Try That In A Small Town: Really This Is A Controversial Song?

You know, I am not a country boy at all, not a country music fan at all. As the one who suggested one for a song reviewed ma Yeah, I know. I was hoping that'd be the only time we talk about a country song and now you're talking about this one and you brought this one up. I didn't even bring this one up. I know. I think I'm seeing a different side to you but people keep doing stupid stuff. 

I might have to become a country person just because of how stupid it is. Paul's becoming a country boy. Yeah, exactly. One of them. Good old boys. Yeah, exactly. So, what? Anyways, welcome this week to use your words. 

Uh, Paul joined with Aaron once again. Wow. What a great face to welcome people on. Yeah. Yeah. Just imagine people are watching you right now. 

I'm, I'm just on my best behavior. Sure. Ok. Anyways, so a, a country song has apparently angered a few people somehow. I don't know how, but we'll talk about that a little bit. So, it's the Jason Aldean Al Al, is that how you say it? Al Jason Aldean. Jason Aldean? His song, try that in a small town hit number one on whatever charts. 

Well, it hit number one. Yeah, because of the controversy. Yes. So, like before the controversy it had like, maybe 500,000 plays. Oh, that is it. And this song has been out since May. 

Oh, so it's been out for a while and just recently started becoming, oh, we have to be a controversy about it. It's like, ok, great. So what, what, why, what do you mean, why? I don't understand what, for this long? And just now it's getting attention. Yeah, exactly. So the reason I got attention was, it was pulled from country music, television's rotation. CMT. OK. So the video itself was pulled from, this is what started the whole thing, you know, and everything uh because they said, you know, all these things about it, we'll get into that in a second, but essentially the video was pulled from CMT and after it was pulled from CMT, all of a sudden it became really popular and it's not exactly the best song in the world. No. OK. It, no. So here's what we're gonna do. All right. Are we gonna listen to it? No. OK. I'm gonna read the lyrics and I want you to stop me when we get to one of a couple things the first time where it's racist. OK? The first time where it talks about lynching the first time where it talks about a Sunset Town. Got it. And do you know what a sunset town is? Yes. How do you, what's the sunset town? You already told me about it? That's why. Ok. So what's the Sunset town? Uh, but we said, or sundown town? Sunset town. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. What a town where certain people could only be there and be safe per se while the sun was up as soon as it went down, it could be dangerous for certain people. Yeah, exactly. So it basically colored people had to leave the town by sundown. How dare you say that? 

Yeah, that would have been better you than me though. So apparently there were entire sundown counties as well as sun sundown suburbs. Probably even sundown states shoot. Um and it was not restricted to the south either. It was up in New Jersey as well even. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Northern states were described as equally inhospitable to black travelers until at least the early 19 sixties. Jeez. I so, ok, crazy quick story time. Ok. You're like story time. So sad and happy story always. Oh, damn. You're like, oh not good story time. So this would have been 1997 November. Uh Why, why are you laughing? 

I was a baby. Yeah, I know we were going on a trip to Disney World down in Florida with my dad, you know his last trip. Ok. And we were driving on the way down and we were driving through Georgia. 

Good old, good old Georgia. Good old Georgia. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And it was getting pretty late at night in Georgia and I remember, like, we were trying to figure out what to do. Like, do we get a hotel, a motel or do we just sleep in the van? What do we do? Ok. And some of my family in the van starts getting hysterical because they see a town name and they're, like we were told if you're not white, you can't go to this town after dark. What? I think it, you know, just them being whatever but you know, I'm 14 at the time. So yeah, whatever. Right. And so that, that was kind of like the same deal with, you know, apparently in the olden days it was a sundown town and they heard rumors it still was a sundown town. And so like they forced my uncle who was like almost falling asleep to drive to the next exit to the next town. Oh my gosh. Like no, we can't stay here. Da da da. Ain't no way. And they're just getting hysterical about it because he's like, no, I'm just gonna, and it's not like he was white, he was of Hispanic origin as well. So it wasn't like he was like, oh, I don't care because we're white. 

I'm white, blah, blah, blah. I'm just gonna do that. No, he, he would definitely of Hispanic origin as well. So nice. I got to see people react to that. You know. It's crazy. And the town where, yeah, the town where my, um, my grandma, on my mom, on my dad's side, not my mom's side, my dad's side, my mom's side was down here. 

You see, uh, the town where my dad's side lived until she died. Oil City, Pennsylvania. Oil City. It's a town nestled in the, like a little valley between two mountains. Ok. Oh, ok. Yeah. Nice little town, right? But even then my mom, so this would have been summer of 97. 

We went for a visit there and multiple things happen, but we're not gonna get into all of them. Uh But one of the things I, I remember my mom saying is that she didn't feel safe walking around the town. Ok? Because she looked around. She's like, so everybody just like white, she's like, they're all white is paper. Oh, Jesus. She stood out a little bit. Yep. Especially in a town like that. 

It's a small town. That's all just small town. I was just like, yep. But you know, those, those are realities of olden days, you know, and that, so back to the thing of I want you to stop me when you hear it as a lyric that says about lynching that says it's racist, that talks about a sundown town that talks about anything that might be controversial that might indicate um racial indicate, you know, anything racial at all. Ok, because I read through the lyrics and I was like, hm, I don't know, you don't know. 

Maybe the whiteness has corrupted my mind. I don't know. I might have. Yeah. But I'm asking a white person. So I, I got you. Ok. I'm young enough. Oh, ok. I see. You're woke up. Got it. Absolutely. All right. So the lyrics and obviously I'm not gonna repeat like, all the courses and all because I get boring. So lyrics sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk. That's racist card. Ok. We're starting right off. 

All right, Aaron calls that racist. How's that racist, sir? Um hm. They may actually did, did that actually kind of make me think of a joke that I saw on the social media where it was a guy robbing a dude and he assumed his race just because he was doing the crime. See, that's where it comes from right there. So what you're saying is you're racist. 

I, I didn't make the joke though, but you're making assumptions based on. Yes, correct. So that's where this all, I mean, yeah, white dude did it. So of course he's gonna be a racist about it. So it started right at the beginning. All right. So that's why, why I think it's racist. Got it. Yeah. Not really though. Ok. Maybe I can get to the next line. You can continue carjack an old lady at a red light, ok? 

Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store. Yeah, I think it's cool. Well, act a fool if you like, oh, he's not saying? Yeah. You saying? Yeah. Like you think it's cool. Yeah. The lyrics is y a Yeah. Yeah. You think it's cool or act like a fool if you like, cuss out a cop, spit in his face stomp on the flag and light it up. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're tough. 

I think you're tough. I'm sorry, my brain had a tough time with that line. It was like, there's too many whys there should, there shouldn't be that many whys in a line. No, my goodness. Well, try that in a small town. 

See how far you make it down the road around here. We take care of our own. You cross that line. It won't take long for you to find out. I recommend you don't try that in a small town. 

Got a gun that my granddad gave me. They say one day they're gonna round up. Well, that might fly in the city. Good luck. Try that in a small town. 

See a, yeah, of course again. Yeah. Um, try that in a small town full of good old boys raised up. Right. If you're, if you're looking for a fight, try that in a small town. Try that in a small town. Try that in a small town, see how far you make it down the road, blah, blah, blah around here. Yeah. There's, isn't much to the song lyric wise. 

No, there really isn't. And it's just, I don't, you don't like this song. The only, I don't know, I guess unless if you say you're looking for the only, I guess, I mean, that's not even has, doesn't even have to do with the lynching. It's just if you're looking for a fight like no, come on. Uh I mean, I didn't hear race mentioned once in the song. 

Yeah, I didn't hear anything about Sunset towns going on. Um, because it doesn't mention anything about the time of day. What, what about the lynching? Where's the lynching coming? Not nowhere unless you wanna try and say it's where they talk about getting in a fight sort of thing if they want to fight. 

But, uh, but no way it's just such a dumb song. It is. It is. But it has gotten so many plays now since it's risen to controversy. How many plays has it gotten now? I don't have it on there. 

I did, I was not able to find that myself but if you can find that go for it, it's got 13 million views on youtube, which is pretty decent. Yeah. And it's interesting if you read like the news articles, oh, you know, across the internet. So, for example, the Los Angeles Times. Oh, that's gonna be good. Yeah. Jason Al Aldan's try this in a small town as shameful naturally. 

It's the right song. Of the summer. It's the right song of the summer. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Exactly. And, um, if you look, the original headline was Jason Aldean. 

Tried this in a small town maga song of the summer. That was the, that was the original headline. Of course, it was, got dragged Trump in there somehow. Jason Aldeen already has the most contemptible country song. Hm. And I'm like, really, it's that controversial. 

Well, of course, but so now looking, it's not, you know, it's not the lyrics, it's not the lyrics that, you know, I guess give you that racial problems. It's the video. You think it's a video, huh? It's the video. Ok. So you said it had 13 million views on youtube music video when this article was written on the 19th? Yeah. It had 1.8 million views on youtube. Wow. Controversy has been very good for him. 

It's made him more money and this song was originally released on May 19th over on Spotify when this article is written on the 19th year of July. It had 3.8 million streams. Can you imagine what that count is? Um, now another 10 million just like the youtube one? I don't know. I have no idea. I don't know. Oh, you're just, oh, ok. 

Yeah, I'm just saying because, you know, if it had to, I put it this way, if it had that much controversy backing it and then all of a sudden that happens. Uh, it's up to 7.2 million. Ok. But still that's a decent number of streams. Get it, maybe half a penny per stream. That's a lot of pennies at least, which just turns into a lot of dollars real quick to give you that. I'll give you that. But what's, what's, I can't remember what the building is because that's, is that worth, is that where like the whole lynching and Sunset Town thing is actually the issue. 

It's not within the lyrics. It's just the video. Where are some people saying it's literally within the lyrics that they get the thought of lynching. They don't ever describe it. They just describe it as a lynching song. A pro lynching song is what they say. 

So, OK, the courthouse that you're talking about, that's so OK, if you watch the music video, which it's available out there, OK. It's essentially the band performing in front of a courthouse, a white courthouse with a bunch of news videos displayed up on the wall of the courthouse. All those videos displayed in the music video or on the wall of the courthouse during the music video. Those are all news clips from the summer of love as people call it uh A K A the summer after George Floyd's death. So those are all the blm protest and all that and everything that are there, right? And that courthouse is in Tennessee. But that uh white courthouse is in Tennessee and apparently there were lynchings there. 

It's famous for lynchings happening back in 1927 or so. Linings or a lynching uh Depending on the article you read, it says lynchings. So again, depends on the article. So like New York Post says linings. OK. You know, others have said lynching. 

I was like, all right, cool. So we, yeah, I I I'm, I'm assuming he didn't know that don't know if he did or not. But then the next question is, would that matter? Yeah, exactly. How long are we going to assign sins to a building? What was it? I heard there was something about like that same courthouse that was also used in some Christmas movie and that doesn't surprise me probably on the Hallmark channel. So if it can be used for that aspect, why can't it be used in this one? Because it had the footage from the summer of love up on it? 

That's why doesn't make it look good. Oh, you know, besides it being called a pro lynching and all that other stuff, it's also was received criticism on social media for being an embrace of vigilantes and for its conspicuous use of a location known to historians on the side of a lynching of an 18 year old black man in 1927 say I could almost get behind the idea of vigilantism where he's saying like we, we're like, I don't recommend you trying that in a small town or whatever and kind of leading to the, well, I mean, yeah, leading to the idea of if you try to do something stupid here, we're gonna take care of you, sort of thing. Which, ok, but you can also do that anywhere. Can you not? Well, no, probably can't do that just anywhere. But, like, if someone were, I mean, if someone were robbing or trying to carjack an old lady, yeah, I could go and try and attempt to stop that. 

Could I not perfectly within. Right? And so really what the song is getting at? Like let's say that happened in the middle of a big city, right? 

More than likely people are gonna let it go. People are gonna let go. But what happens in a small town? Like a small rural town? You're getting taken care of the people of that town are going to step in and be like, no, you do not touch, you do not touch old granny swaddle maker because she makes the best brownies in the market. Yeah. Don't lay your hands on her or you touch my grandma. 

I'm gonna touch you. Exactly. That's supposed to be weird. But so a, a Tennessee lawmaker, right? Uh Justin Jones, he wrote this about the song as Tennessee lawmakers. 

We have an obligation to condemn Jason Aldan's Heinous song calling for racist violence. And where do people get this Cheryl Crow? You know, Cheryl Crow, I know the name I can't put a face to it but I know the name she tweeted. There's nothing small town or American about promoting violence. Oh, they can piss off a, yeah. So they're, they're talking about what it's like you can't even say that there's gonna be a con like there's gonna be consequences for your actions because that's violent can have that. Mhm. But, yeah, again, so the, the song originally was released in May, right? Like I said, the video itself wasn't released until July 14th and that's when all the controversy came up. 

I wonder who it was that got a hold of it and caused it to just start blowing up people just randomly. I, I saw some clips and yeah, there was some because like when somebody like important have to like voice some opinion about this and then all of their little followers then just be like, well, Cheryl Crow is kind of, oh well, Cheryl, yeah, Cheryl Crow, yeah, she's kind of, I mean, I gotta look up this person because I can't put a face to her. No. How do you even spell it? Really? You're a musician? You don't know how to spell her name. 

Music just involves me hitting things sh er yl space Crow like crow like, oh yes, yes. All right. So that being said, right? I'm gonna play something. We'll see if this gets flagged on youtube. If it does get flagged on youtube, then uh this will become a youtube only segment but Aaron unfortunately won't be able to see it, but he can hear it ready. 

I heard I came across this from a friend last night. Oh, I will share with you the friend a the who it was, you know them. Ok. So, and they posted this video and I was like, yep. And that, this is what they wrote above it. 

Funny how people are upset about Jason Aldean song yet. WP and all the songs about committing crimes are totally OK. Make it make sense. And then they posted this video. So are we gonna talk about the racist dog whistles in Jason Aldi's new song or no? Because this got me fired up when I tell you there was a visceral response to hearing the song for the first time today. 

After listening to this song one time, the references that I heard were nods to sundown towns and lynch mobs. He's talking about very stereotypical crimes that you, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Black folks. The answer is black folks. Hey, sweetheart, if you listen to the song, the song was talking about all types of different crimes that were being committed in cities. And he said, try that in a small town, we take care of our own around here. 

He never mentioned black people once if you hear about crimes and you think he's talking about black people, guess who's the racist sometimes I feel like some people take it upon themselves to find the racism everywhere they find it where it isn't. He was talking about living by law and order and not destroying the community you live in also. Did you ever stop to think that maybe he and all the rest of America is tired of people protesting and doing ridiculous destructive things and then not getting punished for it. How many times you have to watch a video of an old woman get punched in the face on a train in New York. 

Maybe it's because out here in the country we actually care about one another. And maybe if you, people, what do you mean you, maybe if you guys actually cared about one another, like we do out here in the country and stop to help one another instead of just pulling out your phones and recording all the time, your cities wouldn't be such crap shoots and you might actually be proud of the places that you're from and that's where the claim is gonna come right there with a little bit. Um, and by the way, the guy who's talking this whole, this whole time, definitely not white, definitely not white definitely has a lot more male than them that I do. Huh? You know, and that's why he's going. Oh, sweetheart. Oh, sweetheart. And for real though, I mean, what he said was just dead on. But he, but did you hear the leap? And bound that she made in the, in the assumptions there she goes for them being black. 

Yeah, because she goes, well, these are all stereotypically black crimes. I'm like, what do you mean? So sucker punching people, Carjacking people pulling a gun on liquor store owners cussing out a cop spitting in their face, stomping on the flag, lighting it up. So you tell me those are all stereotypical black crimes that's racist, isn't it? One might argue that which I think you would be correct in this within saying that which, which makes me uh think of a quote from community. Oh jeez, why do you go? Oh jeez. Oh I, I need to watch more of that. 

I, I convinced Andy Durst to um to, to watch that because of that. Um Let me pull this up and if this doesn't get copyright strike, you'll understand why I said it makes me think of community because, oh my goodness. So uh yes, give me one second here. Hopefully it doesn't get uh flagged but because this is a clip that community, the show themselves put out on youtube from their show and this is immediately what this whole like her making those assumptions about the crimes and that they were black people made me think of, let me tell you a little secret about me, Troy Every day on my way to school, I drive through downtown past the courthouse just to get a glimpse of the world that I once ruled and I just want to jump out of my car, run up the steps and exploit the legal system for profit. But I can't, I'm locked out of my old kingdom. You're not, you see what I'm saying? 

You're saying I could be a lawyer. I'm saying you're a football player. It's in your blood. That's racist, your soul, that's racist, your eyes, that's gay, that's homophobic, that's black, that's racist. Damn. What on earth? So that was uh a conversation between Troy uh for a former football player in high school black and Jeff Winger, a former lawyer who was found out to have a fake degree. Oh my God. And he was trying to convince Troy to sign up for the community college football team because he was being blackmailed by the Dean with pictures of him that he was gonna send out to, you know, all the, the places where uh winger could get a job. 

That's why in that previous episode I said not even winger could get you out of that because he was a fake lawyer, but he was really good at his job even with a fake degree. But yeah, that's incredible. But yeah, when I, I heard that I immediately thought of that little conversation. You're football players. That's racist, racist. Oh my goodness. It's in your soul. 

It's racist, it's in your eyes. That's gay. That's, that's, that's racist and it ends up being Troy who says the final thing that Winger goes, that's racist. Just chef's kiss. So yeah, all those things just made me keep going back and forth. I was like, oh man, we're living the Jeff Winger Troy conversation right now with this song where we're making a bunch of assumptions and saying, well, I shouldn't say we, I should say the people who are upset about this are all upset about it and doing that and watching it and going well, that's because how all those crimes are evil. 

Yeah, I mean, crime is pretty. Um, so what's interesting is if you watch the news about this, it was interesting. They were interviewing someone about this whole ordeal and he goes well, yeah, you got this Jason Aldean. Is it Al Al Al? 

He goes and he's anti vaccine. He's anti mask, he's anti trans, he's pro gun, he's pro running people out of town. I was like, wait, where did, where did you get that all from this? Yeah. And, and the claim their claim in the news in the interview is that by playing clips of the protests after George Floyd's death that, that promotes gun violence? Wait, what? That was a, that was me basically taking what he said in that interview. 

He said by taking clips from the protest after George Floyd's death that promotes gun violence. Why, why, which is why I wrote the note that the video uses nothing but news footage through the entire thing, they didn't make like, all these little fake protests up. They used news footage from the summer of love and then the only thing that was video new was them in front of the courthouse. That was it. So, I'm like, have we split too far, you know, politically these days because it's just getting ridiculous. Oh, yes. Because, and what was funny is there was another, um, news interview or news segment I was watching and they were talking about, well, because, you know, in the video they were showing clips of, like, people burning the American flag and all that and everything and they're like, well, that's free speech. 

They should be allowed to do that. Da da da da. I'm like, so then why are you getting all upset about this video? This one because they can, and a really good attention. But obviously it's been doing more good for Jason than anything. Yeah, exactly. So, out of your outrage, you're actually doing the man a favor. That's part of me goes, was this manufactured? Hello? Think so. I mean, I, I didn't even hear know of this artist before then. 

Ok, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you some grace because you're not a country boy and neither am I. But I knew Jason Aldean. Yeah, I had no idea who this person was at all. Hm. I, what it does, it boggles my mind though how I was like, oh, this is so violent but then if you look at so much other music, it's so much worse. Yep. I, I think, I think the reason is because it highlights again sarcastically. 

I call it the summer of love. Like everyone else does we call it sarcastically. Summer of Love. It highlights the hypocrisy of that. I think that's a reason why a lot of people are upset about it because they have all this news footage of all this time when hm all these riots were happening, all this death and destruction was occurring. Can't remember who coined the term summer of love. So I forgot who did. But I thought it was someone from Seattle or the State Washington State. 

I don't remember, but they might have coined it that as you know, like them being serious, but there was, I forgot the commentator who coined it and being sarcastic about it. But yeah, it was entertaining uh regardless. So I want you to hear the news report interview in their own words on this because it's just fantastic news. He's been anti vaccine, anti masking, uh and anti trans and now pro guns pro running people out of town. But industry experts say, don't expect an apology. 

This kind of mean spirited song and video uh has been rapidly applauded by a lot of his fans and if he apologizes for that, they'll say he backed down although it's been pulled from CMT the video for try that in a small town is now trending online. The song is still playing on radio stations nationwide. So, yeah, it's like, people are, are surprised where this, I, I guess, yeah, I wish that people would go listen to actual, like, radio stations because one, not all radio stations are censored. So, if you find an uncensored radio station, especially if it has, I mean, I had to more so like, some, like the rap style of music. 

Yeah, that stuff is horrendous. Mhm. What was the stupid, wasn't it a, uh, Lizzo song or something where it, it made, like, mention of like that one, the one girl who, like, chopped, her boyfriend's like, wiener off. That's fine. That's not violent. Is it? Apparently not? Because, you know, obviously it must have been done against a white guy. So therefore he deserved it. 

So, therefore it's not violent. So there was a, there's a, there was a channel I found last night it's a group of four black guys, right? They heard about the controversy around the song and how it was anti lynching and all that. So they decided to watch it and they got, like, halfway through the song. They're like, really? This is it, this is the controversy. Yeah. And it, it just was like, yeah, that, that was it. 

Uh, so the channel is, um, Cartier Family. It's so like, they're just, you just see them watching and it's like, really, that's it, that, that's the controversy because her Uncle Tom's. Oh my goodness. Did you just say that? Did you really just say that? Yeah. What, that's what the people are called. I know. But I don't think, I don't think you can say it because you're white. Wait really? That seems to be the case about everything. 

It's like, like everything is like, oh, because you're white. You can't say that here. Let's listen, I can't say that. What's wrong with that one? Yeah, let's let, let's listen to the, the Cartier family as a really trying to cancel this shit is really making me more that shit. You shouldn't, you shouldn't told me that. 

Now I'm getting more pissed. I mean, it's been pretty viral right now. Everybody's talking about it on the internet. Like I told you this song, bro. He just said he pretty much saying don't do all that great stuff in the. See y'all think y'all took on over here, boy, if you, if you cancel this song, man, they trying to say he's trying to say he's promoting below. 

He talking against you. He, he's cut. Are they reversing you? I'm like, because he talking about don't do violence. He said y'all do that here. We take care of ours. 

I don't know that they really put back in blood and then yeah, the I'm not even gonna play this but yeah, then they start playing like a rap song. They're like, yeah, compared to this. Yeah, for real though, which is. Holy crap. Yeah. I didn't even realize that was, I guess it's labeled an offensive term. Hm. Interesting. Oh, the Uncle Tom thing? Yeah. See, I guess, yeah, I guess I have to be careful, especially after seeing, um, I mean, Grant, did they say all of, I guess? 

Well, I shouldn't say all of them but was the, the conservative, the Hodge Twins dudes because that's what they say they're called all the time. I was like, oh, yeah. So I was like, oh, ok, cool. 

Oh, apparently it's offensive. Oops. Uh, it's only offensive just like I can say certain words. So regarding Mexicans that if you said them I would be in trouble for. Yeah. Gosh. Yeah. I didn't realize that was actually, I didn't realize it was, uh, directed towards black people. Holy crap. You did? Oh, I'm ok. Now, I had to give myself a history less really? 

One would be afraid that you would actually, like, write a song with lyrics and not realize it. Is that, wow. How, how did you not know it's been a long time since I've been in a history class, you know. Hm. All right. I want you to listen to this because I had listened to this at one point in. You do too. And unfortunately this became the number one song on US itunes. 

We have a problem in this country about race and the biggest problem is we refuse to admit that it exists Well, don't you think that a lot of, a lot of small town businesses, race is, is about race. The cities have more black people than the small town our case. Oh, the view is just the biggest pile of, it's, uh, it's a dumpster fire, man. 

Oh, that's being convenient. That'd be, that's being nice about it. Yeah. Uh, ready for the next clip. Um, as we go on, wrote a clip, I listen, you know, there are lyrics in the song and I think, you know, he talks about life in a small town and it's different, you know, and he shows these images. He's got, uh, folks, uh, from the Black Lives Matter Movement and he's talking about people taking care of each other and I find it so interesting that never occurred to Jason or the writers that, that's what these folks were doing. Oh, my gosh, that's gotta be recent, right? What this? Yeah. Yeah. So does she not already know that the Whole Black Lives Matter thing was a big load of crap. 

At least it's for the people that were in charge of it. Oh, I'm sure she knows. But probably doesn't care at the same time. All right, ready for the next part. Their town because they didn't like what they saw. Just hold on. I can't, I can't vote Jesus. So this is, this is from, um, Officer Tatum. Ok. Uh That's where he's going. 

Hold on, hold on. He's like stop care of each other. In small towns, we do the same thing in big towns. You just have to realize that when you make it about Black Lives Matter. No, you don't do the same thing in big towns. Look at all the people that get assaulted on like subways and that all the time. 

We look at the marine who's, who was just arrested recently because he, but no, that guy that he choked out though, he, he liked to entertain people and dance like Michael Jackson and, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know if you entertain people. You're automatically immune to everything. Yeah. It's part of like an entertainer, right? Sort of thing. Cool. Let's kill all the entertainers. 

Get out of my ass shoot. Is that why they're not going after Epstein's clients? Mhm. Was that noise? Yeah. To go back in the subway? Was it, was it on the subway? Wasn't some chick literally like raped? 

Oh, and recorded it. Watched it happen. Yeah. So people don't take care of themselves each other in a big time. Get, get in the real world. Whoopie. All right, ready people kind of say, well, are you, are you talking about black people? What are you talking about here? 

He didn't say no. Yeah. It just, it gets into it and just keeps going. I, I'm actually not gonna give. All right, it's gonna get, I'm not gonna give what not gonna give Jason the time of the year. Do you agree that he should be allowed to say whatever? Because as a lawyer when I put my legal hat on, I don't believe in censorship. 

However, this man is from Macon, Georgia. My father's from Augusta, Georgia and Macon Georgia. I spent many summers there. Yeah, both. I spent many summers there. It is one of the most racist places in this country. 

Uh, she's just making assumptions. She goes, oh, because he's from there. He's racist. Of course. Right about what that imagery meant and what he, so I don't give him the benefit along with more people should also. 

So, yeah, that, that you can hear what the view is saying about it there too. It's just, well, the view never, almost never has anything good to say. Yeah, I know. But it's just entertaining because a lot of people will listen to the view is that the only part of me wants to hope that the only reason the view is still running is because it's a massive joke and it's just great material to make fun of and that we've all been part of the joke and we're all in on it. Yeah, probably not. They probably make them enough money because if they have someone like Whoopi Goldberg where they have to pay a decent amount of money on it, they have to be. But that's us and that's what's getting them. 

The money is because people want to keep them there because they're just so dumb and it's great to make fun of them. Well, so I find it funny because they say this Jason Aldean, right? That he's promoting gun violence and all that through this song and this video, right? Because his granddad gave him a gun. Yeah. Um, you remember the Las Vegas shooting? 

Oh, I remember that one who was on the stage at the time when the shooting occurred. Was that, was it Jason Aldean? Yes, it was goes hand in hand. He's a violent man. All right. Uh So that, you know, so it's not like he's never been immune to the scene. 

The catastrophe that gun violence could occur. Well, he probably was a part of setting that up. Wow. Ok. There's the twist for you. Well, conspiracy theorist Aaron just gave us the answer to everything we need to investigate this. No, please don't. Well, oh gosh, I have comments. Oh boy. 00, you have comment that'll get investigated better than the cocaine in the White House. 

Did you know the fe I is already on their way here. Suit. They're tapped into this right now. They're tapped into everything. What are you talking about it? Sorry, Paul. I didn't mean to ruin your life. So four days ago, Jason Aldean released a statement on Twitter. 

I'll go ahead and read it because I'm like, I hope he apologized. You better have apologized for his awful song in the past 24. Hours. I have been accused of releasing a pro lynching song, a song that has been out since May and was subject to the comparison that I direct quote was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protest. These references are not only meritless but dangerous. 

There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it and there isn't a single video clip that isn't real news footage and why can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music. This one goes too far as so many pointed out. I was present at Route 91 where so many lost their lives and our community recently suffered another heartbreaking tragedy. No one including me wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families ripped apart. Try that in a small town for me refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief because they were our neighbors and that was above any difference. My political views have never been something I've hidden from and I know that a lot of us in this country don't agree on how we get back to a sense of normality where, where we go at least a day without a headline that keeps us up at night. But the desire for it, that's what the song is about. So two comments on o on this one, a news article states Jason didn't actually even write the lyrics to this song. 

Someone else wrote him, I guess there's no real surprise to that. The singer is not credited as a writer for the song. As has been the case for most of his 27 hit singles. Wow. Yep. So, he's just the voice behind it. Yeah, exactly. So, I was like, first off, there's that one. So people are like, oh, you realize he didn't even write it. So he just sings it. Ok. Secondly, something in there was very interesting because it reminded me of something because they were our neighbors and that was above any differences. 

Sounds very familiar to me. Does. Yeah. Oh, it's not quoted directly that way. But we're given multiple stories in the New Testament. Ok. I wasn't sure where you're gonna go with this. Ok. Or stuff like that. 

You have, you know, the, uh, was it the, where the Samaritans on the road and, you know, he needs lodging and he gets put up even though there's great differences between him and the person who put him up, you have Jesus and the woman at the, well, great differences between him and, uh, her people, let's say, you know, because they were on the mountain and that's where they believe they should worship and all these different things. And we get this concept in the New Testament to, in the, in the command. Even to love our neighbor as ourselves. And our, our neighbor people go well, who's our neighbor, who's our neighbor, who's our neighbor, who's our neighbor. The reality is the neighbor is not the person that's just next door to you physically housewise, you know, or mean, apartment wise, your fellow man. Exactly. We can take care of each other even though we may not agree on things. And that's the important part. And if you're out there going, we need to cancel and we need to do this, do this, do this because he doesn't agree with us. Then maybe it's not the people like Jason that are the problem. 

Maybe it's you, maybe you're the ones causing the controversy, the stir ups, the division, maybe you're the ones preventing reconciliation from happening. Maybe you're the ones that are causing us further harm and divide in this country and in this world instead of recognizing that that person is your neighbor and helping them regardless of how they voted, regardless of what their political signs are, their shirts that they're wearing, the music they listen to or anything else like that that you can characterize and divide on based on someone's immutable or mutable characteristics. It is time that we stop acting like the people that sit there and record as a woman gets raped in the subway and we act more like we do live in a small town where we recognize that people are our neighbors and we got them regardless regardless of who's committing the crime and don't be stereotypical on assuming that just because someone's doing Carjacking that they automatically, they have a certain amount of melanin in their skin. Yeah. That to that lady who was in that other video is racist. Mhm. Assigning attributes to someone based on the melanin in their skin is racist. 

Whether that's too little, too much or the, just the same amount as you and we need to stop that when you get back to that small town thing. You know, I am not a country fan at all. This song, honestly, kind of not the best song in the world. Go listen to it if you want, I'm not gonna tell you to listen that you have to listen to it or not. Um But it, it musically, it's simple lyrically. It's simple but it's not, it's not a, uh it's not a high quality. No. And I think the only reason it's been so many plays is because people are throwing temper tantrums because it hits them in the fields and makes them upset because how dare we use footage from the summer of love to show that there is chaos and community in this world. Hm. And to that lady on the view who goes, oh, I'm putting my lower head, I'm blah, blah, blah. 

You know what there is this thing in the United States that makes us so wonderful here called Freedom of Speech. And that's the thing that we need to continue to fight for where we disagree with the person's ability to say what they, we like or not. The fact that they get the right to say it is great and we should never ever, ever take that away from someone just because we go, well, it defends my fifes. I don't care. The what now? Oh, you never heard that term? No. Oh, yeah. Beefy feelings. It's a new one. But yeah, so that, that's what I have to say on. 

Try that in a small town. Try that in a small town. Yeah. Do you have any final comments? Wordings, statements, blabbering stories. Meanderings. Tangents. So, I mean, if we could only just be what? For those that are like outraged by this song? 

If everybody could just be like them, then we wouldn't have problems anymore. So, you know, whatever. Just go about life your own way, you know, it's fine. Just forget about everybody else. They can suffer their own things as long as you're ok. It's fine. Don't worry about it. 

I hope you're being facetious. Oh, absolutely. Because otherwise we're gonna have a conversation. I am the problem. No comment there. It too. It, at any, any final comments. So seriously. It, yeah, it is wild to me and how, uh, I, I just, I don't understand why this became such a big thing. It is just so stupid. Is it again? I don't, I've never known anything about Jane Dean, I'm gonna guess because of the outrage that's been given. 

I mean, he's a conservative dude and he's white so he's got that going very much against him too. Yep. It's, oh, it's so silly to me. But for getting that now, knowing that he'd even write the song, probably a lot of people don't even know that. 

Well, they can't know that. Yeah. A lot of people probably don't know that. And they, they're just like, oh dad, he's so evil. But, yeah. Yes, I wish, I wish people would put actual effort into stopping things that are actually terrible versus being outraged about stupid stuff like this. 

I mean, for so, no, let me be clear. It's just an example. All music has its crap to it. If, for whatever reason it seems to be a lot more popular in the rap genre but with all, like, gang violence stuff and just the gang lifestyle and it's like if you could put a stop to that stuff, things would be a lot better, especially for those communities that suffer from gang violence. Mhm. But there's no outrage about that. 

We're just some dumb American goly. Wow. It sucks. I guess America is not the only dumb ones. There's dumb people all over the world, but just like, it just seems like it's a special thing in America recently was just, I don't know what it is. Yeah. But, like, I think of that good old Green Day song, American Idiot. And I'm just like, yeah, we kind of are, yeah, with that we are that we are. 

But, and this is the thing where it's like, especially man thinking about the view. It, it is so easy to get outraged and just like, just think of how dumb some of the stuff people are like some of the things that people are saying because it's like you can't talk to him. You can't try and give them this like other point of view. You can't say, well, race was never mentioned. Why are you bringing that into it? 

It's like you can't have that conversation with some of those people because they're just, it's not gonna click. But it's like, how do you, I don't know, I guess hopefully you can have that conversation with more people. And that's the thing too. It's like, it's, it's so easy to get worked up and that is the important thing about having a conversation is not let yourself get so emotional. Yeah. And just, it's, it's the reaction don't have, I guess, like bad reactions towards what people are saying. You gotta take it in and be like, well, this is what I think and I guess, have a good discussion on it, which I am terrible at, well, we got to get you better at it. No. Yeah, I don't wanna be, I'm just kidding. 

But, uh, anything else now I'm just gonna second what you said, I figured it would be, it would, it, I wish we could have more of that small town, like, care for one another for sure where it's actually you wanna, I'm just thinking around here in my neighborhood. Yeah. I mean, we're all pretty, pretty darn nice to one another, especially my neighbor across the street. He's an awesome dude. And it's like we love to help each other out when we get the chance to, if someone asks for help on something or like if he needs a ride somewhere, it's like, yeah, why, why is it so hard just to help one another? I don't know. We need to get better at it. All right. Gosh. Dang it. Aaron's words of wisdom of the week. No, we gotta get better at it. We gotta get better at this. Loving one another thing. Yeah, I can agree more. All right. Well, thank you for joining us on this week's episode of User Words podcast. We'll catch you later and um I'll leave Aaron here with his wonderful face for you.