The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 239 ｜ The Gen Z ‘King’ Keeping Georgia Boys Off the Streets

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00:00:34.160 All eyes have been on national politics.

00:00:36.860 We probably know the name of our incoming cabinet members, our latest diplomats and agency leaders.

00:00:42.360 But do you even know the names of your city council members?

00:00:46.200 Do you know your neighbors' names?

00:00:49.520 National politics matter, but at the end of the day, it's our neighbors and our neighborhoods that make the biggest difference in our country and in our lives.

00:00:58.940 I have rarely found myself at a loss of words, but I found myself in today's interview at a loss for words several times.

00:01:13.340 Joining me today is a member of Generation Z.

00:01:15.900 He is 25 years old.

00:01:18.020 He's completely rejected victim culture and identity politics, and he is helping the boys in his predominantly black community grow into godly men and curb the area's violent crime rate and raise men.

00:01:32.780 When you hear how he first came about that he has to make men, it may leave you speechless.

00:01:44.740 We're going to discuss race, manhood, giving back, God, just what it is to be a man, everything.

00:01:53.440 Welcome the founder of the X for Boys and Life Preparatory School, King Randall.

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00:03:52.580 King, I am thrilled to have you on the program.

00:03:54.780 I'm glad to be here, man.

00:03:55.800 Good to see you.

00:03:56.500 Good to see you.

00:03:57.080 I saw, I don't even remember when it was, I know you had some viral videos because of Elon Musk,

00:04:04.680 but I saw a video of you teaching young kids how to repair a sink or plumbing or something and auto,

00:04:15.760 and I was just so inspired by what you were doing, because you're how old, 25?

00:04:20.520 I'm 25, yep.

00:04:21.240 25 years old.

00:04:21.980 First of all, let's just start at the beginning.

00:04:25.140 What is X for boys?

00:04:27.660 Sure.

00:04:28.180 So it's funny because, you know, Elon's named everything X now, but our organization was founded

00:04:32.620 in 2019, January.

00:04:34.480 I was 19 years old when I first started this work with the children.

00:04:38.180 I started out taking them on different field trips, taking them to different history museums,

00:04:42.080 et cetera, because most of our kids, we have an issue in our hometown with reading.

00:04:46.600 And I discovered that after I noticed when I did a summer camp at my house, maybe like

00:04:52.360 15 out of the 20 kids could not read.

00:04:54.180 That was a huge issue for me.

00:04:56.040 And what age kids are you talking about?

00:04:57.640 11 to 17.

00:04:58.800 Jeez.

00:04:59.060 Ages 11 to 17.

00:05:00.120 These are kids all in different grades, et cetera.

00:05:02.240 So I started this organization because I'm just like, okay, we need to help combat that.

00:05:06.700 We keep talking about the crime, et cetera.

00:05:08.200 We have all these stop the violence meetings every time something happens in our hometown.

00:05:11.760 It's a small town, but every time something happens, everybody wants to go do these stop

00:05:15.020 the violence meetings or whatever, and then they leave and that's it.

00:05:17.080 I'm just like, no, guys, we have to do something consistently to be able to affect these children

00:05:21.720 and their parents because the way we're looking, we're going to keep going downhill.

00:05:25.600 So I decided to actually do something about it instead of talking about it.

00:05:29.200 At 19?

00:05:30.340 Mm-hmm.

00:05:30.720 At 19 years old.

00:05:31.480 I was so self-absorbed and so stupid at 19.

00:05:37.900 Tell me about your parents.

00:05:39.380 Yeah.

00:05:39.640 Where has this come from?

00:05:40.620 Yeah, my mom, I was raised with my stepdad.

00:05:42.920 My mom, her name is Tamika.

00:05:45.560 She's raised me for most of my life, her and my stepdad.

00:05:49.180 He's the one who taught me how to do all the stuff like welding and taking care of animals.

00:05:54.160 We grew all of our own food at home.

00:05:56.720 Wow.

00:05:57.240 Yeah, we grew all of our own food for years.

00:05:59.940 We never did not grow food, even seasonings.

00:06:02.700 We grew everything.

00:06:04.000 We ate our chickens, eggs from outside, everything.

00:06:07.260 And he taught me how to, like, you know, we used to shoot squirrels, whatever, a really,

00:06:11.300 really country lifestyle.

00:06:12.920 So he taught me all that.

00:06:13.960 And I kind of pushed that onto a lot of the young men.

00:06:17.140 Many of the young men that were in my neighborhood, it was a community over there.

00:06:21.400 Even though we weren't in the best neighborhood, you had the guy down the street from us and

00:06:25.140 Mr. David.

00:06:25.660 He taught us how to lay bricks.

00:06:27.260 If you go in our neighborhood right now, you know, there are brick mailboxes.

00:06:29.900 And we did that when we were younger because he taught us how to do it.

00:06:32.100 We bricked in garage doors, whatever, to close, you know, close off garages.

00:06:36.760 Then you had the guy behind us.

00:06:38.780 His name is Deacon Bogan.

00:06:39.640 He's a deacon at a church.

00:06:40.860 And I met him when I was at a summer camp in my hometown at a church.

00:06:44.880 And I used to get in trouble.

00:06:45.580 He always put me in timeout.

00:06:46.640 But one day he had to take me home.

00:06:48.160 And so he took me home.

00:06:49.120 And he was like, son, I literally live in the house directly behind you.

00:06:52.220 Like, so we became close after that.

00:06:54.300 To this day, we're still super close.

00:06:55.500 And that was about when I was like nine or ten.

00:06:57.300 But we were still super close.

00:06:58.280 I always go see him.

00:06:58.980 So he turned in like a granddad.

00:07:00.540 So he taught us how to cut grass and weed eat and do all that stuff.

00:07:04.140 Because we had this running joke that Deacon Bogan would cut his grass every single day.

00:07:07.600 Because he had nothing else to do.

00:07:08.640 Like, so he had this big yard.

00:07:09.980 And he would just be out there every single day doing something.

00:07:12.540 Didn't matter.

00:07:13.100 So we had a real community in our neighborhood.

00:07:15.340 The guy across the street from me, Mr. Silas, he drove trucks.

00:07:18.460 So we used to see him sometime.

00:07:19.760 My stepdad used to have Bible study with the kids in our neighborhood at the house.

00:07:23.620 They would all come to the house on Wednesdays or whatever.

00:07:25.780 And we would do Bible study in the house, like in the room on the floor.

00:07:28.440 So those are things I saw growing up.

00:07:30.340 So I'm assuming in my immaturity that everywhere is like this.

00:07:34.360 So when I start seeing kids doing other stuff as an adult and they don't know how to change oil or change bricks, I'm like, we did this for fun.

00:07:41.600 So I started teaching kids and I started doing it for free.

00:07:44.580 I've never charged for anything that we've done in our program.

00:07:47.120 I learned how to cut hair and fix cars just to support what we were doing in the organization.

00:07:52.280 That's where we started out from the beginning.

00:07:53.680 And before we had any donors, any social media publicity or whatever, like that's what we were doing.

00:07:58.520 Like just at my house, in the living room, doing stuff from my dining room.

00:08:03.200 I had bought this small dry erase board from Staples.

00:08:05.680 We had got some donated tables.

00:08:07.560 And man, like, and I'll send you the pictures too.

00:08:09.300 But I still have pictures of all this stuff.

00:08:11.120 But I was never doing videos or posting or anything.

00:08:13.680 So this is where we started.

00:08:15.940 And here we are now.

00:08:17.300 How did you, was it hard to convince young men to come over and learn how to do stuff?

00:08:23.160 It's not hard when they don't have anything else to do.

00:08:25.960 And then on top of that, you know, when I first started, parents were looking for something for their kids to get into.

00:08:30.100 Because in our hometown, we don't have many livable wage jobs.

00:08:33.220 So a lot of these parents are working two and three jobs and their kids just at home raising themselves.

00:08:36.960 And they're trying to make ends meet.

00:08:39.060 So one thing they could do is try to find after school.

00:08:41.340 But after school usually charges.

00:08:42.680 So I'm one of the only after school programs that's just free.

00:08:45.040 And you can just send your kids, sign them up, and, you know, we'll make it happen.

00:08:48.300 We'll feed them and everything.

00:08:49.960 Jeez.

00:08:50.440 Yeah, so what we're trying to do now is get our program to a point where our after school is every single day from at least four,

00:08:55.940 excuse me, two o'clock to nine o'clock when they get out of school until their parents get off of work.

00:09:00.020 Two o'clock to nine.

00:09:01.520 We want it to be every single day.

00:09:03.240 Because these kids are outside.

00:09:05.720 And they're raising themselves.

00:09:07.080 And social media is aiding their termination, in my opinion.

00:09:11.940 And these kids are out killing themselves.

00:09:13.940 And it's not just because they don't have well-meaning parents or not fathers in the home.

00:09:18.660 They're working all day.

00:09:20.040 And our hometown, it bears witness to that.

00:09:22.660 And social media is poison.

00:09:24.200 It's straight poison.

00:09:25.000 I try to tell people about it.

00:09:26.200 Yeah.

00:09:26.800 So, again, let me go back to X.

00:09:28.920 Why is it called X?

00:09:30.140 X stands for unknown.

00:09:31.680 It's like a math equation.

00:09:32.700 We're solving for X.

00:09:35.760 That's what we did at home.

00:09:36.020 That's cool.

00:09:36.660 Yeah.

00:09:36.840 Okay.

00:09:38.420 So, your hometown, how many people in it?

00:09:42.440 Our population has went down.

00:09:43.900 So, we're about 67,000 people now.

00:09:45.500 67.

00:09:46.120 Yeah.

00:09:46.300 We were about 80-something thousand.

00:09:47.860 And over the last 10 years, we've dropped every single year.

00:09:51.200 Bad crime?

00:09:51.780 So, this is what I have to say about crime in the city of Albany.

00:09:58.360 People mask it and say it like it's just bad crime going on all the time in Albany.

00:10:04.300 And it's not necessarily that way.

00:10:05.480 Albany is a great place to live.

00:10:06.980 However, when something bad does happen, it gets broadcasted and it's just everywhere.

00:10:12.020 But for reality, most people that live in Albany enjoy living in a town.

00:10:15.200 It's just we don't have many things to do.

00:10:17.120 We don't have many things to get into.

00:10:18.520 No major factories or industry.

00:10:20.600 Maybe like two factories.

00:10:21.520 We have a marine base there, too.

00:10:23.220 But other than that, people don't have anything to do.

00:10:26.700 But for me, living in Albany, yeah, we have crime, but we have a great police department.

00:10:30.920 Our city leaders lack marketing ability.

00:10:34.940 The reason city morale is down because-

00:10:37.600 You are incredible.

00:10:38.700 Yeah.

00:10:38.940 They just love you.

00:10:39.900 Thank you.

00:10:40.580 The city morale is down because our leaders don't know how to market to the public.

00:10:43.980 Because for a long time, our local school system, we've always had this, we hate the school

00:10:49.780 system thing because the kids can't read, et cetera.

00:10:52.060 And we have a very forward-thinking superintendent.

00:10:54.120 His name is Kenneth Dyer.

00:10:55.800 And me and him actually got into it a couple years ago because I didn't know these things

00:11:00.300 that they are doing inside of our school system.

00:11:02.220 So we're really close now.

00:11:03.280 We talk.

00:11:04.340 And there's water under the bridge.

00:11:06.000 But I've been going to these different meetings around my hometown to see how things work

00:11:11.000 in actuality versus just listening to what people are saying online about Albany.

00:11:14.800 And our school system has something so beautiful.

00:11:17.620 Like I've told them before, I said, I don't understand why aren't you guys marketing this?

00:11:22.040 This is beautiful stuff.

00:11:23.060 They do free health care for kids.

00:11:24.680 They make sure the kids get dental and vision.

00:11:26.500 They also make sure that the kids are transported.

00:11:29.040 They have the dental clinics and vision clinics inside the schools.

00:11:33.580 And they will transport the kids there.

00:11:35.080 They also have a program called Level Up where parents who don't have good-paying jobs,

00:11:39.760 they will pay for them to take classes in excavators, nursing, et cetera.

00:11:45.600 And if those parents have kids, they will also put those kids in daycare and make sure

00:11:49.280 the parents and kids have transportation so they can learn all these different traits

00:11:53.580 so that way they can actually have a job where they're able to spend time with their kids.

00:11:56.840 They offer free food in the summertime for the kids.

00:12:00.480 They also grow all of their own greens.

00:12:02.380 They have a hydroponics greenhouse in our hometown where they grow all the food for the kids.

00:12:07.000 You didn't know any of those.

00:12:07.920 I didn't know any of this.

00:12:09.020 And I've had this conversation with them.

00:12:10.360 I said, guys, like, people drag you guys out and y'all never respond.

00:12:14.040 And I'm just like, even though you may not feel like you need to, city morale is down here.

00:12:18.940 People need to know you guys are doing your job.

00:12:21.500 Same with our police department.

00:12:22.580 I didn't know they had solved almost every homicide that's happened in our hometown.

00:12:25.960 I didn't know they had all this new technology.

00:12:27.540 They got this technology now where if a gunshot happens, nobody has to even call the police.

00:12:32.000 They have these gunshot detection systems where it automatically sends the police a text

00:12:35.380 to go ahead and go over there because there's a gunshot been detected in a certain neighborhood.

00:12:39.180 Nobody has to call the police.

00:12:40.560 Who knows about this?

00:12:41.720 Nobody.

00:12:42.560 You know, so I'm just like, how can we market better to our community that our city leaders

00:12:46.680 are trying to do their job?

00:12:47.980 Now, there's a difference with our local city commission and our county commission.

00:12:52.200 That's a different field.

00:12:53.520 I don't know exactly what's going on with them, but for the most part, our school system,

00:12:58.120 our police department, they're doing fantastic.

00:13:00.080 They're trying to do a fantastic job.

00:13:01.240 And our school system is actually trying to catch up from COVID.

00:13:04.500 They keep blaming our school system for the kids not being able to read.

00:13:07.360 I mean, he's like, guys, the kids are back four grades.

00:13:10.220 I know.

00:13:10.460 He's like, we're trying, but if people aren't looking at the stats, they put the data up

00:13:13.620 and these kids, their levels are going up every year.

00:13:16.180 It just takes time.

00:13:17.260 You have to give them a moment.

00:13:18.240 So we had this guy in our hometown today at the school board meeting.

00:13:22.440 He actually went up there fussing about the low test scores that came out about a couple

00:13:26.540 of the schools.

00:13:27.620 And I'm just like, you have no clue what these people are really in here doing.

00:13:31.040 You don't think they see that?

00:13:31.960 You don't think they're trying to make this better for the kids, especially with taxpayers?

00:13:35.600 And on top of that, they've been actually dropping taxes every year on purpose because

00:13:39.360 they want people to have their money and not have to be paying their property tax because

00:13:42.820 they're doing such a good job with the school system.

00:13:45.720 Our superintendent is a former accountant.

00:13:47.700 So he has a lot of leftover money, et cetera, or whatever.

00:13:51.860 We have this political leadership class, and he came and talked to us about all this stuff.

00:13:56.680 So it's all about getting the community engaged.

00:13:59.220 I used to be one of those people when I first started my organization that, oh, we don't

00:14:03.220 need politics.

00:14:04.240 We don't, I'm not going to worry about that.

00:14:05.520 And we're just going to do this work with these kids.

00:14:07.100 And as they get older, we'll figure it out.

00:14:08.420 But as I've been going to these different meetings and going to all the county commission

00:14:12.100 meetings and the city commission meetings and checking out our mayor and the board meetings

00:14:16.160 or whatever, I've been at all of them.

00:14:17.480 I've been on three boards now in my hometown.

00:14:19.400 And everything that they're doing right now, it all slowly starts to affect our kids.

00:14:24.660 So I'm just like, and all these boards, I'm the youngest person, of course.

00:14:27.960 Everybody up there has to be over 60 for the most part.

00:14:30.640 You know, and they're all on these boards.

00:14:31.860 I'm on the Historic Preservation Commission now.

00:14:33.660 You're on the what?

00:14:34.560 Historic Preservation Committee.

00:14:35.620 So in our hometown, we have these districts for the historic district.

00:14:39.780 We have to approve and deny different things happening to the historic buildings.

00:14:43.940 But that's important because everybody on those boards, they're older, they don't care

00:14:48.200 about newness, and they don't hear any new opinions because nobody's at these meetings.

00:14:52.100 There are public meetings that ask me how many citizens come.

00:14:54.100 None.

00:14:54.700 Nobody's ever there.

00:14:56.140 Even so, I've been the voice for the people explaining like, hey, this is what's going on

00:15:00.920 in the city right now.

00:15:01.960 This is what's been happening in the school system.

00:15:03.520 This is what's been happening in the police department.

00:15:06.100 Even I'm on the Civilian Review Board now for our Albany Police Department.

00:15:09.760 Everybody has all this trash to talk about our police department.

00:15:12.600 But now I know everything that goes on in there because every first Wednesday of every

00:15:15.980 month, I'm at the police department and they're debriefing us on everything that happens

00:15:19.780 in regards to the police department.

00:15:21.160 Like this little stuff, I didn't have to pay for it.

00:15:23.040 I just had to sign up to be on the board and the commission appoints you to be on the

00:15:25.820 board.

00:15:26.260 Simple stuff.

00:15:27.340 But I just want to encourage people.

00:15:28.820 So it's like an accountability thing between us as citizens and our leaders also because

00:15:33.580 we have a part to play as well as our leadership.

00:15:36.560 Now, our city does deserve leadership that have time to spend on making sure Albany's

00:15:40.380 in good standing because leaderships, their positions are part-time.

00:15:44.780 You know, so they're doing other things during the day, but I don't have anything to do during

00:15:47.020 the day.

00:15:47.740 Right.

00:15:47.800 So I have time to spend on our hometown and that's what we're looking for.

00:15:52.940 I mean, you're a little overwhelming on what you're doing.

00:15:58.000 Just trying to stay busy.

00:15:59.420 So tell me about, you have this amazing interpretation of Genesis.

00:16:07.120 Yes.

00:16:08.100 Tell me about this because I think this.

00:16:10.600 Everybody asks that.

00:16:11.460 It just opens up so many doors.

00:16:13.500 It does.

00:16:13.960 So the particular scripture, let us make man.

00:16:17.180 Yeah.

00:16:17.800 You know, let us make man in our image and in our likeness.

00:16:21.040 Yes.

00:16:21.200 You know, and again, you know, for my, for my, for the viewers out there, I took a different

00:16:26.200 spin on this for my organization.

00:16:28.400 That's our motto.

00:16:29.040 Let us make man.

00:16:30.160 Our idea for me, when God said, let us make man, I feel like I should be assisting God

00:16:36.420 with helping to make men.

00:16:38.240 I feel like a boy can't be a man unless he sees a man.

00:16:41.400 So that's, that's what I do.

00:16:43.040 I assist God with making men because he can't, I'm not saying he can't do it by himself, but

00:16:46.340 he's going to use people to be able to actually help these kids because he's not going to

00:16:51.580 come down and help them himself.

00:16:52.860 He's going to use people and people don't realize who God set in place to be able to

00:16:57.960 help their community.

00:16:58.820 They don't realize the angels around them or the people around them to help their different

00:17:02.480 communities, whether it be your chief of police, whether it be your city councilman,

00:17:05.900 whatever.

00:17:06.080 So it's all in getting those God fearing people in those positions to be able to help

00:17:10.760 our community.

00:17:11.300 So that's where I feel about let us make man.

00:17:14.180 It's God telling me to assist him with making men.

00:17:16.340 So that's what we're doing.

00:17:17.080 I have to tell you, I, I've, I've asked some of the best biblical scholars in the world.

00:17:23.460 What does that mean?

00:17:25.100 Let us make men.

00:17:26.480 And I've heard the craziest answers.

00:17:28.520 I've heard good answers.

00:17:29.740 Yeah.

00:17:29.900 That's the best answer.

00:17:31.520 Don't know if it's right, but that is the best answer because I can, I can apply it

00:17:35.940 even if it's not correct.

00:17:36.800 It may be talking about the Trinity or not, whatever you believe in, but it, it allows

00:17:41.060 me to take some accountability for the way my community looks.

00:17:43.960 One thing that people do is try to, to not take any responsibility for our, how our communities

00:17:49.920 look.

00:17:50.320 I feel like if everybody, you know, just decided to figure out how can I make somebody smile

00:17:54.820 today every single day?

00:17:56.020 If everybody did that, I think our communities would be in a better place.

00:17:58.440 Or what can I do just one thing today to make the community better?

00:18:00.920 Even if it's just picking up the trash on the side of the road, what can I do to make

00:18:03.580 our community better?

00:18:04.220 Can I go feed that homeless person across the street?

00:18:05.880 Or let me go make friends with that kid.

00:18:07.900 I always see walking home from school by themselves and let me go talk to their parents and say,

00:18:11.240 Hey, is it okay if we develop a relationship and I can take your son to school every day

00:18:14.880 and, you know, help him out because those little things matter.

00:18:18.180 Community is what's missing.

00:18:19.720 And so what's taking us away from community is cell phones.

00:18:22.400 I just made a video the other day about Thanksgiving dinner.

00:18:25.420 And I noticed because things are different now.

00:18:28.440 When you go to Thanksgiving dinner, everybody prays, everybody prays, and then everybody

00:18:31.880 splits up and go eat.

00:18:33.300 You know, one person in the living room watching football, the other person's here or whatever.

00:18:36.300 Back in the day, when you sat down for dinner, you were able to notice things about your

00:18:41.340 kids.

00:18:41.860 You were able to notice things about your grandma.

00:18:44.000 You were able to notice things about your mom.

00:18:45.860 Why you look sad today?

00:18:47.060 Son, why your eyes red?

00:18:48.400 Like, what you been doing today?

00:18:49.500 You know, I can chastise my son now, or I can notice that my daughter may be feeling a

00:18:53.860 little depression or something like that because I see she's been looking sad the last three

00:18:57.360 dinners.

00:18:57.660 What's going on?

00:18:58.400 So we can get her the right help.

00:18:59.420 We don't even know what's going on with our family right now because we have family group

00:19:03.480 chats, but we're not looking and spending time and absorbing what it is our family's going

00:19:08.200 through.

00:19:09.000 We're also not.

00:19:10.000 Now, when I was growing up, man, if I heard one more story from my grandparents about the

00:19:16.540 depression, I was just going to be like, okay, you know, you would hear the family stories

00:19:21.820 over and over and over again.

00:19:23.740 Yep.

00:19:24.340 Families don't sit around and tell stories anymore.

00:19:27.620 They don't, you don't know who you are or where you came from.

00:19:30.880 Yep.

00:19:31.180 And history is so important.

00:19:33.260 It's so important.

00:19:33.780 My sons are all, you know, they are named, my son is named after me, of course, but my son

00:19:37.440 William, he's named after my uncle that passed away.

00:19:39.680 One of our favorite uncles, you know, his name is Willie.

00:19:41.880 We named him William.

00:19:43.100 And just teaching him about who he was, what did he do, et cetera.

00:19:46.520 Or my granddad's side of the family.

00:19:48.840 We have about 10 men in our family named Floyd.

00:19:52.080 They refuse to allow the history of the family to be lost.

00:19:56.080 So every firstborn male from every child's name is Floyd.

00:20:00.360 Wow.

00:20:00.880 Every last one.

00:20:01.580 So we go to the family reunion.

00:20:02.720 We got Big Floyd, Lil Floyd, this Floyd, that Floyd.

00:20:05.500 Now, they all got different little nicknames.

00:20:06.740 Right, right, right.

00:20:07.200 And that's because they don't want to lose our great, great, great grandfather's legacy

00:20:10.280 because all of the grandfather's name were Floyd.

00:20:13.240 Then I didn't realize I was the firstborn grandson of the last generation of kids.

00:20:17.240 So I got to have another son because his name has to be Floyd.

00:20:20.480 You know, they already been getting on to me about like, hey, you had three sons already.

00:20:23.820 You haven't named them Floyd.

00:20:25.280 Like, what's the problem?

00:20:26.420 But that's what needs to happen.

00:20:28.540 Like, it wasn't like.

00:20:29.720 So what was it about the original Floyd that everybody wanted to remember?

00:20:33.900 He built the family.

00:20:34.800 He built that side of the family.

00:20:36.380 Like, just listening to them talk about him, you know, rebuilding what they had going on

00:20:41.500 from back in slavery times, from him sharecropping, et cetera.

00:20:45.580 And just listening to them.

00:20:46.360 They always got stories about Grenada Floyd.

00:20:48.140 Like, I mean, they got stories for days.

00:20:50.320 They got pictures of them when they were little out there on the, you know, in the field with

00:20:53.440 their dad and stuff like that.

00:20:54.500 And he was a big guy or whatever.

00:20:55.820 So it was funny because my grandfather was the shortest of the bunch, but he was a big

00:20:59.200 guy.

00:20:59.420 But all my uncles were like 6'8", you know, 6'6", big dudes.

00:21:02.800 And my granddad was like 5'11", 6'0", or whatever.

00:21:05.260 But I think my first son, he's going to take some of that from their family because last

00:21:08.420 year he was in my pocket and now he's at like my second button on my suit.

00:21:12.760 Dude, it's huge.

00:21:13.920 But yeah, like just we lost family and I think we've forgotten where we come from.

00:21:18.360 But on top of that, I will say some people hold on too much to where they come from because

00:21:23.180 it's like people feel like this blind loyalty to their neighborhood or to act in a certain

00:21:27.500 way, et cetera.

00:21:28.100 No, some of you need to forget where you came from because everybody has this little phrase

00:21:31.200 of, you know, make sure you don't forget where you came from.

00:21:33.540 Like, no, some people need to forget that.

00:21:35.560 Explain that.

00:21:36.260 Because so we had this thing in the black community, like when you are getting popular

00:21:40.080 or famous or playing football, everybody's like, all right, don't forget where you came

00:21:43.040 from.

00:21:43.240 Like, don't forget everybody else over here or whatever like that.

00:21:45.840 No, some of that was hindering people.

00:21:47.700 Some of that was holding people back and trying to hold on to that toxicity you guys had going

00:21:52.520 on.

00:21:52.780 They don't need that.

00:21:53.480 They need to forget that.

00:21:54.280 They need to loose themselves from the chains of you because we can have chains from our

00:21:58.620 neighborhoods.

00:21:59.060 We can't have chains from our family members.

00:22:00.860 That meant that it was no good.

00:22:02.260 Even just going through different traumas with our family members.

00:22:06.280 Some of that stuff you got to let go.

00:22:07.540 Yeah.

00:22:07.700 So you can move forward because if you hold on to it, we got people 30, 35, 36, 37 still

00:22:11.540 holding on to stuff from the childhood.

00:22:12.720 I'm just like, at this point, you were making your own decisions now.

00:22:15.020 And if you allow this to continue being your crutch, then this is your life.

00:22:19.120 That's it.

00:22:19.500 So you are so refreshing because there doesn't seem to be a victim here.

00:22:26.700 I mean, we all have stuff and some have really bad stuff.

00:22:33.240 Some have, you know, everybody has something that they can whine about.

00:22:38.560 But it's my father taught me, it's not what happens to you.

00:22:42.260 It's what you do with it.

00:22:43.880 Right.

00:22:44.320 You're either going to let it destroy you or it's going to, it will shape you one way

00:22:49.220 or another.

00:22:49.600 But you are the one in charge.

00:22:51.360 Right.

00:22:51.660 Of what it's going to do.

00:22:52.780 Right.

00:22:53.160 So I'm going to talk about this really quickly because there's a big conversation about crying

00:22:56.620 lately.

00:22:58.020 Crying?

00:22:58.520 Crying for me.

00:22:59.420 Yeah.

00:22:59.700 I haven't cried maybe in like eight or nine years.

00:23:02.260 Yeah.

00:23:02.420 And it's not to a fault that I don't want to cry or I'm not capable of it.

00:23:07.360 I haven't, I don't believe I've went through enough to be like, oh, I just need to cry today.

00:23:11.240 Like, cause people have said, oh, well you just, maybe you need to cry.

00:23:13.600 I'm just like, but I don't, I don't feel like crying.

00:23:15.880 Like I don't, I don't want to, I don't, I don't need to.

00:23:18.120 If I, if tears, you know, swell up in my eyes or whatever and I need to cry tonight, I will.

00:23:22.360 I'm like, but the last time I cried, I was in an argument with my grandma, like losing

00:23:24.800 like I was in 12th grade, I believe my senior year and I was arguing with my grandma.

00:23:27.880 She was just getting on my nerves and I just, you know, just angry.

00:23:30.940 But other than that, I hadn't had a reason to cry because I'm big on a serenity prayer.

00:23:34.280 I got a serenity prayer tattooed on me and I believe in that prayer on purpose, like

00:23:37.940 on purpose because the serenity prayer, I know.

00:23:41.000 Why do you have, are you an alcoholic or was somebody in your, or you just found that

00:23:45.160 prayer?

00:23:45.760 I can't remember when I first heard it, but it, it, it shapes me.

00:23:49.740 It's, it's who I am.

00:23:50.600 Like, I don't believe if I can't fix something, I am not going to sit and hold on to it.

00:23:56.340 If I can't fix it, it's time for me to move on and just let it be.

00:23:58.980 But if I can fix it, let's fix it.

00:24:00.600 So I don't find a space in between there where I need to cry.

00:24:03.540 I'm like, I'm like, or I can fix it or I can just leave it, leave it be.

00:24:06.980 And I believe in God, you know, so I'm just like, what, what am I crying about?

00:24:09.880 I don't, I don't understand, you know, and I don't, I don't think anything's wrong with

00:24:12.640 crying.

00:24:12.840 I will encourage kids.

00:24:13.760 If you need to cry, cry, whatever.

00:24:15.500 I have no issue with that.

00:24:16.300 But for myself, you know, I don't, this is what I say.

00:24:19.220 People have gotten mad and we talked about this before.

00:24:21.620 Our ancestors, you know, especially African-Americans, they went through actual hell, true hell

00:24:27.440 from, you know, the Jim Crow era to slavery.

00:24:30.660 They went through true hell and they were still successful.

00:24:33.800 They still read better than us.

00:24:35.420 I read Booker T.

00:24:36.460 Washington's book, Up From Slavery with the Kids.

00:24:38.540 And I'm like, imagine a former slave having a better vocabulary than you do.

00:24:41.820 Like, it's insane.

00:24:42.780 It's crazy.

00:24:43.160 And he got up every day, had to teach himself how to read, et cetera.

00:24:45.880 We got Wi-Fi, beds, just, we ain't got to worry about waking up in the middle of the

00:24:50.500 night because the Ku Klux Klan come to get your granddad or none of that, none of that

00:24:53.500 crazy stuff.

00:24:54.140 So I think it's a slap in the face to my ancestors to be walking around here with all this access

00:24:58.220 to information, books, school, et cetera.

00:25:01.240 And we running around here talking about, we hurt, something's going on.

00:25:04.640 Ain't nothing going on.

00:25:05.820 It's no work ethic that's happening in there.

00:25:07.800 And people love to try and act like, you know, there's, we don't have to have work ethic

00:25:11.800 or, or black people just been held, you know, by the white man.

00:25:14.420 So, so even if we work hard, you know, no, no, no, we need to know what it is that we

00:25:18.120 need to be working hard on.

00:25:18.940 Cause you do got a lot of people with work ethic, work ethic, but what, what are they

00:25:23.780 working on?

00:25:24.340 Cause some people will go work 10 hours at Burger King doing the best job they can, but refuse

00:25:29.060 to go spend that same 10 hours working on themselves at home.

00:25:31.320 And I'm just like, you can get yourself out of these situations.

00:25:33.560 Like if I always say there's like, Oh, well black people, you know, they don't have access

00:25:37.360 to this and that.

00:25:37.820 Okay, cool.

00:25:38.460 If he can go work eight, nine hours at somebody's job, he has the ability to go home and work

00:25:44.700 on his own stuff, period.

00:25:46.780 I, this is what I've done with my organization.

00:25:48.880 I literally like when I wanted an organization to happen, I made it happen.

00:25:52.820 I got up every day.

00:25:54.100 I would go cut hair and all in the middle of the night, I would go change starters and

00:25:58.240 go change, uh, you know, fuel pumps or whatever.

00:26:00.860 I would go paint houses with my brother, et cetera.

00:26:03.480 And we would make our money like that.

00:26:04.700 And I would use that money to pay the bills at the house with my kids and then make sure

00:26:08.320 everything was squared away.

00:26:09.660 I was able to do this at 19 years old.

00:26:11.000 You mean to tell me like, we just, we just dumb and stupid, huh?

00:26:14.000 Like that's, that's what I tell people.

00:26:15.060 They're like, Oh, well black people aren't able to, I'm like, you don't realize how much

00:26:18.960 that's actual white supremacy because you have made yourself believe that we are incapable

00:26:23.780 of, of doing anything better.

00:26:25.980 We are incapable of, of trying to better ourselves.

00:26:28.340 The only way we could do better is if white people help us do it.

00:26:30.840 So, so in honesty, yeah, white people are supreme over you, but they're not supreme over me.

00:26:35.300 I'm, that's not what I believe.

00:26:36.220 I believe that I can go and do stuff and they're like, Oh, well we can't be racist because black

00:26:40.260 people aren't in positions.

00:26:41.100 We got black mayors, black city councilmen, et cetera, et cetera.

00:26:44.020 So can they be racist now?

00:26:45.300 Uh, like it's, it's these stupid things we talk about all the time.

00:26:48.140 Um, you know, it, they resonate, uh, in our community and we truly believe some of the

00:26:51.660 things that's going on.

00:26:52.620 And I'm like, did you ever believe any of that stuff?

00:26:55.120 Absolutely.

00:26:55.960 I used to hate white people.

00:26:57.180 Like when I was like, you wait, wait, wait, you hated white people.

00:26:59.780 Oh yeah.

00:27:00.080 I hated white people.

00:27:00.780 Like my 16, 17, you gotta think when I was in high school, Donald Trump became president.

00:27:04.960 When I was in high school at the time, you gotta think I was on, you know, Instagram,

00:27:08.920 Facebook, whatever.

00:27:09.800 And of course everybody's just posting all this bad stuff about, you know, Donald Trump

00:27:13.040 or whatever like that.

00:27:13.580 So I'm just like, Oh man, he racist, you know, blah, blah, blah.

00:27:15.560 It's like, you're not doing any research.

00:27:16.820 You're a kid or whatever.

00:27:18.220 You know, it's so funny.

00:27:19.940 I know Donald Trump and all I keep, I've, I've been listening to you for the last five minutes

00:27:23.500 and all I keep thinking is I have to introduce you to Donald Trump.

00:27:26.360 He will love you.

00:27:28.000 Oh yeah.

00:27:28.240 Yeah.

00:27:28.440 Yeah.

00:27:28.560 Yeah.

00:27:28.980 So I took a picture with him one time.

00:27:30.800 I think we were in Tennessee.

00:27:32.560 Good.

00:27:32.840 So you know each other.

00:27:33.660 Yeah.

00:27:33.860 No, we don't know each other.

00:27:34.500 I think it was one of those things where we could take a picture with him.

00:27:36.380 Oh, okay.

00:27:36.640 Yeah.

00:27:36.720 But we introduced, I introduced myself, but he probably don't remember.

00:27:39.220 But where was I?

00:27:41.280 You were saying when you were 16, Donald Trump was a racist.

00:27:44.460 Donald Trump was the president, right?

00:27:46.180 I mean, I was working at Chick-fil-A.

00:27:47.360 I remember the day he got elected.

00:27:48.600 It felt like the world was about to end, like because of how they, you know,

00:27:54.140 made it seem, you know, in the media and on social media, whatever.

00:27:57.380 Like, I mean, it was terrible.

00:27:58.720 Like, it's like, it was cloudy that day and everybody at work was just all meh.

00:28:03.500 And like, we were, we were upset.

00:28:04.980 We were so sad.

00:28:06.080 I never forget.

00:28:08.400 When we went to, Blexit had an event at the White House with Donald Trump.

00:28:14.060 And we brought some of our students in 2020, October, 2020,

00:28:17.820 because Donald Trump had COVID at the time, President Trump.

00:28:20.440 And we went there and all the love that we received from Republicans and from people,

00:28:27.720 you know, on that side, I'd never seen anything like it in my life.

00:28:30.240 We were these kids.

00:28:30.960 We had our all black, you know, extra boys outfits on or whatever.

00:28:33.680 Everybody was wondering who we were.

00:28:34.600 So I was telling them about the work I was doing.

00:28:35.820 And they was just like, man, like, this is amazing.

00:28:38.760 People started, you know, giving to our organization, et cetera.

00:28:41.080 And so ever since then, I've noticed that, you know, the most people that have given us the most hate and terror

00:28:47.840 and the most pushback is people that look just like me, because I don't necessarily think like the status quo.

00:28:53.600 Black people have this thing where if you don't think like everybody else, then you must be an immigrant.

00:28:57.960 There's no way you're a black American thinking like this or you a coon, you know, all the names or whatever.

00:29:02.780 And after we got invited to the White House, my tune started to shift because I'm just like, these people,

00:29:09.220 I hadn't received any hate the whole time.

00:29:10.900 And I told them exactly what I do because at that time I was only working with black kids.

00:29:14.480 And I was like, well, we're working for black, you know, we got black kids.

00:29:17.080 We're teaching them how to do this and that.

00:29:18.020 It's like, we don't care.

00:29:18.780 Like, this is amazing.

00:29:19.720 Like, you're doing some great work.

00:29:21.040 It was a shocker to me because I had been begging to get to other, you know, meetings, other Democrat senators.

00:29:26.940 Like, I couldn't get no meetings.

00:29:28.080 Nobody wanted to talk to us.

00:29:28.920 Nobody wanted to help in a major way.

00:29:30.840 These people didn't even know us and they were pouring love.

00:29:34.080 And so we did this one video with this guy named Siaka Massaqua.

00:29:37.060 I'm not sure if you know who he is.

00:29:38.720 But he did a video with us at the White House and it went mini viral online and people found out who we were.

00:29:44.360 And then I took this class with a friend of mine.

00:29:45.740 His name is Brother Ben X.

00:29:47.080 He taught me how to utilize social media to push what I was doing.

00:29:50.820 He actually taught me, like, this is what you do.

00:29:52.460 This is how you post.

00:29:53.360 You need to post what you're doing because people need to see this work all around the world.

00:29:56.060 Never forget, as soon as I started posting on Twitter or whatever,

00:29:58.480 we just started circulating immediately because people had never seen what we've been doing, you know,

00:30:03.500 across the country on a consistent basis with these kids.

00:30:05.980 And mind you, I started boarding them at one point during COVID.

00:30:08.380 These kids came to live with me in my living room on some bunk beds.

00:30:11.140 Like, that's how truly passionate I was about trying to fix these kids.

00:30:15.400 It's been a long journey.

00:30:16.920 Because you have taken kids out of abusive homes.

00:30:21.340 Absolutely.

00:30:21.880 Right?

00:30:22.060 Yeah, absolutely.

00:30:23.120 We've had so many stories from molestation to starvation to just physical abuse.

00:30:30.800 The stories I've heard, man, it's like they're not shocking anymore.

00:30:33.820 They're just like, man, this is hell.

00:30:36.480 Because now I'm imagining when I finally do get a story, like,

00:30:38.680 how many other kids out here are going through this?

00:30:40.800 Like, in their minds at work.

00:30:41.780 And the same thing I mentioned.

00:30:42.880 You know, the reason, you know, one of the kids I was talking to,

00:30:45.040 he was getting molested by his aunt's son.

00:30:49.900 And he was every bit of, like, 14, 15 years old.

00:30:52.660 But I'm sure that happened to him also.

00:30:54.680 But the mom was hysterical because she's like, I'm just trying to work.

00:30:58.180 You know, I'm sending them over to her house just to, you know,

00:31:00.680 so I can work during the day or whatever.

00:31:02.340 Because I noticed the kid didn't want to go home after a while.

00:31:04.440 Like, he's just like, can I stay with y'all during the break?

00:31:06.200 I'm just like, nah, you got to go home and spend time with your family.

00:31:08.000 And I always was, you know, really suspicious of kids who didn't want to go home.

00:31:12.300 Most kids want to go back home still.

00:31:13.600 Like, even if it was fun, they still want to go home.

00:31:15.740 He didn't want to go home.

00:31:16.640 He came back to school with his jaw, like, swole or whatever like that.

00:31:19.560 And he just, you know, told us the entire story of what happened.

00:31:22.580 And it was crazy.

00:31:24.240 And, of course, we, you know, told his mom.

00:31:25.660 She was hysterical.

00:31:26.280 But she's working.

00:31:27.560 Like, she's just trying to work just to feed them.

00:31:30.360 You know, and to be honest, our school at the time,

00:31:32.520 it actually helped the parents because they didn't have to worry about feeding them.

00:31:36.020 They didn't have to worry about where they were.

00:31:36.920 They were with me the whole time.

00:31:38.020 You know, we were doing field trips.

00:31:39.100 We were doing things.

00:31:39.800 And so that's where I had got the idea to want to even open a boarding school outside of our after school program.

00:31:48.620 You were 19.

00:31:50.400 Yes.

00:31:50.740 That is an amazing amount of responsibility on your shoulders.

00:31:59.360 Yes.

00:32:00.360 How do you deal with that?

00:32:01.980 I think, I mean, I don't think it's not normal.

00:32:04.560 Back in, you know, the Jim Crow era, everybody had cool stuff going on at 19, 20 years old.

00:32:09.760 Like, Dr. King had a doctorate at, like, 22.

00:32:12.140 Dude, these guys were killing it, you know, but for our age group now, it's like, you got to be like 30-something to be doing all this fantastic stuff.

00:32:18.060 I'm just like, no, I'd rather work now and play later.

00:32:20.460 Like, because one thing that happens now is, like, everybody thinks, oh, you're just supposed to live life and do all this stuff at this young age.

00:32:27.240 And I'm just like, dude, right now, while my back isn't hurting, let me do all of this stuff.

00:32:32.240 Let me go do all this work, set a foundation for my grandkids, et cetera, because nobody works for their grandkids anymore.

00:32:36.400 Like, nobody's thinking about that.

00:32:37.220 Like, my oldest son is about to turn six, and I'm already thinking about King Ray III.

00:32:41.880 Like, that's important, because I'm like, okay, how can I instill values in my sons that they can pass out to their sons and their grandsons,

00:32:49.920 and how can I make sure that continues, you know, through generations?

00:32:53.220 So it's like, now I'm—

00:32:53.840 Through generations, your great-grandchildren, there will be somebody named King every generation of years.

00:33:03.420 Right, yeah, so that's important.

00:33:05.260 And not only that, but it's a charge to keep.

00:33:08.320 And we have this old hymn, you know, in the African-American church called A Charge to Keep.

00:33:11.780 And that's something we grew up singing, and we never realized—

00:33:14.660 What are the words?

00:33:15.560 It's a charge to keep that I have, a God to glorify, to serve the present age, and fulfill it for the sky.

00:33:23.700 So, like, that was one of the hymns, and they would sing it, you know, like, very old school, sing it real slow.

00:33:29.260 And I never really paid attention to those lyrics, because I'm like, I have a charge to keep.

00:33:35.620 Like, I have to do this.

00:33:37.300 Like, I don't see why other people don't feel like they have a charge.

00:33:39.640 Like, some people, they call them NPCs, like from video games, where you just are there in a simulation and not doing anything.

00:33:44.840 I think that's the way most people are.

00:33:46.520 They are.

00:33:47.020 They just live the American Pie life.

00:33:48.660 They want to, you know, take the kids on vacation once a year, work 9 to 5, grill on the weekend sometime, do your holidays.

00:33:55.220 And that's fine.

00:33:56.240 But I feel like I just don't—that's just not my arena.

00:33:58.800 I feel like I'm responsible for, you know, fixing something.

00:34:01.800 Our hometown, Albany, Georgia, was one of the cities that Dr. King failed in.

00:34:06.200 Failed?

00:34:06.780 Yes, Albany, Georgia.

00:34:07.820 If you have a chance, go look up the Civil Rights Movement in Albany, Georgia.

00:34:10.880 This was not one of his best places.

00:34:12.700 And he said, you know, the reason they failed in Albany was because of the mindset of the people.

00:34:17.340 The same way to this day.

00:34:18.800 We have a small Civil Rights Museum, and you can go there and see everything that he did.

00:34:23.420 Andrew Young was down.

00:34:25.080 Everybody was there.

00:34:25.740 Ralph Abernathy, everybody was trying to get the—get stuff desegregated in Albany, and it wouldn't happen when Dr. King came.

00:34:32.180 They put him in jail, et cetera, Chief Pritchett.

00:34:34.660 Because the whites' attitude was too strong?

00:34:38.120 No.

00:34:38.820 They outsmarted Dr. King in Albany.

00:34:40.180 So what happened was when he would go to these other cities, they would beat them down.

00:34:44.640 You know, they would beat them up, whatever.

00:34:46.200 Chief Pritchett was like, okay, cool, we're going to beat you at your own game.

00:34:48.900 Because Dr. King was so smart.

00:34:50.740 His idea was, let me make you guys look like animals to the entire world.

00:34:57.020 He failed in Albany because Chief Pritchett, when he got there, he was like, mm-mm, don't touch him.

00:35:01.180 Just take him to jail.

00:35:02.120 Don't beat him.

00:35:02.860 Don't touch him.

00:35:03.520 Don't do nothing to him.

00:35:04.500 He outsmarted Dr. King.

00:35:05.360 And so nothing was able to happen, you know, in our hometown in regard to the city of Albany, Georgia, trying to desegregate.

00:35:10.780 Of course, eventually it did.

00:35:12.440 But my name is King.

00:35:14.300 And I'll never forget, I was going through the Martin Luther King Civil Rights Museum in Atlanta.

00:35:21.420 There's this room with the carriage that carried his casket through town.

00:35:26.020 And there are newspaper headlines all over.

00:35:30.020 You know, he's like one of the most famous people in the world.

00:35:32.440 And one caught me, April 20th of 1968, the Pittsburgh Courier, it said, will a new king emerge?

00:35:38.660 And that's where you see all of my handles say, new emerging king.

00:35:44.320 That's fantastic.

00:35:45.260 That's where I get that from.

00:35:46.060 That's fantastic.

00:35:46.760 You posted a video, Very Vulnerable, where you talked about an experience with a white guy who wanted to help you.

00:35:57.860 Tell that story.

00:36:00.200 So back when I first started the organization, you know, I told you I was only working with black children because that's what I believed in at the time.

00:36:06.760 I was like, well, black kids need, you know, better and white people trying to hurt them, whatever like that.

00:36:10.640 You know, I'll never forget.

00:36:11.460 He helped me, you know, get a building for one of the events that I was doing or whatever.

00:36:15.380 And he also tried to sponsor the field trip.

00:36:19.340 He was just like, well, it's cool.

00:36:20.040 You can do it for black kids, whatever.

00:36:20.960 You know, there's no problem with that.

00:36:21.980 He was like, I just want to help.

00:36:23.500 And so he asked, could his son come?

00:36:25.760 His son, we were the same age.

00:36:28.100 I think he was a little younger than me.

00:36:29.080 He was asking, could he come chaperone?

00:36:30.120 I told him no, because his son was white.

00:36:31.720 I was like, he can't come.

00:36:32.440 I'm just like, this is a trip for black kids.

00:36:33.860 And he, you know, he didn't really like get crazy upset about it.

00:36:37.320 But we just kind of like lost contact.

00:36:40.180 Maybe I think five, five years later, six years later.

00:36:44.040 I had been thinking about that for a while.

00:36:45.840 And I found his number again.

00:36:47.300 And we recorded the phone call, actually.

00:36:49.020 We had the phone call.

00:36:49.880 And he said he actually forgot about it.

00:36:51.200 He's like, I don't even remember that.

00:36:52.040 He was like, but I just, the thought for you to call and apologize is crazy.

00:36:55.720 Because I called and apologized to him.

00:36:56.780 And of course, people got mad at me.

00:36:58.000 They were like, what you apologizing to the white man for?

00:36:59.740 And blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:37:00.240 You know, just stupid stuff.

00:37:01.380 I was just like, that was on my conscience for a long time.

00:37:03.300 Because all he was doing was trying to help.

00:37:05.160 And to think of how immature, you know, the mind was at that time.

00:37:10.220 It's grown adults that still think like that.

00:37:12.520 You know, and it's insane.

00:37:14.120 But I've grown so much to realize that, you know, we all are having some of the same issue

00:37:18.500 with the government.

00:37:19.700 Once, you know, we realize that we're all having some of the same issues.

00:37:22.900 Like, kind of, for example, like the January 6th thing.

00:37:25.400 Black people like to bring this up.

00:37:26.380 They're like, oh, January 6th, if black people were there, we would have died.

00:37:29.020 And they would have dropped bombs on us and blah, blah, blah.

00:37:31.700 I said, let me tell y'all something.

00:37:33.680 I said, you guys have been crying about police brutality, et cetera.

00:37:37.580 Grant, some bad things have happened and some haven't.

00:37:39.760 But we've been crying about police brutality.

00:37:41.340 And all this stuff happening to black people so bad.

00:37:43.780 Why weren't y'all out there with them?

00:37:45.320 Don't y'all got issues with them, too?

00:37:46.900 Y'all shit about their voicing y'all opinions about what was going on with your stuff.

00:37:50.760 I think they believed in their cause enough to go die for it.

00:37:54.400 I think that all of our rappers, all of our, we got the guns and we're going to go shoot

00:37:59.380 your mama and this and that and whatever, y'all full of cap.

00:38:01.940 And cap means you're a liar, you know, in our generation.

00:38:05.720 But y'all full of cap.

00:38:06.500 The reason y'all full of cap is because y'all got all this smoke for your own community.

00:38:10.260 You ain't got no smoke for the white man that you swear is out there hurting you so bad.

00:38:14.160 You mad at January 6th for going to protest something they believed in.

00:38:17.520 Where were you?

00:38:18.940 Oh, my bad.

00:38:19.640 Y'all was out destroying your own community.

00:38:21.340 You was out there destroying black businesses.

00:38:23.040 You was out there making sure black people didn't have their restaurants.

00:38:25.620 You was out there burning down your own community.

00:38:27.480 They were at the Capitol where stuff actually happens at.

00:38:29.860 Nothing happens in your hometown.

00:38:32.000 That's what a major legislation is going to pass.

00:38:34.080 Why weren't y'all there?

00:38:35.360 Y'all should have grouped up everybody and came with the January 6th.

00:38:37.960 No, we here, too, because we got issues, too.

00:38:39.580 And I don't get it.

00:38:43.020 I'm just like, what's wrong with them?

00:38:44.560 That's how America was born.

00:38:46.160 It was born off of protests.

00:38:49.120 Yes.

00:38:49.580 So I'm not mad at them for going to talk about what they believed in.

00:38:52.260 Go overtake the cap.

00:38:53.180 Fine.

00:38:53.620 Do it.

00:38:54.540 That's what you guys should have been doing.

00:38:55.600 Die or not.

00:38:56.400 If you believe in it enough, go die for it.

00:38:59.500 Stop capping.

00:38:59.920 There's a lot to unpack there, and I'm not even going to get into it, because I know I agree with your sentiment.

00:39:10.400 That's going to go viral.

00:39:11.960 Yeah, it is.

00:39:13.700 But, I mean, I don't like violence in any way, shape, or form.

00:39:21.720 But, you know, to be willing to do what King did, and, I mean, I know his niece, Alveda, quite well.

00:39:31.460 Oh, everybody.

00:39:31.920 We love her.

00:39:32.480 I love her.

00:39:33.060 We love her.

00:39:33.720 Absolutely.

00:39:34.780 And, you know, she talks about how, you know, she was just helping, I think, her sister or her cousin get up, because she was being beaten down.

00:39:44.580 Yeah.

00:39:45.060 And her dad left her in jail.

00:39:46.540 I mean, she did the right thing, except King said, don't do that.

00:39:52.500 Don't.

00:39:53.060 Just let them do it.

00:39:55.060 That's hard.

00:39:56.320 It is.

00:39:56.980 That's hard.

00:39:57.460 And for people who like to walk around calling Dr. King docile, it's crazy, because he was so smart at what he was doing.

00:40:05.320 Oh, yeah.

00:40:05.760 He made America look like.

00:40:07.540 He was Gandhi.

00:40:08.680 He was Jesus.

00:40:09.200 He made America look like they were the most trash.

00:40:12.260 You're supposed to be the superpower, the head of the world.

00:40:16.120 And y'all doing that to y'all low-class citizens, that was the idea.

00:40:20.140 I'm like, do you know how much balls it takes for somebody to call you and be like, hey, y'all coming to my hometown tomorrow?

00:40:24.560 Yeah, well, we're going to kick your ass.

00:40:26.540 And he's like, okay, cool.

00:40:27.540 We'll be there.

00:40:28.500 We'll be there for our ass kicking every single day.

00:40:30.660 I think that takes more balls than going to fight.

00:40:32.460 Oh, yeah, it does.

00:40:33.220 It does.

00:40:33.860 And, again, it was strategy that they had.

00:40:36.240 And it was intelligent.

00:40:37.220 It was smart from when they would throw coffee on them, whatever.

00:40:39.900 Granted, now, I ain't got the gall for that.

00:40:43.780 I just don't.

00:40:44.400 I think if I was back in the day, they probably would have hung me way sooner because I just don't have the attitude for that stuff.

00:40:50.980 But they were intelligent.

00:40:52.120 They knew what they were doing.

00:40:53.240 And they got what they wanted to pass.

00:40:54.920 Granted, they say, the Bible says, blessed are the peacemakers.

00:40:58.260 That doesn't mean you're a wuss.

00:41:04.220 It doesn't mean you don't stand up.

00:41:06.520 It means you are standing and taking the beating or whatever it is so others can have peace.

00:41:15.280 You may not get peace.

00:41:16.880 Was it Paul?

00:41:18.320 I called Paul.

00:41:19.280 Was it Paul that was the gangster cutting people's ears off?

00:41:21.200 Yeah.

00:41:21.700 Oh, yeah.

00:41:22.000 Paul didn't play no games.

00:41:22.960 No.

00:41:23.260 You had anything to talk about, some side way to say he was ready to fight.

00:41:26.540 Why, though?

00:41:27.260 Because he believed in Jesus that much or whatever.

00:41:29.780 So, at the end of the day, we believe in peace and we believe in prosperity and all that stuff.

00:41:36.240 But there comes a time where violence has to happen.

00:41:40.180 There has never been a time in history where violence didn't have to happen.

00:41:43.920 Even the scriptures from real life.

00:41:46.360 Do you think we live in those times that violence has to happen?

00:41:51.080 Unfortunately, I think now that even though violence is still happening,

00:41:55.780 I think now they have our minds to the point where they can control whether we do the violence or not.

00:42:00.540 I think nobody paid attention to the Twitter files for real.

00:42:03.580 The Twitter files, Elon was showing you guys, this is how they controlled your minds the entire couple of years.

00:42:10.880 We looked at the Twitter files for a bit.

00:42:12.720 But I'm like, no, we should have done a really deep dive because they effectively controlled everyone's minds.

00:42:20.560 What you believed in, what you thought, how to put stuff in your algorithm, et cetera, to make you want to go protest.

00:42:25.360 It was crazy.

00:42:27.220 I read a book 20 years ago about these times and it was a futurist who said,

00:42:33.280 there will be no freedom of choice or freedom of will anymore because you won't know

00:42:40.600 whether that was your idea or something implanted in you because the algorithms will be so slick and we are there.

00:42:49.080 And again, the true white supremacy, again, is further believing that you're not able to accomplish anything more than white people are.

00:42:56.620 I think that's beyond white supremacy.

00:42:59.300 I just think that's evil.

00:43:00.420 It is.

00:43:00.820 But did you see this big paper they made about whiteness?

00:43:06.600 And it was basically saying everything that was good was, it was basically because it was all white people.

00:43:12.980 Like showing up on time is a white culture thing.

00:43:16.000 And taking care of your kids and a nuclear family is a white culture thing.

00:43:18.880 That's just a good thing.

00:43:20.060 I'm just like, so you guys think that we're baboons or something like that?

00:43:23.200 Like, well, we're just not capable of doing anything right?

00:43:25.220 Anything right?

00:43:25.840 You're like, oh, it's whiteness.

00:43:26.780 It's white culture.

00:43:27.440 I'm just like, you don't realize what that's doing to your mind.

00:43:30.380 It's cooking you because you're never going to feel like you're able to accomplish anything outside of white people.

00:43:35.340 Or they're the only ones able to accomplish the most or the greatness.

00:43:38.860 And I'm just like, I serve as an example, you know, that I didn't, you know, I didn't allow nothing to stop me to do what I'm doing.

00:43:45.200 It's not an easy task.

00:43:46.100 I'm not just doing something simple.

00:43:47.400 We're doing something hard.

00:43:48.500 But those are the only things that really have reward.

00:43:54.020 Yeah.

00:43:54.400 Are the things that you struggle for and the things that are hard.

00:43:57.820 But nobody wants to work anymore.

00:43:59.120 That's where we are now.

00:44:01.480 I know everybody wants to get rich quick, to make the money, but not actually do anything.

00:44:06.360 And I'm just like, I'm sorry.

00:44:07.300 But for a long time, you are going to have to bust your balls and do work.

00:44:11.820 And I see even, you know, even my kids, you know, at one point, I want to be an influencer.

00:44:17.340 What the hell is that?

00:44:18.880 Even that requires work.

00:44:20.360 But, you know, a lot of influencers are like this and then gone.

00:44:27.720 The brand doesn't come first.

00:44:31.480 Yep.

00:44:31.780 It's who you are and what you're producing that becomes the brand.

00:44:37.420 Yep.

00:44:37.600 It's not the other way around.

00:44:39.200 People don't realize that influencer lifestyle, it is busy.

00:44:41.880 It is tiring.

00:44:43.240 Like you're having to broadcast your whole life every single day.

00:44:46.720 It can get annoying.

00:44:48.280 Like even just what we're doing with the kids.

00:44:50.460 Like, yeah, we have to record most stuff we do.

00:44:51.940 I have my videographer with me.

00:44:53.520 But it gets a little tiring sometimes, man.

00:44:54.940 You're having to think of content all the time.

00:44:56.740 And what's going on right now?

00:44:58.000 And like you're almost like a journalist almost, you know, commenting on everything.

00:45:00.600 And you got to start your podcast now and all this stuff.

00:45:03.000 But all this makes money.

00:45:03.940 But nobody wants to start in the nitty gritty part of it.

00:45:06.260 Nobody wants to start with 10 views a day and 20 views a day.

00:45:09.700 They don't want to work toward the success.

00:45:12.080 I'm like all these podcasts, all these influencers, all these streamers, they started off with nothing.

00:45:15.960 And they decided to work for the rest of it.

00:45:18.040 What's amazing to me is that when you first came in, your videographer is here.

00:45:24.280 As you said, I don't know any of that stuff.

00:45:27.040 And I'm kind of the same way.

00:45:27.920 I do my gig and somebody else does, you know, that.

00:45:32.660 This isn't, this is not about you getting famous or, you know, getting the furthest thing from.

00:45:40.240 To raise money, didn't you, like, walk?

00:45:44.200 Yes, I walked 200 miles to the city of Atlanta from Albany.

00:45:47.020 Yes.

00:45:47.820 And he was, the videographer was there with me the entire time.

00:45:50.620 It was just me and him.

00:45:51.640 So when I would walk, he would drive the truck maybe up a mile or two.

00:45:55.220 He would get out the truck.

00:45:56.400 He would record me walking all the way to where I was going.

00:45:58.340 I had a mic on.

00:45:59.340 He would record me all the way to where I was going.

00:46:00.840 I'd, you know, do a spot where I was.

00:46:02.500 He'd get in the truck, edit videos, post videos.

00:46:05.100 Then he'd drive down further.

00:46:06.280 So he was putting his life on the line as well because we're walking on the highway.

00:46:08.860 Like, we're not walking on no back streets.

00:46:10.540 We're walking on a major highway to raise his money for these kids.

00:46:13.820 Like, we just have to do something, you know, crazy because this is how much it means to us.

00:46:18.300 Like, yeah, we have to do something to get publicity.

00:46:21.140 We have to do something to get some attention.

00:46:22.380 What were you paying for at the time?

00:46:23.900 What were you trying to raise money?

00:46:25.260 We were trying to raise money just in general for our general fund.

00:46:27.860 We do a big fundraiser once a year just in general.

00:46:30.640 Like, not for anything specific, but just to raise the money for our next year.

00:46:34.360 So that's what we were trying to do.

00:46:35.560 It was around my birthday.

00:46:37.000 We did our gala on my birthday also, July 26th.

00:46:39.760 So I turned 25 and we were raising that money.

00:46:42.460 And that walk was strenuous.

00:46:44.180 The first day was probably the worst because it was about 30-something miles.

00:46:46.800 I had to walk down our first street to even get to the highway.

00:46:50.140 My toes were purple.

00:46:51.820 My toes, like, took a while to recover too.

00:46:53.960 Like, it took a couple months for my toes to get back to normal color.

00:46:56.680 It's crazy when you think about how people walked across the country.

00:47:00.120 Yes.

00:47:00.460 You're like, and we have it hard.

00:47:02.700 Yeah.

00:47:03.100 We get in the car and having to drive, having to drive across the mountains.

00:47:08.100 Yep.

00:47:08.460 You're like, oh my gosh, it's been forever.

00:47:10.560 And people have to walk.

00:47:11.520 Walk it.

00:47:12.120 People have to walk.

00:47:12.920 Yeah.

00:47:13.320 Crazy.

00:47:13.960 Yeah.

00:47:14.160 So again, I don't allow that whole, you know, I'm going through so much stuff.

00:47:18.140 I'm like, if somebody's got it way worse than you do.

00:47:20.000 I just got back from Africa in August.

00:47:22.300 And when I was in Africa, I'd never been there before.

00:47:26.300 And the trip that we took, it was maybe.

00:47:28.440 Where'd you go in Africa?

00:47:29.340 Went to Asaba, Nigeria.

00:47:30.620 Okay.

00:47:30.860 And when we went there, it was like a culture shock, but we went there on a three-day notice.

00:47:37.440 I remember the group hit me a week prior and was like, can you come, well not, can you speak

00:47:43.040 on our panel virtually, you know, for our kids in Asaba, Nigeria.

00:47:46.520 But something kept saying, you got to go.

00:47:48.240 Like, go.

00:47:48.840 I never wanted to go to Africa.

00:47:49.940 I never wanted to be there.

00:47:50.640 Never had any thoughts to go.

00:47:52.540 But something kept saying, you got to go.

00:47:54.140 And I'm just like, I don't even got time to go.

00:47:56.160 I don't got time to get shots.

00:47:57.200 I don't got time to do all this stuff.

00:47:59.200 Go.

00:47:59.760 Something just kept saying, go, go, go.

00:48:01.600 So I called them.

00:48:03.200 They reached out to me because they didn't believe it was true that I was going to try

00:48:05.260 to come.

00:48:05.700 And I was like, no, this is me.

00:48:06.700 You know, I'm going to try and make it.

00:48:08.140 So we ended up, my videographer didn't have a passport.

00:48:11.580 We had to fly to Buffalo, New York to get over to the same day passport for him.

00:48:17.000 We had to fly to Buffalo.

00:48:17.760 Then we flew back to Atlanta.

00:48:19.880 And then we had to get all these different visas to even go within 24 hours.

00:48:23.920 So what I said, well, I said, listen, if something happens here and if we're not able to

00:48:29.080 do anything, then we're not meant to go.

00:48:30.760 If something happens, if the visas don't get passed, if the passport stuff mess, everything

00:48:34.400 went flawlessly.

00:48:35.720 We got the visas.

00:48:36.440 We got the passport.

00:48:37.040 I'm like, oh, God.

00:48:37.660 I was hoping something went wrong.

00:48:38.960 I'm just like, I do not want to go.

00:48:40.480 I don't want to go.

00:48:41.280 I was scared.

00:48:41.800 I was just like, I want to go there.

00:48:42.860 Like, it's a do not travel advisory.

00:48:44.780 Like, it's crazy.

00:48:46.500 You know, so.

00:48:47.080 It's dangerous.

00:48:47.580 It's dangerous.

00:48:47.980 So we went and I just got videos on my phone.

00:48:52.160 I'm like, I'm two, three year old kids like out trying to sell, like literally two and

00:48:56.640 three years.

00:48:57.020 I couldn't even imagine my son trying to sell something on the side of the road.

00:48:59.780 Like I couldn't even fathom that.

00:49:01.900 I'm like, their brain ain't even ready for that.

00:49:03.640 You know, and they out here trying to sell stuff to make money.

00:49:05.600 They haven't seen their parents in a week or two because their parents are working and

00:49:08.280 they don't see their parents at all.

00:49:09.520 Like they may come back.

00:49:10.540 They just out fending for themselves.

00:49:11.700 I'm like, where'd they shower?

00:49:12.560 They're like, where are they bathing?

00:49:13.180 It's just like, if they bathe, they bathe wherever they are.

00:49:15.760 You know, I'm just like, that is insane.

00:49:17.060 No food.

00:49:18.320 I mean, the roads are shit, to be frank.

00:49:21.240 I mean, it was crazy.

00:49:23.180 And I was, it, I hate to say it removed some empathy for me from coming back home.

00:49:28.900 But I'm just like, bro, we got everything.

00:49:30.820 Oh, we are spoiled brats.

00:49:32.280 I was grateful to just go get some water, like from the refrigerator because it wasn't

00:49:36.320 any of that.

00:49:36.980 Or to go get something different to eat because we had to eat the same thing almost every

00:49:39.600 single day.

00:49:40.360 Like I'm just, it took me a second to even be home because I'm just like, man, like that

00:49:46.320 was crazy.

00:49:46.900 And they lived that.

00:49:48.100 And all their dreams were to do what?

00:49:49.760 To get to America.

00:49:50.620 Every last one.

00:49:51.760 All them like, what are your dreams?

00:49:52.640 We just want to go to America.

00:49:53.720 We want to, we trying to work hard and be smart and all this stuff to come to America.

00:49:57.700 They so well read, so intelligent, so articulate.

00:49:59.880 And I'm just like, our kids got it all.

00:50:03.340 And we trying to convince our kids that somebody else is the reason that they are failing.

00:50:08.600 No, it's not.

00:50:09.760 It's our fault.

00:50:11.240 It's our fault.

00:50:12.100 You sound very much like Booker T.

00:50:13.720 Washington.

00:50:14.280 Love him.

00:50:14.940 I do too.

00:50:15.800 Yep.

00:50:16.240 Not a fan of what his school has become now, but.

00:50:18.360 Yeah.

00:50:18.700 But he would, I mean, if, if, if he would have lived a little bit longer, I think things

00:50:23.760 would have been different.

00:50:24.680 He was a remarkable man.

00:50:26.400 I can't beat Up From Slavery, man.

00:50:28.600 Yeah, no, it's best.

00:50:29.740 It's the best.

00:50:30.380 Just reading his, his work is, is crazy because I'm just like, man, this is a former slave.

00:50:34.560 Do you know that they're now saying, because next door we have a museum of all kinds of

00:50:40.180 stuff.

00:50:40.600 Sure.

00:50:42.000 We have his original Up From Slavery, but we also have the new edition that now says this

00:50:47.840 is a work of fiction.

00:50:49.260 They're claiming that none of that's true.

00:50:52.100 Really?

00:50:52.620 Yeah.

00:50:52.900 Wow.

00:50:53.260 Trying to erase him.

00:50:54.320 And I think he's one of the most important black, certainly one of the most important

00:50:58.320 black people of the 20th century.

00:50:59.900 I agree.

00:51:00.460 I mean, he was, he was remarkable.

00:51:02.020 Yeah, I agree.

00:51:02.940 So Generation Z is, I'm not familiar, I don't know if you're familiar with the fourth turning.

00:51:08.540 Have you heard of that?

00:51:09.260 No.

00:51:10.120 It's a, long story short, it's just about generational patterns that go all the way back.

00:51:15.820 And it's a 80, 90 year pattern.

00:51:19.360 Sure.

00:51:19.840 And it, I think Generation Z is what is called in that theory, the hero generation.

00:51:30.340 Mm-hmm.

00:51:30.760 That it just, the hero generation, the last one was during World War I.

00:51:36.780 Mm-hmm.

00:51:37.000 They came back, they pampered their children because they didn't want their children to

00:51:41.140 see the horrors that they had already seen.

00:51:44.380 So they got everything.

00:51:45.960 Mm-hmm.

00:51:46.240 And then they got spoiled.

00:51:47.780 Mm-hmm.

00:51:48.100 And that was the 60s hippies generation.

00:51:50.760 Mm-hmm.

00:51:50.960 And then they didn't really pay attention to their kids.

00:51:54.200 And that gave you the latchkey generation.

00:51:57.420 Yep.

00:51:57.620 And now that generation is supposed to turn for the, uh, the generation Z now that's coming

00:52:05.420 up and you again are going to be the ones that everybody dismisses.

00:52:09.700 Everybody says, well, they don't know, you know, their butt from their elbow.

00:52:13.620 They're never going to be able to do it.

00:52:16.020 Just like the people said, you know, before they went into war and won World War II, nobody

00:52:23.460 had confidence in them.

00:52:25.200 Yeah.

00:52:25.280 So that's generation Z and you start a new chapter, uh, and are the new heroes for the

00:52:32.740 next hundred years.

00:52:33.980 It's the Joshua generation right after Moses.

00:52:36.380 Yes.

00:52:36.560 That's, that's what I believe in.

00:52:37.680 I think where we, where we mess up, especially as again, with the whole thing, not wanting

00:52:42.920 our kids to experience hardship.

00:52:44.660 Yes.

00:52:44.980 It is my responsibility to create hardship for my sons.

00:52:47.780 I think one of the big worst things we did was with the, with like the banks.

00:52:52.580 Why would we bail them out?

00:52:54.380 Yep.

00:52:54.520 Why would we bail them out?

00:52:56.080 There's no learning curve.

00:52:57.460 If you bail people out, there's zero learning curve.

00:53:00.500 I refuse to create an easy life for my sons.

00:53:03.340 People have chastised me, got mad at me, et cetera.

00:53:05.300 Not saying I'm overly hard on them.

00:53:07.100 Not at all.

00:53:07.860 But they don't like, you know, sometimes he may not want to do something and they're like,

00:53:10.760 oh, he don't want to do it.

00:53:11.440 I don't care if he doesn't want to do it.

00:53:12.520 He has to do it.

00:53:13.340 Good for you.

00:53:13.760 And I tell him all the time and we have this little thing.

00:53:15.600 I'm like, when do we work?

00:53:16.280 He's like, when we don't feel like it.

00:53:17.360 I'm like, exactly.

00:53:17.980 That's when we work.

00:53:18.560 It's the best time to work.

00:53:19.260 Because you're going to do your best work when you don't feel like it.

00:53:21.740 Or even right now, I got him on baseball pause.

00:53:23.700 My son is fantastic at baseball.

00:53:25.340 Bro, he's the truth at his age.

00:53:27.320 But that's because I spent a lot of time with him.

00:53:29.080 But sometimes he doesn't like to practice.

00:53:30.320 So right now, we're on a two-month hiatus from baseball.

00:53:32.780 Because I want him to see how much he sucks when he starts back.

00:53:35.060 So this month, we're starting back, you know, practicing in the gym or whatever.

00:53:38.900 I built a little gym in the garage.

00:53:41.040 And we're going to start back hitting the balls and doing ground balls.

00:53:42.840 And I want him to see how much he sucks.

00:53:44.340 Because that's your lesson.

00:53:45.860 You suck because you don't care to practice.

00:53:49.000 You have to do what people can't see.

00:53:51.140 Everybody sees you at the game.

00:53:52.200 You love being good.

00:53:52.920 You love winning all the games and getting all the trophies.

00:53:54.720 And everybody's like, oh, you're so good.

00:53:56.200 And blah, blah, blah.

00:53:56.620 You love all that.

00:53:57.500 But you don't like the practice part.

00:53:58.800 So I'm going to allow you, okay, cool.

00:54:00.220 Fine.

00:54:00.580 I won't even say nothing about it.

00:54:01.380 I'm going to wait until you ask me to go practice.

00:54:02.900 He never asked.

00:54:03.680 I said, okay, cool.

00:54:04.760 So I'm just going to sit there with him.

00:54:05.880 And when it's time to go practice again, I'm like, do you see how much you suck now?

00:54:08.660 Why?

00:54:09.020 Because you have to do the work.

00:54:10.800 Same thing with school.

00:54:11.960 He likes to draw, basketball, whatever.

00:54:13.940 He does boxing also.

00:54:15.380 You will begin to suck when you stop practicing.

00:54:18.320 You have to do those things that you don't want to do.

00:54:21.300 And, you know, for most parents, I tell them, I'm like, you know, my sons, the only thing

00:54:23.840 they don't have a choice with is self-defense.

00:54:25.720 Jiu-Jitsu and boxing, they have to do it regardless.

00:54:27.140 I don't care if they don't want to do it.

00:54:28.200 If they don't feel like doing it, that's what you're going to do.

00:54:30.560 You're going to learn how to defend yourself and learn how to control your mind because

00:54:33.660 it's controlled anger and controlled aggression that you need to learn early.

00:54:37.380 But you're only going to get that from your daddy or whatever.

00:54:39.400 So, you know, again, teaching him those things early, it's important.

00:54:43.520 Even we flew to Iowa.

00:54:45.820 When was this?

00:54:46.540 And back in June, we went to Dubuque, Iowa.

00:54:48.540 We went to Drew Richards' HIIT training with my son.

00:54:51.540 And Drew was telling my son, he's like, man, you're the best five-year-old hitter I've ever

00:54:54.080 seen in my life.

00:54:54.820 He's just like, you're just fantastic.

00:54:56.040 He's like, I've never seen nothing like it or whatever.

00:54:58.300 And he hears that and he loves it.

00:55:01.040 But then I'm just like, son, the reason you get that is because we practice.

00:55:06.240 You have forgotten about more baseball than more kids have played in their life at this

00:55:10.800 age.

00:55:11.200 Same thing with boxing.

00:55:12.540 Most kids aren't starting at four years old, five years old.

00:55:15.200 Bro, he's really good.

00:55:16.920 He sparred a 10-year-old not too long ago.

00:55:18.760 Grant, the 10-year-old won, of course.

00:55:20.260 But the shots he was able to get off at five, it's insane, especially with the height difference.

00:55:23.740 I mean, the kid's fantastic, but I spend time with my son on purpose, building the work

00:55:28.920 ethic, building that stuff up, because work ethic has to be given and taught.

00:55:32.700 If you don't teach him that by the time he turns 12, 13, you're never going to get it.

00:55:35.900 Don't care what you say.

00:55:36.700 You're never going to get that true work ethic out of him, because you're always going to

00:55:39.060 look at your child like, man, I just know he could be so much better if he put 110% in.

00:55:44.320 And I don't want to be that dad looking at my sons like, man, I just wish they would've.

00:55:47.420 I see guys all the time, celebrities, whatever, and they just got this, oh, I wish I would've

00:55:52.500 with my son, and I wish I would.

00:55:53.620 I am not going to have any I wish I would'ves with my kids.

00:55:56.300 My kids come first before everything, before the organization, before the city.

00:55:59.360 I do everything with them first.

00:56:01.180 And so my big thing for them is like, okay, how can I raise you all the best?

00:56:05.500 How can I make sure you're going to do the same thing for your kids?

00:56:08.320 Because I tell them now about their grandkids, and they're like three and four, and I'm just

00:56:11.020 like, you're going to have grandkids one day, son.

00:56:12.780 And they're going to remember all that.

00:56:14.280 He may not like being with me all the time, because I'm a little hard on him sometimes,

00:56:18.060 or he just might just want to eat ice cream today, or whatever like that.

00:56:20.680 But when he turns 17 to 18 years old, and getting scholarships, or whatever, and successful

00:56:25.160 in whatever he's doing, being a doctor, whatever, he's going to remember.

00:56:27.600 My dad made sure that I was great.

00:56:30.680 He made sure that he spent time.

00:56:32.300 He made sure, they're going to remember all of that.

00:56:34.260 And they're making core memories now.

00:56:35.940 I remember stuff from when I was three, four years old.

00:56:38.180 So I look at them, and I see myself from when I was younger, and I'm purposely creating memories

00:56:42.200 with them that are going to stick, whether they are crying or whatever.

00:56:44.920 I know some of those moments where he's crying, or upset, or the ball hit him in the face,

00:56:48.420 or whatever like that.

00:56:49.180 As long as he's not about to die, let's go.

00:56:51.900 Keep going.

00:56:52.560 It's okay.

00:56:53.100 You're going to get hit sometime.

00:56:54.020 It hurts.

00:56:54.580 Because I had to practice with him sparring for the first time, because he boxed for maybe

00:56:57.400 like a year before he first sparred.

00:56:58.720 And I got in the gym with him, and I sparred him on my knees, because he'd never been hit

00:57:04.340 in the face before.

00:57:05.360 So I had to, he had to see what it felt like, because I knew if he got hit in that face in

00:57:09.120 that ring, he was going to lose it, and just, I don't want to do this.

00:57:12.840 So I popped him.

00:57:14.420 You know, he had his headgear on, so I hit him.

00:57:16.300 And he, you're hitting too fast.

00:57:18.420 He starts crying.

00:57:19.380 I'm just like, okay, it's okay.

00:57:20.900 You can cry.

00:57:21.320 Put your hands back up, though.

00:57:22.460 And still remember everything Coach Dino has taught you the whole time.

00:57:25.380 Move your head.

00:57:26.600 Throw your punches, et cetera.

00:57:27.700 So then he started getting excited and loving it.

00:57:29.960 So the next day, when it's time to spar, he was fine.

00:57:32.880 He was ready to throw punches, ready to take punches, ready to move out the way.

00:57:36.500 But that's because I spent time preparing him for war.

00:57:39.500 That's what a dad's supposed to do.

00:57:41.200 That's what I'm supposed to do.

00:57:41.780 People might not have liked it.

00:57:42.860 Why did you tap your son like that?

00:57:44.460 I'm like, bro, he's not hurt.

00:57:45.680 I'm spending time with my son so he doesn't end up like yours.

00:57:53.420 I don't, I, it's not like, I don't even know what to say to you.

00:57:57.080 I, I, I, I, I hope I can live to be a hundred and with it so I can see you at my age.

00:58:07.780 You're one of the wisest 25 year olds I've ever met.

00:58:13.840 Granddads and uncles, man.

00:58:15.140 I still consult with them to this day.

00:58:17.420 You know, my age shows in a lot of different ways.

00:58:19.460 Don't get me wrong.

00:58:20.120 I'm definitely 25.

00:58:21.480 Yeah.

00:58:21.780 I still play video games and all that jazz.

00:58:23.760 You know, I still do stupid stuff.

00:58:25.220 You know, my mom got to fuss at me or whatever like that.

00:58:27.080 For the most part, I'm always remembering what uncles and granddad said.

00:58:30.780 My granddad came to live with us when I was about like 12 or 13 or so.

00:58:35.020 And I remember all the stuff that he was teaching at the time.

00:58:38.580 Oh, there.

00:58:39.040 And he was saying stuff to me and I didn't really recognize what he was saying at the time,

00:58:43.140 but I remember it all.

00:58:44.380 So it's just like, you know, remembering all the stuff he taught and my uncles and my grandma.

00:58:48.260 My grandma, I grew up in the church.

00:58:49.900 I played the drums my whole life.

00:58:51.260 So all I know is church stuff for the most part.

00:58:53.400 And I just want to see kids do better.

00:58:55.720 I believe our civil rights leaders made a mistake and didn't train any replacements.

00:58:59.380 And that's why we were in the condition that we're in.

00:59:01.320 Nobody trained replacements.

00:59:02.520 Nobody was trying to train that next generation.

00:59:04.880 So I believe that's important for us.

00:59:06.840 I think we, all of us, not just black, but white as well.

00:59:11.880 We lost the work ethic.

00:59:13.660 We lost the desire to educate.

00:59:17.140 I mean, if you read up from slavery, you know, he's, he's praising, you know, the education.

00:59:24.160 We have an opportunity to have something better than the president.

00:59:28.220 Absolutely.

00:59:28.680 His child had at that time.

00:59:30.740 Think of what we have available to us now.

00:59:33.420 You know, it's like the scriptures.

00:59:35.320 People died to be able to translate the scriptures in our language.

00:59:40.960 We have them on our phone and we don't even read them.

00:59:43.920 Parents for a lack of knowledge.

00:59:45.120 We don't know what we don't know.

00:59:47.400 And that's, and that's important.

00:59:49.560 So what, what difference are you seeing in the lives of the kids that you are?

00:59:57.280 Because we haven't even really talked about this.

00:59:59.800 You're, you're, you're bringing these kids along.

01:00:03.260 You're teaching them skills, teaching them how to, you know, fix an engine, do household stuff.

01:00:10.200 You're out building fences, whatever you can do with your hands.

01:00:13.820 Right.

01:00:14.400 Okay.

01:00:16.200 So you are now, if I'm not mistaken, you just bought a laundromat or you're trying to buy a laundromat?

01:00:23.660 Yeah.

01:00:23.860 We, we have a building that was gifted to us from a donor in our hometown.

01:00:28.080 We want to turn into a laundromat.

01:00:29.500 That's what we're trying to do.

01:00:30.100 So we can generate revenue for our students.

01:00:32.140 And when you say we want to run it, it'll be the kids that are running us and their parents.

01:00:40.000 Yeah.

01:00:41.180 Yeah.

01:00:41.340 It's fantastic.

01:00:42.520 Yeah.

01:00:42.860 But to your question, you're asking about the impact that I've seen.

01:00:45.960 I'm glad to answer this question.

01:00:47.440 Now I've been working with kids going on six years now.

01:00:50.620 I can only point to maybe three or four kids that truly embody everything that the Expo Boys is all about.

01:00:57.540 The reason I say that is because when I first started, I had this idea that I could, there was no child that couldn't be fixed or no child that couldn't be worked with or no child that couldn't be, you know, pushed forward.

01:01:09.400 I spent five years working with some kids and I only can point to, again, two or three kids that truly embody everything that we've taught.

01:01:19.580 The reason I say that is because I started too late with a lot of them.

01:01:23.400 We're in a generation now where maybe at your generation, kids were losing themselves at age 11 to 17.

01:01:29.540 We got kids losing themselves now at like six and seven years old, like losing themselves.

01:01:34.220 I mean, and I mean, smoking at school, having sex already, et cetera.

01:01:38.060 Oh, yeah.

01:01:38.240 At how old?

01:01:38.780 Oh, yes.

01:01:39.200 Oh, yes.

01:01:39.520 At these ages.

01:01:40.300 This is what's happening.

01:01:41.820 And so these kids are already lost at 11, 12 years old when they first get to me.

01:01:47.500 So I'm trying to undo what's already been done.

01:01:51.080 It's already, I can't, tell me how hard it is to tell a 12-year-old to stop having sex.

01:01:55.380 You can't.

01:01:56.260 It's not happening.

01:01:57.400 And so they end up with kids.

01:01:58.380 You tell them to stop smoking weed.

01:01:59.720 You can't.

01:02:00.460 No matter how cool I make this life seem, no matter how many times I teach them how to do something or Bible study, it's not happening.

01:02:08.160 That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.

01:02:09.800 It is, but I'm one of the only people that'll be honest about it because other people, they do have organizations that do the same thing that we do or at different ages, but they don't care about the actual change of the kids.

01:02:20.060 They just want it to look cool and keep getting donors.

01:02:23.340 I'm probably one of the only people to be like, look, I've been working with kids for six years, and I probably could tell you two or three that actually represent what we're doing.

01:02:28.800 But why do those two or three represent what we're doing?

01:02:31.740 Those kids were blessed in our program by their big brothers.

01:02:34.720 I only allow kids under age 11 to come if they had a big brother in the program.

01:02:39.220 And so Bryson.

01:02:40.760 So you didn't get the big brother per se, but you got the kids.

01:02:44.180 I got the little brother.

01:02:44.920 Wow.

01:02:45.300 Because they were younger.

01:02:47.460 I didn't even realize in my not directly working with them, they were paying attention to everything that I was saying, from standing up straight to making sure you tie your tie right to making sure you got a haircut, cut your fingernails, et cetera.

01:02:58.020 So one of my students, Bryson, and Jeremiah, et cetera, these kids, like I said, there's only a couple of them, and Ken Darius, there's a couple of them.

01:03:05.620 They are fantastic.

01:03:07.380 They are magnificent.

01:03:08.340 And I never truly just worked directly with them all the way.

01:03:12.020 I was working with their brothers, but they were paying attention to everything that I was teaching.

01:03:16.440 So this is why I started working younger.

01:03:18.600 I had a nine-year-old starting the program.

01:03:20.920 He gets to the program.

01:03:21.780 He loves it.

01:03:22.280 He's like, I love Mr. Ken.

01:03:23.100 I love the program.

01:03:23.940 But mama, those kids are bad, and I don't know if I can deal with it.

01:03:26.380 And so I used to have this thing where I used to try to force kids to do the program.

01:03:30.520 Like, no, you're going to sit here.

01:03:31.520 You're going to pay attention.

01:03:32.260 You're going to do it.

01:03:33.260 I don't do that anymore.

01:03:34.140 If you don't want to be here, I will send you home.

01:03:36.680 Because I have lost so many kids that when I thought about it, I've lost so many great, fantastic kids who truly needed our teaching trying to force the kids who didn't want to be there.

01:03:46.740 We've wasted so many donations, et cetera, taking kids on field trips, making sure they're doing what they're trying to go to their schools, whatever.

01:03:52.760 And we've wasted so much time and so much energy and so much money on those kids who didn't want it, who didn't want to be there.

01:03:59.620 And we lost those kids who needed it.

01:04:01.820 So this is where I took the pivot in saying, okay, I've got to work with kids way younger.

01:04:06.780 Because right now, I had an eight-year-old smoking at school and stuff like that.

01:04:11.760 Teachers called me and like, hey, can you work with this kid?

01:04:13.520 I'm like, what's going on?

01:04:13.940 He's smoking.

01:04:14.420 What?

01:04:14.860 Whoa, bro, in third grade.

01:04:16.400 Like, yeah, he's smoking in the bathroom.

01:04:17.400 Boy, if third grade, when I was growing up, if third grade was smoking, the whole society would have written that kid off as like, there's no way.

01:04:26.200 Man, this is what we're looking at.

01:04:27.640 So I'm one of the people, to be honest about what I've done in the past couple of years.

01:04:30.820 I'm just like, okay, now I pivot because now I know what I need to do.

01:04:33.680 And I have maturity now.

01:04:34.800 Also, while I'm being civically engaged now, I'm on these different boards and spending time going to our commission meetings and stuff.

01:04:41.720 Because it's because most of our kids are being affected by these things that are happening at these meetings, at these board meetings, at the school board meetings, et cetera.

01:04:49.800 These kids are being affected by it.

01:04:51.220 Before, I was just like, oh, politics, we don't need to worry about that, whatever.

01:04:54.080 Politics worry about you.

01:04:55.500 So you need to go worry about politics and see who you're voting in.

01:04:58.440 And most people, I tell them all the time, we were so hung up on voting for president.

01:05:02.060 Who's your mayor?

01:05:02.940 You don't even know.

01:05:03.980 Who's your city council member?

01:05:05.560 You don't even know.

01:05:06.540 What ward do you live in?

01:05:07.460 What district do you live in?

01:05:08.420 You don't even know.

01:05:09.120 You don't even know who to call or something's wrong or if a light's busted.

01:05:11.840 Or whatever.

01:05:12.100 You don't even know who to call.

01:05:13.240 But we were so caught up on voting for president.

01:05:15.800 President Trump ain't going to come change your streetlights.

01:05:18.000 Nor is he going to come pave your street.

01:05:19.580 Nor is he going to make sure your kids got an after-school reading program at the local gym.

01:05:23.260 Exactly right.

01:05:23.940 Your local mayor, your local city councilman, they have to listen to you.

01:05:26.820 They work for you.

01:05:27.720 And it's crazy how they work for you.

01:05:29.520 You pay them and you don't give them a job evaluation.

01:05:31.560 So that's what I have to talk to people about now.

01:05:34.060 It's like, no, you got to get involved locally.

01:05:36.240 But that sounds like work.

01:05:37.960 So they don't want to go do it.

01:05:38.780 It's easy to say, oh, our city's terrible.

01:05:40.680 We need new leadership instead of going to see what's wrong.

01:05:43.100 What is your ultimate goal?

01:05:46.080 Where do you see yourself in 25 years?

01:05:48.680 I hope to fix my hometown.

01:05:50.520 I'm not one of those people that's like, oh, I want to change the world.

01:05:53.620 No, I don't.

01:05:54.200 I want to change Albany, Georgia.

01:05:55.760 That's how you'll change the world.

01:05:57.200 Exactly.

01:05:57.560 Because some of those kids, even if they may not live in Albany or stay in Albany, I would have affected that child going to move to Louisiana and to go fix that community over there.

01:06:08.200 Or I will affect that child that's moving to Chicago when he gets his degree or whatever.

01:06:12.280 After spending so many years with me, he goes to Chicago and changes the landscape up there.

01:06:15.980 Where all of them were touched by our program and what we were doing for these kids.

01:06:20.920 So my goal is to change my hometown.

01:06:22.860 That's my dream.

01:06:23.580 That's my goal.

01:06:24.280 If I change my hometown in 20 to 25 years, maybe I'll run for something or whatever.

01:06:27.700 But my goal is to fix my hometown of Albany, Georgia.

01:06:31.160 At one point, we were the fourth poorest city in the whole country.

01:06:33.340 You know, and if you come visit our city, it's so much potential.

01:06:37.140 It is not a small city in size at all.

01:06:39.280 We have, I think it was like the eighth biggest city in the state or whatever, in surface area.

01:06:44.000 But in regards to population, it keeps going down because city morale is low and nobody knows how to show people that our city is worth believing in.

01:06:51.040 And that's what I believe I'm there to do.

01:06:53.400 We deserve leadership that spends time making sure the city is OK.

01:06:56.500 And that's what I intend to do.

01:06:58.200 So I'm going to go back to Generation Z.

01:07:00.280 What are you seeing different in this generation, in your generation?

01:07:06.200 I think the boys, this might sound strange, I think the boys are strangely more connected than the girls are.

01:07:17.600 I think the boys maybe have been so dismissed for so long that they've got to find something bigger than them and bigger than what they're being told.

01:07:30.280 And the girls, I mean, when a society, when your girls go bad, your society is flushing down the toilet because the guys have no reason to have any standards.

01:07:44.160 No standards.

01:07:44.820 And I think our generation has lost themselves because their grandparents and parents are too busy working to be able to raise them.

01:07:53.020 So, you know, again, back in the day, grandma and granddad and mom were mostly home because dad used to work or whatever like that.

01:07:59.200 And they can make ends meet.

01:08:00.600 Now that you can't make ends meet, especially in our hometown, you're working two or three jobs.

01:08:04.460 You're not able to teach your children truth.

01:08:08.320 You're not able to teach them your values.

01:08:10.520 So you're just hoping your child is paying attention at school.

01:08:13.520 You're hoping your child is at home doing the right thing.

01:08:15.660 And then mama, she's so hurt because she's just like, I'm just trying my hardest.

01:08:19.460 I'm trying to send you to these programs.

01:08:20.740 I'm trying to send you to football practice and whatever.

01:08:23.000 And you just keep falling by the wayside.

01:08:25.680 Well, for one, their phones.

01:08:27.380 I think that's the biggest destructive tool to our kids.

01:08:30.140 My son does not have one.

01:08:31.460 He won't even.

01:08:32.200 I don't do YouTube and none of that stuff.

01:08:33.780 He don't do tablets, any of that jazz.

01:08:35.280 But the kids, they lost themselves on these devices.

01:08:39.580 And it's been done purposely.

01:08:40.640 Then on top of the devices, not having to try and raise yourself.

01:08:44.980 And that's what kids are doing.

01:08:46.200 Or your siblings having to raise you because now you got older siblings in the house.

01:08:49.500 And, hey, I need you to watch your brother.

01:08:50.940 I need you to watch your sister.

01:08:51.940 Now they've become effectively the parent of the children.

01:08:54.900 And they doing what their siblings do.

01:08:56.540 And if their siblings are up to no good, they're up to no good too.

01:08:59.080 So this is the story of many of our kids in this generation.

01:09:01.720 So now for my hometown, I'm like, okay, what can I do in leadership to help bring working good jobs to our hometown where people can actually afford to live?

01:09:13.420 And not only live, but that will attract more businesses to come to our hometown because people can afford it.

01:09:19.120 Nobody's going to bring business to our hometown if people can't even afford the basic stuff that's there.

01:09:23.440 If they can't afford to even go out to eat while we bring major business here, people will look at our downtown like, oh, you can have so many cool stores here.

01:09:30.100 Yeah, but people can't afford that stuff.

01:09:31.480 They can't buy it.

01:09:32.640 Right.

01:09:32.900 So my idea was, okay, our school system has a program where they actually take parents and they teach them how to do these different skill trades.

01:09:41.380 And they get them certificates and they go work and they make good money and they're able to spend time with their kids.

01:09:44.480 They told us many of these stories.

01:09:46.140 But I'm just like, why hasn't our city done that?

01:09:49.800 Our city has many people that would love to go and work and make the money.

01:09:54.240 If the school system can do it, what's stopping city government funds from trying to train those people up?

01:09:58.220 Yes, it's an investment right now, but spend that money on those people, have them learn the trades, have them learn those skills.

01:10:05.500 For one, on one fold, you got people making money now, which means the household media income goes up.

01:10:10.360 Then on top of that, you got parents able to be home with their kids now, meaning they can discipline now.

01:10:14.860 Then on top of that, we bring an industry here because now, hey, Mr. Big Factory, man, we just trained a thousand people on how to do excavators and do nursing or whatever.

01:10:22.040 We got a thousand people ready to work in your factory right now.

01:10:23.920 We got plenty of land. Can we can we give you some land to come bring this factory so that way we could have the money for people to spend on bringing new business here?

01:10:32.740 Like it's foolproof stuff that I would think, but it's not being done because nobody's going to fuss about it.

01:10:37.480 But like I said before, you know, our city's looking for hope and leadership.

01:10:40.840 Our city, like I said, we had about 67,000 people.

01:10:44.600 Previously, it was about 71,000.

01:10:46.600 We only had about 7,000 people vote for mayor in our local election.

01:10:50.080 7,000 out of 67,000, 7,000 out of out of that many people.

01:10:55.640 They didn't even know the mayoral election was going on, but because that's because they don't care.

01:10:58.900 And it's not the people to a point.

01:11:00.980 It's also the leaders, because why aren't you making sure that people know what's going on?

01:11:05.160 They just go to the same people that vote every year and just make sure they vote them in.

01:11:08.700 Nobody else cares because nobody else even knows.

01:11:10.960 I can guarantee you, like if I go talk to 50 people in our hometown, 49 of them don't know who the mayor is.

01:11:15.720 And that's not all the way fault to the people.

01:11:18.720 That's fault of the mayor, because where are you?

01:11:21.620 Where are you?

01:11:25.140 How can people help you?

01:11:26.680 You can support our organization at thexforboys.org.

01:11:29.920 That's T-H-E-X-F-O-R-B-O-Y-S dot org.

01:11:32.740 You can go there to see everything in regards to the X for Boys.

01:11:35.440 Our photos, our videos, field trips, whatever stuff I didn't talk about today.

01:11:40.840 You can follow me on social media at New Emerging King on all platforms.

01:11:44.260 You'll be able to see some of the videos we've done.

01:11:46.220 As of late, I've been doing my own little personal videos, you know, in regards to different subject matters.

01:11:50.900 But for the most part, once we kick back off in the spring semester, you'll see more of these videos of us helping the kids.

01:11:57.240 But it's at New Emerging King on all social media and thexforboys.org.

01:12:00.700 So I have a charity called Mercury One, and we teach, we do these family things where we bring families and kids in for three days.

01:12:14.160 So we teach them American history, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

01:12:17.140 And we also do a two-week program that pretty much strips you down so you're like, I realize at 17 or 18 years old, I really don't know anything.

01:12:30.920 You don't know anything.

01:12:31.240 You know what I mean?

01:12:31.780 Yep.

01:12:32.580 And that's a really intensive program.

01:12:36.120 And we would love to host some of your kids and families, and we'd cover that.

01:12:42.500 But also, we'd like to make a $10,000 donation to you.

01:12:46.300 Thank you.

01:12:46.880 We appreciate it.

01:12:47.820 I think what you're doing is amazing.

01:12:50.060 Yes, sir.

01:12:50.520 I appreciate it.

01:12:51.240 And we definitely look forward to bringing the kids here.

01:12:53.540 We love to try and have them travel.

01:12:55.720 Some of our donors have been able to take our kids all across the country.

01:12:58.700 They've been to Utah and private jets, everything.

01:13:01.080 Yeah, because people have seen what we're doing online.

01:13:03.920 They're just like, we want to be a part.

01:13:06.020 And that's something that I believe in.

01:13:07.920 People believe in us.

01:13:09.020 And I love that.

01:13:09.640 And it's cool for the kids to see that from the city of Albany, this small town, people

01:13:14.440 know about what we're doing all over the world because of what we've done in this program.

01:13:19.000 We've put Albany on the map in so many different places.

01:13:20.940 People don't even know Albany exists until we talk about the Extra Boys program.

01:13:24.120 Or if people hear about the city of Albany, the first thing they think about is the Extra

01:13:26.760 Boys program.

01:13:27.880 So I'm just grateful, guys, that they've been able to use us as a catalyst to speak about

01:13:31.740 our hometown and showcase what we're doing because we have talent there.

01:13:34.980 We just got to showcase it.

01:13:36.260 And I think, again, if we train those replacements, we'll be able to make something happen.

01:13:39.640 I will tell you, you're one of the very few that I have met that are this young, this

01:13:47.860 talented, this smart, that I haven't felt compelled to say, stay close to the Lord because you

01:13:58.880 have temptation coming your way like nobody's.

01:14:02.700 Like you, you can't imagine, um, cause fame and fortune just destroys his battery acid for

01:14:09.200 the soul.

01:14:09.740 Yep.

01:14:10.080 The rappers say more money, more problems.

01:14:11.920 I know.

01:14:12.300 I know.

01:14:12.920 But, uh, I have to say it to you anyway.

01:14:15.480 Yep.

01:14:15.800 I just feel you're so rock solid, but, uh, don't get arrogant in your relationship with

01:14:21.420 God.

01:14:21.920 Cause you're amazing.

01:14:23.000 One thing I noticed, uh, with my life is every time something extremely great happens,

01:14:27.480 something extremely bad happens to go with me.

01:14:29.620 So usually like people always wonder, like when I have bad things happen to me, like why

01:14:33.300 I don't like just get so flustered and frustrated.

01:14:35.900 I'm just like, this extremely bad thing just happened.

01:14:38.460 So God's got something on the way.

01:14:40.240 I don't know what he's doing.

01:14:41.000 It's exactly right.

01:14:42.000 But something's about to happen.

01:14:43.280 So I usually get almost excited when something really bad happens.

01:14:45.840 I'm like, God's got something on the way or whatever.

01:14:47.800 And same thing that happened, you know, with the Elon thing.

01:14:49.960 I'm just like, okay, before that happened, I was just like, something's about to happen.

01:14:53.860 Cause I just had some really bad stuff going on in my personal life and then I wake up

01:14:57.180 in the middle of the night and Elon shared our video and we got all the support, you know,

01:14:59.980 coming from everywhere.

01:15:00.760 So then again, you know, when something great happens, something bad happens.

01:15:03.100 So I think that's God keeping me balanced.

01:15:04.940 Like, yeah.

01:15:05.540 So I love that.

01:15:06.660 But yeah, it's, you know, it's easy to get, you know, the big head, but, um, I get, I

01:15:09.740 only have the big head at home.

01:15:10.700 You know, I go in the mirror and like, yeah, these guys can't, yeah, they can't deal with

01:15:13.480 me.

01:15:13.640 I'm the, I'm the best, you know, at home, of course, you know, but when it's time to, you

01:15:17.080 know, show my face and, and, and represent God, that's what I do.

01:15:19.540 But of course, everybody's at home, you know, don't go look in the mirror and say, yeah,

01:15:22.880 I'm the guy, you know, Mr. Glenn's doing his hair in the morning.

01:15:25.360 Like, yeah, I'm Glenn Beck.

01:15:27.140 Everybody wish they were Glenn.

01:15:29.020 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:15:30.000 God bless you, man.

01:15:30.940 God bless you.

01:15:31.500 Thank you so much for having me.

01:15:38.100 Just a reminder, I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the podcast and pass this on to a friend

01:15:43.640 so it can be discovered by other people.

01:15:49.540 I'll see you next time.

The Glenn Beck Program - December 21, 2024

Ep 239 ｜ The Gen Z ‘King’ Keeping Georgia Boys Off the Streets ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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