RADIOMarch 08, 2022

How ‘foolish’ next steps with Russia could COLLAPSE America

Many Americans — including influential politicians — are calling for the Biden administration to stop imports of Russian oil. Glenn says he supports that initiative IF America is drilling for oil at home to replace it. Unfortunately, though, our elected leaders currently are seeking oil from Iran and Venezuela instead. The only way this would make sense, Glenn explains, is if our leaders truly want to destroy America. They’re being foolish, not looking at next steps to come, and it could be enough to collapse the U.S...

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GLENN: Hello, you sick, twisted freak. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. What you're seeing happen over in Russia, is -- is the Great Reset.

And people may cheer for it. And say, look, they can't even watch the opening of Batman this weekend.

Yeah.

But this has never happened before, in history. And it's not because, you know, the Biden administration cobbled all these people together.

This is The Great Reset.

This is all of these companies, deciding, that they want to have a high ESG score.

And so that's what they're doing.

And they are collapsing the economy, of Russia.

Unfortunately, because we are foolish, and we don't -- we don't look beyond the next step, we are collapsing ourself, as well.

We cannot cut off Russian oil, without us opening up our own not oil reserves. Open our own oil production.

We could provide the world with the energy, that it needs, or a good portion of it.

But we won't do it, because of global warming. So we're going to these crazy places.

STU: And their excuse for it, basically. If you will take the best face of the administration.

Their position of it, is we're going to Iran. We're going to Venezuela. Because we want to limit the damage, of whatever is going to happen in Russia. So we need more production. And the reason we don't open it up, here, is because we don't want this to be a long-term play for more fossil fuel use.

We want this to be a short-term price control, on the market. Where we can help the market, in this -- in this short time, when this war is going on, and we have all these disruptions. But we don't want to depend for a long time on fossil fuels, because we think the existential threat of all of our civilizations is global warming.

GLENN: It doesn't make sense because you would go to fossil fuels from Russia, which is oil is dirtier than ours and has much worse effect on the climate, as you're refining it.

It wouldn't make sense, that you would go to Iran.

And Venezuela.

Why would you go? Because now your social justice goes off the charts.

You're going to go fund a country, that is -- throws homosexuals off the roofs of buildings?

You're going to go to a socialist country, that is starving its people, while its leader gets rich?

I don't think that's a good idea.

STU: No.

But I think their position on that is, it's temporary.

We're not going --

GLENN: Yeah. Temporarily helping any of thinker people.

STU: Oh. I'm with you on this, by the way.

GLENN: I know. I know. But temporarily helping people, that are throwing gay people off the roof?

That's what --

STU: Well, it's not like Russia is much better on that topic. We're already buying it from Russia.

GLENN: Yeah. We should contract, not expand.

Just the only thing that makes sense, is if you actually don't want America to succeed. Or you don't believe that anyone is for this. Except a small handful of people.

And so if you give out this ground now, you'll never get it back.

STU: I think that's kind of what it is, right?

At least partially.

GLENN: Yeah. Could be.

STU: They believe -- when they have power like this. Jammed through every green new deal. Lock us in for long-term progress on this.

GLENN: So then that should. You should ask then, are they truly representatives of the people?

STU: Of course not.

GLENN: Right. Right. If you're willing to collapse us, for that.

STU: I mean, if you have this. You have this view of global warming. This apocalyptic you want I can view of global warming. Where you would rather give money to regimes like Iran and Venezuela, that's just completely insane.

And the Elon Musk position is a much more sensible, apocalyptic global warming position, right?

Where you say, all right. We have nuclear power. Which is much, much safer.

It is -- it's the best type of power available, for all of these reasons.

It lasts forever. Basically, it's -- it is completely clean. Emission-free.

All the things, that both sides seem to want. Independents, plus no emissions. I mean, it really does hit the sweet spot there.

And environmentalists have turned against this, for 40, 50 years. It just shows no seriousness.

And now we're in this position, where we have to deal with these regimes. Or we have to violate one of these two signs. Either not be independent. Or about to do forbid, light the planet on fire.

GLENN: Well, the reason why we don't want to buy oil from Russia is, humanitarian reasons. We don't like what he's doing to people?

STU: Sure. That's part of it. That's how they're violating this war. Right?

GLENN: Right. Right.

I know. But we weren't talking about not funding him.

Until he crossed into Ukraine.

STU: Right.

GLENN: So we're all seeing the people in Ukraine, and saying, oh, my gosh. We have to help these people. They want to be free.

Uh-huh. What about the people that marched and were jailed in Cuba. Let's be really clear.

In Iran.

STU: In Venezuela.

GLENN: And in Venezuela.

Why don't we see them?

STU: I think what --

GLENN: You can't. You can't heal one place, by aiding murderers and things in another.

STU: Generally speaking though, the situations you're talking about, are situations in which. And we have very much, by the way, isolated Iran before this.

GLENN: Yeah. Not now.

STU: Now, all of a sudden, we're reversing that.

But their in-country issues, right?

The -- the message being sent to Russia here, in their argument. Their worldview.

Is this is a line you can't cross. I have crossed a line, and we're enforcing a line, and doing with everything we can to enforce a line. And if it means we have to fall back on some other promises and some other things. Then that's what we have to do.

As you know, Glenn. We're only a few months away, from an election in this country. In them the Democrat, if they're facing 8-dollar a gallon gas, they're not going to do well with $2 a gallon gas right now. $8 a gallon gas could be the ultimate wave election, that we haven't seen in a century.

Right?

So it might make the Tea Party election, look like it was nothing, from 2010.

If we're looked at 8-dollar a gallon gas. And inflation through the roof.

That's exactly --

GLENN: This is where some people think, yeah. Well, that's why they'll bring things town quickly.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Because then they'll just cancel elections. If you cancel elections. This will not happen. Well, I can't say that.

STU: You can't say anything can happen anymore.

GLENN: Anything can happen. I just don't see that happening. But I do see a country that is so hungry, that is so freaked out, by everything that is -- that is happening. And the Democrats saying, we'll give you all these free things.

Pass our Build Back Better bill, and we'll give you all these free things.

STU: Do you think that will be effective. We'll oversee this entire thing happening?

GLENN: It might be. It might be.

I mean, otherwise, what -- it's -- well, it's -- it's Putin. It's Putin.

Why? Why would you do this? This makes no sense.

Why would you do this?

Well, it makes sense to somebody. With Putin. Why would you do this?

Your logic doesn't work here. It doesn't make sense. What are you doing?

So your answer is, he's crazy. Or we don't understand what he thinks is rational, okay?

The same thing here, with the Democratic -- the Democratic Party. I mean, I don't know. Why would you do this? Why wouldn't you open up just for nine months, hey, we're opening up just for this.

Why wouldn't you open that up? It would provide relief. It would create jobs.

It would put us back into a position, where we're leading the world, not -- not following.

And I think those reasons are the reasons why they're not doing that. But what is your endgame? I don't know.

How do you win the election, I don't know.

STU: Because there's no way, there's no -- I think they're trying to hopefully minimize the harsh impact of the American people, so they can do not lose -- not only purple districts, but, you know, light blue districts.

GLENN: Where are they minimizing this? Where are you seeing them minimize it?

STU: Going to Iran. Going to Venezuela, to try to lower gas prices enough, so the shock isn't as bad, if we wind up losing Russia.

Because we keep talking about. Well, we might not buy Russian oil. What if they sell it to us?

That's how they're funding the war right now. They will continue to do it, we think for the foreseeable future. What if they decide, you know what, Europe, we're not giving you anything. We see what you're doing on our borders. We see what you're doing in this war. We see you're sending planes in there. We're not selling it to you anymore.

Yes, that would hurt them.

GLENN: Who has whom over the barrel?

STU: They both have each other over it.

GLENN: Yeah. I know.

This is one of the situations that people don't understand. We hope that both sides walk away from the table with the gun pointed at each other, saying, all right. We're not going -- we're not going to mess with each other, right? Right?

Because I can shoot you dead, you can shoot me dead. It's mutually assured destruction. Mad is not just with nuclear missiles, although it is with nuclear missiles in the end.

But, you know, right now, we can both -- and we both are destroying our own economies.

We are engaged, in mad. In madness.

We are destroying ourselves. We're destroying them.

They're destroying themselves.

And us.

It's madness.

Is there anyone that is an adult in the room, that can stand up and go, okay. All right. Okay.

At least in America, if you want to do this, you have to pump your own oil and gas. You must, right now.

Otherwise, sit down. Shut up. Sit down and shut up.

We can't say we are being compassionate, to Ukraine, if we are destroying ourselves.

STU: That doesn't help anybody.

GLENN: Doesn't help anyone in the end. We can't destroy ourselves. And we don't have to.

It's easy. Just turn the pipelines back on. Just open up the spigots, for the natural gas, and the oil to flow. And we can help Europe. We can help our -- we can help ourselves. We can help Ukraine.

And we can cripple Russia.

Isn't that what we want to do? Isn't that what our plan is? Or is our plan to all of us, none of us, have anything? Just wipe everything out.

That doesn't sound like a good plan. But I haven't -- I haven't heard people really -- have you heard people articulate this?

I either hear, you know, Putin is not a bad guy. Or we need to fly our planes in there, and cut off his oil.

STU: Yeah. It's a weird time. Because we are correctly, morally justified in taking a strong position on this. On what has happened. It's been really, really bad.

And Vladimir Putin still is mostly to blame for it.

You know, that's not to say, everyone else in the world is perfect.

But this was an unneeded escalation in our world.

But I don't think that the American people have been told, and had the full conversation, on what sort of ramifications are going to come from this. I still talk to people who are like, I'm not really interested. It's way over there.

GLENN: Yeah. Not so much.

STU: It will affect us in a major way. It obviously already is at the pumps. That's the first sign though. If this thing goes on.

Vladimir Putin is not the type of guy who will say, yeah. You guys ruined our economy. Let me go back to our own borders. You know what, take Crimea back too.

That may be too much of an overreach for us. He's not that kind of guy. He won't back up. And say, this was a mistake. I'm sorry.

GLENN: Here's the reason why Donald Trump didn't say anything about Putin, while they were together. Okay?

And Putin didn't say anything bad about Trump. Because Trump told me, I had a deal, you don't embarrass me. I won't embarrass you.

Now, that's not just beyond policy. It's just, don't you dare target me, personally. Or I will target you personally in the war of words. You know.

STU: Yeah. And people forget Trump's policies, not words. But policies on Russia very strong. Much stronger than Obama's or Bidens.

GLENN: Right.

And he also said to Putin, you take Ukraine. Those beautiful onion domes there in Moscow. I blow those up.

STU: The gold turrets, they're going down.

GLENN: Yeah. And that is important, in a guy, like Vladimir Putin.

You have to speak his language. Or he does not respect you.

Exposing the dangerous roots of queer theory

In this explosive conversation, Glenn Beck and Liz Wheeler expose the disturbing roots of gender ideology and queer theory — and how these radical ideas are directly targeting children. From the shocking origins of queer theory, where pedophilia and child pornography were openly defended, to Planned Parenthood’s new role as one of the largest distributors of transgender hormone therapy, the truth is undeniable: this movement is not about freedom or equality, but about dismantling families, corrupting innocence, and profiting off of our children’s pain. What we are witnessing is nothing less than a satanic ideology dressed up as compassion — and it’s spreading like wildfire through schools, culture, and medicine. Parents, you need to hear this. The time to protect your children and fight back is NOW.

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Glenn's "secret" to conquering the JFK fitness test

President Trump recently signed an executive order to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test and the media is in a frenzy. But Glenn and Stu look back at the history of these tests, including JFK’s version of the Test that seems IMPOSSIBLE for modern Americans. But Glenn has a secret reason for why he’s confident in his pull-up abilities…

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GLENN: What is the -- what is the new physical -- the president's physical fitness, you know, plan?

STU: Well, the thing that RFK Jr and Hegseth were rolling out the other day. I don't know if it was the full test or anything, but they were issuing a challenge to America, to be able to do 100 pushups and 50 pullups within five minutes.

GLENN: That's crazy.

STU: Thank you! That struck you as also crazy.

I don't think there's ever been a time in my life, that I could do that. Let alone now with shoulder problems. And much too much weight.

GLENN: All right. But that was before I needed this walker.

STU: I don't think there was a time in my 20s or my teens, that I could do that. But that -- in five minutes? Fifty pullups?
GLENN: Both of them in 5 minutes.
STU: Yeah, both of them. So it's not like 100 pushups in five minutes. It's both tasks within five minutes.

GLENN: No. No. That's not true.

STU: RFK Jr. is just doing it in jeans.

GLENN: Yeah, well, RFK, he's -- he's a weirdo. I mean, he is. Come on. When it comes to fitness, he's a weirdo.
STU: Yes.
GLENN: I mean, he's done this his whole life. He's like 800 years old. He can still do it.

STU: Yes. Depressive, I will say.

GLENN: I don't know. He's a sex machine.

STU: Oh. That's been a problem for him. Yes, that's been an issue in his life. Yes.

GLENN: Okay. All right. Go ahead.

STU: Separate from the president's physical fitness test.

GLENN: Right.

STU: But, I mean, they don't, they don't really think we're going to do that, right?
Like, I mean, how long would that take you to do?

STU: I think for me, it would take a good month. I think a month, I could probably get two pullups a day. That would get me around, a little over 50. So I could do that. Plus, the pushups. A solid month, I could get that done.

GLENN: You could do more than two a day. You could do more than two a day.

STU: You know, Glenn, I've got to say. I think -- I will throw a number out there. No science behind this, so just as a guestimate.

I would say 40 percent of the population can't do any pullups. Maybe 30 percent. Thirty percent of the population can do exactly zero pullups. Precisely zero, so an infinite amount of time would be a correct answer for a third of the population.

GLENN: I think you're -- I think you're being -- I think you're being a little too optimistic. I think it's closer to 40 or 50. I think it's closer to 40 or 50. Maybe 60 percent.

STU: Right! Pushups are one thing. I mean, I think almost anyone can do a pushup. One --

GLENN: You can do a pushup. Yes. Yes.

STU: Singular pushup. And if you can do one, you can wait long enough, to do a second one.
And at some point, the hundred gets done. That's not the case with pullups. Pullups, you can sit there and think about how much you want to do a pullup for a really long time. But that doesn't make a pullup happen. If you've got a certain amount of weight on you. You're not doing a pullup. It's not occurring.

GLENN: I have no idea, how many pullups I can do.

STU: I have an exact number of pullups, you can do.

GLENN: Do you? You think so?

STU: Yeah. Yeah. I have the exact number. I have to calculate -- AI has been running a report on me. It came up with zero.

GLENN: Right. Right. Really?
I can do. I mean, this is so pathetic. Listen to this. I bet I could do three. You know, you could do three.

STU: In a row? Proper form.

GLENN: What do you mean in a row?

STU: I mean, holding on to the bar, without letting go, you're doing three. There's no way. I don't think so.

GLENN: I think I could do. Well, with proper form, I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

STU: I'm not saying it has to look pretty. You have to get your chin up above the bar. It can't be one of those things, where you're a quarter of the way up there.

GLENN: So I can do one and rest for ten minutes. I could do another one.

I think I can do that.

STU: If you -- I'm not saying, you jump up, and you pull yourself up as you're pulling up. Full hang --

GLENN: See, you may not know this.

But you know what, I've done the DNA test. Have you ever done the DNA test that tells you all about your genes and everything else? Mine came back with something remarkable, and I have to share. You might feel bad, next.
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STU: Coming up next, Glenn attempts live pullups on the air. Stay tuned!
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GLENN: You know no idea what who you're dealing with. No. You don't have any idea who you're dealing with here.

I got my DNA test back like 10 years ago. And we all -- we all took it, because we were looking for things. And so we all took it. My DNA test came back, and everybody in the family, their test made total sense. Like, oh, yeah. That makes...

Then we read mine. We have to find -- I have to find. See if Tania has it still. We should have had it framed. I swear to you, they -- they mixed me up with somebody else.

Somebody else is like, wait a minute. I'm this pathetic? Mine came out and said, you have the muscular structure of a -- of a -- something like a -- an elite athlete. You have the abilities and agility and everything else of an elite athlete. And I'm like, there's not a chance. I don't have any of that!

I don't even know if I have muscles. I have to check once in a while, and go, do I have muscles still?

Doctor is like, I don't know. Can I? Ask just press against my hand on the leg. I don't know.

You know, I don't know how to do that exactly. So --

STU: You sure it said elite athlete and not elephant? I mean, if they misspelled it.

GLENN: It was.

I was having eye problems at the time.

STU: No!

GLENN: I mean, we read it. And I was like Tania, I believe that for Tania.

Maybe they switched me and Tania. Because Tania is really strong. She'll kick your butt.

She works out every day. All of that. Me? Never. Never.

And it kind of makes me wonder, when I get to the other side, and the Lord went, okay.

So what did you do with your life again?

Because I gave this incredible body, and you wasted it the whole time.

And I'm like, you should have been more clear, okay?

You should have been more clear. I -- maybe I could have played basketball. But I tried once. And it was embarrassing. It was embarrassing. It was like sixth grade. And I'll never live -- I don't even want to think about my time on a basketball court. Okay? So don't -- don't start with me. You should have made it a little clearer. When I first started to do stuff. And I think that's fair. I think that's a fair argument. In my defense. In my defense, Your Honor, God, you should have made it a little more clear.

STU: Yeah. I mean, if they really wanted us to do this, then the 11th Commandment is 50 pushups, and -- or, 50 pullups and 100 pushups, right?

Like, put it in a commandment if you really want us to do it. You have to be more specific, we're Americans.

GLENN: Okay. So let me give you the top of the list for the JFK Presidential Fitness Test. Okay? This is what you had to do in high school. In high school.

Thirty-four pullups. Bar dips: Fifty-two. What's -- because I believe I did that. A long time. And I don't recommend it.

STU: It's not a barhop.

GLENN: Oh, it's -- oh, bar dips. Okay. Okay. All right.

Bar dips: 52. Handstand pushups: Fifty. What are handstands?

STU: Oh, my God. Handstands.

GLENN: I can't even stand on my hands. Is that I'm doing a handstand and a push up? Because that's not happening. You're not human.

STU: Yeah. You're balancing yourself on your hands. Your feet are above your hands on the wall. Like a wall. And you're doing --

GLENN: Oh, so you're balancing yourself. That makes it a little easier. Still impossible.

But a little easier.

GLENN: Impossible. You could do precisely zero of those.

Aright. So you had to do 50 handstand pushups.

Or one arm -- 30 -- no, sir.

Twenty-six one-arm burpees in 30 seconds. Is that a one-armed push up?

STU: No. Well, you're bracing your yourself like you're about to begin a pushup in a burpee with only one arm, which that's not that difficult.

But then you're doing. Then you're like, you move your feet towards your hands. And then you jump up in the air basically. And then you do it repeatedly.

GLENN: No, no, no. That's ridiculous. No.

STU: There's a law of gravity. You're not supposed to violate it. If it was a recommendation of gravity, then maybe jumping would be appropriate. But it's not. Follow the law.

GLENN: In 48 seconds, you had to do a 3300-yard shuttle. Now, I've been to the airport. I think I've done a 3300-yard shuttle, but it depends on who is driving. You know.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Rope climb. Try this. Rope climb. Twenty feet, hands only! Sit start.

STU: That's what I remember from the president's physical fitness test. And I remember looking at that rope, like, no chance I could get up that thing.

GLENN: I remember looking up at that thing. Humiliation. Humiliation is coming my way. I'll never kiss a girl, because that ain't happening. I'll get maybe 10 feet up. Maybe. Maybe.

STU: And you were right for 24 years from that time, approximately.

GLENN: Agility run, 17 seconds. Extension pressups, what? What?

I'm sorry. Why am I so tired reading this?

Extension pressups. What's an extension pressup, 8-inch? You had to do 100 of them.

STU: Let's see. Exercise. An exercise for low-back pain involving lying on your stomach and pressing your upper body up with your arms while keeping your hips relaxed and down on the mat.

GLENN: Oh, I could do that know. 8 inches.

STU: The last part of it, relaxing down on the mat.
GLENN: That's what my doctor says I should be doing. What?

STU: I can do relaxed and down on the mat. That part of it --

GLENN: Yeah. I could do that -- I'm the only guy. I took yoga for a while, like three weeks. My wife is like, yoga. You could do yoga. Let's just do yoga together.

I did. And the yoga instructor said to me. Because we were doing a plank.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: And she came and all I remember her waking me up. And saying, I think you're the only person I've ever -- ever taught that fell asleep in yoga. And I'm like, it's just so relaxing. Just let me sleep. Let me sleep.

STU: That's interesting, that you did yoga. Is there any footage of that? Any video that we could post? That would be good for --

GLENN: No. There's not. You had to do pegboard. Five trips of pegboard. And I think that's when you have the two pegs.

STU: Yes, it was a board.

GLENN: You have to take it out, and put it up, right?

STU: This is American Ninja Warrior. No way.

GLENN: There's no way. There's no way.

STU: This is amazing.

GLENN: Try this one: You had to do a 45-second handstand. I've never been able to do a handstand. Never!

STU: Never.

GLENN: And I'm an elite athlete. I'm an elite athlete. Try this one: A man carry, 5 miles.

STU: What? What do you mean a --

GLENN: Five-mile man carry.

STU: Is a man carry as obvious as it --

GLENN: I think it is.

STU: You're carrying --

GLENN: If I'm going to carry that man, you have to carry me that man for five miles.

I'm not sure, I can't carry any man for any miles. I mean, if I am -- if I am a firefighter, count on burning in the house. You're going to burn in the house. Because I can't carry you out. I can get in there and go, yeah, I will have to leave you.
I will have to leave you here. I can't help you, sorry.

It's also getting really hot in here. I have to go. You had to do a five-mile jog. An obstacle course.

You had to swim prone for a mile. You had to swim underwater for 50 yards, any strokes, two minutes. Deep waterfront, hang float, with arms. What? What is a deep water hang float with arms. Wait. Wait.

It's a deep waterfront hang float with arms and ankles tied for six minutes.

What kind of al-Qaeda PE class was this?

STU: Who has access to -- who has access -- like, you're in the middle of the country, you may not have a deep water body nearby. This is -- are you sure this is an actual test?

GLENN: This is the actual test. This is the actual -- what is a deep water front hang float with arms and ankles tied for six minutes? Can you look that up?

STU: A deep water hang float is an aquatic hang float done in the deep end of a pool with the aid of flotation device, such as a noodle or belt.

In this position, the flotation twice supports your upper body, while your legs and torso hang freely beneath you.

That can't be what it is.

GLENN: You can do that.

Deep-end of the pool.

STU: Can you bring a margarita?

GLENN: Man, this test is no big deal.

What! No way. No way!

Here's the last thing on the test.

A vertical tread in an 8-foot circle for two hours!

No way.

STU: Vertical tread in an 8-foot circle?

GLENN: So you're in the water and you're treading water in a circle for two hours. Two!

STU: This is not -- what?

This is not the test.

GLENN: It is. Now, I told you, this is the top of the test.

This is the top of the test.

So this is for the ones who could do all the other tests.

This was the top of the test. The bottom of the test is not that much better. Here's the entry, okay? Let's see. Pullups, 2/6/10. I don't know what that means. Pushups, 16, 24, 32. Bar dips, four, eight, and 12. Situps, 30, 45, and 60. Broad jump, 6-foot, 6, 6, 6. And 6, 9.

To jump 6 feet? I don't even know if --

STU: That one is possible, yes. Glenn, I know it sounds incredible. But, yes. That one is possible.

GLENN: Sounds incredible. You know, I think we should have the average person Olympics. I really do. I really do.

STU: Oh, I would watch that.

GLENN: I would watch that every time.

You see them coming. And you're like, hmm. That one -- three feet. I'm giving him 3 feet. 200-yard shuttle. Agility run. Rope climb, 18 feet, hands only. 880 yards in three minutes. A mile in seven minutes. Pegboard, six holes. A 50-yard swim. Forty -- 40, 50-yard swim in 36 seconds. Man carry, 880 yards. No, thank you! No, thank you!

Look at -- look at what we've gone down. That's the bottom of it. And I don't think most Americans could do that.

I couldn't. Well, I could. Because I'm an elite -- I have the body of an elite athlete.

STU: No. You could not. Now, of course -- let's just say, this is supposed to be for a high school kid. Right?

So this is the prime of your athletic life. Could you do some of these things? Probably.
GLENN: Go into high school.
Go into any high school, and ask them to do this. There's no way. And all of the kids would be.

STU: Well, that's kind of what the reaction would be.

GLENN: Don't get me wrong. I would have been there too. And my parents would have said, suck it up. Just do it.

So nothing has really changed.

STU: That's been the reaction to this proposal too, of bringing this back. Right? The media is covering this. Like, it's going to embarrass children.

You know, I mean, I do remember it being like, I can't do that. I'm not going to the top of that rope. That's not happening.

That's sort of life. Right? Sometimes you can do things. Sometimes you can't do other things.

GLENN: That's why you have to learn how to injure yourself.

You know, how many stairs can I throw myself down, to not do serious damage, but enough to get me out of PE.

STU: Yeah, you have to fake an why are. You have to learn from LeBron James. Act like you got hit in the eye. And fall down like you were just stabbed over and over again, like you were in an athletic competition.

GLENN: There's no way. There's no way.

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