1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to our special Friday episodes of Shop Talk, 2 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: coming to you now as Shop Talk number four, and 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to answer a question I get asked all 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: the time, which is how in the world Undefeated actually 5 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 1: ever happened. It's actually a pretty humor story and it's 6 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: got a really valuable lesson to it. So let's talk 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: shop about the genesis of Undefeated right after these brief 8 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: messages from our general sponsors. Okay, everybody, Shop Talk number four. Undefeated. 9 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: I get asked all the time about this, so I 10 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: thought i'd share the story with you and share with 11 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: you the lesson that I'll learn. I'm running a lumber 12 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: company and coaching football in Memphis, which is all I've 13 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: ever did and really wanted to do. And Lane Kiffen 14 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: was hired as the head football coach at the University 15 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: of Tennessee. And a guy named Rich Middlemus, who was 16 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: a budding, fledgling producer in Hollywood, actually graduated from the 17 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 1: University Tennessee. And when Lane Kiffen was hired, there was 18 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: a lot of, you know, excitement around that hire at 19 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: the University of Tennessee, and so Rich was reading online 20 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: about Lane and he'd had one of his first interviews 21 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: who was asked what his first order business was, and 22 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: he said he was going to get down to Memphis 23 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: to do some recruiting and named O. C. Brown one 24 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: of my players that if you've watched Undefeated, you know, 25 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: innimately as one of the guys that Lane was going 26 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: to recruit. And so Rich read that and he's like, 27 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: that's interesting, who's the SoC Brown guy? So he googles 28 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: OC Brown Memphis and finds out a story that was 29 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: in the Memphis local newspaper called the Commercial Appeal. That 30 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: was a story about him living with Mike Ray, my 31 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: neighbor and friend who coached the offensive line with me 32 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: and was the guy, frankly who really started the entire 33 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: recruiting process for o. Se. He put a grainy YouTube 34 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: video up and said, is this the fastest three hundred 35 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: pound kid in high school football? You tell me with 36 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: a bunch of his clips, And it led to this 37 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: unbelievable start of recruiting, and we had to get OC's 38 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: grades right. So he lived with Mike and then of 39 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: course I would pick him up in the mornings and 40 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: take him to school because my business is right near 41 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: Manassas and so this story in the commercial appill told 42 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: that story. Rich found it interesting, called up Mike first, 43 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: then me and said, hey, I'd like to come down 44 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: and hear more about it, thinking that he might do 45 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: a short documentary on that story. And once Rich got here, 46 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: he learned about all the other kids, the six years 47 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: of work that have been going on at Nassas, our 48 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: five O one C three that we used because Manassas 49 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: had no booster club called man Rise, and all of it, 50 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: and decided Nope, I want to make a movie out 51 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: of this. And so he leaves. So Mike and I 52 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: look at ourselves in and say, well, there's a thirty 53 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: one year old kid we've never met who says he 54 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: wants to make a movie. I doubt we'll ever see 55 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: him again. And about a month later he shows up 56 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: with Dan Lindsay and TJ. Martin, who are twenty nine 57 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: thirty year old budding filmmakers, much like Rich Mildemus, this 58 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: budding producer. I think it's important to note that at 59 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: this time they had one credit to their name, and 60 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: it was a heartfelt, thought provoking documentary on the world 61 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: series of beer Pong. That's it. That's all. They'd ever done. 62 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: I don't know that it was particularly good or bad, 63 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: but that's it. And so these guys show up and 64 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: start following us around with cameras. They leave Memphis nine 65 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: months later with five hundred and fifty hours of film 66 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: and they say they're going to make a movie that 67 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: we think we might see on Channel five hundred and 68 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: twenty two on Wednesday at two in the morning. Really 69 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: did not think there was much to it. About a 70 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: year and a half later, they've told us they have 71 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: the movie completed, and we get a call and they say, Bill, 72 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,919 Speaker 1: you got to get to Austin, Texas. And I'm why 73 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: do I have to go to Austin, Texas And they said, 74 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: because the south By Southwest Film Festival has picked us 75 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: up and we're going to have Undefeated. It's going to 76 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: be shown there and you have to be there for 77 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: the Q and A and all this. And my first 78 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: question was what's a film festival? And they said, well, 79 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 1: you know, and now everybody knows as what a film 80 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: festival is, but I was clueless and they told me 81 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: to date and I said, sorry, no, can do you 82 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: See I started my business in two thousand and one 83 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: and we were on a wing and a prayer and 84 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of money, and I never really 85 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: was able to take Lisa and the kids on a 86 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 1: real vacation. And it just so happened to be the 87 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: South By Southwest Film Festivals happening dead in the middle 88 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: of my kid's spring break, and we'd saved up and 89 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: we were doing the Disney World extravaganza. We had the 90 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: place rented at Disney and the car and the airplayer 91 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: and the fast pass and everything else for Lisa and 92 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: the four kids, and they were all jazzed up about it, 93 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: and it was really our first big family vacation and 94 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: there was no way I could interrupt it and not 95 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: go and go this goofy film festival in Austin. But 96 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: they said get you gotta come, you gotta come, and 97 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: I said, look, man, I can't. And so they called 98 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: me back the next day and said, how about this. 99 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: We'll pay for you to extend your vacation at Disney 100 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 1: two days and we'll pay for you to leave Orlando, 101 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: fly to Austin, do the film festival, and then fly 102 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: you back to Orlando. And I was like, no, no, no, 103 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: not that I'll hold it. I like to be king Dad, 104 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna get to give my kids a 105 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: vacation inside a vacation and extend it two days. And 106 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: talked to Lisa and she said why not, So we 107 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: said okay. So that Tuesday or Wednesday rolls around and 108 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: we're in Orlando doing the whole Mickey Mouse affair and 109 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: we're about to go, oh, it's a Sunday, and we're 110 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: about to fly to Austin to do the South by 111 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: Southwest and then fly back to Orlando and continue our 112 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse endeavors. And we show up to the airport 113 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: and I'm like, really proud because I got my wife 114 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: and all my kids in the little vacation and we're 115 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: showing up the airport actually seven hour early. We're an 116 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: hour and forty minutes early. And as we're pulling up, 117 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 1: Molly says, Dad, doesn't the flight leave it to And 118 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: I'm like yeah, and she says it's it's nine fifty 119 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: and I'm like no, it's eight fifty, and everybody scrambles 120 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: around and then we realize it's daylight savings time and 121 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: we lost an hour and didn't know because we were 122 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: mesbrized by the mouse and goofy, So we run into 123 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: we parked the car, run into the airport, and it's 124 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: too late, and now everybody's expecting us at this Austin 125 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: south By Southwest Film Festival for this grand showing of 126 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: this movie. We think nobody's ever going to really want 127 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: to see anyway, and it's a Sunday. Well, the closest 128 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: I could get was Houston, so we quickly changed the tickets, 129 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: ran to a Southwest flight in Orlando, flew to Houston, 130 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: got there late, and then I had to rent a car. 131 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: And the only car that I could rent in Houston 132 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 1: and return in Austin was a purple Ford Crown Victoria. 133 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: So we loaded up the kids, me driving Lisa in 134 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: the basser seat, one of the kids between us, the 135 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: other three kids across the back. They're screaming, we're hungry. 136 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: I go to Sonic. I just tell the girl to 137 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: bring us pretty much two of everything they got. We 138 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: fill the car up with food and kids and luggage 139 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: and this purple Crown vic and we roll from Houston 140 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: to Austin and we pull into town about an hour 141 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: and a half before the movie starts were supposed to 142 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: be at. So my grand entrance to the movie world. 143 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: My triumphant red carpet. First experience of the movie world 144 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: was Sonic Rappers flying around the inside of a car 145 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: on spring break with four screaming children and a purple 146 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 1: crowned vic. Nonetheless, we go to the show and they 147 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: show it, and the most surreal experience of the world. 148 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,599 Speaker 1: The kids and Lisa and I are sitting in this 149 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 1: sauditorium full of about it was fourteen hundred people in 150 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: the movie or crying and laughing and standing up and cheering, 151 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 1: and all I can think about when I'm watching it 152 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: is my God, I'm fat. I didn't really realize I 153 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: was that fat, and I talked funny. It was surreal. 154 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: And when it's over, the lights come up and Dan 155 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: and TJ and Rinch, you know, they have their triumphant 156 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: appearance in front of the crowd and they start the 157 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: Q and A. And one of the first question is 158 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: where's Coach Bill now? And Rich says, well, there is 159 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: right there up there with this family, and everybody looks 160 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: and weird. That night there was an all night bidding 161 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: war for the rights undefeated. I can't remember who all 162 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 1: was involved, but it was merrimax and Paramount and whatever. 163 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: And I think that night when it was balt it 164 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: actually set the record for the most money paid for 165 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: a documentary at a film festival. And I remember Lisa 166 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: and I were sitting there at this bar that they 167 00:09:57,559 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: were having kind of an after party in having a 168 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: glass a beer or something before we were about to 169 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: leave and get on a plane and fly back to 170 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: Orlando and resume our spring break, and a woman who 171 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: we and a man who we didn't know at the 172 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: time but ended up being Ari Emmanuel and his wife 173 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: who owned WME walked up and said, you know, your 174 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: life's never going to be the same at least and 175 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: I were like, ah, whatever. Ten minutes of fame. We 176 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: go back to the Mickey Mouse World, have a blast, 177 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: go home, and then we get another call and we're told, hey, 178 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: guess what you're coming to La Undefeated has been nominated 179 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: for an Oscar. When things couldn't get weirder, we thought, 180 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: no way, And then we find ourselves walking down the 181 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: red carpet with George Clooney and that night it won 182 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: the Academy Award. And all this is to say we 183 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: were mining owned business in Memphis, running a lumber company 184 00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,079 Speaker 1: coaching football, and we weren't looking for any of this stuff. 185 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: But for one reason or another, the only difference in 186 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 1: me and thousands of other people doing amazing things in 187 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: our world is my story got told. But as a 188 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: result of my story getting told, I was blessed with 189 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: a platform, and so Lisa and I decided, we're going 190 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: to use the blessing of this platform to talk about 191 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: stuff that matters. So I wrote a book Against the Grain, 192 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: filled with tenants and fundamentals that I think are really 193 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: tantamount to a meaningful professional, personal, and societal life. And 194 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: that book did great, and I do speeches all over 195 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: the country. And then Alex interviewed me one day and said, hey, 196 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: I want you to do this podcast. And now this 197 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: podcast is going bonkers, and all of it I still 198 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: truly don't fully understand, but see it as a blessing 199 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: to use that platform that I have unwittingly been blessed 200 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: with and didn't look for, to talk about the stuff 201 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: that matters, race, creed, faith, all of the things that 202 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: we're so afraid to talk about. The cancelus that may 203 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: put us in trouble, that may put us at odds 204 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: with one group or another I run headlong into now 205 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:31,679 Speaker 1: because I just don't know how we improve our society 206 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 1: unless we're willing to discuss and talk about in civil, 207 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: non threatening open ways, the things that do both define 208 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: us and divide us, because I think those divisions can 209 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: be broken down with that type of conversation. Y'all, Undefeated 210 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: is not about wins and losses on a football field. 211 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: It's about not being defeated by your circumstances and the 212 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: circumstances we find ourselves in in the United States today, 213 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: in some corners of the world might be called dire. 214 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: We are divided, we do have issues, we do have problems. 215 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: And one day, three guys that have only told one 216 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,320 Speaker 1: story about Beertong showed up in my life and did 217 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: a beautiful job telling a story. And we want awards. 218 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: And because of those awards, I've been given a platform 219 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: and a book and speeches in now a podcast to 220 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:29,559 Speaker 1: try to have conversations about the things that I think matter. 221 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: And in large part, I refuse to be defeated by 222 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: what divides us. I refuse to be defeated by what 223 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: we may think is bad or good public policy, depending 224 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: on which side of the hour we're on. I refuse 225 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: to be defeated by folks who are throwing their hands 226 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:53,959 Speaker 1: up saying we can't fix it anymore. And I refuse 227 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: to be defeated by this notion that America has senior 228 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: butter days. I think as an army of normal folks, 229 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: we can refuse to be defeated by all those divisive, 230 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 1: self inflicted wound prophecies, and we can fix what else 231 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: is serving one another, leading one another through service, being 232 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: inspired by one another's service to one another, and remembering 233 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter who you love, how you vote, 234 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: what you look like, or who you worship. If you're 235 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: serving somebody of need in your community, I can celebrate you, 236 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: and if I'm doing the same, you can celebrate me. 237 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: And that is a basis from which we can all 238 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: grow and improve our society and our culture. And remember 239 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: that this country's always been about we the people, and 240 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: therefore it will take an army of normal folks to 241 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: write this ship. But I am encouraged by all the 242 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: stories we get to tell every week that show that 243 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: there are still people out there pulling on the wars. So, guys, 244 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: I wasn't looking for it, and it came my way 245 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 1: and as a result of a movie called Undefeated. I 246 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: remain undefeated by the inspirational stories I get to tell 247 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 1: every week. And I encourage you to think about the 248 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 1: stories you hear on an army of normal folks, and 249 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: hopefully you're inspired to do something, and you too will 250 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: remain undefeated by the naysayers and just get involved and 251 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: become a part of the army of normal folks that 252 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: have the power to fix and shape our country. That's 253 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: shop talk for this week. I'll see you next week.