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🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 90 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 |
0:09.4 | to the red carpet in a purple-ground Vic. |
0:13.1 | That's rolling up to the red carpet in a purple-crown Vic. |
0:17.2 | I like the symmetry chuck, you don't often hear red and purple used in the same sense. |
0:22.1 | You know, I had noticed that until you pointed it out, but that is true. |
0:26.1 | And this is an actual statement that our guest, coach Bill Courtney, actually said this |
0:33.1 | was the red carpet in Austin or was it at the Academy Awards? |
0:36.2 | 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 |
0:48.8 | least not to the extent that he is. |
0:51.8 | Bill Courtney got kind of famous a few years back, featured in a documentary called |
0:57.8 | Undefeated, one in Academy Award. |
1:00.4 | It is a great film. |
1:02.2 | I can recommend without reservation that you give it a look, whether you like documentaries |
1:06.6 | or not. |
1:07.6 | This is such a great story of a team in Memphis, a high school football team called The Tigers, |
1:15.2 | who was like 4 and 96 over a 10-year period. |
1:20.1 | And then Bill Courtney got a hold of him and did that magic thing that certain coaches |
1:25.8 | can do and transform them into a winning team and change some lives. |
1:32.4 | And you know what, man, you know me, I'm not a particularly earnest fellow. |
1:37.3 | And this is a very earnest documentary. |
1:39.8 | But if you don't cry at this thing, man, you know, you're made of stone. |
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