EP265: Emma McCormick Sails Away, Real-Life John Wayne and Rhett Butler and The Scout Never Called: Growing Up in Competitive Sports
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Emma McCormick was told she'd be working remotely in 2020, so she decided to live on a sailboat in Florida. Roger McGrath and William Yancey from Texas A&M University, Kingsville bring us the story of Richard King and the cattle kings of the Old West who carved empires out of the wilderness. Roger Rench shares with us some memories of his time playing various competitive sports throughout his life that are sure to put a smile on your face.
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00:00 - Emma McCormick Sails Away
10:00 - Real-Life John Wayne and Rhett Butler
35:00 - The Scout Never Called: Growing Up in Competitive Sports
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| 0:00.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, from the arts to sports and from business to history, and everything in between, including your stories. |
| 0:21.0 | Send them to Our American Stories.com. |
| 0:24.4 | Up next, a story from Emma McCormick. |
| 0:27.1 | Emma is a Hillsdale graduate who decided to live somewhere interesting after graduating college |
| 0:32.1 | because, in her words, she's a person who loves adventure and doing something new. |
| 0:37.3 | Here's our own, Monty Montgomery,, a Hillsdale graduate with the story. |
| 0:45.3 | The Allure of the Sea. |
| 0:49.3 | It's hard not to deny it when it comes beckoning. |
| 0:52.3 | If you've ever so much as looked at a boat, it's hard not to imagine what it'd be like |
| 0:56.6 | to own one. |
| 0:57.8 | One person who decided to make those dreams into reality is Emma McCormick. |
| 1:02.2 | Who did it on a whim, of course? |
| 1:05.2 | Well, my name is Emma, and I'm a financial analyst at General Motors. |
| 1:12.6 | Right now, I'm a sailor. |
| 1:14.6 | I grew up in Idaho. |
| 1:16.6 | I never even noticed sailboats. |
| 1:18.6 | Didn't know anything about it. |
| 1:20.6 | And then after college, when I moved to Detroit, I was new to the city. |
| 1:24.6 | I didn't know anybody. |
| 1:26.6 | And I was out for a run one day, and I saw a poster that said free, no experience necessary, learn to sail. |
| 1:34.5 | It's like, that sounds perfect. It sounds like so much fun. And so I just showed up, and it was at a yacht club that had a race series, and they would take new people and just put you on a boat. |
| 1:47.4 | I did some training and learning with them over the winter, and then sailed with them in every regatta I could. |
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