Big Al Holdren: An Army of Normal Elves
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Al is the co-founder of Secret Families, which just over two weeks ago provided over 10,000 Christmas gifts to 2,000 kids whose families couldn’t afford them in their community of Muncie, Indiana. Their Army of 2,200 volunteers, more like elves in this case, make it all happen on a single Saturday in only 10 hours!
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| 0:00.0 | How many families did you provide Christmas for this year? |
| 0:09.0 | 385 families, approximately 2,000 children. |
| 0:14.0 | Okay. |
| 0:14.8 | How many gifts per kid typically? |
| 0:18.0 | Three? |
| 0:19.7 | Five to six. |
| 0:21.2 | That's 10,000, 2,000 kids, 5 gifts, that's 10,000 gifts. |
| 0:27.0 | 2,200 rolls of wrapping paper, 250 rolls of tape. |
| 0:31.8 | I bought one year out on eBay or a printing company that was going out of business. |
| 0:37.0 | I bought 30,000 gift tags. |
| 0:41.0 | 30,000 gift tags. |
| 0:44.4 | They're in 100, 100 to a sheet. |
| 0:46.7 | We just used up the last one of them this year. |
| 0:50.8 | It was so big and crazy. And I paid $25 for them. It was so big and crazy and I paid $25 for him. It was awesome. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill I'm a normal guy I'm a husband a father |
| 1:06.2 | an entrepreneur and I've been a football coach in inner city Memphis in the last part it |
| 1:11.7 | unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team. |
| 1:15.0 | That film's called Undefated. |
| 1:18.0 | I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in nice suits talking big words |
| 1:25.2 | that nobody ever uses on CNN and Fox but rather an army of normal folks us just |
| 1:32.2 | you and me deciding hey I can help. That is exactly what big Al Holdren the voice |
| 1:38.7 | we just heard is done. Al is the co-founder of Secret Families, which provides all of those Christmas presents |
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