King Randall, I - Rescuing a Lost Generation from Gangs, Crime and Chaos | SRS #182

[Music]. King Randall welcome to the show man man. thanks for having me glad to be here. it's my honor I love love love what. you're doing down in Albany and I've. been really looking forward to this. interview so yes sir I appreciate it you. got a lot of fans in ALB too I mentioned. uh it to a couple of people and they. were like you going where really yeah. got fans down there yes sir damn that's. cool to hear that's cool to hear well. I'm going to start you off with a. introduction.

here King Randall you graduated culinary. school at age 17 you are a former United. States Marine a leader in your community. and a role model and Mentor for many. young men and you're only 25 years old. in 2019 you founded the X for boys. program to fight back against the high. crime rate in your community by stepping. up to Mentor young men this is the only. rehabilitative program for juvenile.

offenders in south Georgia that's. surprising man m in August 2022 you. founded the life preparatory school for. boys the first free all boys boarding. school in south Georgia the school's. motto let's make men reflect your vision. you earned the 2019 Larry Sanders Legacy. award the 2021 B1 education award and. the 2023 dreamstone award from Dr Martin. Luther King Jr's family mhm.

yep Wednesday tomorrow you'll be going. to the White House yep and most. importantly probably out of every not. probably out of everything you're a. father to three boys yes yes so man and. you're a Christian yes absolutely born. and raised Christian grandmother was a. preacher grandfather uh down in Florida. my dad's father preaching uh I play the. drums my whole life um from about My.

grandmother used to have church at home. um so we used to have people come to the. house and my grandmother had me this. little drum set and I started playing. the drums there um this was before my. grandmother could afford to get us a. church and um I started out playing the. drums there and I played the drums all. the way up until I was about uh 17 or 18. right when I went to the Marine Corps um. that's when I stopped but other than. that I spent my whole life at church you. still do it play the drums yeah n you. know what I've been wanting to get back. into it um I've been considering buying. a drum set I've been missing it lately. apparently but uh cuz I find myself.

still doing it a little bit but I played. my whole life man I and it's weird for. me to go to church now it's interesting. it's so weird for me to be at church I. literally spent every second at church. behind the drum set so it's so hard for. me to actually just sit at church and. pay attention because I'm used to. listening for cues like we we had to. worship differently we couldn't just sit. there and just pay attention like we. paid attention but we worshiped in our. own way so I'm used to listening for Q's. I'm watching the musicians seeing what. they're doing watching the the number. cords they're calling out um cuz cuz I'm.

listening watching the bass player cuz. that's that's the guy I had to watch you. know calling numbers out uh calling hits. all that stuff uh so I'm I'm used to. that so every time I go to church it's. like super weird because I'm like. staring at the musicians the whole time. so it's just it was just interesting man. it's very weird for me to be at church. now but I I love it I love it do you. take do you would your do you take your. kids to church absolutely yeah they go. to church so uh their grandfather on. their mom's side he's a pastor uh in. cuber Georgia and um they love to go see. him preach um and he'll bring him on the. pull pit uh CU they want to sit by him.

uh before he's about to preach so his. name uh pastor vau and they love him I. love him too he's a great man um but my. sons love their grandfather uh their uh. maternal grandfather they love him to. death so uh oh that's they listen to him. preach often every Sunday on Saturdays. they're like Dad can we go to U manan's. house so we can go to church with them. they ask every Saturday you know to go. to church they ask they beg to make sure. they're going they get mad she can't. come pick them up or something like that. so it's pretty pretty neat BR on you.

know we we had a conversation downstairs. about fatherhood and it sound it sounded. like. maybe I don't know maybe your audience. somebody sounds it sounds like the way. you raise your boys is maybe a little. controversial yeah man certain people's. eyes what what's what why I wanted to. save it until we were on the podcast. Yeah man so my son's very good at. baseball uh he's 6 years old but dude is. like the best six-year-old baseball. player you ever seen but we spend a lot. of time practicing my sons are also. homeschooled too um um they're.

homeschooled I have a private teacher um. for them also my mom takes turns uh you. know teaching them different things so. they're very intelligent and he also. boxes um and he does gymnastics my. oldest son um my younger son does. gymnastics also he's just not old enough. to participate but he's already training. in basball and so they'll see our videos. I also post the videos where they're. crying and upset also because I'm trying. to show the part of fatherhood that just. not the sweet stuff uh for example uh my. son was about to get ready to to spark. for the first time he'd been boxing.

since he was since he was four he was. practicing um he's just you know doing. uh they teaching him everything all the. punch numbers Etc so he been doing that. since he was about four years old and so. this his first time to spar he's going. to spar his 10-year-old kid and he'd. never been hit in the face before never. been punched never had any competition. in front of him so I we got home I put. his gear on at the house in the garage I. got on my knees and I put my gloves on. and I'm I told him to put his hands up. and I told him to remember everything. that coach Dino had taught him uh during. practice so I I hit him in the head not.

hard but I hit him in the head and he he. was like Dad you're punching too fast he. just starts crying he just H you know he. just ah I just crying and I'm like put. your hands back up you know Focus I'm te. just thinking about it but I'm like put. your hands back up son you know and he. put his hands I'm like remember what you. were taught son and so he started. remembering the different moving out the. way and and throwing punches I'm like. this is why you were taught for this. whole year you know this is what you. were learning this is to put into action. now and so then he started getting. confident he started getting aggressive.

like he started punching back and moving. out the way and and you know dodging and. weaving so we get to spar the next day. and he got a couple great licks off the. 10-y he's a good 10-year-old boxer not. saying he was like really fully boxing. him but to get a couple licks off of him. like some really good LS I posted the. videos and he was so happy that he was. to he did it he was like that was easier. than I thought he was like I didn't know. I could do that and so I posted those. videos and people just like oh this is. too much he just needs to have fun and. oh you're not letting them have fun and. fun fun it's everything everybody says.

just fun fun I'm like but what if this. is fun to him he enjoys baseball he. enjoys practicing does he enjoy every. practice no does he always want to. practice no but I teach them also that I. asked him a question I'm say son when do. we work he always say when we don't feel. like it exactly that's when we work but. then we'll go to the baseball field and. we out there with the other kids and. he'll notice that he's better than. everybody else he enjoys that he is now. proud I teach my children not about. happiness but about being proud of. themselves because being happiness to me.

being happy to me is where the devil. resides because being happy is uh. hanging out with your friends and going. to do little stupid stuff it's it's. fleeting but when I'm proud of myself. when I do something that I could. accomplish you know and I and I. accomplish a goal like I'm like okay I. want to he's like I want to hit a home. run this year this six years old he's. six he's six yeah and he's like when did. you start this I mean when did you start. baseball it's I think it's I mean it's. intense yeah it's intense but but I mean. I I like it I mean you're pushing your.

kids to the Limit you know at age at age. six and and you're teaching them that. hey if you want to accomplish something. it takes it takes a lot of work and I. mean it sounds like we both can agree I. mean you just see people today and they. think everything's a [ __ ] hand out. it's not and you know and uh and they. don't want to work for it mhm very few. people so I mean what hold on so when. did this start does it start at age six. did it start at 4 it started about 3 4.

um my son knows a lot of my I call my. quotables um he'll tell people my. quotables too like for example uh like. we don't try we do I always tell him. like no we're not going to try anything. we're going to do it um so he he tries. his hardest to to do everything and I. also like do things like make him keep. his word for example I don't like him to. change his mind often if he said. something I'm like well you got to do it. no that's what you said you were going. to do so you have to do it now you know. because you're you're going to be a man. one day and your word is your bond so. you have to keep your word so that's. what you say so he'll remember like ah.

so he'll think about things before he. say it now you know and that's important. because you're teaching them to think. through things before you just say it. and so now he's thinking about what he's. he was like he was. like never mind you know he'll think. about the things he says versus just. blurting something out or just saying. anything and so that's very important to. instill a lot of these little character. traits now so when they get older they. won't miss it like he knows like I said. a lot of my quotables um he'll tell. people my cbles and say well my dad says. you know XYZ and this is why we do XYZ.

um this is why we practice I always ask. the question every time we go practice. on the baseball field you see anybody. else out here son no sir why cuz he they. don't want to put that work in that's. what he'll say they don't want to put in. the work at age six at age six he he. will tell you that they don't want to. put in the work that and so again he'll. go out there you know to the field when. everybody's there we just had. evaluations the other day he destroyed. evaluations or whatever and um and to me. you know he'll still critique himself I. teach him about accountability also for. example like he'll hit off the tea right.

and um I'll think it's a good hit and. then he'll say Dad that was a thumbs. down because I hit the top of the tea a. little bit so let's try that one again I. taught him about critiquing himself cuz. I shouldn't always have to be here to. tell you what you did wrong you should. critique yourself you know right from. wrong so I put these videos of and just. people just like oh well what about fun. I'm like he has fun all the time damn. dude most 25 year olds with you're 25. most 25 year olds don't even get this. concept I feel like it yeah I but I tell. them I'm like I teach him to earn.

everything are you a perfectionist no. I'm not and I and I wish I was but I I. wish I was a perfectionist my my chef. told me back in school he said man he. said King you'll be fantastic he said. you good but You' be fantastic if you. learn how to finish cuz I'm just not I. just like I'm just not a perfectionist. and I'm trying to get there because I. want to make sure that my sons see that. we going to finish everything that we do. so it's like my sons are making me be. better too I critique myself often you. know with them um being you know just so. young and they're remembering everything. they watching everything you do I'm.

watching him with my mannerisms and. stuff so it's like I have to be almost. perfect to make sure that my son's you. know are following in the right. footsteps um so that's important to me. so even teaching them to earn everything. like for Christmas he got the shoes the. toys Etc ask my son when can he play. with that stuff when you give me. something you have to do something to. wear those shoes so my son for example. uh I get up every morning at 6:30 and go. work out in the gym every single morning. um they'll hear the music for the first. couple of times I started doing it they. would be like Dad what you doing in the.

morning I'm like Daddy's working out in. the gym you know early in the morning. and so they were like well can you wake. us up so we can come watch I'm like why. not okay so I got out I get up in the. morning I go wake up I'm like hey. Daddy's going to go work out and they'll. get up they go put their clothes on they. go brush their teeth and then they'll. come outside um and come in the gym and. watch me U work out I turned the garage. into a training gym and so then after a. while he started saying Daddy can we do. the workouts too why not you know so I. have them doing things with their you. know push-ups and pull-ups or whatever. like that and so uh my son is you know. very pretty strong now and uh he he went.

viral on uh Instagram during uh he was. learning how to swim and they were. talking about his physique he got like a. six-pack and he look like he's been to. prison man he's six you know and so uh. people were talking about his physique. and they like how does he get like that. I'm like bro just like to work out he. likes to to do push-ups he can do more. push-ups than I can you know um so it's. it's really cool to to watch it but kids. mimic what they see but it's fun to him. he enjoys it and so like when we go out. of town or we go to Chuck-E-Cheese or. whatever like that he just has to do.

something for it so he has fun all the. time we just don't give he always will. tell you what I say we don't have fun. for free we earn it he always will tell. you what does that start what do you. start making him earn um as as soon as. they understand right from wrong um and. that's early um even my younger son uh. William is three right now but he also. understands right from wrong so when he. wants to watch TV or play a little video. game or something like that okay son um. you have to learn how to read better. because he wants a Nintendo switch like. his brother and so he tries he plays it. with him sometime but he wants his own I.

said okay cool you need to learn how to. read this book by your birthday which is. May and I'll get you Nintendo switch so. he's working at school like trying to. learn how to read better because he. really wants to learn cuz he has trouble. playing the game because he can't read. everything that's on the screen or like. you know play now continue whatever he's. not understanding everything so he's. working now to read better because he. really wants that game so I'm just. making him earn it all um it's I mean I. think that's important because if you. just give them things I I I believe it's. important for me to create hardship for.

my sons um they're not going to want for. anything I I do well they're they do. pretty good they're not going to grow up. in the hood like with me like I did or. whatever like that so I have to create. hardship for them so I do that through. Sports I do that through making them. earn things I do that through saying No. I say no often I say no for sport um and. I say that cuz no is a character. building where you're not going to. always get what you want so I don't care. what sad face you I don't care if it's. just something simple that can I get a. bag of chips no like no for what what. you need a bag of chips for no no so I. say no often they used to cry and get.

upset but now it's just like okay Dad. said no whatever you know like that or. uh dad can I get something to drink they. try to trick me sometime when they ask. for something to drink they really want. a juicy juice um I got the little Juicy. Juice drink so they like Dad can I get. something to drink I'm like yeah and. they'll go in there and go get some. juice they're like you didn't specify. which drink you were talking about I'm. like you know I meant get some water son. don't play with me you know so now I'm. just like you can go get some water and. they like never mind I would drink. anymore that's what I thought you know. like but go drink some water anyway so. it's it's a lot of different things that. I do with them and it's very particular. because it's building those little small.

character traits even with uh training. practice for baseball or uh boxing if. the coach tells us to be uh to practice. at 4:00 I'm like so what time we going. to practice 3 yeah like he he'll he like. we have to get there hour before. everybody else does so we can get some. extra warm up and get some extra. practice he knows this already he'll. tell his mom the same thing his mom take. him to practice he like uh coach said we. got to be there at 4: but we need to get. there at 3: so I can get out there and. hit off the tea a little bit and I can. get some ground balls in uh before pra. before practice actually starts so he's. already warmed up when everybody gets.

out there but he knows he internalized. it already so he doesn't understand it. all the way but he's internalize that. now so when he gets older the work ethic. is going to be crazy you know cuz work. ethic is in his system now is I hadn't. given him fun people try to wait till. they're like 10 and 11 to to just to get. on them I'm like no you need to get on. them as soon as early as possible at. oneyear Old nothing's cute anymore for. me I start disciplining at one you know. after that nothing is cute everything. you do wrong is not cute anymore I don't. do the oh he threw something hahhaa no.

I'm going to say no you don't do that or. he hit me today no you don't hit Daddy. you know like it's I discipline early is. nothing's cute anymore after one yearold. start raising your child that's what I. believe in damn were you raised like. that uh to yeah my grandmother was. pretty strict yeah we'll get into that. we'll get into. that when your metabolism is working. properly you can feel it in every part. of your life more more energy improve.

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younger ones my they love is it rubbing. off on them yeah so William and and uh. baby king which is my oldest William is. very different from baby king they like. night and day William does not like. School uh he's not fond of it he's his. own child he does not get excited about. things that baby king is excited about. uh we go to amusement park or something. Williams kind of just sitting there uh. like the other day went to this ice. cream shop with nitrogen ice cream or. you can get like the dragon's breath and. stuff you know to breathe the little. smoke and stuff he was like I don't want. to do that he does not like the pool he. does not like the beach he does not like.

he's super like he doesn't deal like for. example baby king he come in here shake. his hand you know uh introduce himself. William does not he will not talk to you. if he doesn't know you like he just. unless I tell him say son introduce. yourself and he'll say something but he. just like like so they like night. standoffish yeah very standoff they're. night and day but uh I will say. something different about them both I've. had to teach baby king what I call that. dog I have to I have to teach him. aggression I'm like son you have to. learn how to turn aggression on and off. so sometimes during baseball practice I.

would purposely frustrate him so he. could see how good he does when he's. upset when he hits that ball when he's. upset I'm like that's the furthest you. ever hit a ball see how you using that. aggression right now he'll cry I'm like. okay now use that and hit the ball get. mad at the ball and hit it and he like. oh I didn't know I can hit the ball that. far I said exactly so make your angry. face and hit the ball and turn it off I. said Daddy can get angry right now and I. can turn it off I said you have to learn. how to control that aggression so he's. learning about control aggression early. William hadn't had to teach AGG to him. when he go hit the ball he's angry.

already when he's when he's boxing bro. is already angry about it like he's in. there practicing with his brother so he. watches his brother often they get into. it like you know normal siblings about. sharing stuff or whatever like that but. for the most part baby keing is always. leading he's like no William you need to. brush your teeth right you need to make. sure you're getting the back of your. teeth you need to make sure you're doing. this right William put your shoes on the. right foot Grant William don't always. listen to him he gets upset with him. like no leave me alone you know whatever. like that but he's always leading him I. Tau him about that I'm like listen your.

brother looks up to you he may not want. to listen all the time he'll participate. in the bad stuff you're doing but he. don't want to participate in the good. things that you do what about what about. I. mean are they observant of other kids. yes in the work ethic and I mean six. years old damn he so he does taking. notes yeah he watches um the other kids. that practice not go as hard as he does. so uh next year baby king will be. playing up in baseball he's going to. this 8-year-old team uh next year uh a. team called about him cuz they' been. watching his videos online so he's going.

to play up next year um but that's only. because the kids his age are not giving. him any you know competition and so but. he watches the kids his age and it's not. no fault to the kids and not even. necessarily to their parents it's just. that we all raise our kids differently. and so like during the games you know. sometime people will be like oh just why. he going so hard about it or whatever. I'm like well this is why my kids is. great and your son suck like because we. we we we we believe in what we're doing. you know and um like I just just it's. it's important to believe in what you're.

doing if we're going to do something. we're going to give it our best we're. not just doing anything just for fun. like we're going to do anything I don't. care if we making our bet we're going to. make our bed the best way we could. possibly make our bed we're going to. brush our hair we're going to brush our. hair the best way we possibly can brush. it like do it all the best I'm like you. want to be the best at it all and if you. are the best find somebody else that's. better and then go after them so like. last year during baseball he wasn't the. best on the field yet or whatever last. year cuz like I said we've been. practicing and um we found we wanted the. kid who was the best yes and so he came. to the plate I'm like baby king get him.

out and so he hit the ball he caught it. he played second base he caught the ball. threw him out and he was so excited. about I'm like that's what I'm talking. about care nothing about that like we. don't care about him being that good we. we want to find the best and we want to. we want to beat them that's what we want. to do damn dude I love what you're. saying already we're only like what 10. minutes 20 minutes into the interview. yeah I mean. so this is fantastic I appreciate it I'm. serious man but you know something that.

you're describe you're describing how I. think all the all the time I think if. I'm not working somebody else is they're. going to be better I mean it I think it. came from the SEAL Teams if you're not. training the enemy's training and. they're going to kill you oh yeah. absolutely and and I've carried this. mindset into business carried it into my. whole life. and now I'm hesitant to. to with that mindset comes a tremendous. amount of pressure that you put on. yourself it can be debilitating it's.

it's very it's a life of stress oh yeah. and and so I've been careful on I don't. know if I want my son or my daughter to. to carry the amount. of stress and responsibility and and and. that I feel that I have and so what I. guess you think about that at all yeah I. can push back at that a little bit. actually uh stress to me is is good um.

and not necessarily saying uh like the. the stress you put on your body or. something like that stress worry uh. doubt Etc it causes you to to work a. little bit more um when I'm worried. about if I can't take care of the light. bill this month I may I might go do a. little extra work to make sure that I. can take care of that but why am I not. thinking like that all the time it's. like we'll get comfortable and then. we'll stop doing what's needed or. whatever we'll we'll get comfortable and. stop doing uh what we could be doing um. so it's like I don't ever want to get.

comfortable I'm like okay if there's. children like for example again talking. about my son there's this kid um that. we've uh we interact with on uh social. media his inter his social media is. called s diapers his dad's been training. him in baseball since he was literally. almost a newborn he's got the videos. this kid is 5 years old now and I kid. you not this kid is sliding doing all. types of crazy catches like he's world. world's better than my son so when. people see my son on the field and. they're like oh he's fantastic I'm in my.

mind thinking about Malik I'm like no. Malik is going to destroy my son like he. is great with it so we plan to have them. practice together and stuff like that to. make each other better or whatever but. I'm always thinking like just like you. said the enem is always waiting to kill. you you know and and not just you know. in regards to sports just in life in. general there's somebody making the. money that I want to be making there's. somebody successful more successful than. I am you know got happy yeah next guy's. training yes the next guy's training and. so he's innovating the stress is. important you you need it you need the.

the worry you need it because it it. causes you to want to work a little bit. harder um and so even like working out. in the morning I ain't going to lie to. you I hate working out in the mornings. it gets on my nerves but I do it anyway. because I need to put myself through. something to I can accomplish in the. morning makes me feel makes me feel. great I did this thing I really didn't. want to do and I know my sons are. watching me too so even though I don't. want to do it I do it anyway cuz I know. they're going to get up in the morning. and look for me the morning that I don't. get up like there some mornings I may. not do it or something like that maybe. every once in a while I get upset at.

myself because my sons come ask me hey. why you wake us up this morning to go. work out to me I just told them that. it's okay to to to to not do something I. just told them it's okay to not do what. you're supposed to pressure on yourself. yeah I do I do I critique myself it's. and it's important but I don't mind it. because I'm proud of the results in the. end the results is what make it all. worth it um and it makes me that's what. makes me happy after I see the results. after I see that I've gotten a little. bigger or my or my suits are getting. little tired I got to buy new suits or. whatever like that I'm getting training.

better I'm doing better in boxing yeah. it's annoying at the time but once I. finally see those results I'm like man. like now I want to do it some more but. all that success you're looking for is. going to come through the the dangerous. the treacherous going through the the. the Minefield it's going to be the. treacherous uh going through the crazy. river just to get to the other side um. so as a man I like being Batman to my. kids I like being Batman to those around. me like man King's always doing all this. great stuff people think I do fantastic. I think I could be doing more I'm just.

like I just left Nigeria back in August. and those kids are outworking everybody. I know you know they're dreams are to. come to America but I'm just like when I. got there it almost removed empathy for. me you know for anything that you know. people claim they're going through I'm. like these kids don't even got sewage. and and running water barely eat every. day and they are working circles around. us so it made me want to come home and. do even more so when people are. impressed with me I'm not impressed with. me at all like I'm like this is nothing. you know I'm like I could be doing a. whole lot more I could still getting up. a little bit earlier like I still. critique myself about that like why am I.

getting up at 6:30 I could easily I wake. up at 5:00 in the morning and I just sit. there and scroll on my phone why don't I. get my butt up and go go on the computer. and do something you know do something. else other than sitting here scrolling. on my phone like you know I could be. making other things happen um so Elon. Etc all these billionaires Etc we got. the same 24 hours in a day and it's all. what we decide to do with it and it's. going to come with with the pressure so. if I'm comfortable and and sitting. around and nothing's happening I feel. like I feel like a failure cuz I'm just. like something needs to be happening.

something needs to be shaking right now. something needs to be moving I critique. myself for not training my son as much. sometime like I feel like we could train. more we only train like an hour a day. sometime but a day we miss training he. ain't thinking about it but me I'm like. dang like it's another kid somewhere. training right now and we missing it. like you know it's it's it's interesting. so who picked baseball say it again who. picked baseball in box did he picked it. he picked baseball he asked me I had. never played a listen I never caught a. baseball in my life I had never played I. played football my whole life and um I.

stopped football in high school cuz one. of my friends got paralyzed on the field. I was I was I was very good but um of. course I was running back I'm short but. anyway um man he asked play BB I. remember he was four and he was like D I. want to play baseball cuz he got his. little te this little tea for his. birthday and um I was like sure why not. so I sign him up for baseball and me. when we do something we're going to be. the best at it so I had to learn how to. coach him cuz I didn't know what I was. doing like I had to go watch videos that. cuz at first when I was just rolling. them balls I'm thinking you know he's.

catching the ball R and stuff like that. we was doing everything wrong so I'm. watching all the videos I'm doing it so. we've you know travel to different. places uh to get some coaching from. other coaches so they'll coach him and. I'm coaching myself watching them I'm. watching them coach him so that way okay. that's what we can do when we get home. so I'll go you know train with these. coaches you know in different uh cities. or whatever like that we'll train with. them and I'm subconsciously watching. what they're coaching so I can go back. and coach at home or I'll watch what the. boxing coach is doing and I can do it at. home so now we don't necessarily need. y'all all the time we can do this at.

home um so it's very important uh the. training is very important for me uh but. he picked baseball and so I told him if. we're going to do something we're going. to be the best at it or uh boxing he's. had times where he said he wanted to. quit no doubt cuz he asked me to play. but he didn't want to do the work at. first he's just like oh we got to go. practice you know whatever like that now. he wants to practice at 6 because he. understands that he's good now he he. likes being good so now he likes to. practice but before when he was like. four five he like I don't I don't want.

to play baseball anymore I want to play. something else cuz he thought it was. easier so I let him try uh another. little sport out but we went and. practice a lot with that and he like. dang I thought this was going to be easy. nah ain't none of it easy even. gymnastics I got him doing pull-ups in. the house you know like cuz he has to. pull up on the bar and stuff like all of. it is hard work I don't care what sport. you choose whether it's School whether. it's reading a book Etc you have to put. the work in to be the best cuz if you. wanted people out here beating you cuz. he hates to lose I'm like well if you. hate to lose you got to be the best you. got to practice and the only thing. that's going to keep you winning is.

practicing and so now you know as he's. coming of age he's understanding to. practice now so he'll get in there like. at 6:30 in the morning we got the tea in. the net in the uh gym I made it for him. and while I'm in there lifting he got. the tea and he's hitting off of before. school every morning you before he goes. to school he's in there Hitting off the. tea in the morning time yeah so I I love. it but he picked baseball man so I never. played at all so I just take I take him. to the games let him watch the other. players he loves show that's his. favorite guy um he loves show but we go. to the Braves Games Etc he loves it um.

so I just try to hone whatever he asked. for he asked to do that so we're going. to hone it wow that's that's fantastic. that's um well we're going to get into. your story too here so um we got a. patreon account patreon it's a. subscription account they're our top. supporters and a lot of them have been. with us since the beginning and uh it's. turned into quite the community over the. years one of the things I offer them is. to ask each and every guest to question. so this is from Eric aler mhm how do you.

handle the Unseen pressures that come. with being a young leader in a world. that often doubts people of your age and. background um for one through God and. then for two um through the work um it's. you at first when I first began it was a. lot of oh you're too young um how you. going to teach boys how to be men etc. etc I was 19 so people had stuff to say. but once I started doing the work it's. like there's nothing you can say because. I'm doing everything that I said I was.

going to do I said I was going to open. the school I said I was going to start. after school program I said it was going. to all be free I said I was never going. to charge I said we're going to take. care of kids we're going to make sure. they got haircuts we're going to make. sure they got uniforms we're going to. make sure they got clothes deodorant. toothpaste toothbrush underwear Etc I. said I was going to do it and people. didn't believe it at first people like. where you going to get the funding where. you going to get the capital Etc I don't. know where I'm going to get it from but. we're going to do it and I said it over. and over again and as I've done it. people started getting quiet quiet and. as I'm working I've really asked people.

name somebody else you know that's doing. the type of work that we're doing for. free you can name the Boys and Girls. Clubs etc etc they're not doing the type. of work that we're doing not in mindset. changing most other programs are aimed. at giving children something to do I'm. not aiming for that we're aiming at. trying to change their minds I could put. 30,000 basketball courts in the city of. Albany and they're going to kill each. other and fight each other on the. basketball courts because there has been. no mindset changing so our goal is to. fix and train the minds of the child.

when we say let us make man making the. man ain't about uh teaching them how to. fix cars or or painting the house or. whatever like that sure that's great. stuff to know but for us making that man. it is all entailed in their character I. always say uh we we we make habits with. them we make them do things over and. over again just like when we're in. Marine Corps boot camp I always say uh. habits build character and character. makes the man uh routines build habits. and so we make routines which forms a. habit which forms their character. um so that's how we you know make that.

man you know teaching them to uh hygiene. clipping their fingernails um making. sure they smell decent uh asking them. why they didn't you know have this today. or why they didn't you know hey why you. smell funny I ain't got no deodorant at. home okay cool we s you home with a. whole package of soap um deodorant. underwear Etc kids you have holes in. their underwear holes in their socks. what's going on my mom a able to buy me. such and such okay cool we'll take care. of that for you people don't know we. take help moms take care of um like. light bills Etc but it's incentives for. that if you make sure your son is coming.

after school on time if you're making. sure he's doing his work if you're. making sure he's studying if we see you. trying your best and doing good with. your son and making sure you're raising. him we will incentiv incentivize that. not say hey Mom we going to take care of. your rent for the month easy work we do. that through our donors that help us. take care of that but it's important to. for morale too because moms need to see. that somebody believes in them mom need. to see that somebody sees them trying. and it helps them with raising their. sons because today she may not be as. angry when she gets off of work you know. and and actually wants to come watch a.

movie with you you know it's all these. little tiny things matter we don't post. that we don't say those things we don't. you know readily post whose funeral we. help take care of like one of my. students brother passed away in a cold. murder you know we paid for his funeral. or whatever but we didn't share that we. took uh we we we talked to the family. about it but it took her to share that. online you know on her own because she. was just like this is what this program. means to us like this program is is it's. it's for families like yeah we help boys.

but we've helped so many families uh. it's I mean I could go on and on but. that's how we combat that and to a point. now I've had so much negativity said. about me I mean it's just rolls off my. back I'm I'm used to people having. something to say like even like now like. we record everything we do um with my. sons like we record our whole lives me. and my mom um we have it we have it out. sometime um and she's upset with herself. because she didn't take as many pictures. growing up so we have a few photos and. things like that but we don't have have. many pictures of anything I don't have. any photos from playing football no.

videos or anything I play football my. whole life my mom's just like I'm so mad. because my grandmother used to force her. to take pictures all the time so she. thought she was doing me a favor by not. forcing me to take pictures all the time. and things like that and she didn't. realize what was happening so we had. footage of my sons from when they were. like one two years old we record every. single thing so the guys posted online. the other day when we were out at. evaluations you know I got the camera. taking pictures of my son or video and. they like imagine having some. egotistical guy out here taking pictures. you know and y'all out here trying to.

play baseball I'm just like so when you. go to the MLB game and they got cameras. out you can't watch it then cuz they're. recording it I'm just like it's the same. thing but people just want something to. say but I'm just like we post this stuff. and for my son's brand cuz this is going. to help him as he gets older you know. people are watching him already you know. watching his content Etc so we're. building on that early and plus we just. recorded their content anyway so when. they get older we just got all this. stuff we could watch you can sit down. and watch old family movies whatever um. just from conversations in the car I. mean we have everything sometimes my. videographer will send me stuff I don't.

even remember he recorded like he'll. send me like old videos of me holding. them when they were babies he like hey. man I was just going through the Vault. looking at some old stuff or old videos. of us in the after school program back. when I was like 20 you know reading the. Bible to the kids or something he'll. send me that I'm just like man this is I. don't even remember this day you know. but he's sending me you know this. content and it's important but yeah. that's that's how we combat it we just. keep doing more work um and we let God. do the rest um eventually people just. have to be quiet cuz I mean what more. can you say so mhm I guess you know they.

say if you don't have any crits you're. not doing it right correct so well got. you a little gift we'll get you some. more for your kids sure your uh VI. League gummy bears love it I swear some. people just come on the show just to get. those really yeah I'm done so like are. they like special Gummy Bears or no. there's nothing weird going on there's. no cannabis there's no CBD it's just. candy you know it's funny I love I love. gummy bears uh yeah I got some in my bag. right now I love gummy bears so this is.

going to be a hit for me so if they good. I'm definitely just going to order some. yeah I am a gummy bear fan man cool cool. well let's get into your story so where. did you grow up I grew up in Albany. Georgia uh born and raised U born July. 1999 so technically a 90s baby I almost. made it to 2000 but July of 99 was born. in Albany Georgia my mom um had me when. she was uh I think like 18 and. A2 just real quick Albany Georgia sure.

high crime rid chance of being a victim. in of crime is one in 43 the. neighborhood Scouts the neighborhood. Scout ranks in the top 100 most. dangerous cities in the. US. yeah yeah can you can you tell us a. little bit more about other than just. statistics you know sure what Albany is. like I love I love the city of Albany um. I think the city Alin is what you make. it uh it's it's it's important to.

mention also the population it's only. well now it's only about 66,000 people. that live in Albany so when you hear. about the high crime rate it's it's it's. off of the the ratio of people there um. so it's not like somebody's dying every. single day or anything like that but. there is murder pretty often I would say. um we do have a lot of murder happening. stabins a lot of domestic uh issues um. and I tell people I attribute that to. you know it being impoverished um. because you got to think because people. always talk about you know all the kids.

that are in Albany and people just. constantly having children but also the. domestic issues I'm like guys let's. let's let's be honest here with. ourselves if people are broke and don't. have any money and there are no jobs. there aren't any many jobs in ALB if. there people are broke and don't have. any jobs what all they have to do all. day argue and have sex that's it so. that's what's happening in Albin you. constantly got a lot of children you. know being had in ALB but also a lot of. domestic you know issues because it's. woman most of the time it's always some. woman stabbed the guy or the guy shot.

the woman or it's just some domestic. stuff it's always domestic disputes it's. never like a a stray bullet or it's. always domestic stuff never we get some. gang related stuff here and there but. it's mostly girlfriend boyfriend. boyfriend girlfriend uh these guys. arguing about something like it's always. domestic stuff and I attribute that to. again being in prover even like um. mentioning how people rais their. children in the city of ALB if somebody. like let's for example me I look at some.

of the things that I get mad at and I. don't get mad at based off of what I'm. able to afford for example like my sons. sometimes want to draw on their shoes I. don't have a problem with that have fun. I don't care draw on your shoes whatever. they want to make little it's I I see as. them being creative now specific shoes I. don't let them draw them but other shoes. I'm like have fun at it but then I can. also understand why one Mama want to. spank her child for r on his shoe. because for one she's maybe to be frank. she taking out a little of her. frustration on them being for taking a. little frustration on them but also dude.

I paid 40 bucks for those shoes I barely. had that $40 and you drawing on your. shoes like oh my God and she's ready to. kill him you know like about that and. it's just so much happening around her. you know she's doing it by herself dad's. nowhere around vice versa with you maybe. a couple of guys that's raising their. sons by their self or raising their kids. by their S I know there one guy he got. like nine kids bro just got too many. kids but he raising them all moms are. nowhere to be found he's frustrated all. the time the moms make him upset he goes. to jail he calls me Mr King you know.

it's one of my students dad his mom he. he calls me Mr King can you help me you. know I went to jail one of the kids mom. you know made me upset and I did such. and such or whatever like that you know. he's barely making it and I'm just like. guys like this is why this is happening. people need jobs here and so this is why. I started getting into the politics of. the city of Albin um cuz I at first. people know me people you know hear me. saying this now but back when I was. younger I I was say man bump politics I. don't care about politics we just need. to do for ourselves do stuff for our.

community and everything will be fine we. bump the politicians or whatever like. that but as I got older I started. realizing no that some of the stuff that. they're passing and and at the mayor and. the city councilmen and the. Commissioners they're passing stuff. that's directly affecting these kids and. not only passing stuff but not doing. stuff to actually affect people having. money here people need money I'm like. how did you get involved in politics um. I started uh in Albany uh maybe in this. last year trying to figure out politics. of my hometown because I'm seeing stuff.

not happening in my hometown that should. be happening stuff that seems common. sense and so I'm just like okay let me. just start going to these meetings you. know all the meetings are open for the. public to come to nobody's there the. meet the mayor is in their meeting. they're having meetings about all this. different stuff that's happening in the. city 67,000 people live there and. nobody's there the last mayor election. only 7,000 people voted you know for the. mayor and we have 67,000 people there. and I'm just like how exactly you know.

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just in general from and and I I'm a big. fan of the school system but the school. system does not do a good job at. marketing the police department does not. do a good job at marketing fire. department the city of Alban Etc they do. not do a good job at marketing the. reason I say that's important is because. everything you hear and see about Albany. is always negative if you go type Alban. Georgia in on Google it's always. negative it is important that people in. the city know that these people are. actually doing their jobs I told him. this before our Police Department is. doing a Fant fantastic job but all you. ever see online about people talking. about them is just negative stuff but.

these people actually are solving. murders they're actually taking care of. things they're making things happen for. the citizens they have these new. equipment Etc they're really doing good. but I had to go take a private class to. learn about our uh police department I'm. like why aren't you guys posting this. stuff like people should know that you. guys are doing your job that you are. trying to make things happen or our. school system our school system is doing. a phenomenal job and I I have to almost. apologized for the things that I was. saying about them previously because I.

didn't know what was happening not. because I wouldn't go on to look but. also because they wouldn't say anything. about it our school system has uh health. clinics dental and vision clinics etc. for the students to go to for free. because the parents in all cannot afford. the insurance for those kids they've. gotten the grants to make sure they the. clinics are at school you never hear. anybody today props to the public school. system no and I'm going to do that. because they are doing they are trying. I've had them tell us stories about kids.

who didn't even know this kid didn't. even know what a toothbrush was going to. the dentist like these are real stories. and so I'm listening to them tell us I'm. like why aren't y'all talking about this. so I offered with my team to do a a. small documentary on the school system. and the the things that they've changed. in the city especially since Co they. also have this program called level up. the level up program is where they have. parents sign up for the program they'll. go pay for these parents to go to school. to get their forklift license nursing. license bulldozer whatever they'll pay.

for them to go to school to to get these. licenses and they'll say oh well I don't. have any care for my child they'll go. get your kid from school and pay for the. daycare and everything for your child. while you're in school getting your. license to go get whatever degree you're. trying to get or go get whatever. certification to get a job so this in. turn turns into these parents now being. able to parent their children because. they don't have to work three and four. jobs anymore. and they don't have to keep sending the. kid to the auntie's house and and.

sending it to whoever's house to to be. raised by God knows what when they can. raise their own children now because now. they have a livable wage job this is. impactful like I'm just like why aren't. you guys saying anything about this like. where is the marketing team it's. important that people know because all. people hear is the negativity. surrounding the city of Albany and it's. important that people know that like the. commission I'm on now I just joined the. historic preservation commission it's. important um that people know about the. history of ALB and why these buildings. are important and what happened here and.

things like that and they're just like. we wish people would you know get. involved with the historic preservation. commission Etc I'm like okay well you. guys should probably make like a. Facebook page and explain what's going. on make some Tik toks make videos Etc so. me being the youngest person on the five. different boards I just joined is going. to help the city out a whole lot because. they've been looking they're like hey. how can we market like you're marketing. listen let me help take care of those. things for you so we're going to show. these different stories that the dhy. County School System system has helped. with these parents and their kids and. and the free dental Invision I also.

didn't know that our school system has a. Hydroponics Garden where they are. growing all of the green vegetables for. the entire school system they are. feeding these children fresh vegetables. from a garden that the students manage. wow and I'm just like why aren't you. guys showing this stuff online because. all people do is talk trash about our. school system in Albany Georgia. including myself at one point and I. didn't know all these things were. happening I didn't know that they were.

answering the questions that people ask. at the school board meetings I went to. the school they're in there answering. the questions they're in they're saying. hey no they're like oh the kids can't. read here but what they're saying is. look Co stopped us these kids couldn't. come to school but as Co has you know. left or whatever like that they're. showing the trajectory going up from the. statistics I'm like these people are. trying these people are trying to do. their jobs granted everything ain't. perfect but this is something that needs. to be shown why aren't you guys showing. it I've even spoken to the city about it.

they're paying this company in our. hometown won't call them out but it. sucks I was at the city commission. meeting they're paying this one video. company six figures over six months to. for marketing for the city of Albin I go. on their city of Albany we Pages the. couple videos that they've done maybe. got one like if any or some got no likes. no views Etc I'm like so they're older. so they don't understand how social. media and marketing works so I'm like. have y'all asked them for any. deliverables asked them how many people.

have seen this stuff y'all paying them. six figures and this is maybe our third. time doing it and they've only done like. maybe two or three commercials for like. the hospital or something like that who. who why are y'all paying them all this. my team don't even make that much money. and we're pushing out more content than. y'all ever have y'all releasing one or. two videos every couple months and y'all. paying them six figures so why haven't. y'all ask them for any metrics how many. people in the city Al have seen these. things do you know the regular PE person. in Al doesn't even know who the mayor is. they don't know what w they live in they. don't know their commissioner not saying.

it's completely the Citizen's fault but. I think it's it's the mayor's fault I. think it's the City Commissioner's fault. why aren't you in people's faces cuz. people still thought that our mayor from. two Mayors ago was still the mayor the. other day they don't had no clue that we. had a new mayor and I'm just like why. aren't you guys trying to show people. who you are I talked to our city. commission about this because I think. that you guys maybe are just doing stuff. that y'all don't care for the public to. know about. that's what I think I think you don't. want people involved so you can just.

keep passing little stupid stuff up here. that's not causing the city to advance. you just giving contracts to your little. Contracting companies that you know and. passing little stuff for people that you. know and your homeboy and your family. and your Affiliates and people don't. know what's going on so I've been at. every meeting so I can just keep jotting. down notes is that happening yeah it's. happening so I've been at every meeting. um and I've joined five different boards. I am on the historic preservation. commission now I'm on the Planning. Commission Now I'm on the Southwest. Georgia housing task force I'm on the. ALB Police Department civilian review.

board so I know all things happening. with the police department every and. mind you every board I'm on I'm the. youngest person there everybody else. there is extremely older but mainly. because they don't even get applicants. for these boards and people don't know. these boards exist so I'm telling people. these boards are actually making. decisions too the historic preservation. commission is so important they make. decisions that the mayor can't make we. make decisions to say Hey you cannot do. this certain thing in this historic. district you cannot do anything over. there because you're going to mess with. the historic preservation of this.

building or you can't do this thing to. your house cuz you're going to mess up. the historic district like it's. important the Planning Commission is. important because everything that comes. through us is what people want to rezone. something for do I want to open a liquor. store over on this side of town or if I. want to open up a new bar over here or. whatever we have to approve of those. things but that's important because we. can think about then what's the. demographic on that side of town that. you're trying to open that liquor store. on I don't think that side of town needs. a liquor store we don't need a liquor. store on that side of town it's already. high crime over there we're going to. give them more liquor over there that. don't even make any sense you know.

whatever so they're trying to monetize. you know people that's coming into town. they trying to open business they're. monetizing the Dubach in our hometown. they're monetizing that people are. drunks and all being they're monetizing. that people are obese and overweight and. all bus so they're opening tons of. restaurants on the worst sides of town. because they know people can't afford to. go buy healthy food so they got Popeyes. and all these this stuff that's causing. people to die I would to talked to the. coroner not to long long ago I asked I. said Mr Corner why people dying he said. heart disease high blood pressure um.

Strokes said he said I'm picking people. up every day for it I he said because PE. he said because of the food people don't. want to get up and exercise because they. scared to walk in the neighborhoods Etc. he said this is why people are dying. every day nobody knows that I'm just. like this is stuff that needs to be. talked about and so this is why I'm even. having your platform when we share these. videos and stuff I'm going to share it. to our city cuz people need to know that. our school system is trying their. hardest they are doing their job there. Grant some things could be better with. maybe disciplining the kids in certain.

ways Etc but that's free free health. dental vision y'all giving kids glasses. Etc y'all trying to make a way for these. kids to just even live you know for free. give makeing sure their parents got. forklift licenses Etc they graduating. kids with uh truck driver simulating all. this I mean it's crazy what they're. doing and nobody knows about it what. kind of jobs are there right now. mentioned there's not a big job market. wish had my phone with me but I mean. it's it's gas station jobs McDonald's um.

these 1012 hour jobs for the most part. and if you're like me uh and or maybe. just a regular person who probably needs. a lot more money than that you either. have to drive an hour away to go to. another city that you know does pay a. livable wage job and then come back home. or whatever like that or eventually just. have to move to there which is why our. population is declining over the past 10. years our population dropped 10,000. people um because people are leaving. because because there's no growth. happening in the city but there's no. like no factory jobs no like we got.

factories have you ever tried the combos. um little crackers little combos food. those are exclusively made in Albany. Georgia they are made nowhere else. Eminem Mars makes combos in Albany. Georgia and they have a secret little. recipe thing and everything I love. combos but they're they're all over the. country but they're exclusively made in. Albany Georgia why isn't that a thing. like that's a people eat combos all the. time I go and they're sold out why. aren't y'all talking about that but but. these are like the little small jobs we. have factories have left we used to have. Bob's candy they left um we do have a.

Marine base in all be the logistics base. um it's probably one of the most. important bases for the Marine Corps um. but if lo and behold they ever decide to. move the command somewhere else we'd be. effed to be frank um We Are One factory. away from all BR becoming like some real. bad town we do have proor and gamble. like they make tissue and things like. that and um you know laundry detergent. and stuff like so we do have a couple. factory jobs but most of those factories. have people that work there that come. from other cities to come work because.

they won't live in Albany so I mean you. who would you bring then uh I would. think about so this is this is longterm. what I would think I would think about. trying to bring car manufacturing um or. something like that to Albin the reason. I do that is because we have so much. open land in ALB so much space for. factories warehouses whatever even. closed you know factories we got just. some just abandoned just sitting there. or whatever like that but I would do. that because for one we could bring a. wage job to some of these uh people that. are in alting but also these jobs.

require you to work a long time they. require you to work at least 9 to to 12. hours these kids out here on the street. that ain't got no job and y'all could do. the training on site you give they butt. a job they working 9 12 hours making. livable wage but also they ain't got. time to go do nothing stupid outside you. working them to the Bone and now they. sleepy and ready to go home and and. maybe eat some food and that's it they. not getting into any trouble cuz they. sleepy they tired how have you thought. about how you would incentivize an auto. manufacturer to move there only way I. could do that is selling the city of. Albany and at this point if a a.

manufacturer were to look at the city of. Albany online they like absolutely not. this is where relationships come in this. is why I'm grateful for my traveling. through uh the country uh talking about. the extra boys and building. relationships before I started working. in the city of Albany like I am now I. have so many different relationships now. I'm right now I'm in contact with a a. professor uh from Yale um and we were. working on this private project that he. and I are working on to bring to the. city of Albin because they're like Albin.

is the perfect pilot project but they. would have never known that Albany was a. great place for this project I can't. talk about it but for this project. unless if it weren't for me going to. talk to them about it and I'm like dude. ALB has so much potential I have I call. ALB potential Incorporated we have so. many empty spaces so many downtown's. beautiful no businesses at all it's like. all these empty buildings down there so. much his history so much Rich history in. ALB from Dr King uh coming to ALB during.

the Civil Rights Movement to all these. other different things that happened in. ALB uh like they don't preserve a lot of. things uh the the house that Dr King. used to stay at in Albany is currently. boarded up I'm like why isn't that like. some Landmark or something that y'all. add to like some tour people do we have. Radium Springs in ALB it's a natural. spring in Alban that has like this fresh. water that comes out of it or whatever. like that it's just it's really cool but. I'm like why aren't you guys doing like. boat tours or something down here like. my brain's turning but I'm just like why. aren't y'all monetizing the true good.

history in the good light City Ray. Charles is from there we got a Ray. Charles Plaza but that's it like we. don't really do anything for Ray Charles. You got a couple NFL players from Albin. or whatever Grant they won't come back. or do anything or whatever like that but. we got a lot of things that have. happened good from the city of Albany. but why aren't we like pushing those. things why aren't we showing people how. great the city of Albany can be we have. a lot of great mom and pop restaurants. who make great food but why aren't we. showcasing them on Tik Tok and through. the city of Albin website or through the. city of Albin social media Pages or.

whatever I've made this stuff mentioned. but again you know these people are. older and they don't understand you. don't even have an app you know like. most cities got an app you can download. you know to to you know talk to your. Commissioners or you know report stuff. or whatever like that we still got a dow. 311 The Call by P hole what was it about. your childhood that that just got you. into this I mean you started was it 17. yeah professional chef oh yeah uhuh yeah. yeah yeah so you're only 25 years old I. mean M what what was it about your. childhood that motivated you to kind of. start turning the city around becoming a.

basically a father figure to all these. people young man this is going to be a a. long- winded little part when I was. younger when I was a kid my grand I told. you my grandmother's been very spiritual. my whole my whole life um she's been. preaching having Bible studies prayer. lines Etc she's she's big she's huge. into God she's I mean she does it when I. was about 3 years old I never forget we. were riding in her car she had this old. green Lexus she had when I was like. three and I remember the car seats at.

the time were these little things you. had to pull over your head and we I see. I had to learn how to strap myself in. this this little circle inside my car. seat I us to play with all the time. remember just remember little things I. remember we were ride on the street uh. called uh I think it was Johnny W. Williams Road and we turned to South. Madison she still on South Madison. Street and we got to the stop sign I. told my Grandma I said Grandma I said. you know how it is like when something's. about to happen like you feel like. something in your stomach like that and. she was like yeah I know you know like. what you mean she I told her that I was.

here to finish what Dr Martin Luther. King started and um I told her um at. like as I got older that I don't know if. we like maybe watched the Dr King video. at preschool that day or something like. that I don't remember anything from that. day but that conversation I I remember. it vividly I never forget it um but as I. got older I took my grandama would. always tell me that often but I'm like. Grandma like can you stop saying that. like cuz she would like tell like people. at the church what I said and stuff like. that cuz like as a testim I'm like. Grandma can you stop saying that like. I'm like I was a kid I don't like.

whatever like I I was maybe watched the. Dr King video some I'm like I'm not. trying to do that I want to cook like. cuz my my my biological father is a. great cook he would cook at like. different restaurants he you know had. didn't was like a professional chef or. anything but he would like cook so I. wanted to cook because that's what my. real dad did I just wanted to be like my. real dad I I didn't spend a whole lot of. time with him um my stepdad raised me. but anytime I interacted with my father. I just wanted to do things with him and. my mom thank God for her she purposely. fostered our relationship to the point. where I never hated him even if he.

wasn't around and so my mom would. literally go buy me Christmas gifts go. bring it to my dad pick me up and then. bring me to my father to as if he gave. me the gift um like my mom is that's. that's something special um so I loved. my dad I still love my dad you know my B. even if he ain't like just there all the. time my biological father I love him. I'll call him we'll talk maybe every. couple months he's been sick lately I. just visit him the hospital he he had an. enlarged heart or something but um I I. love my real dad so I started wanting to.

cook because of that and so um I I. joined a culinary team at school um we. had a culinary team in high school uh in. his culinary class with Chef Sly he's. going to watch this he's a big fan of. yours too U but Chef Sly he taught me uh. everything I know about uh cooking and. um I started with him and I started. cooking things at home I started uh. baking different things I would sell. like different uh things to bake at home. I would sell to the community I made. like cupcakes and everything I was was. really good at it and then I also did. this program called move on and ready. where you could take college classes in.

high school uh so I took the college. classes at The Culinary uh school that. we had in ALB at Alburn technical. college so I was there every day uh I. was cramming classes uh I went to high. school in the morning times and then I. would leave there at about 12:00 my. Grandma had bought me a car when I was. younger but she I eventually started. driving it and I would drive to the. college and go take those classes um. they would allow me to to leave school. to go take the college classes and um I. took those classes and people don't.

realize culinary classes are long these. are 6 to 8 hour long classes because you. got to think things have to bake things. have to cook it's not a quick class then. we also did catering events so I would. sometimes come home at like 1 or 2. o'clock in the morning at like 15 16 cuz. I'm out cooking and my grandmother would. just make sure I was okay make sure I. had everything I needed make sure I ate. food and I'll tell a little story about. her later but um but yeah she would make. sure I had everything I needed you know. send my grandmother if I open my phone. up I got prayers every single day she's. sending me these long scriptures I read. every morning I don't takes back all the.

time she knows I read them uh she'll. send me these videos motivational videos. but that's what she used to do when I. was in high school same thing send me. prayers make sure I'm okay call make. sure I'm good and um I graduated uh. College before I graduated high school I. walked across the college stage first. because he had spring graduation and. then yeah and then I uh graduated from. high school right after that y wow yep. were I mean were you always a straight. and nrow motivated kid for the most part. until I got to eth or ninth grade um I.

tell everybody you have to go through. your first heartbreak when I was in e8th. grade of this girl I was dating in. eighth grade I had planned my whole life. out with her after I like started dating. her and um when we were about to get to. high school um she uh broke up with me. the summer when we were about to go to. high school and I was confused I didn't. know what she broke up with me for she. was just like well I just want to go. explore at that time I didn't know what. that really meant I'm like what you mean. you want to go explore she was just like. I just you know I don't want to just you. know worry about each other mind you I. had we have named our kids and. everything I'm like want to go live my. whole life with you type deal she was.

all I thought about you know like that's. my first like girlfriend girlfriend so I. was my whole ninth grade year she would. like going to talk to these other guys. and I'm like seeing this stuff I'm just. like what so my whole ninth grade year I. I I chased her like I just chased her I. would just try to figure out what I. could do to get her back and I you know. get mad at the guy she was talking to. and things like that I try to meet her. at a locker and like leave her letters. and stuff like that and I'm just a just. lover boy kid like I'm just trying to. get my girlfriend back I spent my whole.

ninth grade year doing that I lost all. my grades I I was so upset I just I lost. all confidence in myself on top of that. you know I was I was just trying to find. myself in the ninth grade like I was. trying to dress like everybody else cuz. when I was in Middle School I'll tell. this story too I was in Middle School. and um I'll get back into the first. question in a bit but I was in Middle. School and my. uh my sixth grade year I wor wore a suit. to picture day I I love suits I wore a. suit to picture day I always did it in. elementary school too I wore a suit.

every picture day I wore a suit to. picture day in uh uh Middle School in. sixth grade I got to school and. everybody picked on me the entire day. from front like top to bottom cuz I had. on a suit and oh they picked on me the. whole day like I mean just picked on me. I I took my jacket off like to just try. to alleviate some of it like they picked. on me from like my shoes everything I. had a cool I had a decent suit on it was. a pretty nice suit and oh they picked on. me the whole day I never went to wear a. suit again again ever like I just never. doing it again U so every picture day.

after that I just wore regular clothes. you know like everybody else did and um. people would pick on me still because I. didn't wear like the different name. brands that they were wearing like I. would wear Beverly Hills Polo Club. that's what I wanted to wear my mom. wouldn't like poor or anything so she. could afford to do things she drove. truck sometime my stepdad worked at a. Marine base so you know ain't like I. need it for anything so but I wanted to. wear Beverly Hills Polo Club so. everybody picked on me for that for a. long time so then I started my had my. mom buy me some of the uh merchandise. that they they were wearing I get to. school everybody's like about time you.

finally buy some you know this stuff. they still talking about me so I get to. ninth grade I'll never forget there's. one of the cheerleaders uh I still. remember her I'll never forget I always. thought I was maybe ugly or something. like that cuz nobody ever want to talk. to me she was a senior cheerleader and. she told me I I looked at sexy one day. and I was like you talking to me and she. was like and she was like yeah you you. look good I was just like thanks from. that day forward I got all my conf. confidence back never forget it she. probably don't even remember that right. now or whatever but I'll never forget.

they say many remember all their. compliments cuz we don't get many but I. I I got all my confidence back I started. back wearing suits I wore a suit to. school every single day from 11th 11th. and 12th grade year every single day. every single day every single day a suit. and if I didn't have if I didn't have a. suit on I had on like some type of nice. sweater with a tie on like if it was too. cold or something and I had a briefcase. I never had a binder I had a briefcase. all my school work was in my briefcase. every single day um I cut my hair off I. had uh like a box but I cut my hair so I. had a low haircut um and at that time.

like I was like the school mascot at the. time like my my uh principal would allow. me to go speak at different schools like. they were so impressed like just how I. carried myself like my principal like. hey can you go speak at you know this. Elementary School on behalf of West over. and things like that so he' always. announced me over there inter come like. hey we going to have King R to go speak. at you know the elementary school you. know was congratulating for a job well. done so I would do that be going to do. my college classes it was great I I. found myself so I left high school I.

graduated high school and I got married. um to my son's mom and um we got married. immediately out of high school I went to. the Marine Corp after that I originally. wasn't going to do that but um I found. myself like not having anything to do I. just I just didn't feel accomplished in. life and my best friends at the time you. didn't feel accomplished graduating. college before you graduated high school. I didn't feel accompl I was working at. Chick-fil-A I was working on trying to. find a good cooking job but I just. didn't it nothing was hitting for me um. it just it just wasn't what I wanted so.

my best friends uh all my best friends. had went to the Marines every last one. of them all them went at the same time. and so I'm just they writing me letters. I'm writing them letters but I'm just. like let me go see what they doing so. I'm on YouTube looking at boot camp you. know I'm just like I can do that like. I'm why not you know like I ain't doing. nothing else so I went to the recruiting. office talked to the recruiter and uh. off I went to the Marines I got married. off I went to the Marines um I met so. many brothers that we are still you know. super close to this day um I was a. reserve so I was able to be stationed.

back back home um at 3051 Supply uh but. anyway I got back home um after uh. combat training and things like that I. get back home and my grandmother while I. was in boot camp was sending me those. letters reminding me of what I told you. previously about me finishing what Dr. King started so I took a second to sit. down I said okay let me just figure out. what exactly that's supposed to mean so. I did research on Dr King for like a. month straight every single day I had.

deleted all social media off my phone I. had no social media at the time anything. like I was just studying studying. studying I'm like what exactly did Dr. King like what I'm I'm not understanding. what's happening so I'm studying I'm. listening to speeches I'm reading books. I'm going through stuff I'm I'm trying. to figure out what exactly the Dr King. not finish I don't get it like I'm not. understanding this and I don't tell this. story often cuz people think it's weird. but I always tell the story uh to. privately but I want to share this with. you so I'll never forget um I was.

studying him I'm listening to speeches I. started listening to Malcolm X and I'm. listening to Malcolm just like he this. sounds like 202 like well 2019 2020 like. this is crazy it sounds like now he's. basically advocating for us doing for. ourselves and opening up opening up. schools and opening up Banks and opening. up stores and I'm like why AR we doing. that you know so anyway I went to the Dr. King Memorial in Atlanta because I'm. like well maybe I'll find something here. I went there I'm looking at all his old. cuff links and they got old shirts and. stuff and old letters he wrote and I'm.

just and they're looking around just. nothing's it's not nothing's hidden I'm. just like I don't understand like I. really didn't understand like why would. I say that cuz I remember saying it I. can't lie I say I didn't I remember. saying it and I'm like I don't. understand like I don't get it I'm going. through the uh the museum still and I. get to this room in there uh uh and my. my my ex-wife at the time she was with. me and I'll never forget uh we I get to. this room where the carriage uh carried.

uh the casket that brought him through. Atlanta you know when he was uh in the. casket and in this room just like this. one it has on all over the walls uh. newspaper articles from when he was. killed all the headlines from Dr. King I was walking through there and I. was looking at the headlines and I'll. never forget um there was this uh. newspaper article from the Pittsburgh. Courier April 20th 1968 it said will a. new king emerge and that moment I. realized that Dr King didn't train any. Replacements and that's where I had the.

idea that we need to work with young. people and before I ever decide to. figure out what it is that Dr King was. trying to finish as I'm still figuring. it out now I'm in to C that Dr King. failed in for one and my name is king um. if you look at all my social media. handles they all say new emerging King. and um I reached out to the Pittsburgh. Courier because they're actually. currently trying to find that original. newspaper for me cuz I want to put it up. on my wall um but that something to me. and so that's when I started working. with kids I originally started taking. them on field trips now hold on how old.

are you uh I was like 19 19 yeah I was. 19 mhm so basically the. motivation came from your grandmother. yeah M telling you you need to finish. what Dr King started yep I told her that. and she never let me forget it I told. her that I think I was about three years. old yep so I've known for a while what I. was here to do and living in ALB uh Dr. King mentioned Albany and the failures. that he made in the city of Albany um.

and till this day he mentioned the. mindset other people are Allin and still. the same to this day and um I mentioned. on a video yesterday I hadn't released. yet but as I've been maneuvering through. the city as of late um I've been going. to different volunteer workshops um I've. been you know going to different you. know smaller things in the city to show. my face the reason I've been doing that. is because ever since I've been maneuver. I used to not like go out out to the. grocery stores unless it was early in. the morning or like never go out to eat. cuz people would see me but I've watched.

people in ALB almost look at me like. they don't believe in anything else but. they believe in me and it's been so. special to see like just going to the. grocery store and people just like King. like it's so good to see you like I love. everything that's happening you. inspiring me to be a better father you. know to my kids or you know Mom just. like I really want my son to join your. program or kids who are even recognizing. me like that's Mr King Randle like he'd.

be on Instagram like helping the kids. like it's it's I Tred my hardest like. I've been all over the world I've spoken. to the biggest celebrities whatever and. I never want people to feel like that. I've gotten too big for our small. Hometown ever I still go volunteer at. the smallest places I still go to all. the mom and pop restaurants that I've. always frequented since I was younger I. I still give $100 to every waiter that I. run into in Albany every last one even.

if they did good or bad service because. I don't know why they gave me bad. Services they may be having a bad day. their mom could have died anything you. know and I I do that and so people you. know remember me for a small stuff like. that I never and speaking of the waiter. thing I was going to get my I got a pet. snake my kids wanted a pet snake I was. going to get him a uh a dble to eat or. whatever and um the lady that was. working in there she said you look. familiar I'm just like you know um of. course I mean most people people you. know REM King Rand she was like you're. that guy that gave me $100 two years ago. when I was waiting at the fire grill.

which is one of our mommy pop. restaurants she was like I she was like. that like meant so much to me she didn't. even know my name but she remembered my. face I have no clue I did not remember. who she was I don't remember giving her. the $100 but I know I did it because I. do that for every waiter and even if I. don't got it I won't go out to eat. unless I got $100 to get a waiter um. because I remember when I used to be. with my ex-wife we trying to get pennies. up in the car to go just have us a. little ice cream date like just we don't. even have money like just go get some. ice cream we getting $50 you know trying.

to figure some stuff out you know so I. remember all that stuff or like now I. give to local businesses now um uh I do. a scholarship now for for kids in Aly. because they can't afford you know like. to go to school and stuff so I do my own. scholarship just for kids in the city of. Albany the only condition is they have. to remain in the city of Albany you have. to put back into our city um because. that's what I believe in um but I give. toal businesses I've given to some of. those mom and pop shops or whatever um. that have uh fed me you know for so many.

times so most times people are try to. you know it around all being they want. to give me discounts on things like my. tailor um before I got here um the guy. who tailored these pants before um he. did used him and tape and so when I was. about to put them on the H and tape came. off and it uh I didn't have a hem on my. pants anymore and this was like one of. the only suits that I could fit until my. new Suits come in cuz I've been working. out and so um uh and I had this new. shirt that came in and I was like I. needed tailored like I got to go. tomorrow like I needed tailored in a. couple she like I got you but he tried. to give me a discount I'm like no I.

texted him I said listen to me I like. don't give ever give me a discount ever. because I'm just like I I want you to. have all your coins if you going to. charge somebody else you know that's not. me charge me the same thing and I still. tipped them and I'm like and I'm I said. I told him to make sure you add where. they could tip you on your little square. account and I tipped them too the guy. who watches my uh my cars or whatever. he's a great guy or whatever like that I. tip him every single time he watches my. vehicles and I tip him you know nicely. and he's you know just always grateful. for it and um just I do small things for.

so many people I never just share but I. really love my city and people believe. in me like no end people believe in me. more than I've seen them believe in. themselves um and that's a charge I got. so it's like now I'm like okay let me do. what I can to help fix my own city um. even this older lady we about to help. her fix her house in the historic. district she called me when I got store. preservation commission and she was like. I've been trying to get somebody to come. help fix my house for the long she's. like 80 something I go to this lady's.

house it's the worst house I ever seen. in my life she doesn't even have pipes. under the ground the water she runs goes. straight to the ground outside the house. is so unlevel like you're it's walking. like this she's cooking and her foods. like this wow um it's insane so and then. she can't even get in her tub because. she's had a HP replacement so she can't. get so she's having to sponge bathe. because she cannot actually get in her. tub. um and I get to this lady's house and. I'm like how long you been living like.

the house is sitting on some 2x4s under. like it's sitting on some wood and the. wood's going to rot I'm like this this. house could fall in like at any time you. know and um so I called my contractor. friend I'm like listen can we get this. fixed up in anyway he like yeah we got. to start with the cuz at first she. called me just about the bathroom just. so she could have a walk-in shower I'm. like sure why not we get there I'm just. like the contractor was like dude we. can't do nothing until we like first of. all get some pluming in here and also. level this house out so you know he gave. us a quote for that and you know I was. able to you know share that on social.

media like but when I get there this. lady's like Mr King like it's so good to. see I see you on the TV sometime like on. the news like doing the things with the. kids and she was like I didn't know you. were so young you the commissioner on. the historic pres I'm like yeah she's. like I didn't expect you to be so young. but these people believe you know in me. um and it's heavy sometime it is it's a. little pressure you know here and there. but I don't mind it Bruce Wayne got a. lot of pressure you know to keep the the. city fixed everybody don't like Bruce. Wayne either you know um but my son.

loves the Batman and we love the Joker. so we always you know use that but I I. have a I have like a call and there's. this old Baptist song you know when I. grew up in the Baptist Church you may. not know it but it's old devotional song. called a charge to keep I it's a charge. to keep that I have and a God to glorify. and to serve this present age like. that's the song that we sung all the. time growing up and I never understood. it but now it's like I have a charge to. keep in this present age you know uh to. fulfill for God how did you decide that.

you were going to go after the younger. generation there's this one time where I. did try to work with I tell you what's. interesting go ahead go ahead what's. interesting is it doesn't sound like you. grew up in a in a poor broken home no it. sounds like you grew up in a very in a. very good home good parents good. grandparents maybe surrounded by people. that weren't as fortunate as you mhm and. so where did where did the vision come. in is it is it who you grew up with that.

made you want to go after the younger. generation so going after the younger. generation I'm I'm going mention what. what I started out doing when I first um. started working in the city of almania I. originally started working with uh older. men um like actual men um not kids but. then like what age 20s 30 just men I I. always I just invited men to come to. these uh different bar shop uh events I. would have what 19 yeah some yeah I was. 19 uhhuh yeah I was 19 um and so I.

started out working with uh these men. how how do you start out working with. men in 19 how do you influence older men. I mean you're dealing with egos yeah. dealing with people that don't believe. you I mean that's why I stopped working. with them so originally it was I was. working in the barber shops and I'm. telling them like look like we could do. all these different things to try and. and help fix the city of Albany but for. one because there's this kid who's. telling us what we could be doing with. the city of Albany so I stopped working.

with the the the men because they. stopped coming to the events that I was. doing trying to you know encourage us to. go do things I took these kids on a. field trip um to the Center for civil. and human rights in African-American. history museum in Atlanta to hear these. kids asking these questions to hear them. not wanting to be in their condition. that's why I knew I had to work with. kids and immediately after that I. started working with them I started. doing oil change workshops um I started. doing breake repair workshops teaching. them how to work on cars Etc and these.

workshops were a hit um but I was still. working um driving a forklift at the. time and um I'll never. forget uh my job told me that I fell. asleep at work I was working a graveyard. shift they told me I fell asleep at work. and everybody was trying to call me over. to intercom Etc and I and I wouldn't. answering I don't remember falling. asleep but they said I fell asleep so. they let me go I asked my wife at the. time I say um can I do a summer at the. house she was like yeah you can do su. camp at the house I was like okay cool. and mind you baby king wasn't even won.

yet son my son was a couple months old. so I posted this flyer online and I said. I'm going to be offering to teach kids. how to grow their own food I'm going to. and I learned out this growing up by the. way so I'm teach them how to grow their. own food I'm teach them how to work on. cars I'm teach how to work on houses we. going to do math we going to read Etc I. got I found a couple tables I turned my. dining room into a uh classroom and I. got the this little small dry erase. board from Staples for like $24 and um. that's where I started teaching um they.

brought their kids to me every single. day I was still 19 I had 20 parents. bring their kids to me every single day. 20 parents right off the get-go right. off the get-go and I'll never what's the. literacy rate in Albany um if you would. have asked me I could have been able to. tell you I will say that um our kids. that came to work with me maybe 17 out. the 20 of them could not read on grade. level and I had maybe like five of them. who couldn't read at all and mind these.

kids were 11 starting out at 11 11 to 17. was the group the age group and I mean I. had a kid who couldn't read cat dog and. I'm like son how exactly are you in the. sixth grade and you can't read at all. who exactly passed you through school. not being able to read that's where I. got the idea at the time I said well I'm. going to open up a school one day so I. don't know when I'm going to do it but. I'm going to open up a school don't know. get the money from we open up a school. but that's when I started uh truly. working with kids um after I discovered.

that kids don't want to be in their. condition they just want somewhere in an. atmosphere where it's cool to do the. right thing. H and how did you how did you find 20. parents right off the bat Facebook I. just posted the flyer online people yeah. got think when school's out we have a. lot of uh poor parents in in and stuff. they can't afford these summer camps um. they can't afford to send their kids out. so they kids are just stuck at home so. wasm Camp yeah it was a summer camp so. the kids were stuck at home so the. moment I somebody's online saying hey.

you can bring your kids over here they. don't really care at that point where. they just want their kids somewhere. where they think something constructive. is going on while they at school I mean. while they at work um or going to school. whatever they're doing they just don't. want their kids is at home so that's. where we got the 20 parents from how. many hours a day were you spending on. this 9 to three 9 to three yep how are. you making money um I was you have a did. you have an occupation yeah I was a. skill Tradesman um so my brother um came. to live with me he was about 12 or 13 um. he was losing himself at the time he's. in military school now in Maran Alabama.

at a Military Institute or Maran. Military Institute but um with him he. and I would go around and fix people's. cars um off of I learned how to do that. off of YouTube I had previous experience. working on cars but obviously you know. working on different cars um you have. different things so when people would. say I need my car fixed I asked them you. know what exactly need to be done I need. my starter change send me the year. making model I got a 2009 Chevy Malibu. cool YouTube YouTube How the change. start on Chevy Malibu I basically.

determined what I felt like the labor. cost it and I told them I'm like hey. this is how much y'all charge for that. we'll go and do it that's how I got a. light bill paid then I learned how to. cut hair while I was in the Marines uh. while I was in the barracks at um uh. Camp uh what was that Camp Johnson I. think I was at Camp Johnson but um I. learned how to cut hair in the Bears. because the the base barers were trash. and everybody got tired of haircuts. being janky so I was like look how about. y'all just let me practice on y'all head. I'll watch a couple YouTube videos and I. went and bought some little cheap. clippers from Walmart and everybody. would just come like I don't care if you. practice on my head to be frank because.

it looks like they practicing so why not. so I eventually got good at it I got I. got really good at cutting hair um and. so that's what I started doing the city. of Alban too so whenever I went fix in. somebody's car I would do house calls I. didn't care what time it was I would. have to go out at 12:00 at night to go. cut somebody's hair um and I would do. that because I didn't have a regular job. so I had to go put up somebody's door or. go uh put in a window frame or go change. a ceiling fan or go paint somebody's you. know wall because that's how I made. money that's how I funded our field.

trips to take the kids different places. when I wanted to take the kid somewhere. I would find something to do I mentioned. to W earlier uh the way me and my. brother made our first, and granted it. was cheap at the time but we made our. $1,000 um we were at Home Depot and um. this lady uh while we were in there uh. we were actually looking for some paint. for someone else's uh the inside of. somebody's house they wanted to room. paint it so we were looking for the. color paint they wanted and um this lady. came um up to us and she said hey do. y'all paint we like yeah we paint like. that and she was like well do y'all. paint houses I'm like yeah we paint yes.

ma'am we paint houses she was like she's. like I mean like the outside like yall. paint the outside and stuff I'm just I. looked at him he looked at me we had. never painted the outside of our house. before and I was like yes man we paint. houses we we paint houses you need to. come give you a quote she's like yeah. come by my house this is the address and. this is my phone number I said okay cool. we hadn't painted a house a day in our. life but we went out there cuz I wanted. to make sure the house wasn't too big. like it was nothing crazy it was. actually a nice small perfect home home. that we could paint it was perfectly. Square not no Crooks and crevices. nothing it was perfect she wanted.

painted a completely different color um. so we said okay cool um we'll charge. $1,000 for it and that's because we. didn't have no experience um so we sat. on YouTube for like 3 hours watching. videos of people paying houses from all. the equipment we needed Etc we went and. rented all the equipment so we got had. her give us a deposit all deposit went. to all the equipment basically we didn't. know how much equipment cost it so we. went and rent the paint sprayer from uh. bot white rents and all B they got rent. all this stuff out so we rent a paint. sprayer Etc we painted our house in.

maybe like a week and um that's how we. made our first ,000 and from then on you. know we started pressure washing. people's driveways and cuz we had to. pressure wash the house first and so I. had to learn how to operate a pressure. washer so then I started hey we can. pressure wash your drive we can pressure. wash your house like I just made it work. me and my brother would just hop in my. grandma's truck and we would figure it. out like that's what we did my grandma. would allow us to borrow her truck to go. put stuff in the back and we figured it. out so I never got a regular job I just. wanted it and that's what I believe in. wow so 9 to3 you're teaching kids how to.

grow food how to do math how to read how. to write yep and then three to whenever. you're you're basically an entrepreneur. yep Absol whatever you can yep I did. whatever I could cuz I didn't want for. One my son was a baby baby um and I. never did like my wife working or. anything like that she had to go get a. job and I didn't like that um like I. just it just messed with my psyche you. know I was at home with a kid you know. so like it kind of just mess with me a. little bit um and that was for a very.

short amount of time um I literally. picked up my business fast like I. started posting on Facebook about me. fixing cars or whatever and people. started booking me to come do their. different things so she eventually was. able to leave that job after like a. little while and um so she could get. back home and I was out with my brother. we was again you know just doing. whatever we could to make some money how. fast did you get 20 people to show up to. your program uh originally 20 20 parents. how many kids yeah it was it was 20 it. was 20 kids so when I say 20 they all. had parents so it was 20 kids um but.

yeah it was pretty fast um I probably. had that post up maybe about two weeks. and we had everybody signed up in that. 20 um yeah that two weeks yeah did you. think it was going to happen that fast. nah everything that you've seen happen. for the X boys program outright have. never thought would happen as fast as. did you have a curriculum lined up or or. were you just winging it I Winged It for. the most part I had like an idea I had a. like a out okay I'm going to teach this. today and on Tuesday I'm going to teach. this and Wednesday I'm going to teach. that and we we grew squash and cucumbers.

and all that stuff you know during that. time or whatever I just did what I. thought was best for that time you know. during that day of course I matured a. lot I've learned about you know. everything I didn't have a LLC done. profit I didn't know nothing about any. of that stuff I'm just helping some kids. strictly volunteer right yeah it was. strictly volunteers like I I just did. what I could you know with the kids and. um what age what spread it was 11 to 17. at that time 11 to to 17th so so you're. teaching I mean how do you 11 to 17. that's I attribute that's a big range it.

is but I attribute the discipline that I. was able to give them to the Marine. Corps I believe if I never went to the. Marines I never the program wouldn't be. as successful as it is people have asked. me like how am I able like I used to. have I had 40 kids at one point and it. was just me um and people like how you. control them like how do you able to get. them I said you got think we got like. three drill instructors and like 90 kids. like you know but I remembered what they. did to to control us and so I did the. same thing with them so when we go out.

they just like man they so mannerable. and they saying yes sir no sir they. giving the proper greeting of the day. Etc like how are they doing this I'm. just like I just attributed to what I. learned in the Marine Corps I just. taught them that I don't allow a lot of. mistakes when they mess up they get in. trouble for it high knees mountain. climbers push-ups Etc that's how we did. it and they respected me for one because. I was younger a lot of them didn't know. I was 19 at first I didn't tell them to. around the in the camp they was like Mr. King you 19 like I had a your mentoring. kids are only 2 years younger than you. 17 years old you know one of them turned. 18 while he was there but they respected.

me so much because they saw I had my own. house I had my own car I was raising my. son I had a wife you know like they they. saw all of that so they obviously. thought I was older but then it became. inspiration to them because man I could. be young and helping people and doing. okay for myself is that uncommon in Aly. yeah mhm it is it's uncommon. yep it is uncommon. how fast did it spread X for boys. program yeah fast um after that summer.

camp um we became the most popular. program in the city wow to this day. we're still the most popular program in. ALB where'd you come up with the name. the xra boys x equals unknown um and so. we're trying to give these boys the. unknown. variable what are some of the success. stories out to the out of there you know. what this is I was I I was hoping you. got here I probably have out of maybe a. couple hundred kids that I've worked. with I probably only have like four. success stories true success stories you. only have four mhm absolutely this is.

why dig into the failures of the program. so um for the past six years I've worked. with kids at ages 11 to 17 and I'll dig. into the success stories in a second but. I have to talk about it while I talk. about their success I work with kids. ages 11 to 17 more teenagers than off. than than not um but during my time. working with these in the program I had. this rule like I was like I'll never. kick a kid out of the program I'll you. know we're going to do what we can even. if they don't want to be here we're. going to try and make them do it and. different things like that I'll never. turn a kid down Etc so during that time.

I had many kids that I working with that. just didn't want to be there they were. constantly unruly didn't want to be. there messing up the the experience for. other kids Etc and um at the time I. didn't realize you know that that was. actually affecting know teaching because. I spent so much time disciplining versus. teaching I didn't realize I was I was. wasting a lot of time time of those kids. who actually wanted to be there because. they got to get in trouble too cuz they. acting up they can't go somewhere.

because they acting up they can't get. the teaching because they acting up so I. spent years doing that thinking that I. was doing the right thing like by just. trying to make them do it and trying to. discipline them as much as possible Etc. and I'll never forget when I realized it. all I had a student named Bryon um I had. started allowing some younger kids to. come in like just because and I was. still having the older kids come in too. but I had some younger kids start coming. in also and I never forget Bryce is a.

great kid on a ro student whatever and. he told his mom he said Mom I love the. program I love Mr King but it's not I. don't know if I can stay that long cuz. some other kids so bad and I thought. about it for a second and I realized. that I got a whole lot of kids in there. in that room who want to be there and I. spent half of this class period fussing. at kids who did want to be here who were. unruly who have said they don't want to. be here and I should just sent them home.

from that point on every kid who didn't. want to be there I told their mom they. didn't have to come back because I have. children here that we are messing the. experience of we're ruining the. experience for those children who could. actually be changed then I realized it. hit me again that I don't have that many. success stories because all these. children they have had to get punched in. the face by life for them to call me and. say Mr King I appreciate you but they. have already made mistakes they have.

already had a child to early that. already you know have went to jail I had. kids call me from jail and say Mr King. like I had talked to you in two years Mr. King I appreciate everything you trying. to teach me I realize it now life had to. hit them in the face first our program. why would say that's a success story. yeah I I can I I can say it success but. what I mean by success is you definitely. impacted hundreds of kids yes I impacted. yeah now to the degree and what level. they achieve in life that's you know. that's that's out of your control but. you've shown them I believe you've shown.

them in. in I mean. look you've rerouted MH the the norm yes. you've rerouted the norm or shown them. that the norm that the you know the. normal path in Albany New York can be. rerouted and there is a whole another. side of life if they choose yeah right. yeah and so I mean I I would. say that's got to be a lot more than.

four yeah so impact the success that. thank you for mentioning that CU I can. start using that because that's that's. important so when I mention the success. stories I have about four students um. who embody everything that I've taught. you know in the past six years the. reason that they embody it is because I. had students that I allowed to be. blessed in the program if they had older. brothers so if they were younger the. only way they come into the program is. they had an older brother that was there. those kids started out maybe Seven 8. years old those children now.

literally live by the rules of the ex. for boys because they started almost as. a baby in the program watching me tell. them to get a proper GRE of the day. watching me tell them to keep your. hygiene up and making sure they bathing. etc etc so now these kids are like 13 14. years old and their teachers are calling. like hey I just want tell you I. appreciate you know this student because. he said he's been in the S voice program. and this is why he says yes ma'am and no.

ma'am and and comes in every morning and. tells me good morning and you know does. his work and tries to make sure he's. doing the right thing and it's it's for. them I got one of them painted on the. mural outside of our building his name. is Bryson pittz and um he he is the. number one example of our program um. Bryon Pitts um he's a fantastic kid he's. you know playing uh trombone at uh his. middle school he's about to go to high. school soon um but he is fantastic you. know he does everything correctly he. keeps everybody in line Etc I can't say.

the same allo you know all the way for. you know his brother or whatever or even. um kendarius U he's one of my other. success stories great kid can't say the. same for his brother either or whatever. because again I started with them for so. so late and I can say that about them. cuz I call their brothers and tell them. the same thing I'm like you know you. could be doing a whole lot better I. taught you so much so why aren't you. doing you know what I taught you but you. know again that's life you know but. their brothers. fantastic um so those are some success. stories that I could talk about but. that's why we've shifted our age range.

now to 7 to9 so we begin again in March. um next month you've shifted the entire. program from 7 to9 to 7 to9 yep two so 7. to n or Seven Ages no ages seven through. nine that's it that's it that's it mhm. no kidding yep we we have switched it. now um because I believe that those. children now well children now are. losing themselves a lot sooner I've had. third graders smoking like this this is. what's happening now and being in the.

city of Alban these kids are learning so. much from other children um just from. what's happening in their homes even. from molestation um Etc uh that's a huge. issue um that I've I've run into that a. couple times working with kids um the. molestation and U Family Violence um. it's a huge issue and um these children. are losing themselves a lot sooner and I. believe that again. so many kids are hearing mom say make. sure you do the right thing and. everybody saying be good and the. teachers are saying be good but.

everybody's punishing you for it I'm. being good and everybody's picking on me. I'm being good and everybody's don't. want to be my friend I'm trying to do. the right thing I'm trying to do my work. and everybody's being mean they need an. atmosphere where it is cool to do the. right thing and so they need somewhere. they can come where they get prais for. great grades they need somewhere they. could come and be praised for having you. know intellectual conversation need to. come somewhere where they could be. praised for you know making sure they. keep their hygiene up Etc like he'll. pick on you for like because all the. other kids don't know how to iron their. clothes they'll pick on you for looking.

nice like it's again you know so we want. to give them an opportunity in an. environment where it's cool to do the. right thing and if a child does not want. to be in our program they don't have to. be. there this episode is sponsored by Roa. Roa is a performance eyewear brand for. people who want to invest in themselves. Roa manufactures premium sunglasses. prescription eyeglasses and readers and. cuts all of their lenses here in the US. at their Headquarters in Austin Texas.

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got to you can't make light of showing. people that there is another option. because people get they get stuck in the. same cycle they see their parents in it. they see their grandparents in it they. see the people you know younger than. them in it they see all the families. around them in it and so even if even if. you just have planted a seed mhm you. know in that community that that shows. them like hey. there are other options out there and. I'm showing you look at what's happening. here right this is this is another.

option this is a way out of that. generational curse that so many people. are stuck in I mean don't make lie to. that man that's that's a big success. story even if it doesn't happen right. off the bat when they look back even if. it's 10 20 years from now I mean you've. planted the seed in there they they know. yeah know I just critique myself a lot. you know so um it's just not everything. has to be a grand slam absolutely but.

you know if we going to swing the bat we. GNA swing it hard so definitely but yeah. I appreciate you uh even saying that cuz. I could I could definitely use that uh. from now on absolutely I mean what. what's the response from the parents. response from parents is always great um. granted I ain't got the best reviews. from all the parents cuz again I I. discipline a different way um and I hold. kids accountable um so I've had Parents. accuse me of lying on their kids like. I'll tell them hey your son did such and. such no my child didn't he didn't do. that you're just lying on my son etc etc.

I'm just like that's fine ma'am I don't. see what reason I have to lie on your. child I'm like what what does it benefit. me you know but whatever uh but for the. most part parents uh adore you know the. program um again we've done so much for. parents um we've done workshops for. parents themselves um you know parenting. workshops I had people come in help them. repair their credit um different things. like that I just try to help uh you know. parents as much as possible and uh. because they have to go home to these. parents so I could be giving them. teaching all day then they go home and. go right back into the stupid stuff so.

we try to incentivize parents also. teaching the the same discipline at home. you know we try to make sure we. incentivize them making sure they're. doing the right thing at home too um. because even though we have them for. quite a you know a bit of time um we. want to make sure those kids are are. doing the same thing at home cuz we hate. to have to keep reteaching the same. thing because you're allowing them to go. back into you know who they used to be. but response from parents is always. great U we've had a lot of videos with. parents giving testimonials and. different things like that so um. definitely you know happy about the.

parents who truly support our. program are they uh are the parents. pretty receptive to the to the. information you're teaching them you. would think not but they are m i I. haven't had any parents that got mad at. me for like telling them they should do. better with their with their children. cuz I will tell them I'm like listen. like I remember one time this this. parent came to me about her son's. attitude she was like oh he always you. know turning his nose up at me and he. doing this and that etc etc but while. she was saying that I'm looking at her. face and she's doing the exact same. mannerisms that he does I said soon as.

she finished I said hey Ma I said um. listen to me I said you were just. talking to me about him and you were. doing everything that he does he gets. that from you you should stop doing that. stuff and maybe he'd stop it cuz he's. only watching you and she didn't even. recognize it until I told her and she. was like I didn't even realize that cuz. I am doing the same movements I am. turning my face up I'm like exactly he. does that here. and he does that at home but he's doing. it because you do it and so it caused. her to critique herself and caus her to.

stop I mean here's some stats that we we. got from you. 0.1% recidivism rate 82% Proficiency in. general contracting 86% increase in. reading comprehension 91% Improvement in. grades and 93% proficiency and. automotive repair I mean dude this is a. huge success this isn't like four Wonder. kids out of hundreds that m i mean you. got to give yourself more credit I I I.

will I just like what you know me I you. know I mentioned mindset earlier and. like I said before yeah I mean yeah the. kids you know we've done firearms. training we've done um all types of. different training welding Etc so yeah. they've learned how to do a lot of. different things I think are beneficial. for their lives but at the same time you. know I'm bigger on fixing their mindsets. in the character that they have because. I could have a kid you know who's he. could he could do all that stuff on the. list he could go change the oil for you. he could paint a house he could you know.

do firearms training Etc but he can. still be a terrible person um and and. it's important for me to make sure we're. creating the better people um and that's. what I believe in so yeah definitely you. know we we are big on teaching the. trades just showing them that there are. different ways to make money no doubt. but we want to fix on that character um. that's that's the bigger thing and let. us make man what do you think some of. the problem stems I mean we talked about. fatherhood at the very beginning do you. think fatherhood is a is a major problem. in that area yeah yeah absolutely uh the.

lack of true male presence is is. probably one of the bigger the bigger. issues in order to be a man you have to. see a man um that's that's it um and. people will try to say oh my mom you. know Raised Me by herself and and I I. was a good man I said if your mom raised. you by yourself and you became a good. man is because you was on a football. team you had a gym coach somewhere you. had male presence in your life your mom. was the sole person raising you. completely you never ran into any other. men that had any impact on you and you. no absolutely not and most and moms will.

be honest about that but like Do not sit. here and tell me that your mom never put. you on a football team never let you. play basketball you never had a male. teacher anywhere you never had no male. Presence at all and you became a great. person I believe you have to have that. balance any single moms that have raised. good men is because they put them around. good men too yeah they might have done. it by themselves but they also put them. on football teams a lot of single moms. will make sure their kids are in sports. they will make sure their kids have some. type of male around them you know good. moms anyway to make sure that they. become something successful because most.

moms who refuse to put their men I mean. put men around their sons usually end up. uh some gang banger Etc like I I. guarantee it and I've seen it and I can. say this because I've worked with. children for so long I can guarantee. that what that's what's happening like. every time and um again some parents. they don't want to parent they don't. want to be a parent they just having sex. having kids and don't want to parent. some people try to use us as a a second. parent and so they don't have to do. nothing granted I try to you know do.

what I can with their sons but it's hard. because I need your assistance mom like. I really need your help you know with. him you know you can't just throw them. off to me cuz the program's free you. know you can't just throw them off to me. but you know coming now in March we will. have rules for parents and as much as I. don't want to we will kick some children. out of the program because of their. parents and because I want the parents. to be accountable also and I have to be. a little Cutthroat like that as much as. I may love that child as much as I may. have built a relationship if that mom.

does not assist us with her child in a. in a meaningful way we will let them go. from the. program wow well I mean so what with the. lack of fathers where are the fathers. where are they at what are they doing. let's let's let's get into realness we. got a lot of moms also that that have. fathers that do want to be dads but but. they are so vindictive and bitter with. the dad that they'd rather their son fa. than have the father in a child's life.

are you serious I'm dead serious I am. dead I've had conversations with moms. where they tell me I'm like where the. daddy at I'll make contact with the dad. dad say you know I live in North. Carolina or I live in this city but she. never wanted me they have moved on got. kids of their own with their new wife or. whatever like that she never want me to. see him she I'm like Mama send that boy. to go stay with his daddy he don't need. the ex of boy program he needs his dad. send him with his father what are you. doing besides sitting up here. complaining about you doing it by. yourself it's like moms have this new. thing now where they proud they it's.

like they have to say I'm doing it all. by myself and I'm trying and and I love. my child and putting them on Facebook. and pretending you was a parent at. graduation and they turned out to be. some terrible person because you was too. proud to keep their father in their life. I've run into that so many times with. moms who didn't just want just send the. child to stay with his father you don't. need him you don't need to be trying to. raise him by yourself send him with his. dad because he needs his actual father. he don't need somebody trying to get to.

play father he needs his real father but. because they are so bitter and the court. system which I hate you know uh benefits. mothers more than fathers who want to be. dads um it it it it it hurts kids it. hurts children they send you know these. kids to stay with moms or like I I never. forget it's a few cases where moms will. be on drugs and they'll give it to the. mom before they give it to the father. like I watch these court cases and I. have said before that um uh custody. court needs to be a jury I have said.

that over and over again it does not. need to be a judge because it's based. off of how this judge feels today what. if they don't like you today or what if. they mad or whatever it needs to be a. jury I believe a jury of our peers needs. to decide where custody goes we need to. be able to prove why I'm a fit parent. you know for my child I have said if we. having a custody battle let's talk to. the jur a jury about it it does not need. to be one judge or I'm trying to prove. to this judge while I'm a good dad Etc I. don't understand why that that isn't a. jury child and that's something I want. to fight for because I've I run into. that issue you know in divorce at at one.

point or whatever like that like uh the. the lawyer was telling her to keep the. kids away from me and so because she. didn't have any knowledge she you know. thought she was doing the right thing. because that's what the lawyer told her. to do and she told the lawyer she was. telling me after it was over she was. like well I told him he was a good dad. and everything I didn't understand what. he was telling me to keep the kids for. for but I was doing it because that's. what he told me to do I said don't you. ever in your life let somebody tell you. to keep your kids away from the dad like. she said that's what the lawyer was. telling her and and I was like well why.

wouldn't he be looking out for the best. interest of the kids cuz I had already. offered you know multiple different. things you know when I got a divorce you. know for her to be okay I left the house. left her the car Etc like every I just. you know I just wanted out you know at. that time but um I just wanted to make. sure I had you know proper custody with. the children CU I wanted to make sure. I'm raising my sons and he was telling. her to try to get full custody etc etc. and so of course we we ended up working. at out privately or whatever like that. and um we eventually you know worked out. our own custody agreement or whatever. like that but I'm just like man imagine. if I wasn't able to afford a lawyer.

imagine if I wouldn't able to afford you. know these different incentives for her. Etc like that the regular guy get. railroaded and can't see his kids for no. reason no matter what happens in a. marriage etc etc if both parents are fit. both parents should be able to see their. kids at an equal amount of time it. shouldn't be oh well you can't see them. because this what the judge decided like. that's insane you know so uh it's it's. it's a little delicate uh line to walk. so who are these kids who do they look. up to then if there's if fatherhood's a.

major problem who do they find as Role. Models if they have any um they look up. to uh whoever's close to them U around. them whether that be Mom or Grandma you. know how that turns out um or they look. up to their football coach they look up. to the basketball coach you know as much. as they can they don't have that they're. looking up to the rappers they're. looking up to the game members who The. Gamers come around with the cool cars. and the nice chains whatever like hey. how you get that and so they get them. into their lifestyle now they want to be. game bangers because they think this is.

the Life to Live or whatever well this. is how I'm going make money this I'm. going to take care of my family you know. I got to sell a couple s drugs or. whatever like that to make some things. happen I'm like bro do you see me. selling drugs I'm like cuz I had a I had. a red Corvette uh I just sold a little a. little while ago the reason I bought the. car originally was because I wanted the. kids to see that you could just be a. giver be a great person be a great. father and get what what you want still. or whatever and so I showed them that. and the kids were like Mr keing got a. cool car you know like it was it was. cool for them to see like it was.

interesting um to just witness them like. have a it's like their mindset shifted. when they saw me with the car granted. I'm still the same person I'm still the. same Mr the king I'm still the one who. feeds you all the time but when I got. the car it's like so I can so you're. finding what these kids value M what. what what what what what they look up to. mhm by by. possessions or whatever yeah and and. you're showing them that they can get. these possessions by doing by taking a. different route in life by trusting God.

which is we do Bible study you know all. the time by trusting God and giving I. told them you're going to receive by. giving as much as possible um because. that's what I do I give as much as I can. like I I never stop giving I give every. single day um but that's how I keep. receiving that's why I keep telling. people like how are you so blessed. because I give I give as much as I can. like I I never stop giving I just help. random people I sometimes I have to stop. myself like I I'll help anybody who. needs it um and that's important to me. um but yeah that's that's how I figure.

out you know what the kids love they. look up to people they look up to to. possessions um unfortunately that's that. was for the older kids and now the. younger kids that I'm start about to. start working with they're not really. interested in possessions at the moment. because they're just living life you. know they're just alive they're not. they're not like oh I need to have a. cool car to look cool or whatever. they're just Elementary School young. kids but teenagers all they care about. is the scat packs and the cool cars and. this and that that's all they care about. it's literally that's all they talk. about coming in oh I seen a Scat Pack. yesterday y'all it was cool as purple.

like they coming there talking about. that or some NBA young boy or some beef. they got some rappers they saw on. YouTube or some streamers or whatever. like that that's all they talk about the. teenagers but the young kids they just. be talking about toys or talking about. playing like they they're young in the. mind so it's like I don't need the cool. car to impress them I don't need none of. that they're not even trying to. impressed they just they just want a. cool environment to be in and so as as. as I hone that and I'm never talking. about cars and never talking about the. cool stuff they not interested in it.

like my sons they don't I mean they seen. cool cars and whatever like that or they. see but they know every day they just. wake up put some T-shirts some gym. shorts on and they out the door like. that's me I wear a T-shirt and some. jogging pants every single day or some. or some shorts in the summertime blank. T-shirt nothing on it I got cool shoes I. wear them every blue moon and that's. only for the K was only for the kids to. see the cool shoes cuz they like them so. I'm like okay let me get some cool shoes. so they can see that Mr King got on some. cool shoes today you know so they can. understand that Mr King's not rapping.

and I got the cool shoes like the. rappers got you know like so that's. that's why I would do that stuff but I. don't have to do that anymore cuz like. the kids are younger now so it's like I. could be me and I can show them like you. know this is a cool way to live life and. that's what I believe in now how are you. funding this you you don't take any. government funding I refuse I won't. apply for any grants I won't do anything. that's tied to government I won't do it. our those our uh donor base is. completely private donors from social. media Etc um we have been exclusively. funded from the Inception from private.

donors um and I am wholly grateful for. everybody that has watched us that has. shared videos I tell people all the time. they're like why may not be able to give. give a share give a retweet this is just. like giving because again everything. that we've done has been funded. exclusively from donors every single. thing we have an Amazon wish list when. Elon must share my video maybe like a. couple months ago um we had Amazon wish. list they went and bought every single. thing off the wish list we got all type.

we got like 20 different tables and. whole bunch of chairs and we got uh. tools equipment we needed Etc they. bought every single thing off the list. camera equipment everything we needed. pencils calculators tape measurers. markers hit stuff for the the toddler. classroom Etc like they bought. everything off the list so again this is. why we share everything we do this is. why we always got a camera with us Etc. because we want people to see where. their money's going I I wholly believe.

in you know not being one of those. nonprofits that you never know what's. happening after NOP we post when we were. renovating our school building I posted. receipts for the toilets like I posted. everything that people could see because. it made people want to give and the wish. list is different too because it's not. like they're giving money they're giving. an item um so that encourages people to. want to give too so we have an Amazon. wish list and we have just like people. that can regular. donate damn man all right let's talk. about the life preparatory school for. boys that started in 2022 sure this is a.

totally separate thing yeah mhm what is. this this is the school that I opened uh. outside of our after school program we. originally open in 2022 we were. completely boarding completely free um. we fed them every day obviously we uh it. was very very particular what we did. with our students um at that time um. every day I ran it almost just like. Marine cor boot camp had to get up at a. certain time of the day you had to make. sure um they live here yeah they live. they live there mhm we had to make sure. uh they brushing their teeth they had to.

make sure they iron their clothes I had. kids who didn't know how to put on a. belt we had teach them how to put on a. belt we had to teach them how to brush. their hair Etc like teach them how to. bathe I had to show them like teach them. like this is what you do when you get in. the shower like what age group is this. this was uh all sixth graders they were. all age 11 at that time they were all. age 11 and so it was a beautiful thing. when we first started um I I. miscalculated how much funding we were. going to need to keep that operation. going I did my best of fundrais and we. kept it open even with us being in the.

red I kept it open but then the summer. um after our school opened we came U we. had a summer camp going um with more. kids and we came to the building to play. basketball um we had a big uh School. building um we purchased um we came to. play basketball I remember I opened the. door and I looked in and it was stuff. everywhere and I'm like what in the. world somebody broken to school cuz we. hadn't been there it was a summertime so. we hadn't been in there it was stuff. everywhere I come in there it was doors. ripped off the hinges it was our.

uniforms were ripped up our uh school um. shield on the wall was ripped up um from. I mean we it was sinks torn out the. walls like doors were like like beaten. ripped in half I mean they had like took. a couple things but all the glass in the. building was destroyed like uh they pul. all the wire out of the uh out of uh the. power box like so we could it was no. power in there I mean the the. destruction that was I was floored so of.

course you know I obviously pulled my. weapon out um immediately cuz I'm just. like what the world like what this is. crazy so I put my weapon out and um you. know I had my video was recording like. it was insane put my weapon out and we. caught uh two people in there at the. time and you know I held them at. gunpoint called the police you know they. got there extremely fast they took them. to jail and they were just trying to. figure out like what was the reasoning. you know behind this uh like why and at. the time we couldn't get insurance on.

the building because the building was. old and we didn't have the funding to. get certain things fixed that they. wanted fixed before they insured us so. we looking at a million2 Million worth. of damage on top of the stuff that we. already had to fix you know in general. that we were working on by project and. so right now the building's boarded up. we ended up having to to turn the after. school building into school um but we. eventually um closed we shut down um the. School portion uh last year we shut it.

down last year because we just weren't. able to keep it up um as far as funding. but um this last year um as I was you. know having after school program um. after Elon shared our video uh we did. have a donor reach out to us and. basically just ask what all did we need. um to take care of for our after school. program in the school and so I just told. them everything I was just like this is. what all you know we would need to. really Thrive I said we need Vans to go. pick the kids up I said I never had vans. so we never been able to go offer.

pickups for kids cuz that was a big. problem we had the kids weren't able to. be picked up um I don't have any staff I. said every time I have to go somewhere. the program have to shut down like I. have to everything has to close we can't. do nothing everything's closed until I. get back like I don't have any staff I. don't have any you know back back back. back of the house staff and all anything. so they were just like look so they. called me back and was like look we're. going to give you this small amount of. funding small to them um a small amount. of funding to take care of everything. for the entire year of. 2025 um so we just hired a operations.

manager to operate the program while I'm. not there and three new staff members. they told us to get 25 kids they've. already signed up um they bought us uh. two Vans uh and make sure they were. completely fixed and they renovate the. inside of our at school building to make. it more school friendly and they they're. currently being renovating right now. while we're sitting here actually um so. they basically told told us look you. deliver on this year um if you deliver. this year this will determine whether. I'll continue funding y'all more um in.

the coming years but show me what you. could do this year give me the data show. me what you're doing with these children. don't just talk about it show me numbers. show me what you can do and um then this. will determine whether we're able to. continue funding the program and. reopening the school and rebuilding the. whole school you know in the coming. years so wow yeah so um social media. social media 25 kids you have yep we. just signed up 25 kids they start in. March and they live there no this is for. after school oh this is the after school.

one it's after school program. yep man you got a lot of stuff going on. yes a lot of stuff I just started head. coaching my son's te- ball team now so. that's going to be fun this year what's. your what's your daily routine I mean. sure I I love to go into that I wake up. at about I wake up my eyes open about. 500 but I don't get out of bed which I. should though but um I get up my trainer. gets to the house he comes to train me. uh it's a 19y old kid well he just. turned 20 actually but he uh he's a. bodybuilder he uh he trains me every. morning at 6:30 I get I get up wake my.

sons up they go put their clothes on um. he baby king goes in there does a little. baseball I lift till about 8:00 go take. a shower um take them to their teacher. at about um 9:00 um they're in school. from 9:00 to 3 um during the day depends. on um which commission I'm on um I may. have to go to a historic preservation. commission meeting may have a County. Commission meeting may have a city. commission meeting um depends on you. know know what's happening may have a. task force meeting I'm on the YMCA board. of directors may have a meeting those. meetings are in the afternoon but anyway. um I go to whatever meeting I have to go. to I go check our PO Box I go uh deposit.

checks that you know donors May uh send. I send over the addresses to those. donors to my assistant so she could send. thank you letters to those donors um. after that I may go get me some food um. and uh right now I've been going to. check on the building right now every. day uh as they're working on it um I. pick my sons up at about 3:00 uh we go. do some training what ever it is that. we're doing whether it be gymnastics. boxing or baseball um we go do some. training uh with them uh for maybe an. hour or two um I get home uh make sure.

they got some food um remember I told. you I support everybody around me. there's this new guy um in our hometown. who who's been cooking he's cooks really. well um so I've been uh having him come. cook uh for us sometime during the day. when I don't have time to to get food I. have him come cook for me and my sons um. just to support his business and it also. gets him content too um so he can you. know share for people to uh continue um. supporting him so he'll come cook for me. during the week um and after that I'll. get the kids in the tub maybe about 7.

o'clock the reason I do that is because. we were big WWE fans so we watch. wrestling on Mondays and Fridays so if. it's a Monday or a Friday they get. minutes Tu about 7:00 wrestling starts. at 8:00 and we'll watch wrestling until. it's time to go to sleep and uh they got. their own rooms they go to bed and um. repeat just depending on what I got to. do for the next day um and then I'll you. know go over my calendar or whatever. just to see what I got to do U so some. days are busy some days are not um but. yeah for this past couple days I've been. extra busy so uh yeah that's kind of.

what a daily schedule looks like and. then right now I'm about to coach the. te- ball team so that's about to turn. into getting practices together for them. and on weekends I we do a lot of. practice with my sons um I I take. weekends to get dedicate to my my. children um so we'll go to the baseball. field and we'll get it in you know we. just out there just getting it in doing. IQ learning about the basis what to do. your different assignments Etc um boxing. wow they enjoy it is your middle is your. middle son boxing too he just started. yep just started he's about to turn four. but he he was already practicing.

watching my uh his brother um so when he. was practicing um uh the coach was just. like well I can I'm just go ahead and. get started with him because he's. already watching the punch numbers and. he would go practice on the little uh. mannequin thing so he would just be over. there just doing his own little thing. over there and um so he just started. with him too um I'm going to get them in. Jiu-Jitsu soon um only thing my my kids. don't have a choice in is doing. self-defense and um uh yeah any any. self-defense they don't have a choice U. every every other thing they have a. choice with sports whatever they can.

they can choose but self-defense they. have no choice you will box you will do. digit to. Y I think earlier you had mentioned you. traveled to Nigeria not too long ago. what prompted that uh so it's it's a a. foundation called the mega impact. Foundation they sent me an email uh. originally and just asked me to do a. little uh video cuz their students had. saw me you know online they just sent me. a a video I mean excuse me email asked. me to send a video over um via Zoom so I.

could interact with their students. something in me I never forget was just. like go ask them can you come and I'm. like ain't no way I'm like absolutely. not I never wanted to come like I never. just wanted to go to Africa or anything. like that like not saying I wouldn't go. but I just never was like I'm want to go. to Africa or something like that but. something was just like go and know my. conscience was like absolutely not like. no anyway I sent him I was like is it. possible for me to come so they thought. that maybe they didn't reach the right. person cuz there's no way you know this. guy wants to come Nigeria so they want. to set up a zoom call so it set up a.

zoom call with them and um the the uh. the leaders of the organization and they. were surprised it was actually me they. was like we thought this was going to be. fake like you so you want to come to. Nigeria but they needed me there in. three days so I was just like look this. is what I'm going to do I said if I'm. meant to come to Nigeria everything will. go right in these next three days my. videographer didn't have a passport um. and we need to give him a passport. overnight and it's possible to do that. you just have to go to where one of the. overnight passport place is only. appointment they have is Buffalo New.

York we flew to Buffalo New York to get. him his uh passport mind you everything. has to go right we cannot miss a flight. cannot be delayed everything has to be. done on time while he was getting his. passport was in Buffalo we had to get. overnight visas to even go over there um. cuz we had to get visas to even go get. into Nigeria so we had to get visas got. those approved um I forgot we we had to. do some other stuff I can't remember uh. just off the top of my head but. everything went right I and I I was. hoping something messed I said please. God something needs to mess up CU I.

really am scared to go like I just I was. that's my first time really being afraid. of something cuz I I didn't know what to. expect I'm like why am I going to. Nigeria guy like what why or whatever so. uh he uh got his passport squared away. um flight was ready to go the only thing. that happened was our flight was a late. about like 9 hours we was just sitt at. the airport well other than that um we. we flew to Nigeria um everything. happened right we was able to get. straight through customs Etc and uh the. stuff that I saw in Nigeria it changed. my life man it changed my life we were.

there 10 days um I did they wanted I let. the whole little uh summer boot camp. they had there um the kids were so. excited to see me um because you know to. me I'm to them I'm famous or whatever. like that so I got there and they were. just ecstatic asking a whole lot of. questions and they were so articulate so. well read and um just the questions that. they were ask it's like wouldn't adults. here wouldn't ask those questions like. they were really wellth thought out. questions that they were asking me in. regard to the sessions I was teaching.

and I posted those sessions online for. people to see on Instagram or Facebook. but I posted all those different. sessions and um just teaching them about. character and um uh you know just proper. greetings and how to shake hands some of. those issues they were having you know. there like how to shake hands looking. people in the eye you know uh talking to. people you know in a Stern voice you. know uh confidence yeah confidence. making their presence known and so I. taught them a lot of that stuff and you. know as I've left they were sharing how. the kids were you know still are trying. to do what I taught them so I'm supposed. to be going back in May um but I told. them I come once a year um to come see.

them and um you know just interact with. them and do the little boot camp thing. they they had going on but man um we. rode through benane Nigeria we weren't. supposed to go through there originally. we were supposed to take a flight from. assaba straight to Legos Nigeria but the. flight our flight from delsa got delayed. so we ended up having to drive 2 and 1. half hours through berine Nigeria to get. to Lagos. Bine Nigeria was probably the poorest. thing I have ever seen in my life um I. had I felt like I was in a movie or.

something I I didn't believe it but the. one thing that was weird was I had every. bar while I was there on my phone I had. service the entire time didn't. understand how but um so I was I was. sitting my family like video and. pictures and it was scary and to the. point where I'm like how he like the. rols were so bad I'm like are we going. to make it all the way there they was. like yeah we're going to be fine like I. I I was crazy I had kids that are. younger than my son like my middle son. out selling stuff on the side of the. road wow like actually selling like.

trying to sell stuff to get money on the. side of the road wow it was crazy and. I'm like I'm like what they like they. selling things you know to to get some. money you know to go get food and stuff. like that I'm okay what their parents. their parents are probably working they. probably won't see their their parents. maybe but seven days at a time I said so. they don't see their parents like every. seven like yeah so where they so they. just by themselves like they just sleep. by them yeah they take bath they well. they made they made you know you know. try to bathe wherever they can uh they. they may or may not eat they may see. their parents you know in in a week you. cuz they got to go work to make money to. make really pennies and I'm like are you.

serious I couldn't even imagine my. three-year-old selling something to make. I is it was insane to me um riding. through there I mean it was I I don't. know how to explain it I just only could. have video I got videos but I can only. just talk about it it was it was insane. um and it made me so so grateful like. when I got home it took a minute for me. to even just register that I was back um. because I was just grateful to just go. get some water from the fridge like we. had to organize to eat while we were. there like it wouldn't just you could.

just go grab a snack or go just go get. an apple or eat a banana you had to we. had to organize to eat like it had to be. a thing like we had to make sure. everybody was squared away Etc and of. course there not a lot to eat there. either like you had kind of eating the. same things over and over again so it. was it was a little harsh man like it. was it was a little harsh there um the. beds were so hard um like and we were at. a nicer you know hotel for them I mean I. feel like I was sleeping on a a metal. box like it was bad you know like a back. was killing me the whole time I was.

there but I was just grateful to see. those kids man they made me so happy and. we were racing had a little barbecue the. last day um we were racing and and. having a good time playing soccer with. them just I got all this on video it was. the most beautiful experience I ever had. um just interacting with them but you. think you'll be back yeah I'm going to. go back I'm going to go back once a year. it'll be better this time I'll go with. the team and stuff like that this time. it was just me and my videographer last. time which was not the smartest thing. but God told me to go so I had to go um. but this time when we go we definitely.

going to have like a full team you know. and stuff you know just for protection. and things like that you know just to. make sure uh things go okay but um it. was definitely an experience and I'm. actually excited to go back uh not. because of the experience but because of. seeing those kids yeah yeah I'm just you. know we're wrapping the interview up. here but do you do you plan on expanding. your. your vision what you're doing outside of. Albany you going to stay in Albany uh I. people have asked me that so many times. I don't mind um giving advice I don't.

mind um giving people inspiration but uh. my job and my goal and my duty is to fix. the city Alin um I never want to stray. away I have been offered to come other. places I've been offered money to open. the program somewhere else and to move I. won't do it uh the city of Albin is my. charge um and I believe I'm responsible. for fixing it and so uh while I believe. that I'm responsible for fixing it I'm. going to do my hardest to make sure I do. that um that's what I believe in people. believe in me in the city of Albin. people have hope in me people see me and.

and and they think I'm the Hope um and I. believe in Jesus and so I guess God's. working through me um to help fix our C. that's what I plan on doing it's amazing. what you're doing and then you know I. have another question MH you know we've. talked a lot about being a father. becoming a man it's it's the lack of the. lack of male role models in in and. actually in everywhere and um you know.

and so I'm just curious I you really. resonate with me especially at the very. beginning and um what do you think are. the most important attributes to. becoming a. man we have um different pillars in our. organization um that accountability. uh. courage uh commitment consistency um we. have like I think three more but those.

are the main ones and I think all of. those are what makes a man being able to. be consistent being able to be. accountable um having courage um all. those things are important and and. really just being able to uh have. endurance um pain is going to be a gift. and I have to explain it all the time. you know uh it's it's a gift for pain. pain is what teaches you you learn with. pain um what we say uh pain is weakness. leaving the body um you know so that's. that's uh important to me and um if we.

teach I teach the kids you know that. when you're going through things you're. just being built and so it's it's almost. like always looking at the glass half. full um as a man you we cannot afford to. to be sitting around feeling sorry for. ourselves or or are not wanting to go. through something no what you're looking. for is through that pain through the. stress through the worry and through the. doubt you have to get through it in. order to be proud of yourself in the end. um and and continuously setting goals um. that's important I think uh not setting. goals and just wanting to be stable and.

I will say maybe everybody don't have a. big chart everybody don't have big. visions and things like some people do. want to just live the American dream. have their kids that you know have a. wife uh Barbecue on the weekends go on. vacation once a year some people do want. to live that life but for those you know. men who are aspiring to do a whole lot. more there's going to be trial there's. going to be tribulation and I promise. you a lot of those people that you. believe in and you have seen their. successes they had more failures than. you can count behind closed doors yeah. um they've been through a lot behind. closed do I have been through a ton.

behind closed doors um especially just. having this organization from personal. life issues bad decisions I've made Etc. um I've had to learn on my own um just. what I'm doing now so uh really being. able to be teachable too and uh being. able to look at the glass half full cuz. you have to learn that stress and pain. is a gift I promise is going to build. you and I look for it I I I look for the. pain I look for the stress because I. understand on the other side of that is. the gift that I was looking for the goal.

that I was looking for so I know when I. come up with a new vision I already know. here we go it's about to be some hell I. got to pay to get through there um. because God has to teach you you know in. that time we be thinking we be ready for. something God knows we not ready so he. going to put you through the trial and. tribulation to get there we can't just. put the meat in the oven you have to. season it you got to beat it you know. something you got to tenderize it you. got to season it you got to get rough. with it you know Etc uh same with a. pizza you can't just throw the dough in. the oven you have to make the dough you. got to need the dough you got to beat. the dough you got to toss it up in the.

air you got to turn it all types of you. got to put it through the fire you got. to put all this stuff on top of it and. then you finally get a nice Pizza you. know so uh it's it's very important to. realize you just got to go through it. people think you don't got to go through. it man you're living a wrong life um but. as a man that's what I believe in you. got to you got to go through the pain. pain is a gift for you yeah you know you. said something else at the beginning I. think this is one of the most important. attri attributes if not the most. important attribute and you know be a. band of your word say you're going to do. something you do it got to do it because.

if you're not worth your word then. you're not worth [ __ ] absolutely and um. I think that. is what of the one of the main things if. not the main thing but yes well King man. you are a very impressive man I. appreciate it thank you and uh I'm I'm. just so thankful we that and uh I hope. to see you again yeah I would I want to. see you again I would love to come back. and maybe when my son's a bit maybe like. seven probably or eight uh he's done a. few interviews before um but I think.

when he gets a little bit more competent. to be able to give an interview I would. love for you to sit with both of us and. um and talk to us cuz he's going to give. some gems he's very intelligent that. would be that would be amazing I'd love. to do it yes sir all right King best of. love yes sir thank you so much that was. awesome thank you I appreciate it. [Music].

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