One of the ways that in politics, programs are actually killed is that you don't say,

we don't want this program anymore.

What you do is you just cut the funding.

And so when you have universities that are saying, listen, we are going to engage in diversity

recruitment efforts, we don't care what the federal government says, then the federal

government can come back and go, you go ahead and do that. But we're going to cut the funding.

If you don't have funding to be able to bring these students in, then what are you recruiting?

Your recruitment efforts are moot unless the universities themselves can actually come up with their own ways of funding these students.

Let's take a real quick, uh, levity break real quick.

So, um, I want a really quick update everybody on my running updates.

Hey, yo, um, Alfred, cue this video, yeah.

So I was in Houston.

So I'm getting coached. So you know,

everybody who's listening, I'm trying to start running again, basically. So my goal is I want to

run a 5K in under 20 minutes, eventually. I want to get to that point, right? And it's going to take

a lot of work. So I have a college friend who is my, I basically hired her as my coach. So shout out to Jen Reed. So she's been sending me workouts where now I'm combining my workouts with my weightlifting workouts because I want to be able to bench 250 pounds and I want to be able to get that goal of. How many pounds are you at now? I don't know. I don't know. And I don't know if I'm going to keep benching because my shoulder's jacked up. So this is like the right time to like really incorporate running into my working out. You need that MRI. You go. The orthopedic surgeons listening right now. I got this pain. Like if you're watching on YouTube, I got this pain right here. Like, when I do this and I do this, do I have... Here they come with their hammers. You got what? With the hammers. What do you got? Yo, my shoulder just ain't shoulder. Gang. Gang. Is that the right way? Shoulder ain't shouldering. And this joint ain joint in, y'all. And it's just costing me pain. This joint ain't jumping. But, um, so she made me do, so she was like, listen, I can write workouts for you. Um, but in order for me to start, like, because you, you can't just run, like, miles and then you're going to be able to break 20 minutes. Like, you got to be able to start doing tempo runs, which are like, you know, you're running fast, but you're not like sprinting or you're not like race pace. And you got to be able to do intervals, which are like almost at race pace. And then you stop and then you get like 60 seconds and you go back in. Like I can't give you She was like, I can't give you the times if I don't know how fast you are. Right.

So you remember a couple weeks Like, I can't give you the, she was like, I can't give you the times if I don't know how fast you are. Right. So you remember, like, a couple weeks ago, I tried that two-mile run. I couldn't even finish a mile because I went out too fast. So the video that I'm asking Alford to put up is that's the video I just did where I did a time trial in Houston before the wedding. I did a two-mile time trial. And boy, Dr. Renee.

You was huffing and puffing.

Yo.

Anybody listening in that gym would have thought,

what the hell's going on in that gym?

Yo, you got to play the last like two seconds or at least five seconds.

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