346: Coach Bill Courtney—Rolling Up to the Red Carpet in a Purple Crown Vic
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. It's the way I heard it. Episode number 346, we call this one rolling up to the red |
| 0:10.0 | carpet in a purple ground vick. That's rolling up to the red carpet in a purple crown vick. |
| 0:17.1 | I like the symmetry, Chuck. You don't often hear red and purple used in the same sentence. |
| 0:22.0 | You know, I hadn't noticed that until you pointed it out, but that is true. And this is an actual |
| 0:27.3 | statement that our guest, Coach Bill Courtney, actually said, this was the red carpet in Austin, |
| 0:34.9 | or was it at the Academy Awards? He was going to Austin to see, I think, the premiere of the documentary in which he stars, |
| 0:41.9 | a film called Undefeated that he didn't, in his words, really realize he was in, at least not |
| 0:49.2 | to the extent that he is. |
| 0:51.4 | Bill Courtney got kind of famous a few years back, featured in a documentary called |
| 0:57.8 | Undefeated, won an Academy Award. It is a great film. I can recommend without reservation that |
| 1:04.2 | you give it a look, whether you like documentaries or not. This is such a great story of a team in Memphis, a high school football team called |
| 1:13.8 | the Tigers, who was like 4 and 96 over a 10-year period. And then Bill Courtney got a hold of |
| 1:22.1 | them and did that magic thing that certain coaches can do and transform them into a winning team and |
| 1:30.8 | change some lives. And you know what, man, you know me. I'm not a particularly earnest fellow, |
| 1:36.6 | and this is a very earnest documentary. But if you don't cry at this thing, man, you know, |
| 1:43.2 | you're made of stone. Well, you know, like I told you before, when I at this thing, man, you know, you're made of stone. |
| 1:49.5 | Well, you know, like I told you before, when I watched the thing with Rico and who cries at card tricks. And every time I heard him, you know, bubbling up with emotion, I said, |
| 1:53.1 | is that your card? And we were both just crying like little girls at the end. And it's a great |
| 2:00.8 | movie. And he's a really, really interesting |
| 2:02.7 | cat. He turned boys into men in this film very much. Who does he remind us of? Well, it's Fred King, |
| 2:09.2 | you know, our high school mentor. He's just one of those guys. He's got it. You know, he's very |
| 2:14.5 | inspirational. He's very matter of fact. He's very funny. And he's got that same |
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