And they put you in a boat you've never been in and a life jacket that you really don't know how to use and water you can't swim in in a place that you can't get to from your neighborhood and say

row row I bet it I bet it well

Linnay pushed us out we didn't move. That's what I said the line in the book. One of the kids

I got to call him out but he's my boy to Sean Benson he starts crying.

I was like. I know you, you know how to be gang shootouts you saw?

And you like, you go outside the next day, the next moment, you know, and you cried in a boat?

That's hilarious.

You know?

And I remember we would move and they had to pull us back in.

They were looking at each other like what do we get ourselves into? Welcome everybody to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal

guy. I'm a husband, a father and an entrepreneur, and I'm a football coach in inner city Memphis and the last

part unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team it's called

Undefeded guys I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people

in Nisus talking big words that nobody understands on CNN and Fox, but rather by an army of normal folks us just you and me deciding hey I can

help that's what R. Shay Cooper the voice we just heard is done.

R. Shay grew up in the west side of Chicago, one of the most dangerous and

impoverished neighborhoods in our country and yet this kid who couldn't swim

became the captain of the first all-black rowing team in the United States.

And it was a pretty rocky start as you just heard, but since then, Arce has helped start a ton of inner city rowing programs.

His book, A Most Beautiful Thing, was turned into a movie by Duane Wade, Grant Hill,

and was narrated by Common. I can't wait for you to meet Arshay, right after these brief

messages from our generous sponsors. At one of the most famous restaurants in the world, there's a table in the corner.

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