Yeah.

Well, um, back in the day, [laughs] back in those days, uh, I, I was a, a long jumper, um, and also a sprinter, de- sprinter, and of course I was a high hurdler as well.

And I ran at Crystal Palace about three weeks before the World Junior Championships, and I ran, uh, like a season's best, et cetera, et cetera.

So I was the red-hot favorite to take the, the hurdle title at the, the World Juniors.

But also, I was one of the best long jumpers in the world as well.

So I, I was doubling up really.

And then of course, the little add-on to that is gonna be the relay.

And, you know, how do you train for that?

Can you tell us a little bit about that and

where? And he asked questions and he looked into it and he, you know, he really, really wanted to know what it was, how it was.

And the other side of the family, Ronnie, Uncle Ronnie, never spoke about it at all.

He literally died in silence.

And you realise straight away that if you talk about how you feel, how you are, how you look, we're sitting in the air and it's good that you've mentioned what you said there.

Because...

Again, it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Tell us a bit more on that one.

Uh, and, and then, um, Colin, I'm hoping you can tell us what happened in Michigan's 13th Congressional District.

You saw Donovan McKinney, a s- uh, two-term state representative, take on incumbent, uh, Sri Thanedar, and he ended up winning that vote.

And again, McKinney ran a campaign from the left of Thanedar.

So when you talk about can progressive politics, uh, win in Michigan, um, this is still the same city, the same district that voted mostly for Stevens.

Uh, McKinney was able to unseat Sri Thanedar, who also had benefited from AIPAC money in his career.

And so there's a lot of different factors here.

You know, there have been criticisms ahead of the last campaign that Thanedar hadn't been showing up for his constituents and that, you know, people were having trouble reaching his office.

Uh, tell us about that.

Do you actually have to be able to do these three components that you talked about, Colin, to be able to fight better than them? I mean, that's what the US military would do, but is it really necessary?

Yeah.

No, i-it's a, it's a great question whether it was necessary, and I-- You know, there were a lot of moments and snapshots in the, in the SFA experience where you ask the question, "Ye- you know, yes, this is possible." The example would be the literacy push at US training efforts.

At a certain point, we were adamant that we had to teach illiterate Afghan, uh, recruits how to read and write before we could teach them how to do the fighting.

But of course, the question that everybody raised is, "Well, why can the illiterate Taliban fight, and we need literacy?" In other words, literacy may be a good thing, and there may be a lot of good reasons to do that, but is it necessary? Certainly, the, the, the story we hear from people we talk to, and I've certainly experienced, and I'm sure, uh, Kyle and E.J.

have, is people would say, "Well, the, the advantage that the Afghan security forces or the Afghan security forces and US forces partnered together have are these special ingredients," right? And when you take those away, all of a sudden it's too much of a fair fight.

That was one story I heard.

Um, so did you see any, any success stories that we could potentially learn from?

Yeah.

Um, that's always a goal, is to put on the national team vest.

Uh, you know, hopefully that with her performances, yes, uh, you know, it had been a little back and forth for her during this, this season so far, but that she'll get selected for Commonwealth Games and for the European championships.

That'll be great for her.

Um, jumpstart her, uh, professional career now that she's out of college.

And, uh, yeah, she, I think that she will represent this country on a, a immaculate scale, and, um, just really happy for her.

And it's...

Yeah