Ben and Jessica Owen: Transforming Dope Houses Into Hope Houses (Pt 1)
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Owens battled addiction in some of Memphis’ worst dope houses. When they left town to escape this life, Ben felt called to eventually come back to help those whom they left behind. Today, their nonprofit We Fight Monsters owns some of the very houses that they once used in, transforming them into hope houses for 75 people touched by recovery and sex trafficking.
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| 0:00.0 | You literally going back to the very places that were the worst of the worst for you. |
| 0:07.1 | You are literally going back and buying houses where you left people behind. It's not just a slogan you're literally doing this we are |
| 0:16.3 | starting exactly where we left them I'm going back to houses where my blood is on |
| 0:20.3 | the floor yeah Yep. Yep. |
| 0:23.0 | And a lot of the people that saw that blood leave his body were still there in active addiction. |
| 0:29.2 | And you're buying the houses? |
| 0:31.6 | If we can, you know, in one case we had had the house donated to us. |
| 0:35.3 | And then we have the halfway houses. |
| 0:37.2 | And then we did buy the half. |
| 0:38.6 | We had a mortgage in a moment. |
| 0:39.6 | We didn't have the money to buy them out, right? |
| 0:40.9 | But we've got the same halfway house I was kicked out of so yeah |
| 0:44.1 | the same one you were kicked out of the house I was kicked out you took a mortgage |
| 0:49.2 | on it to buy it yeah yeah and it's full. Right now, we are housing about 75 men, women, and children in Memphis. |
| 1:00.0 | 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 |
| 1:10.5 | entrepreneur and I've been a football coach in inner city Memphis in that last part |
| 1:15.3 | we accidentally actually won an Oscar for the film about our team. That movie is called |
| 1:20.8 | Undefeded. |
| 1:22.6 | I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in |
| 1:27.1 | nice suits using big words that nobody understands on CNN and Box, but rather, an army of normal folks us just you and me deciding hey |
| 1:36.9 | maybe I can help that's what Ben and Jess Owen the voice we just heard is done |
| 1:42.2 | Ben and Jess are lucky to be alive |
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