READY, FIRE, AIM: Rocking the Workout with Kid Rock

Some people… all they want to do is complain.

Maybe if they would work out, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kid Rock do, they’d feel better about themselves, and the world.

I know that U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy and music superstar Kid Rock are working out, because I saw the “Rock Out Work Out” video posted recently by Secretary Kennedy, with a message to Americans.

Actually, two messages.

Two simple messages… delivered in a 90-second video… set to the tune of the Kid Rock’s 1999 hit song “Bawitdaba.”  It’s a great song to listen to, when you’re working out.

Here are some of the lyrics.

Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie
Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie

Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie
Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie

Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie
Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie

Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie (get ready)
My name is Kid!
Kid Rock!

Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy
Said the boogie, said up jump the boogie

But I don’t believe that’s the entire message Secretary Kennedy hoped to deliver to Americans, in his work out video.  It’s more about making America healthy again — by getting active, and eating real food.

Apparently, I could be as buff and healthy as the Secretary, simply by getting active and eating real food.

Some people who watched the video on Secretary Kennedy’s social media account complained that we were just watching two old white men do push-ups and sit-ups, and play pickleball, in someone’s oversized house. (I’m assuming this video was shot in Kid Rock’s mansion in Nashville, TN, but don’t quote me.)

I am not among the complainers. I also think Americans should be more active and eat a better diet. In fact, that’s one of the New Year’s resolutions I’m considering for 2027.

Yes, this is the same Kid Rock who called for a boycott of Bud Light beer among his many fans, and posted a video of himself shooting cases of Bud Light with an assault rifle, after Anheuser-Busch hired transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney to ‘influence’ sales of Bud Light among a younger generation.

Kid Rock was photographed a few months later, drinking Bud Light at the Skydeck in Nashville. (Maybe that’s why he left those last two cases of Bud Light undamaged?) He also confessed to Tucker Carlson that, “At the end of the day, when you step back and look at it, like, yeah, [Anheuser-Busch] deserved a black eye and they got one. They made a mistake. So, do I want to hold their head under water and drown them because they made a mistake? No, I think they got the message.”  We can hope.

The short ‘Rock Out Work Out’ video showed the two celebrities posing with an American flag, using home gym equipment, and soaking in a hot tub the size of a small swimming pool.

The federal “Make America Healthy Again” program also includes eating a healthy diet. (Which no doubt includes Bud Light?)  One momentary clip near the beginning of the video shows Secretary Kennedy eating what looks like a huge chunk of beef, with a jar of Bubbie’s sauerkraut sitting next to his plate, while Kid Rock encourages him from behind.

This is the last we see of the Secretary wearing a tie.  For the rest of the video, he wears a t-shirt — or appears bare chested.  But wearing jeans.

(Wearing his jeans a little too low for my taste.  But I’m not a Republican.)

Might Kid Rock be hiding a beer belly with his towel? (Which I would also need to do, if I were posing next to Secretary Kennedy.)

To reinforce the “Eat Real Food” admonishment, the Secretary and his host are shown drinking ‘whole milk’ while soaking in the hot-tub-swimming-pool.

My mother made me drink whole milk as a child, at every meal. But I never saw my mother or father drink whole milk, or even skim milk. My father, if questioned on this incongruity, would assert that milk was meant for children, not for adults.

He would even quote the Epistle to the Hebrews.

For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. But solid food is for full grown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Now, I would never suggest that Secretary Kennedy and Kid Rock are without experience of the word of righteousness, just because the Apostle Paul wrote something in a letter 2,000 years ago.

We live in a modern world, and full grown men do, in fact, drink milk.

But preferably whole milk.