Oliver Anthony: "From Chad To Cuck At The Speed Of Light" (preview)
Today we cover the result of the Teamsters UPS contract vote, compare the data to our expectations, and relay some very odd Facebook group responses Also: we dive into the right’s freakout over viral “Rich Men North of Richmond” singer Oliver Anthony proclaiming that America is “a melting pot” and “diversity is our strength” We examine why the “based” right wing would have so much invested in the overnight sensation, looking into the coping (“a melting pot means everyone becomes homogeneous!”) and seething (“From Chad To Cuck At The Speed Of Light”) across Twitter, Facebook, and Substack And Finally, we learn about the movement among Oliver Anthony fans to hold a General Strike on September 1st to, uh, protest taxes—with the help of some truly cursed Tik Toks. ---------------------------------------- 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
Alright, sad news today, folks, as we learned that our favorite new music sensation, Oliver Anthony, sadly not racist.
I heard about this.
Yeah.
I heard about this.
He gave an interview.
This guy fucked me up real good.
He gave an interview with Fox News where he said this.
I mean we are the melting pot of the world and that's what makes us strong is our diversity and we need to learn to harness that and appreciate it and not use it as a political tool to keep everyone separate from each other.
So funny.
He did the meme like if you're not if you don't follow the right wing as closely as I do.
Diversity is our strength is a meme.
It's a meme on the right wing.
And it's also like, I guess, a meme on the the people who, you know, like it's I don't know.
It's obviously like a liberal bon mot, like not bon mot, but like a liberal platitude that doesn't really mean anything and like an easy way to sound anti-racist.
And it's I mean, there are ways you could go into details and be like, no, it is valuable to have different people or with from different walks of life around you with different skills, with different backgrounds, whatever.
But just the phrase diversity is our strength is like a Kamala Harris thing to kind of say.
And he did it.
Most often they're just referring to the fact that you can get like butter chicken and orange chicken on the same block.
Yeah, you just say it instead of defunding the police.
Like that's...
That's all that's all it is.
But he said it.
He he fucking did the meme and they're they're not happy about it.
Devin Stack shared this interview and said promoted algorithm boosted quote based red beard hillbilly song guy was faking his accent and says diversity is our strength.
I love that like they've been really harping on the accent thing.
Yeah.
Because people were like, Yeah, he was singing, he was crooning.
Did you think he was going to be talking like that?
I did.
But see, I don't listen to country or folk or bluegrass, whatever this is, and I just assume that's how all those style people talk.
I did think that Billy Joe from Green Day was British when I was a kid, so I understand this feeling.
I mean, not really a good example because there's video of him talking in the same fake British, mid-Atlantic, pop-punk accent.
And he's drunk when he does it, so it cuts his true self.
Normally, when he speaks in a California or American voice, he's code-switching for our benefit, and we appreciate that, Billy.
It puts us at ease.
It helps us feel welcome as well.
But yeah, when he's getting drunk and a little loose, he's... Oh, fuck all!
Five more minutes!
I've never seen the behind the scenes footage of Green Day.
I don't want to meet my heroes like that, you know?
I just watched the American Idiot Broadway play.
I have that on DVD and that's as close as I get.
I mean, isn't one of those performances with Billy Joe as Saint Jimmy?
I don't actually know!
I've never actually seen this!
Yeah, we covered it on That Awful Sound.
That's so funny that you do.
I guess morbid curiosity would get you.
Yeah, it's a fascinating episode.
We watched the documentary called Broadway Idiot about The, yeah, what is that album called?
The George Bush album?
American Idiot.
Yeah, thank you.
Sorry.
Literally like never listened.
I've never listened to that album.
But yeah, it's about the stage, the Broadway production of American Idiot.
And it is like, Heartbreaking.
It's so embarrassing, but you can't, like, hate Billy Joe because he's so earnest and so, like, just an inner art theater dork, like, barely letting it out, barely feeling safe and comfortable enough to let it out.
Yeah.
But to say the least, this ain't no Billy Joe.
Uh, yeah.
I love that they're like, because I think, okay, so, so the song, you know, the, the line that people are taking issue with is, is the 300 pounds fudge rounds, you know, line.
And I mean, of course, like the welfare queen trope is racist or it can be very racist.
But I didn't see a lot of people saying the song itself was racist.
They were just like, Oh, you're punching down at people on welfare or you're punching at fat people or whatever.
Um, but these guys were like, we thought it was racist.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
Cause that's, that's the funny thing about it.
Cause the line itself is it's, it's fat phobic and it's classist.
Yeah.
But to assume he's being racist is in fact racist.
Yeah.
You know, so like, cause at that point you're assuming, well, whoever he's talking about must be black.
That's how the, that's how the conservative, that's how the conservative would normally get you.
They'd be like, Oh, please explain how this is racist against black people.
And then you, as, as the, you know, virgin liberal, you have to be like, Oh, well, uh, actually, uh, uh, but it worked against him this time.
Yeah, they're super disappointed.
And like, it's so funny.
You see, like, did you see his explanation of that line about that line?
I got it.
I don't know where the clip is, but I saw he said the fudge rounds line.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you see his defense of that?
Yeah.
He says we need to eat healthier.
It's like, yeah, he says we're not giving enough money to get healthy food anyways.
And why is this junk so cheap?
Which I totally agree with.
Yeah.
Well, but that's the thing is like, That shit is so cheap.
So when you're complaining about a person on welfare buying, like, one of the cheapest fucking pieces of trash junk food, like, my mind isn't going to your thinking about, oh, I'm just concerned about the fat pig's health.
You know, I'll say it again, like some of this song is is good and fine.
And like, I never thought this guy would be like a based nationalist or anything like whatever these Internet poison freaks are.
So it's very funny to see this response.
Yeah.
And Toad verified at Tower Dang Toad post the Lord of the Rings gif of Sam crying at Frodo at Mountain Doom and saying, yes, Mr. Frodo, it's over now.
It's done.
We thought, we really, they really thought this song, it was like a call to revolution.
It was going to change.
This song was going to change things.
I'm moved by music often.
I don't know if I've heard a song that I really thought was going to like change things.
Yeah, not, probably not since I was 13 did I think, have I thought that, you know, and what was it like?
Me first in the Gimme Gimmes cover of leaving on a jet plane.
