Pinnie For Your Thoughts
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
This week, Kate takes on the topic of P.E. class and snorkels through the obscure political origins of the Presidential Physical Fitness exam, the trauma of locker rooms, public weigh-ins, wearing of never-washed mesh ‘pinnies,’ and the annual dangling of herself and her dignity from a pull-up bar, among other memorable elements of 90s/00s gym class culture that would likely not hold up today. She also talks about her tall girl complex and body image issues and wonders how metrics of athletic prowess influenced her sense of physical identity, then muses about how not being ‘talented and gifted’ likely had similar scholastic implications. Mostly she does things like complain about how traumatizing running the mile was for a good 10 minutes, but not before examining the weirdness of loose gym uniform shorts and the frequency of relying on a peer to hold your feet downwind. Part personal anecdote, part historical research, part crowdsourced, this is a lighthearted nostalgic ep that hopefully allows you to escape these trying times over the long weekend. Enjoy!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. |
| 0:17.2 | This is a show that, you know, all things considered could be also referred to as my favorite event |
| 0:23.6 | of the Presidential Physical Fitness Exam, sit and reach. |
| 0:27.8 | With all this podcast, I do sit here behind of my again, I reach for topics to distract |
| 0:33.7 | us anything during our darkest of days. |
| 0:36.5 | Where we possessed less rights than when we were but middle and high school co-eds and |
| 0:43.9 | matching, unflattering cotton outfits, doubling down on triple rolling our shorts, when |
| 0:51.1 | press a crush as our fingers got crushed in those weird, tiny-ass scooters that when |
| 0:58.6 | it rained, you'd like like crab light games and PE. |
| 1:02.2 | I don't really remember the terms, but it was not a legitimate sport. |
| 1:05.6 | Yesterday, I posed a question about something I thought of during a book writing session |
| 1:11.9 | on Instagram. |
| 1:12.9 | I forget the context of why I was writing about this, but I compared something, start |
| 1:19.0 | to the equivalent of having to wear a gym class penny. |
| 1:22.8 | Often misunderstood as penny, but it's actually a PIN and IE. |
| 1:26.8 | And I hadn't thought about those weird and multicolored mesh, like whole elastic waistband, |
| 1:32.4 | sleeveless, makeshift gym class jerseys that provide team delineation during group |
| 1:37.0 | sports in a long time. |
| 1:39.2 | Those things were gross. |
| 1:40.5 | I remember how they smell. |
| 1:41.5 | I remember their musty essence. |
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