The Anthony Cumia Show - September 23, 2025


Where Do We Go From Here？ ｜ 09-21-25


Episode Stats


Length

10 minutes

Words per minute

119.45848

Word count

1,253

Sentence count

54

Harmful content

Toxicity

12

sentences flagged

Hate speech

5

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Summary

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On this episode of the WBC Minicast, the crew talks about the current state of the country and how divided we are, and what it means for the future of this country, and why we need to learn to be more tolerant.

Transcript

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00:01:10.720 Years ago,
00:01:11.700 we were talking about how divided
00:01:13.880 the nation is. Oh,
00:01:15.740 my God, we're so divided
00:01:17.720 down political lines and
00:01:19.240 racial lines. Oh,
00:01:21.920 it's crazy. And
00:01:23.780 And that was a picnic compared to what we are experiencing right now in the United States of America.
00:01:35.300 And the sad part is that this is the best it's going to be.
00:01:43.020 Tomorrow will only be worse.
00:01:47.660 Pessimistic much, Anthony?
00:01:50.300 Yes.
00:01:51.860 Yes, I am.
00:01:53.060 i just see see what's going on out there the uh it's not disagreements anymore or or this
00:02:04.720 kind of thought like well i respect your opinion i hate it i don't agree with it
00:02:10.920 but you you make a good case but i still don't agree with it and and i could even think you're 0.96
00:02:17.860 stupid and that but it's never even during the vietnam war i was a little tater tot back then 0.96
00:02:24.700 and um i remember listening to the grown-ups talking about it during holidays and yelling 0.99
00:02:32.920 at each other about uh the peace movement and the war and we can't let the communists get a
00:02:39.120 foothold in uh southeast asia and what does it have to do with us killing babies all the
00:02:47.660 the vietnam debates that were going on huge demonstrations and there was violence
00:02:55.140 there was violence uh but my god we we despise each other now the other side you know
00:03:08.860 conservatives, liberals, Republicans, Democrats.
00:03:14.580 It's the right, the left.
00:03:17.680 We don't even like each other.
00:03:21.700 We hate each other.
00:03:24.700 And when you hear either one side or the other talk about turning down the rhetoric
00:03:31.140 and maybe just maybe we can talk to each other and and get along again we're all americans
00:03:40.120 now we're not we're americans that believe america is one thing and we're americans
00:03:48.060 that believe america is a completely different thing we we have a common nationality in name
00:03:56.900 only america what does it even mean in 2025 i know what it used to mean and i know what i thought it
00:04:08.440 meant during during my life and it isn't really just an age thing it's not like well the younger
00:04:15.540 people will believe that america is different than you will it's not even that there are these 0.86
00:04:21.720 just insane boomers 0.99
00:04:25.740 that I don't know what the hell they're thinking 1.00
00:04:29.860 if they're thinking at all
00:04:31.780 the left and the right is pretty much it
00:04:35.780 and they have a completely different take
00:04:39.540 on what this country is
00:04:41.660 and what it's supposed to be
00:04:43.140 and how we're supposed to treat each other as Americans
00:04:47.240 and there is barely any commonality between the two sides.
00:04:56.720 I think that's obvious.
00:04:58.520 Not breaking any new ground over here with that statement.
00:05:01.680 I like an America that has the traditions and values
00:05:11.080 that we understood to be American.
00:05:17.240 You know, we always considered ourselves to be the moral high ground in a lot of world events.
00:05:25.280 Sure, we went a little nuts every so often having to replace a president in some Central American country
00:05:35.060 or shoveling some weapons to some other organization.
00:05:40.100 But the bottom line is, you know, we didn't despise each other like we do now.
00:05:47.240 And the the way we view America is so different. 0.97
00:05:54.140 This freak show that we we put up with every day and we were told many years ago when they started rearing their ugly heads, their ugly nose pierced, pink, blue and yellow haired ugly heads. 0.97
00:06:14.140 heads we we were told we need to be tolerant we need to be tolerant these are americans 0.93
00:06:22.580 just like you yeah all right and we were we were very tolerant to a fault and when people talk
00:06:34.780 about things like uh the domino effect or or uh slippery slope that's exactly what happens
00:06:43.940 and then you fast forward a decade or so and your america doesn't look anything like the america that
00:06:54.180 uh you you wanted you had you enjoyed it's now this freak show with uh certifiably insane people
00:07:06.500 running around telling you you have to celebrate everything they do you're not allowed to disagree
00:07:16.540 with them and as we saw of late if you do you might end up in the proverbial pine box
00:07:24.320 so how do we have anything in common how do we have enough in common in 2025 to not hate each
00:07:36.360 other i i think the the right wing people and i hate even saying that because they've said so long 0.69
00:07:44.540 how the right wing is the crazy violent white supremacy which is all nonsense but for lack of 0.60
00:07:52.340 a better term uh yeah we enjoyed the the american traditions and and then when when we see the left 0.97
00:08:02.400 just screwing everything up and then we're told to be tolerant and then when uh everything comes
00:08:10.320 crashing down and we don't we're not even allowed to practice these uh traditions and institutions
00:08:16.040 anymore uh we're told we have to be nice and and turn down the rhetoric and can't we just talk it
00:08:25.520 out yeah like charlie kirk tried to talk it out that's all he was doing had that workout for him
00:08:33.680 well there's a couple of arenas packed full of people paying tribute to charlie kirk
00:08:42.860 um i don't know what comes next but i i'll tell you what doesn't come next unity any kind of uh
00:08:53.880 sit down, peaceful dialogue and debate
00:08:58.540 between these two definitive sides.
00:09:05.100 There doesn't even seem to be any middle ground anymore.
00:09:09.520 There's no gray area.
00:09:12.100 There's no people that are willing to look at both sides
00:09:15.500 and try to talk to either side about that.
00:09:21.180 it's so staunch everyone is staunchly divided and uh that's it's not a good thing i'll tell you
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