John Currence: Saving Willie Mae's
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
After Hurricane Katrina struck his hometown, Chef John Currence knew he had to do something and he quickly found it in saving the restaurant/home of an 89 year-old News Orleans woman named Willie Mae. He thought renovating Willie Mae’s Scotch House, whose fried chicken has been called the best in the world, would only take a few weeks. But John and an army of volunteers ended up rebuilding it for 16 months. And John, heroically went back and forth almost every single week, between his adopted home of Oxford, MS and his native New Orleans, which was 5 hours away.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean I had two calls from the White House where they wanted to come take pictures there |
| 0:07.0 | over the course of the project and take credit for it and I may or may not have ended up on a watch list because of some language I used. Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a |
| 0:29.7 | husband. I'm a father. I'm an entrepreneur and I've been a football coach in inner city Memphis and the last part |
| 0:37.4 | Unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team. It's called Undefeded |
| 0:42.2 | I believe our country's problems were It's called Undefeded. |
| 0:43.0 | I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people and |
| 0:48.0 | ice suits talking big words that nobody understands or ever uses on CNN and Fox but rather an army of |
| 0:56.0 | normal folks us just you and me deciding hey I can help that's what John |
| 1:01.3 | Currants the voice we just heard, is done. |
| 1:04.0 | The project that John mentioned was saving a restaurant and the home of an 89 year old New Orleans woman named Willie May after Hurricane Katrina. |
| 1:16.3 | Willie May Scotch house makes what's been called the best fried chicken in the world, and |
| 1:21.1 | it wouldn't be here today if not for John and an army of normal folks |
| 1:25.8 | who spent 16 months volunteering to rebuild her restaurant and John was going |
| 1:32.2 | back and forth almost every week between his adopted home of Oxford, Mississippi and his native New Orleans that was five hours away. |
| 1:40.0 | And he had three of his own restaurants to run in Oxford. |
| 1:44.0 | John's love for Willie May and New Orleans is extraordinary and will continue with the |
| 1:49.8 | story right after these brief messages from our generous sponsors. Hi, I'm John O'Brien, host of Money and Wealth on the Black Effect Podcast Network. |
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