Spike’s guest tonight is King Randall, a 21 year old Marine vet who saw a problem in his community in Georgia and decided to fix it.
So he started The “X” for Boys, a program dedicated to helping at-risk Black boys in his community by teaching them vocational skills and getting them out of unsafe environments and into his organization’s custody.
Many of these kids were in abusive homes, homeless shelters, or juvenile detention.
The X’s philosophy of “do for self” instills in these boys a sense of independence and belonging, and teaches them the skills to thrive and prosper.
King is reclaiming children from a system that wants them desperate and subjugated.
And guess who’s trying to stop The X from helping even more kids?
If you guessed the government, you’d be correct.
Join us tonight as we talk about the challenges King is facing them, and how he’s overcoming them.
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really incredible guy i uh first talked
about him back in june i’ve been
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um
he uh he is uh finally doing interviews
again and i’m really excited to have him
on uh he is a marine veteran uh who is
in the process of starting a school uh
that puts a roof over the heads of young
men and teaches them everyday skills
like basic auto mechanics household
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comprehension it i really i’m sick of
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everything he is doing ladies and
gentlemen my fellow americans please
welcome to the show mr king randall king
thanks so much for being on the show man
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thank you
if they like you
they like you exactly the same amount
that they like me it’s incredible
no no mine’s espresso
it is special because they’ve never done
that for any other guest let me turn
that off so it doesn’t do that every
time i go to this uh screen uh king
thanks so much for coming on the show
man i really appreciate it i appreciate
you having me absolutely yes sir
absolutely i’m looking forward to it man
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uh give us your thoughts and your
questions and king and i will tell you
if you are right or wrong now king i
don’t i don’t think i know this part of
it every
every time i have someone on the show
who’s doing something incredible they
always have the the genesis that caused
this them to do the thing that they’re
doing and i i’m very interested to hear
your genesis story what got you here
when you decided you were gonna do this
what is it that caused you to do that
tell us a little bit about yourself and
tell us the the king randall genesis
story or the x for boys genesis story
all right for starters i did see the
waffle house caucus let me start off by
saying ihop is superior we don’t
actually go to a waffle house for
waffles we don’t do that walking house
is for breakfast food we don’t do it we
don’t go there for waffles i hop okay we
prefer pancakes they’re a little bit
more classy okay anyway
my name is king randall i just recently
turned 22 years old um most people knew
me as a 21 year old kid that was
starting to school and uh helping kids
um in the community but i’m officially
22 now so i’ve grown up and i’m past the
little age of buying the drink can i can
i can i just i’m sorry can i just
interrupt you very briefly folks while
you are listening to this story remember
that this man is 22. i’m sorry go ahead
okay yeah absolutely all right so i’ll
start i’ll start with the genesis like
because i usually don’t start from the
beginning because people want to hear
about the program so i’ll start from the
genesis uh yeah and then go to exodus
and leviticus and the numbers and yeah
and then joshua then judges you know
we’re not going to win anyway all right
so i’ll start off in genesis um
uh in the beginning um there was a child
named king randall um and one day this
child was i’m just kidding uh but anyway
so when i was younger um
i had a
an idea uh when i was younger my
grandmother told me about it um one day
i was in pre-k actually
and um i actually gave the i have a
dream speech um
on martin luther king day
and when i got home from uh pre-k um my
grandmother uh had me in the car with
her and i still remember this
conversation vividly um i was riding the
car with her one day and um we stopped
at a stop sign and i asked her did she
know how i was to have butterflies in
her stomach like something was about to
happen uh so she was like you know yeah
and i told her that i was here to finish
what dr king started and so my
grandmother’s very extremely spiritual
uh she’s a
pastor um and she’s been in the church
her whole life and so for me to tell her
that you know she kind of was taken back
and so growing up you know my
grandmother never let me forget like
what i told her that day um and like
growing up i was a rebellious you know
kid i wasn’t bad or anything like that i
wasn’t getting any trouble it’s just i
didn’t want to do what she told me i
said i was like i was a kid you know i
gave the i have a dream speech and i got
you know maybe motivated or something
like that but she was like no you don’t
just say that out of the blue especially
being a child
um so fast forward i i went to culinary
school
i went to the marines i was doing all
these different things basically trying
to get away from what we had talked
about and even all my boot camp letters
my grandmother would remind me what i
told her um growing up
so um people started getting killed uh
here in the city of albany where i live
um at one point we were the fourth
poorest city in the united states um and
we’re ranked as one of the worst places
to live um i think we’re in the top ten
and so uh fast forward um
i i don’t know like
we were having so many stop the violence
rallies um in the city of albany and i
was getting upset because nobody was
actually doing anything
with the children
and i was getting upset and i’m just
like i was going to all these different
stuff the violence i mean i’m just like
why aren’t we trying to actually do
something like we’re having all these
meetings and everybody’s here being
philosophical etc but like can we try
and do something you know with the young
people that are being killed and the
young people that’s killing them um so
one of my classmates went to jail
um they uh his brother and a few other
guys killed this pizza delivery driver
um just for nothing and they actually uh
caught made a fake call and brought him
to an abandoned house and then just just
shot him and these were kids that did
this um but my classmate wasn’t there it
was his brother and so um his brother
came back home and uh he told him to uh
you know hide the gun
and of course he hit it but he didn’t
know what had happened
and um
uh he went to jail he got 30 years um
we’re the same age um and he went to
jail when we were i think 19 or 20. um
he has 30 years you know in jail just
for
hiring a weapon
yeah and at that point i was just like
you know i got to start doing something
with the children so um
i think i was maybe about 18 years old
um before i started working with
children and i went to the martin luther
king memorial uh up in atlanta georgia
and kind of at that time i was just
wondering like well what what about dr
king did he not finish like i was trying
to figure out what was going on because
my grandmother you know and i would
literally have whole arguments about you
know this uh this calling and so uh i
went there and i was like well maybe
i’ll get answers from here or something
like that so
fast forward uh i get in there
and i’m walking around and i go to the
um his gravesite and i’m looking through
the museum and i’m just like something’s
gotta stick like i’m just like something
here is gonna tell me something like
i’ve read i’ve read all his books i was
watching all his videos i found out what
actually happened to him during his
assassination like i was digging in fbi
files i was literally
studying him trying to figure out what
exactly was he supposed to to finish but
then i realized while watching all of
his speeches etc like he he wasn’t
complete um and i realized you know why
the government offed him um when they
did um because they could have done it a
while before but it was a specific time
so i go i was going through the museum
and there was this one newspaper from
the pittsburgh courier april 20 of 1968
and the title uh says will a new king
emerge um and at that point uh i don’t
know what happened but it was like a
light bulb went off and if you notice
all of my social media handles our new
emerging king
um so
immediately after that um i started
working with children um i did a field
trip for some children um to a black
history museum in atlanta georgia and um
to hear these children asking the
questions that they were asking
and and you know them coming from
different backgrounds but to see them
not wanting to be in their conditions i
knew that somebody was failing our
children um so i took them on another
field trip um
took them to the center for civil and
human rights
we went there same thing like seeing how
bright the children were you know the
questions that they were asking and a
need to want to see possible where we
live
so after that i started teaching
children how to work on cars i started
teaching them how to
change brakes and change oil
um i started teaching them uh how to
work on houses we started changing
ceiling fans and
light fixtures you name it we were doing
like a lot of different things and just
to see these children so active and
engaged and you know just just seeing
someone do something different it was it
was amazing to me so then i did a summer
camp out of my home
um i did a summer camp that year um i
had just had my son baby king um and i
have two sons now but he was the only
one at the time and um i was just like i
got to do something for these children
because parents were asking you know
what could i do for the summer so i did
a summer camp um i made a little flyer
on my phone and said everything ought to
be offering i was going to teach them
how to guardian i was going to teach
them how to work on houses we were going
to read every day
we were going to do math social studies
etc and mind you i didn’t have any money
at the time i actually had just lost my
job
but i was still going to do this camp
you know with these kids at my house so
i got a little small dry erase board i
still have it to this day i’m gonna put
it in the museum one day i got a really
small dry erase board and i nailed it to
my wall and i got some little tables
donated um um that i found around the
community and i made a u-shape in my
dining room that i’m sitting in right
now and um i i put it on the wall and i
taught every day um i taught them you
know how to manage their money we
you know read a lot of robert kiyosaki
books
we were also doing um a lot of history
um and then once we started reading i
realized an issue um i had 20 children
at the time in my home and then
realizing that 12 out of 20 of them
couldn’t read that was an issue
and i had one kid who couldn’t read at
all like he’s in the sixth grade well he
was in the sixth grade and he couldn’t
even read cat dog and i’m like son how
are you even in the sixth grade and you
can’t even read which means you can’t
pass tests because you can’t so he was
like the questions are he was like
illiterate illiterate he didn’t know
anyone completely
completely like he couldn’t read at all
and i’m just like well i know his mom
worked a lot but i’m just like
how are you passing through school right
is my question you know and you’re in
the sixth grade and you can’t read in
the least a little bit uh so that was an
issue for me so realizing so many of the
children were not on the grade level
reading i’m like these are what are the
issues that what do you expect these
kids to do
um you know and they can’t read uh so uh
fast forward after that um i i i started
a book club after my summer program on
the summer program uh went really well
um and i taught them so many different
things during that summer
and i started a book club with the kids
and then starting to see how their
reading comprehension was developing um
it was beautiful i did a book club with
them every week we started off in our
local library and then it got too big uh
to the point where we had to use uh this
lady’s shop her name is miss lisa uh she
has a shop here where she does copy and
printing things like she prints people’s
stuff out makes flyers and things like
that but she would allow us to use her
shop every day after she closed i mean
i’d had different men from the community
come in and read with the children
even we got a shout out from hill harper
because we were reading his book letters
to a young brother at the time and um
you know we were reading the book and
just seeing how they were developing and
reading comprehension was so important
to me because even though when i say the
kids couldn’t read some of them could
read but they could literally only sound
out read like they could only just
you know like they could just read what
they saw but they didn’t understand what
they were reading so reading
comprehension was extremely important
for me um so just explain to them what
they’re reading and then we would do
vocabulary words every week you know
spelling tests you know etc this this
went on constantly um every week um and
then i i kept doing that i started a
bowling team for the boys because i know
a lot of the boys only think that they
can play football and basketball and i’m
just like well you know you can get into
any sport and make money like
professional ping pong players make like
six figures a year
so i started uh working with those
children
and bowling with them every week some of
them got really good and i was going to
get them into some bowling tournaments
etc and then hope it happened uh covet
happened uh last year and uh kovit kind
of stopped everything i wasn’t able to
you know work with the children i didn’t
know what was going on honestly so i was
just like you know parents i can’t
really do anything so i was trying to
make up some courses online trying to
figure out how i could you know maybe do
something virtually with them because
you know they were starting to get back
into their old habits uh and things like
that so um
i i i was taken back because i didn’t
know what to do because the kids were
calling and moms were calling they were
having issues so
i sat down for a moment and i was like
well if i have to do something for this
summer i said the kids gonna have to
live with me because i’m just like i
don’t know where they’re going uh so
i called uh parents kept calling and
asking what could i do for the summer i
was like well i said i’ll do a summer
camp i said but these kids gonna have to
come like live at my house because i
don’t know what’s going on i got my own
son you know so and they were like okay
i was just like all right so i went in
got some bump beds i put them in my
living room and we made it happen i had
seven kids come live with me for the
summer 2020. um every day you know we
went to a farm we worked on a farm every
day um we were moving watermelons and uh
cleaning you know just anything just any
little thing on a farm to do we were
doing it right um and then we were
working on houses we found this
apartment complex where this contractor
was working on he was teaching the boys
um how to lay tile and do sheetrock and
uh you know playing carpet and things
like that so it was beautiful but at
this time i understood that i know i
needed to promote our program i’m just
like this is a beautiful thing that i’m
trying to do with these kids but people
need to see what we’re doing in order
for us to get support so i’m actually
while you’re talking i’m actually going
to show uh some examples of what it is
you guys have been have been doing so
i’m sorry go ahead yes sir yeah
absolutely so um i took this guy’s um
online social media class because i was
just like i need to figure out how to
market you know the program on social
media to uh
you know uh to people because i’m trying
to figure out how can i you know uh for
one get funding um because all this was
being funded by my pocket and i was in
the negative most of the time um but i
was trying to you know make these things
happen uh so
uh i took his class and he gave me a lot
of tips um doing live videos um i
started interviewing different uh
community leaders and things like that
just trying to grow my following you
know in different ways um then i started
uh doing like reports on you know cnn
fox things like that i just started
doing live videos and started game
growing my following and um somebody
told me i need to get on twitter because
twitter moves really quickly um when
you’re uh you know promoting things uh
so i got on twitter and you know i
started posting what me and the boys
were doing we’ll get a little bit of
traction here and there you know but uh
one day uh the boys and i were actually
doing
some sheetrock uh at this apartment
complex last summer um and i posted it
on twitter and it like went like mini
viral like very fast and like all the
support like started coming out of
nowhere like i i didn’t know who these
people were where it was coming from and
i was just like who are these people and
and most of it were uh
white conservatives
and i stopped for a second and i’ll be
honest with you i did not like white
people at this time um because i was you
know seeing in uh
all this stuff on social media et cetera
so i’m just like
why these white people you know
supporting you know i i’m under the
impression that white’s a conservative
that got trump you know stuff or
whatever they they don’t like black
people don’t like black people they
don’t want to help you yeah yeah yeah
yeah so i’m like
what’s going on with this so i i i was
like oh take him back first of all and
um people were like well make a gofundme
page and things like that because i’ve
been saying for a while that i want to
open a school for my kids i told my boys
i’m like i don’t know how i’m going to
do it but we’re going to open a school
one day um so they were like well you
need to make a go find me so i was like
okay i made a go fund me and we raised
like 11 000 like in the first week um of
us doing that and so i was again taken
back people were asking to interview me
like a lot of different white people
were asking to interview me i was like
okay i was like so i started doing like
interviews with these people but it kind
of changed my tone and uh then we went
to the white house um last october and
like all the love that we received like
completely just
reshaped my mind like
it was interesting because i started
realizing like dang like all the people
that’s really giving me trouble look
like me i was realizing that everybody
that was doing the smear campaigns and
you know just saying any little bad
thing about the program they were all
black people and i i was like dang like
my own community like you know oh you
too young and you’re dancing your dad
and you know it was it was nuts and all
i did was you know work with kids i
don’t do any political commentary i
don’t talk about anybody you know it was
nice
but it changed my mind it it did
computer love changed my mind not you
know seeing a podcast or watching a tv
show or anything it’s just pure love
change you know how i my my thought
process um so uh we started raising
money um for a school building
and we weren’t looking at any buildings
at the time
and um uh we were looking at this one
building our old social security office
here in albany um it’s a very huge
facility and we’re gonna try to turn
this building into a school this was
probably the only building available at
the time that we could possibly you know
try and afford um but we didn’t raise
the money in time um for that building
um and then we went into uh trying to
buy a building from our local school
system
and um that failed
yeah do you mind if i if i interrupt you
there so this is actually where i first
uh introduced my my uh
fans followers whatever to your story
when i uh i think i i was elizabeth
olivia rondo who uh wrote an article
about what happened and i had heard
about you and been following you
somewhat loosely before that and then
when i saw that article and what was
going on there with the school uh i
thought you know here it is someone is
you know
working hard to
actually educate kids who are i mean we
talk about no child left behind here’s
an entire generation of kids entire
generations of kids being left behind
and entire communities of kids being
left behind here’s someone who’s trying
to to fill that gap and actually you
know not just teach skills but also i
mean and we can talk more about this
sounds like teaching self-esteem and it
seemed like there was some adversity you
were getting some some pushback that you
were getting from that can you talk a
little bit about what happened with the
school and where were you staying with
that now
yeah absolutely um i’ll definitely say
uh you know um we got into a
a disagreement with the school system in
the contract they gave us uh to purchase
the facility um i will say i’ve never
seen you know um any stipulations given
to a buyer about what they could do with
the facility after they purchase it uh
so that was just kind of you know
um it was just
it was us walking backward like we were
trying to purchase the building for a
specific reason and for you to tell us
we can’t do that specific thing it made
no sense
um but you know we just we passed on it
i didn’t want to go the route of begging
that’s not what i do um and i was just
like you know it is what it is i’m not
going to do any petitions or anything
we’ll you know find something on our own
um so we move forward with that um and
you know i talked to our local school
superintendent we’re still going to work
together on a few things you know with
the school system in our program we just
weren’t able to you know make that
happen and it’s okay you know things
happen it is what it is uh so we
purchased um just recently probably
about a month ago now we purchased uh
three buildings on our south side of
town um it’s three buildings on one lot
um it’s a nice facility and we’re gonna
start there we have a school bus um and
we’re definitely excited to start
renovating it kind of pushed our uh our
start date back um but you know it’s
okay we’re just gonna start uh next fall
um so we just have renovations to do on
the facility um turning it into a school
um you know getting accredited things
like that um so that’s kind of you know
who i am what the extra voids is all
about and kind of where we come from and
where we are now
this is incredible and by the way i i
for those of you watching and to let you
know i i put the exforboys.org the the
actual website in the comments and the
notes so people can uh so people can see
and check that out don’t do it now check
it out after the show you keep watching
this for now uh but uh you know so they
can go and they can donate and see how
they can be a part of this um i want to
go back to something that you said early
on um because this is incredible we’re
going to dive into some of the specifics
of what you guys are doing but um the
one thing that really stuck to me you
said
they killed uh
dr king at a specific time and for and
for a specific reason and that that was
you know where the incomplete part
happened can you can you dive down a
little bit more into what you mean
because i’m pretty sure i know where
you’re going with this but i’m
interested in what you mean by that
um i’ll save a lot of it because the
boys and i are actually going to travel
um to the lorraine motel and i’m gonna
do a full expose
and yeah so i’ll save some of it um
however and this is all proven in court
um so it won’t be like i’m a conspiracy
theorist but the king family was paid
um in 1999 um about this um james irway
was framed um he was proven not to kill
her but he mysteriously passed away if
when he would have been exonerated but
you know uh so
you know how that goes um but yeah uh dr
king at that point uh had a little bit
too much power uh dr king was basically
the president without being the
president uh he had the entire nation
you know behind his movement
um and the poor people’s campaign um
that he was about to leave this was
everybody um versus the government um
and and that was an issue
you couldn’t have everybody versus the
government and i try to get black people
now to understand i’m just like listen
like our movement by ourselves like yeah
we can make a lot of noise but i have to
get to understand i’m like you
understand that we have a lot of the
same issues that white people do with
the government now our issues may differ
in some areas but they have issue with
government just like we have issue with
government why not combine
and be like you know what if we all have
issues with the government how about we
all go and fight you know but
there’s this you know you can’t work
with white people and you know and stuff
like that um nowadays but i don’t i
don’t you know subscribe to that anymore
i’m just like there’s no been no major
movement with black people where white
people didn’t help um you know and
that’s something that important that we
have to understand but um i’m just like
we all could you know get behind each
other and one thing i love about my
movement is so many different people
from all sides of the spectrum follow
our movement and love what i do because
you can’t not love it um and so we have
white conservative support white liberal
support hispanics blacks you know
everybody supports what we’re doing and
so sometimes when i do a live video and
i’m talking about you know different
issues but everybody’s agreeing i’m like
now i want you guys to look at you know
you guys profile pictures some of you
guys got trump and and all these black
lives matter stuff and all that but all
you are under here agreeing with the
same thing would you look at that you
know so i’m just like you it’s it’s
media you know the most effective devil
in america um as maj uh to rey says it
um and i think that’s the entire truth i
believe the media is the most effective
devil in america and they literally
control just the basis of our thinking
um and while we can’t unify as a people
you know just in general um it’s all
being done strategically um just from
all outlets you know it’s it’s against
the law quote unquote to for everybody
to be you know on one accord and it’s
it’s not really that hard to have you
know some peace but of course peace
doesn’t pay um drama does uh so
i think that’s something we have to
understand
so a perfect example of this last year
there was uh and this is my opinion you
if you disagree you can let me know i i
last year we saw uh the killing of
brianna taylor followed immediately by
uh the killing of george floyd and the
george floyd killing got way more
attention because there was an actual
live video of it happening as opposed to
with brianna taylor you’re hearing about
it after the fact um but really those
two things were kind of a one-two punch
that led to what started as a pretty
broad movement for police accountability
ending qualified immunity ending police
militarization you know forcing other
police officers who are witnessing a
crime being committed by an officer to
have a legal duty to intervene the same
way they would if any of us were
committing a crime you know and then
what happened was the media
immediately stopped talking about the
power aspect that that people in
government were being were unaccountable
and that they weren’t being held
accountable and all they talked about
was race now there is very much a racial
aspect when we’re talking about criminal
justice issues like we know that slavery
didn’t end with the 13th amendment it
just got moved from the private sector
to the government right but but
even in the midst of talking about that
yes there is a racial component to all
of this to gun control to the welfare
state to criminal justice issues and
everything else but
the re the the reason that people who
want to harm the marginalized are able
to do so is because of the power and
lack of accountability they have the
media stopped talking about that
entirely and what was supposed to be a
war against unaccountability in
government turned into a war against all
racism and with no real explicitly drawn
terms of okay but what is racism what is
your definition of what we need to be
fighting and it very quickly became this
like white versus black thing and i
think that was intentional i think that
had that movement yes acknowledge the
the racial disparity that’s happening
like you said everyone’s suffering
differently but acknowledged it and then
immediately focused to the solution
which was dismantling the power system
that allowed that to happen then we’d be
in a completely different place than we
are right now and unfortunately you know
the people in government uh aren’t able
to maintain their power if we work
together uh the people who like to to
grift and make millions of dollars off
of various movements they don’t get to
do that if they’re not stoking the right
fires i said it and uh and then you know
and then at the same time someone like
you who’s saying okay i see you know
albany georgia is is this a a most like
a majority black community and this is
probably one of the
rare cities we’re 77 african-american
okay so you look in your community and
say okay here i’m a black man
overwhelmingly back black community uh
we’re also one of the the poorest
community fourth poorest community in
the country one of the top 10 worst
places to live this is where i live and
i’m seeing basically my people my
neighbors my loved ones who are
embroiled in all this poverty and cycles
of crime and violence and terrible
education and and and familial issues
and everything else i’m going to fix it
and you got people coming after you
because you’re young or you’re
whatever and meanwhile it’s like you’re
this is the prototype if we if we’re
saying that this is a problem of power
well then take the power from government
if this is a problem of race okay well
great then let’s have black people
creating their own solutions instead of
having it imposed on them by white
people if this is a problem of of um
uh
if this is a problem within the black
community great let black people fix it
and be able to do it whatever you think
led this to be the problem what you’re
doing is the solution and that’s why you
have so many people supporting you it’s
also why you have a lot of people coming
after you too unfortunately
yeah uh what’s you know interesting is
uh black people have given will have
said uh well some of my detractors
anyway i’ll say that uh or you’re not a
threat because the system is well white
people aren’t trying to kill you and
things like that i’m just like they’re
like if your movement was effective
they’d be trying to you know take you
out i’m like yeah you guys are trying to
take me out you know i’m just like you
guys are doing the you know think pieces
and the smear campaigns in the podcast
about you know why or some people you
know say oh king’s using the money you
know that he’s raising uh and his
non-profit for personal uh things i’m
like uh yeah it’s called a salary i have
to take care of myself and i do this
full-time
just right exactly
i do this every day of my life this is
the first break like right now that i’ve
taken just because i have a newborn now
you know it’s
like the first break i’ve really taken
um because i have to spend time with my
family and they don’t even get a chance
to see me my own son you know cries you
know because i have to go spend so much
time with the boys and things like that
so you know this is my time to you know
spend with my family but just you know i
i it’s a lot you know that i have to
deal with as far as adversaries but it’s
mostly support from everywhere um i
don’t really interact or entertain or
respond to any uh you know detractors
because that’s what they want but uh
some elders always say if you don’t run
into any fools you’re probably going in
the same direction uh so i definitely
think
that’s extremely important for me to
remember
and i just keep it moving man i just
keep on doing the work i combat all of
my uh negative uh with something
positive everything negative that i see
i just combat it with something positive
because even in them talking negative
people are going to try to come see who
i am or what we’re doing you know and
they’re just you can’t see anything but
work you know and and i’m not like other
political commentators and things like
that who are constantly you know
berating the community and things like
that and not actively doing anything in
that community that you’re talking about
you know so if anything you know i i do
so much work you know i don’t have time
to talk you know i don’t have time to
make political commentary i don’t have
time for all this drama and all these
drama postings and things like that and
commentators fighting against each other
and why they’re not a real conservative
and they’re not and there’s all this
nonsense that people still donate to i’m
just like why are you still donating to
these guys platforms and they’re doing
nothing but running their mouths you
know as many people you know in every
community um where you live that people
need funding you know for the different
things that they’re trying to do and
they’re not running their miles they’re
doing work you know and that’s what i
want people to um you know really
understand is people out here actively
trying to fix their communities you know
people are like oh well people are not
out here trying to fix their communities
no they are it’s just you’re giving the
wrong attention you know to drama you
know and not actually looking for the
people that are actually working in
their communities so this is actually we
talk about this a lot on the show so i
i’m a libertarian we’re trying to grow
the liberty movement and by the way you
know you were talking about
conservatives and liberal i’ve yet to
meet a libertarian who has heard your
story who isn’t 100
behind in fact looking in the comments
here every single thing there’s people
in here that’s what i keep looking down
look at me yeah people are asking how
they can donate how they can be a part
of it they love what’s going on how
you’re a great person someone asked if
you were jesus um the uh you know no no
no no yeah
yeah but but you know i mean people
saying you know uh uh you know this is
what we need to see from americans you
know uh words mean nothing action means
everything like
this is what the liberty movement is
about is about people being free to
create solutions to problems that are
often imposed upon us by government
right now with that said even within the
liberty community we have the same thing
we have the people that they make money
creating drama on all different sides
and this isn’t you know calling out
specific people all their their job is
to go and and and talk crap about other
libertarians all day long and it’s like
why
why like let’s go
do something effective if we all or most
of us agree that this whatever it is is
a problem whether police brutality
criminal justice issues the war on drugs
uh gosh what else uh taxes regulations
foreign whatever it is let’s go work on
that like why are we arguing with each
other it’s two and it’s you know it’s
it’s
crabs in a barrel is what it is
exactly it’s nonsense like uh like here
in our community we just had a funeral
today for a nine-year-old that was
killed uh last week um while he was in
his bed uh somebody was riding and shot
at his house and he was in his bed
struck him in the head uh while he was
sleeping
um and you know our community was
outraged by it like we had a lot of
children pass you don’t hear all being
teenagers but this one kind of struck a
nerve with everybody and so a friend of
mine
raised about ten thousand dollars on
black to another black conservative
friend of mine um and you know some
other businesses were raising money you
know trying to you know for one for
crime stoppers to find the killer and
then other people are raising money for
the funeral expenses um and uh we’re a
very poor community so a lot of people
here don’t like have insurance and
things like that so people have to do
fundraisers to bury their loved ones uh
and so
people got upset with him because they
were like well where is this money
coming from is this coming from pac
money or uh who’s raising we don’t want
the family to be burdened because they
may want something for their money and
he’s just like this is my personal funds
oh well we don’t trust that you know and
then the guy comes another guy uh he
owns an automotive repair shop here so
he did a car wash fundraiser for
um uh the family and uh guys made
another post like these guys who want to
be so woke and made another post oh uh
they ain’t been trying to help the
community this whole time why they want
to do something now they’re just doing
this for cloud and blah blah blah i’m
just like or they just trying to help
like well they’re just trying to help
like
people are so they trying so hard to be
woke even with me he’s like so where’s
the the funding coming from i’m like
well just go and go fund me and look at
all their names and go type them all
they’re giving it to you yeah exactly
yeah i’m just like go type it all in if
you like i’m just like what you want me
to do like
what do you want me to do i’m i’m like
yeah like uh
democrats don’t do the same thing like
uh try to give people money and then
tell them you know try to sway them a
certain way or things like that i’m like
so if i was a you know democratic person
and raising money you wouldn’t say the
same thing it’s just oh he has a problem
with conservatives because certain
conservatives just can’t you know be
donating without some you know motive or
somebody trying to control your hand i’m
like there’s nothing political about my
movement so if people are donating
they’re donating just because they want
i don’t do political commentary they
can’t make me sway anything i’m not i
don’t have a big enough following this
way nobody’s vote or anything like that
so i’m like what do you mean i’m being
paid to push a narrative what narrative
am i pushing i’m helping children like
that’s what i was gonna say your your
narrative is let’s help uh boys that are
that are you know being falling between
the cracks and are at this point more
likely to end up in prison than to have
a good job if we don’t do something like
that if that’s your narrative then i
hope you have the biggest audience
possible to be able to spread it i mean
goodness do you think some of this is is
fear in fact jericho banker says the
only people who have would have an issue
with what you do are threatened by a
potential loss of power do you think i
i’m sure some of it is you know just
general mistrust and some of it is just
you know that’s their way of cloud
chasing is to is to you know punch up at
someone who’s doing something and the
whole you know crabs in a barrel thing
but uh do you think some of this is that
there are people that uh you know
are worried that if you can fix problems
they won’t be able to have that power of
of you know leading people to complain
about them or am i completely off there
i think mostly it’s people who haven’t
done anything who’ve wanted to be
relevant for so long
um you know as an upside and a downside
to my age the downside is that people
feel like intimidated or something
because i’m so young and people start to
question their motives in the community
because they’re like dang like he’s
supposed to been for our community for
this many years but king’s been around
for three years like since he’s got a
high school and he’s been doing so much
you know for the children where have you
been you know and and that’s
been it like even the churches and i uh
here in albany we have like a love-hate
relationship uh because i’ve you know
said multiple times you know where they
feel we have over 400 churches in albany
but god doesn’t seem to be present um so
i’m trying to figure out what exactly
you know is going on like we have super
mega churches we got this one huge
church here or whatever and you know
they’re like oh we’re doing things for
the community but they’re just doing
stuff church supposed to do like give
away thanksgiving turkeys and give away
clothes and host code vaccine and host
you know voter rallies and all that
that’s normal stuff but stop giving men
fish teach men how to fish you know and
i’m just like that’s that that’s where i
am you know with that i mean our the
city of albany could you know use a lot
of help but i like i said i don’t try to
you know focus so much on what’s going
on you know negative i just try to do
things positive i don’t talk about
anybody’s movements i don’t talk about
anybody’s organizations i just do my own
thing i just stay in my lane and and
work with my children and yeah seems to
bother some people so it’s called
shining past people man i say it all the
time
people who shine are going to attract
people who want to put it out and if you
shine past them then one of two things
happens if you just basically for the
most part ignore them you can even
acknowledge it exists and say i’m not
even about that i’m about trying to do
what i’m doing and i hope people will i
hope they’ll one day join me in helping
um one of two things happens either
they eventually get give up and say oh
maybe i’ll help them or they just give
up and go find something else to
complain about which is good or
they’ll just keep complaining and keep
drawing attention to you and keep
telling everyone about you and keep
having your name in their mouth and
really you know you can let the the the
haters anger be the wind beneath your
wings sometimes like they can help like
you said you know
when they’re saying this king randall
look at it he’s a kid and he’s done all
that what’s all that and other people
are looking they’re like what the hell
are you complaining about but they
wouldn’t have known about you in that
moment if it wasn’t for them complaining
about you so either way exactly you know
i i say shine past people they’re going
to be like that if you turn around and
start punching down at them it just
makes you look petty so just go and do
your thing they some of them will join
you some of them will go find something
else to complain about and some of them
will be some of your biggest fans for
the rest of your life just doing
everything they can to draw attention to
how terrible they think you are and
bring more people to your movement as a
result man
exactly yeah people are gonna go search
for themselves some people are gullible
enough to you know uh
accept some of those things like uh like
another set of detractors now uh they’re
uh trying to make it seem like uh i’m
racist or whatever um because of some
old things i said like maybe two or
three years ago um and so now they’re
pulling up old like some old things that
i may have tweeted or things like that
and they’re just like he doesn’t like
white people i’m just like
but yeah i just said that
you just said like you didn’t used to
like white people and also again keeping
in mind and i get to say this because
i’m 39 which is still considered
technically is kind of considered young
and you’re like just over half my age
you are on the scale of things you’ve
been an adult for like 12 seconds you
know like i mean you’re right you know
what i mean and you’ve used every bit of
it i did trust me i’m not i’m not seeing
i’m seeing that as a pause no worries
look how long you’ve been an adult and
look at everything you’ve done but the
point of that is if someone goes back to
something you said three four years you
were 18 i thank god that social media
didn’t exist when i was 18 i can’t even
imagine the stuff i was saying back then
right right and you even said like you
didn’t like or trust white people right
so i mean okay
yeah it took like um it took experience
for me to understand things like i was
you know um well white people are
holding us back you know the
government’s holding us down we can’t do
these things but in the midst of me
saying that i was literally making a way
like i had lost my job but i got on
youtube i learned how to cut hair i got
on youtube and learned how to work on
some different parts of people’s cars i
started cutting grass um so i was
cutting people’s hair working on cars
painting houses like i remember the
first house i painted um like the
outside of somebody says i never painted
it before but i was actually in a home
depot looking for some paint um you know
for somebody else’s the inside of their
house and this lady was like hey do you
paint houses i was like
yeah
yeah i paid housing was like okay can
you come by and look at my house here’s
my address i was like
all right oh come by and look at your
house there
so i went by and looked at her house and
my little brother was actually working
with me at the time my little brothers
uh he’s 15 now he was 14 at the time he
turned 16 on uh september 30th so i
brought him with me to go look at the
house and that whole night we stayed up
like five six hours watching house
painting videos on youtube and lo and
behold when we went and painted this
lady’s house it took us about five days
and it looked like a professional job
you know and we made like 1200 bucks
from that and then we were we were being
smart because she had some old lady
friends so we were like tank tops and
you know make sure we looked all nice
you know and stuff so they could want
the nice young men to come paint their
houses too and we went down the street
and painted their houses and made some
money so you know
looking good at pace you know yeah no
listen listen
as as a sex symbol myself i know uh full
well uh how important it is to to look
at no listen man you’re obviously
incredibly industrious and and you’re
you’re making the best of everything
you’ve got
you everything you do is everything i
tell people needs to be done and i love
that you’re doing it i do i want to ask
you about the extra boys you talked
about some of the stuff that you were
teaching them and one of the the things
that really struck me when you were when
you were um uh you know when i first
read about your story was that
one of the phrases that you use a lot is
do for self and this idea that it’s like
at the end of the day you are
responsible for yourself and you have to
do at the very like the baseline what’s
needed for you really before and the way
i took it before you can really even
help anyone else you have to make sure
that you’re doing for yourself because
if you can’t take care of yourself how
can anyone else take care of you how can
you take care of anyone else right
talk to me about some of the things like
the specifics of some of the stuff that
you are teaching them not just the the
the life skills like you know painting
or mechanic work or i saw you did uh
what it looked like spot welding or
something like that but also plasma
welding but also like life skills like
like lifestyle skills and how to think
about things can you can you talk a
little bit about that
absolutely um so for the most part i
actually love boarding the children um
like actually having them sleep uh and
live with me is because there’s a lot of
innate learning that has to happen with
the children there are some things that
i can’t teach you know by mouth um to
the children but when i say innate
learning that’s kind of like how i
learned how to fry chicken growing up
like my grandmother never taught me how
to fry chicken like i just happened to
go be going to make some water like
every so often and i happen to see her
breading and seasoning the chicken and
putting it into the pan and frying it
you know just i happened to see that
over time and i kind of figured it out
or how i learned how to grill meat on
the grill like nobody had a class and
told me how to grill me i just happened
to be watching my stepdad and my uncles
you know outside you know grilling on
the grill you know and it just kind of
caught on you know so and there’s a lot
of things that um people don’t
understand uh why there’s a huge need
for fathers in the home um so a lot of
the things that i teach them i let them
watch me take care of my son i let them
watch me you know uh do certain things
during the day um i let them watch me
give money to people let them watch me
you know do a lot of community service
um because they’ll start trying to mimic
these things um because they’re around
you know um something that somebody they
need to be around because a boy is gonna
mimic whatever man he’s around no matter
what um he’s gonna make whatever man’s
around whether that be a good man or bad
man he’s going to mimic them um so i
think it’s extremely important for a
good man
to be around these children so even with
different habits that they’re developing
you know i have them work up at a
certain time every day um grooming
themselves cutting their fingernails
making sure their hair is brushed
brushing their teeth taking a bath all
these different things have to go on
every day because these things aren’t
going on at home like i couldn’t you
couldn’t imagine how many little boys
aren’t taking a bath every day or you
know that don’t clip their nails or just
brush their teeth or brush their hair or
showing them how to shave and how it can
make your haircut last longer if you
shave your face like i’m just like your
your face being shaved makes you look a
little bit more cleaner you know just
just a lot you know just a lot of things
that your granddad and your uncles and
you know the many your life taught you
growing up the boys need to know and
that’s extremely important um for what
we’re trying to do um i think it’s
extremely important for our boys to
learn um innately um so it’s so many
things you know i i quote unquote teach
them without having to tell them you
know directly by my mouth some of them
just kind of discover and and
am around me so much you know that they
start to mimic the things that i’m doing
mimic the things that i’m saying like
even my younger brother um he’s the one
holding the x right there um but my
younger brother
um he mimics me to a t
like um his name is kulin but we call
him qj um but i watch my younger brother
so much because he looks up to me you
know and he’s like six one by the way
now um he’s huge we have different moms
same dad um but he looks up to me um so
much and i actually watch him to see
what i need to change in myself um
because i’ll notice some things that
he’s doing that i know that i do i’m
like wait that shouldn’t be happening so
i’ll fix it in myself you know to to fix
it with him because he literally mimics
everything you know that i do my catch
phrases the way i walk everything so i
have to be a whole man you know for him
i have to be a whole man for my boys um
so i know i i would love to say that you
know it’s easy to teach you know the you
know uh moral roles and things like that
yeah we’ll go over a few different
things as far as how to treat a woman
and you know how to talk to your parents
and things like that but for the most
part a lot of those a lot of that
morality a lot of that character et
cetera is going to come innately um you
can’t teach character they have you have
to see character because in order to be
a man you have to see a man um so i
think that’s extremely important in the
teaching that we’re giving them as far
as morality and character and um and how
to develop themselves
so is that why you chose to work at
least for now exclusively with boys
because you as a man can show them how
to be a man is that is that why you made
that choice to do that of course i can’t
teach a girl how to be a girl i just i
was just in new york um and i and i
tried when i’m traveling um i try not to
wear any of my gear so i don’t get
noticed um but it was on my business
card that i was using um and they were
like you’re that you know king randall
guy and they was like why don’t you do
anything for girls i’m just like
i’m not a girl so i don’t i don’t know
how to teach that type of etiquette you
know to girls right you know and i’m
like and being honest it’s so it’s
thousands of girls programs out there
it’s that’s so many girls programs i
mean
you’re overwhelmed with things to do for
girls but it’s like boys don’t have like
no any major programs most of the time
they got football teams and you know
little stuff like that but most of it is
just easy access to single moms for
these guys they’re not trying to
actually you know help these children
they’re just trying to get in with all
the single moms you know and that bears
witness in my community they’ll tell you
about it but just just being honest you
know nobody’s actually like really
trying to get in deep you know with
these the boys and help them now there
are many organizations that are but it’s
not as overwhelming as it is with so
many girls organizations everywhere um i
mean it’s overwhelming you’re flooded
with things to do for girls even at
school with every little club and every
little field trip and all this stuff to
do with girls girls girls girls for
girls for these girls for that just it
was always girl stuff i’m like no young
boys
really need uh this attention they need
of a lot of attention because they’re
you know what’s going to change the
reality um of the next generation to
come the men are going to have to you
know step up and if we don’t we’re going
to continue going in this vicious cycle
of violence yep yep and
exactly like you said because a a
young man
is
overwhelmingly more likely so if you
have a young man and a young woman who
are suffering under the same neglect the
same you know lack of opportunity in the
the same kind of doldrums
that young man is exponentially more
likely to end up turning to violent
crime in order to be to find direction
to find what it is they’re supposed to
do to get respect to get money to get
all the things they’re looking for
they’re going to turn to the bad things
and there’s many reasons i mean
biologically men and women are different
right so so you know men are more
men are the ones that have always been
you know usually the hunters and the the
warriors and the fighters and the
protectors and the defenders and so
forth and if you’re not giving them a
thing to do that’s going to metastasize
that’s going to go into something toxic
and it’s going to lead to it again wait
wait wait say that word again it’s going
to metastasize so like uh when it can’t
survive
it
uh oh god no um i’m gonna have to look
it up yes
i’m sorry i’m i love words like i know
okay
i had to look it up so it’s
m-e-t-a-s-t-a-s-i-z-e
and what it means is so like a cancer um
if it’s not treated it will start to
spread to other areas it will
metastasize right so like you know stage
one cancer is the cancer is just right
here stage two cancer is you know the
cancer has grown to a certain point
where it could spread stage three and
stage four cancer is where it’s actually
spreading and that’s it’s called
metastasizing so if you have you know a
kid a young man for example who doesn’t
have direction in his life he’s got all
this energy right he’s going through you
know uh the early mid end stages of
puberty he’s becoming a man he doesn’t
know what that means he’s not being
given any direction he has no idea what
to do all he knows is he wants to be
respected and validated he wants someone
to care about him he wants to be able to
make money and if the only thing he’s
seeing is that the only ways to make
money are to either be a really good
entertainer of some kind a you know
sports professional uh a uh um a rapper
or an actor or singer or something like
that and if they don’t have that
particular skill
then they’re often going to turn to what
looks like the only and if nothing else
the easiest way to make money which is
getting involved in violence and getting
involved in drugs and gangs and
everything else and that’s that’s this
is not rocket science that part’s not
rocket science if you don’t give them
something to do and here it is you’re
giving them plasma cutting right like
you’re not this isn’t you know you
aren’t saying oh here you’re going to
all become neurosurgeons you’re giving
them just something to do
to show them you can apply your talents
to something constructive instead of you
know going and doing something that’s
going to hurt someone look at what you
did today you now have this you know
this piece of metal that you’ve crafted
with your initials or you’ve helped
paint this house or you’ve done this
thing and this is something you can make
money doing and you can create you know
a a sense of self-worth in doing so i
think i i couldn’t talk
more about uh the incredible things
you’re doing but i do because you know
obviously i don’t want to take like you
know seven hours of your life i i do
want to ask you this though man
where do you see this going like what do
you want to
eventually you know once you have
everything set up for your school and
everything else do you want this to
expand across the country or even to
other countries do you want to just
really make this grow in albany do you
eventually want to bring in women who
will be able to do something similar
from what like what what are your goals
to where do you envision this in five 10
15 hour many years
it’s always really hard to answer that
question because
my goals for
the extra boys um
had been shattered uh so fast um like
maybe if you asked me that question two
years ago i’m like yeah we buying a
building and gotta get this done and
that done like all that happened like
within a matter of months um so it’s
like i don’t even know where we’re
headed like i have an idea but i don’t
even know where we’re going you know um
because everything is happening so fast
but the ideas that i have you know of
course i want our school up and running
i would love to have more locations um
in different areas i would love to you
know start in albany grow in auburn and
make sure we’re effective in albany and
move elsewhere i don’t want to become
one of those programs that starts
opening branches everywhere and then
it’s not actually affecting the children
no i actually want to go and travel
where i’m opening a new location i don’t
care how big the organization gets i
will travel to every location and i want
to make sure that it’s working it’s
affecting the children where it is
because what the children here in albany
need may not be what they need in
baltimore or chicago or whatever they
may need something different
but i want to make sure the program is
actually effective uh where we are i
don’t want to become one of those um
programs where um excuse me
it won’t become one of those programs
where it becomes uh the salary based and
the program is actually getting 10 of
every dollar and just it’s it’s become
just a a thing you know and i’m just
like no i wanted to actually be working
with the children we have a zero percent
recidivism rate and i want it to remain
that way um i want to keep taking
children from the juvenile court system
i want to take children from juvenile
court system everywhere i would love to
expand it to other countries people have
asked us to start uh extra boys location
in london and south uh south africa uh
uh where else uh australia canada people
have access to open uh
like uh extra voice branches everywhere
but my answer is always the same i wanna
make sure we’re working and effective
where we are first um i can give you
know like blueprints on how to start
doing different workshops you know here
there and everywhere and maybe how to
start your own thing um but as for me i
want to make sure that i’m being
effective on where i am you know with
the children i definitely want to make
sure the the children are being served
and i definitely see this expanding i do
want to see uh girls um incorporate it
one day but i think it’s going to be
extremely different from you know what
i’m teaching the boys obviously because
they’re learning you know how to be
girls and how to be women so i think
it’s going to be extremely different um
you know as far as the teaching but
whatever woman you know comes along and
would like to start an expert girls
branch i guess uh you know i think
that’d be awesome um but yeah i do plan
to start one eventually but right now
we’re just trying to keep this school up
off the ground and once we have that off
the ground we’re gonna look at starting
locations elsewhere i think just the
main thing uh for our boys they just
need uh not just something to do but
they really want to make money and i
want to you know start different
businesses for the boys i want to start
them a painting company and i want to
start them you know automotive repair
shops etc because i want them to
actually make money
i had a child um he’s 15 years old he’s
dropped out of school
and um i met him maybe about a month and
a half ago
and he was in a car
with some friends and somebody came and
shot up their car and every one of his
friends died except him and he’s just
you know like living this normal
gangster life and he just like you know
that’s made that happen to my friends
but he reached out to me and he was like
i heard you can help me and i was like
yeah i was like um what what can i do
for you he was like i just really wanna
learn how to make some money you know
and i know if i would have provided him
with a nice job he he would simply be
off the streets you know just like that
yeah um so that’s that’s like my next
thing you know trying to you know find
jobs because you know the kids he’s not
in school got tattoos all over his face
and everything 15 years old look at his
instagram page all of his guns and and
talking crazy with girls and stuff like
that and that’s the lifestyle that they
live and you ask them why they live like
that it’s just like that’s all i know to
do like i’ve never seen or done anything
else so actually exposing them like
you’re saying earlier about all the
things that i’m just showing them like
exposing them is important because they
don’t know what it is out there they
want to do they don’t know they can do
other things um you know so you just
have to expose them to these different
things
i love it man i listen i i
it’s like you said
there’s many there’s so many first of
all you’ve been doing nothing but
dropping freaking
dimes all night long but the the uh when
it comes to
so many
people but we’re focusing on boys right
now but so many people in general
they’re doing what the only thing that
they know exists they’re not getting
guidance from their parents for various
reasons uh often sometimes they live
with their grandparents who are just
struggling to be able to take care of
them have no really absolutely do it
much
uh that’s a whole other subject then
you’ve got you know that schooling is
garbage right like they’re they’re if
there even is any real schooling if
they’re even still going to school
sometimes they end up just dropping out
so what are they looking at they’re
looking at
entertainment and movies which is the
most [ __ ] way to learn about life in
general but especially when
oh gosh here i’ll do okay i’ll do it so
you know jay-z it was fine that jay-z
rapped about killing black people and
calling them the n-word and calling
black women [ __ ] and everything else
that was fine uh and then he did the
story of oj where he said hey let’s
start buying up our community like the
jews did and they called him a racist
anti-semite and they tried to cancel him
and then he went back to rapping about
how rich he is and everything and that
was fine so it’s like you know god
forbid that the entertainers actually i
i’m now fully ranting um but you know
and and the reason for that is
what if the people that they were
exposed to were saying no no this isn’t
it guys like let’s go and like grow our
communities let’s go like the fact that
you’re focusing so much on the
economic aspect of it why are you doing
this i don’t know any better and i need
money right okay great we’re gonna teach
you something better and here’s how you
can make some money and not get shot at
right like this is a good way to be able
to do this i think it’s great what
you’re doing uh you know like i said i
think it’s fantastic in the comments no
one has asked you a question other than
can you please open this in my area uh
everyone’s just saying how great you are
let me read it oh yeah let us let them
ask questions i’m looking at some of the
facebook uh i’m on facebook comments and
i’d love to see questions
i mean they probably can open it it’s
literally just saying i i love you and
you’re you’re good amazing energy
positive energy um you’re uh you know
you
they’re um uh hell yes you’re a great
guest uh you’re do keep doing great
things you’re a wonderful person that
your name suits you don’t anyone let
anyone dampen your shine like i mean
it’s literally just everyone telling you
if you ever feel bad just go back to the
comments here and just see all these
you now have that permanently of of all
that um so listen uh while people are
are um
uh are you know asking questions if
anyone has any questions uh so here here
was one uh besides what we talked about
with the school has there been any other
type of red tape that you’ve had to run
into trying to accomplish the goals that
you’re setting forward
um i wouldn’t say like none of the
normal stuff as far as like getting
accredited um you know just getting
paperwork done most of it’s just like
normal stuff you got to do nothing too
major that’s you know uh knocking me out
it’s beside this fly right here but
other than that uh no it’s nothing too
major right now we’re just uh working on
getting in our facility um you know
getting it renovated and things like
that nothing too major right now no
nice nice who was uh this is coming from
diane bond over at uh periscope uh who
would you say is the one person that
influenced you the most growing up
oh probably have to be uh
my stepdad well i had two stepfathers um
my first stepdad and my second stepdad
the older guy that stayed behind our
house um and the guy down the street
from us uh growing up uh i’ll explain
all four of these men and and people
always think i’m so special and all this
great kid i just had some men in my life
that was that’s literally i’m just a
regular guy that had men um but all
these guys you know uh influenced me the
most growing up
my first stepfather he taught me he’s a
very country guy so as far as me knowing
how to garden and everything in our
backyard we built we built all of our
sheds we built all of our dog houses
we even made our own washroom outside he
taught me how to lay
do plumbing and electricity
uh he taught me how to do roofing we
grew all of our own food everything we
wanted to eat we went and picked outside
you know we even grew our own seasoning
like literally we grew everything we
grew bananas uh peaches plums uh collard
greens carrots tomatoes everything we
wanted we grew um and we had all types
of animals in the backyard i know how to
skin animals and how i take care of them
i had chickens goats dogs
turtles squirrels raccoons we had
everything um so you know he taught me
how to ride motorcycles i mean all of
that practical stuff i learned you know
from him growing up uh the guy down the
street from us um
my old best friend growing up his name
was david his dad’s name was david
senior
but he was on drugs but he still taught
us how to lay bricks and we went and
made mailbox like brick mailboxes with
them and things like that um the older
guy that stayed behind our house he’s an
older gentleman um but he used to you
know have barbecues and he’d a lot of
boys to come over and cut his grass and
he’d teach him how to you know uh work
with the lawnmower equipment and uh to
this day um his name we call him deacon
bogan he was a deacon at the church last
name is bogan uh so we always call him
deacon bogan and he’s always he was
always cutting his grass all the time um
even to this day if i go over there
right now to my old neighborhood he’s
cutting his grass like he’s never not
cutting his grass
so but yeah that’s what we knew him for
so we’d always go bother him um and his
dogs but those are the men um that that
that taught me growing up they
influenced me the most it wasn’t a
rapper it wasn’t a athlete it was those
men i had in my life and then my my uh
current stepdad um he came into my life
when i was 15 years old um and you know
he’s uh he’s a detective in atlanta and
some people may know him from the first
48 detective hardaway dekalb county
police um he’s a retired uh detective um
um with the police department but he
like felt the business side of me like
he’s he’s the suit wearing you know uh
money-making guy you know and he taught
me like business stuff so it’s like i
have the best of both worlds like i have
a business side and i can still go ride
a horse you know so it’s it’s beautiful
um to be able to take care of myself
grow my own food work on my house and
then go put on a suit you know so i all
those men you know in my life just kind
of molded me into who i am and it took
me a while to realize you know how much
they influenced me growing up
until you know um i got older and saw
how many children you know didn’t know
how to do all the things i just knew i
thought every kid know how to do these
things like they would all the boys in
our neighborhood know how to do these
things you know some of us you know when
our different ways and do our different
things but all of us grew up knowing how
to do these basic things you know around
the house you know patching up holes and
laying sheetrock i can build my own [ __ ]
just go buy me some wood i can build my
own shed from the ground like all these
things you know we did you know and
those are the men that influenced me so
it wasn’t nobody famous it was just the
man i had in my life
that’s awesome and so like that’s why
you’re so well-rounded is you had these
different people you had people that
taught you all these different skills
and all these different ways to to be
and that is as why you’re a 22 year old
who’s done more than i have in my whole
life i thought i was well i started a
business
yeah you see one of the comments just
saying not the neighborhood crackhead
yeah i know
you know that’s what it was though
he was on crack but he helped you know
he taught us a lot you know
you know listen sometimes the crackhead
knows more than anyone else uh
absolutely so no this is incredible
another question we got someone asked if
they can uh liberty’s evangelist over on
uh on periscope ask if they can come
work for you um
the uh whenever i have slots
right when you have a business to to to
do yeah man no listen i i think you’re
fantastic and i i could spend the next
three hours telling you how great you
are and everything you’re doing but i do
before i let you go i want to give you a
chance first of all everyone when this
is over go to the exforboys.org go see
how you can help how you can be a part
of this you know follow king randall on
all of his social media at new emerging
king on on twitter but king before i let
you go uh i just want to give you a
chance to have your final word anything
that you want to say that you felt like
we didn’t have a chance to talk about
any final thing you want to impart to
the audience king randall the floor is
yours
absolutely um well i will say most
people are always uh looking for their
purpose they’re always searching for
their purpose um
just as as hard as they can but i always
tell people to find your work ethic
before you find your purpose um and
that’s something i had to discover um
just doing what i do i had to find my
work ethic first so if you can’t put 110
into flipping burgers 110
into that job you have to do every day
while god bless you with that purpose
and knowing you’re not going to put on
any work um so i think it’s important
for you to find your work ethic before
you find your purpose and i love to
leave off um with a quote from one of
our local hometown hero rappers his name
is cantrell he says obstacles are
optical illusions they’re not really
there jump high anyway jump out just in
case i love it man that’s fantastic and
and king
you dropped this
this is
this is the corniest [ __ ] i’ve ever done
on this show but seriously if anyone
deserves to have a
if anyone deserve to have a crown after
all this it’s definitely you king man
you are amazing i love you i think
you’re great um and uh we actually might
get to hang out in uh in miami when
you’re down there for maj toure’s thing
i’m gonna be down there as well so oh
it’s lit you gonna be there oh yeah yeah
yeah yeah i know i’m gonna be there man
so uh anyway so uh hey man thank you so
much for your time stick around we’re
gonna talk during the outro uh but folks
yeah check out king randall at new
emerging king on twitter um uh
thexforboys.org are you on any other
social media like at their other yeah
where else are you on social media all
of my social media is at new emerging
king you can type in new emerging king
on google instagram facebook snapchat
twitter all of it is at new emerging
king uh youtube you name it everything
is at new emerging king i love it i love
it man and uh folks thanks again for
tuning in to this episode of my fellow
americans join us tomorrow on thursday
at 8 pm eastern for the writer’s block
where matt wright will be talking with
i need to remember who the guests are uh
we’ll be talking with ooh you forgot
i know this is no this happens a lot
kevin kahn how could i forget kevin
cotton kevin kahn uh who is a
congressional candidate in uh in ohio
and is all now doing incredible work for
accountability now ohio who i will
actually be with this weekend uh and
then on friday join us for cajun and
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join me in columbus ohio i will be at
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and then i will be on sunday uh at the
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conference we will be talking uh about
the next steps to uh ending qualified
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for another amazing episode of my fellow
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you’re not gonna believe i don’t know uh
yeah but we’re gonna find out uh uh but
hey folks thanks again for tuning in to
this episode of my fellow americans i am
spike cohen and you are the power god
bless guys
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