Melvin Cole: Saving Kids Just Like Me (Pt 1)
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In Melvin’s family, you were either a drug dealer or a junkie. At 8 years old, he remembers choosing between these two options and joined his family’s cocaine ring that was arguably the largest in West Tennessee history. It led him to one of the most desperate situations you could imagine and making a deal with God to get out of it. He promised to save other inner-city Memphis kids just like him and that’s exactly what PURE Academy has done.
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| 0:00.0 | It could have been an 18 bedroom house. If ain't no love being passed out, that don't mean |
| 0:07.8 | shit. You go up, man, those kids looking for love. When I hit the streets, I was looking for love. When I joined my gang, I was looking for love. When I hit the streets, I was looking for love. When I joined my gang, I was looking for |
| 0:15.5 | love. I was looking for acceptance. I was looking for people that wanted me to be around. |
| 0:21.2 | You know what if it men selling weed or blowing your ass, |
| 0:25.0 | oh, I just wanted to praise. |
| 0:27.0 | I wanted to feel good about myself. |
| 0:29.0 | I wanted to belong. |
| 0:31.0 | That's all these kids want shit. |
| 0:32.0 | That's what anybody wants. That's why we jump for tortoise, |
| 0:36.0 | that's why we get these good jobs, that why we get all these social groups. |
| 0:39.0 | Because what, in the end of that, everybody want to for them belong. |
| 0:42.0 | That's our biggest thing get pretty much. In the end of that, everybody want to for along. |
| 0:43.0 | That's our biggest thing get prior. |
| 0:45.0 | Man, before we do anything, we're going to love on you. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to an Army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband. I'm a father. I'm an |
| 1:00.0 | entrepreneur and I've been a football coach in inner city Memphis in the last part. |
| 1:05.7 | It unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team that's called Undefeded. |
| 1:11.8 | Guys I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in nice suits |
| 1:17.0 | talking big words that nobody understands on CNN and Fox, but rather, an army of normal folks us just you and me deciding hey I can |
| 1:27.3 | help that's what Melvin Cole the voice we just heard is done |
| 1:31.1 | Melvin is straight from the hood in Memphis and he has a |
| 1:35.6 | truly wild story of drug dealing and gangbanging but thankfully he has an even |
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