Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2337 - Oliver Anthony
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2337 - Oliver Anthony' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-06-13. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2337 - Oliver Anthony

and we're up my friend how are you good to see you long time no talk yeah
brother yeah
how you doing you good good i um man i remember like towards the last the end
of the last time
i was here you said oh yeah we'll probably see you again in a couple years and
i was just looking
around like yeah i'll never see any of this again you're back quicker than you
thought yeah bro that
new song is fire oh thanks yeah i played that song about 20 times in the green
room and uh the first
time i played it everybody just sat around went oh shit it was so funny that um
yeah i didn't expect
the song well you know i didn't i wasn't the one i guess it was adam that sent
it i don't even know
how you got a hold of the song originally yeah adam sent it to me originally
yeah i sent it i'd send
it to him like um yeah just kind of just to get his opinion of it or whatever
and he's like i got it
he's like do you mind if i share this around and i was like yeah go ahead bro
the first time i heard
it was in the green room and the green room has a killer sound system so we we
put it on the bluetooth
and cranked it and all of us there's like 10 dudes in that room going oh shit
oh shit some of those
lies like oh shit yeah what what makes that song different i guess than
anything i've done or than
a lot of music now is that we're um we tried to like do it the way leonard skinner
or somebody would
back in this where we're all just in the house and there's no like man there's
so much editing that goes
into music now on the back end and stuff and with this we're just like in there
doing it and
you know try to keep it as real as yeah as possible like um you know there's no
there's
no click tracks there's no real editing it's just kind of like we're all just
in this house i mean
it's it was is the worst timing to record but um that was that january 5th 6th
7th window was the
only time that everybody could meet up you know billy contreras on the fiddle
and everybody and
because he he tours with ricky skaggs and he's kind of all over the place so
that was like our
time to meet so a couple days before we all went to west virginia to record in
my house up there the
um this like terrible storm they were calling for it's like the worst one since
the 90s supposedly or
that's what draven says but so we got all the snow all this ice so um so yeah
we used a side by side
and a jeep to haul everything up and down it was like just all we could do to
get up and down to the
house and then it's right as soon as we get everything plugged in ready to go
the power
knocks out and uh i was like we were all just so discouraged and um luckily
there you know there's
a lowe's not terribly far away and they had one they had like a honda inverter
generator that was like
safe to plug everything into you know like a where the waves aren't going to
mess everything up and um
so yeah we you know we recorded the song while on a generator so you have to
worry about the waves of
the generator like the sound of the generator is that what it is no like the
electrical yeah like
plugging all of that expensive equipment into just like a a yeah a generator
that's on an inverter
like the voltage like goes up and down i guess or i don't know that's all above
my pay grade but
we had to find one that was like safe to plug all that equipment into you know
well it maybe that's
something in the song too you know like maybe that you're trapped in a storm
but that's a scary ass
song dude it's a scary i can't wait for the yeah see i hadn't put a lot of new
music out because um
well i think back to even when i was here last time and before we did the
episode and all um walking
around on the sidewalk out in front of the hotel with draven and a couple other
people arguing that
i needed to just cash out from richmond and roll and not make this into a long-term
thing because i
just um well dude i just don't some people thrive in this environment like
everybody looking at them
but i to me it's just like so it just it kind of takes it kind of takes a
little bit out of me
putting new music out and so you know after richmond i only had those two new
songs i really just
wanted to let everything kind of slow down and i could still maybe do five or
ten shows a year and
make a little bit but i wasn't trying to be like a superstar i didn't want
everybody just to be
i didn't want to be stuck in that spot i was when i was at richmond where
everybody's just like
obsessing over stuff and so i kind of just tried to let it die and then it you
know it wouldn't it
was like the streams kept continuing and people were still messaging me and
emailing and the shows
were still selling out and i just realized like i don't know you know i
believed everybody that said
this kid's got 15 minutes of fame and whatever and i would have been during
when richmond blew up i
would have been one of those guys who would have been like oh that stupid guy
you know like i would
have been a hater too so i'm i was almost like rooting for them like yeah you
know because you got
to think man the first check from richmond was eight hundred thousand dollars
like i can i could have
lived a long time off of that money you know like i don't need a whole lot of
like that was crazy you
know that was right a decade or more of work for me easily and so it's like i
was like heck yeah i'm
good i'll just take it you know and um anyway i say all that to say that now it's
like i'm gonna at
least just i'm gonna at least just hit it good one more time i've got we've got
six songs recorded
now to come after scornful that are all like i'm pretty proud of them they're
good and so um i'm
gonna put those out and then who knows after that but let me tell you what's
gonna happen you got a
relationship with those people now man they love you yeah it's just your
mission in life you know
you just got handed a wild hand of cards and this is your your deck of cards
you know your deck of
cards is or your hand of cards is you put this song out this authentic song
that's very simple in this
time where nothing's simple and this time where everything's confusing and you
don't know who's
telling the truth the news is lying to you everything is being funded nothing's
organic it's half the
traffic on social media is bots at least politicians are lying everybody's
confused people are simping
for politicians they're they're getting paid to repeat talking points on
television and on podcasts
and all over social media so when someone comes out with something like that is
just that dude telling
you how he feels yeah real raw you know i remember we had that conversation on
the phone and i was like
if you can do that you could do that again you don't they don't need anybody
else you don't need these
motherfuckers who want you to cash out all these they just they they're doing
that because they
think that you're gullible they think that you're naive in the ways of the
entertainment music business
the first fucking live show you ever performed was a giant sold out show at a
state fair you know how crazy
that is as your first yeah well that that very first show was actually um it
was even more amateur than
that it was at a farm market it was um it wasn't even there weren't even any
tickets it was just like
so it's crazy how it all it just it goes back to when i still believe just as
much now as i did the
last time i was here about and i don't i definitely won't bug everybody too
much with all my hokey pokey
religious stuff either like i definitely want to read a little bit out before
we go but
i do believe it was just it was all too perfectly timed but i had actually
picked that date out at
the at the farm market before richmond blew up that was going to be my that was
going to be my first
time playing live either way that date it was like august the 12th i think i
had booked it back in july
with that morris farm market i was going to get 200 bucks and go play for like
it was like two and a
half hours like seriously and in that time that's what happened so like i
already had that date picked
and yeah it was just at a farm market and um like kind of near the beach in
outer banks and they say
like 12 000 people showed up and that was the very first one yeah and i just i
remember even then like
i just i just expected everybody to sing richmond and that was gonna be it and
it'd be cool and i'd go
back to work the next week but it was like even in that crowd at that very
first show all the other
songs they knew the words to too and i was like this is like something you know
but wow um the important
thing too is that the the important thing to take away from this and i said
this during richmond but
people you know it was like take me out of it the fact that people can now
choose what they want and
push it to the top even in a system that's rigged where there is bots and there's
mass marketing money
going into songs and like labels spend a million dollars on their own song to
get it up the label
yeah the fact that people can just decide they like something and just shoot it
up to the top like
people need to realize how much power and influence they have at least for a
short period in time in
society it's like the stars are aligned where we can kind of it's funny
technology like can only
develop on the backs of people using it and so like ai and and all of this over
the years social media
like all the back end of that it's been it's all that information's being sort
of extracted from us
like you think about like the like the way a tesla car rides down the road and
it's watching you drive
and you're like it's like reading your analytics so it can learn how to drive
better we know ai
that's the only reason why they let everybody use ai is so it can make the ai
but it's the user input
that's that's what makes it you know and so for a very short period in time it's
like the stars are
aligned where they're having to like while they're sucking all the humanity out
of us to put into this ai
we also have full access to it and like so we can do like even in the even in
the music business
you know everything that the label used to held exclusive control over like the
publicity and the
marketing and the digital streaming service relationships like all that stuff
is now just
a la carte to anybody like you don't need the you don't need those big
companies all that stuff you
can just go and hire a really good social media person and you can work with a
good music distributor
without having to sign anything or give any of your rights up and yeah right
now the people have
the power is what i mean for like a very short period of time but this should
be a this should
just be a reminder of that this song being able to go up into the itunes charts
even with stuff
with way bigger audiences with all kinds of marketing reach you know the fact
that this can just
organically go into the itunes charts like that and people you know it's just
that's the thing that's
the thing i always take away from and it's just like damn dude if we could just
get organized even for
like two or three years we could just fix everything like we like the people
really do have the power
at least right now for a short window of time but we really do i mean we just
but people have to
understand that we are all in this together and that there's organizations that
want to drive us apart
and the way to work out our differences is having conversations and
negotiations and figuring out
how to work it out it's not lighting cop cars on fire like this is you know
yeah but the spirit
of those like not to defend any of that crap but i just that rebellious nature
in us is important
too though it just has to be it has to be directed correctly you shouldn't be
burning waymos while
holding a mexican flag trying not to get sent back to mexico i mean you're
confusing the out of me
dog like who is your oppressor is it the electric car is it the country which
you know you want to
stay but you're holding a flag of another 