#1209 - Anthony Cumia

Anthony Cumia (0:01)

I don't think that would pan out. I had a similar idea.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Anthony Cumia, we're live, sir.

Anthony Cumia (0:11)

I love it, Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

If it was not for you, Oh my god. This would not exist.

Anthony Cumia (0:16)

Which is insane.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

That is 100% actual fact. I was watching you doing live from the compound, me and Brian Redband were sitting in my fucking living room, and we were watching you, you were fucking playing karaoke, you were singing karaoke with a machine gun in front of a green screen.

And I was like, this guy just set up his own studio. He already has Opie and Anthony Show. At the time you guys were on Sirius XM, and you just decided to do this thing in your basement just for a goof.

Anthony Cumia (0:45)

Yeah, it was like a hobby.

Joe Rogan (0:46)

It's like guys who don't have kids, who are not married, don't have kids, don't have anybody telling them what to do, and they also have disposable income. Then you get to see what guys really want to do. They want to sing karaoke with a machine gun in front of a green screen.

Anthony Cumia (0:59)

Yeah, it was crazy gun guy karaoke. So I could do that.

If I was married, I would have a wife that would lose her mind at my living room. Like my living room table that you're supposed to have a candle on and little tchotchkes and stuff is a wide screen computer monitor and a gaming system right next to the table. I have a gaming computer that's just unbelievable. And I sit there and just play video games.

Joe Rogan (1:26)

So the table itself is a gaming monitor?

Anthony Cumia (1:28)

Yeah, the whole table.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

Well, it is one of those touch screen ones.

Anthony Cumia (1:31)

No, it's a giant wide monitor. It's like 40 inches wide.

Joe Rogan (1:37)

So that's the table?

Anthony Cumia (1:38)

No, it's on the table.

Joe Rogan (1:39)

Oh, on the table.

Anthony Cumia (1:39)

Yeah, the table is big heavy metal thing, but it's just everything. There's VR goggles up on the console by the TV. It's just sensors around the room for the VR.

It's a playground. And you're absolutely right. Guys will spend their money on having fun, if allowed to.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

That's what this place is.

Anthony Cumia (1:59)

This place is insane, Joe.

Joe Rogan (2:00)

I can't do this in my house. You go to my house, it's my wife's house.

Anthony Cumia (2:02)

See? That's how it works.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

I have one elk head on the wall. That's all I have.

Anthony Cumia (2:06)

That's all you're allowed. I laugh at guys when they have the man cave. They're like, dude, come on down to the man cave. The chicks aren't allowed down here. I got this, the TV. And I'm like, no, her place is the whole house. She relegated you to one room.

And you're happy about it. You're happy that you got one room.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

Happy wife, happy life.

Anthony Cumia (2:27)

That's apparently it. It didn't work for me.

Joe Rogan (2:32)

You know the Thoreau quote that I say way too many times in this podcast, but I love the quote. Most men live lives of silent desperation.

Anthony Cumia (2:39)

Wow.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

Yeah.

Anthony Cumia (2:41)

That is true.

Joe Rogan (2:42)

It's 100% true.

Anthony Cumia (2:44)

It was, I was married for a time and it was a nightmare.

It was a living hell for me. The only thing that got me through as many years as I was married, because I was married nine years and I don't remember one happy year out of those nine, but I had gotten into radio pretty early on in that marriage and that was my life. So I dedicated myself, no matter how miserable anything else in my life was, I was doing radio. So I thought it was awesome.

Joe Rogan (3:14)

I have a theory about that. I really do. I think that a person needs a certain amount of suffering in their life.

And if you look at some of the all-time great comics, or even all-time great radio personalities, like Howard Stern.

Howard Stern, during his hay day, when he was the fucking man, was miserable at home. He would talk about it. He would hide in his basement. I loved those stories. And you would realize, like, here's this guy, he's the biggest radio personality ever. He's huge, and yet he's gotta hide.