If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Never Done Anything Worth Doing (Pt 2)

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Everybody is Bill Courtney with an army and normal folks.
And we continue now with part two of Alex's conversation
with King Randall. Right after these brief messages from our general.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sponsors, you also support supports many of the wrong word,
but you also encourage some of the moms to sometimes
they get some help with other things.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Talking about how you support some of the moms.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
So we have light Build Help program that we help
the parents with maybe other rent or the light build whatever,
And we'll do that if they're helping us out as
a parent, if your son's completing his homework, if he's
being you know, here on time, if he's doing the
right thing at home, et cetera, et cetera. If we
see you doing your best effort as a parent to
aid us in what we're trying to do, we will
help you. So if we know your light bill needs

(00:59):
to be paid or something like that, we will help you.
And not only is it just helping them with the
light bill, is also helping morale because now I'm not
worried about the light bill being paid this month, so
I can just take a moment and just spend some
time with my kid and not be upset today. People
don't realize like when you need stuff, how upset and
it's just angry you are sometime. And that does translate

(01:20):
to your kids, don't matter how if you think it
does or not. Like, for example, I'll notice if I'm
having a bad day and my son comes to me
or something, I'll notice the aggravation in my mind and
not at him, but just in general because I've had
like an interesting day and I'm like, oh, I'm just okay, son,
give me, give daddy a second, Give daddy a little bit,
go go go do something, you know, for a second,

(01:40):
to let me get myself together. But I also know
other folks don't have that type of self control to
understand that they're in a bad mood and they're going
to put it off on their kid and they shouldn't
yell at their kid right now or spank their kid,
you know, for this reason or whatever like that. And
so I can imagine single moms who got six kids,
trying to take care of them all, working three jobs
and barely still able to pay the bills, and trying
to make sure the kids got everything they need and

(02:02):
trying to make sure they eat food.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, you get upset.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
You get frustrated when all the kids are hollering and
crying and you.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Can't figure this out.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
They're and there fighting and the house ain't clean, and
just you know, and I can imagine how that translates
in that house, the yelling, the cursing, the name calling,
et cetera. Because mom don't really have anybody else she
could let.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
That off on. So who else am I going to
let it off on? The kids?

Speaker 4 (02:27):
And she may not truly want to do that, but
just that's the environment that your mind is created now.
And so if I'm able to say, hey, listen, your
child's already fed, he's already had his homework done, he's
doing fine, and he's sleepy. So when he gets home,
you're good. The last thing you gotta worry about now
is whirred kid was all day. You don't have to
worry about paying for that. The kids already ate, you

(02:48):
don't have to make sure. And we also send food
home too, so they got siblings they'll eat too, you know.
So now you're not worried about food, You're not worried
about this extra stuff. Now you're able to think about
other things, like being a cool person, you know, like yeah,
but I'm serious though, Like you could actually think about
spending time with your kid now, or maybe you know what,
we'll watch a movie to night. Kids, y'all want to
go somewhere this weekend, because now my light bill is paid,

(03:09):
and you guys are fed, and you have a free program,
and you got sit home with some underwear, sauce, and
I got lunge of detergent, this soap, and we got
some lights, all wipes and all this stuff at the house.
Now we got paper towels, we got a tissue that
they sent us home with. So now I can just
worry about other things like taking the kids out to
the movies. Like this, this is how we rebuild families,

(03:29):
and so this Voice program is not just working with
those kids. We're literally rebuilding a family structure, just in
small ways that people don't even notice. Like we have
a downtown run that I've been doing and some of
our kids' moms can participate. That one of the moms
she's lost like fifty pounds like coming to our run.
But she got on video and explained how the program
has truly helped the dynamic of her family. She was like,

(03:51):
now my three sons are eating at you know, they
eat food, they get proper care, they get reading help,
they get their homework done, the grades are going up.
I'm losing weight. I get help on my light bill,
et cetera, et cetera. She explained how this has helped
her complete family structure now. And so this is what
you know, I believe programs should be doing. It's not
just helping that kid, it's we're helping the entire family

(04:13):
structure now by helping that kid. Through helping that kid
and keeping it free. I've thought about all those different
scenarios and they actually happen like now, Like or even
if a mom isn't working, you know, after school, she
may have a break between you know, five and seven
before she has to pick up her son. She can
get us some ice cream for a second and just
take a decompressed for the day versus having to you know,

(04:36):
deal with your son hollering at you baoma boom. He
might have had a bad day blah blah blah whatever,
you know, But now she can go get her some
ice cream for a second, just sit in the car
for a bit, you know, like and just relax for
a second.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
And now she picks them up. Hey, baby, you had
a good day to day.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Like man, you know, mama had a little good day too,
you know, and like these are little things that happen.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
We're so busy worry about the big stuff and all the.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Overarching percentages and this and that, when we just want
to make sure the kids and their mom got a
smile on their face. And that's what starts changing families.
Do you ever take a break yourself or you ever
the one going to get ice cream?

Speaker 3 (05:07):
I have been lately.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
So I've decided to take an early retirement from full
community service.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
When I say that retirement of twenty six, yes.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
And when I say that and I say a retirement
from full community service, this is why I say that.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
And it's interesting that we're here in Memphis. I had
been doing a lot of.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Community activism in my hometown, Albany, Georgia, and not just
with the extra boys.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I was doing other stuff, like.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
You know, joining boards and you know, on the Planning
Commission and Historic Preservation Commission and doing all these different
things and trying to help people and whatnot, and trying
to showcase businesses.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I'm going around town, you.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Know, trying to help you know our local you know,
police department or school system, whatever, trying to help them
with marketing, trying to help them get looked at in
a better light. I'm like, look, you are combating the
local news right now. The local news does not care
about making you look good. They care about whatever you're
going to do. That's get to get them clicks, whether
it's bad or whether it's good. So let me help
you with your own marketing and try to help you
get better at it. I helped try to help them whatever.

(06:08):
Everybody still I want to do nineteen ninety six marketing,
and that's cool, whatever some of them have tried or whatever.
But I felt like I was putting a target on
my back too, because I'm building this big platform. I
was building this app for our hometown, a new app
where it was going to allow people to know what's
going on at the city hall meetings. We're going to
send people notifications about when the meetings are because nobody

(06:28):
ever comes to the meetings because people don't know about
they don't advertise the meetings well enough or whatever. So
I had this app I was creating for our hometown,
and after a while, I spent a lot of money
on that app Like I was really building this app
out and I canceled it because I was just like,
I'm really about to put a big target on my back.
Do you think these people really want folks knowing what's
going on at these meetings? Do you really think people,
these these people who are leading the city into turmoil

(06:50):
really want the citizens to know what's going on, really
want people to know what's going on. And so if
I'm behind that having reporters come to these meetings and
report which I were saying, and report this mismanagement of
funds and report all these different things, you.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Don't think they're gonna come for me. Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
And I felt like at a point because I heard
you know, you know, I'm not the most like person
in town.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Do I bother anybody, Do I do anything to anyone?

Speaker 4 (07:11):
No, But people have all these things to say about
me or whatever because I'm able to, you know, reach
across the aisle and get help from both sides or whatever.
People hate Republicans, people hate Democrats. So if I'm able
to talk to the Republicans, oh he likes Trump, Or
if I'm able to talk to Democrats, oh he's dealing
with the Democrats, blah blah blah whatever. People are too political,
And so that's how people treat me in my hometown.
So people had to stay thought they thought I was

(07:31):
running from mayor, and everybody's like, oh my god, Hee's
running from Maria, like I'm gonna drop a bomb on
the city or something like.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'm like, I'm the boogeyman, like I was here, like what.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
People having these meetings because people think you're running from
mayor and this, And then I'm like, what do y'all
think I'm coming to do?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Even if I was running from mayor, what am I
gonna do? Like?

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Am I what am I gonna make the town following
the turmoil any worse.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Than it already is?

Speaker 4 (07:50):
If anything, all y'all have ever seen me do is
help people around here. I've given hundreds of thousands of
dollars in the city of all Beeny to businesses, local nonprofits, whatever,
private and public. That's all we do in the hometown.
And so I was just like, you know what, I'm
not about to go down the route of Malcolm and Martin, etc.
And all these other activists who gave their whole lives

(08:10):
to trying to help the community. And nobody helped raise
their kids when they were done. I'm not about to
give my entire life to the city or the community
just for them to destroy me in the end. I'm
not doing that.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
You know.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
I've heard the little things people say. People just make
up things about me, people live. I've heard things I
didn't know I did. I'm like, oh, man, I did that, Jesus, I.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Didn't even know that.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
But to hear the chatter and the constant bickering about
me as if I'm doing something to hurt it's one
commissioner in all, but and she hates my guts for
no reason, Like she just goes around like I remember
this one time they were doing like some little voting
little drive to get people to vote downtown and somebody
was like, well, where's King Randall And she was like, yeah,
he don't care about voting and this. And then I'm like,

(08:52):
what do that even got to do with me? Like
it's just little stuff like that. We come and try
to showcase some of the stuff that she's doing.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
I don't want you.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Out here, I don't want your cameras out here, blah blah,
Like I mean, it's just again, you would think I've
hurt their mom, I peeding their cereal or something.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
I don't bother nobody.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
I do the same thing every day and just go
and help kids, help my own sons, and that set.
So I've decided I'm just gonna step back and just
only help the ExVoice program and only help my sons.
That's what I believe in, and I truly believe the
changes I want to see are going to happen with
those kids that we're raising. Because what I do believe
is Martin didn't training in replacements. Malcolm didn't train in
replacements either, none of megri Evers, none of those people

(09:29):
trained replacements. They were themselves. They were the idea. They
were the movement. I don't want to be the movement.
I want those thousand kids I work with to build
families and to build a better structure. People are so
focused on trying to do the overarching big change like
putting new people in positions and all that and this
and that.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
None of that's gonna work. You're gonna change Democrats and Republicans.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Every two days and or every four years or whatever
like that, and nothing's ever gonna actually change. The only
changes you're going to want to see and truly see,
are changes in the family strugg Sure, when you put
those kids in homes and have them create families and
happy families, and teach them how.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
To make real money and legal money.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Et cetera. That's how you start to change your cities.
It's not in the policies, it's not in the new politicians.
Half of them don't know what they're talking about anyway,
you know. So it's all about trying to change the
structure of the mindsets of those kids and the families
and the replacements that we're going to have, because if
nobody's training these replacements and all y'all worried about is
Donald Trump and worried about the Democrats and worried about

(10:30):
whoever is in office, you gonna lose yourself. You're gonna
lose what's most important in our hometowns. Because we've had
about four different presidents in my lifetime, i believe, and.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
All these look the same the whole time.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
We've changed Democrats and the governorship, like the governorship of Georgia,
who's the governor, Democrats, Republic whatever, the state looks the
same in my opinion. We've changed mayors and all been
in three four times. City still looks the same. We've
changed commissioners, city still looks the same because nobody's actually
actively working with those replacements on a level that they
need to be worked on. Like the reading scores in

(11:03):
our hometown absolutely abysmal. You expect these kids terrible?

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Do you know what it is? Though? I can't remember
the number?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Well, speaking of, I'm gonna look it up on you talk.
But tell me about that with your original boys, when
the first set of I think twenty kids you're working with, yes,
how many of them could read?

Speaker 4 (11:20):
So the students that I first worked with in the program,
I'll never forget it. We were doing reading with them,
and I'm listening to them read, and I'm sitting here like,
are y'all for real? Like I'm thinking of somebody playing
with me. I'm thinking the kids are like, you know,
playing or something. I'm just like, so, this is you

(11:41):
guys reading. I had one kid who couldn't read it all.
He couldn't even read cat Dog. He's in sixth grade.
And I'm like, how are your son? How are you
in sixth grade?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
And you can't read? Son? Like?

Speaker 4 (11:48):
And that's that's where the school idea came from at
that time. But in particular, I didn't know those kids
couldn't read, and so I maybe had like two or
three kids that could just read fluently. The rest of them,
I mean, even in high school, sounded like they were
reading like kindergarteners. Like my son has read better than
most of those kids. I mean, it's absolutely insane. He
isn't even seven yet.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
So were you able to get all those kids to
be proficient in reading?

Speaker 3 (12:11):
No, I wasn't able to get like all proficient proficient.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
So I started a book club after the summer program,
and that's when we developed the eighty six percent reading
comprehension rate because we actually were teaching those kids how
to read. I started a book club on this lady
in our hometown. Her name is Lisa Knox. She had
this business called quick Copy. She would like do printing
and stuff like that, and thank God for her, she
would allow us to use her shop two days a
week to teach the kids how to read, and so

(12:34):
we would come there. We have so many kids come
to book club, and we would have other men in
the community come and I'll teach them vocabulary words, how
to use the vocabulary words, et cetera, how to use
them in a sentence, and we pick them out from
different books that we were reading, and as we were reading,
they were becoming more proficient. You just have to read
often to become proficient in it.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
So the proficiency rating in your county is twenty two percent.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Absolutely abysmal, and I think our school system is doing
a fantastic job. I will say that our school system
is doing their best. In my opinion, they are having
to step up in so many ways because of how
poor the town is. Because people look listen to the
listener and like, oh, the schools just needs to be
doing better. I'm like, but I don't think you understand
what it is that they're doing. They have wrap around

(13:19):
support services at school, so for when all the kids
get free lunch, all the kids get free lunch. They
also have wrap around support services where they offer free dental,
they offer free vision, they have free health clinics at
the school, so these kids are getting glasses, et cetera,
you know, and stuff for free. They're getting health visits
for free. They're getting Dennis visits for free.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Schools.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
That's not their responsibility in my opinion. Why isn't the
city offering something like that? Why does the school system
have to do Why do they have to keep applying
for grants to try and and and get figure out?
You know why the kids are coming to first grade
not potty trained? Like why are they having to do that?

Speaker 3 (13:52):
As their neighborhood not?

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Why is but it's Oh, the school system so bad.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
The superintendent needs to be doing better.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
All this nice to be one of those people until
I got inside and understood what was actually happening and
what it is that they were doing. But on the
back end, that's what I was telling the superintendent. Hey,
you guys got to learn how to market. You have
to market yourself because you are doing the greatest job
that I've ever seen, you know, a school system do,
and you're doing it in one of the poorest cities
in the country, and you're trying and you're making They

(14:22):
even got programs where it's called on level up.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
They have a level up program where the parents.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Of the kids that go to dcsays if they don't
have jobs or certifications or to graduate like the plumbas
or something like that. They have a nursing program. They
have heavy machinery et cetera. They will get these parents' jobs,
and if they don't have care for their kids, they
also offer free daycare for the kids and they will
pick them up for you while you go attend classes
to get you a degree or diploma or certificate or whatever,

(14:50):
so you can have a liverpoo wayge job.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Now you're able to parents your kid.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
And so they've had these stories before where a dad
was working two or three jobs he never saw as kids.
Now he has a heavy machinery license and he can
work a regular time job where he makes real money.
Now he can spend time with his kids. These are
stories you should be telling. And this is also stuff
that people in our hometown just don't know. And so
it's always, oh, the school system. This is a school
system that, because they listening to our local news media,
run their mouth about all the bad stuff that's happening

(15:14):
instead of spending time doing a story about the rapper,
runs around support services that the school system's doing.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
What happened to us? Like what are you doing about it? Right?
And see?

Speaker 4 (15:22):
And what happens is it requires actual work by our
reporters and news media to actually have to go and
find those good stories because think about me. For example,
they were like, all, your platform is big, so is there.
They're reaching hundreds of thousands of people around the community
if you took the time and tried to do a
true good story. Because we take the time and do it.
It's only me and my videographer. It's literally just us

(15:43):
two and we will sit down and think about how
do we plan this.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Story out where people love it.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Like for example, our run that took over our hometown
and the local region. It was the biggest movement that
happened last year, like I'm talking about in the region
in the last fifty years. We had a thousand people
downtown running and praying, like just off of social media.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
The news media wouldn't cover it.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
We had local people coming to cover you know, the
story or whatever like that, and so as they were
covering the story, people were like, well, where's the news all.
We weren't able to get off the desk. But we
did do a story on it. They did a story
on it for us, and I did a zoomer interview
with them, you know about it or whatever. They did
a brief story on it, but I was trying to
get them to come, like to the run. I'm like, listen,

(16:24):
I'm like, there are a thousand people downtown right now
praying and running for their health because we live in
a town where we're losing three people a day to
preventable health issues and not we talk about the shootings
all day, but there are people dying. We lose a
thousand people a year to preventable health issues in our hometown.
We're losing a single digit per year to death. Not
people moving. Because at first people are oh, the populations
dropping all me because people are leaving. No, they're leaving

(16:47):
this earth. That's what's happening because they're dying because of
health issues. And so this is why we started to
run Ordeal, and people to this day are still doing
it every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
At five am. And this was crazy. At five am.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
We had people running five am, five ero.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Listen.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
I started this run at five am Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturday.
Is the first run that I ever did. We had
twelve people show up. I posted that video online. I said, listen,
y'all come show up. Me and my videographer, no special team, nothing,
Me and my videographer, and we were like, okay, let's
plan out the shots. Let's plan out how we're gonna
post it.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Boom.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
The next run, sixty people show up. The next run,
two hundred people came out. The next run, four hundred
people were there. The next run, six hundred people were there.
The next run, a thousand people were there. And we
had this mass day of prayer before school started, and
we prayed in front of the school system. I mean,
there were one thousand people there and I'm like, you
guys don't want to cover this. They're like, oh, we
couldn't get off the desk because it's a loud shot.

(17:41):
Asked me the one morning that they came out to
cover the run, asked me about it. Which day was
it they came to day that they listen to me,
They came to cover the run the day that somebody
got killed three hours.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Before we post come out here.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Oh man, you know what I did as soon as
they brought the cameras over there, like it didn't even happen. Yeah,
So we got four hundred people out here about to
run for their health in this community.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
We pray for the victim's family.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Anyway, we got four hundred people out here for their
health because we got positive stuff happening here in Albany.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
They brought me into the newsroom and talk about it again.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
I came in there to talk about all the positive
things that were happening in the city, and everybody applauded it.
People were messaging me like, that's how you spin it,
that's how you tell the story of our hometown.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Because we're not worried about the two people that this involved.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
We have four hundred people out here for their health
right now, and you don't want to tell that story,
like that's not enough for you, that's not enough cliques. Meanwhile,
it's getting thousands of lights and thousands of views on
our pages, so we know it ain't about to click
no more because it's going to get you clicks guaranteed.
It's the biggest story in Southwest Georgia right now. We
have sixteen other cities that have joined us in their towns,
so we're not talking about just our town. We had

(18:48):
two hundred people in adel and three hundred people in
this town, and sixty people in Tifton, and they're still
doing their runs to this day.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
What are these runs called the called we are the
traffic were the traffic We call it we are the
traffic because at five am, there's no cars on the road.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
We run.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
We run in the middle of the street. We run
in the middle of the street, yep. And so we
run the middle of the street. And literally we called
it we are the traffic because it just came out
the first day, out of the video and I was
just like, well, we got plenty of space to run
because there is no traffic, because we are the traffic.
And then it just stuck like we Nope, they never

(19:41):
mad see the permit because they didn't want to.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
You know why.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
I'm glad it didn't bother us though, because we weren't
bothering anybody. There was nobody to call them me to complaint.
We're not stopping any traffic. And if we were stopping traffic,
we have road guards. So there are a few cars
that come here and there or whatever, and so we
have road guards with flashing stop signs. And what we'll
do is we'll have our runners stop and we'll let
the cars go by. They'll blow their horns and you
know whatever like that, you know, just like saying hey
guys or whatever, and they'll keep they'll we'll keep running.

(20:06):
You know, so if we ever have traffic that needs
to stop, we have stop signs. And that's been the
biggest movement that's happened in our hometown in years. I
mean people were all over town talking about it. I
mean it was the biggest thing ever. Even to this day,
people just like, hey, you.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Guys still run.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
I need to come out there and get my health together.
I mean, and to see, just to be honest with you,
to see like morbidly obese people who like they've never
exercised in their life out there trying. I mean, I've
seen people just massive, just trying.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
And that's what matter.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
That's what hit us in the heart light, to see
people really trying. Like I got people from the hood
coming out. We got people the lawyers out there, we
got the doctors out there, we got all different types
of people. And you want to know something, we have
this big race issue in our hometown. And I just
really think the race issue is all on social media.
I've never seen in person. No racism in all Bennie.
In my opinion, they'll get mad when they see this.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
I don't care. But the run exposed something about all Beanie.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
That was so powerful because if you look at the
news media, they'll sell all racism and black and white,
et cetera, and all this jazz is happening.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Right, we get to the run.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
You have older white women out there, you have the
regular black guys. You have we have the Polynesians or
out there, they have a gym club. You had the
Chinese people out because the ones that like own the
gas station is something.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
They were there.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Listen, everybody was there, and I'm talking about every race.
And to see nobody's out there talking politics. Nobody's out
there doing that stuff. Everybody's interacting with each other and
spending time with nerves.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
So this is what we did. We did a survey.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
We had everybody do cure do a survey, and we said,
have you interacted with people of other races or other
you know, backgrounds while you've been here.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Ninety percent of people say yes.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
We said, have has this run changed how you feel
about people from other races and other backgrounds? Sixty percent
of those people say yes, because you've had a chance
to interact.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
With these people. Now.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
So this older white lady who's never interacted with young
black guys before, these young black guys with dreads, they
are out running with Miss Sue every day, and Miss
Sue is giving them encouragement. She's like, Oh, these guys
aren't bad, and they're like, oh, all white people aren't racist.
Because Missus brought up some gatorade from Tuesday or whatever
we saw Tuesday, and she brought us some cookies this week.
Like I was watching all those interactions, friends that were made,

(22:16):
like families that were brought together. We had this one
crew come out, this granddaughter came, the mom came, the
mom and the mom's mom came and we took a
picture with them. We had our oldest runner was like
ninety six, as an older white lady. She was out
there and we had a blast with her. But to
see all these people interacting with each other, that was all, Bennie,
not what you're seeing on TV. These people aren't sharing

(22:37):
stuff on social media, they aren't doing all the jazz.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
These are real people in all, Bennie. These are regular people.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Even I had God, to be honest, I had gouds
come out there with their guns and stuff like that
because they were scared. Had guys from the hood, you know.
I told him, I said, come here, come here, I
see you guns. Go put them in my truck. I said,
go put them in my truck and we'll hold them
until it's not for you to go.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
You don't need it out here.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Everything straight, the police come out here and run with us,
y'all good, like just chill.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
I didn't bother with them.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
I didn't call the police on them, nothing, because y'all out.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Here trying to do nothing wrong.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
I know, if you out here at five o'clock in
the morning, you're not out here to cause trouble.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
You out here because you want to run.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
And they participated and they enjoy and so they would
come all the time, and they would still put their
guns in my truck.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
I woul let them put their guns in my truck. Whatever.
I ain't tell the police, dad or whatever.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
But but that was important for me because I'm glad
y'all out here trying to do something. And you know
what they were telling me. They was like, yeah, I
went to go knock on my homeboard door and making
him get up, like they all keeping each other accountable. Now,
Like nah, y'all get up and to come out here
and run with us, like it was a beautiful thing.
And people were coming from out of town. I had
somebody to come. One of the guys flew back in
from Japan. He was like, Bro, I've been seeing this
all over Facebook. Had to come by, had God. People

(23:39):
came from Florida, people came from out of town, like
because it was the biggest thing happening. So you know,
that's that's something that I believe if you spend time
on again, you can squeeze positivity out of even our town,
like I'll be in Georgia if you try to squeeze
the positivity out of it, Like, I just unfollow all
the commissioners and all the pages and all the news
media because all your y'all do is talk about how

(24:01):
bad all Bennie is and this commissioner ain't doing this,
and that person ain't doing that.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
And all being into the bad place. I got people.

Speaker 4 (24:07):
This guy he posted all the littering all be like,
I just can't believe people are littering around all Beanie. Well,
why don't you go take a picture of the churches
that are giving it something away every weekend?

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Why don't you go take a picture.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Of that that that that restaurant that's giving away free
food sometime? Why don't you Why don't you clean the
trash up, like I mean again, or this is one
guy he goes around and just talks.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
About all the black and ovey. Look at this bad
building right here. Look, oh my god, this building is
so terrible. Well, go do something else, find you something
else to do.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
That's all folks want to do around Albany is talk
about all the bad, the bad, the bad, the bad,
the bad. It's a thousand great things happening. And so
at one point it was my duty to go share
all the great things happening, like sleeping heavenly peace, sleeping heavily.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
People on the podcast for good Friends of Us.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
Yes, the one that we have in our hometown. I
did a video for him, for the one in our hometown.
They're giving they're building bads for kids who don't have them.
I didn't even know so many kids weren't sleeping on
the floor.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
So around three percent of kids in America do not
have a bad and maybe hiring all money in a memphest.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
We going through time, these kids ain't got here, or
so my mom like, we went to this one house.
They didn't they didn't have any furniture, but those beds.
My mom like went and bought them fronture. She was like, listen,
I'm gonna bet out they'd have a refrigerator nothing. So
my mom, like I told her about I said, Hey,
we at this one house. They don't got nothing. She's like,
I'm gonna go buy them refrigerator and stuff, and I'm
gona just get to them. And so we had all
the stuff delivered to their house and whatever like that.
But man like, just to see where how kids are

(25:18):
living and stuff like that, but to see what we're
able to do in helping, that's what matters. And so
if we spend the time trying to tell those stories,
our community morale will look a lot different. Because the
morale around the hometown of All Bennie when the run
started was great.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
When the run happened, morale was here.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Nobody talked about nothing in All Benne at that time,
but the run. Everywhere you went, Walmart, the mall didn't
care if I was there or not. Everybody was talking
about the run all over Facebook, whatever. Even people who
were saying bad stuff about it, they're like, ah, he's
just using y'all.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
For content, blah blah blah, whatever. Mind you.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
People don't even realize how you even get paid on Facebook.
They thinking I'm making thousands of dollars or something. I'm like,
first of all, the only way you make money on
Facebook is if you're making five hundred thousand likes. I'm
talking about thirty million views or something like. That's how
you really getting paid. I'm making sixty bucks tops off
a thousand likes. Come on, dude, like you're.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Giving one hundred dollars away to the waitress.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
I'm not making no money off of this. I don't
even in all the shirts we were giving away. I
bought thousands of shirts, thousands of shirts. We gave away
so many shirts, hoodies and everything. Ask me, has anybody
paid for one of them?

Speaker 3 (26:18):
No?

Speaker 4 (26:19):
I did it because I just wanted people to represent
the brand. People like, oh, he got there selling shirts.
None of these shirts we're bought for selling. All of
them were giving away for free, every last one, every
shirt for breast cancer awareness whatever, Every shirt was free.
All the hoodies I bought for Christmas free that was
out of my pocket or whatever, and not because I
was making money from it or whatever.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
So but people have stuff to say.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
But either way, whether it was bad or good, people
were talking about it and so that's what matters to me.
And so I also feel like people don't respect growth
because there were a lot of mistakes I've made, things
I've changed my mind on whatever. I'm twenty six now.
When I was nineteen, there were a lot of things
that I thought that were wrong. There were things I
failed at that of the school at first it failed,
you know, things that I projects I did it failed.

(27:00):
And so it's like, oh, he messed this up and
messed that outph and blah blah. Well you've messed up
nothing because you've never did anything or whatever. So why
are you worried about me and what I'm doing, you know,
or because you're too scared to jump on something big and.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
So you just the man in the arena.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I'm the man in arena, regardless of it.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
No you're talking about but I'm the man here and whatever.
And whether you guys want to admit it or not.
Every time that you guys are having terrible content time
on social media or whatever, you know, what you do,
you say something about me just so you can get
some lights. This one guy in our hometown, he's a
big hater. He swear he not, but anyway, he swear
he not. He's come to apologize me for stuff he
said and everything. But anytime his social media is doing bad,

(27:40):
every single time he can't get no lights, he'll go
say something about me just to get some attention because
he knows his other bandwagons people that don't like me
or join in mind you, I have done nothing to
these people. I haven't bothered him.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
I have done nothing to them whatever they make up
all this stuff and all right, while it's other positive.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Just like you brought people together with the we will
often say the same thing about service and actually sleeping
Heavenly Piece is a great example of that. You show
up to one of their bed builds and you guys
are working to build beds for kids with out them
and one person's black, one's white, ones a democrat ones
are probably one's gay ones straight like nobody cares. And
I'll tell you who doesn't care, the kid receiving the bed. Nope,

(28:19):
you could care less, man. You know it's it's that's
but again, that's what matters. And that's what I keep
trying to get people to understand that those things are
are what matters, man, And we'll get people to understand
that once people begin to tell these stories, and I
keep telling people we have a responsibility as people who
have big followings to tell these good stories.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
What we're trying to do here at our army and
normal folks.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
We have a responsibility to do it because so many
people are watching us, so many people are looking, you know,
at us. I don't have the luxury, in my opinion,
to be just doing anything. I don't just share no
any old content. I don't just be on there trying
to make funny skits or nothing like that. My content
is intentional. I show you me being a dad because
now I'm a ren forcing the idea for another dad
that's been watching me that he's doing the right thing.

(29:03):
Because I've had dad say I was questioning myself about
how to do this, or people were saying bad thing.
But I've seen your videos now and I feel like
I'm doing a good job, or Dad's or to ask
me for advice or whatever. We slowly building little communities
everywhere because people are watching this stuff or how I'm
working with the kids. I've inspired fifty sixty other guys
to do similar things in their areas, but they never

(29:24):
would have did it if they didn't see my content
or whatever. So it's very important that we share those things,
you know, and continue the goodness. And I'm not just
talking about giving away Thanksgiving turkeys. Everybody does that. I
truly mean like true community work that takes actual time.
It don't take no time for me to go give
away some Thanksgiving turkeys and I don't understand we're give
away thans Giving turkeys and people don't even have stoves
to cook them on. Like that's again, that's important stuff

(29:45):
to think about.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Like it's one thing we focus on the guides. It's
a lot.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
There's a really good line one of our guests said,
like a lot of those things like giving away a
turkey or helping people live in poverty a little bit better.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
It is, and that is not the goal. The goal
is transfer.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
We want to show them how to not need us
for a turkey, and that's what's important. But again, I
think we'll get there. I think we'll get there in time.
I just feel like we we have to again tell
those stories. We underestimate the power telling stories.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
I love to get that from you, so we can
feature on social media when you probout the episode.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll see we thought about doing these.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
We are the traffic runs across the country, and let
me tell you, I'd love to try to figure that out.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
So what I would like to do.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
We're actually starting I think. I don't know if I
told you in the car, I probably don't. We're starting
local chapters across the country. So actually now call them
local service clubs. Okay, got We're launch in six right now.
We'll keep going from there. But with those six and
then and more in the future, it may be great
for them to each year, or we are the traffic
around each year.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah, And so we have other cities that have started them.
I just let somebody man it wherever they are and
I'll share it on social media so our followers can
see it. Because other people have started runs in other towns,
and so I just shared on our social media so
everybody from their town can see it and they can
go join. Cause some people were driving out of town
to come to our run. I'm like, well, you got
run as close to you over there, just go to
that run, you know whatever. Like, because I don't want

(31:06):
people to just only want to have to come to ours,
and I wanted the movement to be great, but I'm
personally only gonna focus on, you know, my hometown. As
I mentioned before, you know, I will let people start
or have people start their own wherever they are. I
can't guarantee i'll be there, but I can guarantee you
I'll share it. I'll guarantee to promote it. But I'm
probably not gonna come cause I want to make sure
we represent the city of All Benny and that's what

(31:27):
I do. There for your boys, yeah, be there for
my boys. That's what I don't want to happen. I've
said it before, like we've had many people, you know,
we have NFL players from All Bennie, we have seniors
from All Bennie, whatever, and a lot of them won't
come back. They won't give I mean, we got an
NFL player, got non profits in other hometowns.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
I'm like, why do you have.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
A non profit somewhere else and you're not doing it
in our hometown.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
I don't understand that, you know. But I'm not here
to pocket watch.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
I just let them do what they do. I'm not
here to call names. Just let them do what they do.
But I just don't respect that. I don't respect you know,
I have made it, and I'm not getting anything back
to the community. Even if again I haven't made it,
I still do my duty to make sure I spread
funds in our hometown. So when we make money, I
make money whatever like that, I go give to local
non profits in our hometown. I go make sure our
local college has some money. I go make sure we

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go volunteer there.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I spread. When I get donors, I'm like, hey, we
also got.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
An other non profit over there. Would you like to
donate something to them too, or whatever? Like I don't
just be sitting around like hogging all the donations. I'm like, no,
let's spread this around town. You know, so many nonprofits
and businesses and all being will tell you, like no
king is given. We help pay for funerals, whatever we do,
and give as much as we can in the city
of All Benny.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
And that's what's important to me, and that's why people
love us.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
Like for the most part, ninety percent of all Benion
loves you know what, we do have a small ten
percent who wishes they were who we are. But I
just tell people to join join in with us, and
we can all, you know, be great together.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
We don't have to be separate. We'll be right back.
Let's go back in time. We have to do to
rewind the fam. That was good. Yeah, you got the school. Now,

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you didn't always have the school. So started as summer camp.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
I don't know if you then went to after school,
but you must have had a dream at some point
to have a school, and that's not always been an
easy ride for you either.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
So right now, you tell us a little bit about the.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Dream, the story, the challenges, the perseverance and what people
can learn from all that.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
The Extra Boys program again started in twenty nineteen, and
then I started out doing workshops teaching kids how to
work on cars and houses at my uncle's house. And
then we transitioned to the summer program, which I operated
out of my home.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
I had twenty kids there. It was just me.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
I would cook, you know, for them, make sure they
had food, or sometimes I didn't cook, but we grew food.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Taught them how to work on cars.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Made a lot of mistakes there or whatever, just getting
my feet wet with things, but I never stopped. Following
year COVID happened. Then I had six boys come live
at my house. I had bunk beds and I made
my living room or bedroom.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Why did they come up with it because of coronavirus.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Well, you're saying because you couldn't work with them because
the city would allow it.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
You said, I'll bring them with me. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
The parents were reaching out saying, you know, hey, the
kids are stuck at home. We don't have anything for
them to do. Can you do something. I'm like, well,
the only thing I could possibly do is have them
come to live with me. I don't know about this virus.
I don't know what's going on with it, So the
only way I can shelter in place together. Yeah, that's
what we did. That's what we did. And of course,
after a while, when I kind of got a feel
for the virus or whatever like that, I'm like, okay,

(34:38):
I understand how we can maneuver around now. So we
went to traveling. We started traveling all over the country
because flights were like twenty thirty bucks.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
We were flying everywhere. Oh, we were out, we left.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
We were in Cincinnati, we were in New York, we
were in San Diego. I flew those kids all around
the country and nobody ever got sick.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
You know, we was flying everywhere. Nobody's on the flights,
but us.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
I mean, I'm flying like six and seven of us
at a time for like a hurrent Bucks. Like we
was out man, we took it me bro. Yeah, advantage
of that time. And we travel and travel and travel,
and a lot of those kids, some of their first
times traveling ever was with us.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
We've had so many kids.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Even to this day, we meet kids who've never even
been outside of our hometown and people think that's crazy.
I'm like, I'm serious. There are kids who have only
ever been inside of our town. We have this local
little farmer's market called Marx millon Patch, which is maybe
about twenty minutes away, and you know, we always went
there in pre k for like the Pumpkin Patch field
trip or whatever like that. We have kids who hadn't
even been there. I'm just like, it's only fifteen minutes away.

(35:37):
And so we took kids to Atlanta. Like they're taking
pictures of the buildings and like they'd never seen a
big building before.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
I never seen a skyscraper in life. A gold dome
in Atlanta, Yeah, that's right, and so I see it
all the time.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Or taking them to the beach just to see the
ocean is big, like these kids are experiencing things, and
so that mattered.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
And so it was in twenty twenty one.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
I had spent my last little bit of money on
this social media class, learning how to promote on social
media because I was just like I got to figure
out something. I'm like, I can't nobody's donating in the hometown,
you know. I'm like, I gotta figure out how we're
gonna make money or something like that. I don't understand
like what we're gonna do. Like, so I started taking
the social media class and they told us to get
on Twitter and get on like make other social media accounts.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
So I got on Twitter.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
I started posting on Twitter, and like, we get a
message from the White House to come to the White House.
After we posted this clip of us we'll not clip,
posted these photos of us putting sheet rock on the ceiling,
tease the kids how to make sheet rock. And next
thing you know, we at the White House and all
these people in DC was like, who are you guys
and what do you do? And I'm telling them about us.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
And I'm just loving kids. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Man, So we we finished that and like that's when
we started getting a little following. This guy came to
interview us. His name is Siaka Masaqua. I can't I
can't remember.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
I can't.

Speaker 4 (36:43):
I might be saying it right, but his name is Siaka.
Siaka did our first ever real interview. That got some
traction and people like started donating to our program. And
so from there I started. I kept posting on social media,
kept posting, kept posting, and you know, as time went by,
we were able to build you know, good funding.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
We bought a building.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
You know, we were able to have our actual school
program there and to see, you know, how we were
able to build that. I started the school in twenty
twenty two. I definitely built off of a lot more
like al Chew with that. I was just ready to
start it, mainly because I was into it with so
many people in my hometown about the school, and people
was like trying to say I was lying about the
school and this and that or whatever, because we had
to keep changing things because we weren't able to make

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a deal. Happened with our local school system, so we
had got into it, you know a little bit with
our local school system. But that relationship has been mended,
of course, because we all worked with the same kids.
But at the time, you know, we were into a
big debacle with them and newspapers, some people saying we
was lying, so we was having to try and improve.
I think we weren't lying or whatever. It was a
lot happening with that. And anyway, we opened the school up,

(37:43):
and I was mainly just really wanted to open the schools.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Like, no, we did it. You know. We opened the
school up maybe about a year in.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
I'm like, dude, like this is expensive and we only
had eleven kids.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
I'm like this is expensive.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
Like I'm like this is killing me, you know, like
the light build and making sure the kids got them
twenty four hour care.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I'm just like this. There was a boarding school all
that time, right, Yeah, I'm like, this is a lot.
I did not realize it.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Was gonna be so much, and it got they get
robbed around them.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Oh this was in twenty twenty three and so that
was the next year. But yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
It was tough trying to do it, and so we
eventually were like like, Okay, we're gonna cut the boarding
piece out and we'll just do school, you know, We'll
just do school by itself and that'll be it. So
we ended up doing school. We cut boarding out and
even school and was just like, still expensive because I
need the staff there, et cetera, et cetera. So we
ended up shifting back to a complete after school program,
and at a point I was getting ready to shut

(38:35):
the program down, just like, man, I can't find the
fun to rock this. Man, I'm like, maybe I just
can just do my one off workshops like I used
to do, and we'll try and grow from there.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
But literally, just power social media.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
I posted this video online just you know, talking about
some politics stuff or whatever like that. But I started
talking about what it is that I do, and some
big person saw it and he was like, Hey, I'm
gonna give you guys four hundred grand you know, to
operate for the year. Because he was like, what do
you guys need, I'm like, we about to shut down.
I'm like I don't really have anything. So he's like, okay, cool,
go buy vans. Get you some staff members operate five
days a week now, like this is everything you got

(39:07):
need to operate for the rest of the year. He
has to be anonymous, yeah, if you knew who it was,
but anyway.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
So I'm curious, but I won't ask you.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, he was just like, take care
of everything you need for the year, like I love
what this is doing, and keep me updated. And so
that's what I did. And so with that also I
was able to.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Just like you with a larger bank account, just like
how you give one hundred dollars to the waitress, He's
just like, dollars version of it truly.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Is a dollar version.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
I think it's a dollar version for him, just to
be honest with you. But but yeah, that it that
helped us for the entirety of the last year, which
was twenty twenty five. So we got renovations done, new vans,
new staff members, whatever, and the program is running.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
I mean, the most beautiful is been able to run.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
And so now you know with fundraising, now I was
able to useil loze some of those funds to do
better fundraising. And so now we're just operating every year
because I'm able to. It's about raise our budget. So
we had a two hundred thousand dollars donor matching gift
that we're actually doing now. We're doing that fund raising
right now, and so he's like, hey, I'm mattch two
hundred thousand if you can raise two hundred thousand. I'm like,
oh cool, let's do it, because that don't help us
get through the year. So that's what we're working on now,

(40:13):
is that two. So that the So any listener who
wants to participate in go to the Exboys dot org
and you can donate there and if you want to
see any photos, pictures, videos, it's all on the website.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yep, that's awesome. And was there a fire at one
point and a robbery?

Speaker 4 (40:29):
No, it was a robbery, so well it wasn't even
I wouldn't even just call it robbery. It was vandalism
because they really did rob things, but it was mostly vandalism.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
So this was a summer camp.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
We weren't operating out of our main building at the time,
and we want to go by the main building to
play basketball because the basketball gym there. And this was
like twenty twenty three summer, I believe it was. And anyway,
so we get to the building and I'm just about
to go in. Open the door up so we can go,
you know, bring all the kids in. And I walk
in the door and like, it's stuff everywhere. I'm not
just a forty one thousand square foot building this is

(41:02):
a massive facility, twenty five classrooms, basketball gym. The entirety
from front to back of the building was wrecked. I
mean from the front to back. It wasn't just oh,
we're just gonna take some stuff, you know whatever like that.
It was like they deliberately like destroyed the building.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
So I must really hate you. That's a lot of
time to go through all that and record. Man. Every
piece of glass in the building was shattered.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
The toilets were pulled out of the ground and broken
like we had just bought all new toilets at the
school on one of our donors, by all new toilets.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
All the toilets were pulled out of ground.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Sinks were pulled out, the water fountains were pulled out,
Our uniforms were ripped up, our school signs, pictures taking
off the walls, took all electrical cores out of the building.
And we was only gone like three weeks, and I
had been riding by the building.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
I didn't go.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
When I was riding by the building, if you look
at it on the outside, it looks fantastic, you know
whatever we had to painted and everything, So I'm just
riding by, Okay, it looks good whatever like that, I'm
not thinking nothing of it. And everything's going out there,
I mean literally from we don't have any electricity and
there we can't turn electricity on. Add they took everything
out of the boxes, all the wiring, they pulled all
the stuff out of the ceilings. I mean, to see
that building, I was like, what in the world. I mean,

(42:08):
we had spent so much time getting it to even
where it was. It still needed to work. But I mean,
now unless we get like a two million dollars three
million dollar donor just coming, Hey, we'll come and fix
the building for you, it's not even any point like
even just trying to do anything to it right now,
because it wouldn't make any sense. It's just be a
waste right now. So but yeah, we're operating fully out
of our after school building. We had chickens. Now, we

(42:30):
got vans, we got playgrounds, we got murals on the building.
It's a beautiful facility, and the students are operating five
days a week from two to eight.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
And we pick them up from school.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Like I said, we send them home with tolla trees
once a month, and that's paper, towels, underwear, pencils, whatever
they need, we send it home with them for the
school term. When they need school supplies, their parents have
to buy nothing. We send them home with everything they need,
their tablets, book bags, whatever. And we have an Amazon
wish list. And so anytime I post on Amazon whistless,

(43:02):
our donors gonna take care of it.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
I say, hey, to school is about to be open?
What school years about to be open for the kids?
They need X, y z, And people go by, you know,
they'll go buy the things that the kids need.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
That's the power of social media and the power of
people that believe, and also the power of transparency and sharing.
One reason people love to give to our program is
because we share everything. There's not a thing that I
don't share. I don't care for light bulbs getting putt in. Hey, guys,
look that light bubby balled off of Amazon Prime.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Here's go. Here it is going in. Hey, that paint
you guys bay, Here it is going on the wall.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
Hey guys, those toilets you purchase here, they are getting
installed like that.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
People will love that. And so our.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Biggest donors to the program I've never met before. But
because I'm constantly sharing, you know what it is that
we're doing. They constantly give.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
And outside of big donors, I'm guessing you got your
own are very normal folks. The small donors are supporting
your time.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Five dollar donors are are the heartbeat of our program.
We do have some bigger donors, but our donors who
give twenty dollars a month, one hundred dollars a month,
five dollars here and there. I have somebody who's used
to get fifty cents and he was like, I'm extremely,
extremely poor, but I just can'tnot support what it is
that you're doing, you know whatever.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Like that.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
Those are people that make the program, you know, run,
because those are people that just believe. And that's the
power of telling stories. We tell our story and that's
what I believe is very important. And so we've also
helped people you know that have helped us before. Because
this is one lady I'll never forget. She didn't have
a job or something and I helped her out one time,
and I'll never forget. She was working at a car

(44:28):
dealership when I was coming to get my car service,
and so I was like, hey, how you doing. She
was working at cardis now and she decided to donate
to the program, you know.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Now.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
She was like, listen, I remember when you helped me out,
you know, a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Now I'm gonna donate more, you know, to your program.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
And that just meant a lot, because I've helped so
many people, like we used to do this Christmas giveaway,
And what my Christmas giveaway consisted of was I would
get people, random people and on all beny who you know,
were poor, to send us Christmas list, no matter what
it was they wanted.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
I'll have to send us Christmas list. I could get everybody.
I would if I couldn't.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
It is what this so I told everybody I couldn't
get everybody, but anyway, I would cost out about how
much money it would cost to buy all the stuff
on everybody's list. I would go, you know, on social media,
say hey, we need to raise fifty thousand dollars to
make sure Christmas happens for xyz amount of people. We
raised fifty thousand dollars, and I would go buy all
the stuff and fill the back of my truck up
with all these toys, gadgets, whatever. We had people living

(45:22):
in hotels or people just wanted shoes, People just wanted clothes,
that fit and clothes, their bicycles for their kids, and
to see the tears and the crying and whatever. Like
just to see people just not having something to worry about,
that meant a lot. You know, We've done that multiple
times in all Bennie. I've done things where I just
go around the store and pay for people's grocery or whatever,
like that's what we do. And a lot of that

(45:43):
stuff has never been filmed, Like you know, some of
that stuff, you know, people just remember.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
I remember this kid. We were in Walmart.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
One time and this dad I could tell he couldn't
afford to get his kid the PlayStation he wanted, so
about the PlayStation for the kid and the dad I
didn't even remember. I remember when it happened, but I
didn't remember their faces or nothing. I just remember doing it.
And he was like, hey, how you doing. He was
like a couple of years ago, you were in a
store and you bought my son to PlayStation or whatever
like that, you know, And I was like, I remember

(46:10):
doing that.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
I just don't remember you but man Like, but to
hear them remember that.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
Stuff and to see how it affected them in a
big way, and that means a lot. You know, or
just riding down the road and seeing these people trying
to raise money for their family member's funeral and I'll like, hey,
what funeral home is he at?

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Got a great relationship with friend. I go there.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
I'm like, hey, let me take care of you know,
the funeral whatever like that, and we're gonna be good
to go and don't tell them who I am nothing.
I just go and do it, and something they don't
have to worry about, Like i just love people not
having stuff to worry about. And when that happens again,
we create better morale and we're able to tell these
stories and encourage people to do the same thing.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
That's how we build a greatest city after.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
The vandalism or you clearly have plenty of haters you've
told me about after you ever felt like quitting at
one point, like this is just enough. I've given so
much to this community and just all this crap and
all these obstacles, and I'm just gonna stop.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
Like I just mentioned, I've taken an early retirement from
overarching community work. I'm only sticking with working with the kids.
And am I still going to give like to you know,
different organizations and stuff? Sure, but the overarching king round
or that my hometown has seen me in everything and
helping everything and helping so many people.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
I'm just through with it because it's not going to
be worth it in the end when you.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Inevitably, you know, try and destroy you know what it
is that I'm doing because I'm able to expose things,
I have a big platform, I'm able to make things happen.
So when you inevitably try to do that and nobody's
here to take care of my kids for me, or
nobody's able to take care of the things that I
deem important, what was it all for? Because I don't
want to have gained the whole world and lost my family.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
You know, like my.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
Kids are going to be successful. I believe in what
they're going to do. I believe in the extra boys
and what they're going to do. Because I also thought about, Okay, well,
if I start doing this other community stuff and trying
to get into the political world in my hometown or
whatever like that, imagine all the imagine this and that
and whatever's.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
Going to happen.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
And then I'm thinking about all the students that are
watching me or my kids or whatever, and all the
things people are gonna make up, and my kids gonna
have to go to school eventually, and blah blah blah,
Like I'm cool on all that, all the stuff that
my family has to deal with, Like my family will
tell me, like sometimes you know, people don't know they'll
related to me, and they'll people just like saying just
nasty stuff about me.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
And again, what have I done to you?

Speaker 4 (48:23):
What have I done to anybody besides help you know
this this this city or whatever. And so I just
think it's too much. I don't think it's worth it.
And again, I don't want to go down those routes
of trying to help the city so bad. And the
revelation came literally I was listening to Jake Hole and
I was riding down the road and I was just like, man,
it's a lot happening. I was like, I don't know
if I want to really, you know, getting into all

(48:44):
this you know, stuff with trying to help people figure
out what's going on in the hometown to make the
hometown better and all that. Jake Cole said, don't save her.
She don't want to be saved. And so I'm like, Okay,
I'm just done helping people or trying to save folks
who don't want to be saved. People call and ask
me for ideas or ask me to help with this
and that or whatever, and I'll help or try to
give them ideas. And nobody wants to implement under the things.
Nobody wants to try and jump. Everybody's scared to take

(49:06):
a risk. Everybody, Okay, cool, will you guys just do
that on your own. I'm gonna help my kids and
help these students of mine, and that's what I'm gonna do,
and I'm become a businessman in the.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Reality is, you can't.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Solve all the world's problems. We're all of all these
problems and they're really is going to take an army
normal folks. There used to be an army of King
Randall's in any community to actually solve all the problems.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
And you know what it is an army in our
hometown of a lot of people that are doing great work.
Have a guy named Ernest Christian and farmer Alfredo and
all these different people in our hometown that are doing
great work who don't get the big platforms that I do.
So when I come on these shows, I say their
names and say the restaurant names or whatever, because people
deserve to hear about them, because somebody's going to look
up Farmer Afraido after hearing me say that, and they're

(49:48):
gonna see what all he does with Flint River Fresh
and all Bennie by making sure all the schools have
you know, fresh vegetable gardens and all that stuff like
that are Ernest Christian. He does the same thing, but
he also coaches football or Jamaski Franklin. He's an officer
and of all being and who does a lot of
great work with the youth. And you hear people say
stuff about him all the time or whatever. Is everybody
who's trying to do something, they're like, oh, well his
personal life is this way or whatever.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
Who cares stay out of.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
Their business because we don't know about the skeletons in
your closet, you know whatever, Like leave folks alone and
let people do what they do. If people are helping
and aren't hurting anybody, then let them do that. So
everybody who's doing great stuff in our home. Travis Luke
or whatever. People talk about him because he was formerly
in prison and he used to be a gang leader
or whatever. Is he trying to help now, Okay, well,
let him have changed his life and do that. Or

(50:30):
Lawrence McCrae, who is head of the Eastern International Trophan's
baseball team, he has a pass and people want to
say stuff about that. Let him have his past. But
what are you doing while you're running your mouth or
whatever like? So, let these people in our city of
all being do the work they're doing and keep doing
it or whatever.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Let them do it. And if you're not going to
do anything, shut them out. And if you are.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
Doing something, you should be so busy doing what you're
doing that you don't have time to talk about any
of us or what our personal life consists of, or
who got how many kids? And what they were doing
in their personal life alone time ago? Or who I
was five years ago? Who cares? Spend so much time
working on yourself that you ain't got time to worry
about what we're doing in our hometown. Because we're working.
That's what we're gonna keep doing. We'll be right back,

(51:26):
all right. A couple of questions then we gotta rap yep.
Why is it called the ex School for Boys? What
does X have to do with anything? The X means
unknown it's like a math equation. At the time, I
wasn't thinking of any cool thing. I was just like,
you know what, I'm gonna teach the kids, the unknown,
what they don't know. It's gonna be the X for boys,
and we're gonna solve for X. That was what my
brain was thinking as a nineteen year old at time. So,

(51:47):
but the X is always stuck because our program has
become so popular that most people, especially on our hometown,
if you hear the letter X, the first thing you're
gonna think about is King Randall and the Boys program.
And so that's what we've built. You know, it's synonymous
with our the EX for Boys. But you and similiarly crazy. Yeah,
but you know, you gotta be a fool a little bit,
you know, in order to make things work. Because I'm

(52:08):
sure I know, but I say that you got to
be a fool because sometimes you have ideas or or
or wanting to jump off the cliff and build your
wings on the way down. Nobody else understands it, but
you know it's gonna help. So look, I'm just gonna
do what I know I think is gonna work, and
I'm just gonna do it. Anyway, and if it works, great,
you still stuck up there and I'm not over there.

(52:30):
And if I tank, I just thank Like people are
so scared to fail, and I'm just like, okay, if
you fail, you failed, like there is no running from it.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Like I saw this coming yesterday. I was telling them.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
I was talking on Facebook about how people, you know,
you just gotta jump. You gotta have face sometime and
you don't know what happened. Somebody was like, well I do.
I can't risk instability because of my children or whatever
like that, and so I'm scared to jump. And I'm
just like, if you're gonna feel, you're gonna feel anyway,
you know, like it's regardless and truly, if you really
love your kids, you're gonna make it happen. Like I
could lose everything today, lose the program, lose my name,

(53:02):
lose my pages or whatever. I'm going to find a way.
There's not gonna be a I'm defeated and there's nothing
I can do for our kids or whatever. I'm going
to find a way. Like it's something's going to happen,
something's going to shake where I'm going to find a
way to make it happen for the kids. So I'm
never worried about that anymore. I'm just like, listen if
especially Christian people, I'm like, listen, If you guys believe

(53:22):
in God, you say you believe in, what are you
so scared of?

Speaker 3 (53:24):
Like? Why are you so scared? What did you say? Oh,
ye of little faith? What are you running around here
scared for?

Speaker 4 (53:28):
I got so many Christians, Oh, I'm a Christian, this
or that or whatever, but won't jump to do anything
you want. You're scared to do anything. You're scared to
take a risk. You're scared to do this. You're scared
to do that. Sounds like to me, you don't believe
in God you say you believe in. So if we're
gonna call ourselves Christian, it's gonna require taking risk and
we want people to see, you know, Christ in our actions.
And a lot of that happened with taking risks and

(53:49):
jumping out and being different and showing people like stuff
that's not normal. I can't just be normal and think
God people are gonna see Christ in me. No, they
have to see me doing something different, showing something different,
maneuvering differ. That's how you see you know, and get
people to want to transition to your faith because this
is all about, you know, creating more disciples.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
So how many kids do you have today? My children four?
And then how many do you want to have?

Speaker 4 (54:13):
Like seven or eight, nine or ten? And I would
love to have ten in a perfect world, but it's
not a perfect world.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
So it's why do you want to have so many kids.

Speaker 4 (54:23):
When I'm an only child. My mom's an only child,
and I also am super traditional. I like old school church.
I don't like church with all the fog machines and
lights and all that jazz.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Church is a concert now.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
I like church with the old pews and you can
stump on the ground and that kind of type of church.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Old.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
I like everything traditional. My mom calls me old. I
like old whiskey and tequila.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
I don't mix drinks. I don't do cigar shop apparently, yeah, yeah,
I don't. I don't mix drinks. I don't do none
of that stuff. I'm super traditional. Same thing with my
wife and family. They all call me old because I
like to drive my pickup truck. I got an old
ninety four to forward like.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
I just that's me.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
I love my granddad both My granddad's passed away back
in April, but on the same day.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
Crazy business. But that's me. I like that.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
So I want to have kids because, for one, that's
what happened back in the day. This whole new day
and age of acting like raising kids is so hard
is crazy to me. I'll have all my kids with
me all the time, not a problem. I don't have
as I keep them disciplined, they have routines. I have
people who have one kid and they're like, oh my god,
life is so hard and life is so tough. I'm like, well,

(55:25):
is there something that I don't know? And sometimes because
people didn't actually want kids, and I'm just like, if
you don't want kids, stop having raw sex, like just stop,
like and I'm serious though, because what you're doing is
you're creating an environment where a kid you kind of
resent your own kid and don't want to raise it,
you don't want to spend time with it, and so
now everything's hard to do for them. I was fully

(55:47):
prepared for goldfish under the car seat or error them
squirting the apple sauce on the wall, like I was
prepared for that, Like I knew that.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Was going to happen. It wasn't a surprise, Like I.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Knew diapers are going to need to be changed to
get up at two o'clock in the morning. It's hard
because you didn't actually want to do it. Some people
like the esthetic of having a child and putting it
on Facebook and sharing on Instagram and buying them cool clothes.
Like has mom fussing at me about the kid not
having no clothes? I'm like, well, Mama, where's he going?
Is he just going to school? Okay, what does he
need all these fancy clothes for? Like, but it's for

(56:18):
them to post or birthday parties nowadays. If let's if
you had a birthday party, nout it and told the
mom she couldn't post it, she wouldn't even want to
have a birthday party. This is what I mean. They
don't actually want kids. They want the idea of what
it looks like to have a kid. I actually want
my children, So the stuff that I do is fun
to me, like getting them up in the morning, or

(56:38):
trying to hold them down the burst of teeth, like
that's stuff that I wanted to do or whatever. So
that's the whole thing on that part about people not
wanting to have kids. They just don't want to have kids.
And then on top of that, sorry to say, we
allow all the people who participate in all the dubaucher
he and all the negativity in our community to have
all the kids. We let Tyrone who shot three people,
have eight kids with eight differ baby mamas and Tyrone

(57:01):
homeboys at the barber shop know exactly who he is.
But Tyrone homeboy who married, who got a regular job,
and who're doing good for himself, it's a great upstanding
Christian man, will only have one kid.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
And I'm like, why are you only have one kid? Well,
why don't you put a lot of that into five
more kids?

Speaker 4 (57:16):
Because my one kid is never going to beat Tyrone's
eight terrible kids or whatever, Like it's never gonna happen.
So I'm gonna make sure I have a little army
for Tyrone's little army, because like, again, this is what
we do. I'm sorry, but that's where our communities at.
I just don't understand why people don't want to have
kids anymore.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
I'm like, I don't know. Like my mom's my.

Speaker 4 (57:38):
Great grandma, she had ten kids, like had a blast,
all the kids doing fine, they all help each other,
they work together whatever, like what happens. Like for example,
my mom always like, man, I wish I could have
had more kids. My mom not able to have kids,
so she just happened to have me. But she's just
like I wish I could have had more kids because
she's so like all the time. It's nerve wrecking for
her when I travel or going place because I'm.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Her only kid. Like something happens to me, that's it.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
Like there's nobody to fall back on, no other kid
to call, no sibling group, nothing, It's just me. So
I know for a fact, like my kids can work
with each other. They got each other, they can at
least trust each other. They have each other, you know whatever.
And I look forward to seeing the big family one day,
like I can't wait for forty years from now and
me and my wife get to sick, sit and look
at all the grand kids running around, like I want
so many grand kids. I don't even know all their names,

(58:22):
Like who your mama, like, tell come pick you up?
Like that's what I don't want to see, Like that's
what I want to see again, Like we've gotten away
from that. It's just everybody's so selfish now. It's like
people are scared to have to worry about something other
than themselves. Like that's what gets on my nerves, like
because I'm not selfish in any at any point, Like
I love like to help people.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
So people are so selfish nowadays.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
And I think it's fine, think about yourself, but don't
have kids. I appreciate the people that say I don't
want to have kids and because I don't like kids
like that, I'm cool on that.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (58:54):
But the people who don't, who have kids, that really
don't want to have kids and pretend they want kids
and then mess the kids life up and just do
all their life for aesthetics and that, like it's so tough.
Oh my god, it's so hard to have this one
two kids here and they're crying and this, and they're like,
it's a kid and they're only gonna do that for
what three four years tops? When my kids turn three
and four. They fit for themselves. Dudes on't how to

(59:15):
bathe themselves. They brush their own tea, they get their
own clothes out, they put lotional on their own face.
They don't autopilot like what they're doing at home now.
Watch the TV, read a book or two, go to
school like it's how hard is that? Like again, but
it's hard when you don't want a parent, you know why,
because then you don't discipline. And when you don't discipline,
you create an unruly child that you don't want to
be at home with. So now you want to wait

(59:35):
till he's thirteen to fourteen to try and discipline him
and then tell him that somebody's to come get him
or go send him to this program, and da da
da da da, And now it's all messed up because
you never actually want to be a parent in the
first place, because you.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
Couldn't just be adult enough to just stop having raw
sex when you know you didn't want kids. Why do
you keep having to say raw sex? Man?

Speaker 4 (59:54):
Because I have to say it rather than right, I
have to have sex. People are gonna be human.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
Do that. Just be protected.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
If you don't want to have kids, just have protected sex.
And that is okay. I think that is fine. But
stop still risky. Stop ruining these kids.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
One of our guests that are well, which I think
is true, especially if you're not married. Sex as a
luxury item you cannot afford.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
Yes, if you don't want to. If you don't want
what comes with that? Stop doing it, period, Stop doing it.
But I will say, people who are impoverished who don't
have jobs, all they have time to do is are
you and have sex?

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
And so what do you get a lot of murder
and a lot of children. Yeah, that's it. They either
argument or they having sex. Wanted to do all?

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Right, King Randall, last thing? What would be your encouragement
to people sitting on the sidelines right now or not
engaging at the level that they could. I mean, it
could be with having another kid, right, it could be
doing something in your community, could be financially supporting somebody
like you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
What would be your message to folks?

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
Find out what it is that you actually want to do.
First of all, don't do anything that you don't actually
want to do because it will become a parent. So
figure out what it is that you want to do
and go do it. And people want to do things,
and they live their lives every day and doing things
that they don't want to do, and that's fine. A
lot of times you have to spend time doing stuff
you don't want to do to end up doing the
things you do want to do. So if you have

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to flip burds for three years at McDonald's and do
it as best as you can, then you do that
for your three years until you build up enough money
to go start your photography studio that you want to start.
Because I spent two three years building the program, fixing
cars and working on houses and cutting people's hair in
the middle of the night to get the program where
it is now, to the point where I don't have
to do that anymore or whatever. But people don't have patience.
You should gain some patience. Figure out what it is

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that you want to do. Find people who are already
doing what you want to do, because somebody's already doing it.
You're not the only person that came up with that idea.
It's somebody somewhere doing it. Go shadow them, find out
what ideas and things that they had that that failed,
and then go learn from that. You can learn from
other people's failures too. Instead of laughing, you can learn
from other people's failures. So go check those people out.
Post on social media, et cetera. Like I mean, there's

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plenty of things to do. Take time, get off social media,
like I don't have the social media apps on my phone.
You would think I do because I got so many
followers stuff. I don't even have the apps. My team
managers that the apps take too much time. Like I
realize how what my screen time was because of the apps.
You didn't realize how much you're scrolling all day or whatever,
So I literally that it's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
I was listening to you in another interview, yeah, and
I'm like, all right, this is the most undisciplined part
of your life. You were talking about waking up at
whatever it was five or five thirty and like scrolling
for an hour, and like go to the gym at
six thirty, And I'm like, what are you doing, King Randall.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
You're such a disciplined Yeah, amazing person. Why are you
scrolling for so long?

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
You know what's funny isn't even you don't even realize
you're scrolling. And this is what the algorithms purposely do.
They are designed to keep you looking at the device.
And so I've learned like, Okay, I'm just not going
to be on there at all because I don't really
have a need to be on there, like unless I
just have to be. So I lead all the apps
and let my team manage my social media accounts now
and so now I have much more time to just

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do actual work and get things taken care of on
my phone because I don't have random notifications popping up,
I don't have random people message in, I don't have
any temptation whatever. It's all gone, it's all off of there,
and it's a very way to live. So my screen
time went down for like fourteen hours a day to
five hours a day, like, because.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
It's still a lot of hours. But yeah, for work,
literally it's just work or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
And so but to see yourself, if you look at
your screen time, see how much time you're truly spending
on socials, you're just like wow, and imagine what somebody
else is doing with that time, you know, cause you're
just like, oh, I.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Don't have the time to do this, and I don't
have time.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
If you spent seven hours on Facebook, you had time
to go do whatever it is that you should have
been doing in the first place or whatever. So I
just tell people to take time and try and reinvent
your life. Like whatever you're doing, now do it, do
it the opposite, like find something else to do, try
and get a new routine, make yourself, you know, do
something different for ninety days, going fast, get new friends.

(01:03:47):
I mean you already know if you need new friends.
And I tell people that all the time. You know,
you're terrible friends that you don't need to be around.
You just won't cut them off? Could you just won't
cut them off on those terrible friends you don't want
to be around. Put them off this year, that'd be great,
so you advance. If they do or they are terrible
for and you want to help them advance, and they
do want to help advancing, then work with them, you
know whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
But cut people off. Spend time with your kids. You
know you don't get.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
Time back, go on that trip you don't want to
go on, like spend time with your family members. I
had to tell my in laws. I'm like, hey, you know,
cause they were like, oh, we don't know if you
feel like traveling this. I said, look, man, I said,
y'all getting older. I'm like, yeah, like, y'all getting older,
you know, and who knows what will happen? You know,
come take just come come out of town for a
little bit. Like just they're like, you know what, you're right,
Like time waits for nobody, like we could die or something,

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and we missed out on these opportunities to travel with
our family members and our kids and stuff like that.
So very important, you know, just just do something different.
Stop waiting around. Stop I've been a bum, Get up
and go do something man like, just do anything to
do that all the time. Like, I don't care if
you're working at mc donald's, Go be the best burger
flipper in the world. Like your job is important to somebody.
I promise you know what you do is important to somebody.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
You know. Have you ever heard Martin Luther King's street
sweeper speech? No? I hadn't heard that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Basically that he's like, if it's your a lot to
be a street sweeper, go street sweeps like Michaelangelo painted pictures.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
Yes, yes, I heard it. I've heard it. I still
know the name of it. Yeah, I've heard it. But
that's important.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
Like, and people don't realize when you do the hard
work like that, God will reveal your purpose for you
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:05:11):
He'll realize, He'll reveal what it is that you're supposed
to be doing.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
Because if you spending all this time thinking that you're
going to only work hard when like you think, people
don't work hard, right, and they're like, okay, but when
I get the right job, and when I get the
right thing, when I start the right thing, the work
as that you have now is the work that work
ethic you're gonna have when you start your business or
when you get this new job or whatever. No, the
work ethic has to be there when you don't feel

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like it first or whatever you're not. And then because
he don't realize, when you start the new job or
the new business stuff, the motivation is there, not the
work at it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
It's the motivation that's all the way here. When the
motivation dies.

Speaker 4 (01:05:44):
And it's not new anymore and the present has been unwrapped,
it is now regular.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
It's like when you buy your wife a new car.
Oh my god, the car is new for a week
and then now it's her car, you know, it's it's
just their car, you know, like she ain't she ain't
happy about it no more, or she ain't oh my god,
I gotta car.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
You know, it's out of j get out of jail
free cards. Yeah, be match you as it really?

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
After bout five days after that, back a back back
to it, you know, the car don't matter no more.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
You know this is what it is, so but that's
that's real life.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
So get out, do something, jump, build your wings on
the way down, and you'll see yourself thrive. And the
worst you could do is fail. And if you're gonna fail, fail,
if you're gonna die, die. You can't run away from things.
And I keep trying to get people to understand you're
never gonna get away from things that are supposed to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
So just live website and social media for you and
XCOT for boys.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
My social media is at New Emerging King on all
platforms and you can go to our website to find
those at thexfoboys dot org.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
It's th h e X f O R b O
y s dot org.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
You can find everything about our program, their videos, pictures,
how to get in contact, donate, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
It's all there on the website.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Twenty six years old, you've inspired millions. More importantly, you've
impacted the lives deeply of twenty to twenty five young
men at the time. Who knows what's next. It'll be
excited to see what happened with you. And I'm really
grateful for you coming out here.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
King.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
I appreciate you having me. I think it's happened with
my kids next, so we'll see.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Actually will be fun. Actually, maybe you could get to
get them if.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
You had them, like do I mean, I guess you're
creating enough social media content with them, like you would
have them on camera.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
Yeah right now.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Yeah, if you guys came here, it would be good
to get you back with Bill because we didn't get
to cover it today, but like talking about how you've
raised them and coaching and you know, building a football coach.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
It could be you guys do come back here. It'd
be good to get all you guys in studio and
yeah together. Yeah, my oldest son will be he can
do anyview undred Yeah, that'd be great. All right, Well,
God bless you man. I appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Thank you, and thank you for joining us this week.
If King Randall has inspired you in general, or better yet,
to take action by investing in the labs of children,
volunteering it's somewhere like it in your community, starting something
like it, donating to the ex School for Boys, or

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something else entirely, just let me know I really do
want to hear about it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
You can write me anytime.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
At Bill at normal folks dot us, and I swear
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