Singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony has a truck with 325,000 miles on it, including a salvage title. It rides like a covered wagon, he revealed, ever since it fell off the back of a tow truck.
Now, he wants to sell it.
Hopefully, he told Joe Rogan today on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, someone will buy the vehicle from him and donate the funds to charity.
That was among the revelations that came from the “Rich Men North of Richmond” songwriter, who has become a viral sensation with his highly political lament that a certain segment of the population isn’t being heard.
In addition to the podcast appearance, Anthony also made an appearance this past Tuesday night at Joe Rogan’s Austin-based comedy club, the Comedy Mothership.
“It’s funny because the song [“Rich Men North of Richmond”] is not even in my top five,” Anthony said of his controversial hit. “I’ve written songs with similar messages. But as far as that sort of anthem format, as people are calling it, that’s not something I would normally write… I had no idea that that song would have the reaction that it did.”
AI parodies of the song are circulating, Anthony noted.
“Any internet presence I have right now is coming from me, off the phone… I haven’t invested the time to look at everything circulating, but friends and family have sent me stuff, and some of it is pretty funny,” Anthony said. “They’ve got all these AI remixes of the song with different voices and overlay different faces, it’s funny to see where it goes.”
Anthony isn’t a social media fan, which makes his success all the more remarkable.
“People bring their best and their worst to the internet. I’ve always tried to stay off social media as much as possible, but I’ve learned very quickly that with Twitter and Facebook and stuff like that, you see feedback from people both in an overwhelmingly positive way that you wouldn’t get in a personal conversation, but also overwhelmingly negative too. People just use that as a vent to take whatever seething hatred they have inside of them and say ‘I’m gonna get that guy with it.’”
