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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Alice Marie Johnson: Bloom Where You’re Planted… In Prison (Pt 1)

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Daily News, Politics

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In 1996, Alice decided to “bloom where you’re planted”—in prison. After receiving an unexpected life sentence, she got to work serving her fellow prisoners by helping them with vocational training, organizing plays, the very first Special Olympics events in a prison, and even loving some as they died as a hospice volunteer. And once she got pardoned, Alice’s service has only accelerated. 

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0:00.0

I walked on that compound I just gotten there in this lady in this wheelchair

0:06.6

looks at me I guess I'm looking around lost and she said what's your name I told her and she said Alice blue where you're planted

0:16.4

God knows where you are a woman in prison in a wheelchair said that she said

0:22.0

God knows where you are.

0:24.2

And that stuck with me and I just kept walking around.

0:26.4

I kept thinking, God, you do know where I am.

0:28.8

Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband. I'm a father. I'm an entrepreneur and I've been a football coach and Intercity Memphis in the last part

0:45.7

it accidentally won an Oscar for the film about our team. It's called Undefeded.

0:51.4

I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of

0:54.9

fancy people in nice suits using big words that nobody ever uses on CNN and Fox, but

1:00.5

rather an army of normal folks, just you and me deciding hey I can help

1:06.7

that's what Alice Marie Johnson the voice we just heard is done and she did it

1:12.2

while serving time in prison of all places. After

1:16.7

receiving a pardon, her service of those in prison didn't stop. It's actually

1:21.6

accelerated. I can't wait for you to meet Alice right after these brief

1:25.9

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1:57.0

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2:03.3

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2:08.9

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2:11.6

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