The reason I stopped hating white people was because I was saying these things and
white people wore a Graham'm like, well, why do you agree with that?
You're not supposed to be agree with that. Welcome to another deep dive
edition of the Chicks on the Right podcast. We have a very special guest
with us today and that is King Randall, who is a marine vet who
saw a need for change in his own community of Albany, Georgia, and
he decided to set up a school for troubled youth all on your own,
which is absolutely extraordinary and for people who might be new to your story,
if you wouldn't mind just kind of giving us a walkthrough of the timeline of
what got you started and where things are today. Sure well, my name
is King Randall again. I'm the founder of the Axle Boys program and the
Life Preparatory School. The program started out of my house back in twenty nineteen.
I started teaching kids how to work on cars, work on houses such
as changing oil and changing breaks, ceiling sheet rock, you name it,
even growing their own food, cooking. We did a plethora of these things
while I was growing up myself. I was nineteen when I started it.
So I started, you know, working with these kids, and during a
couple of summer camps that I was doing with them, I realized that the
students didn't know how to read. That was a huge issue for me reading
and writing, and I was just like, well, this is probably why
you guys are getting in trouble and things like that, because you guys can't
read and write. I would probably be getting in trouble at schools. I
can't do my work because I can't read and write. So I understand.
But at that time, I told those students I was going to start a
school one day. I didn't know how I was gonna do it, or
we're in I was gonna do it, but we're gonna make something happen.
So at that time, you know, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, I
started a book club for kids in twenty twenty. As soon as I started
that, a couple weeks in everything shut down as far as COVID, so
I wasn't able to do the book club. And I had parents, you
know, still asking could I do something for the kids, and I was
just like, I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. I had
my own so at the time, my wife at the time, you know,
I'm just like, okay, yeah, I don't know I'm supposed to
do anything. I don't know what's going on with the COVID situation, and
you know, everybody's kind of up in the air what's happening. So but
I did tell the parents, you know, at that time, that I
could do something if the kids were to come live in my house. So
I got about three bunk beds. I put them in my living room.
We made it happen. So I got six six set, no it was
seven kids. Actually got seven of them at my house for the entire summers
without twenty We went to farms, we worked, We traveled all over the
country. That's when we discovered, like COVID was just like nothing, to
be honest, right, Like, yeah, we were traveling everywhere. We
traveled all over the country for twenty bucks a ticket. We were in Chicago,
we were in Cincinnati, we were in Miami. Like me and the
students were traveling, we were learning, we were doing stuff, you know,
and these kids there's this was the first time ever traveling on the airplane,
you know, I mean it was great. We had a great time.
We were working on a farm every day and everything was normal for us.
We lived a normal lit We were out fixing people's houses and fixing on
cards and painting. That's what we were doing while COVID was happening, and
we took advantage of that because while everybody's at home not working, they're just
looking at everything that's broken in their house. So of course they're just you
know, asking people to come fix stuff, and that's what we were there
to do. After that, we went viral on social media once on Twitter,
and then we got invited to the White House to see President Trump.
We went there, we met him, had a great time there, and
then we left. Twenty twenty one was when I first, you know,
started reaching out to our local school system about opening up a school and purchasing
one of their older buildings they had up for demolition. We tried to purchase
that from them, you know, probably through a nine month ten month process
of trying to buy the school from them. That deal felled through because we
got a contract back from them stating that the purchase sell agreement should contain usage
restriction that we could not operate a private or a charter school out of there.
Unless they taught the core curriculum, and I you know, told them
that we were not going to do that, and that blew up. We
went on Fox about it, et cetera. It was a bit messy.
It was very, very messy, and we battled through that. We ended
up purchasing three smaller buildings, one of which I'm in now, and then
we ended up purchasing our bigger school building, which is forty one thousand square
feet that we are not currently in at this moment. We opened the school
back in twenty twenty two. Once we got into the school building, we
had a whole bunch of fire marshals and inspectors harassing us all the time,
coming to knock on the doors, trying to come look inside the school,
et cetera. But what they did originally was they befriended me originally as if
they were trying to help. So they were like, okay, you know,
these are some things that you guys could do to help you guys get
in order. So it was like, you know, let me come look
at this and that. So they come in looking at stuff and you know,
okay, you can do this and that you can try and do this
and that you know, so we can help you guys like that. And
then then one day he was like, hey, I'm gonna, you know,
bring some me and some of the guys out. I was just gonna
see what we can help you guys with. And he brought like fifteen marshals
ins gall a briefcase, cameras and everything, and and he was like,
okay, well we're gonna go get together and we're gonna see what we can
do the help, you know, and stuff like that. The next day
we get a letter from Sure you know what I'm saying, we can't be
in the building. Oh my god, in the world. Ye yep,
So that's what happened. So we had to leave the facility, and they
came after a storm happened too. We had a storm that did some damages
to the facility. But the building is not inoperable at all. But of
course, when they're trying to nit pick at you, they're gonna find a
little single thing because but for the most part, even all of our homes
are not up the cold. Being for real, you know, if you
want to find something not up the cold, they're going to find it.
So that's why they have all those smallel the rules you know, and laws
because just in case they need to shut you down. Okay, oh well
this piece of plastic isn't over this piece of plastic, So time to go.
You know, you guys got to go. But did you guys do
a lot of the work yourself on the actual school. So you guys did
most of it yourself. Reminds we did, we did. I raised money
the summer of twenty twenty two. I stayed on top of the roof of
the school raising money before the school, and we had so many volunteers come
come in from all over the country to come and help us with the school.
So we did, but we did really good with it. So we
ended up having to leave there. And the amount of repairs and stuff that
they want us to do, I mean we're looking at like one two million
dollars worth of stuff. Yes, it's it's and the building is older,
like I actually went to pre k in this building, so it's older.
So when where we are where we live, like once you get a permit
to be in a building, they never come inspect you ever again. So
the previous owners were an old church, so they were always there and nobody
ever came to inspect them again. So of course now that we're in there,
we have to get everything up to twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four
standards back from nineteen you know, whenever when they had it. Yeah,
so, but it was a lot. But anyway, we're we have a
plan to you know, get that money raised this summer. But yeah,
back to the timeline. We opened that up twenty twenty two, we ended
up having to leave there, and so right now we're working. We're doing
school all our out of our office building. So we've been doing that since
last twenty twenty two December, I think. So we're we're here, but
we have a plan this summer to raise the money to get into our school
building. I have a crazy fundraiser idea that I'll be doing. I'll actually
be walking from my hometown all the way to Atlanta, Georgia. This will
be about a two hundred mile walk. It was gonna take me about ten
or eleven days to complete this this venture. I haven't released any details about
it yet, but it's it's in the works already. We'll have a route
planned out, We'll have it where people can come meet me at different stops.
I'll be making and we're gonna try and you know, make a big
fundraiser out of it, try to get the odds of the nation, you
know, on what we're trying to do, because I haven't seen a fund
raiser thing like that in a very very long time. So I wonder if
you like people walking with you, like Forrest Gump, they're gonna rit like
following you on your big walk. Were playing that for the last leg of
the walk, not during the walk itself because we will be on a highway.
It was just safety purposes. We'll have like a truck, two trucks
and you know, safety measures and everything. But I don't want to,
you know, cause anybody else to get hurt. I mean, we may
like let a couple of news crews or something like that, just depend on
what it is, case by case, but definitely not like Jim Pop.
But Jim Pop will be able to join the last leg of the walk in
Atlanta. I'll be walking to the Battery, their truest part, so that'll
be fun. And then we'll have our fundraiser at gala two days later on
my birthday July twenty six, so that'll be huge. But yeah, I
haven't released any info about that, but I can't wait to share more about
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many students are there? We have six students right now in the school.
We started out with about nine kids. We didn't open up enrollment for like
a huge number in the beginning, just to kind of get our feet wet,
just just got to see what it, you know, what it was
like. And it was definitely challenging even with just nine students. I mean
it was it was hard. Uh so, just trying to figure out how
things go. But now that we kind of got an idea and more staff,
you know, hopefully, you know, once we raise money and get
back in our bigger building, we'll be able to take newer kids. This
time. I'm actually going to drop the age groups down to third grade.
So I'm excited to do that. I was doing sixth grade, but as
I've been working for the past couple of years. I've just been noticing that
so much time I've spent with older teenagers, you know, these these smaller
kids are the ones who are really gonna need it, and they will actually
grasp spit because it's hard trying to tell a teenager who's already you know,
worldly or out in the world or having sex or smoking or whatever to stop
doing these things, right versus a kid who has not even started, who
still has good grades, who still being himself. I can hone his character
early and he it'll benefit him more than working with you know, sixteen seventeen
year olds. And I'm as got to a point now right right, I've
got to a point exactly, And I got to a point now where you
know, I've been dismissing you know, students because I spent you know,
years I've been I've been thinking about it the other day, like I've been
spent years like just bussing at kids, you know, who don't want to
be there, or trying to force them to do the things or whatever like
that because their mom wants them to come, and trying to rehab them and
all that versus it's it's taking time away from those children who actually did you
know, want to be there and did want to learn, and they kind
of get frustrated because the other kids won't act right, et cetera. So
they just end up, you know, maybe not liking it or whatever.
Because I had one kid, you know, he was like, I love
it. He's like, I love the exports proper, he said. It's
just some of the older kids are bad. You know. You would say,
you know, but those are the kids who don't want to be there.
And so I got to a point, I'm like, listen, mon,
need to ask you your son, if he does not want to be
here, don't bring him back. You know. I'm like, it's gonna
benefit the other kids more, especially with it being free, and we spend
a lot of our money, you know, just getting taking them on field
trips or whatever. I don't want to be you know, spending this money,
you know, on these kids or whatever like that, and they're not
wanting to do it. You know, they're not wanting to be better.
They're not wanting the discipline, they're not wanting to become a better person.
I can only help those who want to help themselves, and a lot of
those, you know, younger kids do want to help themselves and they want
to be better, They want something. Do you think that that like just
when it comes to regulations, and like when I say government, but I
mean obviously they're governmental bodies that come in and they try to basically like shut
you down because they don't want Why do you think they want to do that?
Because you're helping people? Like why are you think? Why do you
think they want to come in and shut you down? So a lot of
it is because I'm younger, you know, some a lot of the people
here in my hometown, you know, have said, you know, what
they were going to do for so many years, and have you know,
hinted that little plans here and there are do piecemeal stuff like giving away things,
giving turkeys and Christmas trees, but no actual, you know, substantial
work that's going to reform minds. And I came at you know, eighteen
nineteen years old, and I said, exactly what I was going to do,
and we're doing it, and we're doing it in a fast fashion.
And so of course, you know, with all the little cliques, the
superintendent, the pastors, et cetera, they're not big fans of mine because
I'm not scared to say what I you know, want, and I don't
need their backing. A lot of another issue you know here in our hometown
is everybody has to you know, you have to shake hands with all those
guys in order to be a leader or to you know, have any funding.
But I've never needed their funding. I've always been able to raise our
own money. I've never needed to shake their hands. I've never had to
kiss their ring. You know, I've been you know, marching to my
own beat. So they'll try to alienate me a little bit or try to
tell other nonprofits not to work with me or whatever like that. But you
know, we've been making our own way through that anyways, because some of
these people have been meeting me and our programs themselves and have been forming their
own opinions about you know, who we are and what we do. So
it's definitely a little challenge of being I guess, a little popular, I
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on Twitter on social media, and I've seen you get into some fights recently,
and so wanted to talk a little bit about the one because you would
put out. We actually, during our show, we'll play, you know,
tiktoks and videos of cultural interest that we find. One of the ones
that we spotlet I guess a week or so ago, was of a cop
pulling over a kid for speeding, and this kid was so belligerent, and
he turned out to be like nineteen years old, and he was like calling
his parents. Anyway, it was a whole thing, and we ended up
talking about how so many of the traffic stops that get out of control and
crazy could be prevented if kids would just show respect. And I saw that
you did a video where you were teaching a kid how to actually get through
a traffic stop with a cop and how to behave with that cop, which
you were absolutely right about. So what was the pushback and why did people
react so negatively to that? They were saying and I was teaching them how
to be slaves and I tell them their rights and all that, and I'm
just like, dude, like we're trying to get home. I'm like,
we're trying to get home to our kids. You know, and if I
have any rights, you know, we're gonna fight that in court. I'm
not about to fight it on the side of the road. I don't have
a reason to unless I have a reason too. We're talking about a routine
traffic stop. You got pulled over because your break lights out, you were
speeding, right whatever, you know. I'm like, there's nothing to fight
with that, you know, just take your ticket in and keep it moving.
If you feel like you were you were right, then again, go
fight it in court. But we're not fighting on the side of the road,
you know. And I was telling them, you know how many tickets
I've gotten out of, And you know, I told people all the time,
I've never had a bad experience with police ever. Like I get pulled
over all the time. I am a speeder, Like I've been pulled over
thirty forty times. Yeah, yeah, I'm a spear. But I'm gotten
out of so many tickets just because when they turn off when I know I'm
speeding and I see a cop, I pull all before they even turn the
lights on. I'm already on the side of the road because I already know
you're coming to get me. You know, if you weren't. Then they
passed by, but I go ahead and pull over. But they don't even
got to turn the lights on. But by the time they pull them out,
I'm already pulled off, you know, like I'm on the side of
the road, you know, And I always have everything ready, you know,
And they don't have to get your registration anymore. They just pull that
up, you know, be your license plate. So I have my you
know, driver's license already ready in my hand. He hands in the steering
wheel, all the windows down. If it's nighttime, I turn the lights
on or whatever. He comes into the car already in a good mood because
he ain't got to do the flashlight and all that goodness or whatever like that
lights of registration. Know, I pulled you over. Yes, I was
speeding. I just wasn't paying attention. Okay, boom, all right,
So go back to his car. Either he gives a ticket, he still
gives a ticket whatever, you know, or he doesn't. He like,
you know, Joe, I appreciate you for pulling over, and you know,
you know, being polite. You have you a good day to slow
down or something like that. And I got out and told me the tickets
simply doing that and being polite, even the two I got pulled over twice
and my license was suspended and I didn't know it. But because I was
so polite, I didn't go to jail. You know. He was just
like, look, call somebody, come pick you up. You know,
I'm not gonna take you jail or nothing like that. And I really didn't
know it. I think it was like when you do a super speeder,
you have to pay a separate fee, and so I didn't know about this
separate fee and they didn't send it in the mail. Well they said they
send it to mail. I never got it, but they'll suspend their license
until you pay that super speed or fee or whatever. So but yeah,
so I didn't pay it. I didn't know my license was suspended. But
they're like, hey, you got anybody to drive for you. I'm like,
what you mean, they're like, all your license going. I'm like,
oh, it's not I didn't know. Okay, well I'll call somebody.
But that's that's that's that's what you're supposed to go to jail. But
if I were to been being belligerent going crazy, yeah my god, no,
it's mid blah blah blah, we're all going to jail, firsus going
home to see my kids, you know. So it's just very important to
you know, be polite. And this is just not even with police,
just in general with people. Because you don't know who you're meeting, you
know, and who you're interacting with, it's very important to you know,
to be polite. You know, give the proper greeting. The other day,
shake hands, look people in the eye, you know, all those
things are. But they were saying that I was teaching them how to be
sleighs and they still gonna get killed. And so it's it's so ridiculous because
it has I think, listen, and I know I'm a white woman,
but I but I don't think that that has anything to do with the amount
of melanin in your skin. I think that I tell my daughter, who
is white, the same thing. I'm like, listen, you just be
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you so awesome? Like it is it just because you're genetically awesome or or
did you have mentors and people along the way that helped you become so Like
I mean, cause you're you're changing people's lives. So where did you have
people that that inspired you to do that? Or it was just something?
Was that just intrinsic? I was raising a full family. I had my
dad, my mom, my granddad. Uh the deacon that stayed in the
house behind us, the truck driver across the street, the guy down the
street, him and his son. I mean, we had a whole little
village in our little neighborhood. So when we learned how to do everything from
welding, paying cars, fixing cars, fixing on the house, cutting hair,
laying bricks, taking care of animals, growing our own food. We
did everything. We literally did everything in our neighborhood. Where'd you grow?
Where did you grow? I grew up here at All Benny, Georgia on
the east, the east side of town. They call it the dark side,
but I grew up here. Uh yeah, I grew up here in
All Benny, Georgia. And you know, we weren't poor, but we
weren't rich either, but I mean, you know, we had I had
a decent light, my mom. You know, I never like wanted for
anything or nothing like that. But we were never poor, eating out of
the trash can, none of that crazy stuff. But we were you know,
we did fine. And my stepdad, you know, he did a
great raising with me as well as my granddad and my uncles. You know,
these guys still, you know, helped me to this day. You
know, I still call them for stuff and everything. And it's important for
you know, young men to have multiple male figures. It's not just their
dad, like for me. You like, my son has a full schedule.
He has his baseball coach, he has his private baseball coach, he
has his boxing coach, he has a gymnastics coach, like all these different
people that will be pouring, you know, into them because I don't know
everything, but as a father, I'm supposed to make sure he's surrounded with
good men. I love it. Yeah, that way he grows up to
be a better, you know, young man. So it's important to have
multiple mentors and mental multiple men because they all got something different, they all
do something different, they all have different wisdom and if they put it all
into one person, you know, it makes a great man. And so
since that's what I have, I'm giving it to my son in multiple different
fashions. And I love the way that you talk on your website about how
you want to make men and so and that's such a such an important thing.
But yet you get so much criticism even for just the people that fought
like the fact that we are supporters of yours or followers of yours. I
see you getting criticism simply because we are white, and so you have a
following that is made up of white people, and you get criticized for that,
which is crazy. And then there was I loved a comment that you
made to someone who I guess looked at your LinkedIn profile and saw that you
had work experience as a forklift driver and that your next job was the founder
of the school. And the guy this person asked, how do you go
from a forklift driver to owning a school? And your response was I just
did it, Like you, what are you even looking for? And I
was like, I love that you just do it. And I drove aft
in the Marines like that was my my mos and supplied I drove a forklift,
and then I left there and I went to drive at Miller Brewery here
in our hometown, and I lived there, and I told, you know,
my wife at the time, you know, I told her I was
I wanted to start something working with kids, and that's what I told her
I wanted to do. I'll never forget how I lost my job. I
was at work. I left Milling Brewery and I went to this other warehouse
job that was paying a bit more. I was there maybe about a month,
but I was working a graveyard shift, so I was working from eleven
to seven at night, and it was annoying. It was stressful, and
I was just tired. I would sleep all day and still be sleepy at
work. But one day, you know, me and all the guys,
we would all like take turns, want to sleep in the bathroom, like
when we didn't have anything to do. And so this one particular day,
I was sleeping, but they they said they came and tried to wake me
up and tried to do all this, and it was knocking on the door
and I was sleeping. I'm like, I literally used to sleep with the
walkie talkie on my shoulder. Like, come on, dude, Like but
anyway, so they said I was sleeping too hard that day and whatever,
and so they let me go the next day. But after that, I
was just like, look, I'm like, I want to start something for
kids. I had been wanting to start something for kids, and that's what
I did. I started working with kids. Immediately into fund the program.
I was cutting hair, fixing cars. I became the neighborhood handyman. I
did everything. I would leave someone where changing somebody's starter on their car,
and then go cut somebody's hair right after that, and then go paint somebody's
you know, living room after that. You know, like I was.
That's what I was doing. But I did it to fund the program.
That's how I did my first little field trips and all that stuff with the
kids. That's that's that was my dream, my goal of my vision.
I mean I worked for it, like I really had to work. So
that was that was it. Man. And having white followers, I mean
I have like rainbow following. I got people that followed me from literally so
many different sides. I got people in the Nation of Islam to see pack
and the Republicans and the Democrat like I mean, I have so many followers
that love the work that I do, you know. So I'm just like,
but if white people are agreeing in masks, They're like, well,
there's no way that white people are agreeing with what you're saying. I'm like,
because if white people agree, it must be wrong. I'm like,
you do know, white people can have a positive thought, They can have,
you know, a positive outlook on something. You know. Yeah,
I'm just like, I'm like, okay, we should start our own schools.
Yes, And then white people say yeah, They're like, oh well
no, I'm like, but you just said we shouldn't started our own schools.
The white people will agree, so no, I'm like, well,
what are you talking about? Like this is what they sound like. I'm
like, okay, well we shouldn't open our school, should hold school our
kids, yes, and white people like we're agreed. King, I'm like,
no, well you must be wrong because the white people with it.
I'm just like, I'm saying the same points y'all favorite pro black people say
all the time. But because I don't add I hate white people, at
the end, I lose my black cart, you know, Like that's that's
the problem. And I've never changed. Like nothing I said. I have
been saying the same thing since I was nineteen, even when I was the
pro black guy who hated white people and all that stuff, Like I literally
have been saying the same thing still. Or because one the reason I stopped
hating white people was because I was saying these things and white people will agree.
I'm like, well, why do you agree with that? You're not
supposed to be agree with that. White people was like, yes, no,
this is right, this is right. Even though I had forget I
was doing these field trips. I used to do field trips only for black
kids. I used to put on the fly. I'm like, on black
children, you know, field trips or whatever like that. But I would
have this white guy He's like, look, I don't even care if he's
just doing it for black kids. He's like, I'm gonna donate because I
see you're trying to change them into better young men. So even if it's
just for black kids, exactly what But that that was the first thing to
flip. I'm like, why would he donate? You know, and all
white people supposed to be racist, Like, why are you donating to a
black call? That makes no sense to me or whatever. But that's where
I started flipping, and I began having conversations with the guy, and I'm
like, we're not really in disagreement. Yeah, but that's what I was
taught, you know, like watching Facebook and Twitter and all that. So
then I started opening my mind up. And then we getting them invite from
President Trump. I'm like, why is the racist white man inviting these black
children to come to these so but that's where it happened, Yeah, the
racist white man exactly. Yeah, that's where it happened. And ever since
and then you know, we like literally kind of just flip our script on
the race thing, and now it's just regular teaching, you know, and
we've I've never changed anything I was teaching it. I was just only taking
black kids, you know, even though I rarely get like white children or
Hispanic children because we live in a seventy seven percent African American town, you
know. But we've had like one or two white kids and they do fine,
they do fantastic, you know, in the program, but all in
all, they have to interact with these kids. Eventually, you know,
they're not going to always be you know, around black people and things like
that. So they have to learn to interact because everybody acts different. White
people do act different from black people. Sometimes Hispanic people too, like they
all we all have different like ways we maneuver, et cetera. So you
have to learn how to interact with other people. It's it's very important because
you're not going to be, you know, in this bubble, and that's
essentially what you're doing, you know, only keeping them with all the black
stuff and all the blackness, and that's it's putting them in a bubble and
they won't know how to interact with other cultures. Even from me teaching them
wearing suits, they're like, oh, well, that's a white man thing,
you know what the suits are for white people to like you better.
I'm like no, I'm like, it is the garment of the American culture.
So if I were to go to Japan, what would I be teaching
them to wear the garment of that culture so that you're respected where you're going.
If we go to Dubai or whatever, we're gonna wear the garment of
the Dubai culture, Like that's where we are. You know. If I'm
going to my neighborhood, I'm gonna wear the garment of my culture. It's
like you're wearing a military uniform, the garment of the culture. You know
what I say, that's where you are. You have to wear a garment
of your culture where you at. So just like when I tell them,
I said, even the way you dress, if you were going to your
neighborhood, you wouldn't go dressed like you're going to a job interview. You're
gonna wear the garment, oh the culture you're going to. You're going to
your neighborhood. You're not going to dress like you're going to a job.
So or the vice versa. I'm not going to dress like I'm going to
my neighborhood when I'm going to a job. And if you I have to
wear the garment of the culture I'm going to. It's not a race thing.
It's not because it's white people. Know, we live in America,
so we wear suits. That's what we do over here, know, like
like it's it's my goodness, you know, but that's that's where we are.
Well, you're changing lives, you're doing amazing work in your own community,
and that of course trickles everywhere. And it's it's such an inspiration to
see you actually decide I'm seeing trouble in my own community, I'm gonna do
something about it. But we know that that takes money, and we know
that you're heavily uh you know, you're reliant on donations, So how can
people support your mission? Absolutely, you can go to the xperboys dot org.
That's th h E x f O R B O y s dot org.
And you can go to our website. We don't just take monetary donations.
We have our Amazon whist lists for people to send us actual items that
we need. People people kill our Amazon whistlests. I'm picking up packages like
every day. That's awesome. Yeah, so people always kill the Amazon whist
list. But also we have waste for people to donate money. Also,
we also got a big cooin. People donate a cryptocurrency all the time.
Okay, so that's been a huge help because bitcoin has been surging right now,
So some of those donations people sitting back like maybe you know, two
hundred dollars, you know previously, it's up to like seven hundred dollars now
because you know, bitcoin grows, you know, so that's a smart way
to give also, But yeah, that's that's how we that's how we make
it happen. People donate and we make everything happen, you know from our
doors. We haven't got any government grants. We will be trying to get
some grants soon with a grant writer, but for the past four or five
years, we haven't got any grants, no, no government funding, none
of that stuff. It's all just people like you guys you know, who
promote us and share what we're doing all the time. That's how we've been
able to make the entire program happen. Well, we wish you so much
success. We hope that takes off and the Bridge is so excited for you.
Yeah, thank you for being with us. We really appreciate having you.
Yeah, yeah, thanks for having me. Absolutely, we'll love to
come back back.