Coffee with Scott Adams 2025-10-19

The Simultaneous Sip

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Technology and Art

In case you’re wondering, this is not a new microphone. What it is, as I was going to demonstrate, is a phone holder. So you can put your phone here and then you can show people what you’re looking at with your hands, so your hands are free. Last night, I did an impromptu demonstration of drawing a Dilbert comic with my left hand, because I have to draw left-handed now. I’ve got a problem with my right hand. I just showed my camera as my hands drew the comic. That’s on X right now. I’ll do the same thing for my beloved Locals subscribers; we’ll do that privately later. But if you’d like to see how the drawing looks when you’re the actual artist looking at the paper, it’s kind of cool.

As I said, King Randall will be joining me toward the end of this hour to talk about his boys’ school, which is very impressive. I think you’re going to like that.

Coffee Science

I wonder if there’s any science about coffee. Oh yeah, turns out that according to the nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular disease people, coffee can lower your blood pressure. But it’s the first time I’ve seen one of these coffee stories where they say, “But we don’t have the causation nailed down,” which is exactly what I would have said. Do you think it’s true that people who have high blood pressure drink as much coffee as people who don’t? Isn’t that one of the first things they tell you: drink less coffee if you have high blood pressure? So, I’m not so sure about this science, but I like it.

Reframe: Energy Management

As tradition requires, I’m going to do a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain. It’s the only book I have that is still cooking along at a five-star rating. That’s impressive; it’s hard to get a five-star rating on a book.

Here is one of my favorites. This might be actually the best one of all. There are a handful of these reframes that are truly life-changing, more than others. Here’s one: Manage your time is what most people teach you. Make sure you’ve got enough time; manage your time. I’ve reframed that to: manage your energy.

Now, it does matter what kind of job you have. If you’re being paid by the hour, you’re going to have to manage your time. But the idea here is you want to eventually try to live your life in a way that you can manage your energy. What I mean by that is at this exact time of the day for me—everybody’s different—but for me, this is exactly what I want to be doing this time of day. I want to be doing something creative, maybe something a little bit social in its own way. But if I were not in the mood to do this, it wouldn’t come out very well.

So I match my energy to whatever it is I need to do. At the moment, I can’t work out, but if I could work out, I’d do it in the afternoon because my brain energy is low, but my body energy is fine. In the morning, my brain energy is high, but my body energy is a little lower, so I do the creative stuff. Manage your energy, don’t only manage your time.

Orionid Meteor Shower

Apparently, there’s some big meteor shower tomorrow that we’re all going to see. It’s going to be a good one. It’s always after midnight, of course. For a couple of hours tomorrow, you’ll see the Orionids, some kind of dust left behind by Halley’s Comet. You should see 20 shooting stars per hour. I feel like I’m going to stay up for that—well, I’ll never stay up for it, but I might go to sleep and then wake up for it four hours later.

Did you know that’s how they used to do it in the old days? I saw that on social media. In the olden days, it was common for people to go to sleep when it got dark, but then they’d wake up around midnight and spend an hour or two doing something else, and then they’d go back to sleep. But apparently, people would just all wake up at midnight and hang out in the old days.

The “No Kings” Rally

As you know, yesterday was the so-called “No Kings” rally around the country. Or, as some have tagged it: “Grand-tifa.” Grand-tifa, because they’re all grandparents. Seven million protesters they claim; I’m sure that’s overstated. In 2,700 locations.

So let’s see how they did. Any kings? Well, except for my upcoming guest today, King Randall, no extra kings. Surprisingly. And here’s my question: if you have a “No Kings” rally in 2,700 places with seven million protesters, and the so-called fascist government in charge, the only response to it is two insulting memes? That was it. The entire pushback to seven million people demanding that the Constitution be followed was, “Oh, here’s a funny meme.” Nothing else.

Because you know where you can’t have seven million people running around protesting “No Kings”? Anywhere there’s a king. If you had a king, you’d not be doing that. That’s for sure. You wouldn’t be doing any of that.

And then it got funnier because apparently some decision was made—and I don’t know by whom or why—to hand out lots of American flags. Now, what do you think when you see a big crowd of people with American flags? Don’t you think they’re Republicans? So somehow it was 100% peaceful, which I compliment them on. 100% peaceful, and they were carrying American flags and they were promoting constitutional rights. Am I wrong that they just held a MAGA rally? Flags, peaceful, obey the Constitution. It was a MAGA event, right? Especially because it was senior citizens.

The fact that people got paid for organizing this is hilarious because what exactly did they get paid for? To promote the virtues of the other side? Have you heard of any Republican who was put out or somehow offended or somehow had a big problem with the “No Kings” thing? I have not heard of one Republican who had any problem with it at all, or even cared even cared if it happened. I looked at that and I thought, “Oh, looks like people are getting together over this whole support the Constitution and wave the American flag thing. Maybe that’s a good sign.”

So I don’t know what they thought they would accomplish, but it definitely did not remove Trump from office if that’s what they were hoping for.

DHS and Gavin Newsom

The Department of Homeland Security gets the win for the best post. Somebody brought a giant inflatable penis, like a balloon that was shaped like a penis with a package. The Department of Homeland Security took a picture of that and posted it on X, and the caption was: “Gavin Newsom has shown up to the riot.” I love the fact that the Trump administration is just mocking it, but not even mocking it hard. They’re just sort of gently mocking it. “There you go. Tap, tap, tap on the head. Good boy. Go ahead.” It’s hilarious.

Louvre Crown Jewel Heist

Meanwhile, over at the Louvre in France, robbers actually broke into the Louvre and stole the French crown jewels. Now, if you were the Louvre, wouldn’t you put a little extra security around the French crown jewels? No. Somebody snuck in and stole the crown jewels.

Now, I guess the backstory is there was some kind of work being done on the facility, so that gave them an opening to get in. Ordinarily, it would be more secure, but they got in, they stole the crown jewels, and then somebody dropped the crown that’s the greatest of the crown jewels—Empress Eugenie’s crown—and broke it. Imagine dropping it and breaking it. Like, what would that feel like? You’re like, “Aha! I just broke into the Louvre, I got the crown jewels! Look at me, I got the crown—oh, shit.” Well, we’ll just leave them there.

But I’m also thinking, how many people would have the wherewithal to break into the Louvre but also some place to unload the jewels? What pawn shop takes the French crown jewels? Can you take it to the corner pawn shop and say, “Hey, I found this in my attic”? “Did you now? Did you find that in your attic? Because that looks a little familiar. I’ve been to the Louvre.” “No, no. This isn’t one of those Louvre crowns. This was in the attic. Can you give me a hundred dollars for it?” Anyway, I’m sure they’ll be caught pretty soon.

New Jersey Drones

There’s a New Jersey drone company that says they were behind the drone sightings over the New Jersey airport. Do you believe that? So they were introducing their product and they said, “Yeah, we had an agreement with the government that did not require us to disclose it, so we didn’t.” They’ve got these big 20-foot-long drones that fly kind of funny. They’re trying to tell us that their drones are the ones that were scaring people.

I’m going to say probably not. I am willing to believe that some of the drones were theirs—maybe some, maybe one—but do you think that’s the whole story? Like the whole drone story is that? I’m going to say probably not. But it was a weird-looking drone, I have to admit.

Robot Dogs with Shotguns

Speaking of weird-looking drones, now there’s—according to Interesting Engineering—there’s a new drone, a rocket-launching robot that also has a shotgun. You can now get yourself a grenade-launching, war-ready robot dog. So it’s in the form of a dog. What would be more awesome than a dog that could throw a hand grenade and also had a shotgun? How much do you want the shotgun-hand-grenade dog to guard your house? I just want one. Just one shotgun-hand-grenade dog, and I’ll feel good. That’s all I want.

Walter Cronkite and Epstein

Can you believe that Walter Cronkite once was on the Epstein flights to his island? Walter Cronkite. Did you even know that those eras overlapped? Did you know that Walter Cronkite was even alive when Epstein was taking people to his island? When did Cronkite die? I thought he died a hundred years ago. But apparently, he was alive. He was 91. They dragged his wrinkly ass to Epstein’s island. There is no suggestion that he did anything untoward or inappropriate. So, I think it was just part of Epstein trying to get as many rich people under his wing as possible. At least we think he didn’t do anything.

Epstein and Leon Black

Meanwhile, there’s another story in the New York Post about Epstein. I guess he had this primary billionaire friend aside from the Victoria’s Secret guy. He had another billionaire who was a big backer, Leon Black. And there are now some emails that have been discovered in which he was threatening Leon Black to continue his payments, which apparently were $40 million a year for Epstein’s financial advice, which was unspecified.

Epstein was mad because I think some of his other sources of income had been cleaned up because he’d been accused by then. So he didn’t have too many other major places to get money, it looks like. So he was leaning on his billionaire friend pretty hard. Leaning on him the way that you wouldn’t lean on somebody unless you had some blackmail. Because the way he talked to him didn’t sound exactly like you’d talk to somebody who was a friend or a colleague or just a business interest. It sounded like somebody he made his bitch. So he’s like, “You better give me the $40millioneveryyear."$40 million. That must have been some good advice he got there for that $40 million.

Even called the billionaire’s children retarded because they’d created a “really dangerous mess” by trying to stop the money flow to Epstein. He goes, “To be clear, my terms are as follows: I will only work for the usual 40 million per year.” He won’t work for a penny less than that. You offer Epstein $39 million per year, no way. He will not do it for less than 40. He’s a good negotiator.

Rare Earth Minerals

Anyway, in other news, Australia’s Prime Minister is heading to the U.S., to the White House. I don’t know if that’s today, I think—tomorrow, I guess. Tomorrow. They’re going to talk about rare earth minerals and other stuff.

So I did a little research on Grok, trying to figure out this rare earth mineral situation. So I guess we’ve got 17 rare earth minerals that are sort of the problem ones. And we’ve got a whole bunch of allies, such as Australia and Canada, that do have access to those. But what we don’t know is how much access do they have, how fast it would take them to ramp up. And there’s some thought that Trump’s going to want to buy equity in a bunch of existing rare earth mining enterprises.

To which I say, that seems like the smartest idea, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t the very best way to approach this be to buy an equity stake in as many allied country companies that do rare earth as we can? So we get up on the priority list there. Seems like that would be the obvious. And then our investments would allow them to expand, etc. If that’s where we’re headed—massive equity investments in existing mining operations and refining operations—I would say smart. That looks like exactly what we should be doing.

German Immigration Controversy

Well, the Chancellor Scholz of Germany got in trouble for saying that the cities over in Germany, the cityscapes, are having challenges because of immigration. So what happens to a leader in Germany when they point out the obvious, that immigration is having an impact on the quality of life in the cities? Well, he’s in terrible trouble for even suggesting that immigrants could be causing any problems in Germany. So now he’s being called a racist fascist, you name it, basically everything MAGA has been called. And all the people in Germany heard is that he’s some kind of a horrible immigrant-hating guy, which apparently is nothing like the truth. So good luck, Germany. It looks like the Holocaust destroyed Germany for good; it just took a few decades.

Venezuela is Coup-Proof

Two-thirds of the German public want fewer migrants, and nearly half of them think Europeans are being “replaced.” Can you believe that was ever a debate, the word “replaced”? Because as soon as you use that word, it’s just a fighting word. Why do you need to say “replaced”? You can just observe what it is: more of one type, less of another type. As soon as you use the word “replaced,” then suddenly you’re racist. But we’re all looking at the same thing. Nobody’s arguing about what’s happening. So that’s weird.

Wall Street Journal says that Venezuela is what they call “coup-proof,” meaning that even if the military wanted to do a coup against Maduro, their cartel-loving boss, it would be hard to do because he’s already purged all the anti-Maduro people. A lot of purging going on. I guess the purging and the torturing and the jailing of his enemies was so aggressive that the military is completely cowed. And on top of that—I didn’t know about this so much—but apparently Maduro uses Cuba’s intelligence people for his own power purposes. So he’s got some kind of a tight connection with Cuba’s intel people, and I guess they’re pretty good. So they’re going to keep him in business. So, not so coup-proof. But I don’t think it’s a coup that’s going to take him out of business; I think it will be a bomb. Something tells me that Maduro is going to be exploding pretty soon. I don’t know when.

Gaza Ceasefire

Anyway, let’s talk about that Gaza ceasefire. How many of you thought that Gaza and the IDF would declare a ceasefire and then nobody would break the ceasefire? Is there even one person in the world who thought the ceasefire would hold? No. No. But will it make a difference? I think probably not, because what matters is how many military assets are there in the first place. So if they’ve drawn down the military assets 98% on both sides, yeah, there’ll be some ceasefires broken by the 2% that they have trouble mopping up. So yes, ceasefires will be broken. Yes, there are people on both sides who want the peace to end. Probably won’t. I feel like we’re off to a good enough start, as long as they keep the major military assets out of there, there just won’t be that much to ceasefire over.

Tomahawk Missiles for Ukraine

Apparently Zelensky asked for Tomahawk missiles, and as you know, Trump said, “Not so fast. We’re not going to give you those Tomahawk missiles right away. We’re going to go talk to Russia first,” because then they’ve got something to trade away. They can say, “We’re totally going to give these Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if you don’t talk peace pretty soon.”

Now, I did hear from somebody who seemed to know more than I do about Tomahawk missiles, that they might not be all they’re cracked up to be. Meaning that Russia has the ability to shoot them down, and also that you need some kind of ground launchers that would have to be operated by Americans. So if we put Tomahawks in Ukraine, it would basically just be America going to war with Russia because it would take too long to train the Ukrainians to push the button. How does that work? “We’ll program it for you. We’ll target it for you using our satellites and we’ll program it, but make sure you get a Ukrainian over here to push that button.” Is that what it looks like? Is Russia going to say, “Oh, that looks like totally a war with Ukraine”? Or are they going to say, “Aha, that looks like a lot like a war with the United States”?

Trump’s Ukraine Strategy

So I think Trump is playing it exactly correct by holding out that risk. Russia probably thinks that we could put the ground launchers there if we wanted to. So I would imagine he’s got something to trade away now. And I would imagine in the next few days and weeks, you’re going to see massive more attacks on the energy infrastructure of Russia and vice versa.

So we’ll see. We’ll see if Trump can get this done. My guess would be they’ll have one more conversation, Putin and Trump, and maybe not much will come from it, and then things will have to get much worse again. Because I don’t think we’re at the place where it’s worse enough, do you? Ukraine seems perfectly willing to stick in there and keep fighting, and I don’t see Russia cracking. So you would need at least one of the sides to sort of be on the edge of, “Yeah, maybe this is a bad idea.” But we don’t really see that. We see both sides saying, “Oh, it’s a good idea. For now, it’s a good idea.”

Can Trump change that reality? You know, I told you with Gaza that what Trump did is not negotiate. Negotiating isn’t what made that work. What worked was he changed reality. He just changed how we thought about reality, and then it all came together. He’ll have to do the same thing with Ukraine. I don’t know how he would change reality, but he’s saying stuff like—he is making them think past the sale. So that’s his usual trick. So his usual trick is he’s telling them, “You know you could just walk away. Both sides, you know you could just walk away. Russia, you could just literally turn around and walk away and the war’s over. As long as Ukraine does too.”

That’s actually a super powerful message because you’re taking a rational person, Putin—even if you hate him, he’s a monster, blah blah blah, he’s a monster, he’s the devil, okay—but he’s rational. So he’s not going to just keep beating his head against a wall if there’s nothing on the other side of the wall. So you just say, “Here’s your choices: you can keep doing this forever and we’re in, we’ll keep—because remember, Trump has put the United States in the perfect position. You want us to sell more weapons and test more weapons and get smarter about how well our weapons work in war? All right. Take your time. Nothing’s changing on the battlefield except people dying, and apparently neither side cares too much about that. So go ahead. But anytime you want to, anytime, in ten minutes, you can make the whole thing stop. All you have to do is give the order. Just say stop. If you say stop, I’ll tell Ukraine to stop, and then we’re stopped. It’s over.”

So, I don’t know, is that a negotiation or is that changing reality? The reality is you’re not fighting for anything anymore. Oh, there it is. There it is. Did you feel that when I said it? The reality is neither side is fighting for anything anymore. Mostly Russia. They’re not fighting for anything, because there’s nothing to win. They’re not going to go any further. Telling them they’re fighting for nothing makes you look irrational. I don’t think Putin wants to look irrational, does he? I feel like that would be a strong approach. “You realize you’re fighting for nothing, right? That if we go another six months, what do you think you’re going to get? What do you think you’ll get if you fight for another six months? Nothing. More dead people, less energy security, worse relations with the rest of the world. What do you think you’re going to get in six months? It’s only going to be worse.”

So I think Trump does have an argument that he can press.

New GPS-Independent Missiles

Anyway, this of course is coming—according to Interesting Engineering also—the U.S. is developing missiles that don’t need GPS to find you. They don’t need GPS. So in other words, it would just look at the ground the way a person would and say, “Huh, looks like I’m about a mile away from that place,” and then it will just sort of go to where it needs to go. I guess it can get within 16 feet of whatever they want, and they can make these little flying robots that weight less than five pounds each. Each missile, I call it a flying robot, but it’s a missile. It would be a five-pound missile that can fly over 60 miles an hour and can hit a target within 16 feet without any GPS.

If you were Russia and you found out that we had already on the lab board and were ready to mass-produce these missiles that weigh five pounds, fly 60 miles an hour, and can hit something without being jammed, wouldn’t you hurry up a little bit on the peace deal? Because you don’t want that stuff coming down on you, do you? No, you don’t.

Reframe: Career Strategy

All right, people. I’m going to talk to the Locals people privately because I know you want to. And the rest of you, I’ll see tomorrow, same time, same place. Oh wait, I have one more reframe from my book while we’re waiting for King Randall to join. He’s here now, but I’ll do this one first.

The regular frame is that when you take a job, your job is whatever your boss tells you is a job, right? So you go to work, they say, “What’s my job description? Here’s your job description.” If you take the job description as your job, you will not go far. How many of you already knew that? That if you do the job that you’re given exactly as it’s described, exactly the job description, you will not do well in life. You’re going to have to figure out what it should be, not what it is. So you want to make sure that what you’re doing is better for the company and better for your boss than whatever they told you to do. Now that’s not easy if you’re not smart; it won’t be easy to do. But instead of your job is what your boss tells you it is, here’s a reframe: your job is to get a better job.

How do you get a better job? Usually by doing more than you were asked to do. That’s what flags you for promotion. It’s like, “Oh, Scott did everything we asked him to do, but he created this other project on his own and that worked out.” You’re first in line for the promotion. So never do what your job is; you should do whatever it is that would get you a better job. Now, that might include learning on your current job how to go to a different company and get a better job. But it’s always about you; it’s not about the job. Make sure it’s about you.

Reframe: Boredom

All right, here’s another one. These are a lot of these are my favorites, they really changed my life completely. Have you ever just said to yourself you’re bored with life? Do you ever just wake up and you’re like, “Ugh, I am so bored with life. Oh, it’s just going to be another day like yesterday. Go to work, eat my stupid sandwich, come home, commute, ugh.”

So if you’re bored with life, here’s my reframe: the problem is not boredom; the problem is that you are not embarrassing yourself enough. You’re not embarrassing yourself enough. You need to put yourself in some shaky, iffy situations. Now, not dangerous—it doesn’t have to be dangerous, it doesn’t have to be life-threatening—but for example, King Randall is here, let me just finish my point and then I’ll invite him in. For example, if you have never taken a class on public speaking, most of you would be horrified by it. Public speaking is scary. If you’re bored, do that. Do something scary; it’ll totally take you out of your boredom. If you’re bored, go ask somebody out that you know will say no. Hey, worth a shot, but it’s not boring. So if you’re bored, increase your risk of being embarrassed, and you’ll find it just opens up your whole life. Suddenly you can talk to anybody, you can talk to a stranger, you can ask somebody out, you can ask for that job you think you’ll be turned down for. Just do something that will be embarrassing; it’ll solve your problem immediately and you’ll be happy, probably.

All right, let’s see if I can get King in here. This will be a test of my abilities. Accept, and now in theory—hey, there you are! Can you hear me, King?

Interview with King Randall

King Randall: Hey, how are you?

Scott Adams: I can hear you. Awesome, perfect. So nice to meet you in person. We’ve messaged back and forth and tried to get together a few times, but I had some issues and I apologize for those. But so glad you could join. So let me give you the big picture and then I’ll let you talk to the people, okay?

King Randall: Okay.

Scott Adams: The big picture is you started and run a school for boys in Georgia. Where in Georgia?

King Randall: Albany, Georgia. We’re about two and a half hours south of Atlanta.

Scott Adams: And how many kids in the school?

King Randall: We have 25 right now.

Scott Adams: Now, I’ve been watching your social media for several years, and I always see all Black kids. But I know that you invited a white kid in recently. How’d that go? Did he make it?

King Randall: So, the thing is, here in Albany, we have a 77% African-American population. So usually you’re just going to see mostly Black children. But we’ve had Hispanic children, we’ve had white children before. But I also tell people I can’t make anyone sign up their children. So Eli, his mom signed him up, and he was welcomed in with open arms. The biggest thing for us is just letting people know just about the demographic in Albany. We don’t have a whole lot of white people in Albany, so it’s tough trying to expand the races there.

Scott Adams: Well, one of the things I love about your operation is that everything you do seems smart and not some weird political thing. So you’re not concentrated on race; it just sort of works out that way, which is fine. So here’s what I’ve been most impressed by: I assume the school does all the usual reading and writing stuff, but for what ages?

King Randall: Right now we’ve taken our age groups down to ages 6 through 9. We were doing ages 11 to 17 in our first six years of the program. We changed the age groups because we realized that many children are starting to lose themselves a lot sooner than ages 11 to 17. We have kids who are in third grade, second grade, smoking, talking about sex, or whatever, etc. And so most of those kids, they are just looking for somewhere where it’s cool to do the right thing because when they’re doing the right thing at school or anywhere else, they get picked on or nobody wants to be your friend. So we’ve created a space to where you get rewarded for doing the right thing. You get rewarded for reading, you get rewarded for learning your workshops, you get rewarded for getting good grades and things like that. So that’s what we’ve created and now those children are taking it in. And those children are more willing to stay the right way versus trying to get a child who’s lost themselves and then trying to fix it.

Scott Adams: So there’s a whole bunch that I observe you doing on your social media that is so good. I want to mention all of it. But you have a impressive what I call a “talent stack,” meaning that your specific talents—even being able to do this so well—you’ve got the education, you’ve got the working with the kids, but you also have a whole bunch of skills which you’re teaching the kids, from how to change the oil to how to replace a doorknob, to dinner manners, to all these things. So you’ve got this impressive set of skills that you have, which I think is a role model situation for those kids that’s unbelievable. Just the fact that they can spend time around you and observe somebody building a skill stack that all fits together. Wow. But anyway, the other thing that I love most and I’ve seen you mention this is that you come from a non-victimization mindset.

King Randall: Of course, absolutely. I was taught growing up with my granddads and uncles, we work for everything. And a lot of this stuff that people kind of think of these days, as far as the liberal ideas and things, I was never taught that. I mean, we grew all of our own food in the backyard. We didn’t grow up in the best neighborhood, but everybody in the neighborhood loved each other. I mean, we grew—everybody in the neighborhood grew food. We traded food. We had chickens in our yard. We had dogs, we had rabbits. I mean, we had a whole bunch of animals, but we grew everything we wanted to eat.

If I got home from school—and this is like 2012, 2013 time—if I got home from school and my mom asked us what we wanted to eat, we had to go outside and pick it. We even grew the seasonings. My dad taught me how to paint cars. My stepdad taught me how to build everything. We built our sheds in the backyards, we built our dog houses, we welded, we built our own grills. So when I was growing up, because our whole neighborhood was learning from each other, I thought that other kids just knew this stuff because that’s how I grew up. And so as I became an adult and realized kids don’t know how to fix a car or know how to work on a house or put in a window or paint something, it was tough.

So that was the idea. I started the program out of my house. I was 19 years old. I started the program out of my house, in my dining room, and we went from there. So we grew from just being in my dining room to having the facilities we have now, to having staff, to affecting so many kids. And I’m so glad that our donors have been so helpful to us because we don’t take any government grants. As soon as you start getting the government involved, we can’t teach about God and we can’t teach about these things. And we’re exclusively going to teach Christianity and we’re going to make sure our children aren’t victims. We believe in God and we believe in Jesus, and that’s what we want to make happen. So that’s what we’ve been doing and our donors have made sure that this program has been able to flourish for the last seven years, going on seven years now in January. And I’m grateful to everyone who supports our program.

Scott Adams: The other thing I like about you is that you’re aggressively non-political. You don’t have to be. Somebody commented on your Instagram and said they’d donate $20k if you disassociate yourself from MAGA and Donald Trump. And I’m just like, when have I ever mentioned that? But it just speaks to that side in general because for me to just be teaching boys responsibility and how to work for themselves and how to make honest money and take care of their families and stuff, and you just assume that that’s MAGA, that’s insane. I’m just like, I’ve never said anything like that.

Of course, I was invited to the White House by President Trump back in February for the Black History Month event, and I was explaining to them about that event. I’m like, he was inviting people who were doing work in the Black community. And either you want him to recognize us or you didn’t. I got a lot of flak for going to that event, but like I told them, I’m like, if he wouldn’t have recognized Black people for doing anything, he’d be so terrible. And then we’re stupid for going. I mean, it’s insane. But I don’t listen to those things. Our students were proud. I took them to visit the White House back in, I think it was this March or April I believe, 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 how would they do that? What would be the mechanism?

King Randall: 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 here, we have photos of all of it on our website, like teaching them how to do fencing, plasma cutting, firearms training. Everything is 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 three dollars, one dollar, 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 could 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.

Scott Adams: 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 ten 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. 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, “Did you see what I’ve done with this doorknob?” and then the kids go, “Yes, sir,” right? And they all do, they all do. And when I watch that habit-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.

King Randall: Yep, 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.

Scott Adams: Let me give you a reframe that will help you if they say you’re teaching them to be white. No, you’re teaching them how to deal in a world in which there’s a lot of white people. That’s what you teach is strategy. 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.

King Randall: Absolutely. 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 who are kind of in the middle. But when we teach them how to work with their hands and their moms, they’re finally 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.

Scott Adams: And then you’re also building, terribly important I think, is a network of kids who are like-minded. Like you can’t beat that.

King Randall: Absolutely. It’s like a fraternity. 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 say.

Scott Adams: So there’s a little lesson being formed here. So I saw a maybe slightly racist comment in the comments that suggested you should teach the kids how to say the word “ask,” A-S-K.

King Randall: That is not—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 like 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 or whatever. So that’s just an accent thing. I don’t think we could get away from it.

Scott Adams: Here’s what I would add to that, which is that I would put that under strategy. 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 treat that as a strategy, not a way of talking.

King Randall: 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. My uncles and stuff, they are like cowboys; they’re worse than me. I mean, their country accents are so deep, you’d never understand what they’re saying.

Scott Adams: 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.

King Randall: You have to. I agree.

Scott Adams: What would you like the audience to know that I haven’t mentioned already?

King Randall: I guess for us, I always tell people you can do this same thing where you are. I started what I’m doing right here in a small town of Albany, Georgia, population of 69,000 people. One of the definitely more worse places as far as statistics in the country, but we’re 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 the own your own trash in your neighborhood and just all of those things. You have to want to do it. So if you can 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, 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.

Scott Adams: Those are the most important words ever spoken: I could do more. For everyone. Now, I’m curious. Have you ever heard of my book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big?

King Randall: I have not. No.

Scott Adams: One of the things that fascinates me about you is how compatible your thinking is with mine. It’s almost like we’re the same brain, two people. And that book teaches 14-year-olds and up how to have a system in life as opposed to a goal. A goal might be playing in the NBA, but really a system would be learn as many valuable things as you can to be more valuable. So it’s stuff like that. 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.

King Randall: I’ll send you my PO box, most definitely.

Scott Adams: Anything else you want to tell?

King Randall: 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 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.

Scott Adams: Perfect. You know, I like boosting you because I have 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 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 boost. And thank you for taking the time; it was a real pleasure to meet you in person, sort of.

King Randall: Yep, I’ll make my way out there most definitely. You just let me know when you free.

Scott Adams: All right, thanks, King. I’m going to say goodbye to everybody here. You’ve been great, appreciate it, and we’ll talk later. Bye.