Rich Men North of Richmond Enrichment Regimen (preview)
Today we check out the worst responses to the viral folk-country song, including Facebook rap remixes, Podcasters calling for a holy war, and fan cams of Donald Trump dancing to it. NY (9/10) TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707 PHILLY (9/12) TICKETS: https://www.axs.com/events/496996/well-there-s-your-problem-tickets Get two bonus episodes every week for only $5/month by signing up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult Music: Steve Earle - Snake Oil
For people like me, people like you, wish I could just wake up and it not be true, but it is.
Oh, it is.
Living in the new world.
Okay, so if you're only listening to this, Benny Johnson has uploaded a video to Facebook.
That's a screen grab of his Twitter account where he posted a video of Donald Trump dancing to Richmond north of Richmond.
And it's going through, you know, whatever, like a bunch of different clips of Donald Trump doing that double jack off dance where it looks like he's jerking off two guys at once and like waggling his hip for the people waiting in line.
Is this a way to like watermark your stuff?
It is to have your name on the screen at all times.
Yeah.
When people share this, because this has 156,000 views, 17,000 likes.
The video is so funny because, yeah, it's just it's like a fan cam of Donald Trump.
But with this song on it, but the song is supposed to be the focus, not Trump, but the caption reads from his tweet says star is born.
Thousands cheer on Oliver Anthony at small farmers market, quote, Richmond, north of Richmond, just gobbledygook.
Um, but yeah, it makes it look like Trump is having a rally at the farmer's market where Oliver Anthony is performing.
Like that's, I feel like what we're all like, what?
Yeah.
Like you were supposed to believe that he's really there dancing to this.
Maybe.
I don't know.
But yeah, let me, let me play it again.
It looks like Trump is dancing on stage while Oliver Anthony is playing in the middle of the woods somewhere, you know, at the other angle.
So fucking funny.
I love when they go to like the Congo line at the Trump rally.
I think that's what this is.
Like, it's a bunch of, uh, the cheapest cowboy hats you've ever seen.
Like, plastic cowboy hats, uh, kind of bobbing up and down to this song.
It's pretty great.
Why is Trump bopping to this?
He just really gets them off.
Well, it's funny.
I'm curious because I think there might be a lot of layers of this because, OK, first of all, I just want to say this is the most I've heard of this song.
I have like I have like violently avoided it.
Yeah.
But I have seen reactions to it.
And the reaction is supposed to be like somber, right?
Yeah, it's a it's a fucking sad song.
Just like try that in a small town.
It's another one of these mopey fucking and we'll get into that when we get into the Steve Dease commentary on this.
But again, it's like this.
It's this like pathetic and ineffectual and like sort of victim victimized Perspective in music, which is which is fine.
Yeah.
To have.
But it's just like when that's like you're rallying cries.
It's not I don't know.
It's not very invigorating to me.
I don't get as amped as Trump did when I hear this.
But are they showing Trump boogying to this because it's like, oh, look at Trump likes this.
Or is it like, look at Trump not even taking this seriously?
No, Benny Johnson's a Trump fan.
No.
Okay.
Yeah.
Where's Trump famous for living anyway?
Where's Trump from?
Is it somewhere north of Richmond?
Maybe?
Yeah.
Is that where it is?
Yeah, but I think it does represent like like them going to this emo kind of like this one is an emo, but just, you know, thematically emo dejected stance is like it.
It's true.
I don't know.
At least it's honest.
You know what I mean?
Instead of like complaining about how you know you're actually popular and know all your ideas are great and it's just a conspiracy to somehow delete all the people who voted for you or whatever.
At least this is like, no, we're losing.
It sucks.
It sucks ass.
And so I respect it for that.
Well, it's funny because it kind of sucks because I don't even know the song might be fine.
Like the song might be a good even I'm not positive, but it doesn't matter because the way that it's the way we all discovered it all just feels.
Disingenuous and weird and something that I think most people who enjoy music generally, besides the music we're told to enjoy because it's part of our political personality, don't trust.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like they're getting Olivia Rodrigo right now.
And they don't know that.
I don't understand that.
Was she a plant?
Was she an industry plant?
Well, it's not even her fault.
It's the same thing as this guy, I think.
It's not even her fault.
Yeah, sure.
All her stuff was copied off other people like she was getting she's getting sued by Courtney Love and then um my friend Rachel her her old band um Slut Ever like they stole their album cover completely um and like like several different like more than one album cover and also like their their their her first hit song is a Is a soulable ripoff of a Paramore song.
Like everything is just not.
It's all just copies and like created, you know, but it's like not her fault.
It's her manager's fault and her producer's fault.
And, you know, she's, you know, she's just like some young, young kid who's getting that money.
So do it.
But it's like it's.
If you really like this stuff, then you don't actually... this stuff is... you're suspect of this.
Well, it's like a novelty song.
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