Should You Still Believe in the American Dream?

The Jason Stapleton Program

Jason Stapleton

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🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Last week Oliver Anthony became a star. His song, “Rich Men North of Richmond” became the number 1 song on iTunes. As of this morning, the video has been viewed 9 million times. That’s up from 6 million when I watched it yesterday.

Oliver was a factory worker until a year ago. Choosing to pursue a carrier in music rather than slave away on the factory floor.

His song speaks to the plight of the “working man” in America today. His grievances are not new. But he’s tapped into a new generation of people who feel as though they’ve been lied to.

Is the American dream dead? Is our government really keeping the little guy down?

Yes. And no. Today we’ll discuss the rapidly changing world we live in and what you have to do to stay ahead.

Listen to Oliver's song, “Rich Men North of Richmond” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro

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0:00.0	Well, what's up, my friends? This is the Jason Stapleton program, the Entrepreneurial
0:04.9	podcast that breaks down the skills you need to start and grow a business that creates
0:09.3	more wealth and freedom for you. That sounds like your jam. Let's get started.
0:14.1	Hey, welcome back. Happy Monday, everybody. Glad to have you here. We are streaming
0:20.1	on the YouTube's. We're streaming out to my friends at X, where I've been spending a
0:24.5	ton of time recently, and I'm trying to LinkedIn as well today. I'm testing the limits
0:29.7	of my bandwidth, Dan, over here. But we're going to try and see if we can reach out to
0:34.6	folks. So if you have a comment, you'd like to make some, you know, the statement, feel
0:38.5	free to do. So I have the comments pulled up. No guarantee I'm going to respond to you
0:42.4	because I get, when I get on to a role, I don't, I don't usually look up and respond
0:46.5	to folks. But this is going to be a particularly interesting episode today. It's, I started
0:54.4	this or what sparked my interest or my curiosity in this was a, a video that I saw the other
1:00.8	day or somebody. It's, I can't remember. I found it. I was on the inner webs searching
1:04.2	around. And they said that this young kid from Virginia had just hit number one on iTunes
1:11.0	with his song. And his name is Oliver Anthony. The song is rich men north of Richmond. I
1:17.1	put the link in the description. If you guys want to go watch it. When I looked at it yesterday,
1:22.8	day when I first watched this, it had like 6.4 million views when I saw it. This morning
1:28.7	when I went and pulled the numbers again, it was 9.1 million. And it's probably over 10
1:34.2	million now. This guy has a, he struck a nerve with people. And I posted something. I
1:40.1	shared the video link out on X and I said, you know, they're calling it the song. They're
1:46.4	calling it an anthem for 80 million, really addition franchise to Americans. And I just posted
1:55.5	it and said, I'm going to give you the, the option you could take a look at it. Just
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