Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing

Oliver Anthony (Christopher Lunsford)

๐Ÿ‘ค Person
995 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

I'm sure they were probably pretty miserable back then.

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

But, you know, they talk about now like how difficult it is.

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

like the impossibility of having a single family household or anything else.

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

But like when you find a decent paying job that you can do without it, just torturing you every day, that's, that's a pretty important thing now, you know, like, and so it, it's pretty easy to just, it's pretty easy to kind of turn yourself into a robot for eight or 10 hours a day out of fear of, it's like, you don't want to be yourself too much because maybe part of yourself isn't something that's accepted in this, like,

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

dystopian nightmare that you go to work at every day.

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

And so you just gotta do your best to just not step on any toes or do anything that makes you stand out too much, you know?

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

And now it's like,

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

Now, like when you scroll through some of these videos of people, like the big, even when I was still like, when I was still working my lame job, it was like, there was this whole big thing of people talking about quiet quitting or something like that, where they were just going to go to work, but not really do anything.

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

Yeah.

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

So then they wonder these companies just slowly kind of fall apart and disintegrate because, um,

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

They're so worried about structure.

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

And, you know, like, I mean, God, man, even in even in America today, our culture has become because so many big corporations own and manage everything that we live under, like food, agriculture, health care, like social media.

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

It's all in corporate structures that it's almost like a lot of the problems we find ourselves in now with society, I think, are like.

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

it's just because of, it's almost like corporate HR has been implemented into our whole thought process of everything.

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

You know, it's like, I think that's kind of what you're touching on though.

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

It's like,

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

It's hard to be a human and be a good little corporate employee at the same time.

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

And as our whole society moves more into like becoming like basically one big corporation, it's like, you don't want to piss the HR lady off.

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

So it's a lot easier for me to just beep boop.

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

We're all sort of just turning, we're all turning into robots.