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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Rodney Smith Jr: The 50 Yard Challenge (Pt 1)

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Politics, News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When he saw an elderly man struggling to mow his lawn, Rodney felt called to pull over and finish it for him. This single act of generosity transformed Rodney's life forever, inspiring him to challenge kids to cut 50 lawns for free for the elderly, single parents, veterans, and those with disabilities. And his "50 Yard Challenge" has been accepted by 4,948 kids from 8 countries! 

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Leaving school, senior college, and it came across his elderly man outside moving his lawn and it looked like you were struggling.

0:15.0

And I don't know why? Why do you look like you're struggling?

0:17.0

It was a hot. It was a hot sunny day and you could just tell that you need,

0:22.0

look like he's taking breaks in between pushing

0:24.4

and stopping.

0:25.4

Pushing and stopping.

0:26.4

And some...

0:27.4

You're driving home and you see this?

0:28.4

Yeah, and I just pulled over and helped him.

0:31.3

But it was at that moment I realized that a few years before that I asked God to use me as his vessel and

0:38.1

He didn't give me answer at all

0:40.0

But it felt at that moment when I came across the elderly man he was like I was preparing you for that this movement right here

0:45.9

I pulled over and helped him out and that one smart of Congress will eventually change my life forever forever.

0:58.0

Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney.

1:00.0

I'm a normal guy.

1:01.0

I'm a husband.

1:02.0

I'm a father. I'm an entrepreneur, and I've been a

1:04.7

football coach in inner city Memphis and the last part unintentionally led to an

1:09.7

Oscar for the film about our team. it's called Undefeded. I believe our country's

1:15.7

problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people and nice suits talking

1:20.8

big words that nobody understands on CNN and Fox, but rather by an army

1:26.7

of normal folks, us, just you and me deciding, hey I can help.

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