Dr. Marc Breedlove

Yes, thank you.

Yeah.

In the Ozarks, in Springfield, Missouri.

Oh, I was about to say, where are the Ozarks?

Southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.

So it's famous because it's hill country, and so very hilly, very much like the Appalachians, both in terrain and in culture, actually.

So no, I was born in the Ozarks in a working-class family.

No one in my family had ever...

Well, no one in my mother's generation had finished high school, much less college.

And I was always a little bit different because I was so much more interested in reading than

All my cousins say – all they remember about me when we were growing up is I always had my nose in a book, right?

That phrase.

So – and as I get – I didn't choose that.

I didn't choose to like reading but I always did and I always loved school and so –

And I will say I had a great family that was incredibly supportive of me doing whatever I wanted to, right, that that would be fine.

And as I look back, I realize – and I predict you'll find this too.

The older I get, the more I realize how much luck matters and how many very fortunate things happen to me, right?

So the first question is I end up going to Yale College.

What?

What?