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Oliver Anthony: Voice of a Generation

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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An utterly unknown singer/songwriter, recording with a single microphone and an acoustic guitar in his own back yard, now has the number one song in the nation and is about to surpass 25 MILLION views on YouTube. His name is Oliver Anthony, the song is 'Rich Men North of Richmond,' and the message is one that ALL politicians, from both parties, should (but probably won't) pay very close heed to, because Oliver Anthony is rapidly becoming the Voice of a Generation. The link to this remarkable track is here: https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro You can add your voice to this protest movement by keeping content like this on the air. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Move over hippies. There's a new protest song, and it's not from the left. Hi, I'm Scott Ott with

0:05.6

Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, and this episode of Right Angles brought to by the members at

0:09.8

Bill Whittle.com. And gentlemen, a young man named Oliver Anthony has append a song, which he sings,

0:17.9

and he acknowledges that he really doesn't play guitar very well, but he sings okay.

0:22.9

This song in the last six days, as we record this, has 12 million views on YouTube,

0:29.2

and has just really exploded.

0:32.6

It's called Rich Men, North of Richmond.

0:37.2

Now, when he sings it, you can't tell the difference between

0:40.5

Richmond and Richmond. It sounds the same because he's kind of from down there somewhere in the

0:47.8

south. In any case, the song is, some people may hear it as kind of an every man's cry against the wealthy fat cats in

0:56.9

government who are making the rules for everybody else. I'm sure some conservatives will look at it

1:03.1

and go, yeah, that's our anthem. And I think some blue-collar Democrats will look at it and say,

1:09.4

yeah, that's our anthem too. I'll give you a little bit

1:13.0

of a taste of it. It starts off by saying, I'm not going to sing it, but it starts off by saying,

1:16.7

I've been selling my soul, working all day, overtime hours for bulls pay. That's BS. And so I, so I

1:25.6

can sit out here and waste my life away. And then later on, he says,

1:31.3

he goes after people who don't have to work and says, well, God, if you're five foot three and

1:37.0

your 300 pounds, taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds. Young men are putting

1:43.7

themselves six feet in the ground,

1:45.8

because all this damn country does is keep kicking them down.

1:49.4

And it goes on in that kind of vein.

1:52.0

It's really become a phenomenon.

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