Screen with you and we can get right started. Ok, great. So as always, what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, withfitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And 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 signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the kind of overarching arc of the class. Today, we turn to the 1980s. So the name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories that i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. We will get there to the end of class. I will tell you who said it, but that idea that in another historical moment, the people who became architect
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