Order of Man - KING RANDALL ｜ Character Makes the Man

00:00:00.000 Guys, so many of us talk a huge game when it comes to helping future generations of boys become men.

00:00:07.040 Their families and friends and communities actually need them to be, and yet so few of us

00:00:11.700 are willing to do much about it other than these cleverly crafted platitudes on social media.

00:00:18.440 My guest today is different. His name is King Randall, and he is a man that is actually doing

00:00:23.420 something about leading his community and helping the young men who don't have the same opportunities

00:00:28.120 that many of us did. Today, we talk about what it takes to build a prep school for boys,

00:00:33.880 which is a daunting task, no doubt. The motto and mission of, quote, let us make men. How he got

00:00:40.700 over asking for money and what it looks like to build up a 501c3 organization. The pros and cons

00:00:46.500 of being young, and he is very young, and how it's character that makes the man. You're a man of action.

00:00:53.520 You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart your own path. When life knocks

00:00:58.860 you down, you get back up one more time, every time. You are not easily deterred or defeated,

00:01:04.980 rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who you are. This is who you will become.

00:01:12.000 At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man.

00:01:17.240 Guys, what's going on? My name is Ryan Mickler. I'm your host. I'm also the founder of this movement.

00:01:21.840 It's called The Order of Man, and my goal is to give you all the tools, conversations,

00:01:26.620 resources, guidance, direction, etc., that you need to step up as a father, husband,

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00:01:49.100 controversial characters and people on the podcast, and it's all designed to get some of their

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00:02:59.660 So, again, orderofman.com. With that, guys, let me introduce you to my guest. His name is King

00:03:04.420 Randall. I think I've been following him for the last year and a half or so on Twitter and I've been

00:03:11.300 extremely impressed with this man's desire to serve the young men of his community and then also his

00:03:16.760 willingness to do something that so few are willing and able to do, which is build a school of all

00:03:24.420 things. King is a professional trained chef, a Marine Corps veteran. He's a guide, a coach, a mentor for

00:03:30.320 hundreds, if not thousands of young men in his community. He's also the founder of X for the Boys,

00:03:35.540 which has a mission to teach boys the true meaning of manhood and masculinity and how to be protectors

00:03:40.880 and providers in their communities. Currently, he has his afterschool program open, but is going to

00:03:46.960 be opening enrollment for his full-time preparatory school this fall. Guys, enjoy the conversation with

00:03:53.480 a very, very fascinating King Randall. King, what's up, man? Thanks for joining me on the podcast.

00:03:59.700 Thanks for having me, man. Glad to be here. Yes, sir.

00:04:02.720 I've talked with a lot of guys over the past seven years now, and there's a lot of smoke. There's a

00:04:08.140 lot of fluff out there, but there's few people who are actually putting their money where their mouth

00:04:13.040 is. And I've been following you for about a year, year and a half since you really took off on Twitter.

00:04:20.760 And I got to tell you, you're one of the guys who is putting your money where your mouth is.

00:04:25.160 You're actively doing it. And I appreciate that about you.

00:04:28.060 Yes, sir. I appreciate you for even following. It's been a little journey,

00:04:31.920 but our biggest thing is transparency and consistency. So we want to make sure people

00:04:36.200 get to see what's going on and also see us being consistent with our efforts.

00:04:41.340 You, with your school, and we're going to get into that, but I'm just going to jump ahead

00:04:45.640 because you talk about these key characteristics. One of them is transparency. And I think one of them

00:04:50.340 is also consistency, but there's three or four other virtues that I imagine you ascribe to and that you

00:04:58.100 try to teach your young men through the programs that you offer. Why of all the virtues that it could

00:05:04.000 have been, why did you focus on consistency, transparency, honor, courage, these types of things?

00:05:09.900 For the most part, that's what I think I learned growing up. My grandfather, my stepdad, my former

00:05:18.660 stepdad, all these guys, we talk about those cliche terms in regards to men, but nobody really talks

00:05:26.080 about consistency and transparency. Because in order to be that man, you have to be consistent in what

00:05:31.820 it is that you're doing, even if it's going to work or feeding your family, taking care of your

00:05:36.400 wife, your kids, has to be consistent. And also being transparent and open with things that are

00:05:42.380 going on, because you shouldn't be ashamed of anything you have going on. If you're doing the

00:05:45.940 right thing, you should have no problem being transparent. Honor, courage, commitment, those

00:05:50.800 Marine Corps, core values. So of course, you know, that's something I subscribe to, being a former

00:05:55.640 Marine. But those values are extremely important to me. And that's how I grew up. And so a lot of the

00:06:01.580 children, a lot of the boys that I work with, and families in general, just don't have any core

00:06:05.340 values anymore. So we want to instill those in the students that we have coming to our school,

00:06:10.520 and they'll have routines every day. And I believe routines build habits, habits build character,

00:06:15.000 and character makes the man. That's something I wholeheartedly believe in.

00:06:19.220 Yeah, I agree. That concept of transparency is an interesting one, especially in the world of

00:06:27.740 social media, because it's really, it's really easy to put on this persona. It's really easy to put

00:06:34.140 on what you think other people want to hear you say, depending on what your tribe is, right? We all

00:06:40.240 have tribes. Right. And that's one thing I've seen of you. And it's interesting, because we could both

00:06:47.020 put out content and information out there that would probably get us a few more likes. But I don't think

00:06:52.260 it's honest, and I don't think it's transparent. So I imagine you probably get some pushback.

00:07:00.000 It's hard for me to imagine that you do, because I believe in what you're doing. But I imagine there

00:07:04.380 is some sort of pushback on you trying to reach out to the community. Talk to me about that.

00:07:09.540 Yeah. So just a tad bit of pushback, you know, from my hometown, especially, you know, when I first

00:07:15.020 started out, didn't get a lot of support from the hometown. And the people that did support, you know,

00:07:19.180 they just, you know, nobody would help out. Nobody would like send money. Nobody would like

00:07:23.380 everybody had to do everything for free, for the most part. And I still do everything for free.

00:07:27.480 But people take care of everything, you know, for our program nowadays. But there's a lot of people

00:07:32.760 in our hometown. He's too young. What does he know about school? And why is he always talking about

00:07:37.600 the public school system? He went through the public school system. He turned out good and blah,

00:07:41.240 blah, blah. Like, I'm like, yeah, but it's a whole lot of other children that are turning out terribly.

00:07:45.080 And even from our local school system, you know, we had to battle with them about a building that

00:07:50.780 they have up for demolition that's currently still sitting there today. And we, you know,

00:07:55.340 we battled with them for a bit. But, you know, my real reason I'm transparent is because, you know,

00:08:00.320 people aren't perfect, for one. You know, I like people to see everything that's going on. So even

00:08:04.840 if, you know, whenever they do try a smear campaign or whatever, it never really picks up or,

00:08:10.000 you know, or anything because everybody's like, well, we literally see everything that he's doing

00:08:13.980 all the time. He literally posts receipts. He posts bank statements, everything. So it's kind

00:08:19.080 of hard for you to, you know, try to say anything about him, you know, so as long as I cross all my

00:08:24.040 teeth and dot out of my eyes, you know, a lot of people, it's hard for them to try and, you know,

00:08:28.460 slander or anything like that. But people have tried, people have given pushback. People have

00:08:32.700 talked about my age and people have said I'm trying to make a militia. And I mean, people have all types

00:08:39.280 of stuff they're saying. And I'm just like, man, I'm grooming children and all that stuff. They're

00:08:43.860 just saying all these different things, you know, but I try to remain as transparent as I can,

00:08:48.400 give as many parent reviews as I can, show what the students are doing all the time. You know,

00:08:53.500 people, I believe people need to see that. And especially people are donating. I think

00:08:56.380 I should have the utmost transparency if everybody's donating and I'm like not hiding anything. So

00:09:01.700 everybody gets to see everything we're doing all the time. I think that's important.

00:09:05.100 The militia one is interesting to me. I just had a conversation with a neighbor who had said that

00:09:11.120 when we moved here to Maine about three years ago, some people in the neighborhood were very concerned

00:09:16.600 because I've got a big barn. We do events here on my property and we have anywhere from 40 to a hundred

00:09:24.080 men out here at a time. And a lot of people were worried about some sort of militia or like you're

00:09:30.300 saying, and like, yeah, a militia of men who want to be better fathers, who want to serve their

00:09:35.280 communities, who want to engage, who want to, you know, lead their families. Yeah. I guess if that's

00:09:40.180 how you define militia, then sure. I guess that's what we're building. And I'm like, these people are

00:09:43.820 11 years old. I'm like, come on, dude. Like I'm creating a militia of 11 year olds, man. Come on,

00:09:49.160 man. You know, I'm just like these people, they say anything. And then some people, they just run with

00:09:52.900 everything they hear. It's just like, Oh my God, I can't believe he's creating a militia. I'm like,

00:09:56.660 have you seen any of that anywhere? What are you talking about? You know? So, but it is what it is.

00:10:01.540 You know, I try to remain as transparent as I can, you know, we're not going to catch everybody.

00:10:05.700 Everybody's not going to support it. Everybody's not going to believe in what you're doing, but

00:10:08.480 as long as you keep believing in yourself and doing what you're supposed to be doing,

00:10:12.040 everything's going to take off. And that's kind of what happened with us. You know, we just remain

00:10:15.760 consistent, even when we had no followers and nobody backing us or anything. I kept doing the same

00:10:21.180 things I was doing a long time ago, um, working with those students and being consistent and teaching

00:10:25.680 them the same things and the same principles. So if you don't mind me asking how, how old are you

00:10:30.500 right now? I'm 22. I turned 23 on July, 26, started the program at 19. Man, that's, that's amazing.

00:10:37.700 I'm really curious about your age because we have a lot of guys who listen, who I'm 41 years old. So

00:10:42.760 we have guys who are 41 years old, guys who are 60 years old, guys who are 18 years old. And I'm really

00:10:48.460 curious from the younger perspective, like you are at 20, almost three. Uh, what do you think are the

00:10:55.820 advantages that you have as a young man yourself? And what are some of the disadvantages that you feel

00:11:02.200 like you've had to overcome with your age? Uh, well, I'll start with the advantages. Uh, for one,

00:11:07.900 I'm, you know, pretty, I've learned how to be pretty savvy with social media and marketing the program.

00:11:11.680 Um, because at first, you know, I wasn't able to get a lot or, you know, get a lot of support because

00:11:16.920 I wouldn't really market it on social media. So I took this guy's social media class and he taught

00:11:21.380 me how to market the social media program. And I actually did a video with him, um, and, you know,

00:11:26.440 show like how we were earning money, you know, from doing our workshops and things like that,

00:11:30.220 basically posting, you know, what we're doing and people would donate because they'd like to see

00:11:33.340 what's happening. And, um, so I, I started with that. Um, and then, um, even just interacting with the

00:11:38.900 children, it's a lot that, uh, we, I can relate to them with because a lot of them aren't, you know,

00:11:43.960 too much younger than me. I've had, you know, 16 year olds, 17 year olds, 15 year olds, and I can

00:11:49.260 relate to them really easy. Like I just graduated high school a few years ago. Like it wasn't that

00:11:53.460 long ago that I graduated. So, you know, it's, it's really easy to relate to them and they see

00:11:57.800 another young man, um, doing something, you know, around their communities because most of them only

00:12:01.920 get to see rappers and football players, et cetera, you know, uh, coming back to their communities and

00:12:05.640 giving back. But for, you can see somebody, uh, who, you know, went to the same school they went

00:12:09.360 to, you know, who grew up in the same city, grew up in the same neighborhoods. Um, it's, it's beautiful,

00:12:13.740 uh, to be able to relate to them in that way. Then, uh, disadvantages, you know, people don't

00:12:18.800 want to listen to you. Uh, people think you don't know a lot because of your age and then, uh, just

00:12:23.640 having to learn a lot by experience. Um, because a lot of mentors only mentor you until you get

00:12:28.340 better than them or on their level, then they don't want to, you know, mentor you anymore or,

00:12:32.940 or help you out anymore because you're kind of surpassing where they think they should have

00:12:36.960 been, you know? So it just, uh, having to sift through, you know, who's really for you and who's

00:12:42.080 just around just in case you make it, you know, uh, just paying attention to all those people.

00:12:46.260 But, you know, I've learned, um, just getting older and getting the experience of working with

00:12:51.280 children, um, what to do, what not to do trial and error. Um, I learned a lot, you know, in the past

00:12:56.300 few years, but that's just, it has to come with age, more experience. So that's the only thing,

00:13:00.540 you know, I have to wait on is getting experience. So people could tell you different things. People

00:13:04.000 could, you know, show you different things, but it's all going to happen really, uh, with

00:13:07.160 experiencing it yourself. Have, have you had any experiences over the past five or so years where,

00:13:12.760 uh, somebody's tried to take advantage of you or maybe stole from the organization or,

00:13:18.760 you know, did wrong by you or the boys you're trying to serve?

00:13:21.760 Yeah. Um, I remember, uh, I think it was about two years ago. Um, I think we had just come back

00:13:28.080 from the white house. Actually. Um, I had purchased the boys, some lawnmowering equipment.

00:13:32.340 Um, we had, uh, I bought a brand new enclosed trailer. Uh, we had, uh, purchased brand new

00:13:38.200 lawnmowers, uh, hedge trimmers, uh, chainsaws, blowers with a backpack, blowers, push mowers,

00:13:45.220 and, uh, hedge trimmers, uh, weed ears, everything. And, um, uh, people had donated all that money

00:13:51.800 for us to be able to get that, that lawnmowering equipment, um, for the boys to them, for them to be

00:13:56.560 able to start their, uh, lawn care service. Cause I was just trying to keep them busy since they 0.70

00:14:00.220 were out of school doing COVID and, you know, after school, I'm like, we have to have something

00:14:03.700 to do with something to show you how to make some money. And, uh, we probably had just started

00:14:06.840 cutting grass like that first week. Um, and one night it was about four o'clock in the morning

00:14:11.360 and my neighbor comes and knocks on my door. She said, Hey, somebody just stole you guys this

00:14:14.340 trailer. And I'm like, what do you mean? They just stole our trailer. She's like, I just saw them.

00:14:18.860 They just, they just popped the locks on it and, and rolled off with it. And to this day,

00:14:23.220 we never found it. Uh, all of our, every single bit of equipment we had purchased,

00:14:27.400 uh, and it was all brand new, all brand spanking new, including the trailer. Um, and we never found

00:14:32.880 any of it. None of it was ever recovered. Never found out who did it. Um, it was just terrible.

00:14:38.180 Um, and we were extremely upset about that. Um, and cause the kids were, they were living with me

00:14:43.320 at the time. And what was crazy was they was like, man, cause they had stayed up and I had went to

00:14:47.160 sleep. We had just got back from a field trip and I had just went to sleep. Um, um, and they were like,

00:14:52.040 man, Mr. King, we literally just fell asleep right before they came. They were, they were so upset

00:14:56.400 cause they feel like it was their fault. Cause they didn't hear it. It was nuts. Uh, but yeah,

00:15:00.560 we've had that happen. Um, but for the most part, I kind of like pay attention to people. I don't

00:15:05.380 allow people too much access into what we have going on unless you're a trusted, you know,

00:15:09.540 advisor or something like that. But I hadn't had any real issues with like anybody like stealing

00:15:13.540 anything from us or anything besides that particular incident in particular.

00:15:17.120 Yeah, man, that's so frustrating. How do you deliver that news to those young men where

00:15:22.220 clearly they're going to be disappointed, but what does the framing of that conversation look like?

00:15:28.060 Well, we were, I mean, it happened so fast cause they were all, you know, they had bunk beds in

00:15:32.960 my living room. So they were right at the front door. And, um, I told them, you know, somebody just

00:15:36.540 took all our stuff. So I was like, I'll stay here. And I tried to go right around and find them

00:15:40.300 because it had just happened. So I was like trying to ride in circles and figure out, you know,

00:15:44.740 where it was and everything. And I couldn't find it. And, you know, we just had to keep moving.

00:15:48.940 You know, I'm, I'll teach them all the time. You know, we keep our bearing and we keep moving.

00:15:52.680 Bearing is one of our core values. Also keeping your bearing, um, and not panicking, um, keeping

00:15:57.620 your bearing, you know, it allows you to think, um, it doesn't, it doesn't, uh, it helps you get out

00:16:02.860 of situation. So I was like, there's nothing we can do about it. Um, and I tell the boys all the time

00:16:06.820 about the serenity prayer, um, for those things that I can change, we don't change it. And if I can't

00:16:11.880 change it, no point in word about it. Um, so there was nothing I could do about it. So we just

00:16:15.100 kept moving and we posted about it. We told people, you know, people stole our stuff. We reported it

00:16:19.120 to the police and the news and people, you know, donated again and they gave us new equipment.

00:16:24.320 People were giving us some used equipment and things like that, but for sure, you know, it turned

00:16:27.940 out to be okay. Cause we, you know, more people found out about us just from that incident. Um, so it

00:16:32.760 was, it was fine. You know, I always tell them to look at the glass half full and we kept it moving.

00:16:36.100 Um, and that's how we keep, uh, you know, being a blessing, you know, to, uh, people in the community. We just be a

00:16:41.480 blessing to keep getting blessings. And we just looked at it. I told him, just look at it as a

00:16:44.720 donation. Somebody just needed some equipment. We just donated it, donated it to them. So,

00:16:48.300 you know, uh, I just, you're, you're a better man than I am. I would have, I would have been

00:16:53.080 livid, but I do like that concept. Oh, I was livid. No, I did have my weapon with me and I was

00:16:56.880 ready to shoot someone. I didn't have my bearing at that, at that particular moment. Uh, when I got

00:17:02.800 back, I had to calm my nerves. Yeah, I bet. And you know, it's, it's like that old adage of,

00:17:08.700 you know, no, no press is bad press, right? It's like, okay, well we lost, you know, 50 grand or

00:17:13.460 whatever worth of equipment, but we got $75,000 in donations. So was it really a loss? Yeah,

00:17:20.400 probably not, you know? Absolutely. Yeah. So you said the boys were living with you. Is that still

00:17:27.220 the case? Are they living with you or do you have a campus? What does, what does that look like?

00:17:31.980 Yeah. So for two and a half years, the children were living at my house. And, um, after this past

00:17:37.340 summer or not this summer, but the previous summer, they, they stopped living with me because

00:17:41.000 we were trying to get our school together. Um, and so I canceled summer camp this year to get

00:17:45.140 our school together. Um, so this is the first summer camp year I canceled and my boys were pretty upset

00:17:49.860 with me, but I had to cancel. I've got to get the school together, but they will be boarding at the

00:17:53.220 school on the campus, uh, this year. Um, so we're starting with six grade boys, um, 11 and 12 year olds,

00:17:59.080 and, um, they're going to graduate from high school from our school. So we'll grow a grade every year

00:18:03.080 with those students. So the first year will be sixth grade. Next year will be seventh and six

00:18:06.860 next year after that will be eighth, seventh and six and so forth. Um, and those first inaugural

00:18:11.640 class of gentlemen come this year and they'll be graduating, I think in 2028. Yes. Yeah. Six years.

00:18:19.520 Right. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. That's amazing. So, all right. So you're going to start with

00:18:24.420 sixth graders and then work up every year. And then are these boys going to live on campus?

00:18:29.160 Probably not year round. Like they're going to like a normal school year and they're going to get a

00:18:32.700 summer break or what does that look like? Well, summer break is going to be, um, a choice,

00:18:37.740 um, because we do do overnight summer camp. Um, but, uh, overnight, uh, summer camp will be a

00:18:44.420 choice. However, everything else will be full time. If their parents say they want them there all year,

00:18:48.700 then they'll be there all year, every day. Um, but we do have a lot of these boys go ahead. I'm sorry.

00:18:54.480 Yeah. Yeah. We have a lot. We'll have regular breaks though, such as fall break, Christmas break,

00:18:57.780 spring break, teacher work day, labor day holidays. They'll have those breaks.

00:19:02.700 Um, like regular school, but they will be staying on campus full time, um, outside of that.

00:19:07.740 And, and this is exclusively for young men, correct?

00:19:10.860 Yes. Awesome. So this is a sensitive question, especially in this day and age,

00:19:16.900 but what do you do when you run into a scenario when a family brings a quote unquote young man

00:19:23.480 who is not actually a biological boy? Is that something you've considered?

00:19:28.620 We have a pre-enrollment process. And one of the questions, uh, is your, are you registering

00:19:33.420 a biological male child? And if they press no, then the application goes out the window. So

00:19:39.120 it's what it is. Um, but we don't have, we don't have that issue too much down here in South Georgia.

00:19:44.500 We're in the Bible belt. I mean, we have people, you know, trying to be that way, but for the most

00:19:48.560 part, people are not, you know, going, doing that. And I know people have asked it. What if I have a boy

00:19:52.980 that's want to be a homosexual? And I've said this a thousand times, I don't care if he wants to be 1.00

00:19:56.640 a homosexual, what you decide to do in the bed has nothing to do with me. Um, I think my, our issue 0.97

00:20:01.760 is when people go around, you know, shouting, Oh, I'm a homosexual. I'm like, all you're telling me

00:20:06.240 is what you decide to do in bed. I don't care what you decide to do in bed. It has nothing to do with

00:20:09.880 me. I mean, he's still going to learn how to be a man. Um, it's like one of my, a good friend of

00:20:13.340 mine, Jalen Johnson, you know, he's a homosexual, but he's a standup guy. He's not, he's not out here 0.67

00:20:17.420 doing all that and with no weave and not, he's not trying to be a girl. He's a man. He's a whole man.

00:20:22.320 Um, so I don't have a problem with it. I'm like, he's still going to learn everything. We're going

00:20:25.700 to be teaching him. He's still going to learn how to protect this community. He's still going to learn

00:20:28.100 how to protect this family. We're not teaching anything different. He's going to wear the

00:20:31.020 uniform. And just like everybody else, he's going to get haircuts and not wearing earrings, no

00:20:34.540 makeup, none of that stuff like everybody else does. Um, but you decide you want to be a homosexual 1.00

00:20:38.220 that is on you. And that is your choice. I don't have a problem with you wanting to be 0.98

00:20:40.920 homosexual, but we're not teaching that here. We're going to teach you how to love a wife at this 0.97

00:20:44.240 school. And if you want to do that on your own time and you can, um, but I don't have a problem with

00:20:47.680 them wanting to be homosexual. That has nothing to do with me. I'm like, I don't care what you 0.93

00:20:50.340 decided to do in bed. That is on you as you become an adult or whatever. But as far as what we're

00:20:54.800 teaching at the school, we will teach them to love wives. That's, that's, that's powerful. It's,

00:20:59.400 it's, it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be powerful. It should be like everybody, you know, but the fact

00:21:04.540 that you're willing to stand by that and even say that on a podcast. And I, I respect you for that.

00:21:09.560 I feel very much the same way personally. A lot of guys who listen would agree. Um, but the fact

00:21:13.840 that you're willing to say it and say, no, this is what we do is such a rarity that it's like

00:21:17.780 refreshing for me to actually hear you say something like that and then have the conviction

00:21:23.740 to actually stand by it. But it's the same thing with, if you had a, a straight young man and he's

00:21:29.340 going to be sexual, sexually promiscuous during your curriculum, imagine there's consequences to 0.51

00:21:34.620 that too. Exactly. Exactly. So as, as much as they'll be at school, um, we'll try to, we're actually, 0.96

00:21:41.660 I'm planning on creating the actual fraternity for them to join after they leave, um, high school,

00:21:46.580 like having our own fraternity. So that way we can keep them accountable as they're in adults too.

00:21:51.080 Um, cause just like when they graduate school, they'll have requirements they have to pass to

00:21:54.320 graduate, not just academically. They'll have to know how to swim. They have to make sure they have

00:21:57.520 all their basic knowledge of automotive repair, general contracting, welding, firearms training,

00:22:03.100 wilderness training, all the things that we'll be doing with them. They'll have requirements to

00:22:06.300 graduate. Then after they leave every year, even if they're not participating in some of the

00:22:10.920 activities that we have for them as adults, you have to come back at least once a year and

00:22:14.140 re-qualify and everything that, uh, you've been taught such as firearms training, swimming,

00:22:19.440 um, automotive repair, general contracting, all this basic stuff you will need to know, um, as an adult.

00:22:24.140 So even if you're not even actively participating in that job or whatever, you still have to have a

00:22:29.920 basic knowledge of all these things because these things help you survive, especially wilderness

00:22:33.220 training. I think that's important as well as firearms training and, uh, family training that we'll be

00:22:37.760 giving them to. Um, but yeah, definitely, uh, even, uh, like I was talking about my friend,

00:22:41.980 Jalen, who's homosexual, he hates the LGBT movement. He's like, I'm not trying to push this on kids and

00:22:47.540 all that stuff. He's like, this is absolutely ridiculous. He hates it, you know, but, um, 0.99

00:22:51.180 just like I said, you wouldn't know he was homosexual unless he told you. And that's what 1.00

00:22:54.220 I'm talking about. I'm like, that is where we should be. Cause you don't know whether if I'm

00:22:57.480 homosexual or not, unless I tell you I'm straight or whatever, but that's how it's supposed to be. 1.00

00:23:01.280 That's, that's what you decide to do in the bed. Essentially, literally that's who you decide to love

00:23:05.200 in bed. That is it. We should be talking about sexuality, you know, with our children, not,

00:23:09.440 not super early anyway, or trying to push something on them or teach them about anal stuff and blah, 0.98

00:23:14.820 blah, blah. That's, that's insane, man. These, these are babies and they're not even thinking 0.99

00:23:18.420 about that yet, but now in this new day and age of social media, et cetera, these kids five,

00:23:22.580 six years old, no more than we do about sexual activity and things like that, or even these TV shows

00:23:27.320 that they're watching. And, um, I was just looking online, these people are doing a study

00:23:30.080 about how now, nowadays there are more homosexual, um, homosexual families on TV versus, uh, straight

00:23:37.500 families. Um, and even, uh, commercials, et cetera, they're doing a study and showing about now that

00:23:43.060 is, it's not 50, 50, it's more homosexual families than straight families on TV. And all the straight 0.99

00:23:48.640 families are not married and, you know, have a functional relationship. Those families are in 0.96

00:23:52.820 dysfunctional relationships and, you know, doing whatever, and they're not married. Um, so that's

00:23:58.100 another thing, you know, we have to talk about, we try to say they're not indoctrinating us through

00:24:01.080 TV. I'm like, yes, they are. And they, and these children are watching it, which is why we won't

00:24:04.220 have cell phones at our school. They won't be actively watching TV or whatever. We'll have

00:24:08.540 something for them to do at all times. Um, and definitely not being on social media. Uh, we'll

00:24:12.800 teach them how to utilize social media, teach them how to, you know, make money from it, but it's not

00:24:17.360 for you to be on. It's not a hobby for you. Um, this is for you to learn how to make your coins and get

00:24:22.280 off. Um, because all it's doing is it's messing with your brain. Um, and I'm doing the same thing with my

00:24:26.860 social media. Um, literally next month I'm getting off all my social media. I'm making a post and

00:24:31.180 saying I'm not in control of any of my social media anymore. It's going off my phone and whoever's

00:24:35.220 posting for my page, it will be somebody on the team posting for my page, but it will not be me

00:24:39.380 because I don't wish to be on there. It's too much stuff on there. Too much nonsense. I can't focus.

00:24:43.820 It'll throw your whole game off. Like you just see something just trigger your, all your emotions

00:24:47.820 and you just mess up your whole day. Cause you see something you didn't like, you know, it's just

00:24:51.260 all this nonsense, you know? So I'm like, I'll just happily get off. I'll read the newspaper if I need to,

00:24:56.200 you know, get the wall street journal and call it a day. So, you know, that's what I'll be doing.

00:25:01.280 I don't blame you. I mean, uh, you and I are both immersed in the world of social media,

00:25:05.120 primarily because it's part of, it's an integral part of our business model. Right. Right. But yeah,

00:25:11.320 if you don't have those boundaries in place and I, and I've crossed the line and I've, uh, you know,

00:25:16.880 blurred the boundaries and, and sometimes, you know, I might be on there and my kid's like,

00:25:20.760 Hey, do you want to go play catch? I'm like, no, hold on. I got to respond to this guy. I'm like,

00:25:23.600 what in the world are you doing, man? Like your kid wants to play baseball with you and you're

00:25:27.680 thinking around with some dude who, you know, you don't even know on social media.

00:25:32.720 It's wild. How many of the boys that are going to go through your program are, they come from, 0.77

00:25:40.740 uh, a broken family. Maybe they don't even have parents engaged at all. Like what, what is the

00:25:47.420 ratio there? I imagine just if I had to guess is pretty high, I would assume. Oh yeah. It's over

00:25:53.860 95% of the boys we deal with don't have like a dad at home, single mother household, juvenile court

00:25:59.540 system. That's like 95% of the boys I deal with. We have a few and far in between where we have

00:26:03.700 somebody with two parents, two parents at the house, you know, they're married and in a functional

00:26:07.940 household. Um, but we take all children, um, whether regardless of their background, regardless of

00:26:13.100 the race, we take all children. I know most people only see black children in our program for the most

00:26:16.680 part, except for unabated. I have one white kid, what I'm, I have to tell people, I'm like, we're

00:26:21.440 in a 77% African-American town. I figured that was just because of where you were not. Yeah. That's

00:26:26.760 just because of where I am. Right. Yeah. And as much as I try and recruit, you know, people are only

00:26:31.680 going to sign up their kids if they want to, you know, and I'm going to take, you know, who signs up

00:26:34.960 the children. So we don't have one white family sign that kid up. So that's the only white kid we got. 0.74

00:26:39.060 So, but I have no problem working with children of other races. I mean, I have had,

00:26:43.100 more in our book club, you know, years ago, but that was from a group home, um, because they had,

00:26:47.780 you know, some Chinese kids and Mexican kids and white kids. Um, I work with all of them. Um,

00:26:53.260 and I don't have a problem with them. I'm just like, they all need to learn too, you know? So

00:26:56.800 I've had people ask that. And then of course, you know, with me learning how to utilize social media,

00:27:00.980 uh, people like, Oh, you're exploiting those children. Cause you're posting what you're doing

00:27:04.940 to get donations. I'm like, so what do you think Jude is doing? Exploiting the boys.

00:27:09.700 Right. And I'm like, I'm like, yeah. And I'm like, how exactly am I exploiting them by teaching

00:27:15.800 them things they need to know and posting online? I had my, by the way, this program is free.

00:27:20.140 The boarding school will be free, but I have to post to people so people can keep donating. So

00:27:24.960 these programs can stay free. And so I asked them the same question. I said, well, what do you think

00:27:29.020 St. Jude is doing or the animal hospital or all these people posting these commercials with these

00:27:33.040 sick kids or the, or the little sick puppies or whatever. So you can donate. So their programs can

00:27:38.460 continue running. I'm like, that's what they're supposed to do. Post what they are doing. So that

00:27:42.820 way you can continue donating. So people can see what's happening. It was like, Oh, you're just

00:27:46.900 doing workshops and stuff to get donations. I'm like, I do the workshops because I want the kids

00:27:50.580 to learn the information. Then I post so people can donate. Absolutely. People need to donate.

00:27:55.780 Nothing's free. Not for us. It's for the pay is free for the parents, but you know, the children

00:28:00.040 have to learn all this stuff because we actually want them to. And I had to get out of the mindset

00:28:04.100 before. Um, because when I was actually taking that social media class, you know, a guy was like,

00:28:08.120 he's like, you have to get out of the mindset of, you know, if you post it, you're not doing it for

00:28:11.400 the right things. Cause I was one of those people, you know, some people are like, you shouldn't have

00:28:14.180 to post everything you're doing, you know, or otherwise it's not genuine. And I used to be one

00:28:17.900 of those people. So I never really posted much that I did. Cause I thought I didn't have to,

00:28:20.980 I was like, God will just take care of us, you know, blah, blah, blah. So he was like, no,

00:28:23.460 you need to post what you're doing because people around the world need to see this and you're inspiring

00:28:27.940 people. And that's been the biggest thing I've inspired so many people across the world to

00:28:31.560 do programs and, and, and get engaged in their communities and help facilitate other things

00:28:37.020 across the country and across the world. Um, because people have seen what we're doing.

00:28:40.680 I'm like, and that's, what's supposed to happen. It's supposed to be a ripple effect. So we're

00:28:43.420 actually inspiring people all over the world to do stuff for their communities. And we're showing

00:28:47.360 them how to make sure people see what you're doing. So people can donate to your cause.

00:28:51.280 And that way you can fund the program, you know, through public funds and not have to use

00:28:56.360 government money. Um, cause our program is completely people funded. We have not gotten any grants.

00:29:00.400 We haven't gotten any, uh, 501c3 stuff. None of that. It's all completely people funded. You know,

00:29:06.200 we're a 501c3 organization or whatever, but all of our donations come from regular people,

00:29:10.580 people sending 20 bucks here, $5 there. I have people do $3 a month, you know, people do what

00:29:15.740 they can or whatever. And we're grateful for everybody. We send everybody their little gifts.

00:29:19.820 You know, we, we try to make sure we, uh, show people love and say their names online. So people

00:29:24.520 could see, um, you know, who's donating and things like that. We try to shout people out. And even some of

00:29:29.060 our bigger donors, you know, who've taken care of us since the beginning, we were honoring them at

00:29:33.120 school. We're naming some things after them, you know, so this is what's supposed to happen. Um,

00:29:37.280 people are supposed to, you know, give into your cause. Um, and even the scripture says that,

00:29:41.480 you know, um, so that's, that's something, you know, um, that people just, just got to understand,

00:29:46.940 you know, um, if you're having an organization or something, don't let people try and shun you

00:29:50.140 because you're posting for people to see what you're doing. Yeah. People are supposed to see what

00:29:54.060 you're doing. So that way people can continue donating. So you continue doing your work. Um,

00:29:57.500 so that's something I had to learn, but, um, people are going to say stuff and just got to let

00:30:00.440 them talk and never respond. Only respond to work. That that's a, that's, that is what I don't

00:30:06.980 always do that myself, but that's, that's wise counsel for sure. Yeah. It is interesting. We have

00:30:11.460 this really unhealthy relationship between making money and doing good. Like occasionally I'll get

00:30:17.420 people who reach out and say, Oh, you know, they'll try to calculate how much money I make.

00:30:21.020 They'll look at how many members we have versus how much it costs. And they'll come up with my

00:30:25.400 monthly income. They're like, well, you're making this much money. I thought you were doing it out

00:30:28.820 of the goodness of my heart. And I, I usually say, you know, both can exist. I can make good money

00:30:34.620 because it's important because money is what allows me to spend time with my family and contribute to

00:30:39.380 the community and do the things I want to do. And also I really enjoy what I'm doing. Did you ever

00:30:46.340 have any sort of aversion or difficulty in asking people to donate? And if so, how did you overcome that?

00:30:56.100 I did originally. Um, but we have been blessed to the point where I never really had to ask for

00:31:02.780 donations. Like if you go look at any of my old interviews or any, just, just look me up in

00:31:07.040 general. I don't really ask for donations. I just, you know, put the link in the description,

00:31:12.020 you know, I'll, I'll put probably put, you know, donate, um, or whatever like that. But I never like

00:31:16.540 verbally. I'm like, please donate to our cause, you know, blah, blah, blah. I don't, I don't do that

00:31:21.020 or whatever. I never had to, because we just, people just are attracted to the work. Literally

00:31:25.200 like we do great work and it's not seeing a lot of places. Um, so that's why people are so

00:31:29.840 attracted to it. So we just keep the attraction up by keeping on posting what we're doing. I'm

00:31:34.040 giving, you know, stories now about what's been happening with the students, you know, or in my

00:31:38.940 home life, people enjoy seeing things that they can relate to also. So just learning how to build

00:31:43.560 your content out and not have to ask for donations. So I hope people never really see me say, Hey,

00:31:48.360 please donate. You know, we need, need, need, you know, I never really much do that all the time.

00:31:52.340 You know, of course, on our last campaign, you know, I've told people to donate because now we're

00:31:56.340 trying to open our school, but for the most part, I'm not the donation asker guy. I'm not like, Hey,

00:32:00.280 please give $10 here. Please give $5. I'm not doing that. I just continue posting our work and let

00:32:05.060 people see what they're doing. And I want them to feel led to donate. I want them to be like, no,

00:32:09.440 let me, I need to give this call some money, you know, because look at what they're doing. I know this is not free.

00:32:13.560 Um, that's what I like for people to be able to donate, um, by just seeing the work and just

00:32:18.660 like being led to give, not being told to. You do a really good job at that. I was,

00:32:23.560 I knew we were going to have this conversation and we we've only been talking for what the past

00:32:27.260 24 hours or so about making this happen. Uh, and, and I, and I saw a post that you had made about,

00:32:32.980 I think it was Amazon prime day and you've got a container or a room or something, and it's just

00:32:37.860 full of boxes and you're like, Hey, we're overwhelmed. Thank you so much. Not only is that

00:32:43.240 powerful that other people want to contribute, but even that alone from a marketing perspective,

00:32:47.500 because I like marketing, you're just really good at social media where you're telling the

00:32:53.520 story you're sharing. And then people are going to feel compelled to help you on your mission.

00:32:59.760 That's how you're supposed to do it. Um, and you know, we post, um, because people also want to

00:33:04.120 know like what's happening too. So that's, this is at our, our, our resource center. And we have all

00:33:08.380 our boxes coming here right now because the school's not open yet to put furniture in. Cause we're

00:33:12.220 still doing the floors and stuff right now. Um, but the, the boxes, man, I'm like, we had to try

00:33:18.140 and organize the boxes because we couldn't even get in the room. And every day it's like more and

00:33:23.040 more big boxes, especially during prime day, prime day, they went crazy. Like they's ordering

00:33:27.100 some of everything that we need, you know, for the school where that's what's supposed to happen.

00:33:31.900 Um, and you know, of course we're going to post it so people can see. And, and then people who

00:33:35.320 didn't, who may have missed it can go, Oh, well, let me go buy something from the Amazon

00:33:38.620 prime list too. Oh, whatever. Cause I want them to feel like we care. And also we create

00:33:42.040 wishlists like that too, because people have to see, not only do we need just, you know,

00:33:45.700 monetary donations, but people feel different about donating the item directly rather than money.

00:33:50.660 So I've had people donate $3,000 worth of equipment, you know, because they, they feel

00:33:55.840 more comfortable giving the equipment versus the, the, the direct dollars. I have people like, Hey,

00:34:00.460 I'd rather, you know, send what you guys need versus donate the funds. That's totally fine with me.

00:34:05.340 We'll create a wishlist for you and we'll show you what's happening. I remember when we were

00:34:09.200 ordering our, uh, we're getting stuff from our Amazon wishlist. I was showing people all the

00:34:13.300 boxes coming in. I remember we had got our new gym lights. Uh, we had got our new ceiling towels.

00:34:18.120 I was posting all those videos for people to see, you know, Hey, look, ceiling towels just came in,

00:34:22.120 got the guy bringing them in on pallet jack. Now, you know, we're going to put the ceiling towel.

00:34:25.260 Okay. Here's the paint we just bought. Here's the toilets. We just got donated to us. You know,

00:34:29.240 we're putting the toilets in, like I posted all of that and people were just like, ah, this is so exciting.

00:34:33.220 Cause they get to see the school and they're seeing it happening in real time. And for people

00:34:36.840 who follow me for like the past two and a half, three years, they like, this is great. Like I've

00:34:40.740 watched you from your house to battling with your school system to buy your resource center. Cause

00:34:46.080 this was supposed to be our school. And then we ended up finding a school, uh, downtown in our

00:34:50.580 hometown and ended up purchasing that too. So they've watched me buy land. They watched me work

00:34:55.580 with different kids. They watched my children grow. They've watched me grow. I mean, it's been

00:35:00.200 beautiful. They went, watched me come from hair to no hair. I mean, it's, it's been great. You know,

00:35:04.520 so people feel like, like they're part of the family now. Um, so that's, that's, that's what

00:35:09.160 works, you know, for us and people who've been watching us for two and a half, three years, you

00:35:12.220 never know who's watching too. Like I've had one person, I think one of our biggest donors, um,

00:35:16.760 she had been watching for like two years straight. She got like 10 followers or whatever, you know,

00:35:21.620 but she's just been watching our page. Right. She's like, I've seen enough work now that I feel

00:35:25.680 compelled to give a big lump sum and you know, such and such amount or whatever, you know,

00:35:29.900 and she gave like $50,000. Like, and I was like, you never know who's watching. This is why you

00:35:35.360 continue being consistent and continue being transparent because that helped us get all

00:35:39.740 of our furniture for the school. Um, that helped us get all the beds, all of the conference room

00:35:45.140 tables, uh, our desk furniture, you know, office furniture, all that stuff. We got all the desks for

00:35:50.820 the students, um, the screens, all this stuff that, that goes in their classrooms carpet. Uh,

00:35:57.000 that's what that helped us get. And, um, she was able to see what we purchased and everything. I

00:36:01.660 mean, it's great, you know, um, but that's what happens. Consistency and transparency. You never

00:36:06.200 know who's watching, you know, I remember, I remember Rihanna followed me last year and like

00:36:10.940 people, people are watching. And so as long as you keep being consistent and transparent, you know,

00:36:15.700 people, God will make a way. God will definitely make a way because he knows where your heart is.

00:36:19.880 And, um, and that's the biggest thing, no matter what other people have to say, as long as you

00:36:23.220 keep walking in your purpose on purpose, God will make things happen for you.

00:36:29.020 Men, let me hit the pause button on the conversation. Now, obviously we've been

00:36:32.520 talking a lot about how to serve the young men of our communities. And I would highly

00:36:35.680 encourage you to check out X for the boys with King Randall and what he's doing. Um, I, I think

00:36:40.820 it is something that most men have the desire to do, which is to serve young men and specifically

00:36:46.140 their own boys. And in addition to what King is doing, I want to let you know about something

00:36:50.720 we're doing. It's called the legacy experience. It's for you and your young man between the ages

00:36:55.240 of eight to 15, uh, so that you can participate in leading the next generation into manhood using

00:37:01.920 time-tested battle-tested systems and experiences for doing so. Uh, this is called the legacy experience.

00:37:07.960 It's a, uh, three and a half day experience in Maine at my property here. We've got a barn that

00:37:14.280 all of us live in for three days or so, and we've got a lot of activities planned for you.

00:37:19.420 Enrollment is open currently, but it's going to shut down very soon as we're almost at our

00:37:23.980 maximum capacity of 20 young men. So if you'd like to learn more and lock in your spot at legacy,

00:37:29.200 uh, which is September 22nd through the 25th of this year, head to order of man.com slash legacy

00:37:35.520 order of man.com slash legacy. I'll get back to it with King.

00:37:39.040 One of the things I like most about what you're doing is that it's not government funded. It's

00:37:45.060 privately funded. Uh, and you know, you hear from so many people who are like, well, you know,

00:37:49.940 we have to have taxes and we have to do this and that, because if we didn't, if we didn't enforce

00:37:54.180 this, then, you know, nobody would do it out of their own free will. And I'm like, I don't think

00:37:58.880 so. It seems to be counter to that. And then the other thing is I see this, this campus that you

00:38:04.420 now, do you call it a campus? Yeah. It's this campus. So yeah, this campus and I've seen pictures

00:38:09.820 over the past week or two of what it looked like. And it looks like, you know, kind of a rundown

00:38:15.160 building that maybe was vacant for several years. I don't know the story. And then you come in and

00:38:20.620 you refurbish it and you paint it, you fix some windows, you remodel it, you restore it. And not

00:38:25.560 only is it privately funded, now you're actually serving the community. You're putting people to work.

00:38:31.100 You're obviously helping these young men grow so they can go out and serve their communities.

00:38:35.020 It's just a beautiful thing, man. Yeah, man. The story is quite compelling.

00:38:40.860 Even listening to myself tell it sometime because it happened like three, it's, it felt like a long

00:38:46.940 time for me, but three years and two years to other people is really fast. And it is a quick,

00:38:51.720 quick amount of time, but for me, it just felt like forever. But I mean, just from starting at my house

00:38:56.960 when I was 19 and I had 20 kids in my dining room on a little small dry erase board to, you know,

00:39:03.140 boarding some kids at my house. And then our book club growing to a point where I couldn't fit it in

00:39:07.860 the library anymore. You had to go use somebody's business at their copy shop because they have a

00:39:13.460 print shop. They do print stuff or whatever, but we used to use their copy shop at the end of the day.

00:39:18.000 And from there to COVID happening and then having to start taking kids to stay in my house and putting

00:39:23.000 bunk beds in my living room to house these kids and teaching them workshops and taking them to a

00:39:27.500 farm and all these different things. And then from there to purchase on some land and then getting

00:39:32.300 invited to the white house, we purchased 40 acres last year, you know, to teach the kids wilderness

00:39:36.880 training. And then from there to buying our resource center. And after having a big shebang with our local

00:39:44.680 school system that took eight months of our time, we could have purchased something else, but we ended up

00:39:49.660 purchasing these three buildings right here. And they're really small, three small buildings that

00:39:54.220 we were going to start our school. And we're just going to start really small and call it a day.

00:39:57.300 Then I'll never forget. We had, we use every last bit of money to purchase these buildings right here

00:40:02.980 because we purchased them cash. And I'll never forget two weeks after we close on this resource center,

00:40:08.900 my realtor calls me and she says, King, we have a school downtown for sale. And I said,

00:40:13.960 there is no school downtown for sale, Ms. Carter, because there are no schools downtown. And she's

00:40:21.420 like, no, there is a old school there with a church attached to it. And it's been vacant for about three

00:40:28.020 or four years now. Come downtown and look at it. I'm like, what, what church is like friendship? I was

00:40:32.960 like, Oh, I went to pre-K there. I'm like, but I don't remember a school being there. I go to this

00:40:37.340 location. It's 41,000 square feet, 25 classrooms, cafeteria, basketball, gym, chapel, library,

00:40:45.260 the whole nine, two kitchens, one commercial kitchen, one regular kitchen. So many miscellaneous

00:40:51.320 offices, locker rooms, the whole nine. So I walked through this building and I say, well,

00:40:57.400 Ms. Mary, this is great. Two weeks ago. But we spent all of our money that we

00:41:02.160 tried to raise. We already raised. I'm like, I can't, I can't purchase this building. I'm like,

00:41:08.000 I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do. And she was like, you got to buy it. She was like,

00:41:11.340 it's everything you needed, which it was. I was like, it's everything we need. But I'm like,

00:41:13.960 I can't, I can't do it. I can't buy it. Um, we don't have the funds. We're just going to start

00:41:17.700 out small over here. And maybe, you know, if it's still for sale, we'll try and get it at another

00:41:21.280 time. And she was like, no, you're going to buy this building and you got to figure out how to do it.

00:41:25.440 Call some of your donors or whatever like that. And even at that time, we didn't even have our

00:41:29.100 501c3 back yet. So a lot of people didn't want to donate because, you know, we weren't, uh,

00:41:34.080 tax exempt yet. You're right. So anyway, I pundered on it. I prayed about it. I was like,

00:41:38.800 I can't do this. But, um, she was like, call some donors. So I, I, I called, um, one of our

00:41:45.600 previous donors who had promised to give so much, um, whenever we got 501c3 status and I called him,

00:41:51.480 I was like, look, I was like, I hate to do this again. I was like, but we have another building

00:41:56.400 that we're trying to buy. I said, I don't want to make this a public campaign because people are

00:42:00.900 going to feel like we're, we're, you know, juicing them now, you know, and we're just being dishonest

00:42:05.260 because, okay, you just purchased a building, which you need another building for, you know,

00:42:08.500 like I'm thinking about how people are going to look at it in public. And he was like, okay, King,

00:42:11.780 he was like, look, I'm going to trust you. You said your 501c3 paperwork is in, I'm going to trust you.

00:42:15.120 I'm going to start you out with $25,000. We needed 70,000 to get in the building, um, to put down.

00:42:20.820 We need 70,000 to get in the building. So, um, he was like, I'm gonna start you out with $25,000.

00:42:25.160 And he said the check. And I said, I promise we have a 501c3 coming in. I'll let you know

00:42:29.620 when it comes. Um, so anyway, he gave us 25,000 and I said, um, I got on Twitter. I said, we need

00:42:38.800 to raise $50,000 by Christmas time. Um, this was back in October. I said, we need to raise $50,000

00:42:44.100 by Christmas, uh, for our school. Um, and you know, if we raise it by Christmas, we'll be able to get

00:42:51.840 in the building to start renovations. And we raised $50,000 in 36 hours and we were in the

00:42:56.840 building. That's amazing. We were in the building next week. I didn't make any videos. I didn't,

00:43:02.460 you know, do any calls to action. I just simply said, can you donate by Christmas? And it happened

00:43:06.860 in 36 hours. Yeah. And we got in our school that we're in now and we've been raising money. And as

00:43:14.080 we've been raising money, we've been working on the schools for the school. We've been painted

00:43:17.500 and pressure washed. It looks great. Floors are getting done. We have students coming in. Um,

00:43:24.880 I mean, it's, it's happening. Um, but that's, I mean, it's been a long, long journey for me.

00:43:30.740 It feels like it's been forever, you know, but things have been happening fairly quickly. And

00:43:34.240 honestly, it's just not getting started. The school's about to open now. So it's like,

00:43:37.640 now the world works about to begin. Now it's going to get, yeah. Yeah. It's about to get fun,

00:43:41.740 real fun. Um, especially boarding the students and, you know, seeing how they develop. And we know,

00:43:46.920 uh, we're going to have to deal with a lot of press when the school actually opens because the world

00:43:50.300 has been waiting on the edge of their seats for our school to open. So once we open on August 3rd

00:43:55.440 and release those videos and those pictures of our students for their first day in their uniforms

00:44:00.260 and stuff, uh, they're, they're definitely, uh, going to make shockwaves on social media and just

00:44:05.940 the press in general, because people are waiting. So we're excited. Well, let me know what I,

00:44:09.580 what I can do when you open the school, obviously, man, I'm willing to support and blast your

00:44:13.700 financial support, whatever, whatever I can do. I would love to do that.

00:44:16.920 Yeah. I would love to do that depending on the timeframe. I would love to do that. We can see

00:44:21.000 if we can make it work. What is the, uh, what is it like working? Cause you're in, you're in Georgia,

00:44:27.240 right? So what is it like working with the state and the red tape behind starting a school? Like,

00:44:35.880 what is that like? Has that been a nightmare? Has it been seamless? What does that actually look like?

00:44:41.820 It was a nightmare when I was trying to work with the school system about one of their buildings.

00:44:45.240 Uh, but ever since we bought our own commercial building, you know, our city commission supports

00:44:48.840 us wholeheartedly, our mayor, our commissioners, they support us. Um, the state charter school

00:44:54.160 commission, they've been begging us to start a charter school. So we've been in talks with them,

00:44:58.160 um, because I originally thought that the charter school was a part of the school system. They were

00:45:02.200 like, no, we're our own school system. And they're all mostly conservatives. They were like, no,

00:45:06.300 we're our own school system. And you basically teach what you want, but we, we keep funding from the

00:45:11.620 government that needs to be, you know, in these charter schools. So I toured a few charter schools

00:45:16.020 and they all have their own curriculum. They do what they want to do. They teach what they want

00:45:19.140 to teach, but they get public funding for it. And it was like, that's what you should, that's what

00:45:22.500 you need. You're like, even though you have, you know, people that are donating is nothing going to

00:45:26.920 be like serious, like getting real government dollars that need to go to programs like this because

00:45:32.220 money should follow the students. Um, that's what I believe it shouldn't be, uh, you know,

00:45:36.480 following schools. It should be following the students in particular. So if those students want to come

00:45:40.020 to a charter school, that money should go behind them. Um, and that's what I believe. Um, because

00:45:44.540 these school systems are getting 10, $12,000 a child and they're not doing anything for these

00:45:49.380 kids. I'm like, y'all are making millions of dollars. I'm like, you know what I could do with

00:45:52.660 $10,000 a kid, you know, what happened at this school with $10,000 a kid, but you guys are insane. 0.99

00:45:58.280 I'm like, I would, you crazy. I'm like so much I would be doing. I'm like, y'all guys are not doing 0.73

00:46:02.540 anything. These kids are graduating. They can't read their grad. They're no discipline at school. I mean,

00:46:07.380 you're getting $10,000 a kid. And this is what happening at your trash school. This is insane. 0.99

00:46:13.180 And they want to keep fighting us about public dollars going to charter and private schools.

00:46:17.560 I'm like, this is where it needs to be going. Cause this is, this is ridiculous. You're a threat. 0.92

00:46:22.060 It's ridiculous. So, but that's, that's where we are. But I didn't really had to have a real red 1.00

00:46:26.680 tape because since we own the building and you know, we own our own school and we're not answering to

00:46:31.380 anybody, it's not a whole lot of red tape. We have to do it because on top of that, what we're doing

00:46:35.700 this year before, if we, if we don't become charter, we're up, technically we're a homeschool

00:46:41.100 hub. So what's happening is we're utilizing a homeschooling free homeschooling program

00:46:46.140 for those that's accredited for those students to remain in their right grade. And then we're doing

00:46:50.640 our outside teaching outside of that and our location. So technically they can't say we have

00:46:56.820 an unaccredited school or anything because we're technically a homeschool hub for the online program

00:47:02.300 that we're using, but those students will actually boarding at our campus and we're teaching them

00:47:06.600 everything they need to know on top of academics. You know, there's another cool thing happening in

00:47:11.800 Arizona. Uh, I feel like it's kind of leading the charge with school choice. That's probably

00:47:15.880 something I, I imagine you, you guys would probably keep your eye pretty close on with these.

00:47:20.020 Yep. Do you know him? Do you know Corey DeAngelis? No. Oh yeah. He's like the number one school

00:47:25.580 choice advocate in the country. Uh, I'll send you his Twitter, but he posts about that stuff all the

00:47:30.040 time, but he has posted about what's happening in Arizona and it's heavy. Yeah. How do you,

00:47:35.360 so I don't know what your enroll, what are your enrollment numbers? Like how many boys for this

00:47:39.840 first semester are you going to bring in roughly? I originally started out and said 50. Okay. Um,

00:47:46.480 and then I was like, we're not going to do that. I want to start out with a smaller number to kind of

00:47:51.980 get our feet wet, figure things out. Yeah. So I decided to cut down to 15 max 20, um, maxed at 20

00:47:59.440 boys to begin with only because I can just kind of want to figure things out for real and really

00:48:03.640 dig into our first class gentlemen, figure out how, you know, I want things to run, um, how our

00:48:09.840 curriculum is going to go getting our little schedules together, et cetera. I mean, we have

00:48:13.680 a school bus and all that stuff, but I really want to make sure it's really tight before we begin next

00:48:19.360 year and take 150 kids. Um, so I was like, I'm gonna start out with this first 15 boys. And then after

00:48:24.760 that, then we're going to fix it up how we really wanted to go with a big number. So I'm just going

00:48:29.720 to start out small and, and figure it out with these small number of students, but our after

00:48:33.820 school program is not closing. So that was another thing people thought was happening. So even though

00:48:37.420 the school's opening, the X for boys will still be, uh, active. The life preparatory school is separate.

00:48:43.080 Um, so life preparatory school will be our sixth graders and the extra boys will still have those

00:48:47.420 students that you see all the time, you know, working with us that will be coming, you know,

00:48:50.980 doing their workshops and doing conflict corner and things like that, uh, with our boys. So we'll

00:48:55.780 still be doing that anyway, um, with our afterschool kids. So no, we're not abandoning the kids I've been

00:49:00.480 working with for the past three years. Uh, we'll still have them. It's just, we'll have full time

00:49:05.700 those 11 to 12 year old, uh, sixth grade students. You're going to have hundreds, if not thousands of

00:49:11.900 applications over the next several years. So what is your selection process going to look like when you

00:49:18.740 can't facilitate the amount of people that want to come and be part of this?

00:49:22.680 First come first serve and also opening more campuses. Uh, so probably on within the next year

00:49:30.340 or when our students right now go to eighth grade, we'll be working on a high school campus for them

00:49:35.200 to go to. Um, and then so on and so forth. Um, we are eyeballing some land out in the city of

00:49:40.020 Albany on the outskirts, um, of Albany to be able to purchase a few hundred acres on, um, four

00:49:45.740 different sides. So it's probably about a thousand acres altogether, 2000 acres. It's a lot of land,

00:49:49.680 but we're planning to start our campus build up from the ground out there. Um, so, uh, we'll start,

00:49:55.140 um, with our high school boarding campus and then we'll eventually build up around it. We want to

00:50:00.180 build a stadium out there. We want to build our own little arena. We want to build a more campuses,

00:50:05.220 library, our little stores, even our own little gas station out there because it's close out going to

00:50:10.860 the highway. Like we want to make sure our interest is bringing in funds, you know, uh, just from

00:50:17.160 around. We want to teach them how to work there. Um, also I'm, I'm, uh, starting a funeral home with

00:50:22.020 one, my best friend, uh, he's a mortician and we've been doing that since we were in high school.

00:50:26.940 Um, so he's in a school right now. So he's about to take over, um, the funeral home he was working at.

00:50:32.820 And, um, we're going to teach the boys how to work, um, in that field also, because it makes a lot of

00:50:37.160 money, even though it's a little weird for people, you know, just thinking about it, but I'm just

00:50:41.040 like, I mean, it's morbid for sure. Right. Yeah. They're just dead. They're not going to do anything

00:50:44.760 to you. And once you actually work with a dead body, it's like a big doll. It's like a big carcass

00:50:49.340 really hard. Um, it doesn't even seem like a person, like people like on from the outside looking

00:50:54.300 in, it seems like a person, but when you're working with it directly, it doesn't even seem

00:50:57.600 like a person. It's just like a big, hard doll that you're putting clothes on. Like it's, it's,

00:51:02.640 it's, it's not the same. Um, it's not like a human when you actually work with them.

00:51:06.560 Cause I, as you're saying it, I'm like, I don't know if that's a good descriptor,

00:51:10.460 but I've also never worked with a dead body. I mean, I've seen dead bodies. I've never worked

00:51:15.120 with a dead body. So there's a little dissonance there between the way you're explaining it.

00:51:20.360 Yeah. So a fresh dead body is different from a, uh, embalmed dead body. So a fresh body is of

00:51:25.040 course, you know, it looks and feels human and stuff. It's human. It's a human, right? Of course.

00:51:29.500 Yeah. But when we've taken out their soul basically and drained out the blood and all that stuff,

00:51:34.440 it does not seem like a body. It's, it's like a big doll. It's really hard. You can literally

00:51:40.020 knock on it like a rock and it sounds like, like it's really hard. Um, and yeah, it's really,

00:51:45.380 really hard. It's really cold. Yeah. I say it's really cold and hard. Um, this is literally super

00:51:51.180 stiff, like to the point where you have, you have to rock it and like, it's, it's, it's stiff. Like

00:51:55.420 it's not like a human. Like if I were to take you to an embalm dead body and you were to work with 0.99

00:52:00.840 it for like two days, you'd be like, Oh, this is, yeah, it's no, it's no, no issue at that point.

00:52:05.320 Yeah. And I've been able to work on people I've known and everything because it's not the same.

00:52:09.660 I don't feel like it's them. Like we've worked on my best friend's brother and everything. And

00:52:13.740 it doesn't seem like it's that person. Like it doesn't because they're going out in there. Um,

00:52:19.600 and even after their day, they just look different, feels different. It's not the same.

00:52:23.380 Um, but anyway, back on subject, we're going to get, I gotta say this. You're, you're a really

00:52:31.320 interesting person. Like if, if I, so if I understand correctly, you, you are a, a, a

00:52:38.660 professionally trained chef at the age of 17. Yes, sir. And, and then you were in the Marines

00:52:45.440 for what? Four years. You do, you do like, no, I did two. I did two years. Okay. Two years in the

00:52:52.320 Marines. Now, now you're starting a school for boys and you're like, yeah, I'm, I'm going

00:52:56.640 to open a, uh, uh, uh, uh, be mortician as well. Like you're a fascinating person. That's

00:53:02.980 so interesting to me. Yeah. I, I just think, um, so I graduated culinary school and became

00:53:09.020 a chef. Um, and I was awarded for that, um, from the Georgia restaurant association when

00:53:13.160 I was 16. Um, and right now I just got accepted into the university of Alabama. I'll be full time

00:53:18.660 online, um, doing their nutrition courses, be trying to become a registered

00:53:22.180 dietitian. Um, so I'll be, I'll be doing that on top of, you know, working with the

00:53:26.280 boys. So whenever they're finished in the evening time, I'll come back to my computer

00:53:29.040 and do my online classes, um, for Alabama. Um, that's just kind of one of my bucket list

00:53:33.760 things. I always wanted to go to university of Alabama as a kid. Um, that was somewhere

00:53:37.180 I always wanted to go. And, um, um, our headmistress, she's a graduate of university of

00:53:41.740 Georgia. Uh, she got, she has a master's from UGA and her bachelor's sister. She's 0.90

00:53:46.200 graduated there twice. And so she always called me a t-shirt fan. I was like, you know

00:53:49.500 what, let me go see what, if I can actually get into Alabama. Cause I didn't

00:53:52.340 want to go there anyway. And, um, so I got accepted. I actually just went and

00:53:56.180 toured the campus two days ago. Um, and I had fun doing that. So I'm going to do

00:54:01.680 that. Uh, I cut, I also cut hair. I work on cars. I fix, I fix houses. I paint, I

00:54:07.440 grow food. Uh, we was like, we were taught, you know, growing up, be a jack of all

00:54:11.680 trades. So that way you can make money doing everything. I can lay bricks. I can do

00:54:14.780 concrete, uh, all that. You also started a, uh, a bowling league. If I understand

00:54:19.960 correctly, what's your, what's your best score? What's your best score you've ever

00:54:22.980 thrown or my, my personal best score is like two 25. I believe. I mean, it's pretty

00:54:27.420 high. Yeah, it's pretty good. Uh, yeah, that's my personal best score. I have my own

00:54:30.760 bowl. It's actually right here. I have my own bowling ball and stuff. Oh, there, but

00:54:33.880 I started out bowling like just for, uh, to decompress and I still bowl to decompress

00:54:38.800 now. I just go bowl and have a good game or bad. I'm just out there playing around,

00:54:43.020 just clearing my mind and stuff. But I started a bowling league for my boys

00:54:46.140 because, um, I wanted them to get into other sports other than football and

00:54:50.560 basketball. I'm like, you know, there are scholarships and everything for

00:54:53.280 bowling. You can, you know, people get paid to do this. So that was just another

00:54:56.320 sport I wanted to introduce them to. Then we also had, um, you know, like

00:55:00.720 ping pong players make $150,000 a year on minimum. That's, that's the average

00:55:06.160 ping pong player. That's so wild, man. Yeah. I'm like, yes. So we're going to

00:55:10.740 introduce all these different sports, you know, fencing, all that stuff has to

00:55:14.120 be introduced. I think that's important because these people make money on this

00:55:17.140 stuff. And I'm just like, you can, you don't have to just play football and

00:55:19.260 basketball. I'm like, you can be good at anything, um, and make money. And it's

00:55:23.400 not as taxing on your body. Like football is, you know, cause we, that's the only

00:55:27.200 sport we won't have at our school whenever we do expand because we'll have

00:55:30.400 basketball and other sports, but the only sport we will not have is football

00:55:33.240 because I just do not believe in it, you know, anymore. I played football my whole

00:55:37.000 life. I still suffer from things, you know, playing football. I was really good

00:55:40.660 at it, but you know, I just, I stopped, especially after one of my friends got

00:55:44.960 paralyzed on the field and having to watch an ambulance, take him like from the

00:55:48.840 field, like the ambulance had to come on the grass. Like it was insane. So I was

00:55:54.020 just like, I can't do it. You know, I just stopped. I stopped playing. Um, and it's

00:55:57.640 not worth it. They've done so many studies. I honestly think they're going to

00:56:00.040 eventually do away with football seven to 10 years. That's just my, that's my

00:56:04.840 thing. Cause a lot of these guys that are bad. I don't think so. I think within

00:56:09.320 10, 10 years, they're going to get rid of it or if they don't get rid of it,

00:56:12.380 it's going to be so watered down to a point where you're not going to watch it.

00:56:15.680 I can see that. I can see that. We'll have to have a friendly wager on that one.

00:56:19.440 Cause I don't, I don't think it's going away. Rules will change in there. I just

00:56:22.480 don't think it's going away. If it doesn't go away, if it doesn't go away, it's

00:56:26.500 going to be some, the rules are going to be so expensive to watch it. Yeah. You're not

00:56:31.320 going to be able to watch it because right now they, they flag for every hit. I mean,

00:56:36.280 it's insane. I mean, everything I'm like, so what you want to do, you want them to

00:56:39.540 come and give them a hug and lay them down? Like you can't tap a quarterback a

00:56:42.060 certain way. You can't grab his legs. Can't do this. Can't do that. I'm just

00:56:45.060 like, so does he just, eventually it's going to be two hand touch on the

00:56:47.860 quarterback. Yeah. You're going to, you're going to touch the quarterback and

00:56:51.580 they're going to call that a sack, you know, like, or you just have to wrap them up

00:56:54.180 or something like you can't tackle them. Like it's going to get all the way

00:56:57.280 there. I promise. Yeah. They're seeing all this stuff

00:57:01.200 happening with their brains and it's true. You know, they're, these, their

00:57:03.420 brains are turning into mush, you know, all that stuff, you know, and I still

00:57:06.960 literally suffer from all the concussions I got, you know, growing up playing

00:57:09.860 football, you know, whatever, um, just certain things, remembering certain

00:57:13.100 things, uh, falling down, like trying to stand up and all that stuff. Like it's,

00:57:16.620 it's just little, little stuff that I suffer from nowadays, you know, uh, from

00:57:20.420 playing football, uh, for so long. And, you know, back then it was all just get up,

00:57:23.840 you know, you know, you got it, you know, we didn't know anything was

00:57:26.320 happening to our bodies for real. Yeah. But now these, these studies are coming

00:57:29.800 out. I'm just like, yeah, we're not doing that. And my kids are not playing

00:57:32.700 football. We'll put y'all in every other sport, you know, but not because you,

00:57:36.440 and you can get injured from every sport. Don't get me wrong, but not, you're not

00:57:39.280 directly trying to kill, you know, somebody because being honest, I play

00:57:42.760 football. We were trying to kill the person. Like he was really trying to 0.98

00:57:45.060 murder them when you, when they came across the field, like you were trying to

00:57:49.080 just be honest with yourself. I told him that all the time. I'm like, be honest, 0.99

00:57:51.300 you play football. I was trying to kill the guy when he came across. I wanted to 0.96

00:57:54.700 end him. Like I wanted to knock his helmet off. I wanted to do the whole nine, 1.00

00:57:58.620 you know, so that's what you did. But that's what kind of, you know, mindset

00:58:02.560 they give you playing football. You turn into a beast out there, literally.

00:58:05.540 So that's something, you know, I don't believe in no football, but we'll have

00:58:09.500 other sports. It is interesting. I mean, I haven't heard of that concept

00:58:13.000 necessarily before, but it is interesting because the odds of one of these young

00:58:15.980 men going to play in the NFL and making a life out of this is, is obviously very,

00:58:20.440 very small, but the value have a better chance of being struck by lightning and

00:58:25.220 making it to the NFL. Right. Right. But the value they'll receive on a field is

00:58:29.840 immeasurable, but that's not like it can't be translated onto the basketball course or

00:58:34.780 a bowling league or fencing or whatever it might be. The bait club, even, I mean,

00:58:39.880 there's, there's value in some of these other things that aren't even necessarily

00:58:42.900 sports. Absolutely. And the one thing I do like about that too, is that you, you guys,

00:58:50.720 again, from my perspective, especially with your diverse background are just breaking apart and 1.00

00:58:57.480 busting apart these, these stereotypes. You know, when I was in, when I was in school,

00:59:01.820 uh, I was a jock, I played football, I played, uh, baseball and I wrestled. And so I was a jock

00:59:09.160 like, that was the category I was in. Right. I got the girls and all the thing, right. That's,

00:59:14.260 that was my, that was my tribe. And then I used to make fun of the drama kids. Cause that's what

00:59:19.060 we did in high school. And now I'm kind of like, man, I should have joined the debate club. Maybe

00:59:24.320 I should have got like, like, even if I just did one play, maybe I actually should have done that,

00:59:29.740 you know? And, and, but our, our world at the time was so small and we were so tribal that it wasn't

00:59:36.060 even allowable by your peers to branch out outside of your tribe. Yep. Absolutely. That

00:59:42.060 people will get you for that. You're not allowed to be different. You're not allowed to show things

00:59:46.340 different. That's kind of like how I was in high school. You know, I started out trying to be like

00:59:49.720 everybody in ninth grade, 10th grade. I tried to, uh, you know, wear the same clothes everybody else

00:59:54.340 was wearing. And cause I used to wear it. I wanted to wear, but you know, people would pick on you for

00:59:58.160 not wearing a fad stuff. So my mom started buying all the fads and polo and all that. And they were

01:00:03.500 like, Oh, that's fake. I'm just like, well, what you guys want me to do, bro? Like, I'm like,

01:00:07.080 what am I supposed to wear? So eventually I started doing what I wanted to do. And my last two years

01:00:10.540 of high school, I wore a suit to school every day with a briefcase. Did you really? Yep. Every

01:00:14.540 single day. My classmates will tell you I had a suit on every single day. What was the purpose behind

01:00:19.340 that? There was no purpose. I love suits. And it was, it was a, actually a knockback at a lot of those

01:00:24.000 students. When I was in sixth grade, um, I wore a suit to picture day and, um, I was picked on the

01:00:29.300 entire day from beginning to end for wearing a suit to picture day. Um, so I never want to wear a suit

01:00:34.100 again, but I went to school with some of those same students in high school. So I wore a suit to

01:00:37.620 school every day and I became the hottest thing on campus. Um, and all the girls loved me, um,

01:00:42.640 because I was different. I smelled good. I kept a haircut. All the teachers loved me. Um, I got voted

01:00:47.760 best student by the teachers and most likely to be famous by all the students. Like I had that. And just

01:00:52.980 because I was different, I didn't wear it. Everybody else wore a word. I wanted to wear, you know,

01:00:57.640 and I did me, I was myself and people didn't like it. Some, everybody else loved it, you know,

01:01:02.300 and that just had to be yourself. Um, you be yourself and people are going to have something

01:01:05.940 to say anyway. So I, once I discovered people are going to have something to say anyway,

01:01:09.060 I didn't care. I was like, I'm just going to do me. Of course they thought it was cool and funny

01:01:11.940 at the time when I first started. So they noticed and all the girls start becoming attracted to me

01:01:16.080 and I'm smelling good walking down the hallway and everybody ended up. Yeah. And then all the

01:01:20.260 teachers, you know, think I was cool. And even if I were to skip class, like teachers didn't even

01:01:23.580 know I was skipping class because I had on a suit. Like this kid's not skipping.

01:01:27.160 Yeah. I was on a suit. Like you're not doing it. So, um, but I kept my grades up, you know,

01:01:32.460 I was in culinary school and in college at the same time, you know, so, um, while I was in high

01:01:36.620 school. So that was a thing too. Um, so either I had on my chef's coat during the day cause I was

01:01:42.080 going back and forth to class or I was in a suit, um, every day. Uh, so that, that was me. I put all

01:01:47.940 my work in a briefcase and I made it happen. Never had a book bag. Um, everybody always knew

01:01:52.000 something was wrong with me when I, when I wore a hoodie to school, they'd be like, what's wrong with you?

01:01:54.760 Like, and I was like, man, it's just a little rainy day, man. Like I'm just not having a good

01:01:59.200 day. And I go, let me know if you need something, man. Why are you looking forward to seeing what

01:02:02.900 your suit will look like tomorrow? So, you know, I always had the nice suits at school and stuff.

01:02:08.560 Um, but to this day I got like 42 suits now. I love suits. That is my, really? Wow. Yeah. I have

01:02:13.660 42 suits, but they're all a conservative type suits. It's like black, brown, gray, navy blue,

01:02:19.560 you know, nothing too crazy. Um, you know, my grandfather always said growing up, you always

01:02:23.500 have a black suit, black tux, um, in your closet because you never know when you're going to need

01:02:27.160 them. Um, so I always keep those. So I always had those, but now I just got, I got different

01:02:30.500 colored tuxedos and different colored suits. I love suits. That's, that's my thing. That's my

01:02:34.120 little, my little thing I like to collect. And I also love wrestling. I'm a big wrestling fan.

01:02:38.220 So I was going to ask you about that. Well, tell me about those belts behind you.

01:02:42.100 Yeah. I got, I see. It's another one right there. It's behind my injury. Oh, behind it. Yeah. I can

01:02:46.340 see it. I have, I have about four championship belts. Um, yep. And then my assistant, she bought 0.66

01:02:51.660 me one for father's day with, uh, the school logo and stuff on it. Um, but I'm huge wrestling

01:02:56.040 fan. I love WWE love a W. Um, I'll actually be at WWE SummerSlam for my birthday. Um, going

01:03:02.560 to see Brock Lesnar and all those guys. I'll go into Undertaker. Undertaker's having this little,

01:03:07.000 uh, fireside chat type thing. And I was able to get into that little thing. He's been around

01:03:11.260 forever, man. I used to draw pictures of him when I was probably nine, 10 years old.

01:03:16.280 Me and PJ, my buddy PJ would draw pictures of the Undertaker and like Jake, the snake

01:03:20.900 Roberts and Andre the giant. A little before your time, but you still know the names.

01:03:25.340 Yeah. I'm a, I'm a wrestling historian. There's nobody you're going to name. I didn't know.

01:03:28.260 I promise. Bushwackers were my, were my boys though. The Bushwackers, man. Oh yeah. The Bushwackers.

01:03:34.080 Yeah. Yeah. The Bushwackers. Um, I I've had a WWE encyclopedia that I've done like a lot 0.97

01:03:40.480 of research. Like I know all my wrestling stuff, but Undertaker, he just retired. Like he retired

01:03:44.960 like last year, two years ago. Yeah. And, um, you know, he haven't like, now he's just doing

01:03:49.140 podcasts because now he's out of his character now. Cause he was staying before he wasn't doing

01:03:53.080 like shows and all that stuff because of his character's persona. Like he's the undertaker.

01:03:57.280 He can't be talking to people and, you know, writing autographs and stuff because he's the

01:04:01.140 undertaker. So when he was doing his American badass, uh, persona, he could, because he was

01:04:05.980 human at that time, you know, he turned himself into a human, but then once Kane buried him alive

01:04:10.020 in Kayfabe, you know, in character world, uh, he got buried alive and he turned back to the dead man.

01:04:14.100 So he couldn't do that stuff now. So now he's a regular person. Now he's Mark Calloway,

01:04:18.120 which is his real name. Um, so now he's, you know, doing podcasts and talking to people and

01:04:22.860 doing a little fireside chat. So he's having one in Nashville the same weekend as SummerSlam.

01:04:26.840 And I'll be there. I have, I'll be getting the undertaker wrestling belt. They have a replica

01:04:30.440 belt for the undertaker and I'm gonna get him to sign it. It's nice. So we get a meet and greet

01:04:34.460 with him. It's going to be fun. And, uh, I'll be meeting some other wrestlers as well. So it'll be a

01:04:38.500 fun weekend for me. Uh, sounds like it, man. Sounds like it. Well, King, I appreciate your

01:04:43.300 time, man. And, and, and even more important than that, I just appreciate what you're doing.

01:04:46.720 As I started this conversation off with you, there's a lot of people who are talking about

01:04:50.180 what it means to be a man and how to be better. And, but there's few of us who are actually,

01:04:54.060 you know, doing the real work. I think your motto for the school, I wrote it down. Let us make men.

01:04:59.580 Is that right? Let us make men. That is the scripture. Yes, sir. I love it. I love it, brother. Well,

01:05:05.800 let us know how we can connect with you, support you. And, uh, we'll make sure to sync it all up

01:05:10.100 with the guys. Sure. All of our, my social media tags are at new emerging King across all social

01:05:15.500 media platforms. That's at new emerging King. Uh, you can go to the website at the X voice.org

01:05:20.360 that's T H E letter X F O R B O Y S.org. You can find the extra voice online. If you can't find us on

01:05:26.480 social media, you can go type my name in on Google, type in King Randall. You can't find me on Google.

01:05:30.480 I don't know what else to tell you. Um, but those are all of our social media tags. And if all else

01:05:35.140 fails, find us on Google, type in King Randall or the X of boys, we will pop up on the first one.

01:05:39.700 Right on. We'll sync it all up. So the guys know where to go and please make sure to let me know

01:05:43.460 when the launches for the school. Cause if I can make it, I would love to come down there and pay

01:05:47.240 you guys a visit. Send me an email and I'll send you a grand opening, a banquet invite that September

01:05:52.260 24th. So we're going to have the grand opening after we open the school, because I want, uh, our,

01:05:56.940 you know, people to actually see the students and meet them. So we'll have an actual grand opening

01:06:01.620 banquet on September 24th. And, um, I'll send you that information. Um, when you send me your email.

01:06:07.180 Awesome. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Thank you so much.

01:06:11.420 All right, you guys, there you go. King Randall. I hope you enjoyed that one. What a fascinating guy.

01:06:16.340 I even mentioned it in our conversation, how intrigued, I think that's the right word. I'm

01:06:20.380 intrigued. He's very interesting, very fascinating. Obviously has a lot of good ideas, but man, the thing

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Order of Man - July 19, 2022

KING RANDALL ｜ Character Makes the Man

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