Joe Rogan Blasts Star Of ‘The Office’ For Criticizing Oliver Anthony’s Hit Song

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Spotify podcast host Joe Rogan flamed an NBC sitcom star for his negative commentary about Oliver Anthony‘s viral smash “Rich Men North of Richmond.”

Actor Rainn Wilson, who rose to fame playing Dwight Schrute on NBC’s “The Office,” criticized the blue-collar anthem for shaming overweight food stamp abusers, rather than fat cat CEOs.

“If I were writing a song about ‘rich men north of richmond’ I wouldnt talk about obese people on welfare,” Wilson tweeted on August 20.

“I’d sing about CEOs who make 400 times their average workers salary (up from 50 times 30 years ago) & corps that pay zero taxes & offshore tax shelters for billionaires.”

Rogan, who had Anthony on the latest episode of his show, told the musician he found the actor’s social media post hilarious.

“There is nothing funnier than millionaires talking s**t about billionaires,” he chucked. “There’s nothing funnier about millionaires pretending that these billionaires are out of touch.”

“Take Dwight from ‘The Office’ down to West Virginia, take him through those coal mining countries, take him through those places in Appalachia where people have extreme poverty and pills have ravished those areas, take him through there.”

Anthony said that the “sad thing” was that rampant drug use and poverty “exists everywhere now,” which is why he believe his song resonated with the nation.

“I knew I needed to do this, like I knew I needed to … I procrastinated with music for a long time,” Anthony explained. “I mean, I’m 31. I’ve been playing guitar and singing on and off since I was a kid.”

Wilson recently spoke about how he was “mostly unhappy” while filming “The Office,” because the felt that the hundreds of thousands of dollars he was making a year wasn’t the millions he thought he could be earning.

“When I was [on] The Office, I spent several years really mostly unhappy because it wasn’t enough,” he told Bill Maher on the “Club Random” podcast in July.

“I’m realizing now, like, I’m on a hit show, Emmy nominated every year, making lots of money, working with Steve Carell and Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski and these amazing writers and incredible directors like Paul Feig,” Wilson explained.

“I’m on one of the great TV shows. People love it. I wasn’t enjoying it,” he complained.

Wilson spent the nine seasons he was on the hit show bemoaning the fact that he wasn’t a movie star, and did not have a development deal with studios.

“I was making hundreds of thousands [but] I wanted millions,” he complained. “And I was a TV star, but I wanted to be a movie star.”

“It was never enough. Humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years, and “never enough” has helped us as a species.”

Anthony, who passed up a seven-figure record deal to self-publish his music, has been at the center of a political culture war after becoming an overnight sensation.

Rogan said that the “problem” with most people, is “they want you to like what they like, and if you don’t like what they like, what you like sucks.”

He said that humans are “tribal” with everything, which includes our “cultural sensibilities.”

“We want everybody to kind of think along the ways that we think,” Rogan detailed. “It’s very strange. And when a person like yourself gets labeled a right-wing, left-wing fanatic, like right out of the gate.”

Anthony noted that he knows he’s doing something right, since he has been labeled as both in the week and a half since his song topped the charts.

“They’re looking for your Biden campaign contributions now they’re going through your f***ing taxes,” Rogan joked.

“The whole thing is so bonkers, man. Like, can’t they just accept that you made a great song and people enjoy it? Why do people have to attack?”

Anthony said that his reluctance to speak out about who he is has caused people to “build this image of whatever it is that the person behind the song represents, for better or for worse.”

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