Hey everyone welcome to the Conversations that matter podcast trail talk edition behind me if you're watching you can see are the Catskill Mountains

This is one of the two big mountain ranges in New York. They're not very tall. The tallest are probably

about 4,000 feet and we're at 3,700 feet looking down. But they are just gorgeous. And I know many of you, you hear

New York, you think skyscrapers you think traffic

you think liberals it's not like that in the whole entire state

and uh... this is actually not all that far from where I live.

So I try, if I can, once a week, to come up here and take a hike, do a bike ride, something.

And it doesn't happen many weeks, but this week it happened and it's a beautiful day and so anyway, I'm glad I can share that with some of you in the audience so you can see how beautiful this is.

The topic for today's trail talk isn't really related to the scenery and it's not

related to a lot of what we talk about maybe it's somewhat related but it's it's more of an interest to me because I find it

I guess fascinating for some odd reason I don't know if I'm weird for that I

think though the usefulness is going to be dispelling confusion for many of you and the confusion that I'm talking about is concerning the term

boomer Khan or boomer conservatism some of you have heard that term and I would suspect that some of you know what it means

and some of you don't. What I found out though when I look this up a while ago is that not many definitions there really aren't any definitions

There's not many interpretive helpful interpretive guides out there to explain this because I think it's like a lot of terms today that have their origin in memes and internet conversation.

These terms sometimes are very short-lived,

sometimes they'll stick, but they come out of nowhere nowhere and then they catch on really quick and

I mean if you're part of a like a meme group or a chat group and it's a large one and someone comes up with a new term and it

becomes popular it only takes a day and that terms everywhere and it's trending. So Boomercon is one of those

terms that I think kind of came out of nowhere and that's why people who aren't initiated into this don't really understand it.

And I was one of those people because I think I first heard it a few years ago.

And my initial assumption was, this is just the extension of the phrase

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