TONIGHT: The show ranges from Farmville, Virginia to Pskov, Russia to Pyongyang, North Korea to Bucharest, Romania to near Albi, France, the night of the Super Sturgeon Blue Moon.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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TONIGHT: The show ranges from Farmville, Virginia to Pskov, Russia to Pyongyang, North Korea to Bucharest, Romania to near Albi, France, the night of the Super Sturgeon Blue Moon.
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| 0:00.0 | At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads. |
| 0:07.4 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour, |
| 0:12.3 | because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or |
| 0:16.8 | serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone. |
| 0:24.8 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:30.2 | Good evening. This is John Bachelor. Tonight we begin in Farmville, Virginia with |
| 0:36.1 | Selena Zito of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the Washington Examiner, |
| 0:40.3 | a conversation with the sensational Oliver Anthony, a man from Farmville, Virginia, |
| 0:47.2 | who's written the hit new takes off song, not Nashville, rich man north of Richmond. |
| 0:55.2 | Selena brings to the conversation revelation that the political class in Washington |
| 1:01.6 | on the left has adopted rich men north of Richmond as a song of discrimination and bigotry |
| 1:08.3 | using the usual accusations. On the right, the right is embraced rich men north of |
| 1:14.3 | Richmond as a revolt of the working class, some version of the populist message. |
| 1:23.9 | It turns out in conversation with Oliver Anthony, who's a talented young man, |
| 1:30.9 | and the reason his song as a hit is that a local DJ Selena tells me, |
| 1:36.0 | recognized it, did a video of him, put it out, and it took off. That's simple. |
| 1:41.0 | The reason Oliver Anthony wrote this song was his frustration at being pegged |
| 1:49.6 | as a person of no particular value who works a job and works very hard at it, not recognized, |
| 1:57.8 | and certainly not listened to by the rich men north of Richmond. Look at your map. What does |
| 2:03.6 | you do north of Richmond? That's Washington, D.C., and it's suburbs. |
| 2:10.0 | Oliver Anthony tells Selena and tells the world that this |
| 2:15.2 | song, the lyrics, are not meant to be political right, political left. It's an expression of his |
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