An Army of Normal Folks - Introducing: An Army of Normal Folks

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

Our country’s problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in nice suits talking big words on CNN and Fox, but by An Army of Normal Folks just deciding “hey, I can help.” Hosted by Coach Bill Courtney from the Oscar-winning Undefeated, this podcast is building the Army and celebrating its extraordinary members. Starting on June 6th, new episodes are released every Tuesday.Support the show: https://www.normalfolks.us/support-1See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey everybody, I'm Coach Bill Courtney from the Oscar winning documentary, Undefeated. In Memphis, by hometown, there's a there's a number of all-fraps 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 the loss and the poverty and the hopelessness and the despair and 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 rear-view 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. This sense that somebody out of fix our problems is part of the problem. Government has proven woefully inadequate in 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 in government, it's not fancy people on TV, it's just you and me. Fill in and eat. We could change the trajectory of the country. It's almost too obvious. Yet we got to take the first steps. 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 communities. And I hope is through telling those stories. But you, me, normal folks will listen and tune in and occasionally find a story or two of something that they say, hey, I can do that.

And that we motivate an army of normal folks. Check out our podcast, an army of normal folks, wherever you listen to podcasts. gas.