Ellen Yarborough: From Schoolhouse to Firehouse (Pt 1)
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
There are 677,000 volunteer firefighters across America and Ellen Yarborough joined their ranks at 45 years old. The history teacher then accidentally pioneered giving her students academic credit for their service as fire cadets, which they can do as young as 14 years old! Her model called “Schoolhouse to Firehouse” is inspiring the next generation of firefighters and community leaders.
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| 0:00.0 | Traditionally you're going to see a lot of guys in the trades and I'm sure in some |
| 0:06.8 | communities and some of our local communities we still have that. |
| 0:10.0 | My fire company we've got a chemical engineer, a lawyer, me as a teacher, a number of people |
| 0:18.6 | in finance, accounting, IT. |
| 0:21.4 | That's hilarious. |
| 0:22.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:23.0 | If you really think about that, I mean, that is just people from all walks of life. |
| 0:30.0 | And the point is, you know, focusing on an army of normal folks. |
| 0:36.6 | That's some of everybody. |
| 0:38.5 | Absolutely. |
| 0:39.8 | And where else are you gonna get an attorney and a guy operating a forklift on second shift |
| 0:46.3 | on a line together? |
| 0:50.7 | Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a |
| 0:57.6 | husband. I'm a father. I'm an entrepreneur. And I've been a football coach in |
| 1:01.8 | inner city Memphis. in the last part. |
| 1:03.7 | It unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team. |
| 1:07.4 | It's called Undefeded. |
| 1:09.4 | Guys, I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people and |
| 1:15.4 | nice suits talking big words that nobody understands on CNN and Fox, but rather an army of |
| 1:21.7 | normal folks, us, just you and me deciding hey I can help. That's what |
| 1:27.8 | Ellen Yarborough the voice we just heard is done. Ellen became a volunteer firefighter at a later than normal age and of |
| 1:36.4 | course being a female fighter isn't as normal either for now. Ellen is helping to change the face of firefighting and I cannot |
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