BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): So is this okay with you guys?
AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): I like it.
KILMEADE: Do you think so?
CHARLES HURT (CO-HOST): Oh yeah of course.
EARHARDT: It helps with childhood obesity. I like it.
KILMEADE: I thought, Gillian Turner was hosting for Trace last night. I thought she had a good point, she goes there are some kids that are heavy and they’re embarrassed, and I just think the gym teacher’s got to be cognizant of that. Sometimes they don’t exercise. You know, single parent family, latchkey kids, whatever it is, there are kids that this is the only exercise they get. I think gym teachers got to be cognizant of being encouraging to those kids that maybe aren’t as athletic that’s why they don’t do sports.
EARHARDT: They will. They will, That’s what a teacher is supposed to do.
HURT: But that’s the whole point of having the program, is that your friends make you like, get in shape and do it.
KILMEADE: You mean mock them?
HURT: Well a little bit, I mean that’s kind of the point of the playground —
KILMEADE: Just go out of your way —
HURT: But how many of your friends that were fat when they were little are not fat now because, you know, had you fun on the playground?
KILMEADE: In fact, can we pull up some of the pictures of my friends? Can we see some of them?
EARARDT: It is a part of the MAHA movement, this is part of the, a central part of the MAHA movement, so they’re trying to combat childhood obesity. So that is the point of this to try to get the kids and you don’t just all of a sudden run a mile. You have to work your way up.
KILMEADE: Be positive. Yeah, be positive. You don’t want kids traumatized.
HURT: You’re so sensitive. That’s so sweet.
EARHARDT: But that’s basically up to the teacher. Surely a teacher is not going to like to be insensitive to a child who’s heavier.
KILMEADE: Well in the after school specials, the gym teachers were always nice, but there are some gym teachers that are fresh off the, you know, Paris island.
HURT: I never had a nice gym teacher, all my gym teachers were the meanest.
KILMEADE: Crew cuts, tough guys?
HURT: Yeah.
KILMEADE: Alright. I mean I show a little bit of compassion and you jump down my throat.
HURT: Well, I just think its kind of weird.
EARHARDT: It is kind of weird.
HURT: I just care about the health of the child.
KILMEADE: Do you really think it’s weird to show compassion?
EARHARDT: Well that’s so not like Brian, it’s like playing the victim card kind of. I mean you, the whole point of this is to get healthy, to get our children healthy.