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The Hillbilly Manifesto: Reclaiming our Culture with Bret Bradigan
This is not a typical episode of Ojai Talk of the Town.
There’s no guest. No interview. No back-and-forth.
Instead, this is a solo piece — a reflection on what the word hillbilly actually means, and what it doesn’t.
In recent years, that word has been flattened into stereotype, weaponized as political shorthand, or worn as a kind of costume. But being a hillbilly is not an aesthetic. It’s not grievance. It’s not dysfunction.
It’s a set of skills.
A relationship to land and labor.
An earned way of moving through the world.
This episode is a personal reckoning with that inheritance — through…
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