Hey everybody I'm Coach Bill Courtney from the Oscar winning documentary Undefeded.

In Memphis, my hometown, there's a number of off ramps off the 240 loop that when you're driving by them they're just not the place you want to

pull over and have to change a flat tire and you see the loss and the poverty

and the hopelessness and the despair, the disenfranchisement,

and you think,

gosh, somebody ought to do something

about that down there.

And you say it or you think it as if the sentiment matters, as if the

thought matters. The thought doesn't matter. It changes nothing. It moves no needle. My suggestion is you tilt the rearview mirror just about 15 degrees and you look yourself in the eyes and you say you know

I ought to do something about that down there.

The sense that somebody ought to fix our problems is part of the problem.

Government has proven woefully inadequate

and caring for the most disadvantaged among us.

And all these fancy people on CNN and Fox using big words that nobody really

understands they're not fixing anything in fact they're part of the problem we

need an army of normal folks, just people like me and you saying hey I can

help in my community. It's not government. It's not fancy people on TV. It's just you and

me. Fill in a need we could change the

trajectory of the country it's almost too obvious yet we got to take the first

stops we have a podcast called an Army of Normal

Folks. That is what this is about. And our goal is to share stories of normal

people doing extraordinary things in and around their

...