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Started. So, as always, when we are looking at in this class is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness culture. With working out. Even as the United States is not a particular fifth nation, and even as if anything, in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or a signal of individual virtue and morality, even as the ability to do so and having a quote unquote fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the kind of overarching arc of the class. And today, we torrent turn to the 19 80s. So the name of the lecture today is a quote from one of the oral histories that i have done for the Book Research that i am doing on which this course is based. And it is, i would have been a peach or. We are going to get there towards the end of ....