“think about how many different people came together just at the founding of this country, like people who spoke different languages, different cultures, religions, ways of thinking.

So many different people came together to even create this place now. And like, we've just forgotten about all that. They didn't all come here because they wanted to ride on some miserable boat ride and risk their whole lives to go to live in some crazy jungle, essentially, that had no structure, like no infrastructure, no medicine, no...

Like they didn't come here for like some glorified camping trip. It's because they were tired of like generations of being persecuted and living under tyranny and not being allowed to practice there. You know, it's not like they wanted freedom of religion and they didn't want separation of church and state because they were a bunch of goody two shoes and they love going to church every Sunday.

It's because they weren't allowed to believe in what they believed in because some asshole king or some hierarchy told them they couldn't and they were just tired of it. That's what we're losing now. It's like we've forgotten that we're those people.”

From Lex Fridman Podcast: #469 – Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain, May 20, 2025

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