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Speaker 1: Everybody is Bill Courtney with an army and normal folks.

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Speaker 1: And we continue now with part two of Alex's conversation

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Speaker 1: with King Randall. Right after these brief messages from our general.

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Speaker 2: Sponsors, you also support supports many of the wrong word,

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Speaker 2: but you also encourage some of the moms to sometimes

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Speaker 2: they get some help with other things.

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Speaker 3: Talking about how you support some of the moms.

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Speaker 4: So we have light Build Help program that we help

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Speaker 4: the parents with maybe other rent or the light build whatever,

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Speaker 4: And we'll do that if they're helping us out as

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Speaker 4: a parent, if your son's completing his homework, if he's

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Speaker 4: being you know, here on time, if he's doing the

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Speaker 4: see you doing your best effort as a parent to

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Speaker 4: aid us in what we're trying to do, we will

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Speaker 4: help you. So if we know your light bill needs

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Speaker 4: And not only is it just helping them with the

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Speaker 4: I can just take a moment and just spend some

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Speaker 4: don't realize like when you need stuff, how upset and

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Speaker 4: it's just angry you are sometime. And that does translate

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you get upset.

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Speaker 4: You get frustrated when all the kids are hollering and

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Speaker 3: That off on. So who else am I going to

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Speaker 4: And she may not truly want to do that, but

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Speaker 4: just that's the environment that your mind is created now.

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Speaker 4: And so if I'm able to say, hey, listen, your

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Speaker 4: So now you're not worried about food, You're not worried

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Speaker 3: And now she picks them up. Hey, baby, you had

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Speaker 4: Like man, you know, mama had a little good day too,

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Speaker 4: you know, and like these are little things that happen.

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

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Speaker 4: Do you ever take a break yourself or you ever

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Speaker 4: So I've decided to take an early retirement from full

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Speaker 3: When I say that retirement of twenty six, yes.

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Speaker 4: And when I say that and I say a retirement

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Speaker 3: And it's interesting that we're here in Memphis. I had

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Speaker 4: Do you think these people really want folks knowing what's

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Speaker 4: And I felt like at a point because I heard

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Speaker 3: Do I bother anybody, Do I do anything to anyone?

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Speaker 4: No, But people have all these things to say about

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Speaker 4: Am I what am I gonna make the town following

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Speaker 4: If anything, all y'all have ever seen me do is

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Speaker 4: I've heard the little things people say. People just make

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Speaker 4: But to hear the chatter and the constant bickering about

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Speaker 4: Et cetera. That's how you start to change your cities.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely abysmal, and I think our school system is doing

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Speaker 4: That's not their responsibility in my opinion. Why isn't the

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Speaker 4: You know why the kids are coming to first grade

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

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Speaker 3: The superintendent needs to be doing better.

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Speaker 4: All this nice to be one of those people until

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Speaker 3: What happened to us? Like what are you doing about it? Right?

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Speaker 4: couldn't get off the desk because it's a loud shot.

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00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,200
Speaker 4: Asked me the one morning that they came out to

438
00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,320
Speaker 4: cover the run, asked me about it. Which day was

439
00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:50,639
Speaker 4: it they came to day that they listen to me,

440
00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:54,160
Speaker 4: They came to cover the run the day that somebody

441
00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:55,240
Speaker 4: got killed three hours.

442
00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,120
Speaker 3: Before we post come out here.

443
00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:58,800
Speaker 4: Oh man, you know what I did as soon as

444
00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,360
Speaker 4: they brought the cameras over there, like it didn't even happen. Yeah,

445
00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,280
Speaker 4: So we got four hundred people out here about to

446
00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:05,280
Speaker 4: run for their health in this community.

447
00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:06,320
Speaker 3: We pray for the victim's family.

448
00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,440
Speaker 4: Anyway, we got four hundred people out here for their

449
00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,280
Speaker 4: health because we got positive stuff happening here in Albany.

450
00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,200
Speaker 3: They brought me into the newsroom and talk about it again.

451
00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,440
Speaker 4: I came in there to talk about all the positive

452
00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,159
Speaker 4: things that were happening in the city, and everybody applauded it.

453
00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,199
Speaker 4: People were messaging me like, that's how you spin it,

454
00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:23,600
Speaker 4: that's how you tell the story of our hometown.

455
00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,359
Speaker 3: Because we're not worried about the two people that this involved.

456
00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:29,480
Speaker 4: We have four hundred people out here for their health

457
00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,560
Speaker 4: right now, and you don't want to tell that story,

458
00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,160
Speaker 4: like that's not enough for you, that's not enough cliques. Meanwhile,

459
00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,439
Speaker 4: it's getting thousands of lights and thousands of views on

460
00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,560
Speaker 4: our pages, so we know it ain't about to click

461
00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaker 4: no more because it's going to get you clicks guaranteed.

462
00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,199
Speaker 4: It's the biggest story in Southwest Georgia right now. We

463
00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,120
Speaker 4: have sixteen other cities that have joined us in their towns,

464
00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,000
Speaker 4: so we're not talking about just our town. We had

465
00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,359
Speaker 4: two hundred people in adel and three hundred people in

466
00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,400
Speaker 4: this town, and sixty people in Tifton, and they're still

467
00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,879
Speaker 4: doing their runs to this day.

468
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back.

469
00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:12,800
Speaker 4: What are these runs called the called we are the

470
00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,679
Speaker 4: traffic were the traffic We call it we are the

471
00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,480
Speaker 4: traffic because at five am, there's no cars on the road.

472
00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:20,120
Speaker 3: We run.

473
00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,320
Speaker 4: We run in the middle of the street. We run

474
00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,159
Speaker 4: in the middle of the street, yep. And so we

475
00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,520
Speaker 4: run the middle of the street. And literally we called

476
00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,080
Speaker 4: it we are the traffic because it just came out

477
00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:31,760
Speaker 4: the first day, out of the video and I was

478
00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,040
Speaker 4: just like, well, we got plenty of space to run

479
00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,000
Speaker 4: because there is no traffic, because we are the traffic.

480
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:41,120
Speaker 4: And then it just stuck like we Nope, they never

481
00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,040
Speaker 4: mad see the permit because they didn't want to.

482
00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:43,680
Speaker 3: You know why.

483
00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,399
Speaker 4: I'm glad it didn't bother us though, because we weren't

484
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,560
Speaker 4: bothering anybody. There was nobody to call them me to complaint.

485
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,240
Speaker 4: We're not stopping any traffic. And if we were stopping traffic,

486
00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,000
Speaker 4: we have road guards. So there are a few cars

487
00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,840
Speaker 4: that come here and there or whatever, and so we

488
00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,200
Speaker 4: have road guards with flashing stop signs. And what we'll

489
00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,199
Speaker 4: do is we'll have our runners stop and we'll let

490
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,119
Speaker 4: the cars go by. They'll blow their horns and you

491
00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 4: know whatever like that, you know, just like saying hey

492
00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 4: guys or whatever, and they'll keep they'll we'll keep running.

493
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,520
Speaker 4: You know, so if we ever have traffic that needs

494
00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,840
Speaker 4: to stop, we have stop signs. And that's been the

495
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,359
Speaker 4: biggest movement that's happened in our hometown in years. I

496
00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,000
Speaker 4: mean people were all over town talking about it. I

497
00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 4: mean it was the biggest thing ever. Even to this day,

498
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:17,800
Speaker 4: people just like, hey, you.

499
00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:18,440
Speaker 3: Guys still run.

500
00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,040
Speaker 4: I need to come out there and get my health together.

501
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,040
Speaker 4: I mean, and to see, just to be honest with you,

502
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 4: to see like morbidly obese people who like they've never

503
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,199
Speaker 4: exercised in their life out there trying. I mean, I've

504
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,400
Speaker 4: seen people just massive, just trying.

505
00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:30,480
Speaker 3: And that's what matter.

506
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 4: That's what hit us in the heart light, to see

507
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,960
Speaker 4: people really trying. Like I got people from the hood

508
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,399
Speaker 4: coming out. We got people the lawyers out there, we

509
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,280
Speaker 4: got the doctors out there, we got all different types

510
00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,000
Speaker 4: of people. And you want to know something, we have

511
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,600
Speaker 4: this big race issue in our hometown. And I just

512
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,680
Speaker 4: really think the race issue is all on social media.

513
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,480
Speaker 4: I've never seen in person. No racism in all Bennie.

514
00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 4: In my opinion, they'll get mad when they see this.

515
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 3: I don't care. But the run exposed something about all Beanie.

516
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,159
Speaker 4: That was so powerful because if you look at the

517
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,399
Speaker 4: news media, they'll sell all racism and black and white,

518
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,840
Speaker 4: et cetera, and all this jazz is happening.

519
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 3: Right, we get to the run.

520
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 4: You have older white women out there, you have the

521
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 4: regular black guys. You have we have the Polynesians or

522
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,399
Speaker 4: out there, they have a gym club. You had the

523
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 4: Chinese people out because the ones that like own the

524
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:20,639
Speaker 4: gas station is something.

525
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 3: They were there.

526
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,960
Speaker 4: Listen, everybody was there, and I'm talking about every race.

527
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 4: And to see nobody's out there talking politics. Nobody's out

528
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,080
Speaker 4: there doing that stuff. Everybody's interacting with each other and

529
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:31,920
Speaker 4: spending time with nerves.

530
00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,679
Speaker 3: So this is what we did. We did a survey.

531
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,480
Speaker 4: We had everybody do cure do a survey, and we said,

532
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,040
Speaker 4: have you interacted with people of other races or other

533
00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 4: you know, backgrounds while you've been here.

534
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 3: Ninety percent of people say yes.

535
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,640
Speaker 4: We said, have has this run changed how you feel

536
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 4: about people from other races and other backgrounds? Sixty percent

537
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 4: of those people say yes, because you've had a chance

538
00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 4: to interact.

539
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 3: With these people. Now.

540
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 4: So this older white lady who's never interacted with young

541
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,679
Speaker 4: black guys before, these young black guys with dreads, they

542
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 4: are out running with Miss Sue every day, and Miss

543
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,640
Speaker 4: Sue is giving them encouragement. She's like, Oh, these guys

544
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 4: aren't bad, and they're like, oh, all white people aren't racist.

545
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:11,120
Speaker 4: Because Missus brought up some gatorade from Tuesday or whatever

546
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,200
Speaker 4: we saw Tuesday, and she brought us some cookies this week.

547
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,160
Speaker 4: Like I was watching all those interactions, friends that were made,

548
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 4: like families that were brought together. We had this one

549
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 4: crew come out, this granddaughter came, the mom came, the

550
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 4: mom and the mom's mom came and we took a

551
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,679
Speaker 4: picture with them. We had our oldest runner was like

552
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 4: ninety six, as an older white lady. She was out

553
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,960
Speaker 4: there and we had a blast with her. But to

554
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,120
Speaker 4: see all these people interacting with each other, that was all, Bennie,

555
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 4: not what you're seeing on TV. These people aren't sharing

556
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 4: stuff on social media, they aren't doing all the jazz.

557
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,679
Speaker 3: These are real people in all, Bennie. These are regular people.

558
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 4: Even I had God, to be honest, I had gouds

559
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 4: come out there with their guns and stuff like that

560
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 4: because they were scared. Had guys from the hood, you know.

561
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 4: I told him, I said, come here, come here, I

562
00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,880
Speaker 4: see you guns. Go put them in my truck. I said,

563
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,959
Speaker 4: go put them in my truck and we'll hold them

564
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:55,960
Speaker 4: until it's not for you to go.

565
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:56,679
Speaker 3: You don't need it out here.

566
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 4: Everything straight, the police come out here and run with us,

567
00:22:58,840 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 4: y'all good, like just chill.

568
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:00,959
Speaker 3: I didn't bother with them.

569
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 4: I didn't call the police on them, nothing, because y'all out.

570
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 3: Here trying to do nothing wrong.

571
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 4: I know, if you out here at five o'clock in

572
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 4: the morning, you're not out here to cause trouble.

573
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 3: You out here because you want to run.

574
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 4: And they participated and they enjoy and so they would

575
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:13,439
Speaker 4: come all the time, and they would still put their

576
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 4: guns in my truck.

577
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:15,640
Speaker 3: I woul let them put their guns in my truck. Whatever.

578
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,160
Speaker 3: I ain't tell the police, dad or whatever.

579
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 4: But but that was important for me because I'm glad

580
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 4: y'all out here trying to do something. And you know

581
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 4: what they were telling me. They was like, yeah, I

582
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 4: went to go knock on my homeboard door and making

583
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 4: him get up, like they all keeping each other accountable. Now,

584
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 4: Like nah, y'all get up and to come out here

585
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 4: and run with us, like it was a beautiful thing.

586
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 4: And people were coming from out of town. I had

587
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,239
Speaker 4: somebody to come. One of the guys flew back in

588
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 4: from Japan. He was like, Bro, I've been seeing this

589
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 4: all over Facebook. Had to come by, had God. People

590
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 4: came from Florida, people came from out of town, like

591
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 4: because it was the biggest thing happening. So you know,

592
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 4: that's that's something that I believe if you spend time

593
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 4: on again, you can squeeze positivity out of even our town,

594
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 4: like I'll be in Georgia if you try to squeeze

595
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 4: the positivity out of it, Like, I just unfollow all

596
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 4: the commissioners and all the pages and all the news

597
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 4: media because all your y'all do is talk about how

598
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 4: bad all Bennie is and this commissioner ain't doing this,

599
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 4: and that person ain't doing that.

600
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 3: And all being into the bad place. I got people.

601
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 4: This guy he posted all the littering all be like,

602
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 4: I just can't believe people are littering around all Beanie. Well,

603
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 4: why don't you go take a picture of the churches

604
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 4: that are giving it something away every weekend?

605
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 3: Why don't you go take a picture.

606
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 4: Of that that that that restaurant that's giving away free

607
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 4: food sometime? Why don't you Why don't you clean the

608
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 4: trash up, like I mean again, or this is one

609
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 4: guy he goes around and just talks.

610
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 3: About all the black and ovey. Look at this bad

611
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 3: building right here. Look, oh my god, this building is

612
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 3: so terrible. Well, go do something else, find you something

613
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 3: else to do.

614
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,439
Speaker 4: That's all folks want to do around Albany is talk

615
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,120
Speaker 4: about all the bad, the bad, the bad, the bad,

616
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 4: the bad. It's a thousand great things happening. And so

617
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 4: at one point it was my duty to go share

618
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,640
Speaker 4: all the great things happening, like sleeping heavenly peace, sleeping heavily.

619
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,400
Speaker 3: People on the podcast for good Friends of Us.

620
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 4: Yes, the one that we have in our hometown. I

621
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 4: did a video for him, for the one in our hometown.

622
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 4: They're giving they're building bads for kids who don't have them.

623
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 4: I didn't even know so many kids weren't sleeping on

624
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 4: the floor.

625
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 2: So around three percent of kids in America do not

626
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 2: have a bad and maybe hiring all money in a memphest.

627
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 4: We going through time, these kids ain't got here, or

628
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 4: so my mom like, we went to this one house.

629
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 4: They didn't they didn't have any furniture, but those beds.

630
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 4: My mom like went and bought them fronture. She was like, listen,

631
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 4: I'm gonna bet out they'd have a refrigerator nothing. So

632
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 4: my mom, like I told her about I said, Hey,

633
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 4: we at this one house. They don't got nothing. She's like,

634
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go buy them refrigerator and stuff, and I'm

635
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 4: gona just get to them. And so we had all

636
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 4: the stuff delivered to their house and whatever like that.

637
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 4: But man like, just to see where how kids are

638
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 4: living and stuff like that, but to see what we're

639
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 4: able to do in helping, that's what matters. And so

640
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,640
Speaker 4: if we spend the time trying to tell those stories,

641
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 4: our community morale will look a lot different. Because the

642
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 4: morale around the hometown of All Bennie when the run

643
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 4: started was great.

644
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 3: When the run happened, morale was here.

645
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 4: Nobody talked about nothing in All Benne at that time,

646
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 4: but the run. Everywhere you went, Walmart, the mall didn't

647
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 4: care if I was there or not. Everybody was talking

648
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 4: about the run all over Facebook, whatever. Even people who

649
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 4: were saying bad stuff about it, they're like, ah, he's

650
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 4: just using y'all.

651
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,719
Speaker 3: For content, blah blah blah, whatever. Mind you.

652
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 4: People don't even realize how you even get paid on Facebook.

653
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 4: They thinking I'm making thousands of dollars or something. I'm like,

654
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 4: first of all, the only way you make money on

655
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Speaker 4: Facebook is if you're making five hundred thousand likes. I'm

656
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Speaker 4: talking about thirty million views or something like. That's how

657
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 4: you really getting paid. I'm making sixty bucks tops off

658
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 4: a thousand likes. Come on, dude, like you're.

659
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 3: Giving one hundred dollars away to the waitress.

660
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Speaker 4: I'm not making no money off of this. I don't

661
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Speaker 4: even in all the shirts we were giving away. I

662
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 4: bought thousands of shirts, thousands of shirts. We gave away

663
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 4: so many shirts, hoodies and everything. Ask me, has anybody

664
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 4: paid for one of them?

665
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Speaker 3: No?

666
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 4: I did it because I just wanted people to represent

667
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 4: the brand. People like, oh, he got there selling shirts.

668
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 4: None of these shirts we're bought for selling. All of

669
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Speaker 4: them were giving away for free, every last one, every

670
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Speaker 4: shirt for breast cancer awareness whatever, Every shirt was free.

671
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 4: All the hoodies I bought for Christmas free that was

672
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 4: out of my pocket or whatever, and not because I

673
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 4: was making money from it or whatever.

674
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Speaker 3: So but people have stuff to say.

675
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Speaker 4: But either way, whether it was bad or good, people

676
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 4: were talking about it and so that's what matters to me.

677
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 4: And so I also feel like people don't respect growth

678
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 4: because there were a lot of mistakes I've made, things

679
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 4: I've changed my mind on whatever. I'm twenty six now.

680
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 4: When I was nineteen, there were a lot of things

681
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,679
Speaker 4: that I thought that were wrong. There were things I

682
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 4: failed at that of the school at first it failed,

683
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Speaker 4: you know, things that I projects I did it failed.

684
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 4: And so it's like, oh, he messed this up and

685
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 4: messed that outph and blah blah. Well you've messed up

686
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 4: nothing because you've never did anything or whatever. So why

687
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 4: are you worried about me and what I'm doing, you know,

688
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 4: or because you're too scared to jump on something big and.

689
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 3: So you just the man in the arena.

690
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 2: I'm the man in arena, regardless of it.

691
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 4: No you're talking about but I'm the man here and whatever.

692
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,479
Speaker 4: And whether you guys want to admit it or not.

693
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 4: Every time that you guys are having terrible content time

694
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 4: on social media or whatever, you know, what you do,

695
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 4: you say something about me just so you can get

696
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 4: some lights. This one guy in our hometown, he's a

697
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 4: big hater. He swear he not, but anyway, he swear

698
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 4: he not. He's come to apologize me for stuff he

699
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 4: said and everything. But anytime his social media is doing bad,

700
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 4: every single time he can't get no lights, he'll go

701
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 4: say something about me just to get some attention because

702
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 4: he knows his other bandwagons people that don't like me

703
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 4: or join in mind you, I have done nothing to

704
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 4: these people. I haven't bothered him.

705
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 3: I have done nothing to them whatever they make up

706
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 3: all this stuff and all right, while it's other positive.

707
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Speaker 2: Just like you brought people together with the we will

708
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 2: often say the same thing about service and actually sleeping

709
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,360
Speaker 2: Heavenly Piece is a great example of that. You show

710
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 2: up to one of their bed builds and you guys

711
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 2: are working to build beds for kids with out them

712
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 2: and one person's black, one's white, ones a democrat ones

713
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 2: are probably one's gay ones straight like nobody cares. And

714
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 2: I'll tell you who doesn't care, the kid receiving the bed. Nope,

715
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 2: you could care less, man. You know it's it's that's

716
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 2: but again, that's what matters. And that's what I keep

717
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 2: trying to get people to understand that those things are

718
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 2: are what matters, man, And we'll get people to understand

719
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 2: that once people begin to tell these stories, and I

720
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 2: keep telling people we have a responsibility as people who

721
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 2: have big followings to tell these good stories.

722
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Speaker 3: What we're trying to do here at our army and

723
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 3: normal folks.

724
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Speaker 4: We have a responsibility to do it because so many

725
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 4: people are watching us, so many people are looking, you know,

726
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,479
Speaker 4: at us. I don't have the luxury, in my opinion,

727
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 4: to be just doing anything. I don't just share no

728
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 4: any old content. I don't just be on there trying

729
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 4: to make funny skits or nothing like that. My content

730
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 4: is intentional. I show you me being a dad because

731
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Speaker 4: now I'm a ren forcing the idea for another dad

732
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 4: that's been watching me that he's doing the right thing.

733
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 4: Because I've had dad say I was questioning myself about

734
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 4: how to do this, or people were saying bad thing.

735
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 4: But I've seen your videos now and I feel like

736
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 4: I'm doing a good job, or Dad's or to ask

737
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 4: me for advice or whatever. We slowly building little communities

738
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Speaker 4: everywhere because people are watching this stuff or how I'm

739
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 4: working with the kids. I've inspired fifty sixty other guys

740
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 4: to do similar things in their areas, but they never

741
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 4: would have did it if they didn't see my content

742
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 4: or whatever. So it's very important that we share those things,

743
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 4: you know, and continue the goodness. And I'm not just

744
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 4: talking about giving away Thanksgiving turkeys. Everybody does that. I

745
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 4: truly mean like true community work that takes actual time.

746
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 4: It don't take no time for me to go give

747
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 4: away some Thanksgiving turkeys and I don't understand we're give

748
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 4: away thans Giving turkeys and people don't even have stoves

749
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 4: to cook them on. Like that's again, that's important stuff

750
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Speaker 4: to think about.

751
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Speaker 3: Like it's one thing we focus on the guides. It's

752
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Speaker 3: a lot.

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Speaker 2: There's a really good line one of our guests said,

754
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 2: like a lot of those things like giving away a

755
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: turkey or helping people live in poverty a little bit better.

756
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 3: It is, and that is not the goal. The goal

757
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Speaker 3: is transfer.

758
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Speaker 4: We want to show them how to not need us

759
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 4: for a turkey, and that's what's important. But again, I

760
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 4: think we'll get there. I think we'll get there in time.

761
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 4: I just feel like we we have to again tell

762
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Speaker 4: those stories. We underestimate the power telling stories.

763
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Speaker 3: Oh that's awesome.

764
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Speaker 2: I love to get that from you, so we can

765
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Speaker 2: feature on social media when you probout the episode.

766
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll see we thought about doing these.

767
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Speaker 2: We are the traffic runs across the country, and let

768
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Speaker 2: me tell you, I'd love to try to figure that out.

769
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Speaker 3: So what I would like to do.

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Speaker 2: We're actually starting I think. I don't know if I

771
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Speaker 2: told you in the car, I probably don't. We're starting

772
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Speaker 2: local chapters across the country. So actually now call them

773
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Speaker 2: local service clubs. Okay, got We're launch in six right now.

774
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Speaker 2: We'll keep going from there. But with those six and

775
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Speaker 2: then and more in the future, it may be great

776
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Speaker 2: for them to each year, or we are the traffic

777
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Speaker 2: around each year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And so we have other cities that have started them.

779
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Speaker 4: I just let somebody man it wherever they are and

780
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Speaker 4: I'll share it on social media so our followers can

781
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Speaker 4: see it. Because other people have started runs in other towns,

782
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 4: and so I just shared on our social media so

783
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Speaker 4: everybody from their town can see it and they can

784
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Speaker 4: go join. Cause some people were driving out of town

785
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 4: to come to our run. I'm like, well, you got

786
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 4: run as close to you over there, just go to

787
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 4: that run, you know whatever. Like, because I don't want

788
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 4: people to just only want to have to come to ours,

789
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Speaker 4: and I wanted the movement to be great, but I'm

790
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 4: personally only gonna focus on, you know, my hometown. As

791
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Speaker 4: I mentioned before, you know, I will let people start

792
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 4: or have people start their own wherever they are. I

793
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 4: can't guarantee i'll be there, but I can guarantee you

794
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Speaker 4: I'll share it. I'll guarantee to promote it. But I'm

795
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 4: probably not gonna come cause I want to make sure

796
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 4: we represent the city of All Benny and that's what

797
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 4: I do. There for your boys, yeah, be there for

798
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Speaker 4: my boys. That's what I don't want to happen. I've

799
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Speaker 4: said it before, like we've had many people, you know,

800
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Speaker 4: we have NFL players from All Bennie, we have seniors

801
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 4: from All Bennie, whatever, and a lot of them won't

802
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 4: come back. They won't give I mean, we got an

803
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 4: NFL player, got non profits in other hometowns.

804
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 3: I'm like, why do you have.

805
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Speaker 4: A non profit somewhere else and you're not doing it

806
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Speaker 4: in our hometown.

807
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Speaker 3: I don't understand that, you know. But I'm not here

808
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 3: to pocket watch.

809
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Speaker 4: I just let them do what they do. I'm not

810
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 4: here to call names. Just let them do what they do.

811
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Speaker 4: But I just don't respect that. I don't respect you know,

812
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 4: I have made it, and I'm not getting anything back

813
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 4: to the community. Even if again I haven't made it,

814
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 4: I still do my duty to make sure I spread

815
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 4: funds in our hometown. So when we make money, I

816
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 4: make money whatever like that, I go give to local

817
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,239
Speaker 4: non profits in our hometown. I go make sure our

818
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 4: local college has some money. I go make sure we

819
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 4: go volunteer there.

820
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Speaker 3: I spread. When I get donors, I'm like, hey, we

821
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Speaker 3: also got.

822
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Speaker 4: An other non profit over there. Would you like to

823
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 4: donate something to them too, or whatever? Like I don't

824
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 4: just be sitting around like hogging all the donations. I'm like, no,

825
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 4: let's spread this around town. You know, so many nonprofits

826
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Speaker 4: and businesses and all being will tell you, like no

827
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 4: king is given. We help pay for funerals, whatever we do,

828
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Speaker 4: and give as much as we can in the city

829
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Speaker 4: of All Benny.

830
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Speaker 3: And that's what's important to me, and that's why people

831
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Speaker 3: love us.

832
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Speaker 4: Like for the most part, ninety percent of all Benion

833
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 4: loves you know what, we do have a small ten

834
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 4: percent who wishes they were who we are. But I

835
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 4: just tell people to join join in with us, and

836
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 4: we can all, you know, be great together.

837
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Speaker 3: We don't have to be separate. We'll be right back.

838
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 3: Let's go back in time. We have to do to

839
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Speaker 3: rewind the fam. That was good. Yeah, you got the school. Now,

840
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 3: you didn't always have the school. So started as summer camp.

841
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you then went to after school,

842
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 2: but you must have had a dream at some point

843
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 2: to have a school, and that's not always been an

844
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 2: easy ride for you either.

845
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Speaker 3: So right now, you tell us a little bit about the.

846
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Speaker 2: Dream, the story, the challenges, the perseverance and what people

847
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 2: can learn from all that.

848
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Speaker 4: The Extra Boys program again started in twenty nineteen, and

849
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 4: then I started out doing workshops teaching kids how to

850
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 4: work on cars and houses at my uncle's house. And

851
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 4: then we transitioned to the summer program, which I operated

852
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 4: out of my home.

853
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 3: I had twenty kids there. It was just me.

854
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 4: I would cook, you know, for them, make sure they

855
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 4: had food, or sometimes I didn't cook, but we grew food.

856
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 3: Taught them how to work on cars.

857
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Speaker 4: Made a lot of mistakes there or whatever, just getting

858
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 4: my feet wet with things, but I never stopped. Following

859
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 4: year COVID happened. Then I had six boys come live

860
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 4: at my house. I had bunk beds and I made

861
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 4: my living room or bedroom.

862
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Speaker 3: Why did they come up with it because of coronavirus.

863
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 2: Well, you're saying because you couldn't work with them because

864
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Speaker 2: the city would allow it.

865
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Speaker 3: You said, I'll bring them with me. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The parents were reaching out saying, you know, hey, the

867
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Speaker 4: kids are stuck at home. We don't have anything for

868
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 4: them to do. Can you do something. I'm like, well,

869
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Speaker 4: the only thing I could possibly do is have them

870
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Speaker 4: come to live with me. I don't know about this virus.

871
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on with it, So the

872
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 4: only way I can shelter in place together. Yeah, that's

873
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 4: what we did. That's what we did. And of course,

874
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 4: after a while, when I kind of got a feel

875
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 4: for the virus or whatever like that, I'm like, okay,

876
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 4: I understand how we can maneuver around now. So we

877
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 4: went to traveling. We started traveling all over the country

878
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 4: because flights were like twenty thirty bucks.

879
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 3: We were flying everywhere. Oh, we were out, we left.

880
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 4: We were in Cincinnati, we were in New York, we

881
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 4: were in San Diego. I flew those kids all around

882
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 4: the country and nobody ever got sick.

883
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 3: You know, we was flying everywhere. Nobody's on the flights,

884
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 3: but us.

885
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm flying like six and seven of us

886
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 4: at a time for like a hurrent Bucks. Like we

887
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 4: was out man, we took it me bro. Yeah, advantage

888
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 4: of that time. And we travel and travel and travel,

889
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 4: and a lot of those kids, some of their first

890
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 4: times traveling ever was with us.

891
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 3: We've had so many kids.

892
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 4: Even to this day, we meet kids who've never even

893
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 4: been outside of our hometown and people think that's crazy.

894
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm serious. There are kids who have only

895
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 4: ever been inside of our town. We have this local

896
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 4: little farmer's market called Marx millon Patch, which is maybe

897
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 4: about twenty minutes away, and you know, we always went

898
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 4: there in pre k for like the Pumpkin Patch field

899
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 4: trip or whatever like that. We have kids who hadn't

900
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,959
Speaker 4: even been there. I'm just like, it's only fifteen minutes away.

901
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,959
Speaker 4: And so we took kids to Atlanta. Like they're taking

902
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 4: pictures of the buildings and like they'd never seen a

903
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 4: big building before.

904
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 3: I never seen a skyscraper in life. A gold dome

905
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 3: in Atlanta, Yeah, that's right, and so I see it

906
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 3: all the time.

907
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 4: Or taking them to the beach just to see the

908
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 4: ocean is big, like these kids are experiencing things, and

909
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 4: so that mattered.

910
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 3: And so it was in twenty twenty one.

911
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 4: I had spent my last little bit of money on

912
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 4: this social media class, learning how to promote on social

913
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 4: media because I was just like I got to figure

914
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 4: out something. I'm like, I can't nobody's donating in the hometown,

915
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 4: you know. I'm like, I gotta figure out how we're

916
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 4: gonna make money or something like that. I don't understand

917
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 4: like what we're gonna do. Like, so I started taking

918
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 4: the social media class and they told us to get

919
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 4: on Twitter and get on like make other social media accounts.

920
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 3: So I got on Twitter.

921
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 4: I started posting on Twitter, and like, we get a

922
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 4: message from the White House to come to the White House.

923
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 4: After we posted this clip of us we'll not clip,

924
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 4: posted these photos of us putting sheet rock on the ceiling,

925
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 4: tease the kids how to make sheet rock. And next

926
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 4: thing you know, we at the White House and all

927
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 4: these people in DC was like, who are you guys

928
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 4: and what do you do? And I'm telling them about us.

929
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 3: And I'm just loving kids. Yeah.

930
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 4: Man, So we we finished that and like that's when

931
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 4: we started getting a little following. This guy came to

932
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 4: interview us. His name is Siaka Masaqua. I can't I

933
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:42,280
Speaker 4: can't remember.

934
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 3: I can't.

935
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 4: I might be saying it right, but his name is Siaka.

936
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 4: Siaka did our first ever real interview. That got some

937
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 4: traction and people like started donating to our program. And

938
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 4: so from there I started. I kept posting on social media,

939
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 4: kept posting, kept posting, and you know, as time went by,

940
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 4: we were able to build you know, good funding.

941
00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 3: We bought a building.

942
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 4: You know, we were able to have our actual school

943
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 4: program there and to see, you know, how we were

944
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 4: able to build that. I started the school in twenty

945
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 4: twenty two. I definitely built off of a lot more

946
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 4: like al Chew with that. I was just ready to

947
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 4: start it, mainly because I was into it with so

948
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 4: many people in my hometown about the school, and people

949
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 4: was like trying to say I was lying about the

950
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 4: school and this and that or whatever, because we had

951
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 4: to keep changing things because we weren't able to make

952
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 4: a deal. Happened with our local school system, so we

953
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 4: had got into it, you know a little bit with

954
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 4: our local school system. But that relationship has been mended,

955
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,240
Speaker 4: of course, because we all worked with the same kids.

956
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 4: But at the time, you know, we were into a

957
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 4: big debacle with them and newspapers, some people saying we

958
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 4: was lying, so we was having to try and improve.

959
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 4: I think we weren't lying or whatever. It was a

960
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 4: lot happening with that. And anyway, we opened the school up,

961
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 4: and I was mainly just really wanted to open the schools.

962
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 3: Like, no, we did it. You know. We opened the

963
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 3: school up maybe about a year in.

964
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, like this is expensive and we only

965
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 4: had eleven kids.

966
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 3: I'm like this is expensive.

967
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 4: Like I'm like this is killing me, you know, like

968
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 4: the light build and making sure the kids got them

969
00:37:58,880 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 4: twenty four hour care.

970
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 3: I'm just like this. There was a boarding school all

971
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 3: that time, right, Yeah, I'm like, this is a lot.

972
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 3: I did not realize it.

973
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 4: Was gonna be so much, and it got they get

974
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 4: robbed around them.

975
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 3: Oh this was in twenty twenty three and so that

976
00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 3: was the next year. But yeah, it was.

977
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 4: It was tough trying to do it, and so we

978
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 4: eventually were like like, Okay, we're gonna cut the boarding

979
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 4: piece out and we'll just do school, you know, We'll

980
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 4: just do school by itself and that'll be it. So

981
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 4: we ended up doing school. We cut boarding out and

982
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 4: even school and was just like, still expensive because I

983
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 4: need the staff there, et cetera, et cetera. So we

984
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 4: ended up shifting back to a complete after school program,

985
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 4: and at a point I was getting ready to shut

986
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 4: the program down, just like, man, I can't find the

987
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 4: fun to rock this. Man, I'm like, maybe I just

988
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 4: can just do my one off workshops like I used

989
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 4: to do, and we'll try and grow from there.

990
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 3: But literally, just power social media.

991
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 4: I posted this video online just you know, talking about

992
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 4: some politics stuff or whatever like that. But I started

993
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 4: talking about what it is that I do, and some

994
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 4: big person saw it and he was like, Hey, I'm

995
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 4: gonna give you guys four hundred grand you know, to

996
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 4: operate for the year. Because he was like, what do

997
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 4: you guys need, I'm like, we about to shut down.

998
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 4: I'm like I don't really have anything. So he's like, okay, cool,

999
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 4: go buy vans. Get you some staff members operate five

1000
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 4: days a week now, like this is everything you got

1001
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 4: need to operate for the rest of the year. He

1002
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 4: has to be anonymous, yeah, if you knew who it was,

1003
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 4: but anyway.

1004
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 3: So I'm curious, but I won't ask you.

1005
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, he was just like, take care

1006
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 4: of everything you need for the year, like I love

1007
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 4: what this is doing, and keep me updated. And so

1008
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 4: that's what I did. And so with that also I

1009
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 4: was able to.

1010
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 2: Just like you with a larger bank account, just like

1011
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 2: how you give one hundred dollars to the waitress, He's

1012
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: just like, dollars version of it truly.

1013
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 3: Is a dollar version.

1014
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 4: I think it's a dollar version for him, just to

1015
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 4: be honest with you. But but yeah, that it that

1016
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,479
Speaker 4: helped us for the entirety of the last year, which

1017
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 4: was twenty twenty five. So we got renovations done, new vans,

1018
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 4: new staff members, whatever, and the program is running.

1019
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 3: I mean, the most beautiful is been able to run.

1020
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 4: And so now you know with fundraising, now I was

1021
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 4: able to useil loze some of those funds to do

1022
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 4: better fundraising. And so now we're just operating every year

1023
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 4: because I'm able to. It's about raise our budget. So

1024
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 4: we had a two hundred thousand dollars donor matching gift

1025
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 4: that we're actually doing now. We're doing that fund raising

1026
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 4: right now, and so he's like, hey, I'm mattch two

1027
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 4: hundred thousand if you can raise two hundred thousand. I'm like,

1028
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 4: oh cool, let's do it, because that don't help us

1029
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 4: get through the year. So that's what we're working on now,

1030
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 4: is that two. So that the So any listener who

1031
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 4: wants to participate in go to the Exboys dot org

1032
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 4: and you can donate there and if you want to

1033
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 4: see any photos, pictures, videos, it's all on the website.

1034
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 2: Yep, that's awesome. And was there a fire at one

1035
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 2: point and a robbery?

1036
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 4: No, it was a robbery, so well it wasn't even

1037
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 4: I wouldn't even just call it robbery. It was vandalism

1038
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 4: because they really did rob things, but it was mostly vandalism.

1039
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 3: So this was a summer camp.

1040
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,359
Speaker 4: We weren't operating out of our main building at the time,

1041
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 4: and we want to go by the main building to

1042
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 4: play basketball because the basketball gym there. And this was

1043
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 4: like twenty twenty three summer, I believe it was. And anyway,

1044
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 4: so we get to the building and I'm just about

1045
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 4: to go in. Open the door up so we can go,

1046
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 4: you know, bring all the kids in. And I walk

1047
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 4: in the door and like, it's stuff everywhere. I'm not

1048
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 4: just a forty one thousand square foot building this is

1049
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 4: a massive facility, twenty five classrooms, basketball gym. The entirety

1050
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 4: from front to back of the building was wrecked. I

1051
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 4: mean from the front to back. It wasn't just oh,

1052
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 4: we're just gonna take some stuff, you know whatever like that.

1053
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 4: It was like they deliberately like destroyed the building.

1054
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 3: So I must really hate you. That's a lot of

1055
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 3: time to go through all that and record. Man. Every

1056
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 3: piece of glass in the building was shattered.

1057
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 4: The toilets were pulled out of the ground and broken

1058
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 4: like we had just bought all new toilets at the

1059
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 4: school on one of our donors, by all new toilets.

1060
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 3: All the toilets were pulled out of ground.

1061
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 4: Sinks were pulled out, the water fountains were pulled out,

1062
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,439
Speaker 4: Our uniforms were ripped up, our school signs, pictures taking

1063
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 4: off the walls, took all electrical cores out of the building.

1064
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 4: And we was only gone like three weeks, and I

1065
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 4: had been riding by the building.

1066
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 3: I didn't go.

1067
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 4: When I was riding by the building, if you look

1068
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 4: at it on the outside, it looks fantastic, you know

1069
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 4: whatever we had to painted and everything, So I'm just

1070
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 4: riding by, Okay, it looks good whatever like that, I'm

1071
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 4: not thinking nothing of it. And everything's going out there,

1072
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 4: I mean literally from we don't have any electricity and

1073
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 4: there we can't turn electricity on. Add they took everything

1074
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 4: out of the boxes, all the wiring, they pulled all

1075
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 4: the stuff out of the ceilings. I mean, to see

1076
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 4: that building, I was like, what in the world. I mean,

1077
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 4: we had spent so much time getting it to even

1078
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 4: where it was. It still needed to work. But I mean,

1079
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 4: now unless we get like a two million dollars three

1080
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 4: million dollar donor just coming, Hey, we'll come and fix

1081
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 4: the building for you, it's not even any point like

1082
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 4: even just trying to do anything to it right now,

1083
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 4: because it wouldn't make any sense. It's just be a

1084
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 4: waste right now. So but yeah, we're operating fully out

1085
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 4: of our after school building. We had chickens. Now, we

1086
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 4: got vans, we got playgrounds, we got murals on the building.

1087
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 4: It's a beautiful facility, and the students are operating five

1088
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 4: days a week from two to eight.

1089
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 3: And we pick them up from school.

1090
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 4: Like I said, we send them home with tolla trees

1091
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 4: once a month, and that's paper, towels, underwear, pencils, whatever

1092
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 4: they need, we send it home with them for the

1093
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 4: school term. When they need school supplies, their parents have

1094
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,240
Speaker 4: to buy nothing. We send them home with everything they need,

1095
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 4: their tablets, book bags, whatever. And we have an Amazon

1096
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 4: wish list. And so anytime I post on Amazon whistless,

1097
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 4: our donors gonna take care of it.

1098
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 3: I say, hey, to school is about to be open?

1099
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 3: What school years about to be open for the kids?

1100
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 3: They need X, y z, And people go by, you know,

1101
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 3: they'll go buy the things that the kids need.

1102
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 4: That's the power of social media and the power of

1103
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 4: people that believe, and also the power of transparency and sharing.

1104
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 4: One reason people love to give to our program is

1105
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 4: because we share everything. There's not a thing that I

1106
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 4: don't share. I don't care for light bulbs getting putt in. Hey, guys,

1107
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 4: look that light bubby balled off of Amazon Prime.

1108
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 3: Here's go. Here it is going in. Hey, that paint

1109
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,479
Speaker 3: you guys bay, Here it is going on the wall.

1110
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 4: Hey guys, those toilets you purchase here, they are getting

1111
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 4: installed like that.

1112
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 3: People will love that. And so our.

1113
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 4: Biggest donors to the program I've never met before. But

1114
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 4: because I'm constantly sharing, you know what it is that

1115
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 4: we're doing. They constantly give.

1116
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 2: And outside of big donors, I'm guessing you got your

1117
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 2: own are very normal folks. The small donors are supporting

1118
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 2: your time.

1119
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 4: Five dollar donors are are the heartbeat of our program.

1120
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 4: We do have some bigger donors, but our donors who

1121
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 4: give twenty dollars a month, one hundred dollars a month,

1122
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 4: five dollars here and there. I have somebody who's used

1123
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 4: to get fifty cents and he was like, I'm extremely,

1124
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 4: extremely poor, but I just can'tnot support what it is

1125
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 4: that you're doing, you know whatever.

1126
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 3: Like that.

1127
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 4: Those are people that make the program, you know, run,

1128
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 4: because those are people that just believe. And that's the

1129
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 4: power of telling stories. We tell our story and that's

1130
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 4: what I believe is very important. And so we've also

1131
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 4: helped people you know that have helped us before. Because

1132
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 4: this is one lady I'll never forget. She didn't have

1133
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 4: a job or something and I helped her out one time,

1134
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,759
Speaker 4: and I'll never forget. She was working at a car

1135
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,479
Speaker 4: dealership when I was coming to get my car service,

1136
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 4: and so I was like, hey, how you doing. She

1137
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 4: was working at cardis now and she decided to donate

1138
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 4: to the program, you know.

1139
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 3: Now.

1140
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 4: She was like, listen, I remember when you helped me out,

1141
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 4: you know, a long time ago.

1142
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna donate more, you know, to your program.

1143
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 4: And that just meant a lot, because I've helped so

1144
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,720
Speaker 4: many people, like we used to do this Christmas giveaway,

1145
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 4: And what my Christmas giveaway consisted of was I would

1146
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 4: get people, random people and on all beny who you know,

1147
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 4: were poor, to send us Christmas list, no matter what

1148
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 4: it was they wanted.

1149
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 3: I'll have to send us Christmas list. I could get everybody.

1150
00:44:58,920 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 3: I would if I couldn't.

1151
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,720
Speaker 4: It is what this so I told everybody I couldn't

1152
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 4: get everybody, but anyway, I would cost out about how

1153
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 4: much money it would cost to buy all the stuff

1154
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 4: on everybody's list. I would go, you know, on social media,

1155
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 4: say hey, we need to raise fifty thousand dollars to

1156
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 4: make sure Christmas happens for xyz amount of people. We

1157
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 4: raised fifty thousand dollars, and I would go buy all

1158
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 4: the stuff and fill the back of my truck up

1159
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 4: with all these toys, gadgets, whatever. We had people living

1160
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 4: in hotels or people just wanted shoes, People just wanted clothes,

1161
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 4: that fit and clothes, their bicycles for their kids, and

1162
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 4: to see the tears and the crying and whatever. Like

1163
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 4: just to see people just not having something to worry about,

1164
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 4: that meant a lot. You know, We've done that multiple

1165
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 4: times in all Bennie. I've done things where I just

1166
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 4: go around the store and pay for people's grocery or whatever,

1167
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 4: like that's what we do. And a lot of that

1168
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 4: stuff has never been filmed, Like you know, some of

1169
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 4: that stuff, you know, people just remember.

1170
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 3: I remember this kid. We were in Walmart.

1171
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 4: One time and this dad I could tell he couldn't

1172
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 4: afford to get his kid the PlayStation he wanted, so

1173
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 4: about the PlayStation for the kid and the dad I

1174
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 4: didn't even remember. I remember when it happened, but I

1175
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 4: didn't remember their faces or nothing. I just remember doing it.

1176
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:03,840
Speaker 4: And he was like, hey, how you doing. He was

1177
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 4: like a couple of years ago, you were in a

1178
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 4: store and you bought my son to PlayStation or whatever

1179
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 4: like that, you know, And I was like, I remember

1180
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 4: doing that.

1181
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 3: I just don't remember you but man Like, but to

1182
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 3: hear them remember that.

1183
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 4: Stuff and to see how it affected them in a

1184
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 4: big way, and that means a lot. You know, or

1185
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 4: just riding down the road and seeing these people trying

1186
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 4: to raise money for their family member's funeral and I'll like, hey,

1187
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 4: what funeral home is he at?

1188
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 3: Got a great relationship with friend. I go there.

1189
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 4: I'm like, hey, let me take care of you know,

1190
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 4: the funeral whatever like that, and we're gonna be good

1191
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 4: to go and don't tell them who I am nothing.

1192
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 4: I just go and do it, and something they don't

1193
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 4: have to worry about, Like i just love people not

1194
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 4: having stuff to worry about. And when that happens again,

1195
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 4: we create better morale and we're able to tell these

1196
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 4: stories and encourage people to do the same thing.

1197
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 3: That's how we build a greatest city after.

1198
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 2: The vandalism or you clearly have plenty of haters you've

1199
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 2: told me about after you ever felt like quitting at

1200
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 2: one point, like this is just enough. I've given so

1201
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 2: much to this community and just all this crap and

1202
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 2: all these obstacles, and I'm just gonna stop.

1203
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 4: Like I just mentioned, I've taken an early retirement from

1204
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 4: overarching community work. I'm only sticking with working with the kids.

1205
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 4: And am I still going to give like to you know,

1206
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 4: different organizations and stuff? Sure, but the overarching king round

1207
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 4: or that my hometown has seen me in everything and

1208
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 4: helping everything and helping so many people.

1209
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,840
Speaker 3: I'm just through with it because it's not going to

1210
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 3: be worth it in the end when you.

1211
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 4: Inevitably, you know, try and destroy you know what it

1212
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 4: is that I'm doing because I'm able to expose things,

1213
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 4: I have a big platform, I'm able to make things happen.

1214
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 4: So when you inevitably try to do that and nobody's

1215
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 4: here to take care of my kids for me, or

1216
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 4: nobody's able to take care of the things that I

1217
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 4: deem important, what was it all for? Because I don't

1218
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,240
Speaker 4: want to have gained the whole world and lost my family.

1219
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:45,399
Speaker 3: You know, like my.

1220
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 4: Kids are going to be successful. I believe in what

1221
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,439
Speaker 4: they're going to do. I believe in the extra boys

1222
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 4: and what they're going to do. Because I also thought about, Okay, well,

1223
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 4: if I start doing this other community stuff and trying

1224
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 4: to get into the political world in my hometown or

1225
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 4: whatever like that, imagine all the imagine this and that

1226
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 4: and whatever's.

1227
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 3: Going to happen.

1228
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 4: And then I'm thinking about all the students that are

1229
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 4: watching me or my kids or whatever, and all the

1230
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:09,359
Speaker 4: things people are gonna make up, and my kids gonna

1231
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,240
Speaker 4: have to go to school eventually, and blah blah blah,

1232
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 4: Like I'm cool on all that, all the stuff that

1233
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 4: my family has to deal with, Like my family will

1234
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 4: tell me, like sometimes you know, people don't know they'll

1235
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 4: related to me, and they'll people just like saying just

1236
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 4: nasty stuff about me.

1237
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 3: And again, what have I done to you?

1238
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 4: What have I done to anybody besides help you know

1239
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 4: this this this city or whatever. And so I just

1240
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 4: think it's too much. I don't think it's worth it.

1241
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 4: And again, I don't want to go down those routes

1242
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 4: of trying to help the city so bad. And the

1243
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 4: revelation came literally I was listening to Jake Hole and

1244
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 4: I was riding down the road and I was just like, man,

1245
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 4: it's a lot happening. I was like, I don't know

1246
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 4: if I want to really, you know, getting into all

1247
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,479
Speaker 4: this you know, stuff with trying to help people figure

1248
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 4: out what's going on in the hometown to make the

1249
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 4: hometown better and all that. Jake Cole said, don't save her.

1250
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 4: She don't want to be saved. And so I'm like, Okay,

1251
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 4: I'm just done helping people or trying to save folks

1252
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 4: who don't want to be saved. People call and ask

1253
00:48:57,719 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 4: me for ideas or ask me to help with this

1254
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 4: and that or whatever, and I'll help or try to

1255
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,919
Speaker 4: give them ideas. And nobody wants to implement under the things.

1256
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 4: Nobody wants to try and jump. Everybody's scared to take

1257
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 4: a risk. Everybody, Okay, cool, will you guys just do

1258
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 4: that on your own. I'm gonna help my kids and

1259
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 4: help these students of mine, and that's what I'm gonna do,

1260
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 4: and I'm become a businessman in the.

1261
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 3: Reality is, you can't.

1262
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 2: Solve all the world's problems. We're all of all these

1263
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 2: problems and they're really is going to take an army

1264
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 2: normal folks. There used to be an army of King

1265
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 2: Randall's in any community to actually solve all the problems.

1266
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 4: And you know what it is an army in our

1267
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 4: hometown of a lot of people that are doing great work.

1268
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 4: Have a guy named Ernest Christian and farmer Alfredo and

1269
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 4: all these different people in our hometown that are doing

1270
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 4: great work who don't get the big platforms that I do.

1271
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 4: So when I come on these shows, I say their

1272
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 4: names and say the restaurant names or whatever, because people

1273
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 4: deserve to hear about them, because somebody's going to look

1274
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 4: up Farmer Afraido after hearing me say that, and they're

1275
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 4: gonna see what all he does with Flint River Fresh

1276
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 4: and all Bennie by making sure all the schools have

1277
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 4: you know, fresh vegetable gardens and all that stuff like

1278
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 4: that are Ernest Christian. He does the same thing, but

1279
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 4: he also coaches football or Jamaski Franklin. He's an officer

1280
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 4: and of all being and who does a lot of

1281
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 4: great work with the youth. And you hear people say

1282
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 4: stuff about him all the time or whatever. Is everybody

1283
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 4: who's trying to do something, they're like, oh, well his

1284
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 4: personal life is this way or whatever.

1285
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 3: Who cares stay out of.

1286
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 4: Their business because we don't know about the skeletons in

1287
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 4: your closet, you know whatever, Like leave folks alone and

1288
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 4: let people do what they do. If people are helping

1289
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 4: and aren't hurting anybody, then let them do that. So

1290
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 4: everybody who's doing great stuff in our home. Travis Luke

1291
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 4: or whatever. People talk about him because he was formerly

1292
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 4: in prison and he used to be a gang leader

1293
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 4: or whatever. Is he trying to help now, Okay, well,

1294
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 4: let him have changed his life and do that. Or

1295
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 4: Lawrence McCrae, who is head of the Eastern International Trophan's

1296
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 4: baseball team, he has a pass and people want to

1297
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 4: say stuff about that. Let him have his past. But

1298
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 4: what are you doing while you're running your mouth or

1299
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 4: whatever like? So, let these people in our city of

1300
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 4: all being do the work they're doing and keep doing

1301
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 4: it or whatever.

1302
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 3: Let them do it. And if you're not going to

1303
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 3: do anything, shut them out. And if you are.

1304
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 4: Doing something, you should be so busy doing what you're

1305
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 4: doing that you don't have time to talk about any

1306
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 4: of us or what our personal life consists of, or

1307
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 4: who got how many kids? And what they were doing

1308
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 4: in their personal life alone time ago? Or who I

1309
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 4: was five years ago? Who cares? Spend so much time

1310
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 4: working on yourself that you ain't got time to worry

1311
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 4: about what we're doing in our hometown. Because we're working.

1312
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:11,439
Speaker 4: That's what we're gonna keep doing. We'll be right back,

1313
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 4: all right. A couple of questions then we gotta rap yep.

1314
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 4: Why is it called the ex School for Boys? What

1315
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 4: does X have to do with anything? The X means

1316
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 4: unknown it's like a math equation. At the time, I

1317
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 4: wasn't thinking of any cool thing. I was just like,

1318
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm gonna teach the kids, the unknown,

1319
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 4: what they don't know. It's gonna be the X for boys,

1320
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 4: and we're gonna solve for X. That was what my

1321
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 4: brain was thinking as a nineteen year old at time. So,

1322
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,839
Speaker 4: but the X is always stuck because our program has

1323
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 4: become so popular that most people, especially on our hometown,

1324
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 4: if you hear the letter X, the first thing you're

1325
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 4: gonna think about is King Randall and the Boys program.

1326
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 4: And so that's what we've built. You know, it's synonymous

1327
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 4: with our the EX for Boys. But you and similiarly crazy. Yeah,

1328
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 4: but you know, you gotta be a fool a little bit,

1329
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 4: you know, in order to make things work. Because I'm

1330
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 4: sure I know, but I say that you got to

1331
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 4: be a fool because sometimes you have ideas or or

1332
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 4: or wanting to jump off the cliff and build your

1333
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 4: wings on the way down. Nobody else understands it, but

1334
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 4: you know it's gonna help. So look, I'm just gonna

1335
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 4: do what I know I think is gonna work, and

1336
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna do it. Anyway, and if it works, great,

1337
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,359
Speaker 4: you still stuck up there and I'm not over there.

1338
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,319
Speaker 4: And if I tank, I just thank Like people are

1339
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,399
Speaker 4: so scared to fail, and I'm just like, okay, if

1340
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 4: you fail, you failed, like there is no running from it.

1341
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 3: Like I saw this coming yesterday. I was telling them.

1342
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 4: I was talking on Facebook about how people, you know,

1343
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,919
Speaker 4: you just gotta jump. You gotta have face sometime and

1344
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 4: you don't know what happened. Somebody was like, well I do.

1345
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,919
Speaker 4: I can't risk instability because of my children or whatever

1346
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 4: like that, and so I'm scared to jump. And I'm

1347
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 4: just like, if you're gonna feel, you're gonna feel anyway,

1348
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,399
Speaker 4: you know, like it's regardless and truly, if you really

1349
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 4: love your kids, you're gonna make it happen. Like I

1350
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 4: could lose everything today, lose the program, lose my name,

1351
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 4: lose my pages or whatever. I'm going to find a way.

1352
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 4: There's not gonna be a I'm defeated and there's nothing

1353
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:11,959
Speaker 4: I can do for our kids or whatever. I'm going

1354
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 4: to find a way. Like it's something's going to happen,

1355
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 4: something's going to shake where I'm going to find a

1356
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 4: way to make it happen for the kids. So I'm

1357
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 4: never worried about that anymore. I'm just like, listen if

1358
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 4: especially Christian people, I'm like, listen, If you guys believe

1359
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 4: in God, you say you believe in, what are you

1360
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 4: so scared of?

1361
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 3: Like? Why are you so scared? What did you say? Oh,

1362
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 3: ye of little faith? What are you running around here

1363
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 3: scared for?

1364
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 4: I got so many Christians, Oh, I'm a Christian, this

1365
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,240
Speaker 4: or that or whatever, but won't jump to do anything

1366
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 4: you want. You're scared to do anything. You're scared to

1367
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 4: take a risk. You're scared to do this. You're scared

1368
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 4: to do that. Sounds like to me, you don't believe

1369
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 4: in God you say you believe in. So if we're

1370
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 4: gonna call ourselves Christian, it's gonna require taking risk and

1371
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 4: we want people to see, you know, Christ in our actions.

1372
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 4: And a lot of that happened with taking risks and

1373
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,800
Speaker 4: jumping out and being different and showing people like stuff

1374
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 4: that's not normal. I can't just be normal and think

1375
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 4: God people are gonna see Christ in me. No, they

1376
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 4: have to see me doing something different, showing something different,

1377
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 4: maneuvering differ. That's how you see you know, and get

1378
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 4: people to want to transition to your faith because this

1379
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 4: is all about, you know, creating more disciples.

1380
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 3: So how many kids do you have today? My children four?

1381
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 3: And then how many do you want to have?

1382
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 4: Like seven or eight, nine or ten? And I would

1383
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 4: love to have ten in a perfect world, but it's

1384
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 4: not a perfect world.

1385
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 3: So it's why do you want to have so many kids.

1386
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 4: When I'm an only child. My mom's an only child,

1387
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 4: and I also am super traditional. I like old school church.

1388
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 4: I don't like church with all the fog machines and

1389
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:32,399
Speaker 4: lights and all that jazz.

1390
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 3: Church is a concert now.

1391
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 4: I like church with the old pews and you can

1392
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 4: stump on the ground and that kind of type of church.

1393
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 3: Old.

1394
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 4: I like everything traditional. My mom calls me old. I

1395
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 4: like old whiskey and tequila.

1396
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 3: I don't.

1397
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 4: I don't mix drinks. I don't do cigar shop apparently, yeah, yeah,

1398
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't mix drinks. I don't do none

1399
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 4: of that stuff. I'm super traditional. Same thing with my

1400
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 4: wife and family. They all call me old because I

1401
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 4: like to drive my pickup truck. I got an old

1402
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 4: ninety four to forward like.

1403
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 3: I just that's me.

1404
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,399
Speaker 4: I love my granddad both My granddad's passed away back

1405
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 4: in April, but on the same day.

1406
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 3: Crazy business. But that's me. I like that.

1407
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,879
Speaker 4: So I want to have kids because, for one, that's

1408
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 4: what happened back in the day. This whole new day

1409
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 4: and age of acting like raising kids is so hard

1410
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 4: is crazy to me. I'll have all my kids with

1411
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 4: me all the time, not a problem. I don't have

1412
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 4: as I keep them disciplined, they have routines. I have

1413
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 4: people who have one kid and they're like, oh my god,

1414
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 4: life is so hard and life is so tough. I'm like, well,

1415
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 4: is there something that I don't know? And sometimes because

1416
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 4: people didn't actually want kids, and I'm just like, if

1417
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 4: you don't want kids, stop having raw sex, like just stop,

1418
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 4: like and I'm serious though, because what you're doing is

1419
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 4: you're creating an environment where a kid you kind of

1420
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 4: resent your own kid and don't want to raise it,

1421
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 4: you don't want to spend time with it, and so

1422
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 4: now everything's hard to do for them. I was fully

1423
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 4: prepared for goldfish under the car seat or error them

1424
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 4: squirting the apple sauce on the wall, like I was

1425
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 4: prepared for that, Like I knew that.

1426
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 3: Was going to happen. It wasn't a surprise, Like I.

1427
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 4: Knew diapers are going to need to be changed to

1428
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:01,919
Speaker 4: get up at two o'clock in the morning. It's hard

1429
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 4: because you didn't actually want to do it. Some people

1430
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 4: like the esthetic of having a child and putting it

1431
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 4: on Facebook and sharing on Instagram and buying them cool clothes.

1432
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,360
Speaker 4: Like has mom fussing at me about the kid not

1433
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 4: having no clothes? I'm like, well, Mama, where's he going?

1434
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 4: Is he just going to school? Okay, what does he

1435
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 4: need all these fancy clothes for? Like, but it's for

1436
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 4: them to post or birthday parties nowadays. If let's if

1437
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 4: you had a birthday party, nout it and told the

1438
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 4: mom she couldn't post it, she wouldn't even want to

1439
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 4: have a birthday party. This is what I mean. They

1440
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 4: don't actually want kids. They want the idea of what

1441
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:33,960
Speaker 4: it looks like to have a kid. I actually want

1442
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 4: my children, So the stuff that I do is fun

1443
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,800
Speaker 4: to me, like getting them up in the morning, or

1444
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 4: trying to hold them down the burst of teeth, like

1445
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 4: that's stuff that I wanted to do or whatever. So

1446
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 4: that's the whole thing on that part about people not

1447
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 4: wanting to have kids. They just don't want to have kids.

1448
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 4: And then on top of that, sorry to say, we

1449
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 4: allow all the people who participate in all the dubaucher

1450
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 4: he and all the negativity in our community to have

1451
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,880
Speaker 4: all the kids. We let Tyrone who shot three people,

1452
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,760
Speaker 4: have eight kids with eight differ baby mamas and Tyrone

1453
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 4: homeboys at the barber shop know exactly who he is.

1454
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 4: But Tyrone homeboy who married, who got a regular job,

1455
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 4: and who're doing good for himself, it's a great upstanding

1456
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 4: Christian man, will only have one kid.

1457
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 3: And I'm like, why are you only have one kid? Well,

1458
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 3: why don't you put a lot of that into five

1459
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 3: more kids?

1460
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 4: Because my one kid is never going to beat Tyrone's

1461
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 4: eight terrible kids or whatever, Like it's never gonna happen.

1462
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna make sure I have a little army

1463
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 4: for Tyrone's little army, because like, again, this is what

1464
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 4: we do. I'm sorry, but that's where our communities at.

1465
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 4: I just don't understand why people don't want to have

1466
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 4: kids anymore.

1467
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know. Like my mom's my.

1468
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 4: Great grandma, she had ten kids, like had a blast,

1469
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 4: all the kids doing fine, they all help each other,

1470
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 4: they work together whatever, like what happens. Like for example,

1471
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 4: my mom always like, man, I wish I could have

1472
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 4: had more kids. My mom not able to have kids,

1473
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 4: so she just happened to have me. But she's just

1474
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 4: like I wish I could have had more kids because

1475
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 4: she's so like all the time. It's nerve wrecking for

1476
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 4: her when I travel or going place because I'm.

1477
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 3: Her only kid. Like something happens to me, that's it.

1478
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 4: Like there's nobody to fall back on, no other kid

1479
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:08,400
Speaker 4: to call, no sibling group, nothing, It's just me. So

1480
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 4: I know for a fact, like my kids can work

1481
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 4: with each other. They got each other, they can at

1482
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 4: least trust each other. They have each other, you know whatever.

1483
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 4: And I look forward to seeing the big family one day,

1484
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 4: like I can't wait for forty years from now and

1485
00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 4: me and my wife get to sick, sit and look

1486
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 4: at all the grand kids running around, like I want

1487
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:21,960
Speaker 4: so many grand kids. I don't even know all their names,

1488
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 4: Like who your mama, like, tell come pick you up?

1489
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 4: Like that's what I don't want to see, Like that's

1490
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 4: what I want to see again, Like we've gotten away

1491
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 4: from that. It's just everybody's so selfish now. It's like

1492
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 4: people are scared to have to worry about something other

1493
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 4: than themselves. Like that's what gets on my nerves, like

1494
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 4: because I'm not selfish in any at any point, Like

1495
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 4: I love like to help people.

1496
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 3: So people are so selfish nowadays.

1497
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 4: And I think it's fine, think about yourself, but don't

1498
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 4: have kids. I appreciate the people that say I don't

1499
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 4: want to have kids and because I don't like kids

1500
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 4: like that, I'm cool on that.

1501
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 3: I love it.

1502
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 4: But the people who don't, who have kids, that really

1503
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 4: don't want to have kids and pretend they want kids

1504
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 4: and then mess the kids life up and just do

1505
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 4: all their life for aesthetics and that, like it's so tough.

1506
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's so hard to have this one

1507
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 4: two kids here and they're crying and this, and they're like,

1508
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 4: it's a kid and they're only gonna do that for

1509
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 4: what three four years tops? When my kids turn three

1510
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 4: and four. They fit for themselves. Dudes on't how to

1511
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 4: bathe themselves. They brush their own tea, they get their

1512
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 4: own clothes out, they put lotional on their own face.

1513
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 4: They don't autopilot like what they're doing at home now.

1514
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 4: Watch the TV, read a book or two, go to

1515
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 4: school like it's how hard is that? Like again, but

1516
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 4: it's hard when you don't want a parent, you know why,

1517
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 4: because then you don't discipline. And when you don't discipline,

1518
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 4: you create an unruly child that you don't want to

1519
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 4: be at home with. So now you want to wait

1520
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 4: till he's thirteen to fourteen to try and discipline him

1521
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 4: and then tell him that somebody's to come get him

1522
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 4: or go send him to this program, and da da

1523
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,479
Speaker 4: da da da, And now it's all messed up because

1524
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 4: you never actually want to be a parent in the

1525
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 4: first place, because you.

1526
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 3: Couldn't just be adult enough to just stop having raw

1527
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 3: sex when you know you didn't want kids. Why do

1528
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 3: you keep having to say raw sex? Man?

1529
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 4: Because I have to say it rather than right, I

1530
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 4: have to have sex. People are gonna be human.

1531
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 3: Do that. Just be protected.

1532
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 4: If you don't want to have kids, just have protected sex.

1533
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 4: And that is okay. I think that is fine. But

1534
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 4: stop still risky. Stop ruining these kids.

1535
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 2: One of our guests that are well, which I think

1536
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 2: is true, especially if you're not married. Sex as a

1537
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 2: luxury item you cannot afford.

1538
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 4: Yes, if you don't want to. If you don't want

1539
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 4: what comes with that? Stop doing it, period, Stop doing it.

1540
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 4: But I will say, people who are impoverished who don't

1541
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 4: have jobs, all they have time to do is are

1542
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 4: you and have sex?

1543
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 3: And so what do you get a lot of murder

1544
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 3: and a lot of children. Yeah, that's it. They either

1545
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 3: argument or they having sex. Wanted to do all?

1546
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 2: Right, King Randall, last thing? What would be your encouragement

1547
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 2: to people sitting on the sidelines right now or not

1548
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 2: engaging at the level that they could. I mean, it

1549
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 2: could be with having another kid, right, it could be

1550
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 2: doing something in your community, could be financially supporting somebody

1551
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 2: like you.

1552
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 3: What would be your message to folks?

1553
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 4: Find out what it is that you actually want to do.

1554
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 4: First of all, don't do anything that you don't actually

1555
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,160
Speaker 4: want to do because it will become a parent. So

1556
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 4: figure out what it is that you want to do

1557
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 4: and go do it. And people want to do things,

1558
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 4: and they live their lives every day and doing things

1559
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 4: that they don't want to do, and that's fine. A

1560
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 4: lot of times you have to spend time doing stuff

1561
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 4: you don't want to do to end up doing the

1562
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 4: things you do want to do. So if you have

1563
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 4: to flip burds for three years at McDonald's and do

1564
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 4: it as best as you can, then you do that

1565
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 4: for your three years until you build up enough money

1566
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 4: to go start your photography studio that you want to start.

1567
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 4: Because I spent two three years building the program, fixing

1568
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 4: cars and working on houses and cutting people's hair in

1569
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 4: the middle of the night to get the program where

1570
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 4: it is now, to the point where I don't have

1571
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 4: to do that anymore or whatever. But people don't have patience.

1572
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 4: You should gain some patience. Figure out what it is

1573
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 4: that you want to do. Find people who are already

1574
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 4: doing what you want to do, because somebody's already doing it.

1575
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 4: You're not the only person that came up with that idea.

1576
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 4: It's somebody somewhere doing it. Go shadow them, find out

1577
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 4: what ideas and things that they had that that failed,

1578
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 4: and then go learn from that. You can learn from

1579
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 4: other people's failures too. Instead of laughing, you can learn

1580
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 4: from other people's failures. So go check those people out.

1581
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 4: Post on social media, et cetera. Like I mean, there's

1582
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 4: plenty of things to do. Take time, get off social media,

1583
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 4: like I don't have the social media apps on my phone.

1584
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 4: You would think I do because I got so many

1585
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 4: followers stuff. I don't even have the apps. My team

1586
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 4: managers that the apps take too much time. Like I

1587
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 4: realize how what my screen time was because of the apps.

1588
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 4: You didn't realize how much you're scrolling all day or whatever,

1589
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 4: So I literally that it's funny.

1590
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 2: I was listening to you in another interview, yeah, and

1591
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, this is the most undisciplined part

1592
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 2: of your life. You were talking about waking up at

1593
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 2: whatever it was five or five thirty and like scrolling

1594
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 2: for an hour, and like go to the gym at

1595
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 2: six thirty, And I'm like, what are you doing, King Randall.

1596
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 3: You're such a disciplined Yeah, amazing person. Why are you

1597
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 3: scrolling for so long?

1598
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 4: You know what's funny isn't even you don't even realize

1599
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 4: you're scrolling. And this is what the algorithms purposely do.

1600
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 4: They are designed to keep you looking at the device.

1601
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 4: And so I've learned like, Okay, I'm just not going

1602
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:45,640
Speaker 4: to be on there at all because I don't really

1603
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:46,880
Speaker 4: have a need to be on there, like unless I

1604
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 4: just have to be. So I lead all the apps

1605
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 4: and let my team manage my social media accounts now

1606
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 4: and so now I have much more time to just

1607
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 4: do actual work and get things taken care of on

1608
01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 4: my phone because I don't have random notifications popping up,

1609
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 4: I don't have random people message in, I don't have

1610
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 4: any temptation whatever. It's all gone, it's all off of there,

1611
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 4: and it's a very way to live. So my screen

1612
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 4: time went down for like fourteen hours a day to

1613
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 4: five hours a day, like, because.

1614
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:13,080
Speaker 3: It's still a lot of hours. But yeah, for work,

1615
01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 3: literally it's just work or whatever.

1616
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 4: And so but to see yourself, if you look at

1617
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 4: your screen time, see how much time you're truly spending

1618
01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 4: on socials, you're just like wow, and imagine what somebody

1619
01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 4: else is doing with that time, you know, cause you're

1620
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 4: just like, oh, I.

1621
01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 3: Don't have the time to do this, and I don't

1622
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 3: have time.

1623
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 4: If you spent seven hours on Facebook, you had time

1624
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 4: to go do whatever it is that you should have

1625
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 4: been doing in the first place or whatever. So I

1626
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 4: just tell people to take time and try and reinvent

1627
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 4: your life. Like whatever you're doing, now do it, do

1628
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 4: it the opposite, like find something else to do, try

1629
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 4: and get a new routine, make yourself, you know, do

1630
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 4: something different for ninety days, going fast, get new friends.

1631
01:03:47,600 --> 01:03:48,919
Speaker 4: I mean you already know if you need new friends.

1632
01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 4: And I tell people that all the time. You know,

1633
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 4: you're terrible friends that you don't need to be around.

1634
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:53,040
Speaker 4: You just won't cut them off? Could you just won't

1635
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 4: cut them off on those terrible friends you don't want

1636
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 4: to be around. Put them off this year, that'd be great,

1637
01:03:56,960 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 4: so you advance. If they do or they are terrible

1638
01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 4: for and you want to help them advance, and they

1639
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 4: do want to help advancing, then work with them, you

1640
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 4: know whatever.

1641
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 3: But cut people off. Spend time with your kids. You

1642
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 3: know you don't get.

1643
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 4: Time back, go on that trip you don't want to

1644
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:11,880
Speaker 4: go on, like spend time with your family members. I

1645
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 4: had to tell my in laws. I'm like, hey, you know,

1646
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:14,480
Speaker 4: cause they were like, oh, we don't know if you

1647
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 4: feel like traveling this. I said, look, man, I said,

1648
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 4: y'all getting older. I'm like, yeah, like, y'all getting older,

1649
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 4: you know, and who knows what will happen? You know,

1650
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:23,760
Speaker 4: come take just come come out of town for a

1651
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 4: little bit. Like just they're like, you know what, you're right,

1652
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 4: Like time waits for nobody, like we could die or something,

1653
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 4: and we missed out on these opportunities to travel with

1654
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 4: our family members and our kids and stuff like that.

1655
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 4: So very important, you know, just just do something different.

1656
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 4: Stop waiting around. Stop I've been a bum, Get up

1657
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 4: and go do something man like, just do anything to

1658
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:42,080
Speaker 4: do that all the time. Like, I don't care if

1659
01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 4: you're working at mc donald's, Go be the best burger

1660
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:47,800
Speaker 4: flipper in the world. Like your job is important to somebody.

1661
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 4: I promise you know what you do is important to somebody.

1662
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,560
Speaker 3: You know. Have you ever heard Martin Luther King's street

1663
01:04:52,560 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 3: sweeper speech? No? I hadn't heard that.

1664
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 2: Basically that he's like, if it's your a lot to

1665
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 2: be a street sweeper, go street sweeps like Michaelangelo painted pictures.

1666
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I heard it. I've heard it. I still

1667
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 3: know the name of it. Yeah, I've heard it. But

1668
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 3: that's important.

1669
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 4: Like, and people don't realize when you do the hard

1670
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 4: work like that, God will reveal your purpose for you

1671
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 4: or whatever.

1672
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 3: He'll realize, He'll reveal what it is that you're supposed

1673
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 3: to be doing.

1674
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 4: Because if you spending all this time thinking that you're

1675
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 4: going to only work hard when like you think, people

1676
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 4: don't work hard, right, and they're like, okay, but when

1677
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 4: I get the right job, and when I get the

1678
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 4: right thing, when I start the right thing, the work

1679
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 4: as that you have now is the work that work

1680
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 4: ethic you're gonna have when you start your business or

1681
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 4: when you get this new job or whatever. No, the

1682
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,600
Speaker 4: work ethic has to be there when you don't feel

1683
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 4: like it first or whatever you're not. And then because

1684
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 4: he don't realize, when you start the new job or

1685
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:40,200
Speaker 4: the new business stuff, the motivation is there, not the

1686
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 4: work at it.

1687
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 3: It's the motivation that's all the way here. When the

1688
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:44,280
Speaker 3: motivation dies.

1689
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 4: And it's not new anymore and the present has been unwrapped,

1690
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 4: it is now regular.

1691
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 3: Now.

1692
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 4: It's like when you buy your wife a new car.

1693
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:52,400
Speaker 4: Oh my god, the car is new for a week

1694
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 4: and then now it's her car, you know, it's it's

1695
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 4: just their car, you know, like she ain't she ain't

1696
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 4: happy about it no more, or she ain't oh my god,

1697
01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 4: I gotta car.

1698
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 3: You know, it's out of j get out of jail

1699
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 3: free cards. Yeah, be match you as it really?

1700
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 4: After bout five days after that, back a back back

1701
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 4: to it, you know, the car don't matter no more.

1702
01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 3: You know this is what it is, so but that's

1703
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 3: that's real life.

1704
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 4: So get out, do something, jump, build your wings on

1705
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 4: the way down, and you'll see yourself thrive. And the

1706
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 4: worst you could do is fail. And if you're gonna fail, fail,

1707
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 4: if you're gonna die, die. You can't run away from things.

1708
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 4: And I keep trying to get people to understand you're

1709
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:25,439
Speaker 4: never gonna get away from things that are supposed to happen.

1710
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:29,040
Speaker 2: So just live website and social media for you and

1711
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 2: XCOT for boys.

1712
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 3: Yep.

1713
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 4: My social media is at New Emerging King on all

1714
01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 4: platforms and you can go to our website to find

1715
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 4: those at thexfoboys dot org.

1716
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 3: It's th h e X f O R b O

1717
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:40,920
Speaker 3: y s dot org.

1718
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Speaker 4: You can find everything about our program, their videos, pictures,

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Speaker 4: how to get in contact, donate, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: It's all there on the website.

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01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 2: Twenty six years old, you've inspired millions. More importantly, you've

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01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 2: impacted the lives deeply of twenty to twenty five young

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Speaker 2: men at the time. Who knows what's next. It'll be

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Speaker 2: excited to see what happened with you. And I'm really

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01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 2: grateful for you coming out here.

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Speaker 3: King.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you having me. I think it's happened with

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Speaker 4: my kids next, so we'll see.

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Speaker 3: Actually will be fun. Actually, maybe you could get to

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Speaker 3: get them if.

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Speaker 2: You had them, like do I mean, I guess you're

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01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 2: creating enough social media content with them, like you would

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01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:14,560
Speaker 2: have them on camera.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right now.

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01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you guys came here, it would be good

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01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 2: to get you back with Bill because we didn't get

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Speaker 2: to cover it today, but like talking about how you've

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Speaker 2: raised them and coaching and you know, building a football coach.

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Speaker 3: It could be you guys do come back here. It'd

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Speaker 3: be good to get all you guys in studio and

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01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 3: yeah together. Yeah, my oldest son will be he can

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Speaker 3: do anyview undred Yeah, that'd be great. All right, Well,

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Speaker 3: God bless you man. I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, and thank you for joining us this week.

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01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 1: If King Randall has inspired you in general, or better yet,

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01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: to take action by investing in the labs of children,

1747
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: volunteering it's somewhere like it in your community, starting something

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01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:55,959
Speaker 1: like it, donating to the ex School for Boys, or

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01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: something else entirely, just let me know I really do

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01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: want to hear about it.

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01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 3: You can write me anytime.

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01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 1: At Bill at normal folks dot us, and I swear

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01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 1: to you I will respond. If you enjoyed this episode,

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01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 1: if you think Alex was any good, share it with

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01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:14,680
Speaker 1: friends and on social Subscribe to the podcast, rate it,

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01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: review it, Join the army at normal folks dot us,

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01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,719
Speaker 1: any and all of these things that help us grow

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Speaker 1: an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney. Until next time,

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Speaker 1: do what you can do.