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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, I'm coach Bill Courtney from the Oscar winning

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Speaker 1: documentary Undefeated. In Memphis, my hometown, there's a number of

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Speaker 1: off ramps off the two point forty Loop that when

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Speaker 1: you're driving by them, they're just not the place you

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Speaker 1: want to pull over and have change a flat tire.

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Speaker 1: And you see the loss and the poverty and the

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Speaker 1: hopelessness and the despair and the disenfranchisement, and you think, gosh,

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Speaker 1: somebody ought to do something about that down there, And

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Speaker 1: you say it, or you think it as if the

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Speaker 1: sentiment matters, as if the thought matters. The thought doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: It changes nothing, It moves no needle. My suggestion is

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Speaker 1: you tilt the rearview mirror just about fifteen degrees and

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Speaker 1: you look yourself in the eyes and you say, you know,

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Speaker 1: I ought to do something about that down there. This

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Speaker 1: sense that somebody out to fix our prom is part

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Speaker 1: of the problem. Government has proven woefully inadequate in caring

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Speaker 1: for the most disadvantaged among us. And all these fancy

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Speaker 1: people on seeing an inbox using big words that nobody

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Speaker 1: really understands, they're not fixing anything. In fact, they're part

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Speaker 1: of the problem. We need an army of normal folks,

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Speaker 1: just people like me and you saying hey, I can

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Speaker 1: help in my community. It's not government, it's not fancy

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Speaker 1: people on TV. It's just you and me filling a need.

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Speaker 2: We could change the trajectory of the country. It's almost

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Speaker 2: too obvious, yet we got to take the first steps.

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Speaker 1: We have a podcast called An Army of Normal Folks.

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Speaker 1: That is what this is about. And our goal is

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Speaker 1: to share stories of normal people doing extraordinary things in

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Speaker 1: and around their communities. And our hope is through telling

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Speaker 1: those stories, you me normal folks will listen and tune

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Speaker 1: in and occasionally find a story or two of something

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Speaker 1: that they say, hey, I can do that, and that

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Speaker 1: we motivate an army of normal folks. Check out our podcast,

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Speaker 1: An Army of Normal Folks, wherever you listen to podcasts.