things. Our students were proud. I took them to visit the White House back in I think it was this March or April. I took them to visit the White House and we had a great time there with their parents and it was a beautiful thing. So here we are in 2025 trying to tell them that we're not political and Donald Trump has no affiliation with us, but who cares? I mean, even if he did, he's the president of the United States. Why wouldn't we want to be recognized by the biggest figure in our country?

And just to be practical, you're always in fundraising mode because you're not backed by the government. So can you tell the people, I'm going to say some more good things about you and they'll be all primed to donate. Some of them will be, but how would they do that? What would be the mechanism?

You can go to our website at thexforboys.org. That's t-h-e-x-f-o-r-b-o-y-s dot org. Everything that you hear me explain in here, we have photos of all of it on our website like teaching them how to do fencing, plasma cutting, firearms training. Everything's on our website that you want to see. Even from the financials, you can go see all that stuff on our website. And of course if you want to see us on social media, our biggest thing I tell people all the time, a lot of people wish that they could give and some people can't. But I always tell them a retweet, a comment, all those things are gifts. Because that helps push it to other people who may can give. So I always tell people any small thing helps our program. We have people who give $3, $1, but it matters. So I'm grateful to many people. And I did see a comment about the religious teaching. We definitely do that every week. Our students pray every day. And we make sure we do Bible study with our students. It's a real thing here in Albany. And of course I will add anybody who ever wants to come and visit, as long as we can do a background check on you, we open it up for anybody to come visit, especially our donors because it's better when you can put your hands on it and see what's going on. So we're down in Albany, Georgia. If you shoot me an email, you can definitely come visit.

So let me tell you what lights me up when I watch your social media. My upbringing involved learning how to work on a farm, how to do like 10 different jobs from mowing lawns to fixing things to everything. And the result of that is that I was confident in any new situation. So I would never say I can't figure this out because I figured everything out. You know, there was always some adult there who told me how to figure it out. But I was like, "Oh, I don't know how to do that. I'll figure that out." And when I watch you working with the kids, whether it's changing a doorknob or doing some of those other car-related things, changing a tire, I say to myself, what you're really teaching them is that they can do anything. You're not really teaching them tires, you're teaching them confidence. And when I see them learn confidence, but then I also see them hanging around a tremendous role model, which I think you are, they just have a superpower. Like when I watch those kids, you also have a standard where you have them respond to you as you're talking. Like you'll say, "Do you see what I've done with this doorknob?" And then the kids go, "Yes, sir."

Mhm. Absolutely. And they all do. They all do. And when I watch that habit of forming respect, I think, my God, these kids are literally developing a superpower that if they walked into a job interview with that set of manners and they could go to a dinner and they would know which forks to use, which I didn't know at that age. I didn't know what fork to use. So I could have used almost all of that training at that age.

Yep. And we've taught etiquette classes for the students and we got a lot of pushback for the etiquette classes. People told us that we were trying to teach the kids how to be white just for simply teaching them to eat with their mouth closed and to not talk about certain things at the table. It's insane.

Let me give you a reframe that will help you if they say that you're teaching them to be white. No, you're teaching how to deal in a world in which there's a lot of white people.

Absolutely.

That's what you teach is strategy. That when I watch it, it looks like you're teaching lessons, but it's all strategy. The strategy is if you can become the kind of person who can pick up these lessons, the kind of person who can deal with white people, Black people, all kinds of people.

Success.

Absolutely. Yeah. And the confidence thing is the biggest piece. Especially when teaching them how to work with their hands. We have a lot of kids who are not academically inclined or athletically inclined. So you got those kids that are kind of in the middle. But when we teach them how to work with their hands and then their moms, they finally are able to say, "I'm proud of you for something." And we give them certificates and things like that. Now they're able to walk differently and feel like they can accomplish something. And that's very, very important to give a child. He needs confidence in something. And sometimes they may not be a straight-A student and they may not be the best on the football field, but if I can teach them to be the best at this plumbing or being a diesel mechanic or whatever or even just teaching them how to properly eat or properly read, all that builds confidence. It's very important.

And then you're also building, I think, a terribly important network of kids who are like-minded. You can't beat that.

Absolutely. It's like a fraternity. These kids, we've had kids graduate, go to the military or whatever, and we have them come back. They always come back after they come back home or whatever and come spend time with the new students. And it's funny because when they look at how those kids act, and they're like, "You were that kid at one point. I still got old videos of you when you were sitting around doing those things." And so now they're able to discipline and to teach and to show that I'm a product of this. So it's very important. I absolutely love the network we're creating, like you said.

All right. So there's a little lesson being formed here. So I saw maybe a slightly racist comment in the comments that suggested you should teach the kids how to say the word ask.

That is no, that's not racist. That's an accent thing, man. I'm from South Georgia and I don't hear my accent until I go up north or something like that. But down here we understand what we're saying. And even the white people here, they do the same thing. We're just southern. Southern people have different accents. It's just like up north, you say things a little bit differently. So that's just an accent thing. I don't think we can get away from it.

So here's what I would add to that, which is that I would put that under strategy. So again, it's not do I talk like my people, do I talk like the place I came from, or do I make sure that somebody doesn't think poorly of me just by using this word that they expect me to use. So I would shoot that as a strategy, not a way of talking.

Definitely got to be able to turn the accent on and off because how I talk to you and how I talk to my friends would be completely different because I know other people just can't understand our southern accent. It's real deep. And my uncles and stuff, they were like cowboys. They're worse than me. Their country accents are so deep you never understand what they're saying. And there is nothing wrong with teaching a kid to not be natural and not be themselves. You need to adapt to the situation if you want to be successful.

You have to.

I agree.

All right. So what would you like the audience to know that I haven't mentioned already?

I guess for us, I always tell people you could do this same thing where you are. I started what I'm doing right here in a small town in Albany, Georgia. A population of 69,000 people. One of the definitely more worst places as far as statistics in the country. But we were able to build something successful here. And I always tell people, you don't have to have a massive organization or a massive following to start anything. All of this stuff I started as a 19-year-old with no following. Nobody knew who I was. And I just wanted it. And nobody can want it for you. You have to want to see your own community better. You have to want to get up and go clean up your own trash in your neighborhood and just all of those things. You have to want to do it. So if you just start by making somebody smile and start by looking at those kids next door to you or just not blaming everyone for our issues, I mean, we point so many fingers. It's the Democrats' fault. It's the Republicans' fault. It's the politicians. It's this person's fault. Versus just looking in the mirror like, "Hey, I could be doing a little bit more. I could be doing a lot more in my neighborhood. I could be spending some time at the schools and helping the kids." So before we point fingers, let's figure out what it is that we can do. And if you feel like you're doing enough, do some more.

Absolutely. The most important words ever spoken. I could do more. Just do more. Always do more.

Now I'm curious. Have you ever heard of my book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big? Have you ever...

I have not. No.

One of the things that fascinates me about you is how compatible your thinking is with mine. Like it's almost like we're the same brain, two people. And that book teaches 14 years and up how to have a system in life as opposed to a goal. Goal might be play in the NBA, but a system would be learn as many valuable things as you can to add more value. So stuff like that. So it's meant to fill in all of those. If you're 14, how do you figure out how to be a successful 20-year-old? So if you'd like a copy of that, I'll send you a copy if you want to check it out.

Yeah, I'll send you my PO box. Most definitely.

Okay, we'll do that. And anything else you want to tell them?

No, I just appreciate you bringing me on first of all. I'm glad to be here. I know you've been dealing with some things, but I'm glad to be here and I've been praying for you. But definitely I appreciate all the support that people give to our program. Like I said, this program runs exclusively because of people that believe in us and us having to be good stewards. It's definitely expensive. We operate five days a week. We pick the kids up from school. We feed them every day. We have staff members. We have property, etc. So just everything that everybody does to keep us afloat for seven years, going on seven years now in January. It's been a beautiful thing and I'm glad. And again, if you want to support our program, you can follow me on social media at newemergingking on all platforms or you can go to our website at thexforboys.org. That's t-h-e-x-f-o-r-b-o-y-s dot org.

Perfect. You know, I like boosting you because I have one of these, one of my secrets for life is that you should be working on at least one thing that could change the whole world even if it's very unlikely. Now, you're the one doing the work, but because I have a platform and I can boost you today, today I'm boosting you because if you catch on, it changes the world. I think that's how powerful what you're doing is. It would change the world. So my audience and I will try to be a small part of that to give you a boo