C (12:26)

Nobody hears about when you do that and there's like muscles there. Nobody cares about that. We don't want to see that. That's not what we want to see. If you are losing weight because you want to feel better, be in less pain, be healthier, all of these things, that's fatphobic.

A (12:44)

I mean, it's just pure outright projection. They don't want you to work out, they don't want you to be fit and care about your health because that makes them feel inferior. And when they feel inferior, that actually just means that you are fat phobic, that you are a bigot. That's what you are. So now they make it into some big social issue. They blast this online, the journalists pick it up and suddenly the left has lost health, the left has lost fitness, and that is where we are in 2025. And interestingly, this wasn't just in 2022 or even 2024. They have kept up this entire message. I don't know if you guys remember, I've talked about this a couple times because it's just so, so funny to me. But there was a hit piece that was done on me and a few other people. Candace was included in it. Alex Clark, the owner and founder of Evie magazine. Brenda Hugo, boom was in it. But it's that article that reads these women want you to be. What is it like fit? Oh, no. Thin, hot. Oh my God. Guys, this is the pregnancy brain. These women want you to be thin, fertile and Republican. There we go. I got it. And their entire message was that we were bigoted and we were these awful conservatives because we want women to be fertile and we encourage people to be healthy. And we argue against the fact that working out is inherently fat. Phobic. That article came out three months ago. There was another one in Vanity Fair that was saying that MAGA needs to be blamed for this dangerous and scary protein craze. They did a whole profile on Hasan Piker where they said that because he worked out, because he has visible abs and flexes and posts photos on his Instagram and then that he has a MAGA body. Like, they are saying the quiet part out loud. They are acknowledging that health is not important to them, that fitness is a right wing thing. Like that is where we have gotten right now. So no wonder your revolutionary left wing Democratic Socialist candidate Zoran Mamdani can't even bench 135 without a spot. And you might be saying, bret, you can't even bench 135. I know, I know. But when you go on X, there were so many women on there, we're saying, okay, I know that I can't do this, but like, men, this is your wheelhouse. Like, what is, you know, an average. What do I want to say? Pr. Like, what do you guys actually bench? And the replies were hysterical. People were like, no, 135 is like my warmup. And people were like, there are all of these threads of like, yeah, 250, 180, whatever. I asked Alex. Apparently his PR was, I think it's 285. Hopefully I'm not butchering that. Love you if I am, he said, don't expect him to do that anymore because he like blew out his shoulder in college trying to do that. But anyway, that is what is going on here. Like, no wonder your big candidate can't do that when this is the culture that you've created. 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Again, that is shopbeam.com Brett and use code Brett for up to 40% off. Everybody just needs to sleep and relax and recalibrate and hit the gym so that you can bench more than 135 and be stronger than Mamdani, including myself. Anyway, moving on back to the left and them caring about their culture. The funny thing is Even though the left was putting out these articles and these opinion pieces just three months ago, now, randomly, they do care about fitness. They do care about hitting the gym. And that's because they've realized that it's losing them votes. Because remember, a few months ago, right around the time that all those articles were coming out, that hit piece about me came out. The Democrats announced that they were going to be investing $20 million in order to figure out how to win back young men. Now, one of the things that they discovered after this incredible research into the SYNT in the interest of young American men is that men are going to the gym. So Democrats should be as well. One MSNBC opinion piece talked about this. And in this article, they said, after losing big with men under 30 in the 2024 election, Democrats have spent $20 million on a program called Speaking with American Men called SAM to help figure out which spaces they need to show up. And to fare better with this demographic, a smart place to start would be the gym. The booming men's fitness market is expected to more than double by 2029. Amazing. Good job, boys. Love that for you. Growth driven by men under 25 who are joining gyms almost twice as fast as women. I mean, first of all, congratulations to the men. You are moving ahead faster than Mamdani. That is amazing. But the Democrats have taken note. And this immediately turned into some Democrats posting videos of themselves working out. And thankfully, to spare them embarrassment, they could bench more than 135. But CNN wrote about this just a couple of weeks ago, actually, or last month. But the thing is, these Democrats still don't seem to get it because again, this is not them actually caring about health. This is not them wanting to get back in on this issue because it matters to them. And the health of the American people and the strength of the American people matters to them. It's because it is just a tactic for them to win, as Democrat strategists have openly pointed out. One guy said, people wanna see vigor. They wanna see action. They wanna see that you're prepared to do the job, doing more than just sitting behind a regurgitating a litany of nonsensical acronyms. Yes, which is why, Mamdani, you should be hitting the gym. But anyway, that is true. However, just posting cringy, like, lifting videos is not going to help when the message behind them just seems vapid and unbelievable. It's why men were not swayed by Tim Walls when he was tinkering on his car and he was like, ooh, pulling out an air filter from his, like, vintage. Oh, gosh, what did he have, an International Harvester Scout? They weren't convinced by that because he was simply using it as a tactic to segue into Talking about Project 25 and fear mongering Americans. It's why Andrew Cuomo jumpstarting a taxi in New York City isn't going to reach men, because it's random and it's weird and it's inauthentic. Like young people, especially young men, they will be able to sniff out what is authentic and what is not. Thankfully, in the same CNN article, another strategist warned Dems of this, and he said, I would caution Democrats against pulling out a checklist for young men. We'll do some bench pressing for young women. We'll talk about the Barb movie. People don't like checklists and they don't like being pandered to. They remember you for who you are. You need to be authentic in a way that is believable. Correct? I cannot believe that this is something that has to be said. But in our current political system where everybody is pandered to, where voters are taken advantage of, this seems to be something that does unfortunately need to be said. And this, like, faux interest in fitness that has just come out of nowhere, it's not, like, believable when you all spent the last five years villainizing working out, villainizing fitness, villainizing the Maha movement again for the last five years. So when you just change on a dime and suddenly everybody is, like, lifting weights, that's not going to convince anybody. Like, the right did not come in and just see an opportunity to get voters and pander to them. You guys fell behind. You villainized people who cared about this. You villainized masculine men who enjoy working out. You villainize the crunchy moms that care about vaccines and what their kids are eating. And so these people, they had to go elsewhere and they came over to the right because the right genuinely did seem to care. That is why you guys have Mamdani who can't bench 135. And we have RFK Jr. Who begrudgingly came over to the right after being a lifelong Democrat who is doing this in jeans at 70 years old. I mean, look at him go. That is the same amount of weight I believe that Mamdani was trying to lift. He has. What is this, a resistance thing? He's in jeans. He's like twice his age. How many reps is he on now? Certainly more than 2. Mamdani. And this is not the only V and it's not the only video. You have RFK at Gold's Gym, shirtless, bench pressing on an incline. He's like, rock climbing with, you know, Dr. Oz. You have Pete Hegseth. Like, RFK is not the only example. You have Pete Hegseth actually working out with American troops. You have Tulsi Gabbard working out with American troops. So strong. Marjorie Taylor Greene just posted a video a couple of days ago of her sprinting around her backyard with a huge medicine ball. And yes, these are all politicians. These are all people in government, but they represent what has changed in our culture and what has changed in the political parties. And it is so glaringly obvious. So that, my friends, is why people care about what Mamdani can bench. That is why you should care about what he can bench. And obviously it's funny. And yes, it is embarrassing. And people like having somebody to laugh at on the opposite side. That's just normal in politics and in the world and on social media. But this did seem deeper, and there was a bigger issue there. This is just another example of how the left has royally screwed themselves on another issue and how they are now trying to desperately backpedal to win back voters. But per usual, it's not authentic. It's contrived by millions of dollars and strategists that are pointing them in this direction. But I obviously, I don't think that this is fooling anyone. They only care about health when they can make a social media video about it, when it's convenient. They only care about men and masculinity when the cameras are rolling and when it's convenient. And this Mamdani video was a perfect way to pull back the curtain. It caught him at an exposed moment where he couldn't be perfect. He couldn't have the right outfit on the right amount of weights. He couldn't be prepared and ready to do his three reps or however much he was doing. This was the authentic Mamdani, and everyone has seen it, and that is why it is so embarrassing. And to be fair, Cuomo's tweet, it was laughable because he was inserting himself and he is not there. He wasn't there. But he did make a really good point. If Mamdani cannot even bench lightweight, if he doesn't care about his health, if he mocks people who work out, if he calls them fat phobic, maybe he's done that. I don't know, then how will he be able to to physically support a metropolis like New York? City. If he doesn't even care about taking care of his own body, how will he be able to care about taking care of a city? I just said care so many times, and I'm so sorry. Blame my child, blame pregnancy. But I think you guys get the point. American people who care. Oh my God, I just said it again. What is happening to me? Anyway, American people respond to strength and competency and capability. And it is now blatantly obvious that Mamdani likes that. So, yes, it was funny. But per usual, there was a deeper issue, as there always is.