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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

It was like there, it's really hard to take orders and go and like to, to have human spirit and especially in something that's innovative and not, if you, if you work in a company where you just think everybody's

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

Dumb.

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

I mean, I can certainly relate with that.

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

I mean, God, that's all.

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

And my old job, that's all we did was we spent half our day just talking about how dumb we thought everybody was that was above, you know, it's like it's easy to fall into that in a corporate world.

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

And so, yeah, the morale gets terrible and.

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

And everyone suffers as a result of it.

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

The people at the top who are implementing all that dysfunction suffer and the people at the bottom.

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

It's like, it's not good for anybody.

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

I had thought now that I'm doing this, that I could escape away from that.

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

But that exact same mentality and that dysfunction and that inefficiency,

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

Like, I still battle it every day.

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

Maybe one thing that we felt similarly, I would imagine you way more than me, is just feeling like, wow, I have the ability to influence or the ability to...

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

to, to, to either bring truth or to improve people's lives or, or, you know, every word that you say sometimes matters so much.

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

And you're just like, man, I'm an idiot.

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

Like, I don't, like, I don't know, you know, like I would have never guessed.

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

I mean, we were kind of talking about that before about like, it would have never guessed that it would have turned, that this would have turned into all this, but it's, it is a, it is a, it is a weight that you bear, whether you really even acknowledge it or not, you know, like, um,

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

Well, you know, you, Lex.

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

however many years ago, was in a different place in society than Lex is now.

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

And so it's like every conversation you have or every relationship you have is inherently different, even if you aren't any different.