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Oliver Anthony

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“Total honor to be able to come on here for me as well, and especially just to get to meet you in real life and see, like, you know, you are what I expected you to be, like, in a good way. You just don't ever, like, yeah, you just, you're a good dude. So I appreciate what you're doing. I got”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's like the old lobsters, you know But it really is true. Like, uh, We all, yeah, we're all on that kind of same operating system in a way.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, I guess that's the thing about it, though, is it has all the same components of humanity just almost, you know, like almost to a comical level.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're out in nature like that and just reading and studying the way all those systems work with soil and trees and animals and how it all just integrates intogether so perfectly it does give you some sense of peace that maybe there is some there is some system at place that's out of our hands that can just help us with our faults and our repercussions. And again, like from me, just Yeah, I think just being out there, especially now that now looking at it through the lens of God, it helps. I've found no greater peace than just being out in the woods and praying or just trying to focus my mind on. On that, like, I, but yeah, I would love for you to come out there sometime and.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I get into this crazy. Like I said, it's only been a handful of times because I've I don't know, it's one of those things where it's still a little unfamiliar to me, but. Like talking about trees and psilocybin, you know, you think about, you start to look in those trees and you think like. In their relative perspective of time, you know, because they're constantly moving around and growing and doing all these things. And you think about like in their perspective, maybe we're just moving way faster than their perception. And they're moving at just a normal speed. It's just that you get into all these crazy trains of thought when you sit out in the woods on that stuff.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, man. I would definitely say if you're ever over towards Virginia or West Virginia, either one there, like Yeah, it'd be cool to spend a couple days out in the woods or a day out in the woods and do I haven't really, I was really new to the whole psilocybin thing, but I have tried a few smaller doses of it actually to help with being up on stage and all. And it's an interesting thing”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Space that can't be perverted by corporate America and just a place where people can go and like do all these things that we want to do. What are you excited for this year? Obviously, you're going to travel overseas, and you got, sounds like you got some other cool stuff you're going to do”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You could tell they didn't have any money. And they said it meant a lot to them that they could come and that there was a $25 option. And I'll continue to do these shows like this to where any band that wants to come play the show, all their expenses are covered. And I'm sure there's some kind of tax write-off component to them for them. But basically they can come in, do the show, help bring in a crowd. Like I'm taking the risk setting the venue up and establishing it. The venue will be owned or managed by either the town or the farm or whatever, but it'll be in a nonprofit. And then that space will always exist for people to rent. And the idea is it's like, man, imagine if I did, if I could do 20 of these a year even if that's even if that's all I can get done. Like that's 20 places that will always have music and will always have a center where people can go and build this sense of community we talked about. It's almost like a sanctuary if you want to call it that, but it's like it's just a”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was basically made fun of for that by people in the professional space, even people I was working with. They just thought it was so stupid. But you know what? There were people at my shows that came up and the kids were wearing hand-me-down clothes.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“but establish like a new venue space that can't be put under contract by a monopoly that any artist can go play like without like if if all these musicians are sick of ticket master and live nation then let's just let's just start playing in fields and on main streets and set these venues up and establish them correctly and professionally to where they exist as their own space and then and then imagine the economic impact that would provide to a town that otherwise would never have like and imagine what it you want to talk about trying to give blue collar people like some hope or give them some relatability or do anything for them like bring a big band to their town that they would otherwise have to drive an hour and a half somewhere to see and couldn't even afford the tickets to start with like my tour last year pretty much every show we did that was mine had a $25 ticket option and everybody scoffed at that and I just”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The idea is to go to a town, like, let's just use iOS as an example instead of the big city in Iowa playing at the venue where everybody books, let's find a farm field forty five minutes outside of that big city, figure out the ingress egress, the security, find a good promoter that can like a show organizer basically that has experience to where it's still professional and it's done correctly.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's also that my music catalog is so limited, like of what I listen to, that a lot of what's in my head, like as you think about when you're writing songs and coming up with chord progressions and stuff, whether you realize it or not, it's all being influenced off of other songs. So when you only have a lot of older music and like a little bit of metal and stuff in there, it's like there's not really a whole lot. It's like that, you know. It's kind of going to sound that way, I guess, just in any way, because that's what's in your head already”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I listen to a lot of that type of music, so I like the strings being a little out of tune and dull and not everything and just that's why I was so attracted to it. Some of the old blues players, like, you know, playing the Dobro and stuff, but that was why I wanted to get the resonator was just because of that old. I mean, that's even why, you know, I had to use my grandpa's name as an alias, but that Oliver Anthony music is really supposed to represent like old music from like 1930s, Virginia or something like, you know, like it's kind of got that type of feel to it, or at least in its core, you know.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the old fond of the older music. So, like, we're all my family's from. So my dad was adopted, so I don't have any, like Lunsford's not really even a real last name to me. They're all just, it was just my grandparents that adopted my dad. So all of my family's ingle is like INGLE. That's like my real, that's all my mom's side of my family. And they're all from this place, about 20 miles from where like the Carter family was from. So all that old Virginia kind of bluegrass folk music and stuff. And so I was just always attracted to that. And so I like the resonator a full step down because it, to me, it kind of gives it that old sound. You know, a lot of the instruments back then had like bad dull strings and they were older and they were out of tune a little bit and stuff. And I just.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's just the same. Yeah, I wouldn't be smart enough to play anything special. Like, it's just a regular old guitar.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, well, the body's different. So you can see it's got like a solid, you know, instead of it being a hollow body, like an acoustic, it's got that, it almost looks like a hubcap, that black.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But it's all handmade and all it's like. You can whack somebody over the head with it pretty good. Yes, nice and heavy. But yeah, he makes them all by hand, a little family owned place. I know nothing about resonated guitars. Is that You play regular acoustics. Yeah, it's just basically a regular because it's just a full step down, is the only difference. I've just got it tuned all the way down. Is that it?”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know, I think the biggest one I did. So basically, what I ended up having to do was go. I bought one of these suction cup rigs that sticks right here and the mic goes down under here to pick that string up. And I played like, we played like a, I think the biggest show I did with it was like 10,000 people, but it was enough to where I couldn't be doing a $300 guitar with a rigged up thing on it anymore. It just wasn't going to work. So this guy reached out and Gretch wouldn't help me with my Gret. Like, you know, there's no way to really get a hold of him because they're such a big company. I finally did get a hold of Diane Gretch. And she's like really nice. And so it's nothing personal against Gretch. It's just at the time I couldn't get a hold of him. I figured I would have been able to because like everywhere sold out of those Gretsch model when the song blew up, you know, like it was a real pop, but that couldn't get a hold of him. So this guy beard guitar, Paul Beard in Maryland. He reached out, fixed my Gretsch, and then gave me one of these and made it with a...”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's probably one of the first. I don't know, it's not the first song I wrote, but one of them. What a song, man. What a song. Story that Well, the guy who made this saved my butt because everything blew up and I was playing that little Gretsch resonator that's in all the original videos and my My wife had got me that off of Amazon, I think, or something. Three or four hundred bucks. It's like just an entry level import little Gretsch. And the pickup never would work right in it. So this string wouldn't work when you plugged it in. So here we are, everything happens all at once, and we're trying to do these shows. And like”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I'm good. We might have to take it right. Just really get this figured out. Of course, yeah Where is the guitar? No, like positionally. I think, yeah, I think this will be fine. So ghetto. Draven and be like, who? I guess I'll do if I was going to do anything on here from the older songs that was related both to everything we've talked about. It'd probably be I want to go home.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Love is like, it's funny, you know, you talked about how both of those presidents, you could say they at least love their family, but love is like, I think everyone's capable of love. It's probably the most powerful thing there is, even beyond hate, I think, is, you know, like, but it is crazy with so it comes out of us so easily with animals because to us, they're just these innocent little lives. We don't have anything against them, you know. Like they don't have talk, they don't have political views. They're just little creatures. But the realities is we're all just creatures like that, you know.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The reason that we're willing to do it for a cat, like I said, it's just like the thing with the dogs about giving the dogs your medication but not yourself. So we see all the flaws and all the problems and all the disagreements and all the anger we have with each other just like you said your friends on the right and the left and stuff. And like we could show that kind of compassion. And we do. I mean, humanity does from time to time show that kind of compassion. But we could show that kind of like just undeserve Love, you know, to each other too”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I don't know. Great example with animals. I guess it's the same way with people. I just always see the best, and I just couldn't.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We ended up grabbing. We asked a lady if she had like a knife in the house. So she gave us this terrible looking knife, but it's all that we had. You know, I was like, we were trying to get this done. So yeah, my wife was the one that did it, but we got the rest of the stuff cut and got the cat out. I don't know. I just like. Spend like have her, I was like over a grand, we spent getting this cat's getting it properly sutured or whatever to where the cat could have a healthy recovery and all. But I'm one of those type of people like I'm not going to, I couldn't just let this little, I'm not going to go, they were going to just go put the cat down or whatever lady, you know. So, yeah, I named her hop. So that's my little cat and it hops around. But it was one of those things where, uh,”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She's all freaking out and don't know what to do. And like I said, my wife's a vetinary technician or whatever. So she's got a little bit more sense about animals than any of us. We go over there, and the ladies tried to start her car, and there's this kitten that was up under the hood, and she started the car and the cat. Basically, it basically almost ripped its whole front leg off already. There was just a little bit still attached, like some tendon or whatever. But the leg was like wrapped up under the water, like the pulley of the water pump, knocked the bell off. There was no way to get, there was no way to save this leg on this guy. It was like... But the cat was like pinned upside down. And so.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had this cat lady neighbor, who's a real sweet lady, but um. Older lady lives in a single wide trailer has probably got, I don't know, 30 or 40 cats. That she fees at her house. It was a rainy Saturday morning. It was pouring down rain. It was going to be like, it was like eight o'clock in the morning on Saturday. It was going to be a great day. And then I hear this lady yelling”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The power that people have only exists because we allow it, whether willingly or just through our own negligence. But I think that's the important thing is like I said, there's always more of us than there will be at them. There's always more nobodies than there ever will be people at the top. We just have to figure out what to do with that and how to.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And people are always going to think differently too. Like just in our structure and the way we, you know, again, it's like that, it goes back to that Jordan Peterson lecture about, I think in maps of meaning where he talks about people who think more conservatively or more liberally about things. Like it's been applied to politics, but it is more, it's based more in psychology than anything. Like some people are going to have to think more inside the box and some people are going to think more outside the box. But we have to have both in order to have a healthy society.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In person with people and having human connection to fix any problem and heal anything. And so it's difficult. It's like, it's not anybody's fault that we're like that. We're not even able to really get to know each other and understand each other through the internet. Like we almost have to be together in person to even just get each other's point of view and perspectives on things.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is just this, we have this innate responsibility to like. Again, it just goes back to talking about our founding fathers and the way this country was created and the importance of what it did for the world. My understanding is that it was the first time ever that people got together and agreed that, like you said, every man was equal because they were created in the image of God. They had uninalienable rights that no government could take away from him. And that's really important. Like there won't be Fortnite if we don't worry about that. And honestly, like just the collapsing in our structure with the mental health, with our youth and the suicide rates with our blue-collar workers and all these kind of things we've touched and talked about, like those are all just things we just need more time together in real life to fix those problems. Those are just things, like I said, I make the joke, but like there's never been one argument that I've there's never been one dispute with my wife that I've been able to figure out how to fix through a text message or like it takes being”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You talked earlier about loneliness. I think that got brought up at some point, but I do think that's like a big, that's a problem that's caused a lot of our symptoms is that we are all like very lonely, even though we all seem to be so well connected digitally. We are all so lonely. You got to think, I mean, modern warfare too is a big thing. I was supposed to be in class of 2010, so you can think like when I was in whatever grade, eighth grade or whatever Call of Duty was like the thing. You know, I've certainly like, trust me, I'm not saying that I'm right in this space of digital immersion with anybody else. I've been there and seen it and done, you know, like, but I've wasted who knows how many hundreds of hours on Modern Warfare 2. Really built some great friendships from it. There's a place for all that stuff. It's just like.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At some point, we're just going to get so lost and so immersed in this space. We're not even going to know what we're missing out on. You know, all there's going to be is girls on Instagram. Like all there's going to be is that.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And have all kinds of problems that are being unaddressed and lack of leadership. It's like there's got to be some kind of Like I said, we're in a very temporary state right now in 2025 where we have access, where the general public has access to basically all the information there is and artificial intelligence and just immense and the ability that like a guy can just set a bunch of cameras up and start doing podcasts and have just the, like even just the fact that your platform could be created is like immensely powerful. It never probably never existed in world history up until now. But we also still have the problem is if we just keep going without being careful about losing the real world aspect of it is that like”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The world is becoming just a little more in the last decade or two as the world becomes a little more dreary and dark and more problems happen and city streets become more littered and jobs are like all these kind of problems that we've that we all argue about all the time as they become more prevalent. It's like the internet and just the visuals of the internet become so much more immersive in video games. There's so much more everything's so much better. Everything's improving at lightning speed and technology. It's degrading in society and in the real world. And somehow there's got to be a way to find a balance there. But right now it seems like as technology becomes more immersive and addictive and interactive, you know, like the way these algorithms feed us exactly what we want and there's so much psychology and just so much research that goes into making them as addictive as possible. It's like the real world kind of sucks. Like, you know, cities that were beautiful and thriving are now falling apart.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The problem is, I think we're wasting a lot of our bandwidth, like a lot of the, like we only have so many minutes in the day to even use our brains. And our brains can only do but so much in a day anyway. And when we're wasting any of it on just that, it's like I see it in my own professional opinion.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We can find a way to incorporate this into normal life, but I think if that breath leaves us, like, I don't know, I think it's irreversible. I believe that I truly believe it is irreversible. And I think, and that's just going to be the end of us. And it could take two or three more generations to get to that point. But I think why don't we find people that are way smarter than me and look at all the things that trend on social media, like the videos that everybody watches, like I don't know what it is. If it's wood splitting and plumbing and blacksmithing and doing something with, like, let's find all the things that people are attracted to online that they obviously are interested in and just figure out a way to have them in real life for people to immerse themselves in.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The beauty is we're in this weird period in time. Like it's a breath of time that we're in where we are able to conceptualize and observe what life was like in that transition point this got us up till now. And we also have the, because in order for all this to continue to evolve, like even with AI, it needs us more than we need it right now still for a very short period of time, but we have access to nearly all the information that the world has theoretically. But we also still have the perception and the memory of what life was like before. And so this is like a very short window of time, like a breath of time where I think.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's emulating things that We need to be healthy humans, but it's just like feeding it visually and inaudibly to us, but it's not giving us the it's giving us the instant gratification of it, but it's not giving us the long-term pleasure or fulfillment of it. Like I said, like”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There isn't a clear definitive line between what's beneficial in educational and what's predatory and harmful. And so it's like, it happens to me all the time, but I could go on YouTube and look up how to change the brake shoes on my truck or something. And if I click on a short of somebody doing it, I automatically go to the next video and I may be three or four videos deep before I catch. I'm watching like, you know, some lady throw a pie at somebody. And then pretty soon I'm like, wait, I'm changing my break. That's the only issue.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Selling your modest little rancher and doing that. But man, that's when I really started to live. And I think probably that was like the beginning point of the restoration of me, you know. And I feel bad that a lot of people just don't even know what that's like to be on a farm or be out in nature. And I can't imagine just living in a suburb or a city your whole life and never getting to experience that. You know, it's good that we have all this technology. It's great. And like the science and the innovation is important. And even the fact that you can go on YouTube and look up how to do almost anything is important. It's just that”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that's what we did. We had a, you know, I was paying $600 a month on the land and I bought a little camper for $750 off this hunt club in Waverly, Virginia, and drug it up there. And that's what we had Went and bought a little, I got a locabote attractor for 0% financing and was like cutting, like this property was a mile off the road, so I had to cut basically like recut in an old logging road and stuff. And you want to talk about putting a strain on your marriage? That'll do it, buddy.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It pains me seeing Woods get knocked down and residential subdivisions taking their place. Like this, like the monkey part of my brain wants to just go burn it all down. Like it's just like not good. Like, I don't know. I just instinctually observe it as being not good. And I don't know exactly how to describe it, but I'm with you. Like I, that was, like I said, that's why I felt so compelled. I mean, we had, I had this little house that I had maybe a little bit of equity in, and it was in 2019 and the housing market was up. And I was like, I sold our little house and got that. I was able to find 92 acres for like 1,100 an acre. And so I still had to finance it, but it was at least like within my barely within my.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And there's a spiritual side to it that I don't know that I can really correctly articulate. But man, sitting out in the woods with some creek flowing by you and just sitting in stillness, like where you don't hear anything. There's no traffic from a road. There's no, you know, you're just there in stillness and just watching the earth do its things just.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In nature, everything is certain. Everything has a system like even on the microbial level of soil, there's this intricate system. And, you know, soil fixes, like the bacteria fixes the soil and you can grow certain types of plants to restore certain types of nutrients and then that can grow certain types of trees and then that can bring in certain types of birds and it's like this whole big nature is just this whole big beautiful system, you know, like earth is just such an intricate complex system that is structured and although there is chaos, there's literal tornadoes, you know, like the metaphor we were using earlier. Like there are literal tornadoes in nature and other things, but there's a piece about observing the structure there. And to me, like it just helps remind and restore my faith that there is something bigger than me that”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“World. Well, everything in civilization seems so like everything we've talked about, it seems so like. There's such a level of despair and unorganization and chaos and just like in all these terrible parts of life that seem like so unstructured and just so uncertain”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know he actually came out to my property and all we talked, and we're still, I think the idea is that we're going to launch this kind of like healing center thing out there once they get through all the mess, they got their hands full a little bit right now with things. But whether I go that route or not, it's like, that's my goal is to basically create a place that people can go and like and fix their mind and find the optimal thing. You know, we've got laying birds and meat birds. So we have, we get our eggs and meat and then we've done pigs and sheep and goats. And then I'm going to start with cattle in the spring. So we'll start doing like wagu and Angus and playing around with. And I want to get some funny stuff too. I just large animals have a lot of, you know, there's all these like large animal therapies out there for mental health, like with vets and stuff. It's just.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They taste so much better, but it's just, I don't know how to describe it, but it just brings me joy, being able to grow stuff and even just flowers and everything else, just watching stuff that's alive like that is just such a, you know, my what we're doing now is I've bought this permaculture farm that hadn't been operational in like six or seven years. And they did a lot of herbs. They had a big orchard, blueberries, you know. But my dream there is to create this space that's like the optimal place for humans to go to fix their mind. So what's the animals and the food that I can have there and the trees that I can plant and the certain types of wildlife that I can bring in and attract? Like the noises and the sounds and the smells that are optimal for a human to be in order to like fix whatever it is, you know, like I had the opportunity to meet Robert Kennedy Jr. early on with all this and”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I'm just kidding. Just trying to escape this dystopian nightmare that we're all living under It was just a form of escapism, I guess. But you know, my, well, yeah, I think in such a short period of time, my grandfather grew up like, you know, they were in a survival estate, like trying to make enough money to pay the tax on their land growing tobacco. And then here I am, like, in this digital world two generations later, and I'm just like, something's not, you know, I just felt. Felt called to try to figure all that out and how to get back into that. There's just a such a purity to. If you raise an animal and kill it and eat it, and I'm not talking about like Ted Nujin style, but just like, you know Raisin meat birds and pigs and stuff and having the ability to put those in the freezer and cook them for dinner.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what I kind of miss this step when we were talking about things, but like selling my house and buying that property and putting a camper on it and trying to go into this whole off-grid thing really like, I don't know, it does a lot of good for you being reconnected to nature because we are a part of it.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What is this? Like, what is this crazy reality I'm in? But I do have some funny. Because a lot of when I wasn't playing the Ovid mics, you know, the, well, like, you know, Brian that you met, a lot of my guitar playing was spent at places like his house and we were all heavy drinkers and we were just sitting around at a party playing or whatever, you know. And so I definitely like the silly stuff too. I was really in my head when we were talking about being low and what I was suggesting people to do if they're in that point. But if I was just to like not to flip this, but just it just popped in my head, but probably what I would tell anybody to do if they're like suicidal and thinking about like if they're to that point is just to go find some go find somewhere out like in nature and go.”
2025-05-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source