The Farmlink Project: Saving Over 200 Million Pounds of Food (Pt 1)
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The COVID pandemic led to two problems that strangely existed at the same time. Millions of Americans were going hungry and yet thousands of commercial farmers were literally dumping food when customers such as restaurants and schools shut down. This didn’t make any sense to Ben Collier, Owen Dubeck, and their ragtag group of college friends, so they decided to become the link between these two worlds. Today, The Farmlink Project has delivered over 200 million pounds of food to people who need it!
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| 0:00.0 | I mean I showed up with my camera because I'm like I'll document this hey maybe we'll end up on the local news we can use it to help raise a bit more money or something and I remember the guy works at the egg ranch comes over to me and he whispers he's like you really shouldn't be filming this |
| 0:16.7 | You need a refrigerated truck like you can't put eggs in a you-haul |
| 0:23.0 | Whoops and I was like, oh shit. |
| 0:25.0 | Obviously didn't know about that. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, yeah, so I don't know, I kept filming and we put the eggs in there and you know it's pretty heavy |
| 0:34.8 | you're not supposed to fill you hole with that much weight and we're driving up the |
| 0:38.0 | 405 we're in the left lane like the fastest lane where people drive 100 miles an hour and we're going 10 15 miles an hour |
| 0:46.5 | it's like might not make it up the hill but yeah we got it to the food bank and the people there were so wonderful and lovely and |
| 0:55.1 | grateful that we were able to bring it to them and we were like if we did this |
| 0:58.9 | again would you want more food and they were like absolutely and we that gave us a lot of |
| 1:03.9 | confirmation that we should keep going. |
| 1:08.4 | Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, a father, an |
| 1:15.4 | entrepreneur, and I've been a football coach in Intercity Memphis in the last |
| 1:19.7 | part, it unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team. It's called |
| 1:24.3 | Undefeded. Guys I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of |
| 1:30.6 | fancy people and nice suits talking big words that nobody |
| 1:34.4 | understands on CNN and Fox but rather an army of normal folks us just you and |
| 1:40.6 | me deciding hey you know what I can help. That's what Ben Collier and |
| 1:45.8 | Owen Dubak the voices we just heard have done. The COVID pandemic led to two problems |
| 1:51.7 | that strangely existed at the exact same time. |
| 1:55.0 | Millions of Americans were going hungry after losing their jobs, |
| 1:59.0 | and yet thousands of commercial farmers were literally dumping their food when customers such as restaurants and school shut down. |
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