The Anthony Cumia Show - January 28, 2026


The Storm of the Century (That Wasn’t) ｜ 01-25-26


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13 minutes

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1,851

Sentence count

95

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Toxicity

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Hate speech

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Anthony Cumia talks about the storm of the century and why you should never go out to shop in a storm like that. Also, how to deal with the people that are supposed to help you when you don't have a clue what you're doing.

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00:01:05.320 This is the 77 WABC
00:01:08.360 minicast.
00:01:10.760 The Anthony
00:01:11.920 Cumia Show. Welcome.
00:01:13.820 Welcome.
00:01:15.740 I hope you had a great weekend.
00:01:17.940 I hope the big storm
00:01:19.720 of the century
00:01:20.460 didn't
00:01:22.460 didn't ruin your plans yeah they were boy they they just oversell it they just oversell it
00:01:31.360 I was down here you know I'm at Home Depot I don't know if many you know this about me
00:01:39.640 I just don't go out anymore I go out to have fun I go out maybe you know dinner go to a bar
00:01:47.800 fun things i don't go out to do things like shop you'll never see me at the mall
00:01:56.980 you'll never see me at a home improvement place like lowe's or home depot but there i was
00:02:09.020 There I was last night at about 8 p.m., 7 or 8 p.m., at Home Depot.
00:02:18.460 Because I looked around and I said, I got a generator and I got all the things I need to survive the storm of the century.
00:02:28.900 But I wanted to tie my generator into my electrical panel.
00:02:33.180 So I needed a couple of things.
00:02:34.940 Breakers, some wires.
00:02:36.400 I don't want to get into it.
00:02:37.440 You electricians know what the hell I'm talking about.
00:02:40.780 So I went there, and again, it didn't make me go, you know, I got to get out more.
00:02:50.400 I got to go to stores and home improvement centers and supermarkets and the mall.
00:02:58.480 Because I didn't realize how much I miss people.
00:03:05.660 That was me.
00:03:07.440 And there I was at Home Depot in Greer, South Carolina, on one line because one register was open with a potential ice storm, storm of the century.
00:03:25.980 and uh people are buying generated they're buying all the usual crap they buy during these um
00:03:32.920 false alarms that mainstream media throw out there as far as well everything is concerned
00:03:39.040 but whether they love it they love lying about the weather so uh i'm on this big line
00:03:46.740 because one registers open there's three i can only describe as mentally handicapped
00:03:54.280 being nice i'm being nice tonight by saying mentally handicapped people uh walking around to
00:04:02.380 help you you know the people that are supposed to help you have you ever gone into a home depot
00:04:13.600 or a lowe's really anywhere come to think of it and the people that are there to help you
00:04:21.000 can help you i i i've never seen it i always know just a little more than they know
00:04:30.700 i don't know enough to completely do it myself sometimes sometimes i got to stand around and
00:04:37.580 look with that that dumb look on my face head craning side to side up and down looking at the
00:04:45.120 giant aisles and shelves and i have to figure it all out myself and thank god thank god the lord 0.96
00:04:55.760 has blessed me with an ability to to reason things out look around put two and two together and get
00:05:04.880 four and uh figure out a way to get her done get the job done
00:05:10.440 the people there to help it's a hindrance while you're trying to figure it out they come up and
00:05:20.740 and you got no i've already figured you weren't around to even help me i'm starting to figure it
00:05:29.340 out myself it's like trying to remember a dream you had last night don't don't talk i got this
00:05:36.560 But don't say a word because they are not there to help you.
00:05:41.300 They are really, really not knowledgeable.
00:05:45.300 And no one ever seems to be in the right section.
00:05:49.600 You'll get someone that's an expert in paint.
00:05:53.440 Oh, I know everything.
00:05:54.880 What shade is that?
00:05:56.040 Eggshell?
00:05:56.700 Is that beige eggshell pink?
00:06:01.720 Yeah, I'm not in paint.
00:06:03.100 I'm in electronics.
00:06:04.360 Yeah, I'm in paint.
00:06:05.680 I do paint.
00:06:06.560 But what are you looking for?
00:06:08.600 Yeah, I'll do it myself.
00:06:10.960 Thank you.
00:06:12.020 Thank you.
00:06:13.960 And, yeah, I don't blame them.
00:06:15.360 Everyone needs a job.
00:06:16.720 You'll need a gig.
00:06:17.660 I get it.
00:06:18.260 But, you know, it's the night before the storm of the century.
00:06:22.440 Just trying to get a couple of things, 30-amp breaker and some wire.
00:06:27.260 No help whatsoever.
00:06:28.600 A line that should take 10 minutes at most, and you're there for a half hour.
00:06:34.520 It's infuriating.
00:06:36.560 And it's why I don't go out.
00:06:38.700 I don't go out.
00:06:39.400 I love the Amazon society we live in.
00:06:44.820 I tell you, I get on my phone.
00:06:48.720 I need something.
00:06:51.060 And, you know, let's be honest.
00:06:53.120 The delivery is hilariously fast.
00:06:56.920 Order before midnight tonight, and it's already at your door.
00:07:00.300 Just open it up.
00:07:02.020 You didn't even order it yet, but we knew it's there.
00:07:05.300 Enjoy. 0.99
00:07:05.780 that that's what i love and i'm not anti-social i swear i'm anti-stupid i'm anti-moron anti-imbecile 1.00
00:07:17.860 anti-idiot and they abound out there in the real world and you see it on social media 1.00
00:07:26.440 who do you think's typing that garbage on social media they're out there 1.00
00:07:31.940 go ahead open your door get in your car drive somewhere that's them that's every idiot you 1.00
00:07:40.660 see on social media face to face i can't take it but there they are so i try to avoid all that 0.99
00:07:51.440 but i get everything hooked up and i was waiting for the storm of the century
00:07:56.240 and uh you know my biggest concern honestly right now this show doing this for days now i've been
00:08:07.160 hearing an ice storm is going to hit greenville and surrounding areas of greenville south carolina
00:08:13.000 a giant blizzard in new york all the way from texas to the northeast and down the east coast
00:08:20.720 Atlanta, Georgia, getting snow.
00:08:23.940 And all I'm thinking is I got a show to do Sunday.
00:08:29.340 So I have Starlink, just in case the Internet went out.
00:08:32.780 I could do my show on Starlink.
00:08:35.400 I've done that before.
00:08:36.760 And I have a generator hooked into the panel so everything's powered.
00:08:41.900 I got water.
00:08:43.200 I got my lights.
00:08:44.460 I got everything.
00:08:45.060 and and you know you did there's some part of you that goes guy i hope it goes out i hope the power
00:08:56.080 goes out and and it's because you want to first of all you're prepared for it you don't want to
00:09:02.900 feel like you wasted your time right now i'm kind of feeling like i stood on that line with those 0.99
00:09:08.040 idiots at Home Depot for no reason whatsoever. So there's that. And then there's a little ego 1.00
00:09:15.880 thing in there where you go, eh, I kind of like knowing that society or whatever it is can pull
00:09:24.720 the plug on me and I could get up and running in no time and still do my job. Yeah. A little bit
00:09:33.400 of that a little pride I'm sorry one of the seven deadly sins you know but yeah we made it we're
00:09:42.700 here there's no more no more big ice storm or snow or anything I don't know like I said I think
00:09:48.720 I think it's all done in New York I saw my good friend comic Jimmy Norton's post and he was saying
00:09:56.300 a thing about the dangers of the snowstorm and uh he was trying to alert people to the danger that
00:10:06.040 if you drop a nickel or a pen it could fall in the inch and a half of snow and you may lose it so
00:10:13.120 um i don't know long island i got a lot of people on long island my buddy chris is out there and
00:10:19.220 family and they said it kind of they got about eight inches of snow but they were told it could
00:10:25.360 be two feet so like the top of the show there uh we just they lie to you because it's exciting
00:10:33.400 it's exciting for them it's ratings for them which is money the longer you watch the more money they
00:10:40.560 make and uh it's a little exciting for us we kind of like a little of that not real adversity we
00:10:48.720 don't like real adversity we don't like real um real horrors in our life or things that are life
00:10:56.820 and death we like making believe it's life or death like a blizzard back a couple hundred years
00:11:04.060 ago uh a blizzard was definitely absolutely deadly but what we got today it probably killed
00:11:12.860 a few people because they didn't have anything it was it was terrible and for some reason
00:11:19.260 we still think that we need to stock up on supplies like we're the charles ingalls family
00:11:26.180 and uh that snow is not going to go away till spring we have no transportation no stores will
00:11:33.700 be open the uh the mercantile will be closed and uh you realize the next day you can just go out
00:11:45.660 and get whatever you need i think people are have been given this false bill of goods that we're
00:11:52.860 still living in a time where things aren't going to be readily available the day after some weather
00:12:00.060 cataclysm it could be tough it could be harder to get certain things or that but it's not like
00:12:06.020 you're going to be starving or freezing cold or or anything so uh there there it is our our storm
00:12:14.780 of the century for this month who knows we may have a brandy new storm of the century next month
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