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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One of the ways that in politics, programs are
actually killed is that youdon't say we don't want this
program anymore.
What you do is you just cut thefunding.
And so when you haveuniversities that are saying,
listen, we are going to engagein diversity recruitment efforts
, we don't care what the federalgovernment says, then the
(00:22):
federal government can come backand go, you go ahead and do
that, but we're going to cut thefunding.
If you don't have funding to beable to bring these students in
, then what are you recruiting?
Your recruitment efforts aremoot unless the universities
themselves can actually come upwith their own ways of funding
these students, let's take areal quick levity break real
(00:45):
quick.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So I want to really quick update everybody on my
running updates.
Hey yo, alfred, cue this videoyo.
So I was in Houston so I'mgetting coached, so you know
everybody who's listening.
I'm trying to start runningagain, basically.
So my goal is I want to run a5K in under 20 minutes
Eventually.
I want to get to that pointRight, and it's going to take a
(01:08):
lot of work.
So I have a college friend whois my.
I basically hired her as mycoach, so shout out to Jen Reed.
So she's been sending meworkouts where now I'm combining
my workouts with myweightlifting workouts because I
want to be able to bench 250pounds and I want to be able to
get that goal of how many poundsyou had now.
(01:29):
I don't know, I don't know and Idon't know if I'm gonna keep
benching because my shouldersjacked up.
So this is like the right timeto like really incorporate
running into my working out thatMRI.
You know the orthopedicsurgeons listening right now.
I got this pain like if you'rewatching on youtube.
I got this pain right here,like when I do this and I do
this, do I have them here?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
they come with the hammers you got.
What with the hammers?
What you got?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
and shit.
You know my shoulder just, isthat the right way?
Shoulder and shoulder, and thisjoint ain't jointing, you know,
and it's just costing me pain,this joint ain't jumping.
But so she made me do so.
She was like, listen, I canwrite workouts for you, but in
(02:16):
order for me to start, likebecause you can't just run like
miles and then you're going tobe able to break 20 minutes,
like, you got to be able tostart doing tempo runs which are
like you know you're runningfast but you're not like
sprinting or you're not likerace pace, and you got to be
able to do intervals which arelike almost at race pace, and
then you stop and then you getlike 60 seconds and you go back
in Like I can't give you the.
She was like I can't give youthe times if I don't know how
fast.
You are Right.
So remember, like a coupleweeks ago, I tried that two mile
(02:38):
run.
I couldn't even finish a milebecause I went out too fast.
So the video that I'm askingAlfred to put up is that's the
video I just did, where I did atime trial in Houston before the
wedding.
I did a two mile time trial and, boy, dr Renee.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You was huffing and puffing, yo.
Anybody listening in that gymwould have thought the hell's
going on in that gym.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yo, Alfred, you got to play the last like two
seconds With the audio.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
With the audio oh.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh, oh, oh, it was.
It sounded like everythingexcept running in there and I'm
sharing this with y'all becauseI love you guys and I know
someone's like someone's havinga good time in that gym.
Renee's jealous.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Of the treadmill.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I can't make him work like this.
You know, I think that I thinkthat you know, know, for me, I
just wanted to share thisbecause it's gonna take a lot of
work.
This is gonna take me at leastsix months to get to this point
maybe even longer, and um, butI'm you think it'll take six
(04:11):
months, yeah, I think.
So I'm super excited about it.
I'm super excited, okay, yeah, Ijust want people to know like
that's a big update for mebecause, um, you know, like I
think a big update for mebecause, um, you know, like I
think a lot of times, like meand you, we don't really share,
like personally, like what we'regoing after, like we talk about
these student loan bills and wetalk about locums and all that
stuff.
So sometimes I like to sharelike all right, like like I'm
(04:32):
really going after this, becauseat this point, right now, I
don't feel like I'm at my bestshape aerobically and running
wise, but I do feel like,overall, I'm in the best shape
I've been since, even beforecollege, you know, and for me,
like this is a goal that'sreally important to me because,
you know, being able to bench250 pounds which I'm probably
gonna have to do something else,whether I'm squatting or what
(04:54):
have you and then being able torun still shows that, like I
have, like this overall fitnessthat I really, you know, I
really is important to me.
So you know this is something Iwanted to share.
So okay, so after you, but it'ssomething I want to share.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
After.
So, but after you hit 5K.
Like I know, you're on the 5Kmindset right now.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Don't, even Renee Don't.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But is there?
I'm asking, it's not happening.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You don't even know what I'm asking I know what
you're going to ask me I'm goingdown.
What am I asking?
I'm not going up.
I'm not going up.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So you're asking me what?
I don't even know what I'mgoing to ask you.
I know exactly.
I'm not doing no marathons.
I'm not doing no 10 Ks.
Listen, like I barely like togo run on it on the road, like
I'm a track guy, I'm a sprinter,like I'm a long sprinter.
I don't like distance, I liketo race, and that's the other
thing.
Guys, I'm not like one of thoseguys who there and be like, oh,
I just want to run it's abeautiful day today and just
(05:58):
smell.
I don't want to deal with anyof that stuff.
You don't want to smell theroses?
Nah, I want to compete, I wantto beat people.
That's just.
That's what drives me.
That's why I need a competition.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right, but can't you beat people in a 10K Hell?
No, I don't want to do thatshit, man.
I get bored Like what Six.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Hey yo listen for all my folks who are listening
right now, who are on Pelotons.
I don't know how y'all do it,renee.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I thought you said you wanted to start biking.
Hell, no.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Nope, I only want to bike with the kids and the seat
on a bike, on a mountain bike,is way different than the seat
on the Pelotons and you knowthose.
Nah, I can't do it.
What it does to the familydrills afterwards, none of them
ever told me.
Sometimes, like my coach backin the day would be like hey,
get on the bike and do x, y andz and it's just like as soon as
(06:49):
I get up it's like I'm talkinglike three or four octaves
really.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Don't we you falsetto ?
Mariah Carey notes.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Can't do it.
Can't do it.
All right yo, let's jump offthis topic yo, because I just
need to show this.
Let's get back to being serious.
Oh right, yo, let's jump offthis topic yo, because I just
need to show this.
Let's get back to being serious.
Oh my God, nii, let's get backto being serious.
And I definitely didn't bike.
I'm glad I didn't bike when wewere trying to have kids,
because you would have beentight, you would have been mad.
(07:34):
No way, no way that that shitdoes nothing.
It has to do something to yoursperm count.
Fuck that, nah, really, I don'tknow.
I know Love is listening rightnow.
He's like nah.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But he got twins, so it did something good, can't
convince me, man Just spliteverything in half.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Huh.
What's good everyone.
This is Dr Nii Yo.
This is the end of this segment.
I appreciate you for listening,but this ain't the end.
If you want more, go ahead andclick the next button on your
favorite podcast app Listen.
That's next for more banterbetween me and Dr Rene.
That's next for more topics.
That's next for more segmentsListen, did you hit next yet?
Go ahead and click next.
Hit it Next.
One of the ways that in politics, programs are
actually killed is that youdon't say we don't want this
program anymore.
What you do is you just cut thefunding.
And so when you haveuniversities that are saying,
listen, we are going to engagein diversity recruitment efforts
, we don't care what the federalgovernment says, then the
(00:22):
federal government can come backand go, you go ahead and do
that, but we're going to cut thefunding.
If you don't have funding to beable to bring these students in
, then what are you recruiting?
Your recruitment efforts aremoot unless the universities
themselves can actually come upwith their own ways of funding
these students, let's take areal quick levity break real
(00:45):
quick.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
So I want to really quick update everybody on my
running updates.
Hey yo, alfred, cue this videoyo.
So I was in Houston so I'mgetting coached, so you know
everybody who's listening.
I'm trying to start runningagain, basically.
So my goal is I want to run a5K in under 20 minutes
Eventually.
I want to get to that pointRight, and it's going to take a
(01:08):
lot of work.
So I have a college friend whois my.
I basically hired her as mycoach, so shout out to Jen Reed.
So she's been sending meworkouts where now I'm combining
my workouts with myweightlifting workouts because I
want to be able to bench 250pounds and I want to be able to
get that goal of how many poundsyou had now.
(01:29):
I don't know, I don't know and Idon't know if I'm gonna keep
benching because my shouldersjacked up.
So this is like the right timeto like really incorporate
running into my working out thatMRI.
You know the orthopedicsurgeons listening right now.
I got this pain like if you'rewatching on youtube.
I got this pain right here,like when I do this and I do
this, do I have them here?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
they come with the hammers you got.
What with the hammers?
What you got?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
and shit.
You know my shoulder just, isthat the right way?
Shoulder and shoulder, and thisjoint ain't jointing, you know,
and it's just costing me pain,this joint ain't jumping.
But so she made me do so.
She was like, listen, I canwrite workouts for you, but in
(02:16):
order for me to start, likebecause you can't just run like
miles and then you're going tobe able to break 20 minutes,
like, you got to be able tostart doing tempo runs which are
like you know you're runningfast but you're not like
sprinting or you're not likerace pace, and you got to be
able to do intervals which arelike almost at race pace, and
then you stop and then you getlike 60 seconds and you go back
in Like I can't give you the.
She was like I can't give youthe times if I don't know how
fast.
You are Right.
So remember, like a coupleweeks ago, I tried that two mile
(02:38):
run.
I couldn't even finish a milebecause I went out too fast.
So the video that I'm askingAlfred to put up is that's the
video I just did, where I did atime trial in Houston before the
wedding.
I did a two mile time trial and, boy, dr Renee.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You was huffing and puffing, yo.
Anybody listening in that gymwould have thought the hell's
going on in that gym.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yo, Alfred, you got to play the last like two
seconds With the audio.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
With the audio oh.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh, oh, oh, it was.
It sounded like everythingexcept running in there and I'm
sharing this with y'all becauseI love you guys and I know
someone's like someone's havinga good time in that gym.
Renee's jealous.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Of the treadmill.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I can't make him work like this.
You know, I think that I thinkthat you know, know, for me, I
just wanted to share thisbecause it's gonna take a lot of
work.
This is gonna take me at leastsix months to get to this point
maybe even longer, and um, butI'm you think it'll take six
(04:11):
months, yeah, I think.
So I'm super excited about it.
I'm super excited, okay, yeah, Ijust want people to know like
that's a big update for mebecause, um, you know, like I
think a big update for mebecause, um, you know, like I
think a lot of times, like meand you, we don't really share,
like personally, like what we'regoing after, like we talk about
these student loan bills and wetalk about locums and all that
stuff.
So sometimes I like to sharelike all right, like like I'm
(04:32):
really going after this, becauseat this point, right now, I
don't feel like I'm at my bestshape aerobically and running
wise, but I do feel like,overall, I'm in the best shape
I've been since, even beforecollege, you know, and for me,
like this is a goal that'sreally important to me because,
you know, being able to bench250 pounds which I'm probably
gonna have to do something else,whether I'm squatting or what
(04:54):
have you and then being able torun still shows that, like I
have, like this overall fitnessthat I really, you know, I
really is important to me.
So you know this is something Iwanted to share.
So okay, so after you, but it'ssomething I want to share.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
After.
So, but after you hit 5K.
Like I know, you're on the 5Kmindset right now.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Don't, even Renee Don't.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But is there?
I'm asking, it's not happening.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You don't even know what I'm asking I know what
you're going to ask me I'm goingdown.
What am I asking?
I'm not going up.
I'm not going up.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So you're asking me what?
I don't even know what I'mgoing to ask you.
I know exactly.
I'm not doing no marathons.
I'm not doing no 10 Ks.
Listen, like I barely like togo run on it on the road, like
I'm a track guy, I'm a sprinter,like I'm a long sprinter.
I don't like distance, I liketo race, and that's the other
thing.
Guys, I'm not like one of thoseguys who there and be like, oh,
I just want to run it's abeautiful day today and just
(05:58):
smell.
I don't want to deal with anyof that stuff.
You don't want to smell theroses?
Nah, I want to compete, I wantto beat people.
That's just.
That's what drives me.
That's why I need a competition.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Right, but can't you beat people in a 10K Hell?
No, I don't want to do thatshit, man.
I get bored Like what Six.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Hey yo listen for all my folks who are listening
right now, who are on Pelotons.
I don't know how y'all do it,renee.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I thought you said you wanted to start biking.
Hell, no.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Nope, I only want to bike with the kids and the seat
on a bike, on a mountain bike,is way different than the seat
on the Pelotons and you knowthose.
Nah, I can't do it.
What it does to the familydrills afterwards, none of them
ever told me.
Sometimes, like my coach backin the day would be like hey,
get on the bike and do x, y andz and it's just like as soon as
(06:49):
I get up it's like I'm talkinglike three or four octaves
really.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Don't we you falsetto ?
Mariah Carey notes.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Can't do it.
Can't do it.
All right yo, let's jump offthis topic yo, because I just
need to show this.
Let's get back to being serious.
Oh right, yo, let's jump offthis topic yo, because I just
need to show this.
Let's get back to being serious.
Oh my God, nii, let's get backto being serious.
And I definitely didn't bike.
I'm glad I didn't bike when wewere trying to have kids,
because you would have beentight, you would have been mad.
(07:34):
No way, no way that that shitdoes nothing.
It has to do something to yoursperm count.
Fuck that, nah, really, I don'tknow.
I know Love is listening rightnow.
He's like nah.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But he got twins, so it did something good, can't
convince me, man Just spliteverything in half.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Huh.
What's good everyone.
This is Dr Nii Yo.
This is the end of this segment.
I appreciate you for listening,but this ain't the end.
If you want more, go ahead andclick the next button on your
favorite podcast app Listen.
That's next for more banterbetween me and Dr Rene.
That's next for more topics.
That's next for more segmentsListen, did you hit next yet?
Go ahead and click next.
Hit it Next.
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