1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,919 But I also wanted to do the Oliver Anthony thing. Let's see the Oliver 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,759 Anthony thing. I can save this for another day. We might have time 3 00:00:06,799 --> 00:00:11,480 for both. So Oliver Anthony, do you know who Oliver Anthony has? 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:17,160 You remember we talked about him? He did that song, uh Richmond, 5 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:24,719 North of Richmond, And now I have I have a radio edit of this 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,359 song. What I would like to do now? Oliver Anthony. He kind 7 00:00:29,359 --> 00:00:39,520 of became famous sort of overnight because what happened is a lot of right wing 8 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:45,560 podcast and online media personalities like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh, you know, 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,920 the whole Daily Wire crew and whatnot. They really got behind this song so 10 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:56,359 and really kind of championed this song, and a lot of conservatives love the 11 00:00:56,759 --> 00:01:03,679 song. Now there's some backlash though at all, for Anthony because he didn't 12 00:01:03,719 --> 00:01:07,480 like that. He says he didn't like that the song was actually featured at 13 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,920 the Republican debate because he said, wait a minute, those those people on 14 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,879 that debate stage there, there's some of the same people I'm talking about. 15 00:01:15,439 --> 00:01:19,519 This has nothing to do with party. My song isn't about a particular political 16 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:26,040 party. I'm talking about everybody in Washington, both Republicans and Democrats. So 17 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,239 now he's getting some backlash from some of the conservatives who supported him. But 18 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:34,319 what I would like to do, I have not listened to this song all 19 00:01:34,359 --> 00:01:40,599 the way through. Now. Regular listeners might recall a number of weeks ago, 20 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:45,840 there was a big controversy around the song Try That in a Small Town 21 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:53,120 by Jason Aldeen, and I intentionally avoided listening to that song because I wanted 22 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,799 to play it on the show and give you my live in the moment, 23 00:01:59,599 --> 00:02:04,000 unvarnish if you will reaction to it and get feedback from the audience and get 24 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:07,560 your thoughts and whatnot. And luckily though, DJ Steve was in the Facebook 25 00:02:07,599 --> 00:02:10,520 live chat that day and said, Hey, Matt, heads up there. 26 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,919 You'll want the radio edit because Jason Aldeen actually says the sword in the song, 27 00:02:16,039 --> 00:02:23,120 so I had to find the radio edit. This song also has the 28 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,960 S word in it, but there is a radio edit available, so I 29 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,120 have not. Now I've heard more of this song than I had heard of 30 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:37,680 the Jason Aldeen song before I played it on the show. But I've avoided 31 00:02:37,719 --> 00:02:39,360 listening to this song all the way through for the same reason. I'm going 32 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,639 to play the song all the way through the radio edit of course, right 33 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,840 here live on the air, and give you my my reaction to it, 34 00:02:46,879 --> 00:02:50,759 and get your reaction, and of course anybody in the audience who wants to 35 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:58,120 react or has any thoughts on it. I've heard only the very beginning of 36 00:02:58,159 --> 00:03:00,879 the song. I have heard a tiny bit of it. I had to 37 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:05,080 hear enough of it to make sure it was a legitimate radio edit. Fortunately, 38 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,479 the first s bomb is very early in the song, so I didn't 39 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:12,639 have to get very far in the song to hear. Okay, they did 40 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:19,159 the reversal on that to make the swear go away good, So this is 41 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,080 a legitimate radio edit. So so you haven't heard the song, right, 42 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:24,240 I don't think though, okay, So I'm gonna play it right now. 43 00:03:24,439 --> 00:03:30,840 The radio edit of Richmond North of Richmond by Oliver Anthony and h And I'll 44 00:03:30,879 --> 00:03:38,400 tell you what I think. And uh, well, let's it. I'll 45 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,280 tell you what I think and we'll hear what you all think. Here here 46 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:50,680 we go. I've been selling my soul working home day over time hours for 47 00:03:50,879 --> 00:03:54,800 bullish. Hey, so I can sit out here and waste my live away 48 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,199 drag back home and trown my troubles away. It's a damn shame what the 49 00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:08,439 Hord's gotten to for people like me, people like you. Wish I could 50 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:13,840 just wake up and it not be true, but it is. Oh, 51 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:24,000 it is living in the new world with a hold soul. The rich man 52 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:30,720 nor the Richmond Lord knows it all. Just wanna have total control, want 53 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,759 to know what you think, want to know what you do, and they 54 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,519 don't think you know. But then whole like you do, your dollar hate 55 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:45,680 dish and it's taxing on him, calls the red man on the rich man. 56 00:04:54,759 --> 00:05:00,439 Rich politicians look out from miners and not just miners on an island somewhere. 57 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,439 Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothing that heat 58 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:12,639 and the hole be milking welfare. God, if you're five foot three and 59 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:17,160 your three hundred pounds taxes holding not with pay or your bags of five drownds 60 00:05:17,399 --> 00:05:23,720 dumb and they're putting themselves since feet in the ground is hold this damn country 61 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:30,079 does is keep on kicking them down. Lord, It's a damn shame what 62 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:35,319 the world's gotten to the people like me, people like you. Ish I 63 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:42,240 could just wake up and it not be true, but it is all it 64 00:05:42,439 --> 00:05:51,680 is living in the blue world with an hold soul. These rich men hold 65 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:58,480 for Richmond. Lord knows, they all just wanna have total control. I 66 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:01,920 want to know what you want, to know what you do, and then 67 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:06,240 I'll thank you. Know, but I know that you do because your dollar 68 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:12,519 hangs ation and it's texting. No hand calls a d S man, not 69 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:36,519 a d span. I've been selling my soul, working all day, over 70 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:51,000 time hard for boldish pay. What do you think that was the first time 71 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:56,480 for me listening to it all the way through, and I'm glad I've I've 72 00:06:56,519 --> 00:07:00,399 actually looked up some stuff about this guy. I can see what he's saying. 73 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,079 Uh, there's some stuff in there that I think is kind of uncomfortable 74 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,519 for me because he's doing like some there's some notat shaming in there's some great 75 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,839 about however, that being said, when you actually, when I'm reading this 76 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:20,319 man, what he is saying, he's saying that the rich, the rich, 77 00:07:20,519 --> 00:07:24,680 it's the rich who hurt the poor. And I'm sorry, that's true, 78 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:29,680 that's very true. The elitists did never have to worry about their healthcare. 79 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,519 The elitists don't worry about food on their table. And yeah, They'll 80 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:39,240 pay as craptastic as they can for a salary to make sure that they keep 81 00:07:39,279 --> 00:07:43,439 pattenting those dollars. They gotta pay for those little yats, they gotta pay 82 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,240 for those stily clothes. They could give two craps about the rest of us, 83 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,680 as long as their cough is a get in fult so in the in 84 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:54,639 the in the vein of what he intended for it. I cannot disagree with 85 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,879 this man. I think that, and I can support what he's saying. 86 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,879 I well, one thing, I yeah, One thing I cannot support is 87 00:08:03,959 --> 00:08:11,800 he kind of he kind of uh at one point, and it's it's with 88 00:08:11,839 --> 00:08:18,959 the fat shaming comment. He's sort of it it almost. And part of 89 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:22,959 my thinking about this might be a little bit tainted by some of what I 90 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,319 was reading and hearing about the song before actually listening to it. But he 91 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:31,079 sounds like he kind of takes a swipe at people who are unwelfare and I 92 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:35,279 and I don't like that. Yeah, but but but he he sounds like 93 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:41,159 he's doing it more combined with fat shaming, like he doesn't do they the 94 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:46,679 old Ronald Reagan welfare queen. Uh nonsense, so right, And that's what 95 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,639 I was saying, that's part of the song that I have the discomfort with. 96 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,919 Yeah, the over if I take a broad view of what he's singing 97 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,679 about, well, he's singing about a lot of the same stuff that I've 98 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,879 been talking about from podiums for the last few months, about, Yeah, 99 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:07,600 how we don't get we get cut off in our healthcare. People are poor 100 00:09:07,799 --> 00:09:11,840 because they they're poor because they can only afford their medicines. After that they're 101 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,559 broke. They're made medically poor. How many people have bankruptcies, lose their 102 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:20,120 houses because of medicine? What he just from that one perspective. To me, 103 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:22,200 if I look at it in that vein, I one hundred percent agree 104 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,159 with the guy. But I mean there's a lot of what he says it's 105 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:31,840 absolutely true, and especially I gotta say in some southern areas. When I 106 00:09:31,879 --> 00:09:35,600 was in Kentucky, the world was very different, and I'm sure that it 107 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:41,639 still is. From the north, you know, maybe it's a different world. 108 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:46,720 The pay scales are different. I worked in a sweatshop sewing factory. 109 00:09:46,799 --> 00:09:50,919 We got told we weren't getting paychecks because the fax machine messed up the numbers. 110 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:54,519 Because ninety percent of the people in that room. Didn't know how a 111 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,200 fax machine worked, what it does, never even saw one, you know. 112 00:09:58,879 --> 00:10:01,759 I saw a lot a slimy, slimy stuff in Kentucky that would never 113 00:10:01,759 --> 00:10:05,919 get pulled off here. Yeah, but they get away with it in the 114 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,080 backwood there, at least they did when I was there. I'm speaking from 115 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,480 my own personal experience, right, I don't know what that world is like 116 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:18,440 now. Maybe because we're all connected now with computers, maybe it's become different. 117 00:10:18,639 --> 00:10:22,440 Oh, I'm sure I felt on the job application that literally asked me 118 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,080 if I was married, and if I had children, how many. It 119 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:28,440 wanted my height, it wanted my weight. This was a gas station job. 120 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:33,840 So I remember what I said about the Jason Aldean song when I played 121 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:37,159 that live on the air, I said, just now taking the video out 122 00:10:37,159 --> 00:10:39,480 of it, just a song itself. And there by the way, there 123 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:41,320 is no video for the well, no, actually I think there is a 124 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:45,759 video for the song. But it's a simple This is a simplaint But you 125 00:10:45,759 --> 00:10:48,120 know, the Jason Aldean song, of course, has this whole big produced 126 00:10:48,159 --> 00:10:50,519 video and there's controversy about the video, but the song itself. What I 127 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:54,039 said about the song itself, because people were saying it was racist and whatnot. 128 00:10:54,320 --> 00:11:01,200 I said, this song taken by itself, I don't believe as racist, 129 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,440 but I can see why if you are racist, you would like this 130 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:13,039 song. I would say about this song Richmond North of Richmond, if you 131 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:20,600 are a I don't think the song is promoting a particular ideology, and apparently, 132 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,639 from what Oliver Anthony is saying, that was absolutely not his intention. 133 00:11:22,759 --> 00:11:28,639 However, I can see why conservatives. Why is something like you know, 134 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:33,759 the Daily Wire crew, like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh and all of them. 135 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,320 I can see why they got behind the song because there's some you know, 136 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:41,039 it's it's it's kind of a populist. It's become sort of this populist 137 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:45,679 anthem, and there's different kinds of populism, and it's kind of a right 138 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:50,080 leaning sounding populism. So I can see why they got behind the song. 139 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,639 But there's a couple of interesting controversies that actually have come out. So one 140 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:00,480 is is what I said, he was upset that the song was used during 141 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,000 during that debate. And by the way, for anyone who says, because 142 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,320 I know some people are saying, well, then why did he approve it? 143 00:12:05,879 --> 00:12:09,960 He probably didn't. They never usually do. Well, here's the thing 144 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:15,320 though, because some people say, well, wouldn't he wouldn't He have had 145 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,240 to have at least given his approval for them to use the song. But 146 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,200 here's the thing. Well, yeah, there's a bit of a history of 147 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:26,120 people using songs and political campaigns without approval. But the other thing is this 148 00:12:26,159 --> 00:12:31,279 guy got very famous, very fast, and very rich. Well I don't 149 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,960 know if he's rich looking at the numbers. Oh okay, oh yeah, 150 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,399 but yeah, but he got very famous, very fast, and he probably 151 00:12:37,639 --> 00:12:41,639 I'm sure he has a team already that had to be hastily put together who 152 00:12:41,879 --> 00:12:45,600 he probably has a management team who said, well, of course you can 153 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:52,120 use the song, and it wasn't necessarily his decision. But so that's one 154 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,080 controversy. So now he's coming out and saying, no, they're part of 155 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,799 the problem. They're the people I'm singing about. It's not it's not just 156 00:12:56,879 --> 00:13:03,080 about one party. But the other controversy is now he's also being accused of 157 00:13:03,159 --> 00:13:09,960 faking his accent because of a video of an interview that he did where he 158 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:16,559 talks about diversity. This is what's got the Daily Wire crew all upset. 159 00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:22,879 He talks about diversity, and he talks about how diversity is a strength and 160 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,600 it's one of the things that is great about America and we should celebrate diversity. 161 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,039 Well, not everyone at the Daily Wire is on board with that message, 162 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:35,120 as you might imagine. Not everyone's a fan of this diversity of which 163 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:43,600 he speaks. Now, some people are also saying to him, I've seen 164 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:48,720 I've seen online people saying, you know, well this this guy clearly got 165 00:13:48,919 --> 00:13:52,879 used. I actually saw it might have even been on this because I got 166 00:13:52,919 --> 00:13:58,279 this radio edit from YouTube. It might even be on here. Somebody said, 167 00:13:58,279 --> 00:14:03,399 you got used, dude, basically saying that he got used by the 168 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:07,320 Daily Wire and these other online conservatives who made this song their anthem, and 169 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,600 now they're mad at him because they feel betrayed by him because he's not really 170 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:18,360 with them. He's not with any particular party. But but I think it's 171 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,639 possible. And again I say this from a little bit of a different perspective 172 00:14:22,679 --> 00:14:24,679 than most people probably have because of you know, I come from a music 173 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:31,759 industry background. I think it's possible that this guy used the system to get 174 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:37,480 himself famous. And if and if I'm right, if this was intentional on 175 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:45,679 his part. Bravo, well played, because this guy, no matter who 176 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:50,159 likes a song or who doesn't, and whatever backlash he's facing, this guy 177 00:14:50,519 --> 00:14:58,240 not only did he get famous almost overnight with the song, but he's figured 178 00:14:58,279 --> 00:15:03,240 out how to keep his name in the news with all the backlash. I 179 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,519 mean, it's fantastic. If it If it did all happen by accident, 180 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:11,440 that's great too. But that's impressive. I mean, this is all I'm 181 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:16,480 amazed. And here this is from Newsweek. By the way, he's supposedly 182 00:15:16,519 --> 00:15:20,639 making forty grand a day on this could be yeah, I mean, it's 183 00:15:20,639 --> 00:15:24,159 a it's a viral law sensation certainly is uh. This is from Newsweek. 184 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,919 Oliver Anthony's meteoric rise to fame in the country music world has come with increased 185 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:35,159 scrutiny, this time focusing on his accent. Last month, Anthony was an 186 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:41,039 unknown country music hopeful, but thanks to an endorsement from controversial podcaster Joe Rogan, 187 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:45,120 I didn't even realize it started with Joe Rogan. He went viral overnight 188 00:15:45,639 --> 00:15:50,000 with this hit song, rich Men North of Richmond. A video of him 189 00:15:50,039 --> 00:15:52,960 singing the song was uploaded to YouTube on August seven and has received thirty four 190 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,759 million views with more than a one hundred thirty thousand comments at the time of 191 00:15:56,799 --> 00:16:03,120 the writing. It won press from many well known conservatives for highlighting topics such 192 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:07,440 as QAnon and Jeffrey Epstein. I didn't catch a QAnon reference in there. 193 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,720 I did catch the Jeffrey Epstein reference. He talks about miners on an island. 194 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,759 The song also takes aim at taxation, welfare cheats, obesity, and 195 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:19,759 makes references makes reference to sex trafficking. Well, that's yeah, that's the 196 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:26,360 jeff Jeffrey Epstein part. Republican politician Marjorie Taylor Green even dubbed the song the 197 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:32,440 Anthem of Forgotten Americans, but his newfound fans have already started to turn on 198 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:37,639 the singer after comments he made during a Fox interview. Anthony described blue collar 199 00:16:37,799 --> 00:16:42,600 workers as quote the melting pot of the world unquote, and championed diversity, 200 00:16:42,759 --> 00:16:48,039 saying, quote, that's what makes us strong. We need to learn to 201 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:52,519 harness that and appreciate it and not use it as a political tool to keep 202 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:57,399 everyone separate from each other unquote, he said, which earned the wrath of 203 00:16:57,519 --> 00:17:06,640 some conservatives on Twitter. Why is he talking about deserted diversity. That's that's 204 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:12,119 so, it's it's weird. How that's pretty mild stuff. You know, 205 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,680 you you you would you would think he said, by the way, I 206 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,480 you know, I love black lives matter, and you know, all he 207 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:23,200 said was, you know, diversity and we're the melting pot of the world 208 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,519 and we should celebrate that. That's pretty mild. I'm looking at some of 209 00:17:27,559 --> 00:17:30,960 the comments that are being made. So I told you this guy was a 210 00:17:32,039 --> 00:17:41,960 plant. Yeah, promoting what is this promoted algorithm promoted algorithm boosted based red 211 00:17:41,079 --> 00:17:47,480 bearded hillbilly song guy was faking his accent and says diversity is our strength. 212 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:52,880 Why is he saying diversity? It says here. There's more from Newsweek, 213 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,240 It says now. His detractors have claimed the Farmville, Virginia native has been 214 00:17:57,319 --> 00:18:03,920 faking his accent and pointed to the Fox News interview with Griff Jenkins as proof. 215 00:18:03,279 --> 00:18:07,480 They claimed his accent was not Southern, even though his singing style would 216 00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:12,599 suggest otherwise. In Virginia, God, that is so ignorant. Come on, 217 00:18:12,799 --> 00:18:15,559 now, you can sing however you want. It's art. You know 218 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,480 what it's your If it's it's his song, you can sing it. Every 219 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,119 One he sounds too southern in the song, so now he's a poser. 220 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:27,680 Do you know that when people talk and when people sing, they don't always 221 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:32,759 sound the same. That's true, I mean seriously, Like over look at 222 00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:37,400 any European band, they all sing English, English, American accent English. 223 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,880 Yeah, they were right. Yeah, the accent doesn't usual with rare exceptions, 224 00:18:41,559 --> 00:18:45,359 the accent doesn't usually come from when someone's singing. Yeah, when they 225 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,079 copy of Metallica song they try and coffee and how Metallica sings it. Or 226 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:55,200 Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day, he sounds like he's British and he's from 227 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,720 California, so it can work that way too. I met the guy who 228 00:18:57,759 --> 00:19:02,920 played House. He could speak perfect English. Not it like he was born 229 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,720 in Brooklyn. He's European, he's British. He's actually when he talks in 230 00:19:06,799 --> 00:19:11,799 his regular voice, he's totally British in his dialect. I think that's stupid. 231 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,559 I think that that whole thing is just stupid. I think they're just 232 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,759 looking for something to latch onto because he didn't turn out to be their boy. 233 00:19:21,559 --> 00:19:25,119 He hasn't he flat. He's denied that he's a conservative. He says 234 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,000 he's more of a centrist. You know, he's totally denied that. So 235 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,519 he's not playing along with what they want. They're gonna find new reasons to 236 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:37,200 hate him. He's a plant. He's talking about diversity, and really he 237 00:19:37,279 --> 00:19:42,039 was talking about rich people just destroying poor people, doing everything they can to 238 00:19:42,079 --> 00:19:45,640 make money and squeeze the money out of the poor people, but you know, 239 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:48,039 never going back to them. And he literally did say that. He 240 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,119 was talking about all of those people that were on that debate stage. He 241 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:56,079 literally said, right, I am talking about you. So their tick now, 242 00:19:56,559 --> 00:20:00,519 this was going to be their guy man, their new champ in song, 243 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,720 and he's ruining it for him. Yeah, it also, but you 244 00:20:03,799 --> 00:20:07,200 know that's it is true. It's one thing that's really gross in politics is 245 00:20:07,279 --> 00:20:12,720 that they just don't seem to care about personal property rights. Like they're all 246 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:17,359 about property rights until it's somebody else's song. Like, how many musicians have 247 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,200 you seen I couldn't even think of a name to quantify it. How many 248 00:20:21,279 --> 00:20:25,160 musicians you hear about complaining? So when those used there my song in their 249 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,400 rally, and I never told them they could, right, Oh yeah, 250 00:20:27,559 --> 00:20:32,880 that's happened so much billion times because They never asked for permission. They just 251 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:36,880 do it. The New York Posts has an article Oliver Anthony is singing for 252 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:41,319 all of us hometown salutes rich men of North Richmond. North of Richmond. 253 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:45,880 Phenomenon says. This is a short article. It says here the men south 254 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:52,039 of Richmond were on a high when viral phenomenon Oliver Anthony made a surprise appearance 255 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,839 at a street festival here Saturday night. Anthony's rich Men North of Richmond is 256 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,640 rocketed to number one on the Billboard Heart one Hot one hundred, propelling a 257 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:06,480 once known, once unknown songwriter from south central Virginia into the national onto the 258 00:21:06,559 --> 00:21:11,240 national stage. But he's staying close to his roots. Uh, I'm gonna 259 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:18,079 skip down. I don't care about that part, okay. Oh, this 260 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:22,039 is more about the show that he did recently. I mean, I like 261 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,440 the guy a bit more after this conversation. I'll say, I like the 262 00:21:25,519 --> 00:21:29,839 fact that he's standing up for what he feels and he's not letting other people 263 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,000 take it and try and twist it into what they want. Yeah, I'm 264 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:38,079 not crazy. I'm certainly I'm definitely not okay with the fat shaming and you 265 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,839 know, trying to do the wellfish shaming. I think that's that's but see, 266 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,720 that's that's a low blow to be going to, especially if you're trying 267 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,440 to talk about the rich men and rich men, why are you talking about 268 00:21:48,799 --> 00:21:52,799 you know those aren't rich men. But but it's also though the backlash, 269 00:21:53,279 --> 00:21:57,039 see the backlash to the song now that's happening from the right. It's another 270 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:02,279 example of what I always talk about, how we live in this binary political 271 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,839 culture where you have to be all the way on one side or all the 272 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,759 way on the other, or you just confuse you just confuse people. Because 273 00:22:08,799 --> 00:22:15,680 here's an example of there shouldn't be any backlash coming from the right. The 274 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:21,799 song has several conservative tropes, so that doesn't mean so if you're a conservative 275 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,200 and you like the song because of that, then you shouldn't be mad at 276 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,480 the guy for saying one thing you don't like, or because he doesn't have 277 00:22:30,599 --> 00:22:33,720 the accent that you thought that he had, or whatever it is. You 278 00:22:33,839 --> 00:22:37,720 can still appreciate the song. You don't have to completely turn on the guy 279 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,960 just because you thought you thought he was all the way completely with you, 280 00:22:42,039 --> 00:22:45,319 and now you're going, oh, maybe he's not really conservative, maybe he's 281 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,200 more a right leaning guy or whatever. So oh now we have to be 282 00:22:49,319 --> 00:22:52,440 upset with him, like, oh tis tis Matt, what are you ever 283 00:22:52,599 --> 00:22:56,319 thinking? I mean, it even work, it even affects art, it 284 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,680 even affects music. You know this, this this nastiness that exists, this 285 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:04,640 this used to be that way. But like, just to watch, I'm 286 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,000 looking at another process. Person goes, where did alliver as an accent? 287 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:14,039 Go? Also, why is he saying diversity is our strength? Like how 288 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:18,839 that's a bad sentence? Now diversity is a bad word? How dare you? 289 00:23:21,079 --> 00:23:25,000 Oh how? Oh my? Never? We should just take the statue 290 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,319 of liberty, like we should just send up a sandblaster to just stand off 291 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,759 the book because you know, we're not give me your poor you're tired, 292 00:23:33,799 --> 00:23:37,000 you're hungry masses. We're not that melting pot anymore. That's not what people 293 00:23:37,079 --> 00:23:44,039 want. Apparently at least these people can we just this is why we all 294 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,759 need to get out and vote and speak up and talk, because if you 295 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:53,880 don't, they're gonna win. And when they win, every every every day, 296 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,640 Joe loses, in my opinion. In my opinion, I like the 297 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:02,200 guy because he did stand up and say no, don't take my song. 298 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,799 It's not about you. In fact, you're the Actually it is about you, 299 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,359 but not in a good way. But I do like that, and 300 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:14,559 I think the song isn't bad. It's just the one fiction and his voice. 301 00:24:14,759 --> 00:24:18,759 Yeah, a lot of people who came out because of course, again 302 00:24:18,839 --> 00:24:25,160 you have the polarization, so you had all these uh conservatives online who championed 303 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:26,920 the song. So of course you have also all these people on the left 304 00:24:27,319 --> 00:24:30,920 who are condemning the song and condemning him. They were, they're not condemning 305 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,160 him anymore, but you know, condemning the song, but not just not 306 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:37,440 just the message of the song, but saying, oh, he has no 307 00:24:37,599 --> 00:24:40,599 talent and all this terrible stuff. And no, I think he's talented, 308 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:45,319 and I actually like his vocal delivery. I have no problem with any of that.