Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck, joined as always by Barnabas Piper and fresh off the road Ronald J Martin.

Big R you are you are the world traveler man I tell you

you're everywhere. How was how was the trip baby?

I'm not on Instagram so I didn't get I wasn't privy to like the the magazine version of the trip. I want to hear right from you.

Baby it was good. It was it was a it was seven days in beautiful downtown hippie county of

the world ashville north carolina now I didn't say I didn't say hipster it's

actually more hip be than hipster and will you suss that out for me?

Like the subtleties and the differences between hippies and hipsters?

There's not a lot.

It really just comes down to the fact that, you know, hippies are going to wear different things than

hipster but at the end of the day I think the principles and the values are almost

identical that's what I'm kind of trying you know I'm getting to that.

The slugginess and the in the self that's what I'm kind of trying you know I'm getting to that the slugness and

the in the self-awareness is the same then you know what that's a good that's actually

a good qualification big tea I think the I think I think a hippie would lack some of the

smugness that a hipster would have but you got to remember like like hippies are

old and in in hipsters are young and pretentious.

Yeah, I always associated hippies with being more inclusive where they were like,

yeah man, come on, everybody's welcome.

Whereas hipsters are much more exclusive and they want to be you know they sort of cynically

exclude those who aren't like them yeah and I think and I think that's right

so I guess what I'm saying is if you're if you're in if you're in Asheville North Care what you're

...