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Guess what, Mango? what's that will are we going to do a history lesson i know you love going back in time we're going in 1960

we're talking about john f kennedy now this was just weeks before his inauguration he actually

wrote an article for sports illustratedrated, and the headline was

The Soft American. Now, in this article, he called physical vigor one of the country's most

important resources, and he actually lamented the decline of physical fitness among all of

America's youth. First of all, I didn't know he wrote for magazines. I didn't previously. But I mean, was this like a

splashy way of introducing new health policies or was he just trying to check in on how many chin-ups

every kid could do? I mean, it kind of was. Like he did talk about plans to expand new physical

education programs and schools, which he later did. And that was through

the president's counsel on physical fitness. I don't know if you remember these tests. It was always

the pull-ups that just killed me. I just, I couldn't do it. And so ultimately couldn't get whatever

that ultimate star was when you, when you pass the test. But what JFK was really talking about was the Cold War.

He actually argued that in order to take on the threat of communism, Americans needed to get

stronger. I love it, the idea of doing more push-ups to save democracy. I mean, that's what they're

there for. And it is funny in retrospect to look at all this, but it's also

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