126: Rich Men North of Richmond
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Oliver Anthony's unexpectedly viral song "Rich Men North of Richmond" provides the fodder for this week's SASF as the guys discuss how rural Idahoans have more in common with the inhabitants of the inner city than they do with rich, white, Republican suburbs (or Washington, D.C.). The overnight success of a song simply speaking truth is a good example of how to use stories to unite huge groups of people -- another instance of the Tucker Carlson and Ice Cube phenomenon. The guys also discuss criticism of the song from Christianity Today to National Review Online. However, the song's popularity is also a great picture of Americans uniting in the face of those who want to take control by dividing us -- that's the origin of the phrase "divide and conquer." Yes, they discuss the bad words he uses, and how he can avoid becoming a one-hit wonder, and how he can make sure his life's work isn't squandered. (Also: This is also your last chance to get questions in for the "Sound of Freedom" Look at Moving Picture Club episode. You can email by subscribing at canonpress.com/sasf or message on Facebook.)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction |
| 0:05.7 | imprint of Canon Press. |
| 0:07.9 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:11.8 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:14.9 | Met a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:17.3 | Episode 126. |
| 0:19.4 | There's the clap, so I needed to clap with authority. |
| 0:23.2 | Episode 126 of the stories, our Soul Food podcast. |
| 0:26.4 | This is going to be our best episode ever. |
| 0:29.0 | Wow. |
| 0:29.8 | Each one is the new high water mark. |
| 0:31.5 | We're like a rising tide that never stops until it swallowed the world. |
| 0:37.1 | Yes, that's our mission statement. |
| 0:38.5 | Not really. |
| 0:40.5 | We've had many ebbs within. |
| 0:43.7 | Never, never. |
| 0:45.1 | All 126 episodes have progressively improved on the previous. |
| 0:49.0 | Actually, I just received feedback from one of our listeners that he'd listened to all 125 and only three of them |
| 0:55.3 | had he not finished. |
| 0:56.8 | So I think. |
| 0:58.0 | Well, he obviously needs to try harder. |
| 0:59.8 | Well, it depends on which ones those were. |
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