Welcome to the tripod.

Now, we're doing something a little bit different today.

This is, we're going a little deeper.

Rout row.

Deeper, deep south.

Deep north?

Perhaps.

We were talking, this is onnancey months ago, about how we are all from different places,

the societal norms of where we're from, and we realized that some of us grew up in red states,

and some of us grew up in blue states.

And we wanted to talk about the differences.

So Rainy, have you arranged some questions that we'll answer?

I have arranged some questions. I mean, the first one that I want to just lay out, so I'm sure

longtime listeners know, but for those who don't know, where are you from and what was the vibe,

politically, culturally, and just what did it smell like? What does it smell? I know exactly the answer

to those questions. Please. I grew in Tennessee.

I grew in Tennessee when it was Clinton and Gore, and Gore was born in my hometown.

So at that time, because Al Gore was from Tennessee, Tennessee was a blue state.

Yeah.

It was a blue state, though.

Purple.

It was really probably a purple state that happened to be blue at that time.

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