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King Randall joins me to talk about his boys' school, and we talk about a new invention that could change the way we think about art and creativity. Plus, a coffee reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain, and some tips on managing your energy.
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Oh, there you are. Hey, everybody. Come on in. You know what time it is.
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We got a special guest today, and it could not be more fitting. That's right. Yesterday
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was no King's Day. Today will be my guest, King Randall, to talk about his boys' school.
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We'll do that at the end of the podcast. But for now, let's make sure I've got my comments
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working here. Let's make sure it all works. If my technology works, we're going to have
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quite the experience. Come on, technology. You can do it.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called
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All right. In case you're wondering, this is not a new microphone. What it is, as I was going
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to demonstrate, it's for, it's a phone holder. So you can put your phone here, and then you
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can show people what you're looking at with your hands, so your hands are free. So last
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night I did an impromptu demonstration of drawing a Dilber comic with my left hand, because I have
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to draw left-handed now. I've got a problem with my right hand. And I just showed my camera
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as my hands drew the comic. So that's on X right now. I'll do the same thing for my beloved
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local subscribers. We'll do that privately later. But if you'd like to see how the drawing looks
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when you're the actual artist looking at the paper, it's kind of cool. So I just wanted to
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show you that that's a thing. Can I get it off? There we go. There we go. All right.
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Like I said, King Randall will be joining me if my technology works toward the end of this
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hour to talk about his boys' school, which is very impressive. I think you're going to like
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that. I wonder if there's any science about coffee. Oh, yeah. Turns out that according
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to the nutrition, metabolism, and cardiac disease people, coffee can lower your blood
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pressure. But it's the first time I've seen one of these coffee stories where they say,
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okay, but we don't have the causation nailed down, which is exactly what I would have said.
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Do you think it's true that people who have high blood pressure drink as much coffee as
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people who don't? Because isn't that one of the first things I tell you? Drink less coffee
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if you have high blood pressure. So I'm not so sure about this science, but I like it.
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All right. As tradition requires, I'm going to do a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain.
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The only book I have that is still clicking along at a five-star rating. That's impressive.
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It's hard to get a five-star rating on a book. Here you go. One of my favorite, this might
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be actually the best one of all. There are a handful of these reframes that are truly life-changing,
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more than others. Here's one. Manage your time is what most people teach you, to manage your time.
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All right. Make sure you've got enough time. Manage your time. I've reframed that to manage your energy.
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Now, it does matter what kind of job you have. If you're being paid by the hour,
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you're going to have to manage your time. But the idea here is you want to eventually
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try to live your life in a way that you can manage your energy. And what I mean by that
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is, at this exact time of the day, for me, you know, everybody's different. But for me,
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this is exactly what I want to be doing this time of day. I want to be doing something creative,
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maybe something a little bit social in its own way. But if I were not in the mood to do this,
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it wouldn't come out very well. So I match my energy to whatever it is I need to do.
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So if, you know, at the moment I can't work out, but if I couldn't work out, I'd do it in the afternoon
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because my brain energy is low, but my body energy is fine. In the morning, my brain energy is high,
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but my body energy is a little lower. So I do the creative stuff. So manage your energy.
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Don't only manage your time. All right. Apparently, there's some big meteor shower tomorrow
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that we're all going to see. It's going to be a good one. It's always after midnight, of course.
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And for a couple hours tomorrow, you'll see the Oronidus, Orin, Orinus. Some kind of dust left
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behind by Haley's comment. You should see 20 shooting stars per hour. I feel like I'm going to stay up for
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that. Well, I'll never stay up for it, but I might go to sleep and then wake up for it four hours later.
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Do you know that stuff? I used to do it in the old days. I saw that on social media. In the olden days,
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it was common for people to go to sleep when it got dark, but then they would wake up around midnight
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and spend an hour or two doing something else, and then they'd go back to sleep. But apparently,
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people would just all wake up at midnight and hang out. In the old days. Well, as you know,
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yesterday was the so-called no kings rally around the country, or as some have tagged it,
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Grand Tifa. Grand Tifa, because they're all grandparents. Seven million protesters, they claim.
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I'm sure that's overstated in 2,700 locations. So let's see how they did. Any kings?
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Well, except for my upcoming guest today, King Randall, no extra kings. No extra kings. Surprisingly.
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Yeah. And here's my question. If you have a no kings rally in 2,700 places with 7 million protesters
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and the so-called fascist government in charge, the only response to it is two insulting memes.
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That was it. That the entire pushback to 7 million people demanding that the Constitution be followed
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was, oh, here's a funny meme. Nothing else. Because you know where you can't have 7 million people
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running around protesting, no kings. Anywhere there's a king. If you had a king, you'd not be doing that.
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That's for sure. You wouldn't be doing any of that.
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So, and then it got funnier because apparently some decision was made, and I don't know by whom or why,
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to hand out lots of American flags. Now, what do you think when you see a big crowd of people with
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American flags? Don't you think they're Republicans? So somehow, it was 100% peaceful, which I compliment
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them on, 100% peaceful, and they were carrying American flags, and they were promoting constitutional
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rights. Am I wrong that they just held a Republican rally? Flag? Peaceful? Obey the Constitution?
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It was a MAGA event, right? Especially because it was senior citizens.
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The fact that people got paid for organizing this is hilarious because what exactly did they get paid
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for to promote the virtues of the other side? Have you heard of any Republican who was put out or
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somehow offended or somehow had a big problem with the no kings thing? I have not heard of one Republican
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who had any problem with it at all or even cared, even cared if it happened. I looked at it and I
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thought, oh, looks like people are getting together over this whole support the Constitution and wave
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the American flag thing. Maybe that's a good sign. So I don't know what they thought they would
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accomplish, but it definitely did not remove, it didn't remove Trump from office, if that's what
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they were hoping for. The Department of Homeland Security gets the win for the best post. Somebody
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brought a giant inflatable penis, like a balloon that was shaped like a penis with a package, and
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the Department of Homeland Security took a picture of that and posted it on X, and the caption was,
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Gavin Newsom has shown up to the riot. I love the fact that the Trump administration is just
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mocking it, but not even mocking it hard. They're just sort of gently mocking it. Like, there you go.
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There you go. Tap, tap, tap on the head. Good boy. Good boy. Go ahead. It's hilarious.
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Meanwhile, over at the Louvre in France, robbers actually broke into the Louvre and stole the
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French crown jewels. Now, if you were the Louvre, wouldn't you put a little extra security around
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the French crown jewels? Nope. Somebody snuck in and stole the crown jewels.
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Now, I guess the back story is there was some kind of work being done on the facility, so that gave
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them an opening to get in. Ordinarily, it would be more secure. But they got in, they stole the crown
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jewels, and then somebody dropped, I guess, the crown that's the greatest of the crown jewels,
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Empress Eugenia's crown, and broke it. Imagine dropping it and breaking it. Like, what would that
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feel like? You're like, ah, I just broke into the Louvre. I got the crown jewels. Look at me. I got the crown.
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Oh, shit. Well, we just leave them there. And then they just leave them there. But I'm also thinking,
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how many people would have the wherewithal to break into the Louvre, but also some place to
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unload the jewels? What pawn shop takes the French crown jewels? Can you take it to the corner pawn shop
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and say, hey, I found this in my attic? Did you now? Did you find that in your attic? Because that looks a
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little familiar. I've been to the Louvre. No, no, this isn't one of those Louvre crowns.
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This was in the attic. Can you give me $100 for it? Anyway, I'm sure they'll be caught pretty soon.
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There's a New Jersey drone company that says they were behind the drone sightings over the New Jersey
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airport. Do you believe that? So they were introducing their product and they said, yeah,
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we had an agreement with the government that did not require us to disclose it. So we didn't. And
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we've got these big ass 20 feet long drones that fly kind of funny. And they're trying to tell us that
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their drones are the ones that were scaring people. I'm going to say, probably not. Probably not.
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But I am willing to believe that some of the drones were theirs. Maybe some, maybe one.
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But do you think that's the whole story? Like the whole drone story is that?
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I'm going to say probably not. But it was a weird looking drone, I have to admit.
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So speaking of weird looking drones, now there's a, according to wonderful engineering, there's a new
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drone, a rocket launching robot that also has a machine gun, not machine gun, shotgun. So you can now
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get yourself a grenade launching war ready robot dog. So it's in the form of a dog.
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What would be more awesome than a dog that could throw a hand grenade and also had a shotgun?
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How much do you want the shotgun hand grenade dog to guard your house?
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I just want one. And just one shotgun hand grenade dog. And I'll feel good. That's all I want.
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So wonderful engineering is talking about that. Can you believe that Walter Cronkite
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once was on the Epstein flights to his island? Walter Cronkite? Did you even know that those
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eras overlapped? Did you know that Walter Cronkite was even alive when Epstein was taking people to his
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island? When did when did Cronkite die? I thought he died 100 years ago. But apparently he was alive.
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He was 91. They dragged his wrinkly ass to Epstein's island. There is no suggestion that he did anything
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untoward or inappropriate. So I think it was just part of just part of Epstein trying to get as many
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rich people under his wing as possible. At least we think he didn't do anything.
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Meanwhile, there's another story in the New York Post about Epstein. I guess he had this kind of
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a primary billionaire friend besides the, aside from the Victoria's Secret guy, he had another
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billionaire who was a big backer, Leon Black. And there's now some emails that have been discovered
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in which he was threatening Leon Black to continue his payments, which apparently were 40 million
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dollars a year for Epstein's financial advice, which was unspecified. And Epstein was mad because I think
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some of his other sources of income had been cleaned up because he'd been accused by them. So he didn't
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have too many other major places to get money, it looks like. So he was leaning on his billionaire
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friend pretty hard, leaning on him the way that you wouldn't lean on somebody unless you had some
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blackmail. Because the way he talked to him didn't sound exactly like you'd talk to somebody who was a
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friend or a colleague or just a business interest. It sounded like somebody he made his bitch.
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So he's like, you better give me the 40 million dollars every year. 40 million. That must have been
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some good advice he got there for that 40 million. He even called the billionaire's children retarded
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because they'd created a, quote, really dangerous mess by trying to stop the money flow to
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Epstein. He goes, to be clear, my terms are as follows. I will only work for the usual 40 million
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per year. He won't work for a penny less than that. You offer Epstein 39 million dollars per year?
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No way. He will not do it for less than 40. He's a good negotiator. Anyway, in other news,
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Australia's prime minister heading to the U.S., to the White House. I don't know if that's today,
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I think. Tomorrow, I guess. Tomorrow. And we're going to talk about rare earth minerals and other
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stuff. So I did a little research on Grok, trying to figure out this rare earth mineral situation.
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So I guess we got 17 rare earth minerals that are sort of the problem ones. And we've got a whole
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bunch of allies, such as Australia and Canada, that do have access to those. But what we don't know is
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how much access they have, how fast it would take them to ramp up. And there's some thought that
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Trump's going to want to buy equity in a bunch of existing rare earth mining enterprises. To which I
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say, that seems like the smartest idea, doesn't it? Wouldn't the very best way to approach this be to
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buy an equity stake in as many allied country companies that do rare earth as we can? So we
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get up on the priority list there. Seems like that would be the obvious. And then our investments
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would allow them to expand. So if that's where we're heading, massive equity investments in existing
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mining operations and refining operations, I would say, smart. That looks like exactly what we should
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be doing. Well, who is it? The Chancellor Merz of Germany, he got in trouble for saying that the
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cities over in Germany, the cityscapes are having challenges because of immigration.
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So what happens to a leader in Germany, when they point out the obvious, the immigration is having an
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impact on the quality of life in the cities? Well, he's in terrible trouble for even suggesting
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that immigrants could be causing any problems in Germany. So now he's being called a racist, fascist,
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you name it. Basically, everything Magda has been called.
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And all the people in Germany heard is that he's some kind of a horrible immigrant-hating guy,
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which apparently is nothing like the truth. So good luck, Germany. It looks like the Holocaust
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destroyed Germany for good. It just took a few decades.
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Two-thirds of the German public want fewer migrants, and nearly half of them think Europeans are being,
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quote, replaced. Can you believe that was ever a debate, the word replaced? Because as soon as you
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use that word, it's just a fighting word. Why do you need to say replaced? You just,
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we're all observing what it is. You know, more of one type, less of another type.
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As soon as you use the word replaced, then suddenly you're racist. But we're all looking at the same
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thing. Nobody's arguing about what's happening. So that's weird. Wall Street Journal says that Venezuela
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is what they call coup-proof, meaning that even if the military wanted to do a coup against
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Maduro, their cartel-loving boss, it'd be hard to do because he's already purged all the anti-Maduro people.
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A lot of purging going on. I guess the purging and the torturing and the jailing of his enemies was
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so aggressive that the military is completely cowed. And on top of that, I didn't know about this so much,
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but apparently Maduro uses Cuba's intelligence people for his own power purposes. So he's got some
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kind of a tight connection with Cuba's intel people. And I guess they're pretty good, the Cuban intel
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people. So they're going to keep him in business. So not so coup-proof. But I don't think it's a coup that's
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going to take him out of business. I think he'll be a bomb. Something tells me that Maduro is going
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to be exploding pretty soon. I don't know when.
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thought that Gaza and the IDF would declare a ceasefire and then nobody would break the ceasefire?
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Is there even one person in the world who thought the ceasefire would hold? No, no. But will it make a
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difference? I think probably not. Because what matters is how many military assets are there in
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the first place. So if they've drawn down the military assets 98% on both sides, yeah, there'll
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be some ceasefires broken by the 2% that they have trouble mopping up. So yes, the ceasefires will be
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broken. Yes, there are people on both sides who want the peace to end. Probably won't. I feel like we're
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off to a good enough start as long as they keep the major military assets out of there. There just
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won't be that much to ceasefire over. All right. Apparently, Zelensky asked for Tomahawk missiles.
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And as you know, Trump said, not so fast. We're not going to give you those Tomahawk missiles right
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away. We're going to go talk to Russia first, because then they've got something to trade away.
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They can say, we're totally going to give these Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if you don't talk
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peace pretty soon. Now, I did hear from somebody who seemed to know more than I do about Tomahawk missiles,
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that they might not be all they're cracked up to be. Meaning that Russia has the ability to shoot them
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down. And also that you would need some kind of ground launchers that would have to be operated by
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Americans. So if we put Tomahawks in Ukraine, it would basically just be America going to war with
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Russia. Because it would take, I guess it would take too long to train the Ukrainian to push the button.
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How does that work? You know, we'll program it for you. We'll target it for you using our satellites,
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and we'll program it. But make sure you get a Ukrainian over here to push that button.
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Is that what it looks like? Is Russia going to say, oh, that looks like totally a war with Ukraine?
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Or are they going to say, that looks like a lot like a war with the United States?
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So I think Trump is playing it exactly correct by holding out that risk. And I don't know,
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you know, Russia probably thinks that we could put the ground launchers there if we wanted to.
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So I would imagine he's got something to trade away now. And I would imagine in the next few days and
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weeks, you're going to see massive more attacks on the energy infrastructure of Russia and vice versa.
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So we'll see. We'll see if Trump can get this done. My guess would be they'll have one more
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conversation, Putin and Trump, and maybe not much will come from it. And then things will have to get
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much worse again. Because I don't think we're at the place where it's worse enough. Do you?
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Ukraine seems perfectly willing to stick in there and keep fighting. And I don't see Russia cracking.
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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.
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But we don't really see that. We see both sides saying, oh, it's a good idea. And for now,
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it's a good idea. So can Trump change that reality? You know, I told you with Gaza,
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that what Trump did is not negotiate. Negotiating isn't what made that work. What worked was he changed
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reality? He just changed how we thought about reality. And then it all came together.
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He'll have to do the same thing with Ukraine. I don't know how he would change reality.
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But he's saying stuff like, he is making them think past the sale. So that's his usual trick.
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So his usual trick is he's telling them, you know, you can just walk away.
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Both sides, you know, you could just walk away. Russia, you can just literally turn around and
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walk away and the war's over. You know, as long as Ukraine does too. So that's actually
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pretty powerful because you have people dying and it's costing money and it's this gigantic problem.
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Imagine if somebody came to you and they've got this gigantic, complicated,
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deadly life and death problem. And your solution is you could just walk away.
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That's it. You could just stop. And then it would all be over. You could almost certainly
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keep the stuff that you've already captured. You're not going to capture any more anyway.
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You can just stop. That is actually a super powerful message because you're, you're taking a rational
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person, Putin, you know, even if you hate him, he's a monster, blah, blah, blah. He's a monster.
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He's the devil. Okay. But he's rational. So he's not going to just keep beating his head against the wall
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if there's nothing on the other side of the wall. So you just say, here's your choices.
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You can keep doing this forever and we're in. We'll keep, because remember,
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Trump has put the United States in the perfect position. So you want us to sell more weapons
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and test more weapons and get smarter about how well our weapons work in war? All right.
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Take your time. Nothing's changing on the battlefield except, you know, people dying and
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apparently neither side cares too much about that. So go ahead. But anytime you want to, anytime in 10
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minutes, you can make the whole thing stop. All you have to do is give the order. Just say stop. If you
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say stop, I'll tell Ukraine to stop. And then we're stopped. It's over. So I don't know. Is that a
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negotiation? Or is that changing reality? The reality is you're not fighting for anything. Oh,
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there it is. There it is. There it is. Did you feel that when I said it? The reality is
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neither side is fighting for anything anymore. Mostly Russia. They're not fighting for anything
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because there's nothing to win. They're not going to go any further. Telling them they're fighting for
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nothing makes you look irrational. I don't think Putin wants to look irrational. Does he?
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I feel like that would be a strong approach. You realize you're fighting for nothing, right?
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That if we go another six months, what do you think you're going to get?
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What do you think you'll get if you fight for another six months? Nothing? More dead people?
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Less energy security? You know, worse relations with the rest of the world? What do you think you're
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going to get in six months? It's only going to be worse. So I think Trump does have an argument that
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that he can press. Anyway, so this, of course, is coming. According to Interesting Engineering also,
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the US is developing missiles that don't need GPS to find you. They don't need GPS. So in other words,
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it would just look at the ground the way a person would and say, huh, looks like, oh, about a mile
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away from that place. And then it will just sort of go to where it needs to go. I guess it can get
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within 16 feet of whatever they want. And they can make these little flying robots that are only
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that weigh less than five pounds each missile. I call it a flying robot, but it's a missile.
00:30:51.320
It would be a five pound missile that can fly over 60 miles an hour and can hit a target within 16
00:30:58.520
feet without any GPS. What is it? If you were, if you were Russia and you found out that we had,
00:31:09.080
you know, already on the lab board and we're ready to mass produce these missiles that weigh five pounds
00:31:15.800
fly 60 miles an hour and can hit something without being jammed. Wouldn't you kind of hurry up a little
00:31:23.640
bit on the peace deal? Cause you don't want that stuff coming down on you. Do you? No, you don't.
00:31:32.520
All right. So, um, I did terrible planning today because I ended a little too soon. So I'm going to
00:31:38.600
try to do is I'm going to text, uh, King Randall, see if he wants to go early.
00:31:44.680
Uh, can you go early? Uh, can you go early? He has to show up on my studio set up before I can
00:32:02.040
All right. So I'll keep an eye out for him to be joining. He will be joining right there if he joins
00:32:16.760
participants. Right now I'm the only participant, but while we're waiting for that,
00:32:22.360
I know what you want. I know what you want. You want some more, you want some more, uh, reframes,
00:32:33.800
don't you? So more reframes from my book will change your life while we're waiting for, uh, King
00:32:43.640
Randall to slide in. All right. Oh, here's one that has really helped me a lot. Uh, or the regular
00:32:51.640
frame is that when you take a job, your job is whatever your boss tells you is a job, right?
00:32:58.120
So you go to work, they say, what's my job description? Here's your job description.
00:33:03.560
If you take the job description as your job, you will not go far.
00:33:09.880
Right? How many of you already knew that? That if, if you do the job that you're given
00:33:16.120
exactly as it's described, exactly the job description, you will not do well in life,
00:33:24.040
you're going to have to figure out what, what it should be, not what it is. So you want to make
00:33:29.960
sure that what you're doing is better for the company and better for your boss than whatever they
00:33:35.560
told you to do. Now that's not easy. If you're not smart, it won't be easy to do. But instead of your,
00:33:43.320
instead of your job is what your boss tells you it is, um, here's a reframe. Your job is to get a
00:33:50.200
better job. How do you get a better job? Usually by doing more than you were asked to do. That's what,
00:33:59.640
that's what, uh, flags you for promotion. It's like, oh, Scott did everything we asked him to do,
00:34:06.040
but he created this other project on his own and that worked out. You're first in line for the
00:34:12.360
promotion. So never do what your job is. You should do whatever it is that would get you a better job.
00:34:18.920
Now that might include, um, learning on your current job, how to go to a different company and get a
00:34:25.240
better job. But it's always about you. It's not about the job. Make sure that make sure it's about
00:34:32.200
you. All right, here's another one. Um, these are, a lot of these are my favorites. They really
00:34:41.800
changed my life completely. Um, if you ever just said to yourself, you're bored with life. Do you ever
00:34:47.960
just wake up and you're like, oh, I am so bored with life? Oh, it's just gonna be another day like
00:34:55.080
yesterday. Go to work, eat my stupid sandwich, come home, commute. So if you're bored with life,
00:35:03.560
here's my reframe. The problem is not boredom. The problem is that you're not embarrassing yourself
00:35:10.440
enough. You're not embarrassing yourself enough. You need to put yourself in some shaky,
00:35:17.960
iffy situations. Now, not dangerous. It doesn't have to be dangerous. It doesn't have to be,
00:35:23.560
you know, life threatening. But for example, uh, oh, King Randall's here. Let me just finish my point
00:35:31.240
and then I'll invite him in. Um, for example, if you, uh, have never taken a class on public speaking,
00:35:41.960
most of you would be horrified by it, right? Public speaking is scary. If you're bored,
00:35:49.640
do that. Do something scary. It'll totally take you out of your boredom. Uh, if you're bored,
00:35:56.760
go ask somebody out that you know will say no. Eh, worth a shot. But it's not boring. So if you're bored,
00:36:05.480
increase your, um, increase your risk of being embarrassed and you'll find it just opens up your
00:36:14.120
whole life. Suddenly you can talk to anybody. You can talk to a stranger. You can ask somebody out.
00:36:20.440
You could ask for that job you think you'll be turned down for. Just do something that will be
00:36:24.520
embarrassing. It'll solve your problem immediately and you'll be happy probably. All right, let's see if
00:36:29.960
I can get King in here. This will be a test of my abilities. Accept. And now, uh, in theory,
00:36:44.360
in theory. Hey, there you are. Can you hear me, King? Hey, how are you?
00:36:52.200
Can you hear me? I can hear you. Awesome. Perfect. So nice to meet you in person. I've,
00:37:03.000
we've, uh, we've messaged back and forth and tried to get together a few times,
00:37:07.800
but, uh, I had some issues and I apologize for those, but so glad you could join. So let me give
00:37:13.960
you the big picture and then I'll let you talk with the people. Okay. Okay. So big, big picture is you
00:37:20.440
started and run a school for boys in Georgia. Where in Georgia? Albany, Georgia. We're about
00:37:27.160
two and a half hours South of Atlanta. How many kids in the school? We have 25 right now.
00:37:33.400
Now, uh, I've been watching your social media for several years and I always see all black kids,
00:37:39.480
but I know that you, you invited a white kid in recently and how'd that go? Did he make it?
00:37:45.000
Yeah, of course. So the, the thing is here in Albany, we have a 77% African-American population.
00:37:51.640
So usually you're just going to see mostly, uh, black children, but we've had, um, Hispanic children.
00:37:56.440
We've had white children before. Um, but I also tell people I can't make anyone sign up their,
00:38:00.920
their children. Um, so, you know, Eli, uh, his mom signed them up and, you know, he was,
00:38:05.240
he was welcome in with open arms. Uh, so the biggest thing for us is, you know, just letting people know
00:38:09.640
just about the demographic, uh, you know, in Albany, we don't have a whole lot of white people in Albany. So,
00:38:14.200
uh, it's, it's tough trying to, uh, you know, expand, uh, the races there. Right. Well,
00:38:19.240
one of the things I love about your operation is that you're, uh, everything you do seems smart and
00:38:25.480
not, not some like weird political thing. So you're not concentrated on race. It just sort of works out
00:38:32.600
that way, which is fine. So, so here's what I've been most impressed by. I assume the school does
00:38:39.480
all the usual reading and writing stuff. And for what ages? Uh, right now we've taken our age
00:38:45.160
groups down to ages six through nine. We were doing ages 11 to 17 in our first, uh, six years
00:38:51.320
of the program. Uh, we changed the age groups because, uh, we've realized that many children
00:38:56.520
are starting to lose themselves a lot sooner, uh, than ages 11 to 17. We have kids, you know,
00:39:02.120
who are in third grade, second grade smoking, uh, talking about sex or whatever, et cetera.
00:39:07.640
And so most of those kids, um, they are just looking for somewhere where it's cool to do the
00:39:12.280
right thing because when they're doing the right thing at school or anywhere else, they get picked
00:39:16.600
on or, you know, nobody wants to be your friend. So we've created a space where you get rewarded for
00:39:21.960
doing the right thing. You get rewarded for reading, you get rewarded for learning your workshops,
00:39:25.480
you get rewarded for, uh, getting good grades and things like that. So, um, that's what we've created.
00:39:30.360
And now those children are taking it in and those children are more willing to, uh, stay the right
00:39:35.960
way versus trying to get a child who's lost himself and then trying to fix it. So, so there's a whole
00:39:41.720
bunch that I observe you doing on your social media. That is so good. I want to, want to mention all of
00:39:46.440
it, but you have a, uh, impressive, what I call a talent stack, meaning that your specific talents,
00:39:53.960
even being able to do this so well, uh, you know, you've got the education, you got the working with
00:39:59.080
the kids, but you also have a whole bunch of skills, which you're teaching the kids from
00:40:03.320
how to change the oil to how to replace a doorknob to, uh, dinner manners to all these things.
00:40:10.600
So you've got this impressive, um, set of skills that you have, which I think is a role model
00:40:19.400
situation for those kids. That's unbelievable. Like just the fact that they can spend time around you
00:40:25.640
and observe somebody building a skill stack that all fits together. Wow. Wow. But anyway,
00:40:32.120
the other thing that I love most, I've seen you mention this is that you come from a non,
00:40:37.080
non victimization mindset. Of course. Absolutely. Say, say more. I was taught. Yeah. I was taught,
00:40:45.400
you know, growing up with my granddads and uncles, we, we work for everything. And a lot of this stuff
00:40:49.860
that people, you know, kind of, uh, uh, think of these days, uh, like as far as the liberal ideas and
00:40:55.340
things, I was never taught that. I mean, we grew all of our own food in the backyard. We didn't
00:40:59.580
grow up in the best neighborhood. Um, but everybody in the neighborhood loved each other. I mean, we
00:41:03.660
grew, everybody in the neighborhood grew food. We traded food. We had chickens in our yard.
00:41:07.900
Uh, we had dogs, uh, we had rabbits. I mean, we had a whole bunch of animals, but we grew everything
00:41:12.620
we wanted to eat. If I got home from school and this is like 2012, 2013 time, um, I got home from school
00:41:18.060
and my mom asked us what we wanted to eat. We had to go outside and pick it. We even grew the seasonings.
00:41:21.980
Um, my, my dad taught me how to paint cars. Um, my stepdad taught me how to build everything. We
00:41:27.260
built our sheds in the backyards. We built our dog houses. We welded, we built our own grills.
00:41:32.620
So when I was growing up, because our whole neighborhood was learning from each other,
00:41:36.540
I thought that other kids just knew this stuff because that's how I grew up. And so as I became
00:41:41.340
an adult and realized like kids don't know how to fix a car or know how to work on a house
00:41:45.420
or put in a window or paint something, um, it was tough. So that, that was the idea. I started the program
00:41:51.580
out of my house. I was 19 years old. I started the program out of my house, uh, in my dining room
00:41:56.300
and we went from there. And so, uh, we grew from just being in my dining room to, you know,
00:42:00.540
having the facilities we have now to having staff, uh, to affecting, uh, so many kids. And I'm so glad
00:42:06.060
that our donors, you know, have been, uh, so helpful to us because we don't take any government
00:42:10.140
grants. As soon as you start getting the government involved, we can't teach about God and we can't
00:42:14.220
teach about these things. And we're exclusively going to teach, uh, Christianity and we're going to make
00:42:18.700
sure our children, uh, aren't victims. We believe in God and we believe in Jesus. And that's what
00:42:22.540
we want to make happen. So, um, that's what we've been doing. And, um, our donors have made sure that
00:42:27.180
this program has been able to flourish, uh, for the last seven years. And, um, I'm grateful to everyone
00:42:32.140
who supports our program. Yeah. Uh, the other thing I like about you is that you're aggressively non-political.
00:42:39.500
Yes. You don't have to be, you don't have to be super political. You know, um, some, the other day, uh,
00:42:48.060
somebody, uh, tweeted, well, they made a comment on my Instagram and said they donate 20 grand if I
00:42:53.180
disassociate myself from, you know, MAGA and Donald Trump. And I'm just like, when have I ever
00:42:57.740
mentioned that? But it just speaks to, you know, just that side in general, because for me to just
00:43:03.180
be teaching boys responsibility and how to work for themselves and how to make, you know, uh, honest
00:43:07.660
money, um, and take care of their families and stuff. And you just assume that that's MAGA, uh, that's
00:43:12.780
insane. Um, I'm just like, I, I've never said anything like that. Of course, uh, I was invited to the
00:43:17.420
White House by, uh, President Trump, uh, back in February for the Black History Month event. And I
00:43:22.620
was explaining to them, you know, um, about that event. I'm like, he was inviting people who are
00:43:26.540
doing work, uh, in the Black community. And, um, either you wanted him to recognize us or you didn't.
00:43:31.500
I got a lot of flack for going to that event, but like I told them, I'm like, if he wouldn't have
00:43:35.420
recognized Black people for doing anything, he'd be so terrible. And then we're stupid for going.
00:43:40.540
I mean, it's, it's insane, but you know, I don't listen to those things. Our students were proud.
00:43:44.860
I took them to visit the White House, uh, back in, I think it was this March or April, I believe.
00:43:50.060
I took them to visit the White House and, uh, we had a great time, uh, there with their parents and,
00:43:54.300
and it was a, it was a beautiful thing. So, you know, here we are, uh, in 2025 trying to tell them
00:44:00.780
that we're not political and Donald Trump has no affiliation with us, but who cares? I mean, even if
00:44:05.980
he did, he's the president of the United States. Um, why wouldn't we want to be recognized by the,
00:44:10.860
the biggest figure, you know, in our country? And, uh, just, just to be practical, you're always in
00:44:17.420
fundraising mode because you're not, you're not backed by the government. So can you tell the
00:44:23.500
people if, uh, I'm going to say some more good things about you and they'll, they'll be all primed
00:44:28.060
to, to, to donate. Some of them will be, but, uh, how would they do that? What would be the mechanism?
00:44:34.300
You can go to our website at thexforboys.org. That's T-H-E-X-F-O-R-B-O-Y-S.org. Everything that
00:44:41.820
you hear me explaining here, we have photos of all of it on our website, like, uh, teaching them how
00:44:46.220
to do fencing, plasma cutting, firearms training. Everything's on our website that you want to see,
00:44:51.580
even from the financials, uh, you can go see all that stuff on our website. And of course,
00:44:56.060
if you want to see us on social media, our biggest thing I tell people all the time, a lot of people
00:45:00.460
wish, um, that, uh, they could give and some people can't, but I always tell them a retweet,
00:45:05.260
a comment, all of those things are gifts, um, because that helps push it to other people who
00:45:09.820
may can give. So I always tell people, any small thing, uh, helps our program. We have people who
00:45:14.140
give $3, $1, but it matters. Um, so I'm, I'm grateful, uh, to many people. And I did see a comment
00:45:19.740
about, uh, the religious, uh, teaching. We definitely do that every week. Our students pray every day.
00:45:24.860
Um, and we make sure we do Bible study with our students. Um, it's, it's, it's a real thing, uh,
00:45:29.180
here in Albany. And of course I will add anybody who ever wants to come and visit,
00:45:33.180
as long as we can do a background check on you, we open, uh, we open it up for anybody to come
00:45:37.260
visit, especially our donors, um, because it's better when you can put your hands on it and see
00:45:41.340
what's going on. So we're down in Albany, Georgia. If you shoot me an email, you can definitely come
00:45:45.500
visit. So let me, let me tell you what, uh, lights me up when I watch your social media. Um, my,
00:45:52.460
my, uh, upbringing involved learning how to work on a farm, how to do like 10 different jobs from
00:46:01.260
mowing lawns to fixing things to everything. And the result of that is that I was confident
00:46:08.380
in any new situation. So I would never say, I can't figure this out because I figured everything
00:46:13.980
out. You know, there was always some adult there who told me how to figure it out, but I was like,
00:46:18.220
oh, I don't know how to do that. I'll figure that out. And when I watch you working with the kids,
00:46:24.460
whether it's changing a doorknob or, you know, doing some of those other car related things,
00:46:30.060
changing a tire, I say to myself, what you're really teaching them is that they can do anything.
00:46:36.140
You're not really teaching them tires. You're teaching them confidence. And when I see them learn
00:46:43.980
confidence, but then I also see them hanging around a tremendous role model, which I think
00:46:50.060
you are, uh, they're, they just have a superpower. Like when I watch those kids, you, you also have
00:46:56.380
a standard where you have them respond to you as you're talking. Like you'll say, do you see what
00:47:02.780
I've done with this, uh, doorknob? And then the, then the kids go, yes, sir. Right. Absolutely.
00:47:09.180
And they all do. They all do. And when I watched, when I watched that, let's say a habit of forming
00:47:15.820
respect, I think, my God, these, these kids are literally developing a superpower that if they
00:47:23.980
walked into a job interview with, with that set of manners and they could go to a dinner and they
00:47:30.060
would know which forks to use, which, you know, I didn't know at that age, I didn't know what fork
00:47:35.020
to use. So I could have used almost all of that training at that age. Yep. And we, uh, we've taught,
00:47:40.780
um, like etiquette classes, um, for the students and we got a lot of pushback for the etiquette
00:47:45.980
classes. People told us that we were trying to teach the kids how to be white, um, just for simply
00:47:50.380
teaching them, you know, to eat with their mouth closed and to not talk about certain things at the
00:47:54.620
table. It's insane. Let me give you a reframe that will help you if they say that you're teaching
00:48:00.220
them to be white. No, you're teaching how to deal in a world in which there's a lot of white people.
00:48:05.740
Absolutely. That's what you teach is strategy that when I watch it, I, it looks like you're
00:48:13.820
teaching lessons, but it's all strategy. The strategy is if you, if you can become the kind
00:48:19.820
of person who can pick up these lessons, the kind of person who can deal with white people,
00:48:25.260
black people, all kinds of people, success. Absolutely. Yeah. Yep. And the confidence thing
00:48:32.300
is, is the biggest piece, uh, especially when teaching them how to work with their hands.
00:48:35.660
We have a lot of kids, you know, who are not academically inclined or athletically inclined.
00:48:39.580
So you got those kids that are kind of in the middle, but when we teach them how to work with
00:48:42.460
their hands and then their moms, they finally able to say, I'm proud of you for something.
00:48:45.660
And we give them certificates and things like that. Now they're able to walk differently and,
00:48:50.060
and feel like they can accomplish something. Um, and that's very, very important to give a child,
00:48:54.140
he needs confidence in something. And sometimes they may not be a straight A student and they may
00:48:58.220
not be the best on the football field, but if I can teach them to be the best at this plumbing,
00:49:02.300
uh, or, or being a diesel mechanic or whatever, or even just teaching them how to properly eat or
00:49:07.180
properly read, um, all of that builds confidence. This is very important. And then you're also building
00:49:12.860
terribly important, I think is a network of kids who are like-minded. Like you can't beat that.
00:49:18.940
You can't beat that. Absolutely. It's like a fraternity. You know, these kids,
00:49:21.500
we've had kids graduate, go to the military or whatever, and we have them come back. They always come
00:49:26.140
back after they, you know, come back home or whatever and come spend time with the new students.
00:49:29.980
And it's funny because when they look at how those kids act and they're like, you were that kid at one
00:49:34.460
point, I still got old videos of you when you were sitting around doing those things. And so now they're
00:49:39.100
able to, um, to discipline and to teach and, and to show that I'm a product of this. Um, so it's very
00:49:44.940
important. I absolutely love the, the, the, the network we're creating, like you said.
00:49:49.900
All right. So, so there's a little, uh, lesson being, uh, formed here.
00:49:54.700
So I saw a maybe slightly racist comment in the, uh, in the comments that suggested you
00:50:00.780
should teach the kids how to say the word ask ASK.
00:50:06.620
That is, no, that's, that's not a racist. That's a, that's an accent thing, man. Um,
00:50:11.420
I'm from South Georgia and, you know, I don't hear my accent until I go like up north or something
00:50:17.340
like that. Um, but down here, you know, we understand what we're saying. And even the white people here,
00:50:22.620
they, they do the same thing. Um, we're just, we're just Southern, um, Southern people have
00:50:26.780
different accents. It's just like up north. You say things a little bit differently or whatever.
00:50:30.940
So that's just an accent thing. I don't think we can get away from it.
00:50:35.580
So here's what I would add, add to that, which is that I would put that under strategy.
00:50:40.300
So again, it's not, do I talk like my people? Do I talk like the place I came or do I make sure
00:50:49.100
that somebody doesn't think poorly of me just by using this word that they expect me to use?
00:50:55.580
So I would shoot that as a strategy, not, not a, you know, not a way of talking.
00:51:00.620
Definitely got to be able to turn the accent on and off. Cause how I talk to you and how I talk
00:51:05.500
to like my friends would be completely different. Cause I know other people just can't understand
00:51:09.660
like our Southern accent. It's real deep. And my, my uncles and stuff, they were like cowboys.
00:51:14.380
They're worse than me. Like, I mean, their country accents are so deep. Um, you'd never understand
00:51:18.620
what they're saying. And there's nothing wrong with teaching a kid to not be natural and not be
00:51:25.740
themselves that you need to adapt to the situation. If you want to be right, you have to, I agree.
00:51:34.300
All right. So what, what would you like the, uh, the audience to know that I haven't mentioned
00:51:39.580
already? Um, I guess for us, you know, I always tell people you could do this same thing where you
00:51:45.420
are. Um, I started, um, what I'm doing right here in a small town in Albany, Georgia, a population
00:51:50.220
of 69,000 people. Um, one of the, uh, definitely more worst places as far as statistics in the
00:51:55.980
country. Um, but we were able to build something successful here. Um, and I always tell people,
00:51:59.900
you don't have to have a massive organization or a massive following to start anything.
00:52:03.820
All of this stuff. I started, you know, as a 19 year old with no following, nobody knew who I was
00:52:09.260
and I just wanted it and nobody can want it for you. You have to want to see your own community better.
00:52:13.900
You have to want to get up and, you know, go clean up your own, your own trash in your neighborhood.
00:52:17.900
And just all of those things you have to want to do it. So if you just start by making somebody
00:52:21.020
smile and start by looking at those kids next door to you, or just not blaming everyone for our
00:52:25.980
issues. I mean, we point so many fingers. It's the Democrats fault. The Republicans fault. It's the
00:52:29.980
politicians. It's this person's fault versus just looking in the mirror. Like, Hey, I could be doing
00:52:33.580
a little bit more. I could be doing a lot more in my neighborhood. I could be spending some time,
00:52:37.340
uh, at the schools and helping the kids. So before we, you know, point fingers,
00:52:40.860
let's figure out what it is that we can do. And if you feel like you're doing enough, do some more.
00:52:44.700
Absolutely. Like the most important words ever spoken. I could do more. Just for every more.
00:52:52.380
Always. Now I'm curious. Have you ever heard of my book, how to, how to fill almost everything
00:52:58.940
and still win big. Have you ever had that? I have not. No. One of the things that fascinates me about
00:53:04.940
you is how compatible your thinking is with mine. Like we, it's almost like with the same brain,
00:53:11.660
two people. And that, that book, uh, teaches 14 years and up how to have a system in life
00:53:19.900
as opposed to a goal goal might be playing the NBA, but you know, really
00:53:27.580
a system would be learn as many valuable things as you can to be more valued. So stuff like that.
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So it's meant to fill in all of those. Uh, if you're 14, how do you figure out how to be a successful
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20 year old? Um, so if you'd like a copy of that, I'll, I'll send you a copy if you want to check it
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out. I'll send you my PO box. Most definitely. Okay. We'll take, we'll do that. Um, and, uh,
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anything else you want to tell them? Um, no, I just appreciate, uh, you bringing me on. First of all,
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I'm glad to be here. Uh, I know you've been dealing with some things, but I'm glad to be here and I've been
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praying for you. Um, but definitely I appreciate all the support that people give to our program. Uh,
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like I said, uh, this program runs exclusively because of people that believe in us and, uh,
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us having to be good stewards. Uh, it's definitely expensive. We operate five days a week. We pick
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the kids up from school. Uh, we feed them every day. We have staff members, um, we have property,
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you know, et cetera. So just everything that everybody does to keep us afloat for, for seven
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years, going on seven years now in January, it's been a beautiful thing and I'm glad. And, and again,
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if you want to support our program, you can follow me on social media at new emerging king on all
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platforms, or you can go to our website at the X for boys.org. That's T H E X F O R B O Y S.org.
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Perfect. You know, I, I like, uh, boosting you because I have one of these, uh,
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one of my secrets for life is that you should be working on at least one thing that could change
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the whole world. I agree. Even if it's very unlikely. Now you're the one doing the work,
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but because I have a platform and I can boost you today. I appreciate it today. I'm boosting you
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because if, if, if you catch on changes the world, I think that's how powerful what you're doing is.
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It would change the world. So yes, sir, my, my audience and I will try to be a small part of that
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to give you a boost. I definitely thank you. And thank you for taking the time. It was a real
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pleasure to meet you in, in person, sort of. Yep. I'll get, I'll make my way out there. Most
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definitely. You just let me know when you're free. Okay. Okay. We'll do that. All right. Thanks,
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King. Um, I'm going to say goodbye to everybody here and, uh, you've been great. Appreciate it.
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And we'll talk later. All right. Bye. All right, people. Uh, I'm going to talk to the, uh,
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locals people privately because I know you want to.
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And, uh, the rest of you I'll see tomorrow at the same time, same place. All right.