Permanently Suspended: The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again of Radio's Most Notorious Shock Jock - Softcover

Cumia, Anthony; Russo, Johnny; Trackman, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642932876 ISBN 13: 9781642932874

Publisher: Post Hill Press, 2019

Synopsis

The uncensored and long-awaited life story of radio’s most notorious shock jock, Anthony Cumia.

Today, Anthony Cumia is the co-host of the wildly popular “Anthony Cumia Show,” which live-streams to a huge following of paid subscribers; however, Anthony is most well-known from the legendary, nationally syndicated “Opie and Anthony Show.” Permanently Suspended is an all-access pass to the controversial mayhem that ensued on-and-off the air.

A must-read for all diehard O&A fans, Permanently Suspended finally answers the questions that everyone has been waiting for: What really happened between Opie and Anthony? What was the reasoning behind the multiple firings? What prompted the tweeting about the Times Square NYC incident? What is the true account of the controversial allegations? What are the never-before-revealed details of Anthony’s stint in rehab? What does the future hold for his livestream podcast? These questions, and many more, will be answered.

Permanently Suspended is a humorous, no-holds-barred account of the legendary career and life of Anthony Cumia—a blue collar guy who made his dreams come true, rising above all obstacles to become one of the most well-known and successful personalities in radio history.

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About the Authors

Anthony Cumia, a legendary American radio personality, podcaster, and broadcaster, commands the airwaves as the host of The Anthony Cumia Show, a dynamic program airing four times a week on his successful Compound Media Network, a platform he founded. Renowned for his influential role as the cohost alongside Gregg "Opie" Hughes on the Opie and Anthony radio show, which captivated audiences from 1995 to 2014, Cumia continues to make an indelible mark on the world of broadcasting.

Veteran actor Nick Searcy has maintained a distinguished career spanning more than three decades. His credits range from independent features to Hollywood blockbusters and television series hits. He played General Hoyt in Guillermo del Toro's 2018 Best Picture winner The Shape of Water and had a role in the multiple Oscar-winning film Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri from writer-director Martin McDonagh.

Searcy's other big-screen highlights include Bennett Miller's Oscar-nominated Moneyball, Robert Zemeckis's Cast Away, and Jon Avnet's beloved classic Fried Green Tomatoes. Other films include The Best of Enemies, The Last Song, The Ugly Truth, The Dead Girl, Runaway Jury, Eagle Eye, Head of State, Nell, The Fugitive, Days of Thunder, and many others.

Searcy appeared in two feature films in 2022, both westerns: The Old Way, opposite Nicolas Cage, and Terror on the Prairie, starring Gina Carano. His most recent project is the 2023 film Reagan, in which he plays Secretary of State James Baker.

On television, he is best known for the tough-but-tender Chief Deputy Art Mullen on the FX series, Justified. He also appeared as Deke Simmons in Hulu's 11/22/63 and has been a series regular on UPN's Seven Days, CBS's American Gothic, HBO's From the Earth to the Moon, ABC's Rodney, and CW's Easy Money. He has guest starred on countless shows including Lethal Weapon, The Ranch, Chicago Med, Hawaii Five-0, Mom, Hot in Cleveland, Intelligence, Archer, The Mentalist, Lie to Me, Without a Trace, The West Wing, CSI, I'll Fly Away, In the Heat of the Night, and NCIS.

Also an accomplished director, Searcy's first film, Paradise Falls (now called Carolina Low), won six festival awards including the Best Feature Film award at the 1997 Hollywood Film Festival. His second film, Gosnell, was released in theaters nationwide on October 12, 2018. In 2023, he will direct the feature film Infiltration.

Searcy's first documentary America! America! God Shed His Grace on Thee, an exploration of the relationship between God and America, is available on Amazon. The second documentary Searcy has produced and hosted, Capitol Punishment, is available at capitolpunishment.locals.com.

Justify This is Searcy's first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642932876
• ISBN 13: 9781642932874
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224