Absurd Truth: John Rich on "I'm Offended"

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You can watch the simulcast, YouTube, Facebook, Channel 347, Direct TV. That song is by our good friend John Rich, I'm Offended. And I love what he said. This is just the other day. He tweeted to Oliver Anthony, the guy who did Richmond, North of Richmond. He goes, Oliver Anthony has the number one song in America. I have the number one record. Neither of us have record deals. And he said he texted Oliver to congratulate him and he responded, God is good.

Joining us right now, our good friend John Rich. First off, congrats on the song. Congrats on the number one record.

Congrats on the success on this. It's just different right now. I actually was talking to my mom about this. And my mom grew up in the 60s. And I said, you had all these songs that talked about war and they talked about protests. They talked about they were like the snapshot of the time. We really haven't had anything like that. I think this song is part of it.

I think that Oliver Anthony song is part of it. What do you talk to us about this? What do you think about all that?

It's 100 percent true. I mean, the Vietnam War, for instance, you had Creedence Clearwater Revival. You had Bob Dylan.

You had Chris Christopherson, Willie Nelson, all these guys, Johnny Cash. They were all coming out with songs about, hey, time to end this thing. And songwriters actually had a lot to do with public sentiment. The public has these feelings, but they're not sure if they're the only one that feels that way. Or maybe it's just a tiny little group feels that way. And so when they hear a song or they see a movie or something really moves them and they all start gravitating towards it, they see it succeed and they go, wow, I'm not all by myself.

OK, most of us feel this way. The music is a really important part of the fabric of America, always has been. Has been and country music particularly. I think people have always liked country music. Do you see more people more and more gravitating towards it? Because it just seems like everything is so artificial. But as I just said, coming into this, you know, that singer songwriter aesthetic is still more powerful, I think, in country than in any other genre.

Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, country music, you don't need a band, you don't need a big stage or anything like that. One guy, one girl and a guitar or a piano or whatever they're sitting with.

They get if they're really good at what they do and they're they're genuine, authentic. They can sit down and absolutely, absolutely body slam you with a simple song. That's the thing about Oliver Anthony, a guy standing in the woods with nothing but a resonator guitar. Got the number one song in the world for like two weeks in a row. Now, why is that? Because you can tell when you hear him and you see what he looks like and the way he's expressing himself. This guy is not playing around.

This is it. This is the unvarnished true feelings that this man has. Our whole country has been lied to our entire lives, manipulated. We've been marketed to. So we're just numb.

We don't even we don't know where to turn anymore. So when something simple and true gets to our ears or to our eyes, we respond to it in a major way. The truth is powerful, Dana. It is. Talking to our friend John Rich, you know, from Redneck Riviera as well, as well as being one half of big and rich.

And of course, Old Glory Bank, your your song. You know, it's obviously it's funny. It's tongue in cheek. You're kind of mocking all of it. There are a lot of people, though, that are identifying with this because you mentioned how people are just numb to everything. We've gotten to the point where I don't think there's any value.

The phrase I am offended over something. It seems like it's lost all value in being used as leverage or a cudgel against people. Because every I mean, people are tired of it. They're tired of somebody being mad over what they say or what they think. And I like because you like showcase both sides coming together in your video. There's all these little vignettes all throughout your video where people from both sides of the spectrum come together. I mean, for crying out loud, they arm wrestle and then they, you know, they get over it.

They have a nice, you know, nice little competition. Tell me about because the numbness of it. Do you think that I mean, is that still work anymore? Does somebody say, oh, this is offensive to me? Does that still is it losing its punch?

I think it is. It's I can't put my finger on when this seismic shift started, but it started recently. I mean, if you go back to 20, 20, 20, 21, even part of last year, everybody was still walking around on eggshells. Like, I don't want to say this, I might get canceled or I don't want to say this. Somebody's going to get upset and call me a bad name. But I think it's finally hit that that tipping point where people go, you know what, this is just ridiculous and I'm over it. And I don't care if you like it or not. But I'm about to say that's where you see, you know, Bud Light losing twenty seven billion dollars or Disneyland is almost empty or nobody's going to target.

I mean, on and on and on. And so we've seen Americans, we the people tear things down recently and now we're seeing them start to build things. And that's what's exciting to me.

The same energy that tore it down is also the energy that can set into motion brand new things that you can really count on. I think that you are at the forefront of a group of people in country music who have saved that genre and have kept it from being, I think, flipped into this innocuous, you know, can't write about anything from the soul, can't talk about any emotions, otherwise everybody's going to be offended. And I know that there's been an effort in country music to sort of sanitize it for this whatever cultural warfare that we're dealing with. But you and I think you've been the tip of the spear on this and some others, you've really resisted that.

Has that been difficult to do? Well, so here's the real story. I mean, if I had a record deal right now, which I don't, if I did have a major record deal right now, most of the songs on this new record, The Country Truth, would never be released. They would not put their name on that. They're not going to sign off on that, put money behind that.

Oliver Anthony, God bless him. I hope he stays independent forever. Because if Oliver Anthony had a record deal and walked into one of those labels with Richmond, north of Richmond, they would probably escort him out of the building for triggering everybody and violating their safe space. I mean, they would have kicked him out. But now all these labels are groveling at his boot, offering him millions and millions of dollars to sign with their record label because we can make you a really big star.

I'm like, I hate to tell you, he's already a big star and he did it without you. And it's making the record industry look somewhat obsolete at this point. I mean, as bad as I hate tech and all the bad stuff that comes with it, the good side to tech is, and Oliver Anthony or John Rich or whoever, if they've got great content, they've got a great song, they can still get to the people. That's a powerful tool. We did not have that until recently. No, we didn't.

And your record, The Country Truth, like you're saying, number one, this song, I'm offended. This video is great. I've seen this video. You're talking about tech. I mean, it is everywhere.

I cannot open an app. I can't look at anything without seeing at least a whole handful of shares of it. And the cool thing is that it doesn't matter where people are coming from.

It seems like it's all sides of every spectrum. People are sharing this. I wanted to ask you about something that you tweeted, too, or that I saw had been tweeted.

College Game Day. You're passing the torch. What does this mean?

What's going on here? You did a video about this. Tell us. Yeah, so Big and Rich, we've been the voice and the song of College Game Day since they started College Game Day. It's not the same without you.

Yeah, everybody else coming to your sit day, College Game Day. It's been there forever. I mean, probably coming up on 20 years at some point in the near future. I don't know. They reached out and said, we want to bring in some different faces and this and that.

And they weren't mean about it. But I have to think in the back of my mind, maybe they're catching some heat because I'm on there. I don't know. But then if you look at a college football game, half the crowd's screaming, let's go Brandon at the top of their lungs. So they need somebody like me in the mix anyway because I'm part of that crowd.

I don't know. It's been an honor to do it. Honestly, I love college football. People that don't even listen to country music got turned on to Big and Rich music and to what I'm about through that. So it's been a great experience. Honestly, I got nothing bad to say about the whole experience. I got to tell you, because I've always loved like outlaw country and I listen to what my mom listened to and my family's from the Ozarks. So I listen to what they listen to.

Right. And I didn't listen to a lot. I did not listen to new artists. And it was you. It was Big and Rich that actually got me into new art.

I'm not even joking. Like you literally did. Like I listened to you and then I started listening to other new artists like, oh, country's still here.

It's still I mean, there's still some really awesome singer songwriters. Hey, listen, you're not the only hot girl that got turned on to Big and Rich music. OK, everybody, every guy watching right now goes, no kidding. Sorry, Dana.

Tell your husband not to kick my ass. It's true. It's true. No, I appreciate that. But I mean, it is I mean, it's fun and it's it's an escape. I love this song.

I love I'm Offended. The video. How long did it take you to do the video?

It's a great video. Yeah, we shot it in one day. Is that your bar, wasn't it? Yeah, it's at Redneck Riviera.

We actually put a we put a chicken wire fence up in front of the stage like the old school bar. Yeah. There's a little Roadhouse vibe from that.

And a little hee haw vibe. Yeah. Yeah.

It's listen, there's nothing funny going on in our country anywhere you look. It's just bad news on top of bad news. And I thought, you know, I'm going to inject something that puts a grin on people's face for three minutes. Maybe that'll be helpful. Yeah, helpful indeed. Well, this is I mean, congrats on the song. Congrats on the record.

I'm gonna be like I'm gonna be watching to see what they do with the with the game day announcement as well. And I just appreciate all you do. I appreciate you standing out there because this is you know, people need I think people are just getting beat over the head with everything.

They're tired. And I it feels like this song is like a hall pass. Like, you know, go ahead. You don't have to you don't have to be worried about any of these fools getting upset over anything anymore.

Our good friend John Rich. Go and make sure you download the song. Get the album to the country.

Yeah. And if I could just say before you go, it is the number one most downloaded record in all of country music. Right now, it's going back and forth between number one and number two on the all genre chart. Oh, wow. That's huge. And so the chart ends tonight.

So if you don't have the country truth, go get it. If you like the songs, tell your friends about it. Because I'm going to try to I'm going to try to overtake that number one spot and be number one in all genres. We'll see what happens.

I'm happy either way. That sounds like a challenge. Sounds like we got to make this happen.

It's a call to action. There we go right there. While people are doing that, they can open an account at Old Glory Bank and go and get some redneck. Go get some redneck Riviera. Get some of the good whiskey. That's good stuff.

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This is why, I didn't know that. New data found that 92% of school leaders have reported bus driver shortages. In Kentucky's Jefferson County, they attempted to alter bus routes. Kids were left stranded, videos were emerging of buses returning home at 10 p.m.

So they said that driver shortage is on the rise and they're pushing districts to rethink transportation plans. I didn't realize there was such a huge problem with that. That's kind of crazy. Dolphins are jerks and they launched a deadly attack on a doomed porpoise in front of stunned wildlife fans off the Welsh coast. In case you didn't know, dolphins aren't just like some cute little sea animals, they're mean. They can be total jerks. They said eight bottomless dolphins beat up a little porpoise off this coast that's very Welsh.

It's a very Welsh name, I'm not even going to try it. They said the deadly encounter was described as morbidly rare. Passengers wanted to reach out and offer the animal sanctuary. It is so, they're so ignorant. They beat the tar out of this thing. They just beat it to death. They've just flapped this thing around. It is horrible. Oh my gosh, the animals, they're just such jerks. They are. I've watched a lot of Nat Geo, I'm just saying.

Like I know some of the stuff, it's just, it's funny. This is, ooh, this is a horrible story. In Beverly Hills, thieves pillaged a Beverly Hills wig shop. This wig shop serves women and children who are fighting cancer. So they're dealing with cancer, they go and get their treatment like chemotherapy, it leads to hair loss. And so they have these, they produce these wigs for them at the wig fairy in Beverly Hills. They said thieves broke in and stole pieces meant for these women and kids going through that treatment. And they said it's inventory that cannot be replaced.

And so many people need it and now they, they're not going to be able to because of these thieves. Good job Newsome. Stick with us. The suit, the DOJ suit against SpaceX. Did y'all see this?

Oh, you haven't? Well, this is like one of the fun things coming out today. So apparently the weaponized DOJ is suing SpaceX on the grounds, you're going to like this one, Kane. On the grounds that they discriminated against asylum seekers and refugees. Were they, were they supposed to go into space?

Like I don't know. CNBC reports that the suit alleges that they committed discrimination against refugees and asylum seekers in its hiring practices. The suit says that between 2018 and 2022, SpaceX wrongly claimed that export control laws limited its hiring to US citizens and lawful permanent residents. The DOJ has been investigating them since June of 2020, when the Immigration and Employees Rights Section, that's like a department of the DOJ, received a complaint of employee discrimination from a non US citizen. It said our investigation found that SpaceX had failed to fairly consider or hire asylees and refugees because of their citizenship status and imposed what amounted to a ban on their hire, regardless of their qualification, in violation of federal law. And that is that's from Kristen Clark, the Attorney General of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. That's what they said in a statement.

And they added that, putting my glasses on because it's been a long day. They added that the DOJ's investigation found that SpaceX recruiters and high level officials took actions that actively discouraged asylees and refugees from seeking work opportunities at the company. Now, CNBC reached out to SpaceX to get a comment on the suit. They haven't commented. I just I got a question.

You have a dude. So this is SpaceX. It's a company that deals with sciencey rocket stuff.

Let's just put it in layman's terms. Exactly right. Okay, so you and and I would say that some of the rocket technology could be you could consider it to be advanced weapons technology. Right. Yeah.

Okay. So I think based upon that, that he's probably in the right and that he doesn't think that he can legally hire anyone that doesn't have a green card. Right. Exactly. I mean, wouldn't the government want to vet these people before they're working on systems like this? So if we can just hire any Tom Dick or Harry or Harriet to work on weapons tech, regardless of whether or not they're here legally, I can own whatever gun I want to write. That would make sense. Yeah, no restrictions. Yeah.

Okay. I feel like to hasn't he talked about this before? Didn't he get like some criticism about this?

I think he actually got criticism for on some lower levels hiring people that weren't legal. I think I remember seeing that. Yeah. Because I think he had before.

And he was like, apparently, from what I remember, he kind of caught some heat, because he was saying that it was like, it was ridiculous that he just couldn't do it. Right. Yeah. So that's what? So yeah, they're there.

So he actually doesn't really disagree the bite administration, but they are trying to follow law. I mean, I mean, I would say rocket technology. That's, I just think that's that. I mean, that does sound like advanced weapon tech.

So I don't see how you're going to be able to do that without being able to see looking I was looking at this, it says. I looked at the law for it. And it says that us. So apparently, you have to you do have to have a you've got a green card to work at SpaceX, because they maintain their rockets are considered like weapons technology. And then it's the USA's advanced weapons technology.

It's apparently, I mean, there is existing. From what I understand, it's the existing law on this. So, but then some are saying that they would not that because they would have to get like an export license to hire a foreign national. And then it gets into like export and whether or not they're like physically transferring, there's like a whole bunch of other regulations that go into it. But you know, by and large, it looks like they there is a law there. That's so the DOJ is suing them for following the law. Long story short, that is the dumbest stuff I've ever heard.

I mean, that's that kills brain cells without even a benefit of having had like alcohol with it. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lashes absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already made sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple podcast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.