💼 Careercow Anthony Cumia - A once successful radio host crashes and burns, turning on all his fans and the drama around it

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Pat's Pointer Finger said:
No. Patrice said they were just running a train and he didn't really know the chick. He never bragged about his dick and was more infamous for the a suitcase of dildos
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What I said still stands. Some white girl is not going to get wet for Patrice and gangbangs are how a lot of niggas get caught up on rape charges. It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none is the nigga way.
 
Why did this merger happen? There are no "higher ups" at Compound, it was Cumia's escape from that sort of shit, and now he's forcing it on his employees?
It can't be money, He's always said Compound is a treading water situation.

Maybe he just wanted to be the fucker for once instead of the fuckee.
 
ZipDisk said:
Why did this merger happen? There are no "higher ups" at Compound, it was Cumia's escape from that sort of shit, and now he's forcing it on his employees?
It can't be money, He's always said Compound is a treading water situation.

Maybe he just wanted to be the fucker for once instead of the fuckee.
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Anthony is a lazy nigger and Gavin is likely offering him a steady salary to turn everything over to him. McInnes will fuck him over but Cumia was never a businessman, as we can clearly see.
 
ZipDisk said:
Why did this merger happen? There are no "higher ups" at Compound, it was Cumia's escape from that sort of shit, and now he's forcing it on his employees?
It can't be money, He's always said Compound is a treading water situation.

Maybe he just wanted to be the fucker for once instead of the fuckee.
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Anthony has for most of his career been successful in doing a radio show with someone else handling the business end (Opie). He talked about how Opie would do all the behind the scenes stuff, the bookings, the promo stuff, and the contract negotiations. Anthony (when he used to give a shit) would do the show prep and audio engineering/editing/etc and then when he stopped giving a shit would just show up and be Anthony.

When Ant started CM - he pretty clearly wanted to find another Opie to handle all of the business stuff while just doing all of the Anthony stuff and making money, but the problem quickly became twofold of Anthony.

1) Opie was deeply motivated - he wanted to beat Howard Stern bad, and it was really personal for him. You can't hire that level of motivation. On top of that - Opie was passionate about the Opie and Anthony show, not the Anthony Cumia Compound Show - it's hard to motivate someone else to personalize something that does not actually belong to them.

2) Opie for all of his faults (not being that funny, sometimes stomping on bits, trying things that didn't work) turned out to know a whole lot about radio. Nearly every move they made, every contract dispute, nearly every controversy, every programming move - worked out pretty well for O&A. They went from two small town nobodies to one of the largest radio shows to ever have existed. While factually no one "beat" Howard Stren - Opie and Anthony felt like they were the closest to ever have done so.

Anthony found out this kind of person can't just be replaced with "my brother Joe knows a guy", Keith the Cop, or really anyone Anthony has a friendly relationship with (because Anthony is a coward). Anthony works best with someone that he isn't friends with and doesn't have authority over - which is why O&A worked well despite "being two guys who aren't friends and just work together".
 
I don't think Opie actually knew as much as he liked to pretend. The real toxicity of the opester seems to have been once people worked with him, they never wanted to work with him again.
Anthony being the loud clown in the room really did diffuse a lot of that, with Opie stepping on bits when he got mad. They all liked to hurt people, but with Opie, you really got the sense it wasn't a riff, he was getting off on it. I don't think cake stomp would have been half as bad if it had been anyone but Hughes.
It doesn't matter if you buy the homeless person off later, it's the humiliation that's the problem. And then Ope would whine "We paid good money for that!"

I do agree with everything you said about Anthony though, fucking idiot never rose above his comfort level.
 
ZipDisk said:
I don't think Opie actually knew as much as he liked to pretend. The real toxicity of the opester seems to have been once people worked with him, they never wanted to work with him again.
Anthony being the loud clown in the room really did diffuse a lot of that, with Opie stepping on bits when he got mad. They all liked to hurt people, but with Opie, you really got the sense it wasn't a riff, he was getting off on it. I don't think cake stomp would have been half as bad if it had been anyone but Hughes.
It doesn't matter if you buy the homeless person off later, it's the humiliation that's the problem. And then Ope would whine "We paid good money for that!"

I do agree with everything you said about Anthony though, fucking idiot never rose above his comfort level.
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I meant every controversial move they made (the Mayor is dead prank, getting involved in XFL, promotions and contests, keeping they hype during the No Compete, and the move to Satelite radio, the move back to regular radio, and the live audience events) felt like Opie's move that Ant went a long with, the big moves that made them more successful in the long run.

Anthony in that clip said "a lot of people looked at what Compound Media was doing" but even CM felt a lot like what Opie was trying to do with XM202/The Virus/High Voltage (a suite of programming instead of a single channel). But just a worse version.

The day to day Opie wasn't amazing (Anthony was a lot better at natural flow and "viral" marketing) - but he absolutely had the balls to push the show as far as it was going to go.
 
I guarantee the actual suits told Hughes that he was a "tough negotiator" or whatever the fuck, and just did whatever they liked.
The back of the classroom mentality that everyone but Stern went with fucked all their careers to death.
Cumia talked about how after every merger more and more was taken away, and the show just went back to radio bullshit.

From the suit side of things, the bus was indeed the end of the fun run. After that, O&A were a money generating liability.

Hell, even Norton was annoyed by Opie's "I'm holding my breath really hard!" negotiation strategy.
 
Tanner Glass said:
Anthony works best with someone that he isn't friends with
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This bodes well for his partnership with Gavin!

As you say, Anthony is a coward. I fully expect Gavin is about to make his life even more miserable.
 
Garrett & Steve YT Episode 2

No timestamp caught the relevant bit live.

Edit: The relevant bit starts at 1:37:55.

They told a story that Bill Schulz, who I understand did a Morning show on Compound Media until this past April was back in the studio after the merger and closure
was announced.

Some sort of gaudy blazer of Anthony's was found among the leftovers while cleaning out.

(Edit: Apparently it was a sportscoat Anthony had made that was a replica of the one the mayor wore in Jaws)

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Bill took a fancy to it and wanted to take it home.

He told Garrett & Steve that he should ask for Anthony's permission because it was the "right thing to do I gotta ask. I gotta ask. I have to make sure its fine".

The boys advised him not to as " There's always the possibility that he says When you ask, he could say "No!" "

So apparently he made this long jokey text or email to Cumia asking for the jacket as a memento.

Supposedly he was halfway home from the studio with the jacket when Anthony replied that "He'd be up in a couple of weeks to collect it I'll be up to get it!".
 
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I think Opie lost his "Mojo" once Sirius merged with XM, he knew they'd always be 2nd to Howard period. It was after the merger Opie started waiting to the last minute to resign when contracts were up and always talking about leaving which pissed of Jim and Ant. At one point Opie was even ok with doing afternoons which Ant and Jim kept tell him would hurt the show that they'd lose the replay. In reality it would also cramp their lifestyles Ant couldn't party all night and sleep from 10AM to 5PM and be a degenerate all the time if he had to be at work at 3 in the afternoon. Jim would lose his ability to fly out on Friday mornings to do weekend gigs. Back to Opie does anyone think pre-Sirius Opie would have ever lost the morning slot to Sam and Jim?

Edit: As for Cumia's move and merger the writing was on the wall the moment he announced he was moving south. His employees had literal years to realize the deal and look for jobs. McInnes announced it in a shitty way but what do you expect from that shitbag, but no one should have been shocked.
 
LaughJoke2.0 said:
I think Opie lost his "Mojo" once Sirius merged with XM, he knew they'd always be 2nd to Howard period. It was after the merger Opie started waiting to the last minute to resign when contracts were up and always talking about leaving which pissed of Jim and Ant.
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Real and true - but he didn't just lose his mojo, they 100% lost the war they had with Howard.

Opie was a minor stakeholder in XM Radio, he was attending some meetings, helping with some programming, filling out some channels, etc - he knew that as XM grew, so would he. It's a very common tactic in the corporate world, to take shares in a company and build it up (it's why you always hear stories of 'we paid this executive $400 million in bonuses' - it's tied to company value).

Howard pulled the same move with Sirius but the value he brought was in the billions - so it wasn't long before the real XM Radio died in the upcoming merger. There were no more moves left to play for Opie - the game was over and he lost. Stern won handily and was rubbing it in everyone's face, but Opie's face too. Howard was being hailed as the king of Satelite radio and given everything he wanted - unlimited vacation, customized hours, billions of options, a private elevator, a whole sector filled with security to keep the riffraff away (aka Opie).

Opie probably wanted to go another round but realize that the O&A show didn't have it in them - Anthony had one and a half feet out the door with the 'At The Compound' and generally just wanting to do a different (more politically focused) show and Jimmy being primadonna worm in general. He knew he had to hang it up and phone it in for a few years and would have rode out into the sunset until Anthony forgot how social media works and fucked it up for everyone.
 
The Hardest R said:
Gavin McInnes is one of the slimiest, sneakiest fucks around. This is a guy who created the Proud Boys and when the feds started sniffing around, threw them under the bus, tucked tail and ran while disavowing. Cumia is making a huge mistake putting what’s left of his wretched, decrepit future in the hands of this guy.
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Caught some of Garrett & Steve Episode 3.

Apparently some woman in the "Everybody Is Fired" Gavin meeting made a plea to keep the some of the core booth boys on staff like Garrett & Steve.

Supposedly McInnes responded "The people that matter the least are talking the most".
 
The Hardest R said:
The rape story never really made sense to me. Patrice’s excuse was the bog standard “white bitch just couldn’t get enough of my BBC” but he has always been a fat, gap toothed, ugly nigger; odds are pretty low that some pretty white girl was creaming her panties over Patrice O’Neal but couldn’t handle the stigma so she had to file rape charges. But girls lie about rape all the time so we’ll never know. Once again if Patrice was banging thots left and right I’d take his side of the story a bit more seriously.
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Patrice's "excuse" wasn't that she couldn't get enough BBC, Patrice's statement was, they fucked her, but one of the guy's involved in the train went and told one of his loser cousins, and said loser cousin fucking mouth raped her and she dragged ALL of them down to make her look and feel like less of a whore.

Is that how it went down? Who the fuck knows. But how you spun it damn sure wasn't how Patrice spun it.
 
CapricornusRex said:
Patrice's "excuse" wasn't that she couldn't get enough BBC, Patrice's statement was, they fucked her, but one of the guy's involved in the train went and told one of his loser cousins, and said loser cousin fucking mouth raped her and she dragged ALL of them down to make her look and feel like less of a whore.

Is that how it went down? Who the fuck knows. But how you spun it damn sure wasn't how Patrice spun it.
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Nice recall. This is how it went down, I forgot.
 
CapricornusRex said:
Patrice's "excuse" wasn't that she couldn't get enough BBC, Patrice's statement was, they fucked her, but one of the guy's involved in the train went and told one of his loser cousins, and said loser cousin fucking mouth raped her and she dragged ALL of them down to make her look and feel like less of a whore.

Is that how it went down? Who the fuck knows. But how you spun it damn sure wasn't how Patrice spun it.
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You know what, re-hearing the story now, it all sounds like nigger bullshit.
 
Anthony Cumia is shit at being a racist. He thinks merging his company with a jew who has multiple friends with crackheads and meth addicts is a good idea. A true racist will never do that. Even Israel-loving regular MAGA supporters know it's a bad idea to do business with a crackhead who defends smoking meth on daily basics. I am outright predicting Gavin will throw Anthony under the bus for Opie. It would be hilarious because it would be 100% his fault.
 
LaughJoke2.0 said:
Back to Opie does anyone think pre-Sirius Opie would have ever lost the morning slot to Sam and Jim?
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No. But I also feel that the XM situation was a lot different. They were more willing to put up with their antics because they were one of the bigger programs that they had. While they didn't have a good reputation, their reputation suffered a more severe tanking during post-merger era which led to a decline in the quality of the show. General fatigue from the behind the scenes drama had also not set in yet.

I said before that I feel that Sirius from the moment that took over the merger was looking for a reason to axe ONA. Part of it may have been due to Howard's influence, but a lot it also was that ONA was a constant HR nightmare behind the scenes. Ignoring all the scandals and controversies in the media, there was a pretty obvious negative atmosphere for those that worked on the show. And it became more apparent post merger.

Every intern that ended up working for the show ended up leaving the internship hating the show and hating the company for putting them on there. A lot of interns blamed the show for them not being able to find work afterwards. It resulted in a lot of people not wanting to work on the show. On top of the intern stuff you had other staff issues like Danny's antics, Erock having a scandal with an NDA and so many staff fights that ended up playing out on air. Then there were people like Sal who was hired after being an intern and was immediately turned into the new punching bag for everyone to see.

The point is that ONA didn't really do themselves any favors. They always had a poor reputation, and they didn't bring enough support or assets to the table to have any sway in bargaining power. They were able to get by for a little while with the fans that they did manage to obtain. But as times changed and their conflicts with each other started to rip everything apart, they just didn't have anything left to keep them in the good graces of the higher ups.
 
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