It's the Ryan Lair show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. At the Republican debate

on Fox last week, they set up the first question, as many of you know, with the hit country

song Rich Men North of Rich Men by Oliver Anthony, which expresses the class resentment

of a guy working a manual labor job getting what the song calls bowl bleep pay while the

Rich Men North of Rich Men, apparently a reference to Washington DC, want to have total

control and your money is taxed to no end toward, as the title suggests, Rich Men in Washington

DC, who want to control you. And the song also says this.

We're just politicians look out for miners and not just miners on an island somewhere.

So little resentment of people on welfare, a little fat phobia thrown in there for good

measure. And that line that the government should take care of miners, meaning workers

like coal miners, rather than what are called miners, children on an island somewhere. I

guess that's a reference to foreign aid to poor countries or to immigration. Some say

that even came from a QAnon conspiracy theory. But you get the idea. Now interestingly, after

the debate, Oliver Anthony released a video expressing unhappiness that right wing media

is portraying him as their darling. He said this.

The one thing that has bothered me is seeing people rap politics up into this. I'm disappointed

to see like it's aggravating seeing people on conservative news, try to identify with

me like I'm one of them. It's aggravating seeing certain musicians and politicians act

like we're buddies and act like we're fighting the same struggle here. Like that we're

just trying to present the same message. It was funny seeing my song and it was funny

seeing it the presidential debate because it's like I wrote that song about those people.

So a couple of clips strung together there from Oliver Anthony's YouTube video. He also

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