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If You Think Jason Aldean's Song Is About Lynching, You're the Problem · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show. Friday morning, twenty,
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first day of July. I'm wes, thanks for joining me. Knocking
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on the door of the weekend, knocking on the door of August. Really
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getting close. You are getting close kids going back to school. You're excited,
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You're ready for them to be back in school, and kind of not.
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I've enjoyed having them around the house and them getting their break, but
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it's time. They need to kids went through a lot with missing school and
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everything when it came to COVID, and we just need them back in school.
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Got to get them caught up. They need to get caught up.
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We've talked about all the negative that came from them missing school or not getting
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the full school experience, so we need them back. But it's been nice
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and a lot of people have been taking advantage of this summer of normalcy.
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I feel like this is really the first summer of normal I know last summer
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we kind of got a taste of it. It was mostly there, but
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I think a lot of people last summer were still just feeling some of the
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after effects do you still know people that are still very COVID conscious conscious?
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Now? That's what I was trying to say, Do you still know people
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that are very COVID conscious now? People that are still wiping down their groceries
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and those kinds of things. I'm learning that there are still people doing that.
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Not everybody's still wearing masks in public, and not everybody's wiping things down,
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but there are still people doing it. And I think it's just because
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it's become that learned behavior. It's what we did. Some did, and
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I say we collectively. Some did it, and some are still doing it
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because they think, well, that's what we did. But anyway, this
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summer was a summer where folks, I think we're officially ready to get active
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vacationing. And I think it's been the summer of the big vacation. I
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think a lot of people have been doing big vacations. Not everybody, but
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I certainly know a number of people who've been out of the country, out
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of this hemisphere and experiencing the world. And I think after you went through
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a few years of not being able to do it, if financially you were
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able, I think people did. Not everybody's back to where they were financially
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in twenty nineteen. But of course a lot of folks are recovering. I
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know we're still dealing with a lot when it comes to inflation and other things,
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but we're all getting back, at the very least to where we could
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be all over again. All Right, something that has been a topic of
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discussion through the week for a number of places, and I think I'm ready
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to now chime in on it because it's not really so much I know people
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are really they do the outrage and they go, can you believe that this
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happened? And that's kind of the extent of it. I don't think that
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people some of the media outlets really dig into it. I was aware of
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a couple of them talking about it, but I didn't really stop to pay
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attention to what they had to say. I've mentioned before I like to have
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my own thoughts on things. So I'm gonna preface all of this by saying
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I'm not much of a country music aficionado, right, not much at all.
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All Right, If I'm gonna pick one country artist, it's like truly
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country artists, and I know there's a few artists you could argue they might
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count as country, they might not. And I don't know where all of
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that lies. But if you told me right now I had to listen to
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one country music artist that it isn't like, you know, a crossover person.
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I'm not talking about any of these artists that did crossovers, and I'm
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talking about a true country music artist. If you told me I had to
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listen to one, it would be Marty Robbins. That probably didn't see that
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coming, But that's the truth. Okay, that's probably about it. Maybe
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Hank Williams Senior, that's about it. That's kind of my era of country
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music as I enjoy it. Not that I really listened to that at all,
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Just being completely blunt, that's not my format. My radio career has
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led me to working at a few places that involved country music in different capacities,
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different roles. I was never a program director of a country station,
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but I did do some work for a few country stations in my time around
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the state of Georgia and Alabama and other places. But the point is country
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music is not really my thing. It's just not. With that said,
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I would like to stress that there is a few of these country artists today
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that don't really sound like country anymore. I mean not at all. And
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I was aware that there'd been some changes to it, but I wasn't aware
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that how much it had changed. Basically, one artist that I'm aware of,
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I don't know a whole lot about him, but I'm aware of him
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as an artist. I'm aware of his music, I'm aware of his successes
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is Jason Aldeen. Jason Aldeen has been in the news this week because he
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has a song and a music video that has upsets some people. Oh no,
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it's upsets some people, and there's a few. Well I know the
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reason. I feel like I know the reason why it's upsets some people.
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But there's some claims about why it's upsetting people, and I don't think that
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has anything to do with why it's upsetting people. His song is called try
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that in a small town, and it's become a little bit of an anthem
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for people who are just sick of it. They're just sick of it.
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They're sick of a lot of things that have been allowed to happen. The
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mold that's been allowed to grow in this country, the wounds that have been
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allowed to fester, all right, the scabs that have been picked repeatedly just
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to open them back up again. And this song has become an anthem against
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that. And there's folks on the left that have lost their minds. They
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don't like it, they don't like it at all. Now, country music
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typically has been sort of a format that does well amongst conservatives. The artists
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tend to be conservative or at least more conservative, not all of them,
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certainly not. I think the ones that are very far left end up leaving
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the format to go be you know, pop phenom superstars and charge you,
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you know, nine hundred dollars or a thousand dollars there's a ticket. Those
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kind of people, it's a very socialist of them. But then, and
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don't get me wrong, good for them being someone who is you know,
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absolutely And I don't like using the term capitalism because it really is kind of
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a Karl Marks term, but I do like the free market. So good
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for them, Good for them for maximizing their thousand dollars twelve hundred dollar upper
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deck seats and people being willing to pay them. Good for them her.
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Can I just say good for her? I have to say her name,
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you know what I'm talking about. And no, She's not the only one,
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all right. So Jason Aldean, who himself it certainly has these conservative
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tendencies as evidence by try that in a small town. A video that was
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filmed outside of Nashville, and it shows some you know, there's some overlay
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of different things that have taken place in the news, and the song references
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some things that have happened in the news inappropriate behaviors, I think, behaviors
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that at one time would have been considered not just inappropriate, but horrible,
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deplorable, despicable behaviors. At some time, we would have seen them that
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way. But now, for some reason, they're looked at with I don't
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know, admiration. They're looked at They're looked at in a way that someone
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would say, this is what you're supposed to do, right So, and
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I'm talking about things like riding in the streets and attacking people and sucker punching
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people on the streets and Molotov cocktails and all the craziness that we've been dealing
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with now for quite some time. And the song basically references those things and
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just kind of says, hey, try that in a small town. You're
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doing it in the big cities. Let's try it in a small town.
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See how it goes over with people who look out for each other. But
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goes in small towns. That's what people do. They look out for each
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other. They take care of each other. They don't let somebody bully them
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or harass them or push them around. They stick up for each other.
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They do things for each other. Small towns have always had that perception,
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right, or at least for a long time. There's always been that idea.
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It goes back to you know, early settler days. Right, somebody
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had a farm, somebody had some cattle, somebody had some chickens. Let's
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all get together and let's swap some vegetables for some eggs and some beef.
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You know that kind of thing. People looked out for each other. Hey,
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i've my fence is down. I got a cattle and horses getting out.
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Well, let me come over and help you build a fence. That's
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a small town mentality. The people who are today say, oh, man,
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I got a window unit for my ac because my AC's out for my
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house and I gotta put this window unit in and I hurt my back,
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And the neighbor says, oh, come over and help you put it in
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right. That's what people do. They look out for each other in small
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towns. May i'd be happening in big cities, and sadly that mentality grows
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in those big cities and that you don't help each other out because honestly,
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even if you want to, you're kind of afraid to. You think,
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man, if I stop and help, am I gonna get jumped? If
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I stop and try to help and be helpful? What's going to be the
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outcome for me? You see someone that you've maybe seen a hundred times walking
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near your neighborhood, you know they live near you, think, man,
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I'd like to give them a ride. They're walking hot, love to pick
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them up and take them home. They live somewhere in my neighborhood. But
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there's also that part of you that says, don't know, get them in
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my car. What's going to happen? What if they're not stable? What's
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going on? I don't know what their mental health situation is. That started
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to invade into the small town mindset, hasn't it at least the medium sized
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town at least the medium sized towns like Columbus. I know people say Columbus
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is a big small town. It is, but there's a lot of this
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small town mindset there. So Jason Alden makes the song. Try that in
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a small town and people say, oh, this glorifies violence, glorifies attacking
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other people, glorifies trying to stifle the good kind of rebellion. What it
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does? What exactly? They've also said that the song is a pro lynching
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song, pro lynching. They think the song is an advocate for lynching.
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Now, this whole lynching thing comes from the fact that they filmed this video
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at a courthouse outside Nashville, and it was the site of where a black
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man was lynched in nineteen twenty seven, And they say that because it was
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chosen, it was chosen intentionally to glorify the lynching that took place there.
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What Now, the company that produced the music video has denied the intentional filming
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there as a means of trying to tackle box films as the name of the
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company, and they say that no is a quote, any alternative narrative suggesting
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the music's video's location's decision is false. Popular filming location outside of Nashville.
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When you're in Nashville and you're trying to shoot country music videos, sometimes there's
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a need to get outside of Nashville to do it. I don't know a
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lot about country music. I don't know a lot about producing country music videos,
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but I can tell you it's got to be nice to get outside the
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city to do some filming for a video. And apparently this short, little
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three minute song that's what it's about. By the way, it doesn't even
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sound like country music. This is one of those artists that I mean,
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he sounds like, you know, Three Doors Down, If you remember that
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band. This sounds like a three Doors Down. So does I know they
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were kind of they kind of had a toe. They were Mississippi, man,
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they had kind of a toe in the country music pool a little bit
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without, you know, while being a rock band. And again, I'm
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sure all of Jason aldeen songs sound like that. I guess. I don't
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know. I mean, there's that whole bro country mindset now where there.
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It's kind of it's just like a rock show, I guess. But anyway,
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looks pretty good. Video is great, video's effective. Video mix point
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even has a reference in there to farmers needing help. Kind of touches on
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the very thing that I was just talking about but the fact that the left
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finds it offensive and they say that it is a lynching component to this video
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because of where it was filmed. And then they also say that it glorifies
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guns, that it glorifies the notion that someone should use guns to stick up
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for themselves or defend themselves, or I mean this whole idea that we're not
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supposed to protect ourselves or protect our property or take care of our things,
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that we're supposed to let people just run wild. People are that want to
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protest for the left are supposed to have the right to just run wild and
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do whatever they want to do. The song, the video has been pulled
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from CMT. CMT by the way, caving to pressure CMT Country Music Television
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as cave to pressure by the woke mob people that probably aren't even real bots
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and whatever that are telling them on social media that they're awful for running the
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video, that they can't do it, and that they support lynching. This
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is one of those things that regularly happens. It's this idea. That Barack
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Obama was president the United States, a lot of people who voted for him
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thought I'm gonna do this. I'm going to vote for this guy because it's
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gonna make racism better. This is going to be a huge healing blow if
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you will, to racial divide in the country, and this is going to
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help. This will be a giant step forward, and we're gonna be able
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to start moving in the right direction. So he becomes president, you have
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a Republican Congress that's fighting him on things, and people go, oh,
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they're doing that because they're racist. If they wanted him to succeed as the
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first black president, they'd him do whatever he wants and not their job what
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they were elected to do and be responsible members of Congress. They won't do
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that. They'll just let him walk all over him and do whatever he wants
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to do so he can have big success as the first black president. Has
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nothing to do with them doing what they were voted into office to do by
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the people that they represented. No, no, no standing up for the
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values of their party. That couldn't have anything to do with it. It's
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because they're racist, and they tried to use the racist angle to chip away
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and probably had some Republicans that maybe said, I don't want to be labeled
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racist. I don't want people to think I'm racist, and that happens a
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lot, doesn't it. Someone throws out a word like sexist or homophobic,
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and it makes people back down. So you throw out a word like lynching.
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This video supports lynching, and see himt says, Ah, we don't
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support lynching, we're anti lynching. We're gonna get rid of this video.
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I don't know if that was the reason. I don't know that specifically why
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they took it down, but they shouldn't have taken it down. It's a
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country music song. Most of the songs reflect the values expressed in this in
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some way right, and the values are pretty simple. You're doing that in
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big cities. You're destroying big cities. You're making them unlivable. You can't
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do that where we live. You can't do that in a small town.
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You can't do that to people who aren't afraid of you. That don't care
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what Twitter says, That don't care what the Internet says in general, They
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don't care what meta is. They didn't sign up for threads and then stop
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using it immediately because apparently that's a real problem. So we don't care about
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what that Really small but very loud group of people on the far left says,
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we have our values, we know what we stand up or, and
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we're gonna stick up for it. And you're not gonna sucker punch an eighty
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year old man in a small town and get away with it. No,
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someone's going to make sure you don't do that anymore, that you're gonna stop
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at the very least. Is it advocating being violent back? I don't know,
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but it says you're not going to get away with that in a small
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town. There'll be some kind of justice, there'll be something that'll take place.
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People need to hear that, they need to be reminded don't come to
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small towns and try it. I mean, that's a very least. It's
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a public service announcement, isn't it. So if you throw out words like
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oh, it's pro lynching, that's gonna make people nervous. They're gonna say,
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I don't don't want anything to do with this. You can still watch
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it online. I watched the video online and again, didn't sound like a
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country music song to me. It didn't make me run the other way and
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think, ah, I don't want to hear this another It's got a lot
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of fans. You may be a fan of country music yourself. I'll listen
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to El Paso by Marty Robbins. I'll listen to that. Let's do that.
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That may not be your cup of tea. That's okay. That's what
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I love about life in general. You can have your likes. I can
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have my likes, and we don't have to like the same things. That's
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what's great. But that's not the way it works. This small group of
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loud people on the left, they want everything to be their way. They
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want everything to be their way. They want control, they want power,
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and they want people that they're just sort of robotically programmed now brainwashed into thinking
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that they actually follow them and like them. This idea that we let people
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on social media, like as pro athletes, they get to tell us their
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thoughts because they have a platform. Why do they have a platform because we've
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let them have a platform. The news media has let them have a platform.
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They don't really have a platform. And unless we let them have it,
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stop following them on social media. Are you following someone on social media
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that spouts all this garbage and nonsense, then stop, encourage others to stop.
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We do this, boycott little game, and we go we're not going
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to bet, but light It's a really easy boycott is to stop following people
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on social media that spout off all this nonsense. That's an easy it's very
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affordable, saves you a lot of headache in time too. I know someone
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who says, oh, did you see what so and so said about this?
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What an idiot? I don't I don't read that, I don't want
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to, I don't have to. Doesn't matter. So there's a perfect example
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of another case of someone just trying to stand up for basic values. Basic
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values that used to be things that everybody was willing to stand up for,
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Carol Morning Show right after the break well. A new survey says young adults
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feel like marriage is outdated. Survey commission by the Thriving Center of Psychology found
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that two and five young adults think marriage is an outdated tradition, eighty five
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percent saying you don't need to get married to have a fulfilling and committed relationship.
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two percent to forty one percent. So why the hesitancy from young adults to
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moennial and gen Z respondents say it's just too expensive to get married these days.
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Seventy two percent say that they just aren't interested in marriage, and one
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in six respondents said they have no plans to get married in the future.
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But maybe it's not that they don't want to get married at all, they
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just don't want to get married right now. Eighty three percent surveyed and said
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that they hope they will eventually get married someday. According to a Pew Research
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study, and a lot of marriages, women make as much or more money
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than their husbands. In fact, the percentage of women who earn as much
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or more than their husbands has tripled over the last fifty years. According to
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research in twenty nine percent of heterosexual marriages today both spouses earn about the same
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amount of money. With that said, some things never change, and they
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say that even when women are earning as much or more than their husbands,
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the women still spend more time on household chores and caregiving than the husbands.
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So that's interesting, all right, Beaches. I was mentioning earlier that a
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lot of people have done some big international travel. These people that I know
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making up for lost time, and we know that we live in an area,
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it's pretty easy to hit a few really nice beaches. Well, Cosmo
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magazine put in their pick for the ten best beaches in the US, and
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yes, Tybee Island is on the list. North Beach at Tybee Island number
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seven on the top ten list. Also, just for the sake of a
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regional we have another representation there for the southeast. Well, there's a couple
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more South Beach Miami, but that's kind of its own. I mean,
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that's that's Miami. That's deep deep South Florida. But also on the list
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is in South Carolina, Hilton Head Island. So there you go. That's
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uh, you know, in the top ten. Most of the beaches in
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California or in like Hawaii. Up in the northeast. I guess Empire Beach
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in Michigan kind of surprised me on that, but I don't know, it's
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probably a really nice place. Well, it seems the idea of working,
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sorry living to work, is kind of going away. It's lost its lure
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since the pandemic. According to e Harmony's new Dating Diary study, fifty percent
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of working respondent said they realized life is too short to prioritize work. Forty
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five percent said they want to spend more time with family and loved ones.
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Thirty eight percent that said that they feel burned out by their job, twenty
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nine percent said they're less ambitious than they used to be, and twenty seven
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percent said they want to put more energy towards their passions. Hopefully they can
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find a job that is their passion. That would be wonderful, wouldn't it.
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