PREZ FIT TEST

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is just yes, it's just didn't take. This is amazing.
This is not political, No, it's not. No, it's all
about you know, it's all about everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
President has revived the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, which is
a test used in public schools that started in nineteen
fifty six and was phased out in twenty thirteen.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Right like you and I were doing. It was right
in its heyday.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Arnold Schwarzenegger was the president or GW. Burners one of
the bushes.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
J H. Full on shame out there, so full on embarrassment.
But you were you were put up against your you know,
you know your fellow students, and you know the strong
survive man, strong, get to the top of the rope.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I am all about getting them kids moving and healthy
habits and off screens.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
But the problem with the Physical Fitness Test is, yes.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
The problem is it ended up shaming these kids to
the point where they they hated any form of exercise, physical.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Exertion exactly exactly. I mean, life is tough enough trying
to fit in. You know, I don't think I had
a piece of muscle on my body, but I had
I had a body the size of a student like
three grades ahead of me.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
The Presidential Physical Fitness Test for like. I'll be honest,
I was fine with it.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I bet I've seen you roll back in the day,
I got to the top of the rope, I rang
the bell. I sucked on the pegboard.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
You suck, though you rang the bell.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
For the rest of us.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Jesus.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
It was a dread It was dreadful and forced unathletic
kids to try and fail to be athletic in front
of their classmates, generally leading to reading.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Here, Yes, he's right, humiliation, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
It made the kids associate exercise with failure instead of
encouraging these kids to reach attainable goals.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yes, now look at me.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Together.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
So there's a lot of shape.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I'm speaking from personal experience. I'm sure you felt great
when you did all that, But there's the pull ups
and the push ups, and you know, I don't even
know if I could get one pull up.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
I remember a paperboy for life. Matthew Willcox, Yeah, I
really struggle. I remember that. So here's a couple of
here's a couple of memories. Someone says, sat and because
sit and reach is part of it, sit and reach.
I sat and reached. I farted.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Ruined fifth grade.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
This guy says he partnered with a girl that he
had a crush on for sit ups.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
She did seventy five. He goes next, he did twenty.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh, his tomato, red in the face, sweating buckets, panting
like a dog in a sauna.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
When she asked him, do.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
You have asthma, which I managed to stammer no, Still.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Not as bad as the fart. The fart is just
killing that kid. Still to this day, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
I'm forty years old, I still refuse to do pull
ups outside the comfort of my own home because of
the embarrassment of doing this damn tests.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Every year in front of everyone.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I mean, at that point everybody had that pullup bar
in their house too, like everybody. But you don't see
that anymore now, no more.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Remember like the girls were like this the guys rip
was like guys had to do?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
The girls was like this was it different? Pull up?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
And a yeah, no, okay, chan up, yeah, chan up right,
that's what it was. Anyway, I don't know why did
the girls get to do that because it was easier.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I don't know what the criteria is going to be
in twenty twenty six, let's say President's Physical Fitness Test,
but I'll tell you the old test required definitely forty
push ups, ten pull ups running a mile under six
and a half minutes.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
And then the shuttle race thing right, shuttle run, Yeah,
dexterity agility.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Peg board for me in my high school and rope
climb also in.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
My high school edgboard the same thing as the rope right,
the same.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Thing headboard is almost impossible.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Impossible, impossible.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
All right, it's back baby.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah. Man, you know what, YouTube's got adults doing it
on YouTube right now. It's kind of fun to go
watch the adults just crushing this presidential physical fitness. Then
I'm gonna text my sons, think about North.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Left the basement since mid July?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Will this be instituted in his age group?

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I hope?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
So good luck, Northea