 everyone can get behind. It's called, try that in a small town. So if you're not on board with a globalist agenda, if you're not on board with one dominant, liberal, left ethic just running your life and obliterating what makes small communities and traditional commitments attractive. All right, if you're not on board with that, then you should love this song by Jason Aldeen. Man, try that in a small town, right? Suck a punch somebody on a sidewalk. Yeah, try that in a small town and see how far you get. Carjack an old lady at a red light. See how far you get. Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store. Think it's cool? Well, act a fool if you like. Cuss out a cop, spit in his face, stomp on the flag and light it up. Yeah, you think you're tough. Well, try that in a small town. See how far you're making down the road. If you're part of any traditional religious community such as an Orthodox synagogue or traditional church, all right, you've got that small town ethos wherever you go, even if you're in Beverly Hills or Manhattan. So yeah, try that in a small town. See how far you make it down the road, right? 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. So try that in a small town, right? Try that in a small town. Try grooming kids in a small town, right? Try writing your phone number, scrolling your phone number, right? On public restroom walls, right? Try like having random gay sex in public facilities, public restrooms, in public parks in a small town, right? That stuff might fly in a city. Good luck trying that in a small town. See how far you get. I recommend you don't. Try that in a small town, because around here we take care of our own. So you cross that line, it won't take long for you to find out. I recommend you don't, but try that stuff in a small town, all right? Try grooming kids in a small town. Try, you know, random anonymous gay sex in public restrooms, public parks. Try that stuff in a small town, right? Got a gun that my granddad gave me. They say one day they're gonna round up. Well, that stuff might fly in a city. Good luck. Try that in a small town. See how far you make it down the road. Around here, we take care of our own. Cross that line, it won't take long for you to find out. I recommend you don't. Try that in a small town. Full of good old boys, raised up, right? 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. 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. that in a small town right try grooming kids in a small town all right try hitting on kids in a small town try you know hitting on blokes you're a bloke in a small town right who is not asking for it's not looking for it try pulling that stuff in a bar in a small town try you know pushing the global homo in a small town try desecrating the flag desecrating the cross try desecrating the symbols of traditional America try that in a small town see how far down the road you get see if you can confiscate our guns see how far you get I recommend you don't but this is a fantastic song and of course they don't like it in the elite media and apparently one of the reasons they don't like it was that the music video was on a site where at some point in history there was a lynching so my god if there's ever something bad that ever happened on a particular piece of property then nobody should ever be able to use it ever again not for any kind of right wing traditional conservative cause right so god forbid that that happens because something something bad happens in a place then conservatives can never use that place so the the Washington Post you'll be glad to know is on the story right the outrage over try that in a small town small town explained accusations of racism prompted a country music channel to pull the video which is set at the site of an infamous lynching and race riot yeah well well I'm not too favorably disposed towards this country music channel that that cucks to the global homo and pulls down try that in a small town which is just a fantastic song and good on Jason now Dean I hope he doesn't cut doesn't back down every number one new music video number one song try that in a small town which combines news footage of black lives matter protest violence and crying with lyrics such as try that in a small town see how far you make it down the road around here we take care of our own so yeah try black lives matter protests in a small town at CFI you make it down the road but Republicans are embracing Aldean country music star Jason Aldean is facing immense backlash over his new music video try that in a small town which combines news footage of black lives matter protests violence and crime with lyrics such as try that in a small town see how far you make it down the road slash around here we take care of our own got a gun that my granddad gave me slash they say one day they're gonna round up slash well that s might fly in the city slash good luck a channel devoted to country music videos has pulled a video out of rotation after accusations that it promotes racism and violence but try that in a small town has right right preserving your traditional way of life right protecting your city right not being thrilled with black lives matter terrorism like not being down with the people grooming your kids right and that's that's racism guys that's a court of violence because you don't want people grooming your kids man also leaked to the top of many streaming charts and top Republicans are defending Aldean who insists the song has nothing to do with race one the music video features black lives matter imagery Aldean released the song in May but started facing white spread criticism after the wow so apparently like black lives matter terror protests are just equivalent to racism all right if you're not down with terror protests that unleash a massive wave of murder you are the racist thank you watching the post music video hit youtube last friday the video is made up largely of news clips showing protests riots and police confrontations in cities at least some of which took place during black lives matter demonstration yeah try pulling that black lives matter groomer stuff in a small town and see how far down the road you get buster shins prompted by police killings other clips show an attempted convenience store robbery and other apparent crimes yes try pulling that in a small town try disrespecting the police try disrespecting tradition try disrespecting america try disrespecting the flag right try disrespecting the traditional family yeah try that in a small town groomer these alternate with shots of aldean and his band performing in the public square of columbia tennessee population about 45 000 cuss out a cop spit in his face slash stomp on the flag and light it up slash yeah you think you're tough he sings and at another point try that in a small town slash full of good ol boys raised upright slash if you're looking for a fight after two minutes of violent images the video concludes with a brief montage of grainy footage depicting peaceful townspeople and their crops and families two the moray county courthouse was the site of a lynching some who accuse the video of racism point to its setting in downtown columbia the site of historical acts of violence against black people aldean's performance backdrop is the moray county courthouse which at times appears to be on fire as images of burning american flags are projected onto it it's the same building where mob hang 18-year-old henry chote from the balcony in 1927 the teen had been accused of attacking a white girl who never identified him as her assailant and whose mother begged the mob to let him stand trial columbia is also the site of an infamous 1946 race riot that nearly resulted in the lynching of future supreme court justice thurgood marshall this small town full of good ol boys as aldean sings is in his home state of tennessee which was scandalized in the 1990s by an annual law enforcement gathering called the good ol boys roundup that featured racial slurs and a simulated lynching while aldean highlighted columbia and its courthouse in a behind the scenes feature the music videos producers say he didn't choose the location which they portrayed as innocuous the production company tacklebox said in a statement to the washington post that the video was shot at a popular filming location outside of nashville that has also been featured in the lifetime step in into the holiday and disney's hannah montana the movie both movies were filmed in columbia according to local news reports the tennessee entertainment commission did not respond immediately to a request for comment so you are probably wondering how did the review react to jason aldean's song try that in a small town too far the view hosts are weighing in on jason aldean's controversial new song try that in a small town on thursday woopie goldberg sarah hains joy bayhar sonny hauston and elizabeth ferragriffin discussed the backlash surrounding the polarizing track and its music video there's a lot wrong here with us this is a man who saw what happens when someone is out of control with their thoughts yeah he's someone he was out in vegas and he was he saw people get so i don't understand how he could be that disconnected how people around him didn't say to him hey listen you know yeah my god if guns are ever misused then we we just have to give up all guns like people die in car accidents people misuse cars do we need to give up all cars people misuse trains planes and automobiles do we have to give up trains planes and automobiles people misuse jesus people misuse torah people misuse everything so we have to give it up people misuse sex right there's rapists out there man there's rape we have to give up sex guys maybe there's a better way to do this while sarah and joy focused on the tunes lyrics related to small towns and big cities elissa said she was going to give the country star the benefit of the doubt this was to me something we're about half the people in my life see it one way and half the people in my life see it a different way so i'm trying to like kind of see what are we disconnecting on i'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that his intent wasn't to you know stoke division glorify violence or racism i'm going to give him that benefit of the doubt i don't know but i'll say this there was a line so from the many folks who are funny about this there's a line that says try that in a small town see how far you make it down the road around here we take care of our own so for a lot of my friends and family who are legal gun owners and small communities they're like yeah that's what we do someone breaks into a story you're talking about the right to defend yourself what i thought of when i read that that was a mod arbor i think of a black man in a small town in the south who literally got shot for doing nothing wrong so i think what becomes problematic is that there's a lack of recognition of what this means about 50 percent of the country whose experience yeah this isn't about just shooting out people who've done nothing wrong the song is obviously about protecting yourself against groomers and creeps and terrorists isn't jason aldeus but sonny didn't agree i'm actually not going to give him the benefit of the doubt and i'm pleased that you are and i'm pleased that you agree that he should be allowed to say that ever because as a lawyer when i put my legal hat on i don't believe in censorship however this man is from megan georgia my father's from agusta georgia and megan georgia i spent many summers there yeah both i spent many summers there is one of the most racist places in this country so don't tell me that he knew nothing about what that imagery meant and what he so i don't give him the benefit i'm saying along with him more people should also be the other thing is try that in a small town's lyrics include quote 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 how far you make it down the road 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 the music video features videos of looting protests and images of burning the american flag jason took to instagram to respond to the backlash earlier this week saying that the intention of the song was to refer to the feeling of community and people taking care of their neighbors quote regardless of differences of background or beliefs in the past 24 hours i have been accused okay let's look at some other reactions to this jason our dean song uh try that in a small town what you're probably wondering first of all is how how's the black community reacting to jason now being try that in a small town buddy hey man what he made dirt roll at them that is my what's up okay so what's been going on oh my god they're talking to jason like they said this song incites violence he talked about all that woke stuff going on they heard the last lomito he said he said hold on so they said this that's a dark community he's talking about all that woke stuff going on he said try it in a small town i was just at that gym in the sauna i was such a music doubt today man so so they hot from who's saying so about this they're like her baby dream that i mean i'm gonna say okay very thoughtful reaction there let's see some more yeah back at it guy what's going on guys back at it like a fresh weave like a wig turn backs oh um so you know it's been a big talk about this song man it's i know it's probably like really blew them up but even more so because he was already a big country singer but um the jason outing tried that and okay let's uh let's see something else here what do we got what do we got champagne radio show welcome back i love music army how we doing we doing good out there all right we hope so uh we are so glad to but we're gonna rate the song at the very end if you're part of the i love music army you already know we can't we can't be playing music they will get forget into copyright trouble so all right let me go back here washington post article and the company emphasized that al dien did not choose the location and said any alternative narrative suggesting the music video's location decision is false three al dien defense tried out in a small town the singer however has stood by the song and its video in the past 24 hours i have been accused of releasing a pro lynching song and was subject to the comparison that i direct quote was not too pleased with the nationwide black lives matter protests al dien tweeted tuesday 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 while i can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music this one goes too far al dien also noted that he survived a mass shooting at the root 91 harvest festival in los vegas in 2017 in which dozens were killed and hundreds injured our community recently suffered another heartbreaking tragedy he tweeted okay anyway i think this this song is awesome all right try that in a small town and we were talking about very different conceptions of the self right people on the liberal left they want to leave you know violence entirely to the state while people on the traditional end of the spectrum much more down with people having the ability to defend themselves the people on the liberal left they believe in a buffered identity that if their groom is next door if they're you know all sorts of different sexual deviants next door that doesn't necessarily affect you because they believe in the buffered identity where no matter what's going on around you it doesn't have to affect you there's no such thing as moral or spiritual pollution but people in small towns right people with a traditional conception of life we believe that we don't need buffered identities but instead what's going on with you is going to affect me and vice versa what's going on next door is going to affect me that no man is an island so people on the liberal left they believe much more in courtier morality where you weigh everything that you say and do against how it affects everybody else while people with a traditional perspective on life much more likely to believe that each man's home is his castle and that he should have the right to essentially say what he wants even if strangers and acquaintances and other people get offended so very different conceptions of the self so people with a traditional perspective all right they tend not to be so on board with gay liberation right people who are part of traditional Judaism traditional Christianity all right not really on board with gay liberation and people who are on board with gay liberation obviously they're not going to be on board with Christianity and Judaism which have long traditions discouraging you know men or men sex so try in a small town doing the practices that got these men by Bondi beach into great trouble even cost them their lives like try scrolling your phone number on the walls of public lavatories in a small town try having sex in a public park in a public laboratory in a small town like try having random gay sex in a cathedral or in a church in in on the town square in a small town right I don't think you're going to get far now you may say oh these people in a small town that they're not so rational all right their assertions aren't so accurate their arguments aren't so cogent that you know their their wisdom prescriptions are not so wise I mean people in small town are ordinary Americans I'm thinking this great book by philosopher Ronnie Goodman conservative claims of cultural oppression the nature and origins of conservophobia right to to criticize people in small towns intellectually is to commit a category error like as it is to criticize a tea party conservatism right the tea party anger is not ultimately driven by intellectual arguments and cannot be brought to an end through intellectual arguments right they may have objections to this or that federal program that may be less than cogent but these ostensible issues are secondary right what's really going on here is you see in small town America the anarchic will of free men of ornery men which the elites are hell bent on extirpating but which the populist conservative would defend at all costs right people in small towns particularly they believe that they should have the right to educate their children as they wish that they should be able to influence public schools so that teachers and gay act activists don't get the opportunity to groom kids so people in small towns and people with a traditional perspective not so much wanting to destroy modern society but they want to take on the very organized affect structure that emerges out of it the the properly ordered sociability of the buffered liberal left identity so conservatives traditionalist people in small town they want a life that is less compromised by the liberal left sociabilities demands they want a life that's less rationalized less intellectualized less disengaged right they want to go back to human nature's default and more authentic form of consciousness but people on the left right they insist that the town small towns not be left as they are they have to be badgered they have to be bullied they have to be pushed they have to be preached at they have to be drilled they have to be organized to abandon their lacks and disordered folk ways and conform to these various features of buffered civil liberal left behavior right so people in a small town they resist all this liberal left badgering and bullying right so they see people on the liberal left as tyrants and usurpers and crypto fascists for always scheming to undermine the natural liberty of the conservative well try this in a small town try badgering people in a small town with the globo homo agenda try bullying people to accept grooming in a small town i don't think you're going to get far down the road try pushing people to celebrate you know the gay and trans life in a small town try preaching at them the wonders of globo homo in a small town try drilling people in a small town on the beauties of grooming right see how far down the road you get right so liberalism and the left they have come to dominate our all our institutions right it's not because they provide such compelling solutions to our problems but because they very effectively suppress and discredit the free human nature that small towns strive to retain so the difference between liberals and conservatives is not the difference between secularism and liberalism is the difference to the degree to which secularism and liberalism has compressed religion into a new form of secular identity that has taken on a religious fervor right you've got the whole compression of traditional religious identity into this new liberal left fervor where they decry people you know acting naturally right they decry people who speak crudely and openly right and still cling to their guns and religion right so people in a small town may not necessarily permit themselves to be intimidated by liberal intellectualism right try coming into a small town and just try pulling that stuff right come into a small town try sucker punching someone on a sidewalk right try you know pulling off a carjacking right come try the you know gay lives matter black lives matter you know come try that in a small town and see how you can do right like try pulling a gun on the under of a liquor store try cussing out a cop spit in his face stomp on the flag light it up desecrate everything that traditional americans hold sacred desecrate the cross desecrate the church desecrate christianity right you think you're tough well try that stuff in a small town see how far you make it down the road because in a small town people take care of their own they're not necessarily you know down with this groomer agenda right they're not down with being bullied right cross the line in a small town it won't take long for you to find out recommend you don't like try that stuff in a small town right people in a small town still got a gun that their granddaddy matter give them right so you say one day they're going to round up all the guns well that stuff might fly in the city but good luck try that in a small town see how far you make it down the road because in a small town people take care of their own right so it won't take long for you to find out what happens you try to pull that stuff in a small town right so to the extent that people in a small town are anti-intellectual right that's because they follow a politics of presence a politics of living rather than a politics of ideas all right they put their traditional folk ways their traditional religion their traditional loyalties ahead of liberal intellectualism right liberal intellectualism prizes detaching ideas and theories and laws from basic human experience right that's not the traditional way of life right the liberal left wants us to embrace you know the reflexive buffet identity and the erection of an entire social order and legal system all right on something that's completely contrary to human nature right the liberal left wants our lives to be bound up by all their rules right it wants everything to be legalized and conventionalized right they want they want total control they want to legislate everything they want to remove risk all right they don't want heroes they want role models all right people in a small town they're willing to go to war they don't mind some risk and they admire heroes all right people in a small town right they seek and they welcome drama they prefer times of war and conflict and risk right yeah they might be a little insistent they might be a little intolerant of globo homo right they might be willing to take a stand they might not be down with surrendering right they may not want to be plowed all right they may not be down with you coming into their public spaces public parks public lavatories and hooking up with random gay sacks and scrolling your phone number on there and talking about how much you love to give head to strangers right that may not be down with the whole liberal left routine right they may not buy into you know the reflexive liberal left ideal that we shouldn't get excited and we should discourage manliness and toxic masculinity right so traditional masculinity is the antithesis of the buffered reflexive distant ordering impulses of the liberal left right masculinity at its deepest level is a protest against all these liberal left buffered rationalizing reflexive forces of the modern world against the peculiar nature of courtly rationality a rationality that is hostile not just to to fighting into contests of swords and guns but to the entire range of traditional virtues and identities that most people for hundreds of years have built their lives around yeah so come come into a small town and see see how far you get try try pulling that that groomer stuff in a small town see how far down the road you get they're saying 40 what is a secular guru of modernity and so there's the fishes and paranoias an alienation that's going on in modernity and secular gurus can capitalize on that so you know I'm just I'm just foreshadowing Chris our theme of anti-establishment thereanism that's all I wanted to do yeah so um well one thing I think to mention here as well and this is something which people always struggle with is that when you are defining a category or tribe for example there there can be individuals who do not fit neatly into the what's that word whenever you have the the kind of prototypical figure right so you might set a bunch of characteristics that are defining of the group or the kind of person that would be in the group and then you will find that various people uh related to a group you know embody those features more or less right but there is no group where there's no divergence amongst members and everyone is a prototypical example because that would be I am a person with brown hair right like these are all overlapping categories and you know we got that that's not all of them what that's right so the main fact that we're covering someone does not entail that we think they're a guru it tells that we're going to check them out listen to what they have to say have some fun talking about them and maybe rate them on the grometer as well so I'd add just a little note there as well Matt that part of that was part of the reason that this developed was when we were initially covering people we were basing our approach on this kind of secular guru concept that we had but we covered people that were suggested and that we were interested in but we very quickly noticed that people were varying to their degrees to which they fit the template and um by us covering them on the show called decoding the gurus there's an implicit uh suggestion that the people that we cover are gurus of some stripe or another and and we developed the grometer which we'll we'll talk about more detail but um before we get there just we developed a system in order to say that there are it's a spectrum and there are people who are closer to this concept than people who are far lower yeah yeah yeah we know about life on the spectrum bloody hell be with them dislike them but they wouldn't score highly because they might be okay that's boring okay let's get to the good stuff about okay all right here's some good stuff from matt brown from australia university of central queens but they don't do the kind of secular guru things and this is the thing which people constantly seem to not entirely grasp yeah yeah true and uh yeah so we are interested in a thing called discriminant validity which is to make sure that our concept you know is specific to the thing that we care about and and and while we know it's got some you know then diagrammatic overlap between things like public intellectuals or traditional religious leaders political pundits people like that like almost any academic or someone with a public profile we we wanted to make sure that it was actually specific so in terms of people that we're interested in covering willing to cover we we cover that whole that whole joint what union of all of those venn diagrams that um but only some of them will actually um be part of that subset of secular gurus and you know most of the properties that we'll talk about in terms of the grometer of the secular gurus you know uh there are you know it has a negative kind of violence to it i suppose not not every characteristic of it is negative but you know i think we generally feel that it's um it's intrinsically unhelpful in in uh in a in society that we live on live in to i guess to declaim the mantle of that kind of secular intellectual authority but to be actually doing something quite different basically you know appealing to to other kinds of the motivations or um uh what am i trying to think of trying to you know where their appeal is based on on other things apart from you know okay so these two academics matt browner and chris caviter kind of they embody moderate liberal left you know careful