Warm Hearts, Warm Feet: 13-Year-Old Paul Campbell’s Mission to Give Back

In this episode of Stories to Create, we sit down with the remarkable Paul Campbell. At just 13 years old, Paul is already making waves as a philanthropist and the founder of a new nonprofit dedicated to providing socks to those experiencing homelessness.

From his early years braving the Pittsburgh cold to his new life in sunny Naples, Florida, Paul shares his unique perspective on the world. We dive into:

• The Big Move: Transitioning from PA to FL at age ten, and his take on Public vs. Private school.
• Family & Business: Growing up with his mom, Angela Campbell (owner of Liquivida Wellness Center), and the daily fun they share.
• Passions: Why he’s a die-hard Eagles fan and how football fuels his drive.
• The Mission: How his new nonprofit is partnering with local organizations to put socks on the feet of those who need them most.

Tune in for a conversation filled with wisdom, big dreams, and plenty of laughter!

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Yes, yes. Welcome to another episode of Stories to Create podcast. Right here at ES Club. I'm your host, Cornell Bunting. I'm so excited today. For a lot of you guys that's been talking and saying all these stuff about Cordell, when are you gonna bring a Gen Z on the show? Hey, done with now. It's here now. He's here. He's here. So listen, guys. I'm not even gonna spoil it for you guys. This young man is making some major moves already from a very young age, and you guys gonna get to hear about it. Listen, without further ado, help me welcome Paul Campbell, my guy.

SPEAKER_03 0:37

Aye.

SPEAKER_02 0:39

This is so cool. So, first of all, Paul, you gotta tell our listeners, where were you born?

SPEAKER_03 0:46

I was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_02 0:49

Come on. Yo, you were born in the cold, bruv. So you've seen some snow.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

I I've seen things, yes.

SPEAKER_02 0:58

Hey, I I gotta ask you, because you know, kids always love doing this. When it's snow, do you ever go outside and just do like the angel wing thing in the snow?

SPEAKER_03 1:07

It depends. It really just depends. Because if it's like because the gloves, yeah, up there in Pennsylvania, like around, like there's like that little gap, right? It would always get in there and it would always suck terribly. So it just kind of depends.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

You ever you ever make like those snowball and like get in snowball fights? No. No? Not really. Oh my goodness. This is a beautiful thing. I gotta, I gotta say, bruv, it's it's really an honor to have you on the show today because you're doing some things that we're gonna go into just a little bit later in the show. But I wanna have you take the listeners just a little bit on, you know, how was Pittsburgh before you moved to Florida?

SPEAKER_03 1:55

It was it was good. Made some friends. The school was really nice. This school was like really good academically.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

Okay. Well um was there any sports that you were interested in?

SPEAKER_03 2:06

There really wasn't a whole lot to do because half the year was taken up by snow, cold. The other half I really never got into anything specifically because didn't it was very limited time, especially with like summer breaks and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

Okay, for a lot of people I've always been wondering, like, yo, when it gets to like like five, five degrees or maybe lower, do you guys still have to go to school?

SPEAKER_03 2:32

It'll I guess it just depends. Okay if it's like more of like a snow hail thing. Uh-huh. Because if it's like hailing, I didn't which like never happens in Pennsylvania. I've seen hail once in my 13-year life.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

So basically, yeah, it just depends. Because if it's like three feet of snow, no school, but then they would make us do school at home.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

Oh, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

I remember it always sucked. Yeah. I hated it. Yeah. They should just like leave the snow days alone. So annoying.

SPEAKER_02 3:03

Like snow days automatically, no school.

SPEAKER_03 3:06

Yes. Especially if it was on a Friday, bro. If they did that to me, I would lose my mind.

SPEAKER_02 3:13

Oh my goodness. Now let me ask you on what age did you move from Pennsylvania to Florida?

unknown 3:21

I don't know why.

SPEAKER_03 3:28

I think it's like uh like 10? 10? Okay. Okay. Because that was like three years ago, and we're about to be on going on four.

SPEAKER_02 3:36

Okay, so not too long ago. So you s you do have quite a bit of a fond memory of up there. I mean, you're still pretty young, so.

SPEAKER_03 3:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 3:47

Because now you guys know he's only 13.

SPEAKER_03 3:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:51

For all you guys. But, bro, so you've been doing this entrepreneur thing.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

No.

SPEAKER_02 3:58

Nothing about correct me, Paul. Correct me.

SPEAKER_03 4:05

It's it's sort of more like a non-profit sock drive.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:10

Not entrepreneur. The difference between that is non-profits, you don't make any money off of it. Right. And entrepreneurship is you make something. Come on. Almost money off of that.

SPEAKER_02 4:23

Hey, listen, he's standing the correct people. He tightened me up real quick. So, and bruv, facts. That's facts right there. So, right now he's doing the so so what what make you want to even provide socks for individuals?

SPEAKER_03 4:39

Well, I have no clue because six years ago, I was no, seven years ago. Yeah. I was seven, um, not seven, I was six years old.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:49

I had no thought but behind my eyes. The only reason I remember this is because my mom reminds me.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:56

And I remember seeing like just a line of homeless people. So there was really no reason behind it. Yeah. Because I had no thought behind my eyes that entire time.

SPEAKER_02 5:06

Yeah, you just you just saw a bunch of homeless people.

SPEAKER_03 5:08

I was just existing at that point.

SPEAKER_02 5:10

Okay, did you see someone that didn't have no sex on? I don't remember that. That is it. Yo, that is so dope though. Like that you had a heart for those people, like seeing them and just felt like the need to provide something.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

Yeah, I think it was more that it was the signs. Because they had like these signs, and I was like, I told my mom, I'm like, mom, I need money. Yeah. And I'm like, she's like, what you need money for? You're six years old.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:40

And I'm like, look at the the signs. They need they need help.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

And then she's like, uh then we go back and forth about it. Like instead of giving them money, I was suggesting give them food. She said no. So she said that we would do something when we got to Pennsylvania. This was in Hawaii, mind you.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:58

Um we created the sock drive, family and friends type of thing.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:02

You know, couple like maybe like five big boxes every season, but it was really good because I got to help out the people up there. Yeah. And when we came down here, it just took off.

SPEAKER_02 6:13

Wow. Wow. So you've you've helped quite a bit of people down here in Southwest Florida.

SPEAKER_03 6:18

Yes, we've given a lot out. Over the last couple years down here, raised like 13,800 in total over all the years. Come on, come on.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

That is amazing. You know, let me ask you, when you're driving in the car with your mom and you see someone on the side of the road with a sign, you do you ever do you ever talk to any of those people that you see on the side of the road with a s with a sign?

SPEAKER_03 6:53

No. I would I yes, we were walking because we had a hotel we were going back. What did you say? What do you how do you mean that?

SPEAKER_02 7:08

Yeah, like like do you like say, hey, how are you? Like, you know.

SPEAKER_03 7:13

I d uh no I have these ginormous signs that I read off of.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 7:21

You just I was six. I don't think I would I don't think I'd be allowed near them, bro.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

But no, no, I know, but now, like, you know, now at the age of 13, like if you see someone.

SPEAKER_03 7:31

I would if it's a homeless person and I'm at like an event or something, because I do a couple events, I would go talk to them because I've had to do some surveys. Okay. Because there's like forget the people who do this, but the people who do this, they have like these tents with clothing and all that. Yeah. So they do that, and then I'm there. I help give out, hand out the stuff. Right. I also helped with surveys this year specifically because I don't think last year I knew what the survey was or what a survey was.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Right.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

So yeah, it we I talk to them, but like not like if I'm walking by someone.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 8:07

Not just gonna take my socks off and give them to them.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

Yeah, yeah. They have to be new. Don't don't come up to Paul asking him to take his socks off and give it to you. It's not gonna happen. He needs his socks too.

SPEAKER_03 8:22

I mean, I don't need my socks, but here's the thing it's probably not very sanitary.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

This is true. This is true, this is true.

SPEAKER_03 8:31

I would highly recommend not taking someone else's socks. Right. That is disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

This is true. Now, when you moved to here, to Florida, was was it did you adjust well like in the school here where you had friends and stuff like that? No. No?

SPEAKER_03 8:47

No. Why not? What happened? I went to Oak Ridge, okay, and it was a public school. Okay, it was a terrible school. Ooh. And it just was not for me.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

Okay, but listen, it's okay because listen, I know there's a lot of, you know, young kids right now that's going through that that said, yo, we don't like public school. We re you would you rather like do like homeschool or homeschooling?

SPEAKER_03 9:20

It's like been a a thought, but like it's it's kind of just there. I mean, it'll be like maybe like one day. Okay, but like not now. Because I like making friends in schools, especially like new schools.

SPEAKER_04 9:34

Right.

SPEAKER_03 9:34

Because I literally just went to Seton like two years ago. So I moved there seventh grade, I'm in eighth grade, right?

SPEAKER_02 9:42

Now you liking it?

SPEAKER_03 9:46

It's the big better than Oak Ridge.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

Better than Oakrage. Okay. What's your favorite subject right now?

SPEAKER_03 9:52

Uh probably like I don't know, like English. My mom's a math person, so that's probably where I get it from.

SPEAKER_02 10:00

Okay, okay. So you're pretty good at formulas.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

Sometimes. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:08

I hear you. So, okay, you're wearing the Eagles jersey. Eagles fans, I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_03 10:14

Yeah, um, Pennsylvania. Steelers suck. Cannot. I I don't know what to do with them at this point. So there's also another Pennsylvania team.

SPEAKER_02 10:23

Right, yeah. This is true.

SPEAKER_03 10:25

So also, I didn't I didn't like put I didn't I put this on by accident.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

So what was that? Yeah, I know, I know. My goodness. So just so you know, Steelers was uh was a club of mine. Because I liked what's the tall guy? What's the what's the quarterback that they used to have?

SPEAKER_03 10:48

They used to have Ben Ross.

SPEAKER_02 10:50

Ben, yes. I like Ben when when Ben was there, and I like this guy.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

But now the QB room is debatable, so I don't I prefer not to talk about the Steelers anymore. The only thing we have is TJ Watt, that's all we have. That's it, yeah. I mean, and DK, but he's washed.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:08

He's almost washed, but he's he's getting there.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

He's getting there. Let me ask you. When the Eagles won the Super Bowl, where were you?

SPEAKER_03 11:15

At the Super Bowl. Come on, for real? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 11:19

Wow, that is dope, bro.

SPEAKER_03 11:21

My mom has been a Chiefs fan. She wanted to see them three Pete, right? So we went the last two years.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 11:27

Uh, we went to the one in the Vegas, in Vegas.

SPEAKER_01 11:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:30

I've never seen more gambling in my entire life. I've seen every time we passed a corner, slot machines.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

Uh, I went to the one, where is the where was the first Eagles Chiefs one? I don't remember what stadium it was at. Oh, wait, no. It was the that one was in.

SPEAKER_02 11:46

We went to the I'm just seeing San Francisco.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

San Francisco and Chiefs is Vegas. Right, right. The the one that we went to, the where the Eagles blew out the Chiefs, that was in New Orleans.

SPEAKER_01 11:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

And then the the first one that we went to, the first Eagles Chiefs, was in Phoenix.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 12:04

I remember now.

SPEAKER_01 12:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

But they my my mom was like really happy. The first year I rooted for them because I knew no better, because I was like, what, like, ten?

SPEAKER_01 12:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

Nine? I knew no better.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Right.

SPEAKER_03 12:16

And I didn't want to see them three-peat because we Tom Brady's dynasty already left. We don't need another one of those. So I was very I was very excited to watch the Chiefs get absolutely blown up into a stratosphere.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

So who's your favorite player right now? Out of all the players?

SPEAKER_03 12:36

Oh my I don't know. What's what what is all these definitely not a Steelers player?

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Yeah. Not a Steelers player?

SPEAKER_03 12:44

I don't I don't know if they really have a whole lot of players because Aaron Rodgers, washed.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:50

DK Metcalf, he was okay, but he's like not great. I don't know why we got rid of George Pickens, but it seems like he was for the best because he is now he had a spectacular season last season. So maybe it's just the Steelers' incompetence that dragged his numbers down because sports center, you might have to bring him over there. You know, I'm just listening all I'm saying is that their offensive consistency their consistency is in the NFL has been off and on. I don't know what Steelers Black Magic is doing to get them into the playoffs every year, but I don't know what is happening. It's something how did we beat the Ravens this year? I have no clue. Probably because they didn't use Derrick Henry.

SPEAKER_02 13:35

They didn't use Derek Henry.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

If they used Derek Henry, we would have been fried.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

Yeah. You know what? I can agree with that. I can agree. I was upset too, just for the record.

SPEAKER_03 13:43

I'm so glad Mike Tomlin got out of there because Mike Tomlin, great coach, only got us to the playoffs.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

This is true.

SPEAKER_03 13:50

Every year. Also, cannot disregard the fact that the Steelers never had the best weapons. They never did. They had George Pickens.

SPEAKER_02 14:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:06

They had Najee Harris when he was decent. And they had Jalen Warren.

SPEAKER_02 14:13

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

And then they had TJ Watt.

SPEAKER_02 14:15

Wow. Let me ask you, because you know, they say a lot of young kids now go crazy for Taylor Swift.

SPEAKER_03 14:24

No, definitely not. God no.

SPEAKER_04 14:29

Taylor Swift.

SPEAKER_02 14:33

What's the NBA young boy that's you you guys are a big fan of him as well? Like, what who's the young rapper that everyone is going crazy for right now? Who do you listen to?

SPEAKER_03 14:44

I'm going to a three days grace concert and I love their music. Their music is so good.

SPEAKER_02 14:49

Nice.

SPEAKER_03 14:50

They're really cool.

SPEAKER_02 14:52

That's good. That is good.

SPEAKER_03 14:54

I get to go see them in concert tonight. I'm very happy about that.

SPEAKER_02 14:57

Where are you guys headed?

SPEAKER_03 14:59

Clearwater.

SPEAKER_02 15:00

Come on. That's a big drive right there. You go over the Sky Bridge. Have you ever gone over the Sky Bridge before?

SPEAKER_03 15:05

I didn't. I never knew there was a Sky Bridge.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Yeah, to go into uh Clearwater or Sand Pete, whatever you call it.

SPEAKER_03 15:14

I don't know. I've never been to Clearwater.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

This is good. You're gonna be on a nice little drive today.

SPEAKER_03 15:18

Like just a little drive? Really, bro?

SPEAKER_02 15:24

Anything over two hours, that's a big drive, right?

SPEAKER_03 15:27

Not not really.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:28

Because my grandparents have to drive two hours to see them in Pennsylvania. Okay. Not from Florida. That's a 17-hour drive. Right. That's not two hours. Yes. From our house to their house. Right. So I'm kind of used to those longer drives. Right. So it's it's just really cool.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

Okay, so big question right now, because your mom is a business owner. Yes. How is mom like, you know, how how many times do you get to because you seem like you'd try to stare mom sometime and tell mom, hey mom, this is what you need to be doing right now.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

This is what I'm gonna tell you.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:01

I've given her more advice because we've had a friend who's been going through it, right? Been through quite a bit.

SPEAKER_01 16:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

And she didn't know what to do.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:10

So I gave her some advice. So I'm giving I kind of just give her advice when she's losing her mind. Because the other day, she lost the car opener thing.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

She was worried that someone took it, and the Ray Rover was in the garage. So I was like, who is I was like, there'd be no point in them going in there, taking the thing when they already know the code, bro. And we recently changed it, so I don't know what was happening with that.

SPEAKER_02 16:40

You were like, calm down, mom.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

I was like, I was like, come on, it's too early in the morning to be doing this. Let's think rationally.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Okay, okay, all right, okay. Let me ask you, let me ask you. As a business mom, you know, because your mom owns a business. Like, how how are you liking that right now?

SPEAKER_03 17:02

I get to be alone a lot more often because she goes in, works. Okay. Happy about that.

SPEAKER_04 17:15

We gotta pay.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

Let me ask you, you play a lot of video games right now, or what what consume you when you're not doing school right now?

SPEAKER_03 17:23

It kind of just like depends. Cause I got like a bunch of Legos at home.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

I do play video games. I do I have a basketball hoop, so sometimes I go out and shoot some hoops.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:35

Those are like the main three d things that I have done from the past. Because video games, I'm on and off with that.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:42

Like a lot of things I'm on and off with it. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

But I've been on and off with it. Cause I like to I do like to be outside.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

Right.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

It's just I like to do it in the summer in Pennsylvania, because we usually go out there because it's like more like it's not like burning. It's not because Florida's been really cold for some reason.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

Yes, yes, as you guys can see, yes, yes. But you got thick skin, because you know, you rock in shorts and jersey.

SPEAKER_03 18:11

I'm from Pennsylvania, so I would hope I have thick skin. Yeah. But okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Let me ask you, if you go to Legoland.

SPEAKER_03 18:19

I've been there.

SPEAKER_02 18:20

What what object would you create?

SPEAKER_03 18:24

I have no clue. No? I don't know what pieces they have, and also I haven't been there in quite a while.

SPEAKER_02 18:28

Okay, okay, okay. But if you would put on a task to, you know, maybe build a transformer, which one would you build?

SPEAKER_03 18:36

I haven't watched Transformers. What? In like years. Yeah. I got a question for you. Yes. What did you think of this past Super Bowl between the Patriots and the Seahawks?

SPEAKER_02 18:48

You know, I had already had my money on the Seahawks. I felt like the Patriots didn't really have the weapon to Stefan Diggs is Stefan Diggs, you do not exist. Overrated. Overrated.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

And he also is going to go to trial.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Ooh! But let me ask you though. Let me ask you. Because right now, with a lot of what's going on in the schools and stuff, and like how you guys feel about the education system.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

I mean, like it's alright. Yeah. Like it varies from state to state. Like in Pennsylvania, it was really good. In Florida, like we're learning things. It's like it's fine here. That's good. There's definitely worse places to be for education.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:32

Cough, cough.

SPEAKER_02 19:33

Um if you was to go, if you was to go to see like a big cartoon, let's say like these. Actually. Which cartoon is your favorite cartoon?

SPEAKER_03 19:45

I haven't watched cartoons in years.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

See? That's why he's a genius, people. He doesn't do a lot of the things that kids do. I mean, you know, I love SpongeBob. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_03 20:01

Dude. I don't want one word for the Super Bowl this year, and that was field goal.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

Ooh, field goal. That was big.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

They they broke the record, right?

SPEAKER_02 20:09

They did. They did. They did. The kicker is pretty good. Now, so if you was to choose a sport to go into, you know, maybe like more in in high school going into college, what sport would that be?

SPEAKER_03 20:22

I have no clue.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

No?

SPEAKER_03 20:24

It really just like depends on when you get there.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Because then you can kind of just decide what fits in with like your schoolwork schedule, whatever else. You may have a job in high school. Right.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

Now, is the the nonprofit that because you're doing a lot of nonprofit work right now. Is the nonprofit currently op like up and running, or we're working on it.

SPEAKER_03 20:47

I haven't heard much about it yet. But all I know is that my mom's working on making this thing a nonprofit, which is going to help us a lot because Amazon gives discounts for nonprofits. So we would get more socks and other essential items for less.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

I love that.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

And that's really it's really good.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:07

Especially because we've gotten a couple more monetary donations this this year. So we definitely needed to buy more with money. So it would just be good just to get some off, you know.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

I like I like that. Now you have certain areas in Southwest Florida that you target in to bring socks to the people and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 21:27

Yeah. We currently work with St. Matthew's House and the Huggern Homeless Coalition of Collier County. They do it what they want with it.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

I'm pretty sure St. Matthew's House, you know, they have their different families.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

Yeah, they got it like that.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

They have different families, yes, but they also like have the homeless people live in their building. Oh, they're not. They have like it's I don't know what you call that, but it's like a homeless shelter.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

They have, yeah, like a shelter for those. And it isn't Salvation Army, would you Salvation Army?

SPEAKER_03 21:57

We haven't really gotten in contact with them. All we know is that St. Matthew's House and Hunger and Homeless Coalition of Collier County were probably the closest and the easiest to start out with.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

Right.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

The Hunger and Homeless Coalition of Collier County, I don't really know what they do with it, but I'm pretty sure because they take they each take like half.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

So I'm pretty sure the Hunger and Homeless Coalition of Collier County just like takes it, gives it out, or they have their own like homeless shelter of their own for those less fortunate.

SPEAKER_02 22:23

Now, when you finally get the the nonprofit up and running, uh what can people expect from you? What can people expect to see from you?

SPEAKER_03 22:33

Hopefully more. Yeah. Because we can get more for less money and then reinvest that money into more socks. It just makes our life easier.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

I love that. I love that. I love that.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

Especially it makes it easier when people give us really big like donations. Like we we gotten quite a few.

SPEAKER_04 22:50

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

And it helps out because we can get more from that for less. And we've also my mom has gotten more strategic with it 100%.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

Because the last time she just went through and bought things that she thought we would need.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

Right.

SPEAKER_03 23:03

But it didn't work out because we they blew through the money really fast.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 23:09

So now we're a little bit more strategic with the money. And when we're strategic with the discount off, it's gonna make our lives so much easier.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Beautiful. Beautiful. I love that. Now, for people that would love to make donations, you know, how can they reach you? What what does that look like?

SPEAKER_03 23:28

We have a wish list. It's called Paul's footprint. I don't know if it's open right now because we're not current. It is?

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Paul's footprint is open.

SPEAKER_03 23:38

It's open. Yeah, you can donate there.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:41

And we collect a saunch.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Box it up, take it over to St. Matthew's House, where the Hunger and Homeless Coalition and Call Your County people can meet up with the St. Matthew's House people. They we deliver it and it's overall a fun time.

SPEAKER_02 23:53

That's beautiful, man. Like, you know, right now for a lot of, you know, young Gen Z that's watching you, what advice would you give to them? The ones that are like introverts, that are shy? What what would you say to them?

SPEAKER_03 24:08

I mean just like find your passion. Like I found what I wanted to do.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:12

And it's still going so and you're strong. So if you really want to help people and get yourself to not be as introverted as you are, you know, step out of your comfort zone, first of all. Second of all, you gotta find what you want to do. Yes. If it's helping people, you can go into that and keep doing it. That's what I've been doing. I found how to help people since I really wanted to.

SPEAKER_01 24:32

Right.

SPEAKER_03 24:33

And then from there, I just like took off. I had been a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

Love it.

SPEAKER_03 24:40

You'll have fun along the way if this is the thing you really want to do with your life.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

There you go. You guys hear it. Now, rock, paper, scissors.

SPEAKER_03 24:49

What about it?

SPEAKER_02 24:50

Do you like that game?

SPEAKER_03 24:52

It it's it's it's definitely a game.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:56

I mean, I don't know where I'd rank it.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

You play rock, paper, scissors with mom.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

I mean, I I don't not with mob, no. What game you play with mob? We have a couple board games, like I want to play Monopoly at some point.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Dude, you can play Monopoly? You good?

SPEAKER_03 25:16

By no means am I good.

SPEAKER_02 25:18

Okay, so we can we can have a game and I could possibly give you a good weapon, like buy all of your properties. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 25:30

That's a question that will probably never be answered.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

It's a beautiful thing. Now, right now, with like a lot of the gospel music out and gospel music?

SPEAKER_03 25:42

How do we go from rock, paper, sisters to gospel music?

SPEAKER_02 25:45

Listen, we we we random like that. It's a beautiful thing. Do you do you have any gospel music that you like?

SPEAKER_03 25:52

I don't really like. I go to church, my school has a church that we go to every Wednesday. Okay. That's fun. Don't really know the songs. Okay. I don't know the names. I don't know anything about them.

SPEAKER_02 26:06

Listen, when I was younger, I didn't know none of the name of none of the songs either. So totally understand.

SPEAKER_03 26:12

Not young.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

This is true. 13 is not young people.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

My mom says that I'm 13 going on 50. 50? You want to know why? Because I'm really mature from my age. Okay. And I know a lot of vocabulary. I love vocabulary so much.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

Okay, okay, okay. I like that. Throw us your best one.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

Oh god, I gotta reach deep in the back here. Because at some points I'll just pull out random words because why not? They fit.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

Right.

SPEAKER_03 26:44

I don't really know any off the top of my head, but I've heard from people that I sound like I have a vocabulary of like an 18-year-old.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 26:54

When I was in this, there's this thing. Our music director was on maternity leave for our school.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:01

And then we went I went into the Newman play, which is like a high school play.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

And I and there's a couple kids, but it's just because they didn't have like a director here at my school.

SPEAKER_00 27:14

Right.

SPEAKER_03 27:14

So we go there. We go through the practices and stuff for like a couple weeks.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

Probably more than that. I think I think I think I surprised some of the eighth or not eighth graders. What am I talking about? I surprised some of the high schoolers. Some of the well one of them was a senior. I used like some vocab.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:38

And they seemed pretty surprised by it.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

I said something about emotionally non-existent.

SPEAKER_02 27:44

Oh, okay. You did that.

SPEAKER_03 27:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:47

I don't I don't You went there and they're like, yo.

SPEAKER_03 27:51

This was like so this is like like God, it was so far along within the thing though, so it really wasn't early.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Right.

SPEAKER_03 28:00

You know, I I don't want to like make a bad impression as soon as I get there.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

Right, right.

SPEAKER_03 28:05

That that's not a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 28:07

Yeah. That's good.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

But it was it was fun.

SPEAKER_02 28:10

That's good. That's good. So you have you have a squad of you know individuals that you you play with in school that you guys like you think you guys do a good job.

SPEAKER_03 28:21

I have more friends in Pennsylvania than I but here I have like four people, six people? Okay. Not entirely bad.

SPEAKER_02 28:34

That's good. That's that's a good number. Some kids only have one, so it's a beautiful thing. So listen, this this is good. I listen, bruv. I like where you're heading. I like what you're doing with, you know, giving out socks and you know, being that, you know, passionate for helping individuals. If or when you're done with school and the work world is saying, hey, we we want you to bring some of your talent to the work table, would you leave the nonprofit for a little bit to go do that or depends on the situation again.

SPEAKER_03 29:11

Okay. If I like need money, yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

Because it kind of just it always depends on the situation with those kind of situations. Because of course, I will go into the work world because I have to make money.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

Because that is how function. That's just how you live, pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

Yeah, yeah. I like that. I like that.

SPEAKER_03 29:31

So it kind of once again, like if you if I'm like really good off and I'm like investing in stocks and whatever and making some good money, I will run it for as long as I possibly can.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

Right.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

Until I can't run it anymore.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 29:46

Because either A, I have to go into the workforce because I'm like not like I need money, or I have to B on too old to run it, which would be like, I don't know, quite a quite a long way off.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

Well, you've you've you got a ways, ways, ways to go.

SPEAKER_03 30:03

Well, not always. There's some pretty bad drivers here in Florida, I'll tell you that. He knows it too. You know it, he knows it. Everyone and their mother knows it, alright?

SPEAKER_02 30:20

He said it, guy. I didn't say it. He said it. So, but right now.

SPEAKER_03 30:26

Wait, do you usually say that? Do you usually say Florida has bad drivers in these things?

SPEAKER_02 30:31

Not necessarily. That's okay. You know, it's listen, Dave.

SPEAKER_03 30:36

I got him there, boys. I got him there.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

We made no promises, people. See, I'm rocking I'm rocking Mickey Mouse soxes too. Just saying.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

I've never noticed that. It's wild.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

It's wild. Let me ask you, because you know there's a grown, you're like a grown child. This is true. Full grown. Full grown. Now, like with a lot of events that's going on in in like Naples area and stuff like that. What what one event do you like going to or look forward to possibly going to?

SPEAKER_03 31:17

I like going to, I don't know if you've ever heard of Patrick Dearborn. I Yes. Yeah, you've been of course you know who he is. I I like his uh his Monday events where they have people go up on like a podcast and see the table.

SPEAKER_02 31:31

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 31:32

I I like those events because they give you pretty good advice if you're Republican.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:37

They probably don't welcome Democrats there, but okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

Yeah, well, they do, you know, because we want to turn it. But let me, I gotta tell you guys. Hey, Pat, you welcome, man. That was a plug. I didn't even have to do that plug right there. You got a plug without even getting a plug. That was beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 31:53

But I I like his events because you get really good advice. Yeah. One advice that I I remember clearly is always have a gun. Oh. That's one of the only ones that I remember.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

Hey, hey. That one we don't we won't advise that. We won't encourage that too much, okay?

SPEAKER_03 32:16

But you don't advise that, but it just depends on the situation. This is true, okay?

SPEAKER_02 32:20

It depends on the situation, you know what I'm saying? And you you have fun, you know. It's always like you can always tell someone, hey, it's all love over here. Yeah?

SPEAKER_03 32:29

This is so fun. I don't I don't know what I expected with this podcast, but I didn't expect it to be this.

SPEAKER_02 32:39

He's a writer.

SPEAKER_03 32:40

I like this guy. This guy's fun.

SPEAKER_02 32:42

Thank you. You're a cool dude as well, man. I like this. So in the next two years, what are you looking to accomplish? Survive. I like it. Your next, your when when you get a chance to pick up all of the Legos that you currently have, what's the next object you feel you might create?

SPEAKER_03 33:10

I don't know. There's a lot of objects. Like there's no, like there's really no end with Lego. But I mean, I recently got a 3D printer. I want to learn how to use that. So I could create with that and uh in the Lego, so that's gonna be really cool.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

Beautiful. Let me ask you, because I saw this video the other day where a guy he took hours to build this like Star Wars ship, and he was a big fan of the. What did it look like? I can probably tell you what it is. One of those jets. I can't but anyways, he brung it to the guy that he made it for, and the guy fumbled it and dropped it, and it and it disintegrated. What would you do if you were you were the one that put in all that time and then that happened?

SPEAKER_03 33:57

I don't know. Because I don't, I don't like I like if it I mean I don't really care.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

It's his it's his Well, yes, it's his problem now. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:10

It's your problem now, buddy. That's what I'm gonna say.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

You got it done. It's a beautiful thing. Bro, this was so dope, bruh. This is so dope to have you on the show today. You're so cool.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

I hope so.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

Oh, definitely. Listen, and I know you guys, you got people loving you over here. You guys are not gonna disappear. Obviously, you love them. Oh, definitely, definitely.

SPEAKER_03 34:32

How many people are on that TikTok live?

SPEAKER_02 34:33

I have no idea right now.

SPEAKER_03 34:35

I have glasses, I cannot see. I'm still legally blind. Hey, these don't help me. They help me a little bit. They help me a little bit. I can't really read anything without my glasses, but even when I put them on, still can't read anything.

SPEAKER_02 34:53

So if you go to like one of those parks where they have the go-kart thing, you don't drive it then.

SPEAKER_03 34:58

How do you drive it? I don't really go to go-kart places.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

No, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:02

I'm more of like um I'm more of like a I I prefer to go to top golf because I don't I don't feel like getting a concussion today. So There you go.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

I like that. So you you you do a lot of swinging. You pretend to be a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 35:13

I mean it just depends on the safety precautions again, on the situation.

SPEAKER_02 35:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 35:17

A lot of things in life depend on the situation.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

You hear it, guys. Listen, I like that. That's beautiful advice right there.

SPEAKER_03 35:24

I I gotta say, what are you shaking your head for?

SPEAKER_02 35:27

It is good stuff. Listen, brother, I can agree with you. Now, in in closing, because we're in the closing, you know, area.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

Closing stages.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

Yes, yes. For you know, the young people that are so excited to see you right now, talking to them.

SPEAKER_03 35:44

They have no idea who I am.

SPEAKER_02 35:53

I love it, I love it. This what would you say to them if they say, you know, I don't feel like I'm gonna be able to accomplish my dream? What would you say to them?

SPEAKER_03 36:02

A, that's untrue, because I always I've always learned this. If you put your mind to something, you will figure it out. No matter no matter your skill set, as long as you find something that you enjoy and are willing to put all your time and effort into.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 36:19

And it's like a livable thing for you, that you can like live and like comfortably, right? At least comfortably, hopefully. If you can live off of it, yeah, that's good enough.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Come on.

SPEAKER_03 36:29

Why are this?

SPEAKER_02 36:31

I love it. I love it. Good. Hey, beautiful advice, beautiful advice. Hey, you guys are welcome. I know, bruv, you're getting loves over there. It's a beautiful thing. It's this is good. Listen, guys, you guys are welcome. Guys are entertained today. This was beautiful. And I hope they were entertained. Oh, definitely. Big Eagles fan.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

I got up too early for this.

SPEAKER_02 36:55

How early did you get up this morning?

SPEAKER_03 36:58

I was supposed to get up at 7:30. Okay. Slept really terribly.

SPEAKER_00 37:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 37:02

3:15.

SPEAKER_00 37:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 37:04

Four hours of binging shark tank. And then getting up and not doing anything.

SPEAKER_02 37:15

This is good. This is good. Well, you're here now. So maybe you'll take some, get some sleep on your drive to Clearwater.

SPEAKER_03 37:22

I'm not taking a nap.

SPEAKER_02 37:23

No?

SPEAKER_03 37:24

I got to take it. There's there's one thing that I hate is that napping feels like I'm losing my time in life. Okay? I don't want that to happen. I want to be conscious for as long as humanly possible.

SPEAKER_02 37:41

Just so you guys know, napping is okay, okay? At least get 78 hours.

SPEAKER_03 37:46

I don't know if I got four.

unknown 37:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 37:50

I went to bed at 10. You went to bed at 10? I got three hours of sleep.

SPEAKER_02 38:00

He's full of energy. This is amazing. This is beautiful. Listen, listen, bruv. This was so dope to have you on the show. We're gonna have some some kids that's gonna be coming on the show one of these times. That's very opinionating. And we're gonna bring you in with those kids, bruh. Because this is dope. And you're the first Gen Z on the show. American. American Gen Z. Listen, it's a beautiful thing. Bruv, I'm really excited you came on the show today.

unknown 38:27

Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 38:28

I I want to come back. Oh, definitely. I had a lot of fun with this. I expect because some of the other ones I expected like just straight conversation about song trying to this one was so fun and all over the place.

SPEAKER_02 38:41

Beautiful. I love it. Love it. This is good. Thank you. Thank you. So listen, guys, there you have it. Until we have another decorative guest right here at ES Club. I want to thank you guys for joining me today.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Bye bye.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

Yes. This was beautiful.