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Oliver Anthony (Christopher Lunsford)

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995 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

Like it was revolutionary almost.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

Well, and so many people identified different elements.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

Like I said, it goes back to when we were kind of talking when we first got here, but it was crazy how it was almost like at the beginning, along with the scrutiny and some of the other things, it was a lot of different people like...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

almost fighting over me or fighting over it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

Like, cause it resonated with different, it resonated with people who voted differently than each other, which is, which is probably a pretty terrifying thing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

If you're, if you're in the business of keeping people divided and angry at each other.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

So it was, you know, it was a, it was one of the first, one of the only times that I can think where there was that

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

that much of a sense of unity among people who otherwise wouldn't.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

I mean, like, I mean, I think about nine 11, when I was a kid, I was in fourth grade, but God, man, people were just like, people just put everything aside there for a little while.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

And it was kind of, it was kind of like, there's bigger problems that just aren't in our face.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

And if, man, if they're in your face for just for a second or two, you realize like it's,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

it's hard in your mind to create a graph that's got like all these, but you know, we argue about a lot of these problems, but if you were to really look at them like,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

if you really just stand back and look at all the problems we spend time focusing about on the internet versus all the things that are affecting us, like that really, and probably at our core even piss us off, it's gotta be very disproportionate.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

And like the reason it got the reaction it did is because we all, like no matter what it is that we're upset about or what we think needs to be different in the world or our opinions of things or how we're raised or what our parents taught us, it's like, I think we all feel a little bit out of control in this new society.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

We all feel like we're probably,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

we probably all feel like we're falling into this kind of like corporate power structure where none of us, where we all are just robots.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

We're all just, we're not allowed to be ourselves and be human almost, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

and hidden away and what's probably the most terrifying to me is that that politeness is just theatrical whereas it emulates the respect that we would normally give each other in society if we were healthy and functional what was the process of writing that song

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

I don't know.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#469 โ€“ Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain

Can you pull TikTok up on this?