Hello and welcome to the Super Size Phys Ed podcast. My name is Dave and today I want to tell you about 5 Boomer Friday. Yes, I'm bringing it back. So here we go. All right, welcome in PE Nation. So today I want to talk about Five Boomer Friday.
Speaker 1:Now I used to have Five Boomer Friday a long time ago and I would come out on Fridays and I would mention five things that I was interested in, or some cool things I saw this week, or just some cool books or PE tips, things like that, and I decided to bring it back. It's been a while and if you currently are on my mailing list, you got a newsletter about that. I just changed the format and I'm bringing it back. I'm bringing it back 5 Boomer Friday. I just think it's fun and it's things I like to talk about. I like to talk about things I've observed or things I've read or things I've seen online or, hopefully, good teaching practices and little tips here and there. So that's kind of the format. I'll go through it as we go and I might even do a boomer. So, along with the first newsletter, if you are not on the newsletter list I want to kind of share with you what we went through and what people got. So here we go. Here's the first boomer on Five Boomer Friday. So here's the first boomer on Five Boomer Friday.
Speaker 1:So number one is a teaching tip or strategy. Now I will have all these in the episode notes. If you're not signed up, you can sign up and then receive all these, the future Five Boomer Fridays and get the links that I'm talking about today. So the first one is how I teach large outside groups and that is an episode of my podcast from I don't know a while back last year, sometime Not too far back, but about a year, and it's just how I teach in the heat and rain and craziness of Florida, the weather and how I teach outside and the signals I use and what I use for large groups. So it's an organizational and procedural type podcast and just how I run my class outside. So again, number one will be a teaching tip or strategy as far as the Five Boomer Friday. So that's number one teaching tip.
Speaker 1:Okay, number two is a book I'm reading, and in this case I am reading. Well, I read. The first book is by Benjamin Stevenson. It's called Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone. It is a funny murder mystery. It's not like a Stephen King horror kind of thing. It's more funny. They call it like a cheeky, I guess, because he's, I believe, australian. It's just kind of funny. Yeah, people die, but it's not in a gory kind of way. And so that one I listened to. I listened to an Audible. It was pretty well done, actually, it was really well done. And then I decided to actually read a book. My wife gets mad at me. I've said this before.
Speaker 1:I listen to a lot of books. I do read, I promise I love to read. So I'm currently reading the sequel to that which is called Everyone on this Train is a Suspect, and it's really good. I have not finished it yet, I'm about halfway through. So they're both entertaining, they keep you on your toes and there's actually another one coming out. This, I think, around Thanksgiving or October, either October or November, but it's about Christmas. It has to do with Christmas.
Speaker 1:So a lot of times on this podcast and in the Five Boomer Friday, I'm going to be mentioning nonfiction books, because I usually read nonfiction books, nonfiction books. But this series is pretty good and I'm trying to be not such a nonfiction. I'm kind of like a snob. I read a lot of memoirs and biographies, which is great. I learn so much. But I'm trying to branch out a little bit. So that is called again.
Speaker 1:Well, the one I'm reading right now is Everyone on this Train is a Suspect. The first one is Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone, and they're by Benjamin Stevenson. And so that is number two, a book I'm reading. Number three is a documentary or movie I'm watching, and it usually will be a documentary, because I like to watch true things. I know I'm a snob that way. I do like watching other movies as well, other things, I promise. But in this case it is a documentary about a Tour de France cyclist named Mark Cavendish. He's from the Isle of man, near England, or he's. It's part of Britain, part of England, and he has been riding for a long, long time. He just finished his final Tour de France.
Speaker 1:Now, if you have no idea what the Tour de France is, well, I'm sure you've heard of it. But if you don't like it or you don't follow it, that's okay. I watch documentaries on things that I've never thought I would care about, and sometimes I still don't. It's just the process behind it and just what I've learned from watching it. So let's see, I got to go back here.
Speaker 1:I used to watch the Tour de France when I was oh gosh, I guess late twenties, I don't know, I'm old right now Right, so I would watch a Lance Armstrong in the late 90s and early 2000s and really all through them, and I've said this before, but I'll give you the quick version. I was like a huge Lance guy. I was wearing the yellow bracelets and I was wearing the Livestrong shirts when I worked out and I was all about Lance. I read his, I believe, two books at the time and I was just pro-Lance man. I was like anybody said anything differently, like oh, he was cheating, he was doping. I was like no way, there's no way they would have caught him. It's just no way. And of course I was wrong. And eventually he was caught and he even admitted it on Oprah, which was devastating.
Speaker 1:So after that I decided not to watch the tour for like 10 years. I mean, literally, it really was about 10 years. I was so heartbroken and I was just like this is so ridiculous. No, I take that back. I watched it one more year when Floyd Landis won American after Lance. He actually rode with Lance and then he was caught cheating and, by the way, I remember when Floyd Lance, he rode this incredible ride, I mean it was just like the best. He was down, I don't even know, I can't remember the exact details, but he was down probably about a minute and he had one chance to beat the second place guy and he rode just the ride of his life and it was amazing. I was jumping up and down. It was the greatest thing ever and I was like, oh my gosh, this is great.
Speaker 1:And then he was caught doping that day, just like that day. They tested him right afterwards and I remember he went on like David Letterman. He's like, oh no, my elevated levels of testosterone or whatever that was from drinking a beer or drinking beers at night and he just went on national TV and lied Like these, all these guys are lying. And I was just oh my gosh. I was devastated when it was found out he was. He was cheating, he doped, so he it's. It's not funny. I'm laughing, it's not funny, but I'm just like, oh, just so ridiculous.
Speaker 1:So I stopped watching it for 10 years or again, maybe it's nine, I don't know. It was a good chunk of time where I was just like I'm never watching it again. I just took a stand, I'm like I'm done. Until I saw the what's it called A Tour de France Unchained on Netflix. It's been two seasons now so I started to be like, well, maybe I want to get back into it. And that series helped me learn the names, because almost everybody retired at that point.
Speaker 1:That I watched from the early 2000s and now I'm getting my point about Mark Cavendish. It's a long story, I know. So Mark Cavendish, he is a sprinter and there's different. There's climbers or sprinters, there's guys that are good at everything, kind of like Lance, or Lance was, and Cavendish is a sprinter. I mean he, just he. At the end of the flat stages he would. He's one of those guys that would just win, win, win. I mean nobody could catch him. And especially in the beginning, like in those, he really was more like the mid-2000s. I'm going to say I think 2008 was his first tour, something like that. So he was kind of like at the end of Lance's career and then he just finished, like a week ago. As I'm recording this not even he, yeah, I'm thinking what day it was half a week ago he won, he had a record of 34. Well, he tied Eddie Merckx an older, like before Lance record for stage wins, which is 34.
Speaker 1:And the followed him up to um about a year ago where he was just struggling. I mean he just couldn't. He kept getting hurt. Um he's, I think currently I mean he's late 30s for a sprint, I mean for tour de france. That's like ancient. These guys right now are like early 20s, like mid-20s at the most, some of them the fast, the top ones.
Speaker 1:He struggled with just different things. He had suicidal thoughts. He really thought he was going to kill himself. He couldn't find a team near the end. A couple years ago Actually last year everybody was rooting for him. He's tied with Eddie Merckx. He needed one more stage. He lost by less than a second to the up-and-comer guy, jasper Philipson, and then on the next stage or one of the next stages, he fell and broke his collarbone and he was out of the tour last year. So this year I guess I know I'm spoiler alert right, he did win one stage and it was just phenomenal, it was great seeing it. He did win um one stage and it was just phenomenal, it was great seeing it.
Speaker 1:So the documentary is not about this year. It's about kind of leading up to this year, and he, uh, it was just. It's a great documentary. Whether you like cycling or not, it's just about a guy struggling. You know actually a phenomenal bike rider with his family. He has like four or five kids. Like he didn't have to do this, he didn't have to come back and he did and it was just awesome. So, anyways, that's a long boomer there. But Mark Cavendish, it's called Never Enough. It's on Netflix and it's a great documentary, so you got to check it out.
Speaker 1:That's number three. All right, number four is going to be some cool or awesome thing I've seen recently and the link I put out was for Kobe Bryant. He was, I mean, you know, I still say Michael Jordan's the goat. I know I'm gonna get some hate on this probably, but Michael Jordan's the best of all time. I might give it to LeBron. For number two. My son and I keep going back and forth on this. He's like LeBron's the goat.
Speaker 1:I'm like, oh, whatever, dude, you didn't grow up in the Michael Jordan time and he also didn't grow up in the Kobe time. I mean, he saw maybe the end of his career. No, probably not. He was retired by the time my son kind of got into basketball but watching Kobe was just amazing. I mean, it really was. It was just incredible to watch him and there's many if you go on Instagram and things like that many different videos of him and his work, ethic and things he did and things he said and he was just incredible to watch and listen to. And I try to tell my son and his friends my son's 14 and a half I guess he not, I guess he is 14 and a half.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I was gonna say the half part, but I try to tell them, like you, just, you just understand, like you didn't see Tiger Woods play you could see videos of him playing you didn't see Michael Jordan and Kobe and Wayne Gretzky and all these phenomenal athletes. You didn't, you weren't there, you didn't. I mean, yeah, it's cool. I'm glad I want them to learn about them. I think it's awesome. But to see Michael Jordan play, to see Kobe Bryant play, it was just phenomenal Like I was at. I've never I've only been to a couple of basketball games like ever but I did get to Michael Jordan one time. That was awesome, even though it was really more of a Scottie Pippen kind of game as far as who dominated his score the most. And that was near the end of Jordan's career. But it was cool to say, hey, I saw him play.
Speaker 1:And on a side note I just thought of, I just remember talking to my grandpa. I mean he saw Babe Ruth and Luke Gehrig play. Just to say that, just to know that. And he's passed away since then, obviously, but you know how cool is that. You know, just to be like man, I saw Michael Jordan play.
Speaker 1:So back to Kobe the thing I posted was him from. He was a teenager doing a slam dunk competition and it's just really cool. It's really cool to watch him and see him as a young player coming up, not in the NBA yet, just working hard and just really good at his craft. I mean, he's always been a hard worker. From what I've read and what I've seen, he's just amazing. So I'm going to go with that. So number four is just going to be something I've seen or some cool thing. I've learned something like that. So I picked Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1:So number five will be a question to ponder. So in this case, I put out a Google form which I appreciate a lot of you have filled out. It is about what you have done this summer to plan for this coming school year. A lot of times it might be something just really funny or simple. This was pretty simple, I think, but a few questions on the Google form, if you want to fill that out, and we can talk about that coming up in one of the maybe the episodes. So that is number five. That's how we're going to run this. I'm going to do a question at the end for you to ponder, to think about, to maybe hopefully enhance your teaching and your learning, and that's what Boomer or Five Boomer Friday will be about.
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