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Do. Oh, there you are. Hey everybody, come on in. You know what time it is? We got a special guest today and it could not be more fitting. That's right. Yesterday was no Kings Day. Today will be my guest, King Randall to talk about his boys school. We'll do that at the end of the podcast. But for now, let's make sure I've got my comments working here. Let's make sure it all works. If my technology works, we're gonna have quite the experience. Come on, technology. You can do it. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. And you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to experience life at a higher level of excitement, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass of tanker shells to style the canteen. Jugger flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine day of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens. Now go. Ah, delicious. All right, in case you're wondering, this is not a new microphone. What it is is I was going to demonstrate. It's for. It's a phone holder, wink, wink. So you can put your phone here and then you can, you can show people what you're looking at with your hands. So your hands are free. So last night I did an impromptu demonstration of drawing a Dilber comic with my left hand because I have to draw left handed. Now I've got a problem with my right hand and I just showed my camera as I as my hands drew the comic. So that's on X right now. I'll do the same thing for my beloved local subscribers. We'll do that privately later. But if you'd like to see how the drawing looks when you're the actual artist looking at the paper. It's kind of cool. So I just wanted to show you that that's a thing. Can I get it off? There we go. There we go. All right. Like I said, King Randall will be joining me if my technology works toward the end of this hour to talk about his boys school, which is very impressive. I think you're going to like that. I wonder if there's any science about coffee. Oh yeah. Turns out that according to the nutrition, metabolism and cardiac disease people, coffee can lower your your blood pressure. But it's the first time I've seen one of these coffee stories where they say but we don't have the causation nailed down, which is exactly what I would have said. Do you think it's true that people who have high blood pressure drink as much coffee as people who don't? Because isn't that one of the first things they tell you? Drink less coffee if you have high blood pressure. So I'm not so sure about this science, but I like it. All right, as tradition requires, I'm going to do a reframe from my book, reframe your brain. The only book I have that is still cooking along at a five star rating. That's impressive. It's hard to get a five star rating on a book. Here you go. One of my favorite. This might be actually the best one of all. You know, there, there are a handful of these reframes that are truly life changing more than others. Here's one. Manage your time is what most people teach you to manage your time. All right? Make sure you've got enough time. Manage your time. I've reframed that to manage your energy. Now, it does matter what kind of job you have, if you're being paid by the hour, you're gonna have to manage your time. But the, the, the idea here is you want to eventually try to live your life in a way that you can manage your energy. And what I mean by that is at this exact time of the day, for me, you know, everybody's different, but for me, this is exactly what I want to be doing this time of day. I want to be doing something creative, maybe something a little bit social in its own way. But if I were not in the mood to do this, it wouldn't come out very well. So I match. I match my energy to whatever it is I need to do. So if, you know, at the moment, I can't work out, but if I could work out, I'd do it in the afternoon because my brain energy is low, but my body energy is fine. In the morning, my brain energy is high, but my body energy is a little lower. So I do the creative stuff. So manage your energy. Don't only manage your time. All right, apparently there's some big meteor shower tomorrow that we're all getting to see. It's going to be a good one. It's always after midnight, of course, and for a couple hours tomorrow, you'll see the oronitis or an orinus, some kind of a dust left behind by Haley's comment. You should see 20 shooting stars per hour. I feel like I'm going to stay up for that, well, I'll never stay up for it, but I might go to sleep and then wake up for it four hours later. Do you know that's how they used to do it in the old days. I saw that on social media. In the olden days it was common for people to go to sleep when it got dark, but then they would wake up around midnight and spend an hour or two doing something else and then they'd go back to sleep. But apparently people would just all wake up midnight and hang out. In the old days. Well, as you know, yesterday was the so called no Kings rally around the country. Whereas some have tagged it Grand Tifa. Grand Tifa because all grand grandparents. Seven million million protesters, they claim. I'm sure that's overstated in 2700 locations. So let's see how they did. Any, any Kings? Well, except for my upcoming guest today, King Randall. No extra Kings. No extra Kings. Surprisingly, yeah. And here's my question. If you have a no Kings rally in 2700 places with 7 million protesters and the so called fascist government in charge, the only response to it is two insulting memes. That was it. That the entire pushback to 7 million people demanding that the Constitution be followed was, oh, here's a funny meme. Nothing else. Because you know where you can't have 7 million people running around protesting no Kings anywhere there's a king. If you had a king, you, you'd not be doing that. That's for sure. You wouldn't be doing any of that. So. And then it got funnier because apparently some decision was made and I don't know by whom or why, to hand out lots of American flags. Now what do you think when you see a big crowd of people with American flags? Don't you think the Republicans. So somehow it was 100% peaceful, which I compliment them on 100% peaceful. And they were carrying American flags and they were promoting constitutional rights. Am I wrong that they just held a Republican rally flag? Peaceful. Obey the Constitution. It's a maga. It was a MAGA event, right? Especially because it was senior citizens. The, the fact that people got paid for organizing this is hilarious because what exactly did they get paid for to promote the, the virtues of the other side. Have you heard of any Republican who has put out or somehow offended or somehow had a big problem with the no Kings thing? I have not heard of one Republican who had any problem with it at all or even cared, even cared if it happened. I, I looked at it and I thought, oh, looks like people are getting Together over this whole support the Constitution and wave the American flag thing. Maybe that's a good sign. So I don't know what they thought they would accomplish, but it definitely did not remove. It didn't remove Trump from office, if that's what they're hoping for. The Department of Homeland Security gets the win for the best post. Somebody brought a giant inflatable penis, like a balloon that was shaped like a penis with a package. And the Department of Homeland Security took a picture of that and posted on X, and the caption was, gavin Newsom has shown up to the riot. I. I love the fact that the Trump administration is just mocking it, but not even mocking it hard. They're just sort of gently mocking it. Like, there you go. There you go. Tap, tap, tap on the head. Good boy, Good boy. Go ahead. It's hilarious. Meanwhile, over at the Louvre in France, robbers actually broke into the Louvre and stole the French crown jewels. Now, if you were the Louvre, wouldn't you put a little extra security around the French crown jewels? Nope. Somebody stuck in and sold the crown jewels. Now, I guess the backstory is there was some. Some kind of work being done on the facility, so that gave them an opening to get in. Ordinarily. Ordinarily it would be more secure, but they got in, they stole the crown jewels, and then somebody dropped, I guess, the crown. That's the greatest of the crown jewels, Empress Eugenia's crown, and broke it. Imagine dropping it and breaking it. Like. Like, what would that feel like? You're like, ah, I just broken the Louvre. I got the crown jewels. Look at me. I got the crown. Oh, shit. Well, we just leave them there, and then they just leave them there. But I'm also thinking, how many. How many people would have the wherewithal to break into the Louvre, but also someplace to unload the jewels? What pawn shop takes the French crown jewels? Can you take it to the corner pawn shop and say, hey, I found this in my attic. Did you now? Did you find that in your attic? Because that looks a little familiar. I've been to the Louvre. No, no, this isn't one of those Louvre crowns. This was in the attic. Can you give me $100 for it? Anyway, I'm sure they'll be caught pretty soon. There's a New Jersey drone company that says they. They were behind the drone sightings over the New Jersey airport. Do you believe that? So they were introducing their product, and they said, yeah, we had an agreement with the government that did not require us to disclose it. So we Didn't. And we've got these big ass, 20ft long drones that fly kind of funny. And they're trying to tell us that their drones are the ones that were scaring people. I'm going to say probably not. Probably not. I, I am willing to believe that some of the drones were theirs. Maybe some. Maybe one. But do you think that's the whole story? Like the, the whole drone story is that. I'm gonna say probably not, but it was a weird looking drone, I have to admit. So speaking of weird looking drones, now there's a. According to wonderful engineering, there's a new drone, a rocket launching robot that also has a machine gun. Not machine, a shotgun. So you can now got. You can now get yourself a grenade launching war ready robot dog. So it's in the form of a dog. What would be more awesome than a dog that could throw a hand grenade and also had a shotgun? How much do you want the shotgun hand grenade dog to guard your house? I just want one. Just one shotgun hand grenade dog and I'll feel good. That's all I want. So wonderful engineering is talking about that. Can you believe that Walter Cronkite once was on the Epstein flights to his island? Walter Cronkite? Did you even know that those eras overlapped? Did you know that Walter Cronkite was even alive when Epstein was taking people to his island? When did, when did Cronkite die? I thought he died 100 years ago, but apparently he was alive. He was 91. They dragged his wrinkly ass to Epstein's island. There was. There is no suggestion that he did anything untoward or inappropriate. So I think it was just part of. Just part of Epstein trying to get as many rich people under his wing as possible. At least we think he didn't do anything. Meanwhile, there's another story in the New York Post about Epstein. I guess he had this kind of a primary billionaire friend besides the. Aside from the Victoria's Secret guy, he had another billionaire who was a big backer, Leon Black. And, and there's now some emails that have been discovered in which he was threatening Leon Black to continue his payments, which apparently were $40 million a year for Epstein's financial advice, which was unspecified. And Epstein was mad because I think some of his other sources of income had been cleaned up because he'd been accused by them. So he didn't have too many other, you know, major places to get money, it looks like. So he was leaning on his billionaire friend pretty hard. Leaning on him the way that you wouldn't lean on somebody unless you had some blackmail. Because the way he talked to him didn't sound exactly like you'd talk to somebody who was a friend or a colleague or just a business interest. Sounded like somebody. He made his. So he's like, you better give me the $40 million every year. 40 million. That must have been some good advice he got there for that 40 million. Even called the. The billionaires children retarded because they've created a, quote, really dangerous mess by trying to stop the money flow. To, to Epstein, he goes to be clear, my terms are as follows. I will only work for the usual 40 million per year. He won't work for a penny less than that. You, you offer Epstein $39 million per year. No way. He will not do it for less than 40. He's a good negotiator. Anyway. Another news. Australia's Prime Minister is heading to the US to the White House. I don't know if that's today. I think tomorrow. I guess tomorrow. And they're going to talk about rare earth minerals and other stuff. So I did a little research on Grok, trying to figure out this rare earth mineral situation. So I guess we had 17 rare earth minerals that are sort of the problem ones. And we've got a whole bunch of allies such as Australia and Canada, that do have access to those. But what we don't know is how much access do they have, how fast would it take them to ramp up? And there's some thought that Trump's going to want to buy equity in a bunch of existing rare earth mining enterprises. To which I say that seems like the smartest idea, doesn't it? Wouldn't the very best way to approach this be to buy an equity stake in as many allied country companies that do rare earth as we can? So we, you know, we get up on the priority list there. Seems like that would be the obvious. And then our investments would allow them to expand. And so if that's where we're heading, massive equity investments in existing mining operations and refining operations. I would say. Smart. That looks like exactly what we should be doing. Well, the. Who is it? The Chancellor Merz of Germany. He got in trouble for saying that the cities over in Germany, the cityscapes, are having challenges because of immigration. So what happens to a leader in Germany when they point out the obvious, the immigration is having an impact on the quality of life in the cities? Well, he's in terrible trouble for even suggesting that immigrants could be causing any problems in Germany. So now he's being called a racist fascist, and you name it every. Basically everything Mag has been called and all, all the people in Germany heard is that he's some kind of a horrible immigrant hating guy, which apparently is nothing like the truth. So good luck, Germany. It looks like the Holocaust destroyed Germany for good. It just took, took a few decades. Two thirds of the German public want fewer migrants and nearly half of them think Europeans are being, quote, replaced. Can you believe that was ever a debate, the word replaced? Because as soon as you use that word, it's just a fighting word. Why do you need to say replaced? You just. We're all, we're all observing what it is. You know, more of one type, less of another type. As soon as you use the word replace, then suddenly you're racist. But we're all looking at the same thing. Nobody's arguing about what's happening. So that's weird. Wall Street Journal says that Venezuela is what they call coup proof, meaning that even if the military wanted to do a coup against Maduro, their cartel Levin boss, it'd be hard to do because he's already purged all the anti Maduro people. A lot of purging going on. I guess the purging and the torturing and the jailing of his enemies was so aggressive that the military is completely cowed. And on top of that, I didn't know about this so much, but apparently Maduro uses Cuba's intelligence people for his own, you know, power purposes. So he's got some kind of a tight connection with Cuba's intel people. And I guess they're pretty good, the Cuban intel people, so they're gonna keep him in business. So not so coup proof. But I don't think it's a coup that's going to take him out of business. I think it'll be a, A bomb. Something tells me that Maduro is going to be exploding pretty soon. I don't know when. Anyway, let's talk about that Gaza ceasefire. How many of you thought that Gaza and the IDF would declare a ceasefire and then nobody would break the ceasefire? Is there even one person in the world who thought the ceasefire would hold?
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No. But will it make a difference? I think probably not, because what matters is how many military assets are there in the first place. So if they've drawn down the military assets, 98% on both sides, yeah, there'll be some ceasefires broken by the 2% that they, that they have trouble mopping up. So, yes, ceasefires will be broken. Yes, there are people on both sides who want the peace to end probably won't. I feel like we're off to a good enough start. As long as they keep the major military assets out of there, there just won't be that much to ceasefire over. All right. Apparently, Zelensky asked for Tomahawk missiles, and as you know, Trump said, not so fast. We're not going to give you those Tomahawk missiles right away. We're going to go talk to Russia first, because then they've got something to trade away. They can say, we're totally going to give these Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if you don't talk peace pretty soon. Now, I did hear from somebody who seemed to know more than I do about Tomahawk missiles that they might not be all they're cracked up to be, meaning that Russia has the ability to shoot them down, and also that you would need some kind of ground launchers that would have to be operated by Americans. So if we put Tomahawks in Ukraine, it would basically just be America going to war with Russia, because it would take, I don't know, I guess it would take too long to train the Ukrainian to push the button. How does that work? You know, we'll program it for you, we'll target it for you using our satellites, and we'll program it. But make sure you get a Ukrainian over here to push that button. Is that what it looks like? Is Russia going to say, oh, that looks like totally a war with Ukraine, or are they going to say, that looks like a lot like a war with the United States? So I think Trump is playing it exactly correct by holding out that risk. And I don't know, you know, Russia probably thinks that we could put the ground launchers there if we wanted to. So I would imagine he's got something to trade away now. And I would imagine in the next few days and weeks, you're going to see massive more attacks on the energy infrastructure of Russia and vice versa. So we'll see. We'll see if Trump can get this done. My guess would be they'll have one more conversation, Putin and Trump, and maybe not much will come from it, and then things will have to get much worse again, because I. I don't think we're at the place where it's worse enough, do you? Ukraine seems perfectly willing to stick in there and keep fighting, and I don't see Russia cracking. So you would need at least one of the sides to sort of be on the edge of, yeah, maybe this is a bad idea, but we don't really see that. We see both sides saying, oh, it's a good idea for now. It's a good idea. So can Trump, can Trump change that reality? You know, I told you with Gaza that what Trump did is not negotiate. Negotiating isn't what made that work. What worked was he changed reality. It just changed how we thought about reality. And then it all came together. He'll have to do the same thing with Ukraine. I don't know how he would change reality, but he's saying stuff like he is making him think past the sale. So that's his usual trick. So his usual trick is he's telling him, you know, you can just walk away. Both sides, you know, you could just walk away. Russia, you can just literally turn around and walk away, and the war's over, you know, as long as Ukraine does, too. So that's actually pretty powerful because you got people, you know, dying and it's costing money and it's this gigantic problem. Imagine if somebody came to you and they've got this gigantic, complicated, deadly life and death problem, and your solution is you could just walk away. That's it. You could just stop, and then it would all be over. You could almost certainly keep the stuff that you've already captured. You're not going to capture any more anyway. You can just stop. That is actually a super powerful message because you're. You're taking a rational person, Putin, you know, even if you hate him, he's a monster, blah, blah, blah, he's a monster, he's the devil. Okay? But he's rational. So he's not going to just keep beating his head against the wall if there's nothing on the other side of the wall. So you just say, here's your choices. You can keep doing this forever, and we're in. We'll keep. Because remember, Trump has put the United States in the perfect position. So you want us to sell more weapons and test more weapons and get smarter about how well our weapons work in war. All right, take your time. Nothing's changing on the battlefield except, you know, people dying. And apparently neither side cares too much about that. So go ahead. But anytime you want to, anytime, in 10 minutes, you can make the whole thing stop. All you have to do is give the order, Just say stop. If you say stop, I'll tell Ukraine to stop, and then we're stopped. It's over. So, I don't know, is that a negotiation or is that changing reality? The reality is you're not fighting for anything. Oh, there it is. There it is. There it is. Did you feel that when I said it? The reality is neither side is fighting for anything anymore, mostly Russia. They're not fighting for anything because there's nothing to win. They're not going to go any further. Telling them they're fighting for nothing makes you look irrational. I don't think Putin wants to look irrational, does he? I feel like that would be a strong approach. You realize you're fighting for nothing, right? That, that if we go another six months, what do you think you're gonna get? What do you think you'll get if you fight for another six months? Nothing. More dead people, less energy, security, you know, worse. Worse relations with the rest of the world. What do you think you're going to get in six months? It's only going to be worse. So I think. I think Trump does have an argument that they can press anyway. So this, of course, is coming according to interesting engineering. Also US is developing missiles that don't need GPS to find you. They don't need gps. So in other words, it would just look at the ground the way a person would and say, huh, looks like, oh, about a mile away from that place. And then it will just sort of go to where it needs to go. I guess it can get within 16ft of whatever they want and they can make these little flying robots that are only. That weigh less than five pounds each missile. I call it a flag robot, but it's a missile. It would be a 5 pound missile that can fly over 60 miles an hour and can hit a target within 16ft without any GPS. What is. If you were. If you were Russia and you found out that we had, you know, already on the lab board and we're ready to mass produce these missiles that weigh five pounds, fly 60 miles an hour and can hit something without being jammed, wouldn't you kind of hurry up a little bit on the peace deal? Because you don't want that stuff coming down on you, do you? No, you don't. All right, so I did terrible planning today because I ended a little too soon. So I'm going to try to do is. I'm going to text King Randall, see if he wants to go early. Can you go early? He has to show up on my studio set up before I can invite him in. Go early. He might be watching. I hope he is. All right, so I'll keep an eye out for him to be joining. He will be joining right there. If he joins participants. Right now, I'm the only participant. But while we're Waiting for that. I know what you want. I know what you want. You want some more. You want some more reframes, don't you? So more reframes from my book will change your life while we're waiting for King Randall to slide in. All right. Oh, here's one that has really helped me a lot, or the regular frame is that when you take a job, your job is whatever your boss tells you is a job, right? So you go to work, they say, what's my job description? Here's your job description. If you take the job description as your job, you will not go far, Right? How many of you already knew that? That if. If you do the job that you're given exactly as it's described, exactly the job description, you will not do well in life. You're gonna have to figure out what. What it should be, not what it is. So you want to make sure that what you're doing is better for the company and better for your boss than whatever they told you to do. Now, that's not easy. If you're not smart, won't be easy to do. But instead of your. Instead of your job is what your boss tells you it is. Here's a reframe. Your job is to get a better job. How do you get a better job? Usually by doing more than you were asked to do. That's what flags you for promotion. It's like, oh, Scott did everything we asked him to do, but he created this other project on his own, and that worked out. You're first in line for the promotion. So never do what your job is. You should do whatever it is that would get you a better job. Now, that might include learning on your current job how to go to a different company and get a better job. But it's always about you. It's not about the job. Make sure that. Make sure it's about you. All right, here's another one. These are a lot of. These are my favorites. That really changed my life completely. If you ever just said to yourself, you're bored with life, do you ever just wake up and you're like, oh, I am so bored with life. Oh, it's just gonna be another day like yesterday. Go to work, eat my stupid sandwich, come home, commute. So if you're bored with life, here's my reframe. The problem is not boredom. The problem is that you're not embarrassing yourself enough. You're not embarrassing yourself enough. You need to put yourself in some shaky, iffy situations now. Not dangerous. Doesn't have to be dangerous. It doesn't have to be, you know, life threatening. But, for example. Oh, King Randall's here. Let me just finish my point and then I'll invite him in. For example, if you have never taken a class on public speaking, most of you would be horrified by it, right? Public speaking is scary. If you're bored, do that. Do something scary. It'll totally take you out of your boredom. If you're bored, go ask somebody out that you know will say no. Worth a shot, but it's not boring. So if you're bored, increase your risk of being embarrassed. And you'll find it just opens up your whole life. Suddenly you can talk to anybody. You can talk to a stranger. You can ask somebody out. You could ask for that job you think you'll be turned down for. Just do something that will be embarrassing. It'll solve your problem immediately and you'll be happy. Probably. All right, let's see if I can get King in here. This would be a test of my abilities. Except. And now, in theory. In theory. Hey, there you are. Can you hear me? King?
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Hey, how are you?
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Can you hear me? I can hear you.
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Awesome.
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Perfect. So nice to meet you in person. We've messaged back and forth and tried to get together a few times, but I had some issues, and I apologize for those. But so glad you could join. So let me give you the big picture, and then I'll let you talk to the people. Okay?
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Okay.
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So big, big picture is you started and run a school for boys in Georgia. Where in Georgia?
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Albany, Georgia. We're about two and a half hours south of Atlanta.
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How many kids in the school?
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We have 25 right now.
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Now, I've been watching your social media for several years, and I always see all black kids, but I know that you. You invited a white kid in recently. And how'd that go? Did he make it?
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Yeah, of course. So the. The thing is, here in Albany, we have a 77% African American population. So usually you're just going to see mostly black children, but we've had Hispanic children. We've had white children before. But I also tell people I can't make anyone sign up their children. So Eli, his mom signed them up and he was welcome in with open arms. So the biggest thing for us is just letting people know just about the demographic in Albany. We don't have a whole lot of white people in Albany, so it's tough trying to expand the races there.
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Well, one of the things I love about your operation is that you're everything you do seems smart and not. Not some, like, weird political thing. So you're not concentrated on race. It just sort of works out that way, which is fine. So. So here's what I've been most impressed by. I assume the school does all the usual reading and writing stuff, and for what ages?
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Right now, we've taken our age groups down to ages 6 through 9. We were doing ages 11 to 17. In our first six years of the program, we changed the age groups because we realized that many children are starting to lose themselves a lot sooner than ages 11 to 17. We have kids who are in third grade, second grade, smoking, talking about sex or whatever, et cetera. And so most of those kids, they are just looking for somewhere where it's cool to do the right thing, because when they're doing the right thing at school or anywhere else, they get picked on or, you know, nobody wants to be your friend. So we've created a space where you get rewarded for doing the right thing. You get rewarded for reading, you get rewarded for learning your workshops, you get rewarded for getting good grades and things like that. So that's what we've created. And now those children are taking it in, and those children are more willing to stay the right way versus trying to get a child who's lost himself and then trying to fix it.
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So there's a whole bunch that I observe you doing on your social media that is so good. I want to mention all of it, but you have a impressive, what I call a talent stack, meaning that your specific talents even being able to do this so well, you know, you've got the education, you got the working with the kids, but you also have a whole bunch of skills which you're teaching the kids, from how to change the oil to how to replace a doorknob to dinner manners to all these things. So you've got this impressive set of skills that you have, which I think is a role model situation for those kids that's unbelievable. Like, just the fact that they can spend time around you and observe somebody building a skill stack that all fits together. Wow. Wow. By the way, the other thing that I love most, I've seen you mention this is that you come from a non. Non victimization mindset.
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Of course. Absolutely. I was taught. Yeah, I was taught growing up with my granddads and uncles, we worked for everything. And a lot of this stuff that people kind of think of these days, as far as the liberal ideas and things, I was never taught that. I mean, we grew all of our own Food in the backyard. We didn't grow up in the best neighborhood, but everybody in the neighborhood loved each other. I mean, everybody in the neighborhood grew food. We traded food. We had chickens in our yard. We had dogs, we had rabbits. I mean, we had a whole bunch of animals, but we grew everything we wanted to eat. If I got home from school, and this is like 2012, 2013 time I got home from school and my mom asked us what we wanted to eat, we had to go outside and pick it. We even grew the seasonings. My dad taught me how to paint cars. My stepdad taught me how to build everything. We built our sheds in the backyards. We built our dog houses, we welded. We built our own grills. So when I was growing up, because our whole neighborhood was learning from each other, I thought that other kids just knew this stuff because that's how I grew up. And so as I became an adult and realized kids don't know how to fix a car or know how to work on a house or put in a window or paint something, it was tough. So that was the idea. I started the program out of my house. I was 19 years old. I started the program out of my house in my dining room. And we went from there. And so we grew from just being in my dining room to having the facilities we have now to having staff to affect them. So many kids. And I'm so glad that our donors have been so helpful to us because we don't take any government grants. As soon as you start getting the government involved, we can't teach about God and we can't teach about these things. And we're exclusively going to teach Christianity and we're going to make sure our children aren't victims. We believe in God and we believe in Jesus and that's what we want to make happen. So that's what we've been doing. And our donors have made sure that this program has been able to flourish for the last seven years. And I'm grateful to everyone who supports our program.
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Yeah. The other thing I like about you is that you're aggressively non political.
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Yes.
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You don't have to be aggressively.
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Yeah, you don't have to be super political. You know, some. The other day somebody tweeted, well, they made a comment on my Instagram and said they donate 20 grand if I disassociate myself from, you know, Maga and Donald Trump. And I'm just like, when have I ever mentioned that? But it just speaks to, you know, just that side in general. Because for me to just be teaching boys responsibility and how to work for themselves and how to make honest money and take care of their families and stuff. And you just assume that that's maga. That's insane. I'm just like, I've never said anything like that. Of course, I was invited to the White House by President Trump back in February for the Black History Month event. And I was explaining to them about that event. I'm like, he was inviting people who are doing work in the black community, and either you wanted him to recognize us or you didn't. I got a lot of flack for going to that event. But like I told them, I'm like, if he wouldn't have recognized black people for doing anything, he'd be so terrible. And then we're stupid for going. I mean, it's insane. But, you know, I don't listen to those things. Our students were proud. I took them to visit the White House back in. I think it was this March or April, I believe I took them to visit the White House and we had a great time there with their parents, and it was a beautiful thing. So, you know, here we are in 2025, trying to tell them that we're not political and Donald Trump has no affiliation with us, but who cares? I mean, even if he did, he's the President of the United States. Why wouldn't we want to be recognized by the biggest figure, you know, in our country?
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A
And just, just to be practical, you're always in fundraising mode because you're not. You're not backed by the government. So can you tell the people, I'm going to say some more good things about you, and they'll be all primed to, to. To donate. Some of them will be. But how would they do that? What would be the mechanism?
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B
You can go to our website at the x4boys.org that's T-H-E X F O R B O Y-S.org everything that you hear me explaining here, we have photos of all of it on our website, like teaching them how to do fencing, plasma cutting, firearms training. Everything is on our website that you want to see, even from the financials. You can go see all that stuff on our website. And of course, if you want to see us on social media, our biggest thing, I tell people all the time, a lot of people wish that they could give and some people can't. But I always tell them a retweet, a comment, all those things are gifts, because that helps push it to other people who may can give So I always tell people, any small thing helps our program. We have people who give $3, $1, but it matters. So I'm grateful to many people. And I did see a comment about the religious teaching. We definitely do that every week. Our students prepare, pray every day, and we make sure we do Bible study with our students. It's a real thing here in Albany. And of course, I will add anybody who ever wants to come and visit, as long as we can do a background check on you, we open it up for anybody to come visit, especially our donors, because it's better when you can put your hands on it and see what's going on. So we're down in Albany, Georgia. If you shoot me an email, you can definitely come visit.
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A
So let me tell you what lights me up when I watch your social media. My, my upbringing involved learning how to work on a farm, how to do like 10 different jobs, from mowing lawns to fixing things to everything. And the result of that is that I was confident in any new situation. So I would never say I can't figure this out because I figured everything out. You know, there's always some adult there who told me how to figure it out, but I was like, oh, I don't know how to do that. I'll figure that out. And when I watch you working with the kids, whether it's changing a doorknob or, you know, doing some of those other car related things, changing a tire, I say to myself, what you're really teaching them is that they can do anything. You're not really teaching them tires, you're teaching them confidence. And when I. Confident, when I see them learn confidence, but then I also see them hanging around a tremendous role model, which I think you are, they just have a superpower. Like when I watch those kids, you, you also have a standard where you have them respond to you as you're talking. Like you'll say, absolutely. Do you see what I've done with this doorknob? And then the, then the kids go, yes, sir.
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B
Right, Absolutely.
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A
And they all do. They all do. And when I watch, when I watch that, let's say habit forming, respect, I think, my God, these kids are literally developing a superpower that if they walked into a job interview with, with that set of manners and they could go to a dinner and they would know which forks to use. Which, you know, I didn't know at that age. I didn't know a fork use. So I could have used almost all of that training at that age.
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B
Yep. We've taught like etiquette classes for the students. And we got a lot of pushback for the etiquette classes. People told us that we were trying to teach the kids how to be white just for simply teaching them, you know, to eat with their mouth closed and to not talk about certain things at the table. It's insane.
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A
Let me give you a reframe that will help you. If they say that you're teaching them to be white now, you're teaching how to deal in a world in which there's a lot of white people.
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B
Absolutely.
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A
That's what you teach is strategy that when I watch it, I. It looks like you're teaching lessons, but it's all strategy. The strategy is if you, if you can become the kind of person who can pick up these lessons, the kind of person who can deal with white people, black people, all kinds of people. Success.
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B
Absolutely.
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A
Yeah. Yep.
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B
And the confidence thing is the biggest piece, especially when teaching them how to work with their hands. We have a lot of kids, you know, who are not academically inclined or athletically inclined. So you got those kids that are kind of in the middle, but when we teach them how to work with their hands and then their moms, they finally able to say, I'm proud of you for something. And we give them certificates and things like that. Now they're able to walk differently and feel like they can accomplish something. And that's very, very important to give a child. He needs confidence in something. And sometimes they may not be a straight A student and they may not be the best on the football field, but if I can teach them to be the best at this plumbing or being a diesel mechanic or whatever, or even just teaching them how to properly eat or properly read, all of that builds confidence, is very important.
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A
And then you're also building. Terribly important, I think is a network of kids who are like minded. Like, you can't be that, can't be that.
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B
Absolutely. It's like a fraternity. You know, these kids, we've had kids graduate, go to the military or whatever, and we have them come back, they always come back after they come back home or whatever and come spend time with the new students. And it's funny because when they look at how those kids act and they're like, you were that kid at one point. I still got old videos of you when you were sitting around doing those things. And so now they're able to discipline and to teach and to show that I'm a product of this. So it's very important. I absolutely love the network we're creating, like you said.
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A
All right, so there's a little lesson being formed here. So I saw maybe slightly racist comment in the comments that suggested you should teach the kids how to say the word ask a S K.
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B
That's not racist. That's an accent thing, man. I'm from South Georgia and I don't hear my accent until I go up north or something like that. But down here, we understand what we're saying. And even the white people here, they do the same thing. We're just, we're just Southern. Southern people have different accents. It's just like up north you say things a little bit differently or whatever. So it's just an accent thing. I don't think we could get away from it.
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A
So here's what I would add, add to that, which is that I would put that under strategy. So again, it's not, do I talk like my people? Do I talk like the place I came? Or do I make sure that somebody doesn't think poorly of me just by using this word that they expect me to use? So I would shoot that as a strategy. Not, not a, you know, not a way of talking.
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B
Definitely got to be able to turn the accent on and off because how I talk to you and how I talk to, like, my friends would be completely different because I know other people just can't understand, like our Southern accent. It's real deep. And my, my uncles and stuff, they were like cowboys. They're worse than me. Like, I mean, their country accents are so deep, you never understand what they're saying.
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A
And there's nothing wrong with teaching a kid to not be natural and not be themselves. You need to adapt to the situation. If you want to be right, you have to. I agree. All right, so what, what would you like the, the audience to know that I haven't mentioned already?
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B
I guess for us, you know, I always tell people, you could do the same thing where you are. I started what I'm doing right here in a small town in Albany, Georgia, a population of 69,000 people. One of the definitely more worse places as far as statistics in the country. But we were able to build something successful here. And I always tell people, you don't have to have a massive organization or a massive following to start anything. All of this stuff I started as a 19 year old with no following. Nobody knew who I was and I just wanted it. And nobody can want it for you. You have to want to see your own community better. You have to want to get up and go clean up Your own trash in your neighborhood and just all of those things, you have to wanna do it. So if you can start by making somebody smile and start by looking at those kids next door to you or just not blaming everyone for our issues. I mean, we point so many fingers. It's the Democrats fault, the Republicans fault, it's the politicians, it's this person's fault versus just looking in the mirror like, hey, I could be doing a little bit more. I could be doing a lot more in my neighborhood. I could be spending some time at the schools and helping the kids. So before we point fingers, let's figure out what it is that we can do. And if you feel like you're doing enough, do some more.
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A
Absolutely. Like the most important words ever spoken, I could do more just for every more always. Now I'm curious. Have you ever heard of my book how to how to filled Almost Everything in SL Win big. Have you ever?
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B
I have not. No.
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A
The one of the things that fascinates me about you is how compatible your thinking is with mine. Like we. It's almost like with same brain, two people. And that that book teaches 14 years and up how to have a system in life as opposed to a goal. Goal might be play in the NBA, but you know, really a system. A system would be learn as many valuable things as you can to be more value. So stuff like that. So it's meant to fill in all of those. If you're 14, how do you figure out how to be a successful 20 year old? So if you'd like a copy of that, I'll send you a copy if you want to check it out.
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B
Yeah, I'll send you my P.O. box. Most definitely.
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A
Okay, we'll do that. And anything else you want to tell them.
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B
No, I just appreciate you bringing me on. First of all, I'm glad to be here. I know you've been dealing with some things, but I'm glad to be here and I've been praying for you. But definitely I appreciate all the support that people give to our program. Like I said, this program runs exclusively because of people that believe in us. And us having to be good stewards is definitely expensive. We operate five days a week. We pick the kids up from school, we feed them every day. We have staff members, we have property, et cetera. So just everything that everybody does to keep us afloat for seven years, going on seven years now in January, it's been a beautiful thing and I'm glad. And again, if you want to support our program, you can follow me on social media at New Emerging King, on all platforms. Or you can go to our website@thex4boys.org that's T H E X F O R B O Y s dot org.
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A
Perfect. You know, I like boosting you because I have one of these. One of my secrets for life is that you should be working on at least one thing that could change the whole world.
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B
I agree.
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A
Even if it's very unlikely now, you're the one doing the work. But because I have a, you know, platform and I can boost you today, today I'm boosting you because if, if, if you catch on, changes the world, I, I think that's, I think that's how powerful what you're doing is. It would change the world. So, yes, sir, my, my audience and I will try to be a small part of that to give you a boost, definitely.
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B
Thank you.
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A
And thank you for taking the time. It was a real pleasure to meet you in. In person, sort of.
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B
Yep. I'll get, I'll make my way out there, most definitely. You just let me know when you're free.
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A
Okay, we'll do that. All right. Thanks, King. I'm going to say goodbye to everybody here, and you've been great. Appreciate it. And we'll, we'll talk later.
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B
All right, Bye.
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A
All right, people, I'm going to talk to the locals people privately, because I know you want to, and the rest of you, I'll see tomorrow, same time, same place, all right?