Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1652 - Anthony Cumia
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Joe Rogan Experience #1652 - Anthony Cumia

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Showing my day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Young Anthony Cumia, my friend, good to see you.
Everyone calls me that, Young Anthony Cumia.
Well, he's Young Jamie, so you must be Young Anthony.
Dude, there is not a fucking show on earth that inspired me to do a podcast
more than
O.P. and Anthony.
That is a fact.
I love hearing that.
It is a fact.
You know, to be a part of the cycle that you went through in your head to build
this empire
that you now have, I'm honored.
It's 100% true, and it's not just that.
It's also you when you were doing Live from the Compound, when you were doing
it from your
house, in the basement, with a machine gun singing karaoke, with a green screen
behind
you.
I was like, he's having so much fun.
Jamie, do we have a bottle opener?
I thought this was a regular one.
Is it?
I can open a bottle with anything, by the way.
I can open with a lighter.
I can do that.
Yeah, lighter.
My dad taught me with a belt buckle when I was out in California, learning to
be a man
under my father's tutelage.
This is from Phil's buddy.
What was Phil's buddy's name?
The guy that, Phil Demers?
His buddy who's like a big time beer freak.
This is, you gotta try some of this.
It's very interesting.
It's beer, but it does not taste like regular beer, but it's very good.
And I slum it all the time with just buds.
Yeah, I mean...
People are like, oh, bud wise.
It's like, nothing better.
You could pound a case of buds sitting out by the pool.
But then occasionally...
Cheers.
Try something else.
Cheers, Joe.
Good to see you.
Good to be in Austin.
Good to be here.
Weird, right?
Definitely a lemony thing going on.
Yeah, it's got a lemon on the cover.
A lot of lemon.
Wow.
It's called foos.
This really pinches the back of your tongue.
Yeah, it says wheat beer with peaches.
Oh, it's a peach.
Oh, there's a peach in there too?
It looks like a lemon.
It tastes like a lemon.
I guess it looks like a heart with a leaf.
That ain't bad.
Good stuff.
Yeah.
I can't imagine.
I always have to think, whatever I'm putting in me, alcohol-wise, what'll that
taste like
coming out?
And this would probably hurt.
A lot of heartburn.
You think?
If you were throwing it up?
If you're throwing it up.
I don't think so.
I think it'd be pretty smooth.
It's not that bad.
Shouldn't you not throw up from drinking after like 40?
You shouldn't, but you're probably going to occasionally.
It comes with the territory.
It depends on how deep you go.
Yeah, yeah.
You're not going as deep as you are in your 20s.
Sometimes you want to throw up, right?
Sometimes you get back to your house and you're just like, let me just get this
out of me.
You do the finger thing.
Just so you feel better.
Just so you can sleep.
And it's funny.
If you got a girl in the house, you think you're being quiet, but there's no
being quiet when
you're especially that dry heave sound.
Into an echo chamber.
Yeah, yeah.
A porcelain echo.
It's like the old Victrola speaker.
It's just pumping out your groans.
So we were talking before this podcast started that you, when you left Opie and
Anthony, you went and decided to do your own thing behind a paywall.
Yeah.
So you're like, you're like in this position, you're sort of uncancellable.
You don't have all the trappings that everybody else has in terms of like
sponsors and people coming after you.
You just have subscribers.
Yeah, this was a conscious decision because I saw it coming a while ago.
The, what they call cancel culture thing.
Well, you guys get hit with it first.
Yeah.
Out of all the people that I've ever heard of.
Because when you guys had that homeless person on who said he wanted to, what
did he say, he wanted to rape Condoleezza Rice?
Condoleezza Rice and the Queen of England and the First Lady.
I gotta, I gotta say something about that though.
We had just gotten to satellite radio from FM radio.
And to us, this was like, all right, it opens up a whole new world of what we
can do.
So I thought, what, what better place to just showcase a homeless person?
Let's see what rantings and ramblings come out of a homeless person's mind.
So bring him up in the studio, put him in front of a mic and let him go off.
It's satellite.
No FCC rules and regs.
And the guy starts talking about crazy stuff and raping political figures and
the Queen of England.
And we think it's hilarious because you're getting that insight.
You're getting into the mind of a crazy homeless guy on the street.
And the shit hits the fan.
Oh my God, Condoleezza Rice that brings the sex thing in and the race thing and
all that.
And they lost their mind.
And we were like, oh shit, we're getting fired again?
Like we're gonna get fired for this.
What happened?
You didn't get fired, but you guys got suspended for how long?
We got suspended for, I think it was a month.
I think that was a month suspension from satellite radio.
But we were still at K-Rock in New York doing that show in the morning because
we used to do both.
Yeah.
We used to go across with the microphone.
I did that with you guys.
We did the walkover.
We would do terrestrial.
And then we would broadcast live as we were walking down New York City with
mics and comics.
And we would go to the other studio.
Yeah.
We would do things occasionally like Rich Voss would go into a diner or
something and just start doing stand-up.
Yes.
In front of the customers.
It was hilarious.
Cringe stand-up.
Cringe stand-up.
These people don't know what's happening.
And stupid big Club Soda Kenny would announce them.
Ladies and gentlemen, they're looking like they're, you know, it's gonna be
like a mass shooting is gonna start.
And it was hilarious.
You guys were the birth of podcasts.
It was a podcast on the radio.
We didn't know it at the time.
We didn't know what-
Nobody knew what a podcast was.
A podcast was, but it was a bunch of guys that you find funny, you like hanging
out with, talking about anything.
And that seems to be what the formula is, yeah.
You guys figured it out first because every other radio show that I did, like
if I did Stern or anything else you did, it was very formatted.
Regimented, yeah.
Timed.
Like he had some things you want to talk.
He wanted to talk to me about Fear Factor.
He wanted to talk to me about the UFC and questions about this.
And, you know, it's always like, and then you have a call in and then you have
celebrity guests.
And he had it all like very smooth.
You guys would just bring a bunch of people in.
Yeah.
And then Patrice would start talking and Burr would start talking and Ari would
start talking and it was just chaos.
Dude.
And we were all just having fun.
Just having fun.
Yeah.
When you have a room of those guys, Nick DiPaolo and Patrice, God rest his soul,
and Bill Burr, Norton, all these guys, Colin Quinn, they're all in a room.
You can't lose.
Right.
Like as people will hear it and say, holy shit, that was one of the funniest
shows.
And it's like, what show?
The Opie and Anthony show.
Yeah.
So people remember the name of the show.
Yeah.
But all these other guys are delivering this amazing, funny comedy.
So it worked that way.
And we embraced that and just started bringing these comics back on in
different combinations.
Because you know better than anyone, some of the funniest stuff you'll ever
hear are guys shitting on each other.
Yeah.
And when someone was in, we called it being in the barrel, you know, and that
could consist of wearing a shirt.
You come in wearing a shirt and Patrice goes, what the fuck, what kind of shirt
is that you wear?
What the, where the fuck you get, and now everyone's on your shirt.
Now you're sitting there going, you're looking at all the comics going, what
can I use to get this off me?
So you'd have to shit on Voss's teeth or, you know.
Always.
So, so it was this constant battle to get the shit off of you.
Yeah.
And it was funny every fucking time.
And you guys were so great at letting the comics just go wild and not put any
restrictions on anybody and not try to control the conversation.
Just let it have fun.
Just let it breathe.
A lot of shows, a lot of hosts.
And this is something you do that is fantastic and rare in the business.
Let your guests talk.
Let them, and if you have a guest, a room full of guests, let them have fun.
If you hear funny shit going on, a lot of people, their ego gets in the way.
Yeah.
And they feel, hey, it's my show.
My name's on the marquee.
I have to jump in and say something.
If something funny's happening, back off.
Leave it the fuck alone.
It's going to be great.
People are going to love it.
And they're going to go, oh, that was on the Opie and Anthony show.
So it doesn't really matter who's saying it.
Yeah, you guys had figured it out.
It really is the birth of podcasts.
And I learned a lot from doing that show.
And I also learned that I wanted to do it because when I would do your show, I
was like, God, I want to do a show like this.
I want to do something like this because it was, you know, when I did regular
radio, if I did on tour, I would say, oh, that may be fun to do a regular radio
show.
But then I would be like, they will never hire me.
I will say something stupid.
I'll get fired.
This is not going to work out for me.
But I do your show.
And I'd be like, huh.
I'd be like, this is, I think I can do this.
No, this I think I can do.
I think I can do this.
I was paranoid because I never went to school for radio.
I was in construction until my early to mid-30s, dude.
I got into radio late.
And my impression was always, if I didn't know the alloy of the metal in the
transmitter antenna, there's no way you're getting into radio.
Like, I thought you had to know all the shit that they taught you in radio
school.
And the fact of the matter was, these jocks were constantly looking for
somebody that was entertaining.
I never realized how desperate a lot of these jocks are for somebody that could
make people laugh.
Someone with varied interest, too.
Someone who was interesting.
Who could talk about different things.
Talk about a lot of different things.
You know, sometimes you've got to talk out your ass.
Like, you almost kind of know what it's about.
Yeah, for sure.
But this, the other thing about, like, what you guys did was you created a safe
place for men.
Like, where you could just be a fucking idiot.
One of the last bastions.
But that's the thing.
It's like, there's a lot of men out there.
But there's not a lot of entertainment that's geared towards men.
And one of the things that comes up on my podcast when the advertising people
get to talk and they're like, Jesus Christ, he's got like 94% men.
Like, what is going on here?
This is crazy.
I'm like, they're not represented.
They're not, men are not represented.
It's like, I don't know what the number is of regular television.
But it's not geared towards men.
No, not at all.
There's some, there's like The Talk and The View and there's a lot of these
shows that are geared towards women.
But it turns like a man show.
You can't have like a male oriented show on network television.
It would be toxic.
It's a personal affront to feminism and women.
And regardless, it's just men being men.
Which is weird, right?
I don't know where this idea came from that in the past even couple of decades,
which, you know, relative to a tortoise or a mayfly, you know, it varies how
long a period of time that is.
But in that period of time, we as humans, we're supposed to have physically and
mentally evolved to this point where men don't still want to talk about tits
and cars and lifestyle stuff and bash each other guns, of course.
Like, I think there are people that actually think we have evolved out of that
instead of being brainwashed.
A lot of men that are henpecked and they work in some terrible job where human
resources is breathing down their neck and they have neutered themselves and
they put themselves in this position of like this sort of like non-man.
Yes, non-man.
Yeah, and th