#1652 - Anthony Cumia

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience. Young Anthony Cumia, my friend, good to see you.

Anthony Cumia (0:18)

Everyone calls me that, Young Anthony Cumia.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

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 OP and Anthony.

Anthony Cumia (0:30)

I love hearing that. 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.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

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?

This is, I thought this was a regular one. Is it?

Anthony Cumia (1:00)

I can open a bottle with anything, by the way.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

I can open one with a lighter, I can do that.

Anthony Cumia (1:04)

Yeah, a 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.

Joe Rogan (1:12)

This is from Phil's buddy. What was Phil's buddy's name? The guy that, Phil Demers?

His buddy who was 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.

Anthony Cumia (1:28)

And I slum it all the time with just buds.

Joe Rogan (1:32)

Yeah, I mean.

Anthony Cumia (1:33)

People are like, oh, bud-wise. Nothing better. You could pound a case of buds sitting out by the pool.

But then occasionally.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Cheers.

Anthony Cumia (1:42)

Try something else. Cheers, Joe. Good to see you, good to be in Austin.

Joe Rogan (1:45)

Good to be here. Weird, right?

Anthony Cumia (1:49)

Definitely a lemony thing going on.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

Yeah, it's got a lemon on the cover.

Anthony Cumia (1:52)

A lot of lemon, wow.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

It's called Fuse.

Anthony Cumia (1:55)

This really pinches the back of your tongue.

Joe Rogan (1:57)

Yeah, it says wheat beer with peaches. Oh, it's a peach.

Anthony Cumia (2:01)

Oh, there's a peach in there too.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

Looks like a lemon.

Anthony Cumia (2:03)

It tastes like a lemon.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

I guess it looks like a heart with a leaf.

Anthony Cumia (2:06)

That ain't bad.

Joe Rogan (2:08)

Good stuff.

Anthony Cumia (2:09)

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.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

You think? If you were throwing it up?

Anthony Cumia (2:19)

If you're throwing it up.

Joe Rogan (2:21)

I don't think so. I think it'd be pretty smooth. It's not that bad.

Anthony Cumia (2:24)

Shouldn't you not throw up from drinking after like 40?

Joe Rogan (2:27)

You shouldn't, but you're probably going to occasionally.

It comes with the territory. It depends on how deep you go.

Anthony Cumia (2:34)

Yeah, yeah, you're not going as deep as you are in your 20s.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

Sometimes you wanna throw up, right? Sometimes you get back to your house and you're just like, let me just get this out of me.

Anthony Cumia (2:41)

You do the finger thing?

Joe Rogan (2:45)

Just so you feel better. Just so you can sleep.

Anthony Cumia (2:47)

And it's funny, if you got a girl in the house, you have to, you think you're being quiet, but there's no being quiet when you're, especially that dry heave sound that, whee!

Joe Rogan (2:59)

Into an echo chamber. A porcelain echo.

Anthony Cumia (3:02)

It's like the old Victrola speaker is just pumping out your groans.

Joe Rogan (3:07)

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.

So you're like in this position, you're sort of un-cancellable. 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.

Anthony Cumia (3:30)

Yeah, this was a conscious decision because I saw it coming a while ago, the what they call cancel culture thing.

Joe Rogan (3:39)

When you guys get hit with it first, 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?