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00:01:00.020 Oh, yes. It is the Anthony Cumia Show. It is Sunday night. I am actually here live in New York City.

00:01:10.880 I'm beside myself, I think they call that, beside myself that this is actually happening.

00:01:17.600 I'm doing broadcast radio.

00:01:19.600 I'm in New York City, and I have one of my favorite people here as a guest tonight.

00:01:26.600 I thought he died in 1945.

00:01:34.760 Yes, the inimitable voice of my guest for the entire show.

00:01:39.980 I took the segment thing and threw it away because my guest will be here.

00:01:45.380 comedian, extraordinaire, actor, mediocre, and a good friend of mine, Jim Norton.

00:01:53.080 Jimmy.

00:01:53.820 Delighted.

00:01:54.440 I am, like I said, I'm stunned that this is even a thing.

00:01:57.980 It is crazy.

00:01:58.920 We're on radio in New York again and looking out the window at Carr.

00:02:03.420 It's so bizarre to be on regular radio in New York.

00:02:05.800 It is.

00:02:06.360 And I was thinking about that.

00:02:07.540 The last time this happened was K-Rock.

00:02:10.220 I think that was the last time we were on broadcast radio together.

00:02:13.540 Or we would do K-Rock in the morning and then do the walkover to XM Satellite Radio.

00:02:19.160 And that was many, many years ago.

00:02:22.940 I remember that you had to put the shopping cart had to be pushed and all the equipment.

00:02:26.160 It was such a nightmare.

00:02:27.000 Oh, it had like some kind of archaic satellite system in it.

00:02:31.460 And, you know, yes, yes, Steve would, you know, push it.

00:02:35.520 And you would buy inappropriate magazines from the magazine stands.

00:02:41.120 That's right.

00:02:41.800 Yeah.

00:02:42.140 Something inches.

00:02:43.000 Yeah, it was really fun, but it was inconvenient.

00:02:49.520 It kind of broke the show up a little bit.

00:02:51.660 Some days were great.

00:02:53.100 Some were like, oh, my God, get us over to the studio.

00:02:56.060 But Rich Voss used to stop at some of the restaurants along the way and do impromptu, spontaneous stand-up for people that, you know, it was early in the morning.

00:03:05.620 They're just trying to get their bagel and coffee, and they're like, ah, sir, what are you eating there, sir?

00:03:10.160 And the last thing they wanted was just to be teased by an abrasive man.

00:03:14.180 He's just so abrasive.

00:03:15.700 Even when people like him, they don't really like him because he's just abrasive.

00:03:18.600 No, no.

00:03:18.960 So if you're minding your business having your coffee in the morning, that's the last thing you want.

00:03:22.960 My voice is a little scratchy, you can tell, but a little cold.

00:03:25.940 Oh, what was it in the back of it?

00:03:29.300 There he goes.

00:03:30.940 Oh, boy.

00:03:31.440 It's not what you think.

00:03:32.260 Just dab it in a little NyQuil and shove it back there and see how you do.

00:03:39.000 Yeah.

00:03:40.020 I'm a little clogged.

00:03:42.360 Also, E-Rock is sitting in just to watch, but I have to acknowledge that he's here.

00:03:47.600 E-Rock's been such a part of our satellite radio thing over the course of the years.

00:03:51.940 And then he was working with me over at Compound Media for almost a decade.

00:03:56.220 So, E-Rock, how are you, sir?

00:03:58.360 I'm good.

00:03:58.880 I'm here because I didn't think you'd have enough to make fun of for three hours.

00:04:01.740 So I figured I might as well come in.

00:04:03.420 It was fodder.

00:04:04.200 Yes.

00:04:05.240 I'm trying to put up a little.

00:04:06.660 Fodder for a feeder.

00:04:07.260 fodder and fodder every day it's so mean i know hold on a second i'm trying to put up a little

00:04:14.320 post oh you're posting on social media i really am an old man at this point my i got my my glasses

00:04:21.180 on i'm hitting the wrong buttons i'm panicking it's so hard to keep up with it and you don't

00:04:26.640 want to if you make one mistake you could be brilliant uh at posting in the internet if you

00:04:32.000 make one mistake in front of people's like okay boomer yeah all right boomer it happened uh i was

00:04:37.680 doing a sales meeting here from my house and i it works every single time and then i'm there

00:04:44.080 on camera going wait they can't hear me and it's just me pushing and trying to sign language

00:04:50.220 the sponsor and the sales staff and i'm like wait one minute i got it like i'm just a buff i look

00:04:56.080 like a buffoon plus the 24 font size on the phone doesn't help either yeah well that's you know but

00:05:01.680 I got my crazy big glasses.

00:05:03.680 These are my Sheriff Chief Brody glasses from Jaws.

00:05:06.980 God, they are Chief Brody glasses.

00:05:08.440 Yes, yeah, yeah.

00:05:09.360 Awesome.

00:05:10.040 Hope you have a Quint ending.

00:05:16.080 Jimmy.

00:05:17.100 I know.

00:05:17.680 It's so good.

00:05:18.460 It really is.

00:05:19.900 It's been so long.

00:05:22.160 Yeah.

00:05:22.580 And like I said, I wasn't looking for a gig.

00:05:25.760 Sure.

00:05:25.940 And in their infinite wisdom here, they decided to hire me because you were over at SiriusXM Satellite Radio with the Opie and Anthony show.

00:05:37.140 And back in 2014, I guess it was, I got the boot.

00:05:41.500 It was July 4th weekend.

00:05:43.400 Yes.

00:05:43.860 We were off.

00:05:44.780 I remember where I was when my ex, Jen, called me and told me that something happened.

00:05:49.340 What was her birth name?

00:05:51.640 Well, it's funny.

00:05:53.540 Because that is who I was on a date with.

00:05:57.640 Not Jen, but let's just say another young lady.

00:06:00.200 Oh, okay.

00:06:01.220 Wow, it goes back that far?

00:06:02.900 Oh, God almighty.

00:06:04.000 Not with Nikki.

00:06:04.780 It was another girl.

00:06:05.480 But, yeah, this is before I met Nikki.

00:06:07.020 Okay, okay.

00:06:08.240 So, yeah, it was, you know, back then I remember because I had just also bought a brand new Jaguar.

00:06:15.880 Because the money is just rolling in.

00:06:18.120 Nothing can stop us.

00:06:19.360 And I'm like, oh, God, what am I going to do?

00:06:25.440 It was like I talk about not having regrets, and it's easier once you go through, especially years, to look back and go, well, I'm happy where I am now and what's going on.

00:06:36.860 But at that moment, and you were through one of those also at NEW when we got fired for the Sex for Sam, St. Pat's Cathedral debacle.

00:06:46.000 and there's nothing worse than right when it happens and and our agent calls and goes uh

00:06:53.480 they're they're um they're terminating you like oh my god what am i gonna do did i screw this up

00:06:59.880 am i gonna be back on a ladder and a rooftop uh putting in air conditioning and heating uh it was

00:07:05.480 frightening yes and then you you do realize and it's kind of comforting that uh in a few years

00:07:11.320 it takes that long sometimes you realize like oh i wouldn't be where i am now if it wasn't for that

00:07:17.040 and i always look at it like i'd have been fired 15 more times after that yeah so it doesn't really

00:07:23.680 matter but it was uh that was some stressful uh times it is losing a gig i remember when it

00:07:30.400 happened at anyw it's terrifying yeah because you're like i'm never going to make the money

00:07:33.960 again i'm never going to make this money i have no future there's nothing going to happen

00:07:39.460 Well, you were right.

00:07:40.340 I was just going to say it.

00:07:41.840 I knew I was too long of a setup.

00:07:43.820 I was just about to say, and I was right, but I handed it to you.

00:07:48.420 Thank you.

00:07:51.660 I handed it to you, and then I tied my shoes, and you put it where you should.

00:07:55.800 But it's so bizarre when you lose a gig.

00:07:58.520 You're like, nothing is ever going to come around again.

00:08:01.420 And even now, I'm not with Sirius.

00:08:03.960 It wasn't a firing.

00:08:04.960 It was kind of the way they did it.

00:08:07.380 But when you get that call like, yeah, we're not going to renew, I was like, all right.

00:08:11.520 And it's funny.

00:08:12.360 You miss knowing that the money's there.

00:08:14.220 Yes.

00:08:14.800 But nothing in my life has changed, like nothing.

00:08:17.280 Yeah.

00:08:17.740 I've seen no change whatsoever.

00:08:19.680 But I don't know.

00:08:21.740 Financial stability is a huge thing.

00:08:24.240 Yeah.

00:08:24.540 And having a steady check come in, you almost take it for granted after a while.

00:08:29.560 And you don't realize that, well, I might not need that.

00:08:33.220 And it gives you a little bit of power over your future.

00:08:37.380 You can go on and do what you want to do.

00:08:39.900 I wanted to go away every single weekend and work, and I wanted my wife to hook at a bus station.

00:08:44.040 So we're both kind of doing what we need to do to pay the bills.

00:08:46.880 That's what she was meant to do, hook at a bus station.

00:08:53.060 But, yeah, like, E-Rock has been the rat of XM satellite radio, Sirius XM.

00:08:59.500 He tells me everything going on.

00:09:01.080 And it's great because they just are making terrible decisions as far as talent goes and the whole thing of getting a celebrity with a name.

00:09:12.380 You know, just stick with you.

00:09:13.740 Absolutely.

00:09:14.740 Nothing that will help you, not at all.

00:09:17.380 I'm trying to say it without cursing.

00:09:19.540 It is a little tough, right?

00:09:20.920 It certainly is challenging.

00:09:22.180 It all starts with C.

00:09:23.260 yeah but that's what i've noticed over the course of the years is like

00:09:31.500 when we went there it was such a uh a change from radio especially xm more than than serious

00:09:37.820 but it was like this big change and they were all about not doing what radio does and now xm was

00:09:44.680 yeah xm was not serious xm and and it's so weird that that technology went from having to put a

00:09:51.060 satellite up orbiting the goddamn planet yeah and now you just pick your phone up and i could listen

00:09:56.720 to spotify and make my own playlist and things like that but the only real commodity left is

00:10:02.800 personality driven they can't just make that out of thin air and put it on so uh they'll they try

00:10:09.840 yeah yeah they try yeah well they hire these celebrities big names sure and uh they give

00:10:15.980 hundreds of millions of dollars and they don't bring anybody in because they're not really that

00:10:21.880 interesting like most of them are very guarded like they haven't had to make a living talking

00:10:26.900 about their personal life on slow news days right like the most garbage comes out like when nothing's

00:10:31.600 going on in august and then all of a sudden like oh i like women who have penises it just kind of

00:10:36.540 spills out it spills out it spills out on your back it's never changes never nothing changes

00:10:48.360 changes but that's when the stuff comes out and celebrities are not used to that they're not used

00:10:52.220 to these slow news days where they have to like fill it with their own personal life very guarded

00:10:56.060 yeah and yeah there have been there were those days i mean the one refreshing thing about it is

00:11:01.860 You really don't have any secrets that anyone could use against you, not like they're trying.

00:11:07.860 But those slow news days, when you're looking and going, uh-oh, I'm going to have to delve back to my teens on this one.

00:11:15.180 Boy, that's going to be ugly.

00:11:16.620 Oh, my God.

00:11:17.180 The New York Post, the headline was, sunshine today.

00:11:22.360 I'm like, oh, well, we're going under the porch, aren't we?

00:11:24.360 It's going to be a long day.

00:11:28.840 Yeah, you start talking about yourself.

00:11:30.280 And I think celebrities that get these big paying gigs in broadcasting these days, they don't have that in them.

00:11:37.480 They could get their buddies, and they'll get a little traction.

00:11:41.480 What's the name of that show with all those guys?

00:11:43.180 It's like four of them, celebrities, the guys.

00:11:46.060 Sopranos.

00:11:47.140 No.

00:11:47.540 Was it a podcast?

00:11:48.500 Yeah, it was a podcast.

00:11:49.480 Is it with Will Arnett?

00:11:50.480 Yes, Will Arnett.

00:11:51.580 Yeah, that's those guys.

00:11:53.020 Smartless.

00:11:53.640 And who else?

00:11:54.120 Jason Bateman.

00:11:54.860 Jason Bateman.

00:11:55.520 Those guys are huge.

00:11:56.500 The guy from Will and Grace.

00:11:57.740 I mean, you know, they're funny.

00:11:59.580 They've been through a lot of stuff.

00:12:00.800 They got Hollywood stories, but I don't think they're broadcasters.

00:12:05.720 I don't think they have the ability to just talk about stuff that is kind of embarrassing.

00:12:11.660 Sure.

00:12:12.060 You know, the ability to convey an entertaining story as a relatable person.

00:12:18.580 I don't know.

00:12:19.260 Yeah, they're probably just telling stories.

00:12:20.760 Like, most times when they interview those people, and not Will Arnett because he's funny,

00:12:24.440 but, like, when they interview, like, an actor.

00:12:25.840 Yeah.

00:12:26.040 And they say, how was the movie shoot?

00:12:27.800 they're like oh we just it was so much fun on the set they give you nothing and you're like that's

00:12:32.980 not interesting it's those satellite tour answers yeah they're talking to access hollywood oh and

00:12:37.780 you know it was the same story they've told 50 times to 50 different people so yeah there's just

00:12:43.580 i would feel stupid doing that like saying the same thing over and over on one day you're sitting

00:12:50.940 in a studio doing that but they that's like their gig it certainly is and podcasting too i don't

00:12:56.180 even think of that as broadcasting per se it just seems like um it's a whole different animal it is

00:13:03.520 and the one i started one right after because i was i was allowed to because there was no radio

00:13:08.140 yeah um which you got a no compete we take yes i do no i'm kidding i'm saying that they did during

00:13:13.800 the thing they wouldn't let me do my podcast so like once it's over you can do what you want

00:13:16.860 they tried pulling that on me really yeah i told them to go f themselves and then they fired me oh

00:13:21.440 yeah i was doing the compound thing from the basement and they had a problem with it and

00:13:28.520 then i went in and went it's not it's nothing like the radio show right this is again bring up 1945

00:13:35.120 uh it was just fun it was a fun thing the hobby that i was doing in the basement but

00:13:40.000 you remember we were trying to figure out like he like on snow days and stuff he could do the

00:13:44.300 show from there so he doesn't have to come in and that was like how they couldn't even fathom that

00:13:48.920 Yeah.

00:13:49.220 Now they don't even want you in their studios anymore.

00:13:50.960 No, they don't want anyone there anymore because then they could go, well, you're not even using our studio, so we could pay you less.

00:13:56.460 And that's what they do.

00:13:57.960 I take calls on my thing now.

00:13:59.840 Like, it's an advice show.

00:14:01.480 But I honestly like the live interaction with people.

00:14:03.980 Like, I like listeners, even though sometimes they suck and they're idiots.

00:14:07.760 But I do like when they take you into a weird direction that you never would have thought to go in because it's just they're talking about something in their life that wouldn't have been on my mind.

00:14:15.700 That's what this is kind of a new thing or old thing that's new again is phone calls.

00:14:22.960 Because when you're a subscriber-based show like I had for many years and still do, you're not going to get calls from people.

00:14:31.500 They pay to listen to you.

00:14:32.760 Sure.

00:14:33.320 You're not getting the errant call or the person that doesn't like you.

00:14:37.260 Yeah.

00:14:37.480 You know, how long at any W did we have to take calls and hear, play the music, you suck, get the lead out.

00:14:46.180 You guys are going to be gone in a month.

00:14:49.040 All that stuff that we heard over the course of the years.

00:14:52.080 And I kind of like that.

00:14:54.180 You could, you know, get back at them.

00:14:56.360 It's like a little bit of abrasion between the caller and you.

00:15:00.460 So having calls, and we will take calls.

00:15:02.740 And by the way, I do want to say that you do have a show.

00:15:05.680 It's Jim Norton, Can't Save You.

00:15:08.540 Yeah. And you have celebrities on comics, stars of stage and screen.

00:15:16.560 I've had Neil deGrasse Tyson is this Wednesday. Oh, wow. Great. Yes. Yeah.

00:15:22.600 We had George Santos and who was one of my favorites, you know, from Long Island. Yeah. George, he was hilarious.

00:15:29.280 It's been a very interesting mix. Mark Norman was great. You were great from Dylan.

00:15:34.500 Yeah, from, what the hell was that, that Broadway show that he did,

00:15:37.480 and then it was a movie with De Niro.

00:15:39.400 Oh, Chaz Palminteri.

00:15:40.240 Yeah, Chaz Palminteri.

00:15:41.620 We'll talk about more of your show, and we'll take calls,

00:15:44.000 and we'll see if people want to call up with their issues,

00:15:46.060 and we'll do a little...

00:15:46.760 Sure, hold on, I have a long story I want to start.

00:15:49.740 We'll be right back, Anthony Cumia Show.

00:15:54.080 We're back, Anthony Cumia Show.

00:15:57.020 A great Sunday night, because my good friend Jim Norton is here.

00:16:00.840 Yeah.

00:16:01.260 And we were just talking about what you're doing now.

00:16:03.520 you got uh jim norton can't save you yeah and uh i was on it it was great i had a great time with

00:16:10.500 you and uh it's it's a little strange in that you do actually give people sound or at least you

00:16:19.060 know as sound as you can the best i can do we all know my limits yeah but most people would think

00:16:25.160 like every single call is going to be a joke or you know you know you got a crap on the guy or

00:16:31.720 something but uh you've heard some people with some real issues and they feel compelled to call

00:16:38.720 you for i don't know why i think i'm the relative comparison like where they know that i can't judge

00:16:43.960 them because i'm also a mess that is i'm a disaster yeah yeah i guess people in therapy

00:16:49.380 they look at uh a uh a therapist or a psychologist or what have you and they got to be like oh the

00:16:55.580 person actually went to school got a degree so how could they possibly relate to me yeah and then

00:17:01.420 you know, a piece of garbage like you.

00:17:03.420 A hundred percent.

00:17:04.420 Or me.

00:17:04.980 I get it.

00:17:05.940 You and I have both scraped the bottom of the barrel with our teeth.

00:17:09.340 We get it.

00:17:10.820 Two garbage people.

00:17:13.100 So have you had so far, because you've done a few shows now,

00:17:16.280 have you had somebody that you got on the line and was like,

00:17:19.600 oh boy, maybe this is out of my league.

00:17:21.240 I need to refer him to.

00:17:22.660 No.

00:17:23.100 I mean, once you get past a few, I think I want to commit suicides.

00:17:26.240 And that's just my wife.

00:17:31.420 Well, she's already hung.

00:17:36.760 Are you okay, Grandpa?

00:17:38.360 Like Don Corleone in the tomato patch.

00:17:41.540 You're spilling it.

00:17:42.860 Stop.

00:17:44.640 I have that thing in my chest.

00:17:46.920 It's not that bad of a cold, but if I laugh too hard, I'm going to cough a lot.

00:17:53.940 That was funny.

00:17:56.500 Yeah, Freddie Mercury had that, too.

00:17:58.220 Yeah, he certainly did.

00:17:59.340 But at least he had fun getting it.

00:18:00.620 I just talked to a comic at the cellar.

00:18:03.160 Oh, apparently, yeah, Freddie Mercury, there's a picture of him in bed with, like, five, ten guys.

00:18:09.680 Really?

00:18:10.220 Whenever you see Freddie Mercury, because there's a lot of documentaries and stuff about him,

00:18:14.260 and you're looking, you just go like, oh, that must have been where it happened.

00:18:17.600 Here's my impression of every guy who was ever with Freddie Mercury.

00:18:20.320 Ah, less teeth.

00:18:22.280 Giant teeth.

00:18:24.060 He certainly did.

00:18:26.280 Got the yellow and black lines painted on his lips like a hopper and a wood chipper.

00:18:33.060 Please steer clear.

00:18:36.280 Oh, my God.

00:18:38.700 Yeah, this is a quick one.

00:18:40.720 Yeah, so you got that going.

00:18:42.480 Where can people get that?

00:18:44.040 Just on YouTube.

00:18:45.000 It's YouTube, right?

00:18:45.740 Jim Norton Comedy or going to Apple Pods.

00:18:47.860 Where are you going to get your stuff?

00:18:48.880 It's fun.

00:18:49.480 Who do you have there, too?

00:18:50.960 Mark Norman?

00:18:52.160 Mark is great.

00:18:53.120 Isn't he funny, man?

00:18:54.200 Kim Congdon is this week, and she's brutal, in a good way, in a very funny way.

00:18:58.700 I went down to Austin and taped a few guys.

00:19:00.900 Yeah, they've all been fun.

00:19:01.640 Like, I really love doing it.

00:19:02.660 I love it.

00:19:04.200 I always, I don't know, I kind of have a problem with girls that have had puberty.

00:19:17.600 Yeah, yeah.

00:19:18.700 I might as well just say that.

00:19:21.400 Sorry for coughing.

00:19:22.040 Quick break right here.

00:19:23.040 No problem.

00:19:23.600 my jimmy and we'll be right back after these words anthony comey's show on a wonderful sunday

00:19:31.860 evening in new york city uh i came i came i came no i came here i came here uh thursday afternoon

00:19:41.880 and uh the first thing i was greeted with was a a news story um about uh the wonderful subway

00:19:51.000 system and what goes on in it. Do you got that clip? Can we play the news clip about the guy

00:19:56.000 on the subway? If you have it available. Say this man performed sex acts on another man who died

00:20:04.420 on an R train. NYPD officers responded to reports of a body on that train at the White

00:20:10.480 Hall subway station just after midnight. That was yesterday. When officers looked at video

00:20:15.140 from subway cameras, our police sources say they found the man in the yellow hoodie there

00:20:19.660 sexually abusing the corpse,

00:20:22.360 stopping only when passengers

00:20:23.840 entered or exited the train.

00:20:25.860 Police say that man had been dead

00:20:27.740 for several hours before that vile attack.

00:20:31.320 Vile attack.

00:20:31.880 I mean, honestly, I back the guy who did it.

00:20:35.440 That, to me, he had the courtesy to stop

00:20:37.280 when people got on and off the train.

00:20:39.200 He wasn't bothering anyone alive.

00:20:41.400 Isn't that the...

00:20:43.060 I find that the most horrifying part of the story

00:20:45.340 is that if it was a nut,

00:20:47.880 that it's a plain nut,

00:20:49.580 He'd have been having sex with a corpse, and then people come in.

00:20:53.920 Who cares?

00:20:55.120 I'm crazy enough to have sex with a corpse.

00:20:57.180 I'm not going to care who watches.

00:20:58.980 But he cared.

00:21:00.680 He knew it wasn't right.

00:21:02.180 He was responsible.

00:21:03.020 He wanted privacy.

00:21:04.180 That's great.

00:21:05.080 He wanted privacy.

00:21:06.880 He knew he was being a bad boy.

00:21:09.600 Naughty, naughty boy.

00:21:10.460 He was being very fresh.

00:21:11.780 How the hell does New York get to that point?

00:21:15.420 And, I mean, we've all been through – we hearken back to the old days of the 80s and 90s in New York City, the subways.

00:21:22.300 It was just pandemonium.

00:21:24.660 And I don't ever remember hearing a story like that.

00:21:28.120 It was muggings.

00:21:29.060 It was, you know, Bernie Getz, the subway gunman, had to pull out a gun and crime, the mafia.

00:21:36.060 They were making hits all over the place.

00:21:37.980 I can't recall a man having sex with a corpse on the MTA.

00:21:44.000 Well, let me ask you.

00:21:45.200 There's a lot to the story I want to know.

00:21:46.820 Did he die before they started or had they started and then he had a heart attack and the guy's like, your obligation is until the end.

00:21:56.780 We're going to do this until I'm done.

00:21:58.320 And these people keep getting on and off.

00:22:00.120 This is my last time with you.

00:22:01.320 I do like how you're trying to justify it.

00:22:04.280 100%.

00:22:04.680 Maybe.

00:22:05.720 Yeah, why not?

00:22:06.400 Once you die, let people do what they want to your corpse.

00:22:09.160 Who cares?

00:22:10.420 If he was dead for a couple of hours already, I can't imagine the guy going at it for a couple of hours like that.

00:22:17.600 So I would assume he walked in.

00:22:19.320 The guy was dead because he robbed him, too.

00:22:21.480 That came out later in the story.

00:22:23.040 He robbed the guy.

00:22:23.780 And, by the way, other people had robbed him previously.

00:22:28.860 So this dead guy, it just shows, like, I am so glad I got out of this.

00:22:34.080 So other people robbed him.

00:22:36.060 But then he's like, let me see if they did this.

00:22:37.800 And he slid his pants down and he's like, I'm getting the first crack at this.

00:22:41.080 Oh, a virgin.

00:22:43.000 Yeah, it really is one of those twisted things that just, it's got to, it can only happen in a city that has gone so far down the toilet.

00:22:52.320 Sodom and Gomorrah.

00:22:53.020 Yes, Sodom and Gomorrah.

00:22:55.420 And people will say, you know, you walk around, the odds that something's going to happen is pretty slim.

00:23:03.700 But it does happen.

00:23:05.280 It does, yeah.

00:23:05.760 There's a lot of shenanigans, if I may language.

00:23:08.960 Sure, yeah.

00:23:09.700 You can dump that if they have to.

00:23:11.080 Yeah.

00:23:12.100 And you live here.

00:23:14.640 You've got a great place.

00:23:16.340 Thank you.

00:23:16.920 And I just wonder if you ever considered leaving New York.

00:23:20.240 I know it's very important to your work.

00:23:23.000 Yeah.

00:23:23.780 But did you ever consider?

00:23:25.520 Not really, no.

00:23:26.420 I could probably get a nice house if I wanted one in Jersey or whatever.

00:23:30.100 But I would miss being here.

00:23:31.660 Like, I love being here.

00:23:32.700 And sometimes my wife will go, I want to get a house.

00:23:35.980 I'm like, no, you don't.

00:23:37.360 You would hate it.

00:23:39.100 She'd be so panicky about it.

00:23:41.000 She's not a homemaker.

00:23:42.500 She'll put on a microwavable dinner and then go on her computer for eight hours.

00:23:46.880 That's not a trad wife.

00:23:50.480 Is that like, because I hear, I watch your show and I see clips that are posted on Instagram about you and Nikki.

00:23:58.580 And it seems like there's a lot of, like, shopping that goes on.

00:24:03.300 Yes.

00:24:03.800 You get a lot of Amazon boxes.

00:24:05.800 It's insane.

00:24:07.120 I walk home and there's no boxes.

00:24:08.900 I'm like, oh, my wife must have died.

00:24:10.640 Like, she's probably dead upstairs.

00:24:12.020 Maybe I'll drop her off on the subway.

00:24:13.040 You also expect no box.

00:24:16.780 Right?

00:24:17.840 But, no, because same thing.

00:24:20.020 You know, I come home and there's just boxes at the door, boxes.

00:24:24.520 And down in South Carolina, you burn, you know, the boxes along with the crosses.

00:24:30.620 But they got a fire pit and just burn them.

00:24:33.900 I don't wrap them up and save them for the garbage man.

00:24:36.100 And it is an inferno because there are so many boxes.

00:24:40.060 And 1% of it is me.

00:24:42.520 Yeah, and what she does and why she's such a sneak is she has an account and I have an account.

00:24:48.020 But she knows that my accountant checks her credit card.

00:24:51.200 That's good.

00:24:51.760 That's good.

00:24:52.360 It is good.

00:24:54.520 until she figured out how to order off mine.

00:24:56.980 So I see all these things that are Jim Norton,

00:24:58.800 but they're lip liners.

00:25:00.600 And then I'm like, she's doing it to beat the system.

00:25:03.520 So my credit card goes higher, but she's like,

00:25:05.300 look, I only spent a grand.

00:25:07.020 These are Maxim condoms.

00:25:08.420 They're not mine.

00:25:09.060 They're magnums.

00:25:10.500 I suck.

00:25:12.040 I suck.

00:25:14.860 It's too long to meet Maxim.

00:25:17.500 Magazine condoms.

00:25:18.420 Oh, Uncle Anthony.

00:25:20.140 What are those, the Maxim's?

00:25:22.120 The Maxim sizes.

00:25:23.920 I screwed that up.

00:25:24.800 That's all right.

00:25:25.520 That's a dink.

00:25:26.600 No, I know, but it's an unfixable.

00:25:28.540 Oh, I know.

00:25:29.060 Because I knew what you meant, but it didn't matter.

00:25:31.660 There's just no way to fix that in post.

00:25:33.920 It was years ago when we were doing the O&A show,

00:25:37.640 and before you came on board, screwing up or bombing was a nightmare.

00:25:44.960 It was something that we would just not want to acknowledge.

00:25:47.840 You look down, you plow ahead, and the face you would make,

00:25:51.780 And I still watch videos to this day when all the comics are in and, you know, Apollo and Voss and Patrice and Colin and someone would bomb.

00:26:02.020 They'd say something that was not funny.

00:26:03.960 And you got this look of joy on your face.

00:26:07.240 Yeah.

00:26:07.760 Like smiling, nodding your head, looking at him going, yeah, you that tanked.

00:26:12.480 There's something so satisfying about it.

00:26:14.540 Like, I truly do love unfunny things sometimes.

00:26:17.180 Yeah.

00:26:18.120 Like, two sets last night I had.

00:26:20.440 Neither were particularly good.

00:26:21.780 I didn't bomb on purpose, but it just wasn't going well, and I was just really enjoying it.

00:26:26.160 Like, this is not going great.

00:26:28.100 I'm trying this stuff out.

00:26:29.700 That's weird.

00:26:30.320 I would understand if you're watching someone doing that, but you yourself are kind of chuckling that you aren't going over well?

00:26:37.420 I told the audience, like, this one's my fault.

00:26:39.780 I'm like, you're a nice crowd.

00:26:41.000 I really have let you down, and I meant it.

00:26:43.760 I wasn't angry at them.

00:26:44.920 I was just kind of being a little self-indulgent, and I couldn't find anything funny, so I just told them, like, I know this sucks.

00:26:51.780 You've shown some masochistic traits over the years.

00:26:55.340 Sure.

00:26:55.940 Tonight.

00:26:58.340 Doing this show.

00:27:00.500 Yeah, but I never thought if you're up on stage, because anyone would imagine if you're up on stage, especially as a comic, you just want to kill it.

00:27:09.200 You want to do great.

00:27:10.840 And I'm sure you want to, but that doesn't terrify you if you're bomb.

00:27:15.640 No, I mean, I started the set with the best of intentions, and it just wasn't going where I wanted it to.

00:27:20.720 And then you kind of embrace it and go, all right, let's see if I can just try this or try that or just kind of enjoy this weird moment that I'm having and acknowledge you.

00:27:29.020 You make something out of it.

00:27:30.360 I didn't take the set.

00:27:31.420 I just – it wasn't going well, but I couldn't figure it out.

00:27:34.240 Some comics like Big Jay Ogerson is so good at crowd work.

00:27:38.780 He's great at it, yeah.

00:27:39.520 And anytime I watch you, it seems like you only do crowd work when something happens that dictates you need to talk to the crowd or in the mood.

00:27:49.320 Yeah, I'm usually not in the mood.

00:27:50.460 Like, I feel so much better if I get a laugh doing something I want to do.

00:27:55.540 Not that I hate crowd work.

00:27:56.780 I don't hate it, but I just, I don't, I just like, eh.

00:27:59.920 Like a cup of tea.

00:28:01.160 Yeah.

00:28:01.740 I don't love it.

00:28:02.800 Yeah.

00:28:03.240 But it's not that, it's not that hard to do.

00:28:07.400 Yeah, yeah.

00:28:08.080 And I do enjoy it sometimes.

00:28:09.740 Some people are so good at it.

00:28:11.100 Jay is great.

00:28:11.800 It's like so fast and, you know, you don't want to sit there and have to look at them

00:28:16.180 and think of something.

00:28:17.300 Yeah.

00:28:17.460 You just look like a dolt.

00:28:19.140 Voss is, I'd say Voss.

00:28:21.200 He's a dolt.

00:28:22.220 He's a dolt, and yet the fastest at crowd work.

00:28:25.400 He is really good.

00:28:26.240 Because he can be mean so quickly.

00:28:28.100 But now him sitting in a chair on stage, he saw one of the legs off.

00:28:34.020 You know, honestly, I don't blame you because it is angering.

00:28:36.880 But he's been doing that for years.

00:28:38.580 Like, Voss goes through phases, like where he'll sit, where he'll stand, the same height either way, which is kind of odd.

00:28:44.220 But he's gone through that thing where he would just sit.

00:28:46.580 And he went through that for a long time, and then he stopped, and he started again.

00:28:50.320 Yeah, I'm not quite – I don't like the sitting thing.

00:28:53.820 It's kind of Bill Cosby, you know?

00:28:55.540 Sure.

00:28:55.880 Those other things are going to be a love.

00:28:58.660 I was going to say he wasn't a whip at getting girls, but –

00:29:03.580 The UFC thing.

00:29:05.600 I know you're a huge UFC fan.

00:29:07.420 Some of the greatest segments were when we have UFC guests on the ONA show,

00:29:13.700 and they would do moves on you.

00:29:16.140 Yes.

00:29:16.200 They would put you in various holds and locks and choke holds, and you would tap out and make horrific noises like you were dying.

00:29:23.640 Getting choked, yeah.

00:29:24.540 Again, a little masochistic.

00:29:25.920 Yeah.

00:29:26.880 But you're a fan, and UFC last night in Miami.

00:29:31.000 It was great.

00:29:31.660 And Trump showed up.

00:29:32.940 Yep.

00:29:33.100 And it was, again, like this guy shows up at these predominantly blue-collar events, and people love this guy.

00:29:42.120 Can't get enough.

00:29:43.140 He makes, and they played music for his, I think it was American Badass by Kid Rock.

00:29:47.100 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:47.760 And I think Rogan, or one of those guys, pointed out he's the only guy who's not a fighter who walks in with an entrance music.

00:29:53.320 With an entrance music and a posse.

00:29:55.240 Very funny.

00:29:55.680 And, yeah, he goes up, he gave Rogan a big hug, and they have a little chit-chat.

00:30:01.120 Rogan's so funny because he calls, you know, he goes, yes, sir.

00:30:04.080 Thank you, sir.

00:30:05.100 Yeah.

00:30:05.300 It's like, oh, God, this was, you know, before he was president in the first place, back before 2016.

00:30:12.720 And you would just be like, hey, there's Trump.

00:30:16.200 And now all of a sudden it's Sir, Mr. President.

00:30:19.520 Me and Louie took me to a fight years ago.

00:30:22.380 It was a Gennady Golovkin fight at Madison Square Garden.

00:30:25.020 And we sat.

00:30:25.840 It was like 2015.

00:30:27.520 It was like when it was rumors that he was going to run.

00:30:29.800 Right, right.

00:30:30.560 And Trump was right in front of us.

00:30:32.380 And we sat like a row behind Trump and a few seats over.

00:30:36.660 And so I was like, oh, it's Trump.

00:30:37.820 And I was just yelling to him as Chip.

00:30:39.520 Oh, no.

00:30:39.980 I wasn't yelling at him.

00:30:40.940 I'm like, Mr. Trump.

00:30:42.060 I was just screaming.

00:30:42.980 I got a picture of Chip.

00:30:44.100 The apprentice, put me on the show.

00:30:47.880 Dude, one time I was walking out.

00:30:49.240 He was in my building because Don Jr. lived above me for 10 years.

00:30:53.300 Don Trump Jr.?

00:30:54.440 Don Trump Jr., yeah.

00:30:55.560 Thank you.

00:30:56.420 DJ TJR.

00:30:59.100 And I walked in the lobby, and Trump was in there with Don.

00:31:02.920 They were talking to somebody.

00:31:03.800 And I was going to stop and say hello.

00:31:05.680 But this was way before he ran.

00:31:07.760 But I was, like, late for a spot.

00:31:10.060 And I was like, I just saw Trump, and I left.

00:31:11.860 I didn't stick around and say hello.

00:31:13.520 I had no idea what he was going to be the president of the United States.

00:31:15.780 No one did.

00:31:16.680 Because he used to call us a couple of times, or we would call him or what have you.

00:31:20.560 And, you know, it was Trump, but he was hilariously funny.

00:31:23.180 He was plugging The Apprentice.

00:31:25.300 And then I think one time it was alluded to that Trump had called our show instead of us calling him.

00:31:36.200 And he's like, he got mad.

00:31:38.340 He got really mad.

00:31:39.500 Like, no, I didn't call.

00:31:41.200 You called me.

00:31:43.240 Make sure people know that.

00:31:44.900 You guys are slobs.

00:31:46.820 He called us slobs.

00:31:47.780 Yes.

00:31:48.280 So he's definitely perceptive.

00:31:50.220 He's not wrong.

00:31:51.760 And later when he called Rosie O'Donnell a slob, I was like, okay, he knows the definition.

00:31:58.040 He certainly does.

00:31:58.960 At the very least.

00:32:00.340 But, yeah, he came in and just a hero's welcome.

00:32:03.380 And and then you get Bernie. Bernie Sanders was at Coachella, which is ridiculous.

00:32:12.480 You know, this guy, he's ancient in any anywhere he goes.

00:32:17.740 He's the oldest guy in the room. Yeah. And like trying to get young voters.

00:32:23.260 Trump has made the traditional political thing, shaking hands and kissing babies.

00:32:29.700 It's ridiculous now. It looks phony because it is.

00:32:32.580 it looks stupid it looks stupid and they don't have another play in their book it's all they

00:32:37.960 have so they keep doing it and we just looking oh really bernie is going to coachella and i watched

00:32:44.300 a moment of his speech and he was standing up there and look he's like i'm going to keep it

00:32:47.640 brief and he goes uh like you know the future of this country is your generation and they cheer

00:32:53.960 and it's like all of that like the the exclamation point cheer or the almost like the applause

00:33:00.720 button lights up yeah it just it's sickening they have moments that they know it's like this is where

00:33:06.840 the applause goes in i'm gonna say stuff and then they contradict stuff they said maybe back in you

00:33:12.400 know the olden days yeah you'd have to go to a library and go to the periodicals and oh he said

00:33:18.320 that that's the opposite of what he just said today now you could just pop it up on your phone

00:33:22.500 and see them completely contradict themselves um in in hd video well years ago the two things you

00:33:29.020 didn't have working hand-in-hand autism and twitter and somebody will find all those clips

00:33:34.600 it is true man it's it's been like oof not a good thing for for humanity or for like politicians

00:33:41.460 they'll catch all these guys saying these things and put thing thing remember when he said this

00:33:45.320 and then they show all of them saying that and that didn't exist years ago years ago you know

00:33:49.620 i'm going to the microfiche and i'll find what he said uh 20 years ago now it's it's all out there

00:33:57.140 But I want you to listen to Bernie here at Coachella, man.

00:34:02.300 And it just sounds so phony and typical politician.

00:34:07.640 And he's talking to a group of people that they don't care.

00:34:11.120 They don't care.

00:34:11.720 They want their molly to kick in.

00:34:13.060 That's why you had to say, I'll keep it brief.

00:34:14.600 Yeah, I'll keep it brief.

00:34:15.540 I'll keep it brief.

00:34:16.700 Let's listen.

00:34:17.720 This country faces some very difficult challenges.

00:34:23.480 Does it?

00:34:24.020 and the future of what happens to america is dependent upon your generation

00:34:33.840 it's 1969 now you can't turn away and you can ignore what goes on but if you do that

00:34:43.500 you do it in your own peril we need you to stand up to fight for justice oh shut up

00:34:51.620 First of all, you can't turn away and ignore it.

00:34:55.040 Fight for economic justice.

00:34:57.040 All kinds of different justice.

00:34:58.980 Social justice.

00:35:01.560 And racial justice.

00:35:05.400 Now we got a president of the United States.

00:35:09.620 Boo!

00:35:11.240 Do they not like Trump or Coachella?

00:35:14.180 I'm shocked.

00:35:16.000 He thinks that climate change is a hoax.

00:35:19.980 It is.

00:35:21.620 He is dangerously wrong.

00:35:26.320 And you and I, you and I are going to have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet.

00:35:36.960 As they burn Teslas, as the same people burn the most successful electric vehicle company, which is what they were saying.

00:35:48.240 You know, you don't want fossil fuel.

00:35:49.480 We got to come up with something.

00:35:50.420 So you get these Elon Musk and Tesla, and they don't know what they're talking about.

00:35:56.760 They always seem like they're mentally ill.

00:36:00.000 And they're carving swastikas on, which a lot of us had to pay to have done.

00:36:09.380 I can't believe Kanye ran out of shirts before I got one.

00:36:13.780 Yeah, I don't even dislike Bernie.

00:36:16.760 He's a bit of a relic.

00:36:20.420 He just isn't a guy that seems to get passion.

00:36:25.200 Like, people don't seem passionate about his message or him.

00:36:28.480 He'll get people at Coachella to cheer.

00:36:30.040 But if he thinks he's going to change anyone's mind on anything in this country, it's...

00:36:34.600 He had his shot and he blew it.

00:36:35.800 He blew it, like, a couple years ago when they screwed Hillary.

00:36:39.760 Oh, yeah.

00:36:40.000 And the Democrats screwed him.

00:36:41.520 Yep.

00:36:41.820 And I think that's a lot of those people that voted for Trump.

00:36:44.640 Yeah, yeah.

00:36:45.600 And then you see something like Trump at UFC.

00:36:48.240 And it's a hero's welcome.

00:36:50.380 It's badass.

00:36:52.000 And for how much people want to go like, oh, really, is this the president you want?

00:36:56.200 Apparently, people like a strong guy.

00:36:58.420 They want to see, you know, it's like a movie.

00:37:01.220 This guy's like a movie president.

00:37:02.980 I was at UFC when he was there once.

00:37:04.960 It was when we interviewed him like a year and a half ago.

00:37:06.780 And he wasn't the nominee at this point.

00:37:08.280 But he still had, you know, eight Secret Service, 12 Secret Service guys.

00:37:11.720 And we were sitting in the row behind him at UFC.

00:37:14.720 And to see the Secret Service interacting, there's so many people that want to walk up to him.

00:37:20.180 And there was this one agent that literally just, it was like a robot.

00:37:23.800 He just stared at Trump for the entire four hours.

00:37:27.720 Like, didn't take his eyes off him.

00:37:29.600 These guys are really good.

00:37:31.220 You don't want to be the one that loses the precedent.

00:37:33.820 No, and they really are.

00:37:36.460 Their presence is felt.

00:37:37.640 I mean, they close it after we talk to him, and he leaves the room.

00:37:43.300 They lock the door, and they go, okay, we're going to take him out,

00:37:45.780 but you guys have to stay in the room until we take.

00:37:47.600 Like, it doesn't matter that you just talk to him.

00:37:50.180 The door is now closed.

00:37:51.440 You will no longer have access.

00:37:53.320 Stay in the room like every other schmuck on this floor.

00:37:56.160 Right, right.

00:37:57.080 They just really know what they're doing.

00:37:59.780 We'll take a quick break, and we'll come back with my good friend, Jim Norton.

00:38:03.800 And E-Rock.

00:38:04.520 And E-Rock, wherever he went.

00:38:05.760 Allegedly.

00:38:06.260 Eating the pizza in the kitchen.

00:38:09.620 Anthony, give me a show.

00:38:12.080 Wonderful show today because my good friend Jim Norton is here.

00:38:16.680 You know, you have to reset, so I don't mind it.

00:38:18.560 But I actually do it sometimes on my podcast.

00:38:20.580 That's what a hack I am.

00:38:22.600 It's like on the radio, people tune in randomly.

00:38:25.320 Right, yes.

00:38:26.000 But I'm doing a podcast.

00:38:27.080 I'm like, hey, call up if you want.

00:38:28.460 You're talking to Jim Norton or whatever.

00:38:29.640 And I'm like, they know who they're talking to.

00:38:31.980 They know.

00:38:33.180 There's a big difference between podcasting and radio.

00:38:36.340 And I've been doing podcasting for so long, I kind of forget.

00:38:39.280 I just yapped for an hour and a half on my show.

00:38:41.660 I don't care where the breaks go or anything.

00:38:45.400 And now you've got a room full of people looking at you, breaking things.

00:38:49.400 Break! It's time for a break!

00:38:50.840 Oh, yeah, the break thing.

00:38:52.160 Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.

00:38:53.660 Where is Iraq, by the way? He just disappeared. I don't like it.

00:38:56.700 He disappeared after we were asked if we want pizza.

00:39:01.960 He's waiting by the elevator with a feedback under his mouth.

00:39:06.120 Sitting pretty with his paws up.

00:39:09.240 I'll take this.

00:39:10.260 He just tips it.

00:39:11.160 it's just open the box it's just bitten crust no he'd eat that too

00:39:17.760 who am i who am i trying to kid we'd be like where's the box you see a little piece of box

00:39:21.560 in his mouth well actually no you wouldn't

00:39:23.580 oh what's that i just i can't laugh too hard it's crazy did my voice sound terrible

00:39:31.600 no oh it sounds sultry and sexy oh here he is thank you oh he rock that hurts um yeah we were

00:39:39.720 We were talking in the break about I did a quick video about Gig Young.

00:39:46.180 Yeah.

00:39:46.600 And New York's an amazing place.

00:39:49.220 There is so much history and it's all different.

00:39:53.200 You know, you could do things on any topic and find landmarks or something like the New Yorker Hotel is where Tesla lived out the last years of his life.

00:40:05.100 He was in his 80s and he was just alone in a room.

00:40:08.480 This guy is responsible.

00:40:10.000 Look around at every technology we use.

00:40:13.180 Tesla was absolutely integral in making that.

00:40:17.180 Edison ripped him off.

00:40:18.340 Who, Robin?

00:40:19.440 Edison ripped me off.

00:40:21.640 What year did he die, Tesla?

00:40:23.900 I think it was the 40s, just before, after the war, something, 44, around there.

00:40:28.860 And the story is he used to go into Bryant Park from the hotel and feed pigeons like an old cartoon.

00:40:36.300 He'd sit on the bench, and he was in love with one particular pigeon.

00:40:41.040 In love with it?

00:40:41.780 In love.

00:40:43.000 And he'd feed it and love it.

00:40:44.980 Well, not, you know, in that sense.

00:40:46.640 Do you think he just loved it as a pet, or did he have, like, a weird sexual vibe for it?

00:40:50.760 From everything I've read, it seemed a little more than just, hey, I like this pigeon.

00:40:56.140 He's cute.

00:40:56.860 What's the difference?

00:40:57.880 And why would you assume it's a he?

00:41:00.120 You mow.

00:41:05.940 i don't know yeah why would i yeah i i assume all pigeons are so he would he would do that and then

00:41:13.060 he'd go back to his hotel room at the new yorker and uh they have like a plaque dedicated to him

00:41:18.000 and they have like a kind of a really small room with some interesting facts about tesla but this

00:41:23.180 guy was the guy every bit of electricity we use is because tesla came up with alternating current

00:41:30.460 And Edison was like, direct current is the way to go.

00:41:36.020 And it just wasn't.

00:41:37.000 What's the difference?

00:41:38.300 Direct current, you can't really transmit that power over great distances.

00:41:42.960 Is that ACDC, right?

00:41:43.920 Yeah.

00:41:44.280 So you would know that.

00:41:46.080 It certainly would.

00:41:46.820 Because of the band.

00:41:47.800 Because of the band.

00:41:48.660 Not because of the mouth choices.

00:41:52.000 Will you put that?

00:41:54.140 So you can't really transmit DC over long distances.

00:41:58.540 And AC, he was like, and they were like, well, it's impossible to do alternating current.

00:42:02.080 And he came up with it.

00:42:03.120 And then Edison stole his patent because he was with General Electric and they had lawyers and everything.

00:42:08.920 So he just ended up being this destitute old man dying at a hotel on 8th Avenue in Manhattan.

00:42:14.400 How do you afford a hotel if he was broke?

00:42:15.980 I don't know.

00:42:16.500 I think he had some relatives that just were paying for it because he was really feeble at that point.

00:42:21.340 But just a brilliant man.

00:42:22.940 And that's an interesting story.

00:42:24.740 Yes, it is.

00:42:25.320 So you go around and there's plenty of things to do.

00:42:27.360 So I found the Osborne Apartments, and it's right across from the WNEW studios we used to go to,

00:42:35.460 across from the Brooklyn Diner on 57th and 7th.

00:42:38.580 And Gig Young, he's in one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes.

00:42:45.540 He goes back to his hometown, and he sees himself as a little child,

00:42:49.620 and he's trying to convey to the kid, like, please enjoy your childhood,

00:42:53.600 because he's a business guy.

00:42:54.700 He's burnt out.

00:42:55.960 His life is terrible.

00:42:57.360 And he wanted to stay, and then his father told him, like, you've got to go.

00:43:05.260 Like, this is for him.

00:43:06.340 He's a child.

00:43:08.120 He wound up blowing his wife's brains out and blowing his brains out in this amazing hotel, the Osborne, on the corner.

00:43:17.240 So I just did a quick break on that.

00:43:18.660 It got like 20,000 views in no time.

00:43:21.080 As you're saying that, I never thought I could envy Gig Young.

00:43:27.360 Well, I'm looking it up as you talk.

00:43:29.180 There's like 1978.

00:43:30.420 Yeah, yeah.

00:43:31.000 78, which is weird.

00:43:32.620 He did a few movies.

00:43:35.220 He was supposed to actually be the Waco kid in Blazing Saddles, but he was so drunk that Mel Brooks fired him.

00:43:44.460 He was supposed to be the voice of Charlie in Charlie's Angels, and he was so drunk that he got fired.

00:43:50.000 Then he blew his wife's brains out.

00:43:51.900 What are you funny?

00:43:52.220 That was like after a month of sobriety.

00:43:54.640 He finally has a clarity.

00:43:56.960 We'll be right back in moments.

00:43:58.960 Don't go anywhere.

00:44:00.080 Welcome back to the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:44:04.660 Of course, I'm here with my guest, Jim Norton.

00:44:07.980 And people on the camera can see me blowing my nose.

00:44:10.280 I am a mess tonight.

00:44:11.540 I'm a mess tonight.

00:44:12.360 At least it's your nose.

00:44:18.080 Let's take some phone calls, Jim.

00:44:19.760 People love you.

00:44:21.080 They want to talk to you.

00:44:22.760 I guess I could just plunk one of these down.

00:44:24.760 Sure.

00:44:24.980 All right. How about Rick? Is that it? Did I get this? Do I have to double click? There we go. Rick from Jersey. How you doing, buddy?

00:44:34.880 All right. How you guys doing? I was going to tell Jim Norton I got a party with you, but after that subway story, I'm having second thoughts.

00:44:41.600 Well, you know, look, if you don't want that to happen, you know, wait till you get home to die. Don't die on the subway with a great ass and expect everyone to ignore it.

00:44:48.700 so listen i heard uh neil degrasse tyson's name mentioned yeah and i just wanted to tell you

00:44:56.620 he's not a friend of ours he's property george soros he pushes the global warming scam

00:45:02.620 anybody that pushes a global warming scam guilty of global child abuse well i don't i i had him on

00:45:10.600 the world coming to an end that's child abuse i had him on a few times rick and uh like i don't

00:45:16.620 I don't get into the politics of it.

00:45:18.820 He's an interesting guy to talk to.

00:45:21.480 He's great when a flat earther calls up and you want to refute it.

00:45:26.940 It's nice to have him in the studio that day.

00:45:29.700 He was out.

00:45:30.140 I guess he had done, was it my show or he did somebody else's show, Iraq?

00:45:35.620 He did your show and then used to do StarTalk over it.

00:45:38.460 Yeah, yeah.

00:45:38.960 He was out and he was in the green room and I had a flat earther on and he's, you know,

00:45:43.820 nonsense of flat earth just stop yeah and i go ah i wish i had a astrophysicist yeah and it's like

00:45:51.820 oh there he is so again just refuting everything i'm at the point right now where uh everything

00:45:58.460 that's happened i'm not just instantly going to say that's impossible or that doesn't happen i

00:46:03.740 used to be very pro-government and go they wouldn't do that to us and nowadays i give anything the

00:46:09.260 benefit of the doubt. I go, well, maybe. Yeah. But

00:46:11.060 flat earth, stop

00:46:13.320 it. It's idiocy. It's idiocy.

00:46:15.280 Thank you, Rick. And anyway, and you know,

00:46:17.140 he's not a friend of ours. We're not teams.

00:46:19.640 We're just individual people. I love

00:46:21.240 Neil deGrasse Tyson. Why? He's a genius.

00:46:23.240 I don't care what his politics are. Dear friend of

00:46:25.140 ours. I mean, it's not a team

00:46:28.140 sport. Like, I don't care what he thinks

00:46:30.020 about other stuff. I want to talk to him about light

00:46:31.920 refraction. Yeah. All of a sudden,

00:46:33.820 you're not going to pay attention to anything he

00:46:35.940 says because he believes in

00:46:38.080 climate change or global warming or whatever the fuck.

00:46:40.580 And he loves touching Jim. Every time he's

00:46:42.460 in the studio, he's constantly leaning and pawing

00:46:44.480 on Jim. He does. I'm a small, I'm like a

00:46:46.400 squeeze toy and people just feel comfortable. I think

00:46:48.280 they get their attention on squeezing me.

00:46:50.360 But I had in mind, we did like almost an hour and a half

00:46:52.540 and he talked about everything.

00:46:54.360 His feelings about religion and Christ. It was very

00:46:56.480 very interesting, the conversation. It wasn't

00:46:58.380 all about science. He got very personal

00:47:00.600 and yeah, I love him. Oh, that's great.

00:47:02.720 When? Wednesday. Wednesday?

00:47:04.720 Yeah. I don't know how anybody doesn't like him.

00:47:06.620 Jimmy doesn't.

00:47:07.300 I know.

00:47:08.040 It's politics.

00:47:09.240 People, like you said, it's one team or the other.

00:47:12.000 Never the tween shall meet.

00:47:13.700 You have to hate anyone that believes everything that you don't believe in.

00:47:18.900 So, you know, I don't know what happened.

00:47:21.940 We were supposed to get these phones and get on the Internet and share ideology and the way we feel about things.

00:47:29.700 And it was supposed to bring us together.

00:47:31.940 Whoopsie.

00:47:32.620 That didn't quite happen.

00:47:33.960 and it seems like we're a lot more divided now than we ever were.

00:47:36.760 Yeah.

00:47:38.160 Let's go to Don.

00:47:41.160 Is that Don on the phone?

00:47:42.720 Where are those pictures I was supposed to see?

00:47:44.840 To Don from Canada.

00:47:46.880 What's up, my friend?

00:47:48.500 Hey, fellas.

00:47:49.680 Just a couple of things, and then I'll get out of your hair.

00:47:52.100 Not you, because you don't have any.

00:47:53.740 Oh, sir, please with the fresh talk.

00:47:55.560 Pubes.

00:47:56.060 Yeah.

00:47:56.960 What, am I dead on the subway?

00:47:58.920 I'm not going to let that one go.

00:48:00.440 I wish.

00:48:01.340 I know, you don't have to be behind me.

00:48:03.960 But speaking of dead bodies, I worked at a crematorium in the early 80s out in Anaheim.

00:48:11.780 And it's probably the most interesting job I've ever had in my life.

00:48:16.000 Jeez.

00:48:17.180 Isn't that a little morbid?

00:48:18.560 Like, do you have nightmares?

00:48:19.760 Do you get the heebie-jeebies?

00:48:20.840 You don't just feel like you're doing something.

00:48:23.540 That would be creepy.

00:48:26.200 Yeah, you would think that, but you get used to it real quick.

00:48:30.160 I don't know.

00:48:30.660 Did you ever touch the private parts of a body before it went into the fire?

00:48:33.960 I wanted to say I didn't molest anybody except some of the Mexican groundskeepers.

00:48:39.380 Why would you molest them?

00:48:42.180 Because they were alive.

00:48:43.980 Oh, okay.

00:48:45.160 Only living.

00:48:45.780 Well, that's good.

00:48:46.520 Then you're not weird.

00:48:47.860 Yeah.

00:48:48.440 Wow, that's something, though.

00:48:50.480 Did you watch them as they turned into ashes?

00:48:55.300 Oh, for sure.

00:48:56.620 For sure.

00:48:57.100 And the most interesting thing about it was after you sweep them up, you put them in this thing called the grinder.

00:49:02.720 Right, because there's still bones.

00:49:03.960 them up oh god yeah people think is that what that is i showed it on your phone i was wondering

00:49:07.900 and then you have to reach down inside and clean like metal and stuff off of the screen like um

00:49:18.420 pacemakers hip joints staples and what have you right wow and then you don't give it any thought

00:49:25.060 that it was a person and you know anything like that they're just a it's a product for you

00:49:31.700 No, I always thought that they were, and I handled them with the greatest of care,

00:49:36.120 knowing that they were somebody's aunt or grandfather or what have you.

00:49:39.880 Before you torch them.

00:49:41.620 It seems odd.

00:49:43.160 Yeah, laughing at that little charm bracelet that's just going into a fire.

00:49:46.520 Won't be hugging her no more.

00:49:48.580 All the little grandkids' names charred on the hearts.

00:49:53.420 And you figure all the times that thing jingled as the hand went up and down, up and down.

00:49:57.100 the interesting thing about the grinder was uh i'd pull out these little hunks of yellow metal

00:50:06.940 that was really heavy and uh they would tell me i'll just put that in a soap dish and at the end

00:50:12.100 of the day the soap dish would just be full of this stuff and then in the morning it'd all be

00:50:16.540 gone uh what was it you know what i'm going to leave that to your imagination here's the last

00:50:22.720 Anthony, I want to thank you for introducing me to the great Chris Baldisano.

00:50:27.140 I love that guy's karaoke.

00:50:30.360 Yes, he does a karaoke.

00:50:32.260 I love his karaoke on YouTube.

00:50:34.380 Subdivisions.

00:50:35.200 Yeah, yeah.

00:50:35.640 Well, thank you, Don.

00:50:37.580 I like Chris, too, but it's not the Chris show.

00:50:40.260 Thank you, Don.

00:50:40.720 Yes.

00:50:41.360 Take it easy, man.

00:50:42.200 Very hurtful.

00:50:43.100 Very hurtful.

00:50:43.540 Mentioned Chris during Anthony's show.

00:50:45.080 Very hurtful, indeed.

00:50:46.160 It's the Anthony Cumia show, for God's sake.

00:50:49.100 I think I almost cursed before.

00:50:50.160 Did you punch out?

00:50:51.180 You dumped out of me?

00:50:52.580 Did you almost curse?

00:50:53.640 It was two letters of the F word.

00:50:56.400 I didn't even get to the real crux of it.

00:50:59.480 Oh, I didn't even catch that.

00:51:00.980 Yeah, that's like a first.

00:51:02.020 That's a first.

00:51:02.560 I still, I'm going to refute it.

00:51:05.160 I'm going to have him review the replay and see if I should have been called out on that one.

00:51:09.740 Oh, okay.

00:51:10.320 You think sometimes I might panic?

00:51:11.880 Yeah, yeah.

00:51:13.000 I want to get back a little bit to the Hollywood celebrities and some of these deaths.

00:51:18.400 Of course.

00:51:18.840 Of course.

00:51:19.660 Of course.

00:51:20.380 Jim Norton's here.

00:51:21.160 Hollywood. So you've been in a couple of

00:51:22.920 That's right. More celebrity talk.

00:51:25.160 Spider-Man.

00:51:26.740 I think nowadays

00:51:28.840 we look at Hollywood and

00:51:31.060 the glitter

00:51:33.260 in Tinseltown is

00:51:35.040 definitely tarnished. It's not what it used to be.

00:51:37.640 People don't have this adoration

00:51:39.420 for celebrities anymore.

00:51:41.320 They hate them.

00:51:43.580 Yeah. And I remember years ago

00:51:45.240 watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

00:51:47.720 These celebrities would come on and they never

00:51:49.340 talked politics. It was

00:51:51.080 i'm opening in vegas i was hanging out with jimmy i was hanging out with this guy and it was all

00:51:56.260 fun yeah and they never got serious and then for some reason they started opening their yaps

00:52:02.900 about politics and what we should be doing from you know their gated house in beverly hills or

00:52:10.060 wherever bel-air and uh and people started hating them and uh and then there's the other part with

00:52:17.220 the supposed

00:52:18.740 adrenochrome and the

00:52:21.000 child abuse and

00:52:22.540 all that stuff. And then I

00:52:25.180 was looking back and thinking... What's adrenochrome?

00:52:27.220 Like child blood or something? Yeah, it's like

00:52:29.060 supposed to be some kind of serum

00:52:31.000 they come up with. And if you

00:52:33.200 have to frighten the kid, the kid's

00:52:35.260 got to go through like a living hell

00:52:36.860 and the adrenaline pumps into their system.

00:52:39.060 Your rug must be covered in it.

00:52:47.220 yeah and they they uh somehow consume it and it it's like the fountain of youth kind of a thing

00:52:57.080 keeps them good looking and popular uh yeah and that's so there's so many of these stories and

00:53:03.680 then you see real life things happening like um what's happening with uh what's his name there

00:53:09.780 justin bieber and britney spears is a mental patient she's always been crazy though she's

00:53:15.180 always been nuts and you look back at her father like hey maybe he was right to try to put her in

00:53:19.360 a conservatorship because she's crazy but why was she crazy because she i no one thought she was

00:53:23.900 crazy back in the old days where she was doing the videos and everything it was popular she was just

00:53:28.880 a pop star um maybe they hid that from everybody but later on you realize and and you can only

00:53:34.580 assume it's because they went they go through so much horrible trauma uh being run through the

00:53:41.280 hollywood and the music industry uh mill justin bieber is out of his mind i mean he's out of his

00:53:48.480 mind and and all those stories are coming out about the ditty parties and what happened to

00:53:53.020 this kid when when he would go to the ditty parties and whatnot and like that's part of this

00:53:59.540 celebrity cabal how much of it is that though and how or how much of it is just being that

00:54:05.840 famous when you're that young like it's crazy like when the whole world knows who you are when

00:54:11.040 you're 15 every mistake you make is documented every dumb thing you do is

00:54:15.900 is like everyone sees it like even Gary Coleman didn't have a great ending and

00:54:21.060 he's one kid that no one thinks anyone molested and yet Gary Coleman might have

00:54:25.720 just fallen down his basement steps with his wife's footprint in his back in his

00:54:32.700 tiny little security guard uniform what a horrible ending I mean he's the cutest

00:54:38.640 kid on earth and all of a sudden just something happens

00:54:40.620 there's a string of Mr. Big

00:54:42.620 rolls and then he refuses to sign

00:54:44.520 my different strokes. Remember he wouldn't

00:54:46.460 sign it? Yeah. It could

00:54:48.560 be like that whole different strokes

00:54:50.620 thing. All the kids

00:54:52.540 Dana Plato and

00:54:54.140 what you're talking about Willis, Todd Bridges

00:54:56.440 they all had issues

00:54:58.740 and huge problems

00:55:00.120 so you think maybe it's just

00:55:02.940 combination. Some

00:55:04.540 people probably because there was sex and some people

00:55:06.640 probably just that it's being that

00:55:08.520 famous. But then you get someone like

00:55:10.420 Leonardo DiCaprio who was

00:55:12.440 a child actor

00:55:13.980 obviously

00:55:15.080 and he seems, you know,

00:55:18.380 who knows, but he's definitely not

00:55:20.400 he didn't kill himself.

00:55:22.500 He doesn't have these drug problems. He does seem

00:55:24.480 to like 25 year olds. Sure.

00:55:26.480 So he's perfectly healthy. Normal.

00:55:28.100 A normal guy. Look at Ron Howard. I mean, he was

00:55:30.160 a kid on the Andy Griffith show. Yeah, yeah.

00:55:32.260 And then Richie Cunningham and he stayed

00:55:34.300 pretty normal. So I would assume, you know,

00:55:36.440 I guess different people. Maybe, yeah.

00:55:38.440 Through different things.

00:55:39.260 But I kind of, with the stories that come out,

00:55:42.180 I would think some terrible things happen to these kids.

00:55:46.460 And, you know, that's kind of the newer thing we get.

00:55:49.040 But the old school Hollywood was just as bad in other ways.

00:55:52.120 They were all drunks, like crazy, abusive drunks.

00:55:58.240 They got married five times.

00:56:00.760 They had kids with different wives, neglected them.

00:56:04.440 And then they'd off themselves or die in some horrific car crash

00:56:08.040 because they were hammered.

00:56:09.140 So it's just a different type of horror

00:56:12.680 that was going on back in those days.

00:56:14.480 Did you see the clip that was going around recently?

00:56:16.480 It was either Judy Garland or Shirley Temple

00:56:18.940 when they were older,

00:56:20.520 telling a funny story

00:56:22.400 about going into a giant executive meeting

00:56:25.980 when they were kids.

00:56:27.120 Shirley Temple.

00:56:27.580 It was Shirley Temple.

00:56:28.760 Yeah, that's brutal.

00:56:29.660 She was probably Shirley Temple Black by that point

00:56:31.420 because she was married.

00:56:32.880 And she said that they split her up

00:56:37.400 and then her mother went into one room with one executive

00:56:39.460 and she went in and I googled the guy

00:56:41.460 he was a real guy and she said

00:56:43.420 she walked in and the guy was just naked or he took his

00:56:45.460 clothes off and he was like 60

00:56:47.100 yeah and she started laughing

00:56:49.080 it's a fun story she's a kid

00:56:50.600 so she saw it and the guy got mad

00:56:53.220 that a child was laughing at his

00:56:55.400 manhood

00:56:56.800 yeah

00:56:57.540 but you know

00:57:00.420 just terrible people the casting couch stories

00:57:03.500 they all come from some element

00:57:05.560 of fact and truth

00:57:07.320 And she was talking about it and laughing as an adult about it.

00:57:09.960 Like, my mother said the same thing happened to her.

00:57:12.120 Like, they just didn't look at it the same back then.

00:57:14.760 It's despicable people.

00:57:15.280 It's crazy.

00:57:15.760 Come on in here.

00:57:16.740 Yeah.

00:57:17.220 Here's my penis.

00:57:19.400 We'll be right back after these words.

00:57:22.020 Stick around, won't you?

00:57:24.820 Anthony Cumia Show.

00:57:26.060 That's me on this Sunday evening with Jim Norton.

00:57:30.340 E-Rock hanging out, too.

00:57:33.560 You're having a lot of fun.

00:57:35.100 I like my friends.

00:57:36.340 Oh, this is great.

00:57:37.320 I love it.

00:57:38.520 Don't forget, Wednesday on Sid's show, Sid's morning show here, Donald Trump will be talking with, you might have heard of him, the president of the United States.

00:57:49.480 That's awesome.

00:57:50.180 Which is insane.

00:57:51.200 Like, I remember Sid at N.E.W. and, you know, sports guys.

00:57:55.980 Sports guys.

00:57:56.320 Sports guys.

00:57:57.580 And now he's talking with the president.

00:57:59.500 The president actually, you know, I've heard some stories.

00:58:01.900 The president really likes what he's doing and appreciates his work with the Jewish community here in New York.

00:58:09.940 Yeah.

00:58:10.640 Like, you know, those Jewish ambulance that go around.

00:58:13.640 Yes.

00:58:14.180 And not the ones that chase it.

00:58:15.520 Those are the lawyers.

00:58:16.940 The ambulance.

00:58:19.040 They dedicated one to Sid.

00:58:21.000 They put his name on it.

00:58:22.980 And that's like a big honor.

00:58:25.340 And I saw some pictures earlier of Sid, his Passover Seder, his house.

00:58:31.940 So Sid's great.

00:58:33.360 And he's going to be talking with Donald Trump on Wednesday.

00:58:35.600 So tune in in the morning.

00:58:37.760 That's great.

00:58:38.360 Here for that.

00:58:39.340 He's awesome.

00:58:41.040 There was something else I wanted to get to.

00:58:42.960 Oh, I was still talking a little bit about Hollywood because there was one other celebrity that I brought up that I looked at.

00:58:49.300 Albert Salmi.

00:58:51.260 This guy.

00:58:52.280 Who's that?

00:58:52.900 He was.

00:58:53.540 a celebrity? Yeah, he's an

00:58:55.860 actor, but he was in a lot of Twilight

00:58:57.880 Zones. He was also,

00:58:59.840 if you remember, in Caddyshack,

00:59:02.100 he was Danny Noonan's father at the

00:59:03.900 beginning, where he goes, I saw that!

00:59:06.140 He goes, oh, I bought a Coke. He goes, what are you,

00:59:07.680 a diabetic?

00:59:09.100 I don't remember it. Yeah, he was an actor, but he's

00:59:11.820 another one that decided

00:59:13.860 that him and his wife

00:59:15.760 didn't need to continue anymore.

00:59:17.900 Yeah, you probably recognize his face.

00:59:20.100 Wow. But he's in a lot of Twilight

00:59:22.020 and um let's see april 23rd 1990 okay you know uh but it's not a short time 35 years ago a long

00:59:31.560 time ago i still think the 90s are like 35 years ago uh him and his estranged wife uh estranged wife

00:59:37.820 roberta were found dead in their spokane washington home by a friend who stopped by to check on her

00:59:42.800 according to newspaper accounts uh salmi fatally shot roberta in the kitchen of her home where she

00:59:48.600 should have been absolutely uh it was either gonna be there or the bathroom i might say the

00:59:53.100 bedroom of course once you're done rattling those pots and pans get your ass into the bedroom

00:59:57.500 clumsily tripped and sorry and uh he shot her and then turned turned the gun on himself

01:00:03.880 upstairs and uh oof but there's so many of those from murder suicides yeah and i think

01:00:11.040 i don't know maybe these days actors they accept that they're older and they're not getting the

01:00:17.520 roles they used to and things because they don't seem to be blowing themselves away as

01:00:22.280 much as they used to.

01:00:23.260 Much as often as they should.

01:00:24.800 As they absolutely should.

01:00:26.360 There's quite a list.

01:00:27.320 I would love to.

01:00:28.000 They're despicable.

01:00:28.840 Male handguns with a rearview mirror on it.

01:00:32.380 Enjoy this.

01:00:33.620 I saw your last series.

01:00:35.260 I stink.

01:00:38.320 Do you, I don't see you as someone that watches a lot of movies.

01:00:43.960 You don't, right?

01:00:44.640 You don't watch a lot of other people working in the entertainment business.

01:00:47.400 No, I don't.

01:00:48.360 I don't watch other standards.

01:00:49.300 You're not right now.

01:00:50.060 No, of course I'm not.

01:00:51.480 I'm not entertainers or people.

01:00:54.060 I just shot something in November.

01:00:56.820 Fortunately.

01:00:57.440 I know where we're going.

01:00:59.720 I know, and you're not wrong.

01:01:00.880 I thought of it.

01:01:02.800 But I'm going to release it probably on YouTube like everyone does.

01:01:05.680 But I just sent it to Mark Normand, and I'm going to send it to one other person.

01:01:09.800 I'm like, could you watch this and tell me if you recognize any of these jokes?

01:01:13.000 Like, I'm so paranoid about another person's joke creeping into my act.

01:01:17.000 and me not knowing it.

01:01:18.620 So I have a third person, a third party watching it

01:01:20.860 just to be careful.

01:01:21.660 Yeah.

01:01:22.180 I don't watch anything.

01:01:24.300 I've noticed something though on streaming services

01:01:27.040 like Amazon and Netflix and Hulu and whatnot.

01:01:31.100 They will put out a series and the first season is good.

01:01:34.980 It hooks you in.

01:01:36.520 And then it's garbage.

01:01:38.960 Like they just give up.

01:01:41.060 And everyone's psyched about the first season.

01:01:44.660 And then they just, it's terrible, it sucks.

01:01:47.200 Severance?

01:01:48.360 Is that a good one?

01:01:49.400 Oh, season one was interesting and good.

01:01:52.140 And season two.

01:01:53.440 Yeah.

01:01:54.160 I mean, oof.

01:01:55.520 Same thing.

01:01:56.000 What was that show that I used to like until you talked about it and then I hated it because

01:02:00.280 I couldn't.

01:02:00.740 Hogan's Heroes?

01:02:01.400 Hogan's Heroes?

01:02:06.000 Dad?

01:02:06.980 Dad?

01:02:08.220 Wait, not Walking Dead.

01:02:10.520 Which one was that?

01:02:11.800 Dad?

01:02:12.480 No, no.

01:02:14.940 Succession?

01:02:16.120 Oh, yeah.

01:02:17.260 Yeah, you hated it.

01:02:19.380 I loved it, and then you ruined it for me.

01:02:22.700 The last season was actually good.

01:02:24.400 I actually liked the last season.

01:02:25.880 Yeah, I did turn around and watch the last season.

01:02:28.720 I didn't even watch it.

01:02:30.200 I was just, like, done at that point because you had ruined it for me.

01:02:34.140 Jeremy, yeah.

01:02:34.740 And every time Jeremy came on and he would talk to his dad,

01:02:37.700 I was just thinking, like, Jimmy thinks this is garbage.

01:02:40.160 It got a little annoying, yeah.

01:02:41.340 It ruined it for me.

01:02:42.380 Hey, Shiv.

01:02:43.260 That stupid brother-in-law.

01:02:45.460 So many of those shows, though, they're not, they don't know what to do with it.

01:02:50.580 After that first initial hook you get, they just, you know, the whole allure of it just goes away.

01:02:56.920 I got to take a quick break.

01:02:58.620 We will be right back with Jim Norton, Mr. Rock of the E-Variety, and myself, Anthony Cumia.

01:03:05.680 Moments don't go anywhere.

01:03:09.480 Welcoming, welcoming back, Anthony Cumia Show.

01:03:12.560 Yes.

01:03:13.120 Right here, Jim Norton, Mr. E-Rock.

01:03:16.000 These breaks, by the way, it's weird going into commercial break,

01:03:19.660 but they're not nearly as bad as they used to be.

01:03:22.020 Like, they used to be long.

01:03:23.960 These are actually pretty tolerable.

01:03:26.520 Yeah, these aren't bad at all.

01:03:27.500 I love the cars for kids, so I can't get enough of that.

01:03:30.140 I keep going down the hall just to try to hope someone's playing it.

01:03:33.040 I had it on my iPod.

01:03:34.560 iPod, great joke, 2007, fat-breasted idiot.

01:03:38.820 I just don't like the Cars 4 part.

01:03:42.780 I was thinking the other day, like, reminiscing about the old O&A show

01:03:53.120 and some of the celebrities we had come in, and it's amazing.

01:03:59.280 Like, some of them were, you know, you'd never expect to meet people like that.

01:04:04.780 One of my favorite interviews was Ray Liotta.

01:04:07.940 Oh, he was great.

01:04:08.900 That was at XM, though.

01:04:09.660 That was over at the old XM, right?

01:04:10.860 That was at the old XM.

01:04:11.980 Yeah, yeah.

01:04:12.780 But like with everything, N.E.W., all those various iterations of the show.

01:04:20.220 And you, of course, Ozzy, I know that was just a huge thing for you.

01:04:24.320 The first time he came in, you were, you know.

01:04:27.600 I couldn't talk.

01:04:28.440 You could not talk.

01:04:29.240 I couldn't talk.

01:04:31.020 I just sat there.

01:04:32.400 Gene Simmons was the first giant one for me at N.E.W.

01:04:35.280 Yeah.

01:04:35.740 And Ozzy was XM.

01:04:36.680 Ozzy called in in the afternoon on his way to a helicopter.

01:04:42.360 The helicopter, yeah, yeah.

01:04:44.760 His last show, Sabbath's doing their last show.

01:04:46.540 Me and Florentine are going over to England.

01:04:48.520 Like last show, that's it.

01:04:50.020 Sabbath is doing one more show together, all of them.

01:04:53.360 Ozzy's, you know, he's got Parkinson's.

01:04:55.880 He's got something.

01:04:56.580 Yeah, he's got something.

01:04:58.560 And he had that bad fall, so I think he's in rough shape.

01:05:01.380 And they want to do one more show with Bill Ward.

01:05:04.140 And Jim and I are going over there, and we're going to do gigs just to pay for the trip.

01:05:08.380 And then finally, I'm going to go see Sabbath's last show in July.

01:05:10.880 Wow.

01:05:11.000 Yeah, at this point, you have to.

01:05:13.240 You're, like, obligated to see the last show.

01:05:16.120 What do you think, though?

01:05:17.000 Because, you know, one thing you don't want to see is one of your heroes like that not being able to pull it off.

01:05:25.600 And do you think Ozzy's got it in him to do?

01:05:29.400 I have been watching Ozzy live.

01:05:32.060 I've been going to see Ozzy since 1983.

01:05:34.640 I've watched him forget the lyrics of every single one.

01:05:38.580 I'm seeing him drunk on stage.

01:05:40.360 No.

01:05:41.000 Whatever he does, the voice sounds great.

01:05:43.240 That's all that matters.

01:05:44.380 And I know that he's just doing it because he wants to do it.

01:05:46.580 So no, there's nothing.

01:05:47.500 Even if he could only croak through one song, I wouldn't care.

01:05:51.100 I'm like, I'm happy to be here with these guys.

01:05:53.920 I would love to say hello to Sabbath.

01:05:56.400 Do you think you'd be able to somehow score backstage, say hi, something?

01:06:00.540 They're not doing any comps because it's for charity.

01:06:03.580 So the way it's working is they sell the tickets,

01:06:05.900 and then there's going to be friends and family seats released.

01:06:08.340 Say you're a make-a-wish kid.

01:06:11.000 I just want to meet the guys

01:06:14.200 can I meet Mr. Osborne

01:06:15.940 so they

01:06:17.220 I keep bugging

01:06:20.040 Sharon's office like did they release the tickets yet

01:06:22.040 and he's like we'll let you know

01:06:23.900 I'm beginning to annoy them

01:06:25.240 it's that pain in the ass Jim Norton

01:06:27.140 just won't leave us alone

01:06:28.840 I'm going to buy a meet and greet package

01:06:30.260 whatever they're selling I'll buy I don't care

01:06:31.820 I just don't care I can't wait

01:06:33.440 and where is it?

01:06:34.340 it's in Birmingham England

01:06:35.260 wow you are that is a huge fan

01:06:38.640 I've never done anything like that before for a show

01:06:40.920 But it's Sabbath's last show

01:06:42.860 And it's going to be with Bill

01:06:43.980 With the drummer

01:06:44.520 So I want to see with Bill Ward

01:06:46.260 Bring him some gifts

01:06:47.340 That was one of the greatest moments

01:06:51.260 In O&A history

01:06:52.600 It really was

01:06:53.540 The birthday present

01:06:54.680 You brought books

01:06:56.640 You went to the bookstore

01:06:57.540 And I mean

01:06:58.080 I know you well enough to know

01:06:59.880 You put so much thought

01:07:01.360 A lot of thought

01:07:01.900 Into every single one of these books

01:07:03.720 You bought

01:07:04.120 Yes I did

01:07:04.500 Or whatever it was

01:07:05.480 Barnes and Noble

01:07:06.020 For Ozzy's birthday

01:07:07.680 And it was Beatles books

01:07:09.140 And music

01:07:10.360 oriented yeah and and you brought him in and he was like oh thank you jim this wonderful uh

01:07:18.700 and he left and forgot the books yep he didn't take them and it it was hilariously funny it's

01:07:27.860 the only way that should have worked it worked the way it should have and he sent tony dennis

01:07:31.720 who was his assistant at the time back in and we were like oh yeah but he wanted ozzy's cup

01:07:37.060 Ozzy had left his cup

01:07:38.400 Because he was sick

01:07:40.340 And he had like a special cup he was drinking

01:07:41.800 And then we had to go

01:07:43.520 Also could you please take the books

01:07:45.160 They stayed there for years

01:07:46.760 They stayed there for years

01:07:48.740 And then a few years later

01:07:50.920 I'm in Los Angeles

01:07:52.500 After I got to know him a little bit

01:07:53.880 And I'm with Jonathan

01:07:55.560 Who's my manager

01:07:57.320 And my ex-girlfriend Jen

01:07:58.960 We're all going to meet for lunch

01:08:00.100 And I texted Ozzy

01:08:01.660 And he goes are you in LA

01:08:03.480 And I go yeah

01:08:03.980 He goes why don't you come over

01:08:04.760 I'll play the new record for you

01:08:06.100 Oh.

01:08:06.580 So I just left my manager and my ex-girlfriend at a restaurant and went to Ozzy's house and listened to his record.

01:08:11.460 Of course you would.

01:08:12.480 Yeah.

01:08:12.860 That's like, and they should understand.

01:08:14.760 They totally did.

01:08:15.900 Not only was I okay with doing that, if it was my current wife and it was literally, if she was getting last rites, I would still, I would leave and then go celebrate with Ozzy.

01:08:28.840 That's great.

01:08:29.560 Yeah, because I remember that like the first time Ozzy came in and everything and it was huge.

01:08:33.880 But, yeah, it was such a great perk of doing the radio show to meet some of these people and, you know, talk to them, ask them questions, see how weird they are in real life.

01:08:47.680 Like, who was it?

01:08:48.520 Was it not – who was the guy – I always get him confused with Liam Neeson, but it's not Liam Neeson.

01:08:54.880 It's the –

01:08:55.180 Willem Dafoe?

01:08:56.260 No.

01:08:57.540 Somebody else but Jeff Blackman.

01:09:00.220 Oh, Gary Oldman.

01:09:00.900 Gary Oldman.

01:09:01.380 Yes, yeah.

01:09:02.440 Gary Oldman was a weirdo.

01:09:04.680 Yeah, he was.

01:09:05.140 A little crazy.

01:09:05.780 A little nutty.

01:09:07.320 But, you know, funny.

01:09:09.400 But you get so used to seeing them in movies, and especially if they have a certain attitude, a part they play better than others or more often than others.

01:09:19.220 So you're kind of like, you know, I expected that, but this guy's out of his mind.

01:09:24.540 He was a little crazy.

01:09:25.600 And I'm always so filled with shame, as I should be.

01:09:29.480 I was on a plane.

01:09:30.900 Literally.

01:09:31.180 Filled with shame.

01:09:33.020 Filled with shame.

01:09:34.840 I can't say it on the radio, but let's just say the shame does come back out.

01:09:38.760 We get it.

01:09:39.480 Yes.

01:09:40.220 It certainly does.

01:09:41.140 It's a blurker sound.

01:09:44.840 I was on a plane, and Gary Oldman and his family got on, and I wanted to say hello to him.

01:09:51.020 Gar!

01:09:51.780 Gar!

01:09:53.040 I'd rather not.

01:09:54.460 Huh?

01:09:55.480 But I knew he'd remember me, because he said he liked my special or whatever, but I was

01:09:58.500 so ashamed of just i just couldn't bring myself to see because if he said he didn't remember me i

01:10:04.300 just would have been like horrified i had to have the fantasy that he's actually still like me i'm

01:10:08.720 very surprised because you would usually forego that the the potential embarrassment because you

01:10:14.180 were so like getting pictures with celebrities yeah i've never known anyone before or since

01:10:20.800 that was so into getting pictures at any cost.

01:10:25.340 Dignity, time, missing a flight.

01:10:28.500 It all went down the toilet.

01:10:29.980 Dignity.

01:10:30.580 I did stop doing it, though.

01:10:32.240 If I interview somebody.

01:10:33.420 Yeah, I've seen plenty of people I haven't.

01:10:35.340 I'm like, for somebody I want who I really like.

01:10:38.560 But I've met everyone I want to meet.

01:10:40.480 Really?

01:10:41.140 Yeah, pretty much.

01:10:42.000 There's a few left that I haven't.

01:10:43.760 But yeah, I'm okay with it.

01:10:44.980 I used to get stories out of it or whatever.

01:10:47.400 I still have stories dealing with you and celebrities.

01:10:50.480 He would just throw his headphones down in the middle of you guys talking about something because we had to give him the cue to go get whatever.

01:10:56.580 Oh, I didn't mind.

01:10:56.820 It was fun.

01:10:57.520 He would always sit there.

01:10:58.700 You have new markers?

01:10:59.480 They've got to be brand new markers.

01:11:00.520 Yes.

01:11:00.940 Just run it on this paper here for a little bit.

01:11:02.540 And I'd have to show him.

01:11:03.420 I ran it on the paper.

01:11:04.080 I would test the marker.

01:11:05.000 Is your flash working?

01:11:06.100 Just take a photo of me.

01:11:06.980 Let me see the camera.

01:11:07.800 Let me make sure the flash is going.

01:11:08.880 It was kind of before.

01:11:12.480 iPhones are great now for pictures.

01:11:14.460 Any idiot can use them, Iraq.

01:11:17.940 I'm teasing.

01:11:19.400 But back then, you had to make sure, like, don't get blurry, like a blurry picture or that.

01:11:25.140 And you'd want to check the picture before the celebrity left.

01:11:28.180 Make sure the eyes weren't closed.

01:11:29.400 It was such a chore and strenuous.

01:11:33.840 Yes.

01:11:34.340 When I would get handed the camera, I'd freak out.

01:11:38.020 I don't want this responsibility.

01:11:39.260 I learned the hard way in 2004.

01:11:45.120 It just never changes.

01:11:47.520 Never.

01:11:47.640 I went to this dinner with Manny, I think, I don't know if Patrice was at this one.

01:11:52.000 It was called CORE, Congress of Racial Equality, with Roy Innes.

01:11:55.160 He was the one who would, and one year Laura Bush was the speaker, Warren Hatch one year.

01:12:00.860 And I went, and Kevin Hart was there.

01:12:03.080 And Kevin was just a young comic then.

01:12:04.960 So I had him in charge of taking my photos.

01:12:07.660 But he didn't know how to use the flash.

01:12:09.180 Oh, no.

01:12:09.680 So I have a blurry Charlton Heston.

01:12:11.500 I have a blurry BB King.

01:12:13.200 Charlton Heston.

01:12:14.240 Because this idiot didn't know how to operate a camera.

01:12:16.200 So I learned from that moment that you always check everything.

01:12:20.280 Yes, check everything.

01:12:21.080 But it's a chore.

01:12:22.060 No one wants to do it.

01:12:23.620 The celebrity just wants a quick picture and then leave.

01:12:26.660 You're holding on to them, making them stay.

01:12:29.340 It stays.

01:12:29.700 Wait, wait, wait.

01:12:30.180 I don't look good in this one.

01:12:31.660 I did stop, though.

01:12:33.100 I got sick of it, and I just couldn't anymore.

01:12:35.700 I just don't care anymore.

01:12:36.820 One of my favorites was your hatred that instantly came up for Derek Jeter.

01:12:44.000 You know, I always felt bad.

01:12:45.140 I will say it's one of the few things in life I feel bad about.

01:12:49.580 That was hilarious, though.

01:12:51.660 Yeah.

01:12:52.180 That was at a charity event, right?

01:12:53.260 It was a charity event.

01:12:54.860 I mean, Derek used to do a lot of, he still does, a lot of charity.

01:12:58.760 And we had the...

01:13:00.580 XM bought us a table.

01:13:01.660 Yes, bought us a table there for this event.

01:13:04.400 A bunch of Yankees and Derek.

01:13:06.860 And all you wanted was that picture and a signed baseball.

01:13:12.120 No, no, a picture of me and him signed.

01:13:14.220 Right, right.

01:13:14.600 I had a picture from XM.

01:13:15.720 Yes, that's right.

01:13:16.600 You wanted that picture signed.

01:13:18.640 And he wasn't signing.

01:13:20.600 Like, he signed for Girls.

01:13:21.940 Was that the thing?

01:13:22.760 Yeah.

01:13:23.520 Yeah, yeah.

01:13:24.740 I probably, I handled it poorly, though.

01:13:26.840 I will, in hindsight.

01:13:28.700 Because he was doing a charity.

01:13:29.800 I should have just paid to have it signed.

01:13:31.480 It was so stupid of me not to.

01:13:33.340 Yeah, it was like, yeah, pay.

01:13:34.800 That's why it's an event.

01:13:36.660 It's a regret, yeah.

01:13:37.360 It's like going to one of the Comic-Cons and going, I just have the picture.

01:13:39.760 Just sign it, William Shatner.

01:13:41.420 Sure.

01:13:42.300 You're supposed to pay.

01:13:43.240 I saw Bill, if you want to talk about Bill Shatner.

01:13:45.200 Oh, hello, Bill.

01:13:46.080 I was on a flight.

01:13:48.000 I was zipping around.

01:13:49.640 Was there a man on the wing or something?

01:13:51.360 Was he freaking out?

01:13:52.480 Wait a second.

01:13:54.280 Hold on a second.

01:13:55.560 To do the plane.

01:13:56.500 Was it like Starbase 3605?

01:14:01.800 Something like that.

01:14:04.780 I can't do chip.

01:14:05.940 My voice is still good.

01:14:07.680 I'm coughing.

01:14:09.500 But I was on a plane.

01:14:10.600 and Shatner was on the flight

01:14:13.680 and he remembered me

01:14:14.840 because I've interviewed him a lot

01:14:15.860 like on our show

01:14:16.960 and at Comic Con me

01:14:19.540 and Sam had gone

01:14:20.240 I've interviewed him

01:14:20.960 and I've talked to him enough

01:14:22.100 where he saw me

01:14:23.260 and I was like oh

01:14:23.940 I was a familiar face

01:14:25.520 so we chatted a bit about horses

01:14:26.780 I forget what we were talking about

01:14:27.940 he's a very big equestrian

01:14:29.960 yes that's why I mentioned it

01:14:31.180 oh okay

01:14:31.740 of course I want to be able to talk to me

01:14:33.020 but you know nothing about horses

01:14:33.920 I don't

01:14:34.360 I know that I'm looking at the ass of one right now

01:14:36.100 hey

01:14:38.780 so i talked to him at horses and uh it was so funny the pilot even came out to meet him

01:14:46.480 shatner is a giant oh hero yeah yeah and he's just so over it the pilot came out oh no and he

01:14:53.200 goes like bill i you know you and i met one time and i and shatner just goes yeah it's very nice

01:14:58.100 oh my god get back to flying the plane pilot was so embarrassed because he was just everyone was

01:15:05.220 get off the plane and he just went uh oh yeah that was very nice and he just walked around like

01:15:09.660 without looking up at him he's the pilot at least you know i felt so bad for the guy might have been

01:15:15.940 what puts him over the edge to dip the thing down and kill everybody including shanner yeah he worked

01:15:21.120 for a malaysian airlines but i don't remember it was just so embarrassing i'm coughing oh you are

01:15:31.700 a mess. I'm sorry. I wasn't going to

01:15:33.820 cancel. I was looking forward to this for a long time.

01:15:35.660 No, no, no. People would have been really

01:15:37.900 mad. Wasn't there a time where we saw

01:15:39.900 Randy Johnson, the pitcher,

01:15:41.480 on the street and trying to get a photo?

01:15:43.700 That giant ostrich lobby across 57th Street.

01:15:45.780 Yeah, you were trying to get the photo and he said no

01:15:47.720 or something and all we have is a photo of you

01:15:49.740 taking it, of him walking away from you.

01:15:51.580 Him walking away with a giant stork head.

01:15:54.220 It was literally like seeing Nessie

01:15:55.960 at the Loch Ness Monster

01:15:57.560 in front of the Brooklyn Diner. Some of the

01:15:59.660 Fails were better than your successes.

01:16:02.860 Yeah.

01:16:03.100 The famous De Niro one.

01:16:04.620 And then you ended up having some type of professional relationship with Robert De Niro and having him intro your special or.

01:16:12.840 Yeah.

01:16:13.140 Yeah.

01:16:13.620 There was that scene.

01:16:14.420 What was he spanking you?

01:16:15.840 He spanked me.

01:16:16.440 He spanked you.

01:16:17.040 My bare bottom.

01:16:18.320 He was great.

01:16:19.420 But that was that started out as, you know, the story where you tried to get his a picture with him.

01:16:24.840 And Bob, you tapped him on the shoulder and looking up at him, it just went, Bob.

01:16:30.120 Yeah.

01:16:30.560 And that killed me.

01:16:32.440 Yeah, because I figured he would think I knew him because I called him Bob.

01:16:35.320 Robert.

01:16:36.160 And now if I email him, he gets back to me.

01:16:38.080 I don't have his number, but I do email him, and he'll respond.

01:16:40.440 He's always very nice.

01:16:41.280 You think it's him?

01:16:42.420 Oh, I know it's him.

01:16:43.220 Yeah.

01:16:43.540 I know it.

01:16:43.980 Yeah.

01:16:44.600 Because I had been on an email chain with him for something we were doing at one point,

01:16:48.880 and it's definitely him.

01:16:50.520 Oh, okay.

01:16:51.060 Because, again, the responses are usually brief, and he always starts off very official.

01:16:56.140 He'll go, Mr. De Niro, I'd like to thank you for your, I couldn't think of a funny word.

01:17:02.680 God, I suck on depression.

01:17:04.600 I was trying to think of inquisition.

01:17:06.840 Or what is it when you inquire about something?

01:17:08.500 Inquisition.

01:17:09.080 Inquisition.

01:17:09.500 But I couldn't think of it.

01:17:10.820 So, yeah, inquiry.

01:17:12.220 That's the word.

01:17:12.820 Yes, an inquiry.

01:17:13.780 God almighty.

01:17:14.840 When these things turn on, the sense of humor disappears.

01:17:18.820 What a flop.

01:17:20.020 But, yeah, there were a few celebrities that were just really cool to meet.

01:17:24.380 Do you remember when Rogan was in and Marion Barry was next door?

01:17:28.780 And I went out and begged Marion.

01:17:30.000 I was like, just come in for a minute.

01:17:31.080 I kind of hijacked him from Sway.

01:17:33.380 Of course, he was over at Shade.

01:17:35.540 What was that?

01:17:36.340 Shade 45.

01:17:37.340 Shade 45.

01:17:38.220 Sway had him.

01:17:38.940 And I came in and Rogan asked him some uncomfortable questions about smoking crack.

01:17:43.480 And he's just kind of standing there in the book.

01:17:44.620 But how is it uncomfortable?

01:17:46.060 It's like, that's what you did.

01:17:47.660 That's what you're known for.

01:17:49.100 Not being an amazing mayor.

01:17:51.180 You smoked crack.

01:17:52.440 You were caught on video.

01:17:53.460 With a hooker.

01:17:54.040 With a hook or a smoking crack.

01:17:56.420 So, yeah.

01:17:57.780 But even I would – I've gotten crap from people over the course of the years

01:18:02.200 that I wasn't aggressive enough with some guests that had things going on.

01:18:06.240 But people don't understand.

01:18:07.240 It's a fun – it's supposed to be a fun show.

01:18:09.680 It's not like Crossfire.

01:18:11.400 And I'm not that kind of guy.

01:18:13.160 I get, like, cringey putting people in uncomfortable positions.

01:18:17.480 Yeah.

01:18:20.160 Even I had to laugh before I even said this.

01:18:22.000 You knew where it was going.

01:18:23.000 something about touching your toes and velcro sneakers

01:18:27.900 yeah there was some uncomfortable i have a hard time doing it too like for me to get like really

01:18:38.580 crappy with somebody i have to be angry with them or they have to do something yeah like that gets

01:18:44.620 me past that point like i'm not good at just being confrontational with somebody for no reason right

01:18:49.060 Especially if they're being nice.

01:18:50.420 Jesse Ventura was a huge moment.

01:18:54.760 So memorable.

01:18:55.800 It's on video.

01:18:57.080 So it's all over YouTube.

01:18:58.460 It has been for years, and it's one of the most popular things that ever happened on the show.

01:19:02.160 I still get messages from people, and they'll be like, I saw the Jesse video.

01:19:09.460 And I'll write back, you're mad about an argument two guys had 16 years ago?

01:19:14.520 Shut up.

01:19:16.060 Shut up.

01:19:17.040 the the the speed at which you came out with riffraff hairdo uh that's what did it that put

01:19:25.540 it over and made it so memorable jesse was mad and he kept saying like thank you for your service

01:19:32.040 yeah like you know he was the guy that touched him like really yeah very very hard and uh you

01:19:40.580 just had had it at that point i didn't like that at all yeah i don't like being alpha i'm not a

01:19:44.680 tough guy at all i just it just set me off and um i kind of that's another one i don't regret the

01:19:49.720 argument no no but i regret that we never talked after because it was just so i mean it's so stupid

01:19:55.500 like i don't have any bad feelings towards the guy i don't care about him at all he's still alive

01:19:59.020 you know you might uh bump into him at some point have him on your show i'm off the grid i go to

01:20:05.680 mexico in the summertime and i get off the grid i don't have a phone i don't have uh uh what else

01:20:13.960 walkie talkies and you're like what do you do down there off the all right they didn't allow me

01:20:20.540 on plum island i told them i was a governor and i took the boat over it's like yeah it's a virus

01:20:27.960 island but i'm a governor a fighter a navy shield got it god what a overinflated sense of self-worth

01:20:37.260 yeah he really he really was a bit verbose about his compliments speaking of overinflated how are

01:20:42.500 that's uncalled for it is so uncalled for you actually look good i don't mean that to be

01:20:50.740 shocked i was happy when i saw you said he looked good he does look good yeah yeah we'll pay for

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01:22:00.660 Anthony Comey, a show.

01:22:03.480 Jim Norton joining us for the evening in Iraq.

01:22:07.740 also sitting here and

01:22:09.480 chiming in when needed. Young Nagel

01:22:11.900 boy. Young Nagel. He was

01:22:13.640 involved. I'm just here to observe. This is your thing.

01:22:15.600 He was involved in a lot of

01:22:17.800 the shenanigans that went on.

01:22:19.720 He was. The O&A show back at various

01:22:21.800 outlets.

01:22:23.360 Well, let's talk to some people.

01:22:25.620 Sure. I'm sure they want to talk to Jimmy.

01:22:28.820 Chat with us.

01:22:30.180 Us. Both of us, of course.

01:22:32.120 All of us, actually. How about

01:22:33.880 Troy? Is Troy there? Let's talk

01:22:35.960 to Troy from Scottsdale, Arizona, I believe.

01:22:39.620 Witness Protection Program, Troy?

01:22:42.300 Yes, I'm a big, big fan.

01:22:44.500 I actually saw you guys at the O&A softball game in Newark, New Jersey.

01:22:49.580 Wow.

01:22:50.160 Yeah, 2001.

01:22:52.260 That was the biggest thing that happened in 2001.

01:22:55.240 I remember that.

01:22:56.240 Oops.

01:22:56.700 No, it wasn't.

01:22:58.500 Oopsie.

01:22:59.200 No.

01:23:01.600 I have a question.

01:23:03.200 is there a chance that

01:23:05.000 you guys are going to join forces

01:23:07.480 with the chip army and the ant army

01:23:09.240 and do a show?

01:23:10.680 Oh my god, I forgot Ant-Man

01:23:12.660 Ant-Man, yeah

01:23:13.920 I forgot about Ant-Man

01:23:15.880 Gavin bestowed that upon me and I hate it

01:23:18.100 Ant-Man, yeah

01:23:20.200 the studio is called the Ant Hill

01:23:22.560 Oh, that's awesome

01:23:24.240 and it's like, you know, pour some sugar on the Ant-Man

01:23:27.000 and I come into the

01:23:28.500 break playing pour some sugar on me

01:23:30.980 That's how you get money too

01:23:32.700 The Ant-Man needs some sugar.

01:23:34.620 Yeah, and then I have merch, antenna hats, and sunglasses that look like compound eyes.

01:23:40.600 Yeah, I'm working it all out.

01:23:42.740 The Ant-Man.

01:23:43.700 If I am ever known as the Ant-Man, please, please blow my head off.

01:23:49.420 Or even if you're not.

01:23:53.540 Of course.

01:23:56.360 You never know, Troy.

01:23:57.780 I mean, obviously, me and Jimmy have worked together whenever we can over the course of the years.

01:24:02.700 And I've loved doing Chip.

01:24:04.300 That was, you know, so much fun.

01:24:05.720 The live shows, I forgot.

01:24:07.400 Like, we went out and did those live gigs in various cities.

01:24:12.200 And it was so much fun.

01:24:12.980 And Chip would write, like, a bunch of dialogue for everyone before.

01:24:15.760 It was usually not quite as humorous as Chip had thought it would be.

01:24:20.280 We had to read from Chip's script.

01:24:22.320 It was terrible.

01:24:24.160 I forgot about that.

01:24:24.920 They were, unfortunately, bad scripts.

01:24:26.320 Yeah, yeah.

01:24:28.300 Anything else, Troy?

01:24:29.260 You know, my favorite episode was the one where you were drinking wine.

01:24:34.020 That could be any episode.

01:24:35.520 Yeah.

01:24:35.740 Who was drinking wine?

01:24:36.720 Anthony?

01:24:37.380 Of course.

01:24:37.920 Anthony was drinking wine.

01:24:39.080 No, and he starts singing Stumbling In.

01:24:41.260 And then, like, I guess he had been drinking earlier, maybe.

01:24:44.740 That would make sense.

01:24:45.940 I don't know, but he starts flaring all the lyrics.

01:24:48.040 It's hilarious.

01:24:48.680 Oh, okay.

01:24:49.140 I don't know what episode.

01:24:49.700 Yeah.

01:24:50.940 Yeah, I kind of pulled the throttle back on that a little bit.

01:24:53.860 Yeah.

01:24:54.140 You know, we all have to mature.

01:24:56.660 But thank you, Troy.

01:24:57.620 Thank you so much.

01:24:58.940 Have fun out there in AZ, okay?

01:25:00.900 Arizona.

01:25:01.480 Like some schnook eating egg noodles and tomato sauce.

01:25:05.320 Is that what he was, Arizona?

01:25:06.520 I think it was.

01:25:07.220 They all go out there, don't they?

01:25:08.320 A new development.

01:25:09.160 Yeah, Sammy the Bull went out there.

01:25:10.280 I think, yeah, they sent, what's his name?

01:25:13.220 The guy that ratted on.

01:25:15.780 Sammy the Bull.

01:25:16.520 Yeah, Sammy the Bull.

01:25:17.040 Yeah, yeah.

01:25:17.560 Oh, you said that?

01:25:18.140 Sammy, Sam Gravano.

01:25:19.700 Yeah, he's on Instagram.

01:25:21.460 Yeah.

01:25:21.820 And he's great.

01:25:22.540 He's a great follow.

01:25:23.640 But I really want to get him on my podcast.

01:25:25.040 I would love to have him on, but he won't follow me back.

01:25:27.600 I don't blame him.

01:25:28.260 His daughter was on one of those mob shows.

01:25:32.320 Remember, we had them as a guest.

01:25:33.460 Yeah, all of them, the mob girls.

01:25:34.300 Yeah, mob wives.

01:25:34.680 We had the mob girls on, and his daughter was on,

01:25:38.240 and she wasn't saying anything.

01:25:40.100 And I said something to the effect of,

01:25:42.160 why don't you act like your father and start talking?

01:25:46.040 It was something to that effect, and she was not happy.

01:25:49.300 She didn't get a kick out of it?

01:25:50.240 She didn't get a kick.

01:25:51.100 It was funny.

01:25:51.700 It's like, you know, your father talked a little too much.

01:25:54.840 You're always talking?

01:25:59.040 But, you know, he said he had his reasons.

01:26:01.660 So I would love to interview him, of all the people.

01:26:04.240 There's another guy from, I think, the Goddy thing.

01:26:07.160 Is John Alito with that guy?

01:26:09.220 I've seen him interviewed quite a bit.

01:26:10.580 Yeah.

01:26:11.000 Yeah, he's really fascinating.

01:26:12.260 All those guys are fascinating.

01:26:13.740 Yeah, I've spoken to a few of them.

01:26:16.940 The franchisee guy, he's out and about on doing podcasts and whatnot.

01:26:25.000 And there's a few of them.

01:26:26.760 And you would think, like, that would just get you killed.

01:26:29.560 Years ago, yeah.

01:26:30.180 Even if you're out of it for 10, 20 years, you would still be killed if you said things.

01:26:35.820 It's just not the same anymore.

01:26:37.320 No.

01:26:37.720 You have the same type of loyalty to this thing of ours.

01:26:41.260 Even, by the way, my favorite thing in The Sopranos now is watching Vito try to have sex with Finn.

01:26:50.060 Phineas.

01:26:51.200 Phineas.

01:26:52.020 Phineas.

01:26:52.720 My beautiful kids.

01:26:53.640 My nemesis.

01:26:55.460 And he goes, when he opens the door to the port-a-potty.

01:26:59.220 Port-a-potty, yeah.

01:26:59.900 And the thing, he goes, sound like there was a horse in there.

01:27:02.780 Oh, God.

01:27:04.800 He played that so wrong, Vito.

01:27:07.640 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:27:08.860 But when his head came up with the security guy.

01:27:13.280 Sure.

01:27:13.720 That moment, the first time you ever saw it was like, what?

01:27:17.940 What am I seeing?

01:27:19.080 And I watch that now, though, and I'm like, why didn't he just say he was doing coke?

01:27:23.020 Like, he could have lied and gotten out of it,

01:27:25.740 but then again, they did see him in a gay club, too.

01:27:27.980 Not even dancing well, by the way.

01:27:29.320 I don't think that would work.

01:27:30.620 No.

01:27:30.820 Coke.

01:27:31.160 That was awful wet Coke under your nose.

01:27:35.300 Yeah, why'd you have Coke on your back and your hair?

01:27:41.220 When he's in the club, it's like, it's a joke.

01:27:43.900 That dumb hat.

01:27:45.620 He's wearing, like, Cruisin', like Pacino and Cruisin'.

01:27:48.840 The most stereotypical gay attire in a gay club.

01:27:52.860 And he's like, it's a joke.

01:27:54.940 And then the one guy's walking in and he goes, say hello to your wife.

01:27:58.560 Sal, don't say nothing, Sal.

01:28:00.420 Yeah.

01:28:00.740 Oh, blabbermouth Sal.

01:28:02.340 His last ditch thing, like, don't say nothing.

01:28:04.700 Like, the mob guy isn't going to say that.

01:28:07.920 No.

01:28:08.480 He was very quiet.

01:28:09.720 He's a finok.

01:28:10.500 Yeah, I enjoyed that.

01:28:11.460 I just kept watching him hit on Phineas.

01:28:13.700 It was so disturbing, though, watching the Johnny Cakes portion

01:28:17.060 where he was up in Vermont, I guess it was.

01:28:20.060 No, New Hampshire.

01:28:21.020 New Hampshire.

01:28:21.880 And he falls in love with Johnny Cakes.

01:28:24.060 Yeah, because I'm like,

01:28:24.760 I never thought I'd be doing this watching this show.

01:28:29.160 Quick, hunt, melt the butter.

01:28:33.660 That guy committed suicide.

01:28:35.060 Yes, he did.

01:28:36.000 The guy who played Johnny Cakes, the actor.

01:28:37.700 I wonder if it was because of that,

01:28:38.580 like he kept getting taunted with Johnny Cakes.

01:28:40.480 Who knows?

01:28:41.860 I love you, Johnny Cakes.

01:28:42.820 I love you, Johnny Cakes.

01:28:43.860 I wonder if that drove the guy to suicide.

01:28:45.500 It might have.

01:28:46.080 It might have.

01:28:46.640 That's not a stereotype you want if you're, you know, old man.

01:28:49.620 We'll be right back after these words.

01:28:51.520 Stick around.

01:28:52.320 We are back.

01:28:53.300 Yes.

01:28:53.880 Anthony Cumia Show.

01:28:54.520 Jim Norton here.

01:28:55.600 E-Rock here.

01:28:57.620 Reminiscing about the old days.

01:28:59.220 Chit-chatting.

01:28:59.940 So nice.

01:29:00.740 Chitting and chatting.

01:29:03.360 A couple of things going on.

01:29:04.760 You know, I guess we'll hit on some of the top stories.

01:29:08.100 Sure.

01:29:09.480 This is insane.

01:29:10.460 Jeff Bezos, you know, the Amazon guy.

01:29:12.960 Multi-gazillionaire.

01:29:14.600 He's got his fiancée, Lauren Sanchez.

01:29:17.160 Sexy.

01:29:17.780 You like her?

01:29:19.200 She's sexy.

01:29:19.680 Yeah?

01:29:19.980 She's got a lot of work done.

01:29:21.300 She has, but she's very sexy.

01:29:23.960 She's like Kimberly Gulf Oil, in a way, a Trump sex girl.

01:29:26.920 Oh, okay.

01:29:27.280 You liked her, too?

01:29:28.080 Yeah.

01:29:28.600 I like that they're like 48 to 50, but they're just in hot shape, and they go to the gym.

01:29:35.940 That's interesting.

01:29:36.940 Yeah.

01:29:38.000 Yeah, I agree.

01:29:38.880 Yeah, that's right up my alley, too.

01:29:42.040 Up my alley.

01:29:42.840 my alley

01:29:46.600 is that what you're calling it now

01:29:48.920 what's your fingers

01:29:50.480 so he's like

01:29:56.900 in the space business now

01:29:58.420 he's got the Amazon thing

01:30:00.520 Blue Comet or Blue Origin

01:30:01.200 Blue Origin

01:30:02.100 it needed to mine me

01:30:04.540 yeah Blue Comet was the Sopranos

01:30:07.140 where Bobby got shot

01:30:07.940 right the train

01:30:09.260 I think I'm gonna do it

01:30:11.660 You dope.

01:30:13.060 You stupid trains.

01:30:14.680 So his fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, Katy Perry, pop idol star Katy Perry, and Gayle King,

01:30:24.840 and then two women that I guess have something to do with the aerospace industry,

01:30:29.920 they are going to be rocketed up into technically space.

01:30:35.760 They're in the vessel for 11 minutes.

01:30:39.580 They shoot it up.

01:30:40.120 That's right.

01:30:40.340 It kind of hangs out up, not in orbit, but above the atmosphere.

01:30:47.060 You're weightless, yeah.

01:30:47.480 And then it comes right back down again.

01:30:50.140 And this is a terrible idea.

01:30:53.460 I think what Jeff Bezos is doing is a carnival act.

01:30:57.720 I think it's a ride.

01:30:59.420 I think it's not like what Elon and SpaceX are doing.

01:31:03.760 SpaceX is bringing people and materials to the space station.

01:31:08.160 Sure.

01:31:08.340 It puts things in orbit.

01:31:10.340 It docks with the space station.

01:31:12.620 Ooh, getting a little turned on there, Jim.

01:31:16.340 It docks with the space station.

01:31:19.420 And this just seems like a carnival ride.

01:31:22.300 And I can only see it ending in tragedy.

01:31:25.540 You wonder if there's going to be, like, this is what I have.

01:31:27.840 I have a couple questions about this.

01:31:30.080 Would you do it?

01:31:31.100 I don't know if I would do it.

01:31:32.200 But a part of me thinks, Gail King said she didn't want to do it.

01:31:35.260 But then when someone goes, Oprah said to her, like, you'll regret it once they're back, that you didn't do it.

01:31:40.000 11 minutes later.

01:31:41.040 It's only 11 minutes.

01:31:42.700 Well, that can happen in 11 minutes.

01:31:44.380 Tell me, can you kid me?

01:31:45.180 There's certain things I could do five times in 11 minutes,

01:31:47.380 including handing over the money.

01:31:49.720 Without swallowing.

01:31:54.500 I'm defenseless when I laugh.

01:31:58.820 Yeah, here's what I think.

01:32:00.380 It shoots you straight up, and then you float.

01:32:02.480 Yeah.

01:32:03.160 But there's no engine on it.

01:32:04.320 So when you come back down, when that thing comes back down,

01:32:07.000 is it like falling back down or is how are you yeah it's just falling the earth grabs it back

01:32:13.460 and and wants it back so you're basically just what are the g-forces like are you plummeting

01:32:18.660 well you're not slowing down from like when a ship is in orbit it's doing about 17 000 miles an hour

01:32:25.440 yeah so when it hits the atmosphere it's got to slow down so you're feeling a lot of g's

01:32:29.380 when you just shoot it up and it comes back down the you're not getting those speeds so you're not

01:32:34.900 getting a lot of g's there's not a lot as much uh heat on the heat shield because you're not

01:32:39.780 uh coming through as fast as you would if you were in orbit but if you were on a plane and it

01:32:43.980 just fell from that height you'd be smashed up against the ceiling yeah yeah you probably would

01:32:48.960 be the g's would be strapped in no if it's just falling i think it has more to do with um

01:32:54.720 acceleration than than speed or deceleration you're gonna you're gonna feel it but this just

01:33:00.920 seems like first of all what a great way to off your fiance if you don't want to marry her sure

01:33:06.280 they're they would never be able to say oh he did something yeah it's just look hey they took a risk

01:33:12.340 it's uh it's dangerous uh and then katie perry what is she thinking i think they're stupid i

01:33:20.380 think they're just stupid women sorry he's done it yeah bezos himself did the first one

01:33:25.460 Shatner did one.

01:33:28.540 Yeah, he cried.

01:33:29.340 He cried because of the blackness, the darkness that I saw.

01:33:34.700 Believe me, I can relate.

01:33:38.080 And then he gets down there.

01:33:40.640 He's trying to tell the camera and the microphone that they put in front of his face what an amazing thing had just happened.

01:33:48.320 He said that it was so amazing and scary to see how thin our atmosphere is and how fragile the planet is.

01:33:58.700 You're looking around at blue skies, and then it's just blackness very quickly.

01:34:04.420 And you see this thin atmosphere over the Earth and realize, oh, my God, we are here because of insurmountable odds that this would work.

01:34:14.860 Yeah, that it actually worked.

01:34:15.980 And Shatner starts tearing up and stupid Bezos comes over with a big bottle of champagne and just starts spraying it on Shatner as he's having this profound moment.

01:34:28.380 It was so embarrassing.

01:34:30.440 I felt so bad for Bill.

01:34:33.300 And then even Bill had to know, like, OK, this is all right.

01:34:36.640 Woo.

01:34:37.600 You know, but he's he's having this profound life moment.

01:34:40.140 But I don't think, I don't know, I don't see women.

01:34:44.420 Sorry if I'm sounding misogynistic.

01:34:46.240 Well, they're not driving the ship.

01:34:47.520 No.

01:34:48.760 Ugh, could you imagine?

01:34:51.200 They don't, even on SpaceX flights, they're not driving anything.

01:34:56.700 It's very autonomous these days.

01:34:58.840 Like Elon and Tesla and SpaceX is very good with autonomy.

01:35:03.980 It does it by itself.

01:35:05.520 They know how to, the ship itself knows how to dock.

01:35:08.360 I still don't know if I trust that.

01:35:09.500 And I know it's just from being so used to people doing everything, but when you watch

01:35:13.480 Apollo 13, you see what happened when you left Apollo 13.

01:35:17.820 It's a great reference, 1971.

01:35:20.240 That's a topical and timely thought.

01:35:22.400 Well, if something happens, I guess they would have to do something hands-on, but these things

01:35:28.560 just fly themselves, and especially the Bezos one.

01:35:32.300 This goes up and down.

01:35:33.540 It's like a bottle rocket, and these dopey broads are just sitting there hoping they

01:35:37.440 don't burn up.

01:35:38.260 Yeah, oh, look, Henfest 25.

01:35:42.160 And I read a couple of articles about it,

01:35:45.160 and they were more concerned with their uniforms.

01:35:49.140 Like, they're fashionable.

01:35:50.600 They talked about the designer that worked on their uniforms.

01:35:54.160 It's like, this is one of the most sexist things I've ever seen.

01:35:57.720 They pile a bunch of broads in there.

01:36:00.380 I was going to say the other one.

01:36:01.560 I know what you're going to say, sure.

01:36:02.820 A bunch of broads in there.

01:36:04.000 And then they launch them, and it's about their clothes.

01:36:07.260 And they go, we're going to be glam up there.

01:36:10.620 We're going to have makeup in space.

01:36:12.940 And I think Katy Perry said, we're putting the ass in astronaut.

01:36:17.200 And it's so sexist.

01:36:19.280 There's only one S in that word.

01:36:20.820 You're putting him as an astronaut, you idiot.

01:36:25.960 See how stupid they are?

01:36:27.820 Can't even spell.

01:36:29.300 But it's just like you're not empowering women by talking about the fashionable space outfit

01:36:36.080 and their makeup and how they're bringing glam to space.

01:36:41.140 So this can only end with a horrific explosion

01:36:44.980 or burning up in the atmosphere, perhaps.

01:36:48.600 You have to hope the parachutes work.

01:36:50.000 I mean, that's that you're relying on the parachutes.

01:36:52.300 That's it.

01:36:52.700 Yeah, yeah.

01:36:53.380 They don't splash down in this either.

01:36:56.020 They land on solid ground.

01:36:58.020 Oh, do they?

01:36:58.720 Yeah, at the last minute, some rocket motors on it do fire

01:37:02.360 and really slows it down.

01:37:03.720 Wait, even for Bezos?

01:37:04.560 I thought Bezos was all parachutes.

01:37:06.260 No, it has a quick blast of a rocket once it—

01:37:10.600 So wait, you fall until you're almost on the earth?

01:37:13.300 Well, with parachutes.

01:37:14.540 Oh, okay.

01:37:14.940 Yeah, it has parachutes, but it also—

01:37:16.940 Because it's on ground.

01:37:18.560 Russians did it like that the whole time, but they're Russian.

01:37:20.980 They're nuts.

01:37:21.280 They fight bears and lions.

01:37:24.960 Did you hear they had audio?

01:37:26.040 It sounded like it was a Russian woman in space.

01:37:29.840 They said she was like, I'm burning up.

01:37:31.260 I'm burning—like, it's getting hotter in here.

01:37:32.540 And they said she might have been a cosmonaut who was killed in space in the 60s or the 50s.

01:37:37.560 They didn't care back then.

01:37:38.360 No.

01:37:38.880 Like, first woman in space, this is going to be very good.

01:37:42.540 And she's screaming as she's burning coming through the atmosphere.

01:37:47.760 We've always taken losses in the space program very hard.

01:37:53.720 Yeah, we take them very hard.

01:37:56.280 The astronauts, it's like, because they're just gone.

01:37:58.640 You don't get anything.

01:38:00.140 They're there.

01:38:01.180 They're heroes.

01:38:01.920 You see them waving, like the challenger or anything, and then they're just gone.

01:38:06.180 I don't know.

01:38:07.060 I don't know if we would feel as bad if Katy Perry and what's her name?

01:38:12.840 Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King.

01:38:14.360 Gayle King.

01:38:15.060 And the other two.

01:38:15.520 And a couple of others.

01:38:16.140 I think we'd be like, yeah, they kind of, you know, you put yourself in this situation.

01:38:20.400 You sit on a bottle rocket and launch yourself up.

01:38:24.000 Yeah, it's a carnival ride.

01:38:25.480 I don't see it as much science as I do SpaceX.

01:38:28.460 I don't know if I would do it.

01:38:29.540 but I might let myself do it just to experience it

01:38:33.340 and know I'd be terrified

01:38:34.620 but I would regret it

01:38:36.520 like I'm looking at the clock

01:38:38.180 and by 10.21 I'd regret it

01:38:40.240 it would be down already, it would be safe

01:38:41.840 it's such a short flight

01:38:43.320 that's always the way

01:38:45.360 if you were ever so scared that you'd walk off a flight

01:38:48.780 like an airplane

01:38:49.520 and you just didn't have a good feeling about that

01:38:52.280 and then it lands, you'd be like

01:38:54.260 I'm an idiot

01:38:54.900 if it crashed, you'd be like, I'm amazing

01:38:57.740 it wouldn't crash though

01:38:58.700 But it wouldn't.

01:38:59.920 Right, right, right.

01:39:01.020 Yeah.

01:39:01.680 Which, by the way, is another thing I wanted to address.

01:39:06.820 I have no idea.

01:39:09.840 Oh, okay.

01:39:10.420 Keep going.

01:39:10.860 Just keep going.

01:39:11.780 I got this.

01:39:12.700 It's the third hour.

01:39:14.020 You know, I'm so focused on the time and the breaks and everything.

01:39:17.360 Sure.

01:39:17.780 Then we do the third hour.

01:39:18.720 We can just talk.

01:39:20.140 More relaxation.

01:39:21.240 Yeah.

01:39:21.960 You're not a good flyer.

01:39:24.460 No, I know.

01:39:25.180 I've gotten worse, too.

01:39:26.320 It sucks.

01:39:26.940 Worse?

01:39:27.820 Yeah, I was good for a long time, and then the pandemic happened,

01:39:30.300 and I kind of reset to zero again.

01:39:31.800 Oh, okay.

01:39:32.740 So I'm okay, but I sit by the window.

01:39:34.640 I look at the wings.

01:39:35.860 I look at the weather before I go.

01:39:37.100 Yeah, the window's a much safer place.

01:39:39.380 No, I just like to be able to see the wings.

01:39:40.980 Why?

01:39:41.760 Because I'm an idiot.

01:39:42.600 They don't snap off.

01:39:43.720 No, just so I can see it's not moving that much.

01:39:45.760 Why am I so nervous?

01:39:46.840 Yeah, yeah.

01:39:47.940 I guess the more you fly, too, the more you think, like,

01:39:50.620 well, that's one more, one more chance.

01:39:52.720 One more I could have, yeah.

01:39:53.860 Yeah, yeah, so the odds.

01:39:55.860 But what do you think about the—it's not really a current spate of crashes or anything,

01:40:04.820 but there's been a couple of things, and people have blamed various things like DEI

01:40:08.760 and maybe unqualified people in the flight deck.

01:40:12.260 Well, I mean, like the helicopter that just crashed, they think was that—they call it Jesus bolt.

01:40:17.340 They think it might be that one bolt where if it comes off and everything.

01:40:19.960 Yeah.

01:40:20.580 But that pilot was a Navy SEAL.

01:40:22.680 But he wasn't a flyer.

01:40:24.820 and then I heard he was

01:40:27.000 a service guy for

01:40:29.000 the Navy SEAL

01:40:29.700 and then he got done

01:40:32.280 with his military service and went into

01:40:34.800 like he was a security guard for

01:40:36.280 a personal guard

01:40:37.740 like a big dummy

01:40:40.720 look at me

01:40:43.340 I'm at a loss

01:40:44.700 I'm at a loss

01:40:46.820 to watch a man get older

01:40:49.340 and watch his faculties go

01:40:51.260 Club Soda Kenny

01:40:53.440 It's like watching Uncle June in season six.

01:40:57.460 I did that.

01:40:59.340 Yeah, Club Soda Kenny.

01:41:01.480 So he was kind of that guy.

01:41:03.300 He did personal security.

01:41:05.840 And then his wife said he wanted to start flying.

01:41:09.460 So he wasn't a pilot in the military.

01:41:12.360 And I'm not blaming him.

01:41:14.120 I mean, it could be the Jesus bolt, which they call it that

01:41:18.720 because they say if it fails, you're going to see Jesus.

01:41:22.440 Well, it's also because the reason I don't think it was the pilot's fault is because there's very little a pilot can do where you see the helicopter falling.

01:41:29.580 And if you see video, you can see the thing still spinning in the air.

01:41:32.020 Yeah, yeah.

01:41:32.540 That just came off.

01:41:33.580 But there's also a theory that he had mishandled the controls.

01:41:37.520 He was ham-handed on the controls and that the rotor smacked the tail boom and broke it off even before then the rotor came off.

01:41:46.680 Can that happen?

01:41:47.500 Oh, yeah.

01:41:48.060 Oh, man.

01:41:48.420 You'd think they would make it so that couldn't possibly happen no matter what you do.

01:41:51.900 But if you really push forward and then pull back on the control stick, look, the rotors are flexible.

01:41:59.240 And it can go back and bend into the boom, the tail boom, and it cuts it off and you're done.

01:42:04.880 Oh, wow.

01:42:05.280 That's what I hate about a helicopter.

01:42:06.280 I'm not a big helicopter guy.

01:42:07.680 I've never been in one.

01:42:09.200 And they have flights to JFK.

01:42:10.800 Yeah, yeah.

01:42:11.480 And I thought of it just to save the time and the traffic.

01:42:14.500 But I want to do a helicopter ride once, but it kind of scares me.

01:42:16.960 Yeah.

01:42:17.740 Like, planes, as long as you can get your speed up, it doesn't matter.

01:42:22.600 You can have no motors.

01:42:23.800 And a good pilot like Sully, you know, you land in the river.

01:42:27.920 A helicopter, if it fails, you're done.

01:42:31.120 Yeah, and there have been a lot of little accidents this year.

01:42:35.160 But I look at it like the more there are, the less likely it is more will happen.

01:42:39.380 Unless it was because they're putting on qualified people.

01:42:42.460 That could be it, too.

01:42:43.260 As mechanics, ground crews.

01:42:45.200 You know what I'm seeing a lot?

01:42:46.180 that people just kind of go, oh, planes bumping into each other

01:42:50.280 at the gate or at the tarmac.

01:42:51.740 And that's because your ground crew was supposed to, you know,

01:42:55.680 they got their little flashlights and they're guiding the planes in.

01:42:58.820 They're not paying attention or they're not trained right

01:43:01.300 or they're stupid, but they got the job because of diversity,

01:43:05.240 equity, and inclusion.

01:43:06.460 So the one, it was Delta, Delta Airline plane,

01:43:12.100 And one I fly all the time, one of these CJ900s.

01:43:16.740 Yeah.

01:43:17.800 CRJ?

01:43:18.460 CRJ 900 from Greenville up to LaGuardia.

01:43:21.720 I hate those Canadian regional jets.

01:43:24.380 I hate them.

01:43:24.980 I hate them.

01:43:25.720 They're better than props, but they're too small.

01:43:27.680 Yeah, they're very small.

01:43:29.380 It's just first class, please.

01:43:32.780 Was it bumpy coming up?

01:43:34.180 A little bit.

01:43:34.860 Not bad, though.

01:43:35.940 I don't really mind the bumps unless it's crazy, crazy.

01:43:39.180 Then I'm kind of looking.

01:43:40.080 But I don't think any plane has ever crashed just because of turbulence.

01:43:44.680 They kind of make them so that the wing doesn't fall off.

01:43:46.240 I say that to myself all the time when I'm panicking.

01:43:48.540 I think full-blown panic attacks.

01:43:50.380 A little panicky Pete.

01:43:51.220 That's the worst.

01:43:52.360 Yeah.

01:43:53.400 But that one in Toronto, it was landing in some poor weather and it flipped over.

01:43:59.960 Yep.

01:44:00.460 Amazing that people weren't killed.

01:44:03.600 Yeah.

01:44:04.400 But then it's like, oh, it's a woman pilot.

01:44:07.420 Was it a woman?

01:44:08.100 Yeah.

01:44:08.720 It was a woman flying that plane.

01:44:10.720 There was a guy in the plane also, but the woman was flying it at that time,

01:44:15.820 and she didn't have a lot of experience, especially with bad weather.

01:44:19.880 And I just, you know, I take a picture every time I post it on my social media.

01:44:23.860 I'm like, here's an elbow check.

01:44:26.360 I want an elbow with maybe a few, you know, freckles, liver spots, some gray arm hair.

01:44:33.040 Sully.

01:44:33.840 Who wouldn't want Sully as his pilot every single time he flies?

01:44:37.340 Mother goose.

01:44:38.400 he did hack up

01:44:45.360 puree a few uh geese on that one stupid animals

01:44:50.820 those dopes geese suck you know how small relatively speaking to the sky an intake of

01:44:56.480 an engine do you know how dumb you have to be as a goose to hang out near an airport

01:45:00.620 it's like you have everywhere else to go you're not gonna be minced look a giant one of us

01:45:06.380 you dope

01:45:07.700 but I

01:45:11.980 you know

01:45:12.320 there's a certain

01:45:13.300 confidence you have

01:45:14.500 I want a guy

01:45:15.580 that may be

01:45:16.180 Gulf War

01:45:17.400 A-10 pilot

01:45:18.740 something like that

01:45:20.160 that you know

01:45:21.120 a normal flight

01:45:22.940 for him is great

01:45:23.760 because he's used

01:45:24.240 to being shot at

01:45:25.200 so how

01:45:26.060 how bad

01:45:26.940 is some turbulence

01:45:27.680 or what have you

01:45:28.740 right

01:45:28.980 so you know

01:45:30.420 you want that

01:45:30.940 and then I look in

01:45:31.780 and I see

01:45:32.780 you know

01:45:33.280 the ponytail

01:45:34.020 and the big

01:45:36.120 diamond engagement ring or wedding ring

01:45:38.320 or whatever and I'm just like

01:45:39.460 I just don't feel as good

01:45:41.680 you don't feel as safe

01:45:43.060 as safe because look

01:45:45.300 whenever we get on a plane you always

01:45:48.120 think like

01:45:48.820 do you have a ritual?

01:45:51.580 do you pat the side of the plane door?

01:45:54.200 I do

01:45:54.980 I spank it on the

01:45:56.960 I do right on the tail fin

01:45:58.380 you're safe girl

01:46:00.020 there's an engine in the back I'll put my fingers in it

01:46:03.120 Rub him under the pilot's nose

01:46:06.500 Hey, you made it every time

01:46:13.460 So I guess it worked

01:46:14.280 I sure did

01:46:15.040 Whatever you need to do

01:46:16.220 No, I do this thing where I double my middle finger knuckle

01:46:20.340 My right hand

01:46:20.980 I tap twice right outside the door walking in

01:46:24.960 Yeah, yeah

01:46:25.580 And it's embarrassing if someone's behind me

01:46:27.140 It's got to tap that real quick

01:46:28.140 It's my little ritual

01:46:29.240 I do a thing where I actually give my fingertip a little kiss

01:46:32.980 and then I give two taps on the side of the door.

01:46:36.540 Like...

01:46:37.100 You kiss your fingers and tap.

01:46:39.860 Why?

01:46:39.940 And then I tap on the plane

01:46:41.120 because I'm kind of giving the plane like,

01:46:43.180 hey, baby, get us through this.

01:46:45.380 That's not...

01:46:45.820 The plane doesn't need that.

01:46:47.300 Oh, then I stick my tongue in the pitot tube.

01:46:51.980 And I French kiss it.

01:46:55.780 That's the worst ritual I've ever heard.

01:46:57.860 Is it bad?

01:46:58.500 Tapping the door is one thing,

01:46:59.880 but kissing your hand and then...

01:47:01.460 It's like a, hey,

01:47:02.400 It's like when people kiss the ground when they get out of a plane.

01:47:05.500 You're a plane molester.

01:47:06.880 I'm molesting the airplane.

01:47:08.860 How many planes have gotten herpes?

01:47:15.600 Yeah, I do that.

01:47:16.640 But now, because I want to take a picture, so now I got my camera in one hand.

01:47:20.980 I'm pulling my luggage, and I'm trying to do the kiss tap when I take a picture.

01:47:26.160 So it's getting a little crazy.

01:47:27.860 It's too much.

01:47:28.500 I have to do the kiss tap.

01:47:29.780 I got to do it.

01:47:30.440 It's my ritual.

01:47:31.140 Yeah, we all have a little something.

01:47:32.800 Do you do anything?

01:47:34.740 No, I don't think I do.

01:47:37.160 No, you don't care?

01:47:38.220 No, I really don't care.

01:47:39.240 I fall asleep as soon as the plane's about to take off,

01:47:41.480 and then I wake up, as David Tell used to call it, time travel.

01:47:44.420 Yeah, time travel.

01:47:45.540 That's great.

01:47:46.100 You don't sleep, though, right?

01:47:47.300 Not even if it's a 15-hour flight and I have a king bed.

01:47:51.240 You used to have a special pillow you brought with you, right?

01:47:53.840 Oh, that's right.

01:47:54.400 You might bite it now.

01:47:57.780 No, I don't.

01:47:58.500 That was a bit much

01:48:01.280 Yeah I don't do that anymore

01:48:02.520 The whole thing with the neck thing

01:48:03.860 Oh I have that still

01:48:04.860 You have the neck thing

01:48:05.960 Yeah but I had to get a new one

01:48:07.240 Because I was on a United flight

01:48:08.360 And somebody had puked on the floor

01:48:11.040 Jesus

01:48:11.760 And I didn't know it

01:48:13.340 But I take my little thing

01:48:14.320 And I put it on the ground

01:48:15.260 No

01:48:15.740 And I could smell

01:48:17.260 My whole seat area smelled like puke

01:48:19.120 And I looked down

01:48:20.600 And I realized there was puke there

01:48:21.720 There wasn't any puke there

01:48:22.700 But they had just cleaned it up

01:48:24.080 So I had put my stuff down

01:48:26.140 And it all ruined

01:48:27.000 And smelled like vomit

01:48:28.360 Oh, that's disgusting.

01:48:30.540 Yeah, it was gross.

01:48:32.160 I was very unhappy.

01:48:33.860 Yeah, that happened recently where someone vomited, projectile vomited, on a woman and her baby.

01:48:40.800 And all on the side of the plane, like this guy unleashed.

01:48:44.720 And it was disgusting.

01:48:46.580 She had the baby, and she didn't seem that upset about it.

01:48:49.380 I think when you have kids, you kind of don't get grossed out by puke and things.

01:48:53.160 I guess.

01:48:53.680 But she – and what they did was they pulled back to the terminal and a cleaning crew – they didn't even deplane.

01:49:03.360 A cleaning crew came in and just kind of mopped it up.

01:49:06.120 But she was wet with this guy's vomit and had to fly the whole flight sitting in wet vomit clothes.

01:49:13.940 What was wrong with him?

01:49:14.640 Was he just sick or he had –

01:49:15.940 Yeah, he was walking to the bathroom when they were taxiing.

01:49:19.080 And the stewardess, of course, was like, take your seat, sir.

01:49:22.620 You're not allowed to active taxiway.

01:49:25.040 And then the woman said he just looked very puzzled.

01:49:28.540 He kind of was wobbling a little and then just all over her and her baby.

01:49:33.340 How do you not aim for the floor?

01:49:34.640 I've never puked that suddenly that I don't realize I'm aiming at someone.

01:49:38.660 Yeah, especially if you're on your way to the bathroom.

01:49:41.280 Who cares what the stewardess says?

01:49:43.500 Keep going.

01:49:44.380 Go to the bathroom.

01:49:45.360 Vomit in there and then tell her, look, I'm sorry.

01:49:47.220 I had to throw up.

01:49:48.380 Puke.

01:49:48.880 Yeah.

01:49:49.640 You ever get sick on a plane?

01:49:51.020 No.

01:49:51.940 Wait, maybe once years ago.

01:49:54.440 But I think drama means, so I'm usually okay in bad weather.

01:49:58.080 Some of the stories of you in Florentine with passing gas on the plane

01:50:02.740 and completely disgusting everyone around you.

01:50:06.320 Do you know it's funny you say that?

01:50:07.680 Because I came here tonight, and unfortunately,

01:50:13.180 the little gal at home gave me cheese yesterday.

01:50:16.140 Oh, is that react a little bad?

01:50:19.120 And all day today, it was my whole house.

01:50:23.160 I'm intolerant, but not phylactose.

01:50:27.140 You're melanin intolerant.

01:50:30.720 I have been gassing all day.

01:50:34.120 And for some reason, unfortunately, it is not hitting me now.

01:50:38.120 I was hoping to really stink up the studio.

01:50:40.360 Oh, jeez, that would be classic.

01:50:41.260 I wanted so much.

01:50:42.960 Your new gig and all your shiny new microphones.

01:50:46.500 Take that, stupid.

01:50:48.680 But unfortunately, I don't have any, but the cheese kills me.

01:50:51.960 You were great in elevators when you could release the Kraken in an elevator when we would be at Sirius XM or something.

01:51:01.440 And you could embarrass people in an elevator very easily.

01:51:05.880 You did it to me all the time.

01:51:07.440 You would walk into the production studios, just open the door and say, do you have my plugs rip and then slam the door and walk right back on the air?

01:51:15.400 Yeah, it really is great leaving someone.

01:51:17.280 I've done that to my wife a bit.

01:51:18.680 And she pointed out that also, like with Florentine,

01:51:21.140 there was one time that the flight attendant had to spritz by our seat.

01:51:25.120 Did she know and purposely buy you or just in the area?

01:51:28.720 No, down the hall.

01:51:29.720 I think it was one of those first class that had one seat,

01:51:32.620 then one seat, then one seat.

01:51:34.220 So it wasn't like two.

01:51:35.360 So she didn't know who it was.

01:51:36.380 She just kind of spritzed.

01:51:37.560 You should have been in no class.

01:51:38.940 Of course, I shouldn't have been.

01:51:40.060 Terrible person.

01:51:41.140 I am definitely not a gentleman.

01:51:44.000 But I did break a little wind.

01:51:45.300 And today I was hoping, and you just reminded me, I'm disappointed.

01:51:47.720 In the elevators when Jimmy would get on and there's other people in the elevator and the door would shut and he would start talking about like, don't worry, sweetie.

01:51:56.680 It's not a death sentence anymore.

01:51:59.400 You know, the test came back.

01:52:00.800 It's okay.

01:52:01.440 We were expecting this.

01:52:03.140 And I'd look and just go, he's being, don't be embarrassed, sweetie.

01:52:08.220 It's all right.

01:52:08.900 Don't be shy about it.

01:52:10.000 It's so embarrassing.

01:52:11.540 I don't like scenes.

01:52:13.440 No.

01:52:13.680 I don't like that kind of thing.

01:52:14.700 And it would really get me so uncomfortable.

01:52:17.280 Yes, you did many, many times.

01:52:21.060 I went to dinner with Jim one time

01:52:22.560 and most expensive night of my life.

01:52:26.920 That's the pause.

01:52:28.780 No, we're sitting there.

01:52:29.900 He's ordering.

01:52:30.740 Did you strain the shrimp through your baleen?

01:52:33.820 That's just mean.

01:52:34.920 That's a whale joke.

01:52:36.020 Thank you.

01:52:36.740 I get it.

01:52:37.100 I didn't care for that.

01:52:38.120 I'm going to pause it.

01:52:38.620 No, I did.

01:52:39.360 So we're ordering.

01:52:40.600 I'll do it so you can understand.

01:52:43.900 20-year-old bit is still good, right?

01:52:45.560 20-year-old bit.

01:52:46.200 so we're ordering dinner

01:52:47.600 15 years older than you normally like

01:52:49.540 we're at the restaurant

01:52:55.960 Jim starts to order and then

01:52:57.820 he decides to order for me

01:52:59.300 puts his hand on my head and he goes

01:53:01.100 and she'll have like it was a 1950s sitcom

01:53:03.640 thing he starts ordering my meal

01:53:05.620 for me and just keeps saying oh she doesn't like this

01:53:07.760 but she'll take that and can we get this on the side too

01:53:09.820 and maybe some for the table and then they go off

01:53:11.780 so I didn't order and then he just pulls his hand back

01:53:13.720 like nothing ever happened

01:53:14.880 She'll have the linguine and white clam sauce and a Coke with no ice.

01:53:21.860 God, yeah.

01:53:23.140 You were very good for doing that.

01:53:26.260 It was impossible to get you back for that.

01:53:28.900 You would just play right into it.

01:53:30.260 You can never show it if you're humiliated.

01:53:32.160 You just got to let everybody know that they didn't do it to you.

01:53:34.580 It's not working.

01:53:35.540 That's why they stop.

01:53:36.140 One time I got you pretty good was at the airport.

01:53:39.500 Oh, yes.

01:53:40.840 Yeah, yeah.

01:53:41.640 um i i had uh i had told you that one of the jonas brothers nick one of the jonas brothers

01:53:48.500 was eating with his dad with his dad and this kid kind of had this 15 vague resemblance to

01:53:54.280 nick jonas and he had a guitar and i guess his father was there or wherever it was and i'm like

01:54:01.000 no that's his agent and that's nick jonas and and you're like you wanted to believe so bad to get a

01:54:08.900 picture and we were standing back where we couldn't hear what you were saying to them or what they

01:54:13.840 were saying but you walked up you leaned in and said something they kind of made a look and then

01:54:19.680 you just did we couldn't hear you but we saw your hands in the up like oh i'm sorry i'm sorry for

01:54:26.240 disturbing you i made a mistake and we were dying laughing i remember that and i just remember i

01:54:31.860 knowing like when i looked over and i saw you guys laughing oh no oh no i bothered some boy

01:54:39.240 with his father that was during a time where you were you know you were oh my god any pictures

01:54:43.980 anywhere that was that was the big uh that was the big thing yeah i remember that that was one

01:54:48.240 of that was one of the really great times that was humiliating yeah those gigs were were great

01:54:52.340 the uh comedy tours they were so much fun man we would uh and just going to different markets for

01:54:57.360 just to do a day of radio

01:54:59.980 or whatever. They were great.

01:55:02.180 Philly, Philadelphia, Cleveland.

01:55:04.860 Do you hear from Tim? I hear from

01:55:06.000 Tim all the time. Oh, no? Uh-oh.

01:55:08.240 Problem? No.

01:55:09.500 All right. It's the business.

01:55:12.060 It is what it is. Some people

01:55:13.920 you get along with, some

01:55:15.920 people you don't, some people you appreciate.

01:55:17.880 Absolutely. In life, look,

01:55:19.540 there are people we are friends

01:55:21.840 with, there are people we know from work, there are people

01:55:23.740 who try to get us fired, there are people

01:55:25.360 who life is crazy.

01:55:29.260 All right.

01:55:30.060 You know how it is all walks.

01:55:32.020 I hear you.

01:55:33.140 Believe me.

01:55:34.260 I understand wholeheartedly.

01:55:37.360 Let's talk to John from the Isle of Long.

01:55:42.020 John, what's up, my friend?

01:55:44.580 Hey, what's going on, guys?

01:55:45.780 Oi.

01:55:46.580 Hi, John.

01:55:47.880 Hi, John.

01:55:48.440 Wonderful, John.

01:55:49.340 I just wanted to ask,

01:55:50.680 what do you guys think the future of like talk radio and media is going

01:55:55.280 between podcasts and radio and all of that?

01:55:59.660 It's as far as I'm concerned, I think, like I was saying,

01:56:04.560 the only commodity left is talk.

01:56:07.060 It's something you can't just whip up.

01:56:09.660 You know, if I like 80s music, I could go to satellite radio,

01:56:13.880 80s on eight, or I could go to Spotify or Apple radio and get exactly what I

01:56:18.300 want without the pesky DJ chiming in between my Kaja Goo Goo songs.

01:56:23.740 Hitting the post and wrecking the beginning of the song.

01:56:25.980 Right, right.

01:56:26.680 Big dumb mouth.

01:56:27.260 Yapping over it.

01:56:28.360 Yeah.

01:56:29.160 But talk radio, that's still something that people want.

01:56:34.680 They'll listen to it.

01:56:35.880 There's an audience for it.

01:56:38.060 So I don't know.

01:56:39.100 I think that's something that, you know, the death knell for radio has been going on for

01:56:43.440 years.

01:56:44.520 Television, you know, talkies.

01:56:46.720 Yeah.

01:56:47.260 The talkies.

01:56:48.720 But, you know, if you got people on there that know what they're doing,

01:56:52.820 I don't know why they hired me, but, you know, people, they'll listen.

01:56:57.460 They kind of want that.

01:56:59.180 Yeah, because you can't just whip up a playlist of your favorite talk.

01:57:02.100 No, no.

01:57:02.720 Do you guys think podcasts get played out eventually?

01:57:07.480 People are never going to stick a lid up, because there's so many of them.

01:57:09.820 There's always going to be ones that last.

01:57:11.420 Yeah.

01:57:11.900 No, they'll be around for a long time until the next technology comes along,

01:57:14.900 but why wouldn't they?

01:57:15.560 Radio's been here forever.

01:57:16.220 I think podcasting, though, is almost like comedy was in the 80s, where everyone was doing Jerry.

01:57:22.780 Did you ever notice?

01:57:24.580 And there were five comedy shows on every weekend, even in the improv and all those things.

01:57:31.860 Comedy on the road with John Minor.

01:57:33.480 Yeah, yeah.

01:57:34.300 And then after a while, the people that weren't that good kind of fell to the wayside, and the good people continued.

01:57:44.560 dude.

01:57:45.160 But there's,

01:57:46.100 you know,

01:57:46.260 you walk into a comedy club and sometimes you see those headshots and

01:57:48.800 you're like,

01:57:49.100 what happened to that guy?

01:57:51.180 I was,

01:57:51.640 I,

01:57:51.800 I go into clubs,

01:57:53.020 like clubs that have been around for a long time.

01:57:54.320 And I look at those headshots and I'm like,

01:57:56.260 what happened to like,

01:57:57.240 I don't know who any of these people are,

01:57:58.980 but they all had the same dream I had.

01:58:01.600 They think of that when they look at your picture.

01:58:10.980 Yeah.

01:58:11.340 Yeah.

01:58:11.400 You get the point.

01:58:12.280 So I'm just,

01:58:15.220 I hope that answered your question, John.

01:58:18.300 Awesome.

01:58:18.800 Thank you, guys.

01:58:19.380 Jimmy, your podcast is awesome, too.

01:58:21.340 Thank you, John.

01:58:22.080 Thanks, buddy.

01:58:22.500 Yes, Jim Norton's podcast.

01:58:24.160 Jim Norton can't save you.

01:58:25.700 I love it.

01:58:26.140 Yeah, I love doing it.

01:58:26.900 He cannot save you.

01:58:28.440 And it's a lot of fun.

01:58:30.140 I wanted to call it, you know, people love the song at the end of it that I close with.

01:58:33.200 And I wanted to call this show Good Luck Stupid because it's such a great name.

01:58:38.580 It kind of fits, too.

01:58:40.000 It does.

01:58:40.380 You got problems?

01:58:41.020 Good Luck Stupid.

01:58:42.220 But Mike, the producer, he's like, yeah,

01:58:44.340 but it might be harder to get certain guests if they don't know.

01:58:46.300 I'm like, oh, yeah.

01:58:47.600 And at the end, I just play it.

01:58:49.280 It's a very short, like, AI-generated song.

01:58:51.380 Everybody asks me about the song at the end of it.

01:58:53.220 They're all like, who's that singing, and where'd you get that?

01:58:55.800 Wow.

01:58:56.360 It's AI?

01:58:57.380 AI.

01:58:57.800 It's like 10 seconds.

01:58:58.840 Did you come up with the prompt for the AI?

01:59:02.120 Yeah, I did on my phone.

01:59:03.300 You did?

01:59:03.700 Yeah, there's actually an opening song, which we don't play on the video,

01:59:08.620 which is AI.

01:59:09.440 and then there's a closing song

01:59:12.420 but it's a 10 second song

01:59:14.100 and that's the whole thing

01:59:15.660 on AI. I tried to hire a girl to actually

01:59:18.040 sing it and

01:59:19.460 she was like one of these people you find on a website

01:59:21.720 and she's like this is OnlyFans you idiots

01:59:24.020 I don't sing it

01:59:25.060 like I'm sorry

01:59:27.140 I saw you talking into a giant microphone

01:59:29.640 why the microphone spit on the lady

01:59:34.300 so that i'm i'm kind of impressed that you you know how to get songs out of ai i want i just

01:59:46.400 wanted to try something weird because i was using ai and having a rat roast jokes because they suck

01:59:50.180 so much yeah that was really good they're terrible terrible it doesn't have a sense of humor it can't

01:59:56.000 get it that's a weird like thing that just it can't at least now and i think it's going to be

02:00:01.240 Very tough for AI to be funny.

02:00:03.880 To get that one thing, but it's gotten better, though.

02:00:06.280 Music, though, it's pretty good.

02:00:08.140 It's pretty good, and I love the end of this song that people always ask me about.

02:00:14.620 Anyway, I was going to call it that, but I didn't.

02:00:16.020 I kind of wish I had, but Jim Norton Can't Save You has my name in it, so it's easier.

02:00:19.940 Yeah, you've got to have your name in there.

02:00:20.940 It's easier, and potential guests won't go, like, really?

02:00:24.940 Call me stupid?

02:00:25.620 That's in a weird way, because I just watched the end of the Neil deGrasse Tyson one,

02:00:30.040 and it's playing good luck stupid but it's showing pictures

02:00:32.540 of me and Neil and I'm like I'm not

02:00:34.580 calling him stupid obviously

02:00:36.200 well I think people wouldn't know who the stupid one is

02:00:38.560 yes of course in that picture

02:00:40.280 we'll take a quick break

02:00:42.660 yes and then we will return

02:00:44.680 and make love yes and make

02:00:46.640 love with the airplane

02:00:48.760 I love kissing

02:00:50.700 my hand and patting on the airplane

02:00:51.660 that's going to annoy me all week

02:00:53.140 I'm going to do it tomorrow

02:00:54.420 good luck fly

02:00:57.800 fly baby fly

02:00:59.800 I'll be right back.

02:01:29.800 may be lower. Visit shell.ca

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02:01:34.900 This is like

02:01:35.740 devil's music. Yeah, I

02:01:37.680 smoked the devil's lettuce one time.

02:01:42.800 Anthony,

02:01:43.500 Kumia show, of course.

02:01:45.540 Can I tell you, sorry to interrupt you. Yes, sir.

02:01:47.460 Before I forget, one thing I like about regular

02:01:49.700 radio that I miss is these, like, coming

02:01:51.620 back with music. I actually always liked that.

02:01:53.900 I always enjoyed that. Rejoiners, yeah.

02:01:55.660 Yes, it is. It kind of pumps you back

02:01:57.800 up a little bit. I just enjoy the hair Metallica

02:01:59.380 Yeah, Metallica.

02:02:02.800 Rosie O'Donnell, I have a quick clip of Rosie.

02:02:07.120 She's nuts.

02:02:08.980 I mean, I don't think, I don't know.

02:02:10.680 Do you have a relationship with her in any way, shape, or form?

02:02:12.700 I know her casually.

02:02:13.660 She's always been very nice to me.

02:02:15.220 She's been very nice to you.

02:02:16.480 And believe me, when I saw this and I heard the sound and everything,

02:02:21.240 and I talk about her, I was wondering, like, okay, I'm going to have Jimmy on.

02:02:25.500 I don't want to rock the boat with any of Jimmy's relationships.

02:02:29.120 No, it's all right.

02:02:29.640 She's in Ireland now, for God's sake.

02:02:31.080 I don't know her well.

02:02:32.000 The last time I saw her was a few years ago at a UFC event.

02:02:34.660 I said hi to her.

02:02:35.600 Who was she fighting?

02:02:39.540 I'm just glad you didn't do something else with those letters.

02:02:48.320 No, I was, and she was with her son.

02:02:51.080 So I said, comics always know each other.

02:02:53.200 It's like actors may not, but comedians always.

02:02:56.320 So I said hi, and she was, hey.

02:02:57.540 And she's like, oh, my son's a big fan.

02:02:59.500 So I said hi to her son.

02:03:00.560 And so, you know, she's always been very sweet.

02:03:02.120 Oh, okay.

02:03:02.560 And I did Colin's show with Rosie.

02:03:04.940 The week she came out or the month she came out,

02:03:07.820 this was when we did the Colin Quinn show

02:03:09.740 before Tough Crowd.

02:03:10.620 Oh, before Tough Crowd.

02:03:11.240 It was three live episodes on NBC.

02:03:13.440 We did the SNL stage.

02:03:14.900 And Rosie was in one of them,

02:03:16.100 and she was in the sketch.

02:03:17.140 Oh, okay.

02:03:17.720 So yeah, I've only interacted with her a few times.

02:03:19.700 I don't know her well at all,

02:03:20.560 but she's always been sweet.

02:03:20.880 Well, she's nuts.

02:03:21.920 That's what I think.

02:03:22.460 Yeah, that's fair.

02:03:23.060 I didn't know, because earlier in the show,

02:03:25.140 I did a quick break on the fact that she has some kind of relationship with Lyle Menendez.

02:03:31.300 What's his name?

02:03:33.580 Lyle Menendez.

02:03:34.820 Okay.

02:03:36.640 Of course, you know, the Menendez brothers, they murdered their parents.

02:03:39.620 I love the father, though.

02:03:40.620 He understood what gladiators did.

02:03:43.040 Boy, did he ever.

02:03:44.820 Do you think they were abused by the dad?

02:03:48.720 Yeah, I do.

02:03:49.600 Probably mentally, but physically, sexually?

02:03:50.880 Maybe a little bit.

02:03:52.760 But either way, I think they're terrible.

02:03:54.900 I mean, they literally did just plan to shoot their parents in cold blood

02:03:58.340 and keep the money and buy sports cars.

02:04:00.340 Right, yeah, it's, you know, there's too many instances where that happens

02:04:05.720 and then they go, well, I was abused, so it justifies everything.

02:04:09.300 It's like, well, a premeditated murder, eh.

02:04:12.180 Yeah, both your parents with shotguns, you weren't scared of your mother.

02:04:16.140 Yeah, yeah, well, they were pissed at her because she didn't do anything

02:04:20.040 and knew that the dad was abusing them or something.

02:04:22.440 Like, I don't know, but apparently the jury wasn't swayed because they got life in prison.

02:04:28.300 They're trying to, the documentary just came out, and they're trying to get their sentence redone.

02:04:33.880 Well, it's going to be re-heard.

02:04:35.080 Well, it's going to be re-heard, but do you think they'll actually get less time or time served and be released?

02:04:42.660 Well, you know, Gil Garçon, I think it was, or no, not Gil, something Garçon, whatever his name was,

02:04:48.700 the old prosecutor in L.A. who sucked.

02:04:51.080 He was soft on crime. He was an awful

02:04:52.900 gas gun.

02:04:54.940 He said yes, that they should be

02:04:56.980 resentenced. Then the new guy comes

02:04:58.840 and he wants the death penalty for people.

02:05:00.880 He's like, nope, it's not happening.

02:05:03.260 Then a court just said, a judge just said

02:05:04.960 we're going to resent them.

02:05:06.320 I don't know what they're going to get.

02:05:09.160 They've been in there, what, 30 years?

02:05:11.120 Something like that?

02:05:12.420 35 years. It's been a long time.

02:05:14.840 They were very naughty boys.

02:05:16.400 Rosie sparked up a

02:05:18.700 relationship and visited him and said she actually said it's the first straight man i've ever loved

02:05:24.460 so really weird but i don't know i always thought any of the women that have relationships even pen

02:05:30.980 pal with a convict especially murderers they're weird they gotta be like you gotta be out of your

02:05:35.800 mind dude the night stalker with his rotting teeth who like raped and murdered people and hit them

02:05:41.160 with a lamp he was getting like girls sending him gushing pictures that makes you feel bad when you

02:05:46.540 can't get a date.

02:05:47.400 When I was swiping on Tinder

02:05:48.660 and getting nothing,

02:05:49.960 I'm like,

02:05:50.200 all I had to do

02:05:50.580 was bludgeoning an old lady.

02:05:54.280 Yeah,

02:05:54.820 it's a little disheartening.

02:05:56.640 It is.

02:05:57.180 But those women

02:05:58.340 are just busted.

02:05:59.420 They're crazy.

02:06:00.100 They're just broken women.

02:06:01.220 And I think,

02:06:01.860 I don't know,

02:06:02.240 I think Rosie falls

02:06:03.040 into that category.

02:06:03.780 She seems like a very

02:06:05.120 miserable person.

02:06:06.820 But is it a love thing

02:06:07.840 with him,

02:06:08.200 or is it just that

02:06:08.800 I love this guy?

02:06:09.940 It's not like a sexual

02:06:10.980 or relationship thing.

02:06:11.800 No, no.

02:06:12.500 No, I can't imagine that.

02:06:14.080 Yeah.

02:06:14.500 But even so,

02:06:16.180 you know,

02:06:16.420 It's just weird getting this close relationship with somebody in prison for murder.

02:06:21.480 Yeah.

02:06:22.860 But that was just one thing.

02:06:24.300 The other thing is the fact that she went to Ireland.

02:06:26.940 Yes, she did.

02:06:27.420 I guess she's got grandparents.

02:06:28.480 I don't know what the rules are for Ireland, but you can't just go there and go, I want to live here now.

02:06:32.900 But she has grandparents that are from Ireland.

02:06:35.260 And I guess if you can trace your heritage back not too far to genuine Irish people, you're allowed some type of citizenship.

02:06:43.720 Oh, really?

02:06:44.440 Yeah.

02:06:44.720 So she's trying to get that done.

02:06:46.420 But she's like her thing of leaving America was that she's sick of.

02:06:52.460 Obviously, she hates Trump, but I think that's even a personal thing.

02:06:56.220 Like she's taking it very personal, but he called her a slob.

02:06:59.620 He did. Yeah. I mean, the world was watching that debate.

02:07:03.040 That's right. When he said just Rosie O'Donnell, you know, she's a slob.

02:07:08.100 So she took it personally.

02:07:09.680 But would you leave the country because this guy that talked crap about you is the president?

02:07:17.820 No, I mean, I wouldn't.

02:07:19.000 I'd be happy anybody recognized me.

02:07:20.880 I'd ask him for a picture.

02:07:22.300 I wouldn't care.

02:07:23.280 Trump calls me a slob.

02:07:24.300 He did.

02:07:24.820 I have that as a badge of honor.

02:07:27.040 But it was before he was president.

02:07:28.360 How much does she have money?

02:07:29.540 I guess she has a lot of money.

02:07:30.760 She's got to be doing well.

02:07:32.140 She had that talk show that went on forever.

02:07:34.640 That went on for so long.

02:07:35.140 She made a ton of money.

02:07:35.820 She was good at it, too, before Ellen came along.

02:07:39.100 Yeah.

02:07:39.680 That bitch.

02:07:40.840 Yeah, I met her once.

02:07:42.140 I liked that she made people do the white glove test

02:07:44.160 when they weren't dusting properly.

02:07:45.680 She would have people chew gum because her breath stunk.

02:07:48.420 I kind of like Ellen.

02:07:49.640 She was such a wretch.

02:07:50.720 She was not a nice boss.

02:07:51.680 No, she sucked.

02:07:52.740 I love it.

02:07:53.240 And you know, she'd come out with the dumb dance

02:07:55.140 and everyone's like, oh Ellen, she's so nice.

02:07:57.340 She was ruthless behind the scenes.

02:07:59.180 Yeah, exactly.

02:07:59.940 A bunch of like diabetic fat housewives

02:08:01.860 dancing along to her dumb song.

02:08:04.000 Meanwhile, she's spitting on people in the green room.

02:08:07.680 Firing Tic Tacs into people's mouth.

02:08:09.680 Oh, I love it.

02:08:10.640 Chew some gum.

02:08:11.660 I don't want to stink.

02:08:12.920 Yeah, some guy's got AZT breath.

02:08:15.560 Some lime producer fruit.

02:08:19.800 Yeah, Rosie was doing good.

02:08:21.260 And it was like, I think people knew she was lesbian.

02:08:26.280 Sure.

02:08:26.660 But she didn't come out and say it.

02:08:27.880 She put on that whole fake thing.

02:08:30.700 Cutie patootie.

02:08:31.280 Yeah, Tom Cruise and everything.

02:08:33.200 And the housewives ate it up.

02:08:35.260 and then she kind of turned

02:08:38.060 like into, she was very bitter

02:08:39.840 I think there were accusations on

02:08:42.060 her set too that she was a little bit

02:08:44.200 of a beast behind the scenes

02:08:46.320 Tom Selleck, that was the moment

02:08:48.260 that did it for her

02:08:49.240 people get so caught up in like

02:08:51.900 a real life argument with someone

02:08:53.860 and it was just a weird tone for what she

02:08:56.200 does and people are like what are you

02:08:58.200 doing, like he's there to

02:09:00.140 promote something, who cares

02:09:01.420 yeah she went after him about the

02:09:04.180 second amendment yep he and he didn't back down no and it was weird because it's such a was such

02:09:09.320 a light-hearted i got my coos balls i'll throw them at you why do you have guns who's that boss

02:09:16.560 yeah well she kind of sounds like that these days she's just very um she's a downer yeah she's a

02:09:23.020 downer now she was difficult at uh sirius xm when they hired her to do the show of course they hired

02:09:28.500 and she was there for a while and then stopped doing her show her producers were hosting her

02:09:32.700 show for months

02:09:34.240 because she wasn't getting any of the sponsors

02:09:36.720 that she used to have from the talk show.

02:09:38.820 And when she went, because she went from the talk

02:09:40.720 show to The View to SiriusXM.

02:09:42.780 I forgot she did The View.

02:09:44.260 She did it for one season or something.

02:09:46.180 Was that it? She made big news on that

02:09:48.660 show when she was on. Look at us little hens we are.

02:09:50.600 How long was she on?

02:09:52.240 What happened? Oh, for Pete's sake, Anthony,

02:09:54.480 you're lying. Oh, how the time

02:09:56.700 flies. That was good. I think the best

02:09:58.740 view, though, was... Feel free

02:10:00.560 to set the doorway to this room on fire.

02:10:02.700 three old bags they're locking it now well i wanted to get to the fact that uh screw her

02:10:08.280 because she's she's uh bad-mouthing the united states of america and uh here she is talking

02:10:15.600 about when she might return what her criteria might okay let's listen when you know it is safe

02:10:23.160 for all citizens to have equal rights what there in america uh that's when we will consider coming

02:10:31.460 back oh please come back it's been heartbreaking to see what's happening politically and what

02:10:40.480 hard for me personally as well the personal is political as we all know the mainstream media

02:10:52.380 has been letting us all down there in america where the fourth estate is required in order to

02:10:58.480 maintain a democracy and um you know they haven't been doing their job so they ragged

02:11:07.760 here's hoping that they will get better before it's too late and here's hoping it's not too

02:11:12.900 late already i encourage everyone to stand up to use their voice to protest to demand

02:11:21.740 that we follow the Constitution in our country.

02:11:27.020 She just goes on social media from Ireland.

02:11:29.480 And not a king.

02:11:30.240 All right.

02:11:30.640 Not a man.

02:11:31.340 Not a king.

02:11:32.100 It's not a king.

02:11:33.100 And we don't have cruelty as part of our governing style.

02:11:38.280 So the doling attacks.

02:11:39.760 All right, then.

02:11:40.440 Shut up, Rosie.

02:11:41.180 Shut up.

02:11:41.820 Turn her off.

02:11:42.320 I can't stand her.

02:11:43.180 You let her get to you.

02:11:44.100 I do.

02:11:44.760 I do.

02:11:46.100 Take it easy, Philly.

02:11:47.280 What?

02:11:50.240 What, Philly?

02:11:51.880 What, yeah, your brother, you know, whatever happened there.

02:11:55.560 And he just gets angry again.

02:11:57.380 That scumbag cousin of yours, Phil, take it easy, Phil.

02:12:01.780 Whatever happened there, what a dolt.

02:12:04.900 But, so, Rosie, what rights don't people have?

02:12:09.980 This is what it's, and she's blaming the media.

02:12:12.500 Now, we've been talking about how garbage the media's been for a while.

02:12:16.300 For decades.

02:12:16.780 All they do is, they're a propaganda wing.

02:12:19.280 People can argue whether it's for the left or the right.

02:12:22.060 It's obviously been biased for the left.

02:12:25.320 More of it, yeah.

02:12:25.760 Much more of it.

02:12:27.580 So what did they not do, Rosie?

02:12:30.160 The fact that Trump got elected is pissing Rosie off because she thinks the media should have done more smearing and more libel and slander and lies about Trump.

02:12:41.580 So her idea of the media not doing its job is he got elected.

02:12:45.700 You guys didn't do enough of destroying this guy.

02:12:49.280 so uh she she then thinks that rights are being taken away who's the constitution

02:12:55.780 trump doesn't want little groups to have their own little rights and special treatment so we all

02:13:02.280 have our rights under the constitution and that's those are the rights that we have as americans

02:13:07.900 and she thinks they're being taken away and runs off to ireland go screw good goodbye we should go

02:13:16.260 down to New Orleans and hand out

02:13:18.120 free Cuba leaflets.

02:13:26.240 Okay. I get it.

02:13:28.080 I get it.

02:13:31.920 I get so incensed.

02:13:33.760 Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald, of course.

02:13:36.800 Of course.

02:13:38.180 I watched JFK

02:13:39.900 on my chest. I watched it.

02:13:42.520 Oh, I'm dying.

02:13:43.040 And the, like, there's some, I'm a Trump supporter, obviously, but I'm not this just fanatic, everything is great.

02:13:52.300 I think the whole thing with the Epstein thing, when they supposedly were going to release the list of the Epstein, it's nothing.

02:14:00.980 And then the JFK files.

02:14:02.560 What was that?

02:14:03.780 Nothing.

02:14:04.420 No, there was just a few, like, family ties or whatever.

02:14:07.600 There was really not much there that would help the conspiracy talk.

02:14:10.520 No, like, Silver Bullet or something.

02:14:12.740 as they say so that kind of uh was a downer that was disappointing yeah and uh you know i i think

02:14:21.200 trump's a weird guy i get it he's a weird guy but uh i i think he's doing what needs to be done

02:14:29.620 right now as far as especially you know the world has been screwing us over for a long time

02:14:36.080 economically especially and i don't know is this the right thing to do the tariffs and stuff i

02:14:41.320 know what am i economics major i don't know so but he's doing something everyone else just sat

02:14:48.720 there and and we we took it and now he wants to do something so i'm kind of i'm kind of good yeah

02:14:54.300 i don't know anything about tariffs like the way he explained it kind of made sense but i don't know

02:14:58.380 if he's right or wrong i just don't know i don't know anything about you know what it is no one

02:15:01.800 does no all these people think you know with a few scrolls of your thumb you're an expert at

02:15:06.320 everything and every week there's some

02:15:08.380 new thing that everyone professes

02:15:10.560 to know everything about and

02:15:12.380 they'll get on and tell you what an idiot you are

02:15:14.380 because you don't know anything about

02:15:16.440 that and that's another thing

02:15:18.420 that this damn phone is

02:15:19.760 it really does it makes everyone's

02:15:22.340 unbearable yeah everyone is unbearable

02:15:24.640 I just can't I don't care I don't

02:15:26.440 care about the debates yeah like meaning

02:15:28.200 like regular people right like they'll make a

02:15:30.400 big deal about two people debating

02:15:32.040 debating Israel they're debating the death

02:15:33.980 I don't care what they say

02:15:36.120 I don't care.

02:15:36.960 They're not the story.

02:15:38.560 And how does a machine, you pick up your phone,

02:15:40.940 how does this little gadget that has porn on it,

02:15:44.220 why are we doing anything else?

02:15:46.560 Why are we doing anything else?

02:15:47.920 Why would you be so interested in economics or anything

02:15:51.880 when you could just see horrible sex acts?

02:15:56.520 Well, some of us are using it for that, Anthony.

02:15:58.380 Some of us, while being in Lakewood, New Jersey last week for a gig,

02:16:02.400 realized late in the evening

02:16:04.860 that a little lubricant was required

02:16:07.240 and got in the car

02:16:08.780 and drove one hour each way

02:16:10.900 to an adult bookstore that was open

02:16:12.540 to buy a little bit of

02:16:15.080 lubricant.

02:16:16.760 Oh, I thought

02:16:18.880 you were going to buy a book.

02:16:20.720 No, not at all.

02:16:22.520 Wow, and you had to go that far?

02:16:24.880 An hour each way. It was from Lakewood,

02:16:26.820 New Jersey to right by Philly, in Jersey.

02:16:29.240 Each way hour.

02:16:30.160 I think pharmacies now.

02:16:32.400 But any pharmacy, CVS, has an aisle where you could get...

02:16:36.080 No, they have the stuff I don't like, the stuff I need.

02:16:38.160 Oh, now you're being picky.

02:16:39.140 I am being picky, yeah.

02:16:40.180 There's only certain ones I like.

02:16:42.120 That AstroGlide, you know, I'd literally rather have somebody vomit in my hand.

02:16:52.300 That seems like a weird thing to be...

02:16:54.060 Especially if you're in a pinch there and, you know, you got to drive an hour, it would be like,

02:16:58.040 Yeah, whatever.

02:16:58.720 Because once you're done, you're not going to...

02:17:00.600 I know, but I just want...

02:17:01.300 You're just going to feel like the piece of garbage you are.

02:17:02.880 Dude, it's even worse with...

02:17:05.080 Because then you have to take the towel and you can still feel it on you when you're trying to doze off.

02:17:09.220 It's just got that slippery feeling.

02:17:12.260 It's pretty awful.

02:17:13.420 I would gather.

02:17:15.180 But I do an outreach way to do it.

02:17:16.420 See, I do that stuff on my phone.

02:17:17.800 Yeah.

02:17:18.140 That's my point.

02:17:18.780 You've always had kind of an issue.

02:17:20.780 Yes, I have.

02:17:21.640 With that.

02:17:22.900 Very dirty boy.

02:17:23.880 The, you know, spending hours on end.

02:17:26.940 And then upon completion, it's like, why did I waste that much time doing this?

02:17:34.360 I'm garbage.

02:17:35.020 Sure.

02:17:35.360 Why didn't I just use butter for my toast?

02:17:37.620 It was so much faster.

02:17:40.540 It tasted better.

02:17:48.860 How are you taking to married life?

02:17:51.320 Because it is, you know, you were an independent kind of guy.

02:17:56.360 Sure.

02:17:56.680 You had roommates, Florentine and whatnot, but marriage is a big, that's a big thing.

02:18:04.000 Sure.

02:18:04.360 And you had all your stuff, like I don't know how your wife feels about your kiss posters.

02:18:08.940 Hates them.

02:18:09.520 Memorabilia.

02:18:10.120 How's it going?

02:18:11.240 One word, Gaza.

02:18:17.360 So it's a lot of, is there conflict?

02:18:21.800 There's some, she's hard to communicate with sometimes.

02:18:23.840 She just thinks differently.

02:18:26.080 Like, we just don't communicate sometimes.

02:18:28.160 But that's every couple I've ever met.

02:18:29.780 Yeah, that is true.

02:18:31.880 I take to it okay.

02:18:32.940 You lived together for a while, though, before getting married.

02:18:35.580 Very pandemic, yeah.

02:18:36.940 And I think that's essential.

02:18:38.960 Yes, it is.

02:18:39.560 I don't understand meeting someone through the courting process,

02:18:44.320 and then you date, and then you marry,

02:18:46.860 and all of a sudden, you know, you're living together,

02:18:49.300 and now you're learning just horrible things about the other person.

02:18:52.820 Yeah, like I get a kick out of not flushing.

02:18:55.280 She doesn't think it's funny.

02:18:56.440 A big walk.

02:18:58.900 I'm like, come on now.

02:19:01.080 Joker cleared the lid.

02:19:02.260 Do you turn the lights off when she goes in?

02:19:04.640 No, because I don't want to know what she's doing there.

02:19:07.340 Because God, I bet I walk in too late.

02:19:09.120 And I can't turn the lights off because my bathroom has a door that has glass.

02:19:15.040 So it would be ineffective because you can see.

02:19:17.260 Yes.

02:19:17.960 It's kind of like an opaque glass.

02:19:19.640 Like one of those old school, like a vent window.

02:19:22.260 at the top of the, yes, yes.

02:19:25.080 Oh, okay.

02:19:25.880 But it's not that bad.

02:19:26.840 You know what?

02:19:27.380 I like it.

02:19:29.540 She's messy.

02:19:32.640 There's two of us, so my place is messier,

02:19:35.540 but it's nice to have a family.

02:19:36.640 Are you a clean guy, though?

02:19:38.480 You like things organized.

02:19:39.780 I was in my way.

02:19:40.900 I was in my way.

02:19:41.620 I had my ways.

02:19:42.320 Yeah, I had my ways.

02:19:43.380 I like everything organized a certain way.

02:19:45.700 I like to do whatever I want to do.

02:19:47.380 Jim's house was like a museum.

02:19:49.080 Kind of, yeah.

02:19:49.600 Oh, no, I know.

02:19:50.300 No, I was at the last place, I think, and then this place, obviously.

02:19:55.120 And this place isn't as nuts.

02:19:56.960 No.

02:19:57.280 You're not as crazy as you were with your memorabilia.

02:20:01.120 But there's a lot of stuff there, boxing gloves and photos.

02:20:04.520 But it's not every photo that you've ever taken hanging on the wall.

02:20:08.660 No, I just have some posters.

02:20:10.020 I've kissed stuff in museum glass.

02:20:12.440 I mean, literally, the frames are worth more than the posters.

02:20:14.620 Yeah.

02:20:15.100 But it's nice having someone to go home to.

02:20:17.100 Like, I like going home.

02:20:17.900 I'll go home after.

02:20:18.560 I'll see her.

02:20:20.300 It's fine.

02:20:21.100 Yeah, yeah.

02:20:21.780 You know, I love her, so it's easy.

02:20:23.200 Yeah, okay.

02:20:24.220 It's not easy.

02:20:25.200 I get it.

02:20:25.860 Yeah, there's kind of challenges.

02:20:27.440 Sometimes.

02:20:28.480 Yeah.

02:20:28.780 Sometimes you're like, oh, God.

02:20:29.900 Other times I'm like, sure.

02:20:31.300 Or argument.

02:20:31.980 Yeah.

02:20:32.580 Something like that.

02:20:33.380 Yeah.

02:20:33.980 I just think back to that white Bronco and I'm like, yep, sure, surely.

02:20:39.160 Do you give in on arguments a lot just to make it stop?

02:20:42.860 Because I think you're pretty dedicated to an argument.

02:20:45.620 Yeah, I'm not good at giving in.

02:20:47.060 Sometimes she's so obnoxious, she'll go, just say you're sorry.

02:20:50.300 But I'm not sorry at all.

02:20:51.560 And I tell her I'm not sorry at all.

02:20:53.320 And she goes, just say you're sorry.

02:20:54.320 I'm like, I'm sorry.

02:20:55.180 And she goes, I'm sorry too.

02:20:55.940 And that's the end of it.

02:20:56.980 Wow.

02:20:57.460 She can end things like that.

02:20:58.880 We're all stewing it.

02:20:59.840 It does help.

02:21:00.340 But you're mad still.

02:21:01.720 It goes away though because then we're done fighting.

02:21:04.180 So it is, she's better at ending an argument than I am.

02:21:07.180 I hate the idea of makeup sex.

02:21:11.260 Because it's like, you're still insanely mad.

02:21:15.040 The argument's over.

02:21:16.200 I'm sorry.

02:21:16.860 I did this.

02:21:17.540 Or, you know, let's work this out.

02:21:19.200 And then you're supposed to want to have some physical stuff, some sex.

02:21:26.780 Yeah.

02:21:27.860 I'm still not happy.

02:21:29.320 Yeah, because she and I are just going to wind up arguing over the last blue chew.

02:21:37.740 Let's be on your night table in a Pez dispenser.

02:21:41.460 Your turn.

02:21:45.440 Yeah, but no, I'm not big on makeup sex either, to be honest with you.

02:21:48.680 Yeah.

02:21:49.200 Now, still living in New York, when you're driving around, do you at least notice hookers?

02:21:58.240 Because I know you used to be very...

02:21:59.440 They're not anywhere anymore.

02:22:00.320 They're not anywhere, right?

02:22:01.440 No.

02:22:02.420 It's funny.

02:22:03.200 I got a new car.

02:22:04.520 I'm doing a Subaru now because it's less expensive.

02:22:07.960 I'm being more responsible.

02:22:09.200 It's gay.

02:22:09.840 And I never...

02:22:10.880 Well, you know...

02:22:11.700 Subaru's...

02:22:12.580 Is that a lesbian car?

02:22:13.840 I think it's a lesbian vehicle, but for a guy, I don't know if it's gay, like for a guy.

02:22:18.160 I only got it because they're supposed to be very good in the snow, and I was doing some upstate driving, and I was like, you know, I don't.

02:22:24.820 I just need something better than this BMW, and it's half the price for a lease, and I like it.

02:22:30.140 I like the old Subaru.

02:22:32.240 And you ever think of pulling it in a garage, closing the door, and starting?

02:22:36.400 It's all I think of.

02:22:38.240 There's not a time I get in that car that I don't look for duct tape and a towel and a garden hose.

02:22:45.220 Just want to put your picture up.

02:22:48.160 Yeah, I've thought of it.

02:22:54.380 Coming up after my program is Dominic Carter.

02:22:58.800 He does his show after my show.

02:23:01.220 And I'm going to pop on with him for a couple of minutes at the beginning of his show.

02:23:05.840 See what he'll be doing this evening.

02:23:10.640 Also, yeah, what do you got to plug?

02:23:14.720 Because I want to get everybody's plugs.

02:23:17.320 This week.

02:23:18.160 E-Rock, where will you be eating?

02:23:22.080 I mean, that's just not nice.

02:23:23.640 Well, I still have Anthony's credit card, so I'll be over at Smith & Walensky's over there.

02:23:27.200 Oh, the Amex.

02:23:27.800 I was wondering why that was still coming in.

02:23:30.800 I'm going to Key West this weekend, this Friday, Saturday, and I got a bunch of gigs.

02:23:35.840 Just go to my website, Jim Norton.

02:23:37.940 Do you still enjoy going around touring?

02:23:41.000 Yeah, I'm doing it more now because, again, that's where the money is.

02:23:44.580 But I like that I can just go out and not worry about getting back for radio.

02:23:47.740 it's great

02:23:48.400 it's great

02:23:49.480 I don't miss it at all

02:23:51.140 like

02:23:51.420 I miss

02:23:52.620 again the knowledge

02:23:53.520 that the money's there

02:23:54.380 but I don't see

02:23:55.780 any real life effect

02:23:56.700 from it

02:23:56.980 like

02:23:57.220 I don't miss

02:23:58.160 waking up

02:23:58.840 and walking in

02:23:59.740 at all

02:24:00.820 it's nice being able

02:24:01.780 to pull the throttle

02:24:03.060 back a little bit

02:24:03.920 do a little more

02:24:04.560 of what you want to do

02:24:05.500 go do gigs

02:24:06.240 drive

02:24:06.560 you know what

02:24:07.160 can we tack a Sunday

02:24:08.240 or a Thursday

02:24:08.780 onto that weekend

02:24:09.520 and I'll just drive

02:24:10.820 and take a nice leisurely

02:24:12.320 have another night

02:24:13.220 in a hotel by myself

02:24:14.240 tug tug tug

02:24:14.800 tug tug

02:24:15.120 yeah i uh i i was talking about how i i went and got myself a job i you did i was doing my podcast

02:24:27.320 i'm having fun i'm doing and then it was like yeah i'll do that that sounds cool and i'm having

02:24:32.620 a great time i love doing this yeah and uh but i'm like yeah i got a job i went and got myself

02:24:39.620 god damn job yes you did so uh but i'm digging it i like this it's fun the people here are

02:24:46.520 really cool yeah and the um the ability to do it you know technology over the past few years

02:24:53.200 it's crazy you you used to have to have like equipment at your house that was insane yeah

02:24:58.220 isd on lines i'm not gonna get into it but uh it was it was very complicated now you know what i

02:25:03.760 have for my podcast is perfectly good for this so i do that and uh it just makes it easier but i i

02:25:08.940 I definitely appreciate the opportunity to get back on Broadcaster Radio.

02:25:12.500 Yeah.

02:25:12.880 It's a little vindication thing there.

02:25:14.420 Sure.

02:25:14.720 A little bit.

02:25:15.320 It's fun.

02:25:15.840 Yeah, yeah.

02:25:16.520 To be asked for such a piece of garbage as myself to return to FCC-regulated airwaves.

02:25:23.300 It is, yeah.

02:25:24.020 You know, you got a little bravery was there on the part of the management here.

02:25:29.060 Yeah.

02:25:29.380 You know, it happens.

02:25:30.700 Either that or this is a springtime for Hitler situation.

02:25:33.560 would they assume this email they're just hoping it bombs the whole company

02:25:41.240 so how how long am i going till 59 40 oh that's like a minute or something

02:25:51.720 something like that um so irak you're well what are you doing with yourself uh you have a kid

02:25:58.080 i know that i have the kid that takes up a lot of my time i've got a bunch of freelance stuff

02:26:03.100 and I'm still doing my show for the iHeart Radio Network.

02:26:07.440 Where do you take that?

02:26:09.880 I built my own studio.

02:26:12.100 When COVID hit, they just don't let anybody in the building anymore,

02:26:15.540 so I just do it all from home.

02:26:17.420 That's what happened with, I was doing Bernie and Sid at the old ABC,

02:26:22.140 and then COVID hit, and I just didn't hear from him anymore.

02:26:24.920 And then Sid got mad at me, thinking I just blew him off.

02:26:27.860 He started giving me some, you know, what have you.

02:26:31.000 and now we're the best of friends.

02:26:33.600 Happy Passover, Sid.

02:26:34.700 I like this facility better.

02:26:36.520 I can't believe they found such a great place.

02:26:38.460 Like the other place was older and this is just better.

02:26:41.020 Yes, and the host on Sunday night is better.

02:26:44.840 Lionel?

02:26:45.360 Me.

02:26:46.480 Well, I don't know.

02:26:47.300 Who did they have last time before you?

02:26:49.140 I don't know.

02:26:49.780 Okay.

02:26:50.340 Probably Anthony Wiener or something.

02:26:52.680 He was here for a while.

02:26:54.460 Was he really?

02:26:55.180 Yeah.

02:26:55.800 You're surrounded by people we caused problems for all over the place.

02:26:59.040 I know.

02:26:59.480 No, it is funny, but yeah, Anthony, once I realized they had him on, I'm like, I got

02:27:05.940 to be a shoo-in.

02:27:07.240 I'm not that bad.

02:27:08.580 Is he good on the radio?

02:27:09.860 I don't know.

02:27:10.400 He's a pretty smart guy.

02:27:11.100 I never listened to him.

02:27:12.440 How smart can you be if you're texting children?

02:27:15.680 Well, look, as they say, the smartest people make questionable mistakes.

02:27:20.300 Perhaps they're in that area.

02:27:21.640 His intelligence is not great.

02:27:22.940 Perhaps.

02:27:23.680 Yeah.

02:27:24.460 Jimmy, I got to tell you, just great.

02:27:27.100 This is fun.

02:27:27.220 I've been looking forward to hanging out with you.

02:27:28.940 Me too.

02:27:29.320 So have the listeners and fans and social media.

02:27:32.700 They love when we get to hang out.

02:27:35.220 I know.

02:27:35.640 It's great to not have anything to worry about in the morning.

02:27:39.940 So, yeah, when you're back, I'd love to do it again.

02:27:42.380 Yeah.

02:27:43.020 Very cool.

02:27:44.300 Okay, I'm going to be back for a couple of minutes with – where's my paper?

02:27:50.280 Dominic Carter.

02:27:51.120 Jesus.

02:27:51.820 And, yeah, so stick around.

02:27:53.860 Anthony Cumia Show.

The Anthony Cumia Show - April 14, 2025

The Anthony Cumia Show ｜ 04-13-25

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