speak and then schumer goes through this whole thing about how

01:02:22.700 uh it would be detrimental to israel to have netanyahu speak in front of the democratic

01:02:33.260 caucus a year ago and i'll tell you what it would be detrimental for by the way the democrats

01:02:42.680 Because they noticed that the vast majority of young Democrats, the people that go to these indoctrination centers called colleges, they're the ones that were anti-Israel.

01:03:02.540 How do you get young Democrats to vote for you if you are pro-Israel?

01:03:08.220 It's very, very difficult.

01:03:10.680 so he had to make it seem like uh he was uh pro-palestinian by not having netany either

01:03:18.640 so trump's an anti-semite you're an anti-semite chuck schumer don't go anywhere back in a moment

01:03:25.940 anthony cummier show so shocking the anthony cummier show uh let's take a quick call we can

01:03:34.920 do that i think i think we can do that this is a sean from the isle of long long island new york

01:03:42.500 my uh home base what's up sean anthony i am a humongous fan and a don coleon i hope the first

01:03:56.880 child is a masculine

01:03:58.860 child. Thank you. 0.79

01:04:01.280 Sean, yes, go ahead.

01:04:03.600 Well, and I can tell you,

01:04:05.340 you are looking

01:04:06.740 more and more like Pat Cooper.

01:04:09.460 Anthony, give it five years.

01:04:11.260 Who told you that?

01:04:12.620 Who told you that? Who told you that?

01:04:15.840 Remember that?

01:04:16.300 What did I do? Why did he not talk

01:04:18.340 to me no more?

01:04:20.240 Look, I'm Italian. I'm

01:04:22.260 getting up there. I needed readers.

01:04:24.640 I decided to get two

01:04:26.200 telescope lenses and pop them on my face problem sean no problem at all kids listen joe biden

01:04:35.140 joe joe biden had a 25 tariff on hunter right then hunter hit joe with a retaliatory 25 tariff

01:04:44.140 now if if you look at these things you're a smart guy because you don't get funny and clever without

01:04:50.160 being intelligent i know that for it's a cold fact of life and people are jealous of people who are

01:04:56.400 funny and they replace it with sarcasm and they come off as you know what i don't want to say it

01:05:01.200 on the air but the thing is i just want to ask you something because you you really you were a funny

01:05:07.520 dude let me ask you something in in the part of american history in the latter part of the 20th

01:05:14.000 century and the 21st century, do you believe that

01:05:18.100 Pat Buchanan and Steve from Manhattan are two

01:05:21.980 of the biggest names to set the story straight

01:05:26.160 on the invasion of America?

01:05:30.660 Is this Steve? No.

01:05:34.120 No, people say that. It's not Steve. No.

01:05:38.220 That's not. How you doing, Steve?

01:05:41.260 okay hey it's not steve from it and i knew you were going to say that i knew you were going to

01:05:49.380 say that man i compliment you i know look i know and i appreciate that i like the compliments i

01:05:56.480 like long island uh you know i i don't quite get the question though what do you want me to say

01:06:02.700 well you know the thing is like what i'm saying now is people are screaming about the invasion

01:06:08.420 because it's in their backyard but when it was in the backyard of everybody in california they

01:06:12.940 said nothing california right right nimby not in my backyard i get you yeah now it's come up uh

01:06:18.980 it's all over the country it's not just border states that were being invaded and it's everything

01:06:24.600 and yeah well we got to do something about it i see trump doing something at least ice is out there

01:06:29.260 arresting people look they it's not trump's fault or the administration or ice or anyone's fault

01:06:35.580 that they can't deport people fast enough.

01:06:38.740 Blame the people that left the border open

01:06:40.860 for decades before Trump even got there.

01:06:44.700 That's what I say, Sean.

01:06:46.340 Thank you, my friend.

01:06:48.120 I do appreciate, Sean.

01:06:49.960 I still think it's...

01:06:50.940 Another thing going on, of course, is...

01:06:56.140 How much time I got?

01:06:56.860 Let me see.

01:06:57.420 30...

01:06:58.220 Yeah, okay.

01:06:59.020 We got time.

01:07:00.060 This is the Three Stooges.

01:07:02.480 The new Three Stooges.

01:07:04.100 it's drunk camilla harris uh leticia james and jasmine crockett and uh these three are 1.00

01:07:14.560 dopes and they get attention and they get adoration from the mentally ill uh first let's 0.98

01:07:23.640 let's listen to camilla harris talk about how somehow we must all be thinking that she told 0.84

01:07:31.800 us let's listen to camilla there is a sense of fear that has been taking hold in our country

01:07:38.680 and i understand it

01:07:43.260 but we're saying people stay quiet

01:07:48.820 we are seeing organizations stay quiet we are seeing those who are capitulating

01:08:01.800 to clearly unconstitutional threats.

01:08:07.340 What?

01:08:10.220 And these are the things that we are witnessing

01:08:12.940 each day in these last few months in our country.

01:08:18.700 And it understandably creates a great sense of fear.

01:08:24.120 Yes, this is the fear.

01:08:26.520 Because, you know, there were many things that we knew would happen.

01:08:31.800 many things i'm not here so i told you so 0.68

01:08:34.560 oh shut your yap have another shot oh my god why isn't she gone didn't president maybe not 1.00

01:08:57.080 presidential candidate but she wasn't even a presidential candidate she never got nominated 1.00

01:09:02.920 don't they just go away when they lose miserably

01:09:08.000 here's jasmine crockett pretty much saying hi i was a dei hire listen to this nonsense

01:09:19.060 when i first became a public defender i had no criminal defense experience and i walked in and

01:09:25.120 And I told my boss, Charlie, I said, listen, you should hire me.

01:09:28.700 He said, why?

01:09:29.540 I said, because I'm black. 0.90

01:09:31.020 Charlie looked at me like I was crazy. 0.93

01:09:34.880 Oh, yeah.

01:09:37.320 She says, why should you?

01:09:39.400 He says, why should I hire you? 0.98

01:09:41.420 She goes, because I'm black. 0.98

01:09:43.680 All right.

01:09:47.440 That's diversity, equity and inclusion hire.

01:09:50.260 if anyone asks a rational person why they should be hired for a job don't they give their

01:09:56.940 qualifications if you give your skin color i think that's against everything every civil rights

01:10:03.620 leader has said uh over the course of history but i don't know all right she seems to think

01:10:12.180 yeah it's different than that um and and it's admitting

01:10:19.420 give your qualifications say this is why i should be hired i've done this here's my resume

01:10:29.160 i'm sitting by the way most of the people that are hired for any job are hired based on

01:10:35.940 their face-to-face interview with somebody not what's written on a resume or application

01:10:42.620 uh it's got to be a personal thing but she put so much importance in the color of her skin 0.77

01:10:50.520 and said to her prospective employer here's why you should hire me i'm a black woman all right

01:10:59.520 and uh the the the i guess shemp the shemp of the three stooges this is latisha james latisha as you

01:11:13.700 know is a soros sponsored prosecutor uh assigned to new york who ran on a platform of hey i'm just

01:11:25.100 going to find something to arrest donald trump on well do you have anything no no no if you elect

01:11:32.080 me i'll find something which is the antithesis of what a prosecutor is supposed to do they're

01:11:41.080 supposed to prosecute crimes that have already been established if you have somebody that has

01:11:48.300 allegedly committed a crime uh you're the one that has to look and and sort that out as the

01:11:55.620 prosecutor you don't make up stuff so that someone you don't agree with gets to be arrested

01:12:02.820 and that's what she did despicable terrible so here's leticia talking about i don't even know

01:12:14.700 she's trying to have an MLK moment again like Cory Booker for some reason people want to have this

01:12:24.500 moment where they sound profound and they use language that is very symbolic of things it's

01:12:33.380 like metaphors they love speaking in metaphors and if someone's good at it it's amazing people 0.98

01:12:42.040 go oh i get that yes that means this when an idiot tries to sound smart or profound they sound 0.99

01:12:53.560 like an idiot and letitia doesn't disappoint with this little tirade uh let's listen to letitia 0.99

01:13:01.480 james um again i apologize listen um 57 years after the assassination of dr king and dr king 1.00

01:13:10.340 talked about, that stone of hope.

01:13:12.140 Is there a doctor in the house?

01:13:13.340 It's that stone of hope that gives me a fire in my belly each and every morning.

01:13:18.080 It's that stone of hope that allows me to wake up and to stand to Donald Trump

01:13:22.340 and to say, Donald Trump, I'm not afraid of you.

01:13:24.580 It's that stone of hope.

01:13:28.380 It's that stone of hope that gives me power.

01:13:32.120 That's that stone of hope and the belief in each and every one of you to let you know.

01:13:36.520 That I'm not going to allow my ancestors, all of those who died for me to be in this position, I am not going to disgrace them and disappoint them.

01:13:44.800 I am going to use the law both as a sword and as a shield and challenge Donald Trump.

01:13:50.640 And each and every time he issues an executive, an illegal executive order, I am going to stand up to him. 1.00

01:13:57.940 Because he represents to me sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. 1.00

01:14:03.980 look she she liked that line so she says it again like chip 1.00

01:14:10.480 sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity conscientious stupidity and so 1.00

01:14:22.200 DEI as far as I am concerned is more than about just black people let's be honest 1.00

01:14:27.780 DEI is about paid parental leave

01:14:30.920 DEI is about disabled children

01:14:33.200 DEI includes a number of categories

01:14:37.360 so when they talk about DEI

01:14:39.360 let them know that they're not only coming after us

01:14:41.500 but they're coming after all of us

01:14:43.100 and we've got to stand together

01:14:44.660 stand with this great organization

01:14:47.640 under the leadership of our civil rights leader

01:14:49.960 Reverend Al Sharpton

01:14:51.360 who has been a light

01:14:54.200 a bright and shining light in the darkness what i know about you it's that stone of hope that

01:15:01.620 inspires me each and their own no hope and listen faith and fear can never share the same space

01:15:08.500 and so i'm covered by the blood and i'm not afraid of donald trump you can come after me

01:15:14.380 but no enemy nothing formed against me will perish nothing formed against me nothing formed

01:15:21.780 against me. Nothing formed

01:15:23.700 against me. She's trying so hard.

01:15:26.460 All right.

01:15:26.980 All right. 1.00

01:15:29.220 Even Al's like, shut up. 0.99

01:15:30.580 You thought you could preach. 0.99

01:15:31.860 You could preach. That's the Reverend Al.

01:15:34.540 And you thought you could preach.

01:15:36.740 Oh, my God.

01:15:39.540 Hi, this is Bob

01:15:42.360 Stone of Hope.

01:15:44.620 At Texaco Theater's

01:15:46.100 Bob Stone of Hope.

01:15:47.700 Stone of Hope. She tried to get that going

01:15:50.200 as like the mountaintop.

01:15:51.780 I've been to the mountaintop, stone of hope, stone of hope, and then repeating things over

01:16:03.020 and over to try to make it something, just stop already, it's played out, it's embarrassing,

01:16:12.720 it's cringeworthy, how googly eyes are pointing each and every way, by the way, have you seen 1.00

01:16:20.520 this woman oh my goodness that is unbelievably embarrassing to listen to that nonsense whenever 1.00

01:16:32.480 i i i swear to you you know uh every politician has a gimmick they all have a gimmick chuck 0.57

01:16:41.800 schumer like we just listened to him before and he needs to bring anti-semitism into what he's

01:16:49.340 same because he's he's uh trying to kowtow to his jewish constituency he's jewish so if he's

01:16:59.480 got an enemy that enemy needs to be anti-semitic and then we have black women and black men

01:17:08.460 politicians uh like cory booker and and uh uh attorneys like like letitia james and uh

01:17:17.380 jasmine crockett and camilla and and their thing is to evoke their ancestors and to try this this

01:17:29.040 martin luther king dialect and cadence and and and this this repeating thing it's embarrassing

01:17:41.480 just if it worked great then do it but as a as a an american i just want to tell politicians

01:17:53.660 uh that use these tropes these this this nonsense that it's it's not working it's embarrassing

01:18:02.700 and i see the stone of hope the stone of hope and she says it like this is going to be in a history

01:18:12.620 book i swear to you hundred years they're going to be going remember when latisha james did her

01:18:17.400 stone of hope speech just like martin luther king in washington dc i have a dream

01:18:24.800 oh i'd rather have a kidney stone than latisha's stone of hope it's it's more pleasurable

01:18:34.240 pissing out a kidney stone than latisha's stone of of hope i don't know what happens

01:18:43.820 these people lose their minds and and jasmine admitting if i may call her jasmine by a first

01:18:54.660 name admitting that uh she was a dei hire i was thinking about this over the weekend it's not even

01:19:03.440 uh it's not the ability that someone that you have i think everyone has the ability to do

01:19:13.240 something but it might you might not have the competence to do it you know you we've we've

01:19:21.760 heard about people's ability you could do that if you try if you put your mind to it if you put

01:19:28.120 your body to it if you do so an ability can be there but the competence you could hand me

01:19:36.780 the exact same paintbrush and canvas and paints that that rembrandt used i have the tools now i

01:19:48.740 have everything needed everything that he used to paint what he painted and i pick it up and i dip

01:19:58.580 it in the paints that he used and i got and it's garbage now you would think the ability is there

01:20:06.420 because i have the equipment i have everything necessary but i'm not a competent artist and no

01:20:13.480 matter how much i practice odds dictate i will never reach that level of proficiency

01:20:20.140 that leonardo da vinci or rembrandt or any of your famous classical artists attained

01:20:27.660 so it just just because you say you can do it because you're a person i'm a person i can do

01:20:38.040 this it's not dei i'm just put in this position and i have everything i need to do this well

01:20:44.400 yeah i don't think uh i don't think you're doing it right i think you're terrible at it

01:20:52.020 we've been told too many years and this goes so far back oh many years ago and it seems like

01:21:01.440 yesterday but many years ago when we started hearing about baseball games for kids softball

01:21:08.580 games football games that they weren't going to keep score on remember that oh they stopped

01:21:15.160 keeping score trophies no one gets trophies exceptional classes no no no everyone is

01:21:23.020 exceptional so they don't all go in the uh they don't have an exceptional class there were

01:21:29.840 exceptional kids there were there were people that were very good at at doing certain things

01:21:36.700 and no one could achieve that and they just got rid of all that and said everyone can do anything

01:21:44.760 and now look where we are with incompetent people in positions they shouldn't be in

01:21:52.040 because people just told them you could do whatever you dream of please we'll be right back

01:22:01.680 anthony cumia oh what happened to the 90s i miss the 90s yeah it's so weird every generation you

01:22:14.620 know thinks their music was the best uh in the 90s you know that's kind of was my my bag man

01:22:22.780 and uh yeah i think it was the best what are you gonna do i appreciate 80s that was fun 70s was

01:22:31.040 you know smoke some pot let zeppelin 60s that's my parents stuff 50 blah blah blah blah bang all

01:22:39.240 right how far are you going anthony uh but yeah 90s yeah it's kind of where i early twos because

01:22:47.180 it kind of was an extension of the 90s but after that by me no clue uh the the i want to talk a

01:22:56.020 little more about this hands-off protest that took place a bunch of people that seem to be

01:23:03.000 paid or mentally ill a lot of boomers a lot of older people there were uh some protesters

01:23:13.660 complaining they're like where are the young people they should be here protesting hands off 0.89

01:23:19.540 elon musk and donald trump shouldn't have the power the fascist and it's like you know where 0.99

01:23:26.520 young kids are uh they they hate you they hate you and your woke nonsense they love the the 0.98

01:23:38.800 rabble rousing of trump musk and and uh they just don't get it again they feel that we're the mental 0.98

01:23:49.060 patience but show me clips show me clips i'll show you people in in doggy outfits 0.97

01:23:55.420 the most hideous men dressed as women uh trying to talk like women they're they're from monster

01:24:06.560 movies and we're supposed to go maybe this person has a point i can't get past looking at him because 0.71

01:24:13.540 I'm in fear for for my life.

01:24:15.560 But yeah, maybe they may have a good point.

01:24:18.600 So these protests were taking place all over the country.

01:24:21.840 So spontaneous.

01:24:22.980 You know how a national protest in every major city, liberal city, just comes grassroots.

01:24:31.600 It just happens naturally and organically, doesn't it?

01:24:35.460 Hmm.

01:24:36.120 They're not being paid.

01:24:37.460 This wasn't a thing choreographed by the left.

01:24:41.800 Of course not. But their main thing was hands off. And that's very telling. Hands off what? That's what I kind of looked at. I'm like, hands off what? So I looked into it and it seems to be it's hands off Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security and veterans benefits.

01:25:07.360 There's a bunch of things that if you listened, you'd go, wow, has Trump pulled benefits from veterans, people that served our great land, Medicaid and Medicare, old, poor old people that are sick, aren't getting the care they need because Donald Trump and Elon Musk pulled the money out from under them.

01:25:37.360 social security people work their whole lives they put into social security they want to retire

01:25:43.380 and they aren't getting checks because donald trump and elon musk have cut social security

01:25:53.820 so i go i'm i'm gonna look into this let me look and uh here's what i found

01:26:01.420 as far as social security medicaid goes donald trump has not cut any social security benefits

01:26:10.420 any and this is despite claims and concerns that you see online the trump administration

01:26:18.980 repeatedly stated its commitment to protecting social security and medicare and medicaid benefits

01:26:25.140 A White House statement from March 11th of 2025, about a month ago, explicitly said the Trump administration will not cut Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare benefits.

01:26:36.000 President Trump himself has said over and over again, this aligns with Trump's public promises, including February 18th, 2025 statement on Fox News.

01:26:47.120 He said Social Security won't be touched other than if there's fraud or something.

01:26:55.140 Now, I think we can all agree that if there's fraud or something,

01:27:02.040 that perhaps, yeah, that should be cut.

01:27:08.640 Well, he didn't.

01:27:10.880 He's talking about cutting the fat bloat and corruption in Social Security.

01:27:18.720 Employees that were put on the books for Social Security.

01:27:23.600 how about that as far as va benefits go he hasn't cut veterans benefits he actually signed a va mission

01:27:33.420 act in 2018 which expanded veterans access to private health care options paid for by the

01:27:40.080 government and increased va funding increased va funding that so hands off what hands off 0.99

01:27:50.720 politicians with their hands in our damn pockets that's what i say morons be right back don't go 0.99

01:27:59.260 anywhere the anthony cumia show anthony cumia show welcome back as we begin our illustrious third hour 1.00

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01:30:15.400 It's Ask Anthony Anything.

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01:30:30.420 Dear Casey, I'd like to ask you a question.

01:30:35.100 Hey, Anthony.

01:30:36.440 I noticed in recent years how you become more calm and composed during your shows.

01:30:43.560 Really?

01:30:44.900 All right.

01:30:46.380 You don't yell and scream like you used to in the old ONA days on the radio.

01:30:52.900 Is this because you had heart surgery?

01:30:55.340 Has the surgery affected your speech in some way?

01:30:59.520 Or are you just not the same angry young man anymore?

01:31:04.320 Love the show.

01:31:05.240 listen all the way from germany thanks no name well adolf uh well no i'll answer you because

01:31:15.620 ask anthony anything um no no any medical stuff i've been through uh during my life has never

01:31:25.920 had a bearing on how i feel or react or talk about any any topic um the ona show was from

01:31:37.180 when i was 35 till i guess wow what was i in 50 uh 40 53 i guess i was 53 years old so

01:31:52.560 uh 35 45 maybe 55 about 20 years 20 years let's say and uh 35 to 55 is a pretty different

01:32:06.860 uh attitude in in one's life 35 is your 20s i don't care what anyone says you cross that

01:32:16.620 threshold from 29 to 30 and you lose your mind you go that's it i'm done no more fun i'm out of

01:32:24.780 my 20s i'm now a 30 something douche not true you will continue your 20s right into your 30s swear

01:32:37.180 swear uh and the only thing that really pulls the reins back on that spirit of you in your 20s

01:32:48.020 is your your age but it's not 30s and you could even coast into your 40s you'll start doing

01:32:56.040 things different making maybe some wiser decisions about your life than you did in your 20s but you're

01:33:03.000 still up for a good party and hanging out with your friends and drinking and you know maybe

01:33:08.400 doing some other things you shouldn't be doing um so you know you just it's it's kind of how

01:33:17.640 uh how it goes between your 20s and and even your 40s

01:33:23.720 50 let me tell you a little bit about 50 50 is a wall that you think

01:33:33.000 You're going to hit.

01:33:34.900 So you're ready for it and prepared for it.

01:33:38.380 But you don't hit it.

01:33:40.700 You go into 50 from your 40s pretty much feeling like you did in your 20s.

01:33:47.260 I kid you not.

01:33:49.220 Oh, I understand.

01:33:51.300 You may have gotten a touch of the gout.

01:33:53.920 You might limp a little.

01:33:55.940 You wake up and go, oh, try to put your underwear on.

01:33:59.940 That leg don't come up high enough as easy as it used to 0.99

01:34:04.160 to put it in that frigging hole, does it? 0.97

01:34:07.520 But you're still the same mindset. 0.99

01:34:11.240 You're still, if you were an angry young man,

01:34:13.320 you're an angry middle-aged man.

01:34:15.340 I get it.

01:34:18.360 And then you go through your 50s constantly looking for the wall.

01:34:23.780 Where is it? 1.00

01:34:25.320 Where's the damn wall? 0.99

01:34:27.380 let me tell you where the wall is your birthday at 60 that my friends is where a lot changes 0.99

01:34:42.140 maybe not even so much mentally but the physical part of it is so drastic that it affects the 0.99

01:34:52.640 part of it you're still 20 in your head you're still a piece of crap but um you're just you 1.00

01:35:01.220 don't have the potential of being such a jerk such an ass in your uh 60s being loud you're like 1.00

01:35:12.840 why why bother you hearken back to all your years of experience at that point you go 1.00

01:35:19.000 i could yell but yeah and then some of the other oh and a things we did was shock jockery we were

01:35:30.040 shock jocks so it's very difficult to um continue being that because you just feel creepy it's just

01:35:39.140 not a thing to do and and i'm not saying that that that wall uh in your 60s means that it's

01:35:46.560 over it's close but uh there's just certain things that that happen in your mind and body

01:35:54.560 that you're just kind of like yeah what am i what am i bothering you get grandfathered in

01:35:58.460 you don't have to yell because you're allowed to say anything at this point people just go

01:36:04.800 ah look at him let him say what he wants so while i haven't uh you know as you put it calmed down

01:36:13.800 um it's just i guess the the natural occurrence of of putting a few years under your belt and

01:36:22.520 realizing what the hell am i yelling about and i still kind of yell on this show i think

01:36:27.600 i think i have you might have heard it uh but thank you thank you from germany you didn't leave

01:36:35.060 a name but uh yeah ask anthony anything we'll put the um the email address up i should have had that

01:36:41.640 written down shouldn't i guys did i fail miserably i failed miserably i'll have that though next time

01:36:47.140 next week with jim norton when i'm in studio in new york at wabc um this is alice from ohio let's

01:36:56.320 take a phone call alice how you doing alice very well very well i like your spirit and uh your

01:37:03.600 assessment of the ages is good thank you alice but sometimes we put up our own walls you know

01:37:11.020 Yeah, man, man, I know, you're right.

01:37:14.600 But I like your spirit, and just keep it up.

01:37:18.420 You're a great addition.

01:37:20.460 Thank you.

01:37:21.920 Well, you're welcome, and you deserve it.

01:37:24.620 Do you know, I have a bone to pick with, we don't have statesmen anymore,

01:37:29.840 with the likes of Crockett and, what's her name, Presley in Pennsylvania.

01:37:36.800 Presley, oh, God, they're embarrassing, yes.

01:37:39.380 AOC. They're disgusting. You know what? Well, for one thing, when when Jasmine Crockett said she was hired for DEI, she doesn't have a brain, but she filled in a place, you know, you know, she checked the right box. Right. 1.00

01:37:54.260 But let me tell you something. I am a descendant of a man who died the 2nd of July of 1863, fighting the Battle of Gettysburg. He was in the Pennsylvania 6th Cavalry. It was a volunteer regiment.

01:38:11.360 and he's buried in that cemetery where lincoln gave the gettysburg address and my my ancestor

01:38:22.420 fought so that she could she could have such a big mouth and insult everyone in this country

01:38:28.080 and she you know what i uh it it it gets to you you know it's a shame it's a shame that that so

01:38:38.760 many uh noble soldiers fought and died yes uh for an idea for for america and and yes something they

01:38:48.540 didn't even know what it would be the future of america and they assumed i am fighting and perhaps

01:38:56.680 putting my life on the line for a better nation that i am standing in right now and and it's so

01:39:04.640 heartbreaking to think that oh my god did they fight for a future nation that is so much worse

01:39:12.000 than the one they were fighting for uh that's that's troubling that's very sad

01:39:18.260 it is and he was a volunteer he yeah yeah it was his idea i have visited his grave

01:39:27.240 and then something else i'm hopping around you mentioned social social security it was lbj who

01:39:32.240 dipped into the social security oh yeah project yes that lbj when he's not uh dipping into social 0.99

01:39:38.760 security he's uh blowing the head off of uh one of our presidents that son of a bitch yes yes and 0.99

01:39:45.040 how about the the location when he where he held press conferences did you know about that in the 1.00

01:39:51.460 in the toilet he would sit on the toilet yeah actually uh defecating into his toilet and tell

01:39:59.820 the his people to bring the media in and that's where they would ask him questions what a piece 0.96

01:40:04.640 he was he was disgusting absolutely disgusting so this is you know this is what the democrats have

01:40:11.240 to uh you know you know aren't they proud and we have someone who really wants to make something

01:40:18.540 of this world and he doesn't need the money he's giving it back uh it's because he loves this

01:40:26.160 country and they're killing him for it they're killing him for it alice him and elon and and

01:40:33.120 they can't say enough bad stuff stuff that is literally threatening these two men's lives

01:40:40.580 uh for what you want these these politicians that have been crooked for forever to steal more of

01:40:49.100 your money and also these protesters this is how they make a living they should be ashamed of

01:40:55.660 themselves and then another thing too the people who call president trump a nazi probably have no

01:41:04.260 idea what went on uh in germany they have no idea who adolf hitler was what a bad man he was no clue

01:41:11.300 no fun absolutely no no totally uninformed oh alice i i appreciate your call i appreciate your

01:41:20.520 compliments and uh thank you for your support uh alice oh hi we need more of you we need more of

01:41:27.700 you more of me i'll clone myself thank you alice you're uh you're quite a deer look at me i'm a

01:41:35.180 i'm a talk show host taking calls from alice from ohio who saw that coming i sure didn't

01:41:44.040 uh there's other stuff going on this is uh representatives women that were elected

01:41:52.540 to congress i'm not kidding you they were and uh the the amazing thing here

01:42:00.380 they think they should get time off for being women and doing what women do occasionally you

01:42:11.000 know have kids men and women very different i don't care what some of these nuts say men can

01:42:18.340 give birth women are men men are women they can't even even define woman uh but boy they sure want

01:42:29.520 this this privilege of getting time off when they want to have a baby i think it's a decision you

01:42:37.660 made and sorry some things are you know if you go into a certain occupation uh perhaps

01:42:45.460 you're you're not going to be able to do that job if you're you decide to have kids

01:42:50.800 uh is is congress one of those jobs maybe let's hear from this is a representative anna paulina

01:42:59.140 luna britney petterson and some third woman i don't know who this is but listen to this logic

01:43:07.360 if you will. Historically, it's been much more wealthy, you know, older men who serve in

01:43:15.560 Congress. This isn't designed for young families and for young women especially. Congress was

01:43:20.500 designed and built for old white men to represent themselves. And, you know, it's, we've made a lot 0.98

01:43:27.080 of progress since then. We get into it because we're public servants and we care about representing

01:43:31.320 our community, but there should be some accommodations for family things that come up like the birth

01:43:37.780 of a child. It's not like I'm faking, you know, to go party in Cabo, right? Like I'm actually

01:43:42.720 trying to A, recover, but then B, also care for a newborn. Our job is to represent people, and

01:43:47.700 I'm a 35-year-old woman. All of my friends are going through this problem right now.

01:43:53.180 That is representing people. American people are not just single, you know, older men

01:43:59.100 with or without children i want to be able to represent my community and i want to be able

01:44:05.120 to have a family and it shouldn't be so hard to figure out how to do both no it should it should

01:44:11.360 be hard because it's unreasonable to think that that's a thing that should happen uh some people 0.88

01:44:19.620 women i guess would be offended by what i'm saying they should be able to do any job and 1.00

01:44:28.660 then if they get pregnant and have a kid they need three months off a quarter of a year off from 1.00

01:44:38.500 whatever they're doing no matter how important that job is because they're pregnant and if you 1.00

01:44:47.380 think that's bad if you think that's not a good idea you are a misogynistic piece of crap and 0.99

01:44:54.380 um you know that's that's how you're seen you hear how they talk about men 1.00

01:45:00.660 the men and the white man and the yeah men are better at doing jobs uh that need their attention

01:45:14.700 all the time 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year regardless of

01:45:23.800 babies. Having a kid is a job. That's your job. You can't go to a job and say, well, I have a

01:45:33.580 second job. Well, what is it? Well, I'm going to have a kid. When? Don't know. So you have a second

01:45:40.880 job that's going to take away from the job you're doing, but you can't quite tell me when that's

01:45:46.880 going to be. Yeah, you got it. That's that's exactly it. But how does that work? How in the

01:45:59.040 hell can can somebody demand that of of an employer? It makes no sense whatsoever. It's

01:46:09.240 called traditional roles we have had roles in life as men and women am i am i am i teaching 1.00

01:46:20.580 people anything new because if you don't know this you're stupid these are traditional roles 0.99

01:46:27.260 that men and women take up because uh they're men and women you didn't see women building the 1.00

01:46:37.900 railroads mining building uh structures for a new town out west they sat in the wagon while the man

01:46:49.240 fought the engines and and drove the the horses ah you cared for a kid if you had him on the prairie

01:47:00.920 for some reason in uh this century and a portion of the last uh women seem to think that that's

01:47:11.460 just the thing like if a man gets a hangnail and he clips it off it's like i'll be right back

01:47:16.840 what happened ah this nail oh i gotta clip it off he's back in a minute and ready to do his job

01:47:23.180 again women three months i'll be back maybe maybe maybe my kid will have special needs and 1.00

01:47:30.460 i'll come back in six months that's insane and these congresswomen 1.00

01:47:37.740 talking like they have this uh uh privilege to just leave their job you got the job 0.99

01:47:49.380 because the people wanted you to represent their needs in washington not represent their needs

01:47:58.820 nine months out of 12 because you're having a kid i need my my uh platform my my principles

01:48:09.000 my my politics i need that represented all the time you're my go-to person if i want to write

01:48:20.520 a letter or make a phone call or whatever it is uh my concerns that i have as one of your

01:48:30.060 constituents i want to know you're there and they're making it like it's just some

01:48:35.740 a receptionist job at a hair cutter are you a barista you're at starbucks and they're going

01:48:44.680 to give you three months off to have a baby godspeed have a pisser but if you're representing

01:48:51.440 people if they voted you in and gave you the trust to go to washington and and tell the powers that

01:48:59.980 be what your people need yeah three months might be a little too long to take uh take off

01:49:07.120 what what what entitlement what entitlement they they believe they have it's disgusting i tell you

01:49:16.920 all right we'll be back vegas is dying apparently we'll talk about it anthony cumia show

01:49:23.840 anthony cumia show next sunday the great jim norton james norton comedian extraordinaire

01:49:33.960 will be joining me in studio up in new york city live so i have been looking forward to this since

01:49:41.540 we booked it uh quite a while ago me jim doing a radio show enjoy um i do appreciate your support

01:49:50.160 uh look people that have known me over the course of the years know i do enjoy playing a card game

01:49:56.760 or two and uh my home base the borgata atlantic city but i'll go out to vegas if there's some

01:50:05.240 shindig going on out there uh i've gone out with many friends i've gone out with uh when we do a

01:50:10.860 comedy show gab and josh and myself have done comedy shows out there and um i've had fun i've

01:50:19.220 fun but i have noticed something that isn't very good atlantic city vegas those are really the only

01:50:31.100 two don't tell me about your chicago casinos your india all right all right the indian casinos in

01:50:39.600 connecticut all right those are pretty good uh but hey we got to see every every time i've gone

01:50:48.360 to a city i went to detroit and people know i play cards i like playing blackjack and whatnot

01:50:54.820 and they go oh we got a casino it's right up the you know up the road wherever and i've never gone

01:51:02.300 there and gone what a lovely place what a beautiful casino what wonderful clientele

01:51:10.080 they have here i i almost don't want to win because i'd be in fear for my life walking

01:51:19.200 away from the cage with the payout and by the cage i mean uh where the money is not where

01:51:26.380 most of the clientele should be housed uh none of them are nice places or casinos

01:51:33.400 Borgata and Atlantic City amazing it's the most Vegas like hotel casino your casino you're going

01:51:41.980 to get outside of Vegas so you go to Vegas now and sorry oh you got your big dome thing your big

01:51:52.440 bubble your ball your you got your zip lines you have your uh street entertainment do you 0.64

01:52:03.260 it's garbage and you think i'm uh speaking uh out of school here just look at look at the revenue 0.98

01:52:15.540 and try not to blame it on the economy or anything gambling casinos 0.98

01:52:22.640 they they feel it during economic crunches but not nearly as much as other businesses and we're

01:52:31.320 really not in that bad of an economic crunch to not want to gamble it's literally a problem it's

01:52:39.560 an addiction people aren't going to go i just can't afford my addiction today so uh vegas it

01:52:47.720 seems the latest financial reports are out down 14 percent on the year 14 percent people just are

01:52:59.800 not going uh to vegas uh to gamble why would they i've been there i know how it goes it's not uh

01:53:13.520 it's not pretty it's not it's not a pretty sight very expensive the games stink they stink now

01:53:24.400 what happened what happened to casinos that take care of of their their clientele i don't know i

01:53:37.960 don't know we watch uh a movie like casino de niro remember the end they showed old vegas being

01:53:50.320 dynamited all the buildings coming down and De Niro's voiceover you know a writer wrote it for

01:53:58.380 him so it wasn't cackling rambling garbage but he talks about the old Vegas and how it's different

01:54:08.240 now and the parents use up their kids college fund while the kids play paper pirates on 0.89

01:54:16.320 these these fake pirate ships on in these hotels and it's just not the old days they don't know

01:54:24.560 your name they'll make you fill out tax forms if you win uh that was the 90s that movie came out

01:54:35.860 like 30 20 some odd 30 years ago

01:54:40.040 and now you look and realize oh my god that is what is now and it's even worse

01:54:52.040 i i got a couple of uh where are they here i got a couple of uh posts on x twitter if you will

01:55:02.520 and um here's what people were writing under the post that said that vegas is down and

01:55:09.980 they don't know why hmm one post is between the labyrinth of sidewalks and walkways to maximize

01:55:17.480 spending stepping over bums avoiding slow parents with enormous strollers 24 7 resort fees

01:55:24.360 $15 coffees just to see the one $10 table is five people deep, 0.99

01:55:33.360 and the 20-manned 100 tables are empty, Vegas is garbage now. 0.94

01:55:42.180 And that's what's happening. 0.97

01:55:44.600 That's what's happening.

01:55:45.600 i can gamble in my basement with a one to two dollar beer any night of the week

01:55:54.940 i love vegas but not at those prices see people are disgusted honestly disgusted with what's going

01:56:05.020 on in vegas we'll talk about this a little more uh when we come back from this short break stick

01:56:11.140 around won't you oh i keep going i didn't know see see i didn't know i'm new to the no i'm kidding

01:56:19.860 of course all right we'll talk about more of it now here's another post and this is all i've been

01:56:26.100 there i've seen it the allure of vegas is gone it's like hollywood remember we thought hollywood 0.98

01:56:34.940 was tinsel town and celebrities star studded hollywood and vine ah hollywood it's garbage 0.75

01:56:42.640 uh here's another one it's hard to find a hamburger on the strip that doesn't have

01:56:47.980 a celebrity a celebrity chef brand or a price under 30 you're gonna pay 30 for a burger

01:56:56.000 yeah you are major league baseball park prices on the beers and cocktails there's zero value

01:57:04.920 in vegas only price gouging go elsewhere and they're wondering is it the economy it must be

01:57:13.040 a recession coming in uh another one the last one here that's what they deserve the casino used to

01:57:20.600 offer cheap buffets and comps now they offer nothing except a crappy overpriced experience

01:57:26.700 You can't find a regular blackjack table under $100 minimum bet.

01:57:32.800 F Vegas.

01:57:34.480 Yeah.

01:57:35.720 This isn't just Vegas, mind you.

01:57:38.980 But any casino you go to now, here's what they do.

01:57:45.740 It's all about slot machines. 1.00

01:57:50.920 Remember the mutants?

01:57:52.380 The old people with oxygen tanks rolling around that would sit at a slot machine and dump their kids' inheritance into it. 0.55

01:58:06.060 And you'd have to walk through the slots to get from your hotel room to the table games. 0.99

01:58:12.480 And you just look and go, ugh, disgusting savages. 0.99

01:58:18.100 Oh, look at these horrible people. 0.99

01:58:21.500 who does this and then you you hear do you know that the slot machines make more money at a casino

01:58:32.580 than any of the table games and you go okay i didn't know that but i know i know i don't care

01:58:40.360 i'm going to play blackjack for hours on end i'll start at the 10 table i'll build up a stack i'll

01:58:49.060 go to the 25, maybe $50 table. And then if God willing, things are going well, I'll go to a

01:58:56.040 hundred dollar table. Well, they've taken that out of the mix. Last time I was at a casino with

01:59:04.380 all my buddies, we could not find a $10 table or a $25 table. There were a couple of $50 tables,

01:59:14.600 but $100 tables were the norm and you want to a few of them get lost they gave up on table games

01:59:24.240 it's not financially viable why pay a dealer why pay a croupierery when you could put a machine

01:59:36.220 in the place and some ancient dope will sit in front of it and deposit his social security

01:59:46.640 checks into it without anyone having to be there why have to have a dealer why have to have anybody

01:59:55.580 with any charisma or rapport or personality that makes the experience you know fun why have that

02:00:05.500 we're just going to make more money well what did they realize 14 off from last year

02:00:14.580 because people don't want to go to vegas to play slot machines i can as can many people

02:00:23.880 go online well i can't i'm in south carolina they have a law here you can't do online gambling and

02:00:29.480 I'm pissed about it.

02:00:30.540 But most of the other states in our fair union, you can gamble online.

02:00:37.140 Now, you might go, I'm not getting the casino experience.

02:00:43.120 I'm not getting the excitement of sitting at a blackjack table.

02:00:47.480 Well, you're not getting that in Vegas either anymore, are you?

02:00:52.520 That was part of the allure.

02:00:55.020 Sitting at a blackjack table, you're losing, you're pissed.

02:00:58.740 You're winning? Everyone at the table is your bestest friend.

02:01:02.860 There's a crowd gathered around.

02:01:05.560 You're cheering when you win.

02:01:07.840 The dealer's telling you stories from the strip.

02:01:12.700 It's part of the experience.

02:01:18.060 And what do they do now?

02:01:20.580 Take five blackjack tables, trash them, put slot machines there.

02:01:26.840 Because they're just going to make the money?

02:01:28.740 yeah for the zombies that that gravitate toward them sit down and pump their money in

02:01:36.120 but you're not getting players you're not getting the whales that want to go to a casino

02:01:45.260 for the the experience the comps when i would go to the the borgata and get a suite 0.99

02:01:53.540 because they knew my ass was going to be in a blackjack seat 0.97

02:01:57.560 at one of their many tables 0.99

02:02:00.120 and thousands of dollars were going to go back and forth.

02:02:04.700 If I ended up with it, they were fine.

02:02:07.400 If the dealer ended up with it, they were more fine.

02:02:10.800 But I was treated like I was supposed to be treated

02:02:16.140 as a customer spending

02:02:20.100 and betting a lot of money in their establishment.

02:02:23.540 They just don't see that anymore.

02:02:26.320 It's astounding to think the mafia ran Vegas better than corporate America does.

02:02:34.760 They knew how to run casinos.

02:02:39.880 Even skimming off the top, they weren't losing 14% a year.

02:02:45.660 The casino was making money and they were making money.

02:02:49.200 and and and the people that came in were treated like gold and that was part of the allure and

02:02:57.400 that was what they knew they had to do to bring people back whether they it was a bad economy or 0.96

02:03:04.460 not the mafia knew what to do to make a casino successful and these dummies these dummies don't

02:03:15.120 even uh don't even know what they're doing ah rose rose from the sunshine state of florida what's 0.95

02:03:25.880 up oh god i hate to say that hi anthony but boy do i love you do i love you i can't tell you

02:03:33.140 something door i need to tell you something i would marry you but i'm sorry i am married

02:03:37.960 i am well you know what maybe uh we'll both get lucky and your husband will drop ted

02:03:44.360 anthony i don't know how old you are but i need to tell you something

02:03:48.680 i worked in washington i have a lot to tell you i'm gonna be

02:03:52.580 dc okay yeah all right but now i'm in florida you know yeah i get older

02:03:59.120 but you know what we're pissed i shouldn't say no that's okay pissed off 0.60

02:04:04.160 that's all right we're crazy your words you are so f real you are so real 0.79

02:04:09.580 Oh, we tried. Thank you, Rose.

02:04:12.160 No, you are the best, the best of radio.

02:04:16.600 That's crazy, right?

02:04:17.280 That's what I wanted to be, and I'm trying to do it down here.

02:04:19.620 Not radio, but I've got a lot of things that I want to do down here in Florida.

02:04:24.460 A lot of irons in the fire, they call it?

02:04:27.260 You got a lot of irons in the fire, Rose?

02:04:29.020 Well, here's my background.

02:04:31.180 I worked for a big, large real estate company in New York,

02:04:36.060 and uh i uh it was corcoran but i just i just want to go over that maybe i shouldn't have said

02:04:44.380 that no that's fine that's fine we'll bleep it out yeah thank you but you know something

02:04:50.620 yeah i know business and you are so on freaking target it's unbelievable and i'm sitting here

02:05:00.460 saying i've learned something over the years rose i've learned a few things over the years so

02:05:05.320 it's just experience you know that rose you sound extremely experienced thank you but i need to tell

02:05:13.400 you something i'm going to call in every time i want you to be successful and you should be one

02:05:18.120 of my regular callers no you need to be successful can i tell you why why you have common sense and

02:05:26.180 you know what i taught at nyu that's common sense here's what i taught at nyu aside from my job i

02:05:33.240 went at night and i had a teacher at nyu common sense is genius and blue jeans and guess what

02:05:40.420 you got it i got it thank you hey did you ever have a student named stuttering john melendez

02:05:47.520 at nyu he says he graduated from there but we all think no no you're not telling me this you're not

02:05:52.860 telling me this okay well rose uh anything else because i'm going to get on some other calls you

02:05:58.360 I appreciate you, but we're doing a show here.

02:06:02.760 Please do.

02:06:03.560 Go ahead, Rose.

02:06:04.180 Please.

02:06:05.100 Go ahead, Rose.

02:06:06.780 Go ahead, Rose.

02:06:07.960 But you did say I had a very big, beautiful 60th birthday,

02:06:13.940 but now I'm going to become 75.

02:06:16.180 Wait a minute.

02:06:16.640 Wait a minute.

02:06:16.920 Wait a minute.

02:06:18.660 I decided to move down to Florida, but I'm doing theater.

02:06:22.420 I'm doing a lot of politics, and I'm doing theater.

02:06:26.480 Theater?

02:06:27.180 Who?

02:06:27.560 Theater?

02:06:28.360 You're doing theater and politics and politics, but I have a lot, so much to share with you

02:06:34.720 during our times on air, but I am so proud of you.

02:06:39.660 Thank you, Rose.

02:06:41.560 And I love you too.

02:06:43.440 And yes, so excited.

02:06:45.360 I am so excited.

02:06:46.660 I just can't hide it.

02:06:49.160 Anyway, Rose, thank you for calling.

02:06:51.100 We better get down to the nitty gritty.

02:06:52.800 Yes, the gritty, the nitty, all of it.

02:06:55.540 I hear you, Rose.

02:06:56.280 thank you so much for calling and i appreciate your your audience your audience needs to know

02:07:02.200 that you are real i am so real it's crazy you're right rose thank you though but i gotta go uh

02:07:11.440 uh we will talk soon thank you rose i appreciate rose isn't that great

02:07:17.880 how did i get here i was a shock jock i was a shock jock i was on the opian anthony show

02:07:29.280 i used to put girls in 55 gallon drums now look at me no i i appreciate that i i i really do 0.99

02:07:40.320 We're getting so many women callers. 1.00

02:07:44.240 Susan.

02:07:45.620 Hi, Susan.

02:07:46.360 You're from upstate New York.

02:07:48.060 How are you?

02:07:49.840 Well, you know, I'm hanging in there, all things considered.

02:07:55.300 Yeah, but I listened to the beginning of your show on and off all night.

02:07:59.800 And you started talking about trying to discuss matters of what the country is going through to stop being a de facto bankrupt country.

02:08:16.940 And many people are basically very irrational.

02:08:20.980 You played some clips of people, and, you know, I've had to deal with some irrational people in my close circle, and their therapist told me that their beliefs were not founded in reality.

02:08:39.240 Oh.

02:08:39.500 Yeah. So when you have an irrational person that you know to be, then you have to understand that you cannot reason with them.

02:08:54.220 Right. And you may have to, I mean, you know, help them get into a place where they won't hurt others or hurt themselves.

02:09:03.700 Susan, can I ask you a question?

02:09:07.200 Yes.

02:09:07.600 gotta be honest i will have you been drinking tonight no you're not a drop

02:09:16.000 maybe brunch did you have a mimosa for brunch sunday you're allowed no no shame i wish but

02:09:24.120 no i've been pretty busy all day all right all right it sounded a little you know maybe you're

02:09:29.760 nervous it just sounded a little like uh like you'd been drinking no maybe a little emotional

02:09:36.500 oh a little emotional what's that vodka

02:09:40.020 no just everything that's going on i know i know susan look people are rational and you see it on

02:09:49.500 uh social media when you see these protesters and you can't argue with them you can't discuss

02:09:55.400 it with them you got neighbors like that up there in upstate new york that don't

02:09:59.020 No, not so much as I'm in a very conservative, 74 percent voted for Trump in my county.

02:10:08.320 Now that I moved away from New York City, but just in general, I know that there's like such a division and the people that are, you know, fighting just against Musk, trying to, you know, keep us from going completely off the cliff where we wouldn't be able to.

02:10:27.780 have all these things

02:10:30.080 being paid for. Susan?

02:10:32.580 Yes, darling.

02:10:34.340 Spritzer? Maybe a

02:10:36.020 wine spitzer? Noon?

02:10:38.240 It was nice out today, right? I know.

02:10:40.540 I've never drank a spritzer.

02:10:41.860 Nothing like that. Not a spritzer?

02:10:44.400 Not an espresso with

02:10:46.060 a little bucca? No,

02:10:48.100 I'm a little wound up right now

02:10:50.040 for a different reason.

02:10:51.700 Just me. Okay. Must be me.

02:10:54.200 Are you okay?

02:10:55.260 oh i'm fine i'm dandy i'm doing a radio show it's crazy right no you really are you're fun

02:11:01.580 to listen to thank you on sunday night i know not much fun going on on sunday but i i appreciate it

02:11:08.040 i agree with you wholeheartedly a lot of irrational people and i appreciate your call

02:11:12.260 susan i gotta move on but thank you thank you upstate new york have a shot for me there goes

02:11:17.980 susan who i absolutely think was drinking but she did a good job if i was a cop i'd i'd be like all

02:11:24.020 right you're free to go who am i to say and uh we'll take one more let me look one more call from

02:11:31.760 mr billy billy's here in vegas i guess he wants to talk about what i just talked about in vegas

02:11:38.080 Billy, what's up, my friend?

02:11:39.780 Hello, good to be coming up.

02:11:42.420 How you doing?

02:11:44.240 All right.

02:11:47.440 All right.

02:11:49.640 Thank you, we'll be coming up.

02:11:51.800 That's, it sounds like a harmonica, but it might be one of those, 0.98

02:11:56.120 he smoked too much kazoos. 1.00

02:11:58.720 I can't, you know.

02:12:00.400 My internet show, oh, boy, I would keep him on the line for two, three hours.

02:12:05.680 but um yeah not so much and then stock market paul from queens look the stock market took a

02:12:13.660 big hit over the past couple of days i think 3300 points it dropped a lot of blame being put on trump

02:12:21.060 and the tariffs let me see maybe paul has some insight paul from queens what's up man

02:12:26.900 So, Anthony, I want to say first off, I used to drive for a living, and I used to listen to you from 2000 to 2008 in that area, and you were great.

02:12:42.060 You made me sane when I was driving.

02:12:46.140 Thank you, Paul.

02:12:47.560 I think you were with Opie at the time.

02:12:49.620 Yes, yes.

02:12:50.500 But my thing is this.

02:12:53.120 Yes.

02:12:53.640 Before I was a driver, I worked in the stock market.

02:12:57.660 I was down to Wall Street.

02:12:59.960 And one thing I would say is this.

02:13:01.820 The top two market crashes were, which were actually three,

02:13:10.840 because you've got to count the 1929 stock market.

02:13:15.740 But I was a sperm.

02:13:17.140 I didn't hit my mom's embryo until like 1963.

02:13:20.500 So, you know, I was born.

02:13:23.920 I was out of that one.

02:13:25.280 A little biology.

02:13:26.720 87 was the first large stock market.

02:13:29.780 Yes, 87.

02:13:31.520 Yes, you remember that.

02:13:33.180 You know, that happened, and it's gone, and we're already at 40,000 points.

02:13:40.360 So we had COVID, they said, was the second worst.

02:13:44.620 That was a bad one, sure.

02:13:46.920 Yeah, but that doubled the market.

02:13:50.500 Because of Trump being in office and Biden screwed it up because he blew up the balloons, inflated the market.

02:14:00.500 And that's what happened.

02:14:02.220 But, Paul, I think, yeah, yeah, I think what you're trying to say here is it's a great buy opportunity, right?

02:14:13.360 Well, no, we didn't.

02:14:14.740 The market's still going to go up.

02:14:16.500 It may go down, but it will go up.

02:14:18.420 So I'm not too concerned about that.

02:14:22.460 That's kind of what I just said.

02:14:25.220 But thank you, Paul.

02:14:26.500 No, no, you're great, Paul.

02:14:28.500 Queens, I love Queens.

02:14:29.560 I love New York.

02:14:30.220 I'm going to be there next week.

02:14:31.440 Paul, thank you for the call.

02:14:34.480 Anytime I try to talk about the stock market, I should learn.

02:14:38.600 I should learn my lesson.

02:14:40.540 The tariffs. 1.00

02:14:41.940 It's the stock market and your goddamn tariffs. 0.99

02:14:45.660 so um yeah don't worry about it so much there's a little pain in everything and this is a little 0.99

02:14:55.340 pain nothing gets fixed without any bad thing if if if things could get fixed by politicians

02:15:03.300 without anything bad happening they'd fix everything but it doesn't get fixed because

02:15:08.880 they don't want to have to say yeah it might sting at first this could sting a little but

02:15:14.780 it's for the greater good in a little while things are going to be much better and i'm holding uh

02:15:22.200 fast to that one buy buy buy in my humble opinion i am not an investment company so uh it's just my

02:15:29.540 humble opinion is that this is a pretty good buy opportunity and we will be back in a matter of

02:15:35.540 seconds don't go anywhere anthony cumia show oh yeah anthony cumia show

02:15:41.920 man these shows whip on by don't they my goodness i do want to acknowledge a uh the death of an

02:15:52.480 actor recently i mean we all know his amazing work handsome boyish good looks blonde hair

02:16:02.900 yes jay north who played dennis the menace is uh dead he died uh i guess this evening 0.98

02:16:10.220 colon cancer which is fitting seeing that he was a pain in mr wilson's ass for so many years 0.99

02:16:17.240 yes dennis the menace is dead um we move on of course we were talking about uh what's that 0.99

02:16:29.980 oh oh is that we're almost done all right okay dominic carter is coming up my god man look what

02:16:37.980 WABC is doing

02:16:40.200 bringing Dominic Carter on

02:16:43.120 what's Dominic talking about tonight

02:16:45.240 hmm

02:16:47.200 hmm

02:16:48.120 do I hear Dominic

02:16:50.220 hello

02:16:51.480 thought we were doing a crossover

02:16:54.000 yeah

02:16:57.320 alright

02:16:58.920 well shouldn't I just do my show

02:17:01.540 why did you

02:17:04.100 keep going

02:17:05.520 I'm hearing a voice in my ear

02:17:07.160 It's like, what, what, do you want to cross over?

02:17:11.560 All right.

02:17:12.560 Yeah, I wanted to talk.

02:17:15.140 We'll fix it.

02:17:16.280 We'll fix it in the mix.

02:17:17.860 Don't worry, people.

02:17:20.540 Where's that frigging thing I had just before? 0.78

02:17:23.920 Yeah. 0.90

02:17:24.140 By the way, the tariffs and everything.

02:17:25.840 Taiwan has already agreed to drop all tariffs on the United States,

02:17:28.740 joining India, Israel, Vietnam, and Cambodia,

02:17:31.180 who also intend to zero out their tariffs.

02:17:34.580 So, you know, everyone thinks the tariffs are just there and they're never going away.

02:17:39.840 And it's just like, oh, no, turmoil, the stock market, they hate us.

02:17:46.960 It's like it's meant to make the other country capitulate.

02:17:55.800 They are harmed way more financially with American tariffs than we are by them,

02:18:03.720 by anything they do let's be real people think we put in tariffs it affects us our market goes down

02:18:10.940 our prices go up and we scream and and everyone yells and gets mad at trump and then uh the other

02:18:17.320 countries are just like ha ha look look at them suffer no they are suffering 10 times worse by

02:18:24.480 not having our goods and services and and having tariffs put on their goods and services

02:18:31.840 it's a ploy it's a bargaining chip a tactic it doesn't he doesn't put tariffs in place to go

02:18:40.540 well there it is forever and ever those are our tariffs gotta love a good tariff it it ends

02:18:48.120 because the other countries go oh my god we can't take this anymore so relax bye bye bye

02:18:57.660 bye bye bye bye um yeah don't worry so much uh about that nonsense all right

02:19:06.580 all right i guess we could take another uh uh call let's go oh look at this it's uh michael

02:19:15.180 talk to michael michael what's up man yo michael rockland never heard you before

02:19:22.820 oh i love you you look at this you're you're you're me day one and i'm you i think

02:19:29.740 isn't that crazy day one and i'm you already you listen to me one show and you go this guy

02:19:36.340 is saying what i'm thinking exactly i love it very good i love it too thank you uh michael

02:19:45.040 where where uh you're from rockland how old a gentleman are you if i may survey

02:19:48.620 uh i'm over 60 okay well who isn't these days well i get it all right michael thank you man

02:19:57.880 i appreciate uh uh the call that's pretty good here's uh matt matt from the bronx matt what's

02:20:06.340 up my friend hey good evening uh anthony how are you doing well i'm doing very well i appreciate

02:20:13.480 it thanks all right terrific uh so i know we don't have a lot of time but i wanted to point

02:20:18.460 your direction to a great book on the immigration question. It's called The Culture of Critique by

02:20:24.140 Dr. Kevin MacDonald. I have heard of that. Yeah, okay, so great. So basically, I'd really highly

02:20:31.520 recommend it to anybody who wants to understand how we got to this situation, starting with the

02:20:36.240 1965 Immigration Act that was passed during the Johnson administration. A lot of things happened

02:20:41.840 by Johnson in the mid-60s that screwed this country, but enough said. Go ahead. Yeah, definitely.

02:20:49.320 So, you know, really, Chuck Schumer was really being disingenuous when he said that the Great Replacement is simply a conspiracy theory.

02:20:58.240 Listen, the Great Replacement is all over in front of you.

02:21:01.020 Every time you walk down the street, when you look at MS-13 out on Long Island in the suburbs, decapitating American teenage girls in a public park, that's not a conspiracy theory.

02:21:12.660 You know, it's literally in everybody's backyard.

02:21:14.880 It's no longer the border states.

02:21:16.780 It's in every state of the union. 1.00

02:21:18.460 You know, the Democrats and the liberals, starting in 1965, turned this country upside down and inside out with massive third world immigration. 1.00

02:21:28.780 Yeah, that was part of the plan. 1.00

02:21:30.520 Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead.

02:21:31.680 No, it was part of the plan. It's exactly what you're saying.

02:21:33.940 Like, people want to make it sound like a conspiracy theory because then you're crazy for believing it.

02:21:39.120 he believes in flying saucers and the Loch Ness Monster and that immigrants were purposefully

02:21:44.420 brought into this country to undermine uh American values and the electoral system and everything

02:21:49.980 but it's it's not that's true that's real it's not a conspiracy sure and again you know it's 0.66

02:21:58.080 going to be the death of this country and every other European majority country if something is

02:22:03.160 not done to avert it uh and again so again we I know we don't have a lot of time really 0.98

02:22:08.180 We put flying that book in the audience, The Cultural Critique by Dr. Kevin McDonald.

02:22:13.140 You had to find out how we got to this situation in order to solve it.

02:22:16.860 Cool, Matt.

02:22:17.420 Thank you.

02:22:17.720 I appreciate it.

02:22:18.440 Thank you, man.

02:22:20.060 Where's Matt?

02:22:21.460 Where's Matt?

02:22:23.040 There's one more thing maybe we can get to real quick.

02:22:26.260 I know we only have a minute here about.

02:22:29.400 Yeah, we're going to have to wait on that.

02:22:31.680 I'm going to be on Dominic Carter's show.

02:22:34.200 a quick little

02:22:35.660 crossover as I was talking about before

02:22:38.560 because Dominic's

02:22:40.620 coming on after my show here on

02:22:42.600 Sundays on WABC New York

02:22:44.680 so we're gonna

02:22:46.260 see what he's talking

02:22:48.640 about see what he's about

02:22:50.600 man

02:22:52.000 other than that

02:22:54.740 what a fun filled show

02:22:56.640 don't forget next week on

02:22:58.480 this show Sunday night

02:23:00.900 8pm Jim

02:23:02.600 norton uh you you know i i did a show with jim norton for many many years i adore the man

02:23:08.780 and uh it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun uh talking with the little jimmy so join us next

02:23:16.660 week until then arrivederci everybody anthony cumia show thanks for listening

The Anthony Cumia Show - April 07, 2025

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