Name: Joe Rogan Experience #560 - Anthony Cumia
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #560 - Anthony Cumia' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2014-10-13. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #560 - Anthony Cumia

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from new york and he's here
finally cue the music
that's nice man dude when you started doing your show in your basement while
you were
doing the opie and anthony show yeah and you set up like a pro studio with a
green screen and real real professional like camera broadcast quality
and i was like we need to fucking do something like that and that's when brian
and i started out with the u-stream show
is directly influenced by not just you uh doing your show in long island but
also the style of show that you guys did on opie and anthony
yeah
which was just pretty much a hangout you know talking like real people talk not
professional broadcasters
hey so you're in town you're telling those wacky jokes what you're talking
about lately
that's what i wanted to do with uh live from the compound especially is make it
look
as professional as possible and then have people watching go why is this guy
like
did he hijack a news set because he's drinking he's talking about he's cursing
he's talking about
shit that shouldn't be discussed and uh that's kind of why i wanted it to look
so good i wanted it to look
uh very professional but be done very unprofessionally so well it is it's unprofessional
but it is professional
yes exactly but not in the sense of what we see every day on the news and that
that that phoniness
that you just see every day with those people that don't act like real people
uh if something happens
a mistake or a blooper or someone yells fuck in the background of somebody uh
doing a live shot
uh the anchor loses his mind like he just saw a murder uh they freak out so uh
i i just wanted to bring
that look that professional slick look to me who is just sitting there like i
said drinking probably hung
over uh yeah i made the show at 4 p.m eastern time just so i could sleep late i
didn't even think like
let me let me research and see what the best time to do a live show it's like i
could be up by four so
that was pretty much the criteria for that so it it really is being able to do
my own thing which uh i
hadn't been able to do for many years well when you were doing it also while
you were doing ona much
to uh management yeah they were telling you not to do it right yeah yeah they
they wanted exclusivity and
i was like this is completely different from what i'm doing on the ona show um
it's video based it's uh
me alone in my house i'm not bouncing off of opium gym um i rarely have guests
well the new show is a
lot different than live from the compound because i do have guests but uh but
back then they were getting
on me about exclusivity and it's like it's a completely different thing it's in
my house yeah i bought this
shit let me just have fun well that's all you were doing you weren't you had no
agenda you were just
having fun that was it i had no schedule no anything i would just pop on
whenever i wanted to if i had
people over the house singing karaoke with machine guns with machine guns that
was crazy gun guy karaoke
and uh just anything but that is the freedom of being able to do whatever you
want like that it's
it's amazing uh when when you're able to do stuff like that you realize how
tied up you were
yeah uh when when you worked for the man yeah do you ever see yourself going
back to sirius and
doing something like that again are you too free now it's you know once you let
the dog out of
the house man it's very hard to keep them keep them in and uh i'm loving this
it's so much freedom
it's a lot of fun uh i'll be honest the the gig at sirius was great it was four
hours a day i made a boatload
of money and sat there and and joked around with the likes of jim norton and opie
and and comics would
just come through and it was fantastic it was a lot of fun um but then there
were those little
instances where management would come in and fuck the whole fun up just fuck it
up and now to have
the ability to just do anything talk about anything not have to go through all
the logistical red tape
and they're doing bullshit with management keith the cop is my uh you know
executive producer here
he's never executive produced anything but probably bruises on perp's heads
when he was a cop
but with three emails we set up a poker tournament uh over uh in in canna uh
connecticut there
where is it foxwoods or mohegan mohegan let's get him confused in no time and
we had been trying to do
this with sirius xm for years just let us get a poker tournament together
nothing oh this that we
got to sell this this one got to talk to that one that and now it's just like
keith let's do a poker
tournament okay i'll call the guy and boom we're done we're set up i always
feel like satellite radio
is the bridge from terrestrial radio to the internet very good it's this bridge
that allows people to see
oh this is what it's like if you allow guys to come on and just swear and say
whatever the
they want and talk the way they like what you guys did on ona is you would talk
the way you would
talk if you were just hanging out right and there was no other radio show that
was doing that every
radio show you would go on the guy who was the host had a very clear agenda he
was pushing the
conversation you were being interviewed they would ask you probing questions
try to keep you on your heels
you know try to manipulate the conversation where it went on ona you got me you
would ask questions if
you were curious right and then we would all just hang out and talk yeah it was
just more like friends
hanging out and that's what you know especially with just a room full of guys
that's what we do we hang
out we goof on each other uh we we hope to get a great line in that makes the
other guy look like an
asshole and and the person you're goofing on is laughing more than the people
that are goofing on him yeah
that's what friends do that's how guys hang out and to have a show like that is
a very rare thing
and uh i think you're absolutely right about that bridge to the internet um
when i was on terrestrial
radio early in my career uh you looked at satellite radio like what who's
listening to that nobody it's
it's you know it's the graveyard for radio uh and then we ended up there when
we died in radio the
sex for sam thing um and then went over to satellite and it built you could
feel it like it was getting
momentum people wanted this they wanted to hear people speak openly honestly
and in real language
uh but then that again got fucked by management and people that they're uh
beholden to uh that they
we couldn't speak about anything anymore like i like the idea of speaking about
anything anything and
everything uh i think it's detrimental to not be able to talk and to have
people that want to shut
other people up based on their ideology or um anything that they're saying if
you want to take someone off
the air or shut them up uh or or fire them from their job i think that's copping
out and saying look i i
can't logically argue or or intelligently argue so i just want them quiet i
want them silenced don't
they know that by hamstringing you they up their product and they open up the
door to the
internet yeah like the internet's right there it's the wolf at the door oh it's
right there it was just
a matter of the technology catching up to the the talent base out there uh when
when you're on regular
radio you're heard by anybody in their car that could just flip on the radio
satellite you needed
a subscription you needed the cars to have the radio in it and in time that did
build up and and there
are many satellite listeners the internet had that problem with technology and
that you know
it you have the product you just couldn't get it out to everybody in every
location that they were in
but now cars are wi-fi enabled and uh people have their phones and they could
download podcasts and
web shows and and play them in their car as they're going to work just like
they would radio so
yeah it's right there they don't they don't see the danger to their business
and yet they keep
making the same mistakes to push people away they're hamstringing themselves it's
amazing and they're
doing it because they want to save sponsors or they don't want people to
protest or they want to
save they they're a publicly traded company so they have to worry about all
that stupid
shit it's this phony ethical vision that they want to have they they think that
people are looking at
them in a certain way and and they won't respect them if uh if they don't react
to um
people like me you know and there was no there was really no outcry to have me
uh booted
from siriusxm no one said anything yeah they just went wow well we have to get
out of strike yes
praying racial things yeah it's it's also a weird thing like being on a network
like a serious xm
type thing where you have all these channels that are like music and christian
radio and it's like
you're selling so much and on top of that you got something like ona which
should really be its own
individual entity because it's so uniquely different from the rest of the
things you're having you would
think like if you're going like let's see what's on siriusxm and you click in
right when jimmy
norton's doing uncle paul trying to defend the seventh heaven guy did you hear
him yesterday hilarious
oh my god he was defect uncle paul is jimmy norton's uh charm lester character
that he occasionally breaks
out he's like well first of all the guy wasn't doing nothing wrong it's an
acting thing it was he was
practicing for acting he's in and he was oh he was telling it was doing
something about having the kid
lick the water off the tip of his dick like a gerbil you know how the gerbil
has that thing and then
he makes the sound it was so awful and opie was cringing and norton was he his
uncle paul
was in full bloom yesterday it's it's despicable and hilarious yeah and if you
were flipping through
the channels you had no idea and you just let let's see what's on channel 103.
yeah yeah yeah what is
that how the can you just get to that how the what are they thinking in the
first place you you know
you guys should be a specifically different you should i should have been on
the internet two two or
three years ago exactly the the that's a prime example for context by the way
uh everyone is held to
this standard now of the same uh like we our language on sirius xm satellite
radio what we used to say
on on the ona show um was held in the same light as what an anchorman would say
on the evening news
like years ago you didn't see walter cronkite being held to the same standard
as george carlin
and vice versa like you