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Do You Have a Physed Alter Ego?
Greetings PE Nation,
Ever wondered how the 80s shaped my obsession with music trivia and my admiration for Bono and U2? Join me as I recount a recent 80s music trivia challenge on a cruise, where my near-perfect score was just the tip of the iceberg. Get ready for a trip down memory lane, where I relive my teenage years emulating Bono's style, complete with tales of his alter ego, "The Fly." You'll also get a fascinating look at how Beyonce channeled her inner Sasha Fierce to showcase a more confident, bolder side of herself. Together, we'll explore the magic of alter egos and how they enable artists to express different facets of their personalities. Anyone know what Justin Jefferson's alter-ego is?
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Hello and welcome to the Supersize Phys Ed podcast. My name is Dave and I have a question for you. What do Bono, beyonce and Justin Jefferson have in common? Well, let's talk about it. Let's go All right. Welcome in PE Nation.
Speaker 1:So, to start off with, I grew up in the 80s. 80s was my jam man, the music. As a matter of fact, I didn't I wasn't going to say this, but we were on a. When we went on the cruise recently, there was an eighties trivia eighties music trivia and my wife and I, um, you know, took part in this and it was on the honor system. By the way, um, there were 20 questions.
Speaker 1:They play a song, a piece of a song. You'd have to answer it and get the uh who sang it as well. So, uh, so there's a total of 40 points. Right, we got, and, by the way, it was all me. My wife is really good at this, but I'm actually no, she's not. She's okay at this. She was better at the friends trivia, um, which is right afterwards.
Speaker 1:Um, I was all about the eighties music. So we got 39 out of 40, right, and I'll never, and I'm never going to forget now, I'm never going to live this down the one I missed. It was a song I Want Candy, but I couldn't remember who sang it. So the answer is Bow Wow, Wow. I could not remember that, but I was one of the very few people that got Come On Eileen. Like who sang it? It's Dexys Midnight Runners. I don't know why I'm telling you that. I just I'm thinking of the eighties and eighties music, and I'm about to talk about Bono. So, anyways, I want to tell you that it's Bow Wow, wow, for I Want Candy. That was a tough one, but I got other tough ones. I'm never going to forget that one, though.
Speaker 1:Now, all right. So back to Bono. So in the eighties and yeah, the, yeah, all the 80s and really beyond, but in the 80s I was in middle school and then high school Bono was my favorite singer by far and U2 was my favorite band. You can ask anybody. My nickname was Bono Jr. I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1:I tried, very unsuccessfully, to grow my hair and look like him. I did grow it long, but if you see me now, I'm basically bald, so you wouldn't probably believe that. But it's true. I tried to find what I call Bono boots when we were in Canada, because he had these cool long boots and just tried to dress like him. Man, he was awesome. I never did the Irish accent, don't worry, I, you know they. I just I was. I was a U2, I still am a U2 fan, but I mean, I was a crazy U2 fan when I was a teenager.
Speaker 1:So they changed when I was in college the Joshua Tree was 1986. And then they did Rattle and Hum, which kind of live album, kind of a couple of new songs, and then they took a break for a while and they came back in the early 90s when I was in college, and they did Octung Baby and it was a great album. It was different. It was like a lot of different kind of guitar and different, like just different sound.
Speaker 1:And Bono created this persona called the Fly. There's a song called the Fly, but he created the persona around it, the alter ego for the Zoo TV tour, that's what it was called and he would go around and just act like an and I actually read about that, just preparing for this, because I was like, you know, I just want to know the background of that. I knew about it and I seen it, but I just wasn't. I was like, why did he do this. He just wanted to be a different person. He was leather clad. He was a leather clad rock star is what he described himself. He had these huge sunglasses. He called them the fly sunglasses, and he had a different swagger and style. And he had a different swagger and style Again.
Speaker 1:It was like an egotistic rock star, you know, walking around the stage and just acting all like you know he's the best, he's the greatest, and that's not really his normal persona. I mean, I don't know him, but on stage he never really acted like that before. He just created this alter ego, this rock star, just ego that he wanted to portray. For at least that tour he did phase that out. It wasn't forever, but just something different. He just wanted to be a different person for a little bit, even if it was just for a couple hours on stage each night, and I thought it was really cool. I'm like, oh yeah, that was kind of neat. Actually, it was kind of weird, but looking back, it was kind of neat. How's that? So? Um, so that was Bono, or that is Bono. Um, that's his alter ego, or was? It was called the fly, and so I want to talk about two more people, um, I guess I'll make it a boomer. I just talked about Bono, so he didn't get a boomer, sorry, um. Two more people that, um, and I already mentioned who they are, um, and why they did it, so here's the next one. All right, number two is Beyonce. So in 2008, beyonce put out a double album called I Am, and then Sasha Fierce. So, and I never again.
Speaker 1:I did some research on this. I didn't know why. I didn't understand all this until I kind of read about some of this. But her personality in general is very timid. She's not like. I think she is more now, but back then she was on the more shy side. That's what she claims. In real life she's just not as outgoing, not as confident, I guess. So she said that Sasha Fierce was her other side, her alter ego, and it's a confident alter ego that protects her. As I'm kind of reading some of the things she said, it protects her and who she really is. So when she's on stage, you know the I am part, I guess, was Beyonce.
Speaker 1:The Sasha Fierce was a different person. She's more fun, aggressive, outspoken and glamorous. Again, these are her words, or at least part of what I read. It just she wanted to be somebody different for a little bit and just put out that persona, I guess, of a different person. And how she acted in, you know she doesn't act like that all the time. She doesn't go around, you know, acting like Sasha Fierce. And Bono doesn't go around acting like the fly in public. They don't go to the mall and act like that or whatever I don't know. They don't go to a club and act like that, I don't know. So eventually she gave up the Sasha Fierce persona because she gained the confidence and the two merged. So Beyonce and Sasha Fierce, in her words kind of merged, in her words kind of merged. So she got rid of Sasha Fierce because she was acting confident and acting more fun and outgoing. She became kind of those two people and she didn't need that alter ego anymore. So I thought it was pretty cool. I didn't know a lot of that stuff, so anyways, that's pretty cool and that was. I'll go with that. That's Beyonce and she's number two and that was. I'll go with that. That's Beyonce and she's number two, all right.
Speaker 1:The final one today is Justin Jefferson. Now, if you don't know who he is, he is the wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings and he was actually traded. Well, okay, no, no, no, I'm sorry. Let me back up because I'm a Buffalo Bills fan. I'm going to go through this a tiny bit here. Stefan Diggs was traded to the Buffalo Bills a few years ago and we gave them a draft pick, a first-round draft pick for him, and if you don't know football, diggs is a wide receiver and he just left our team over the offseason. But Diggs was awesome for us and he was just awesome receiver. So again, the first round pick we had it was in the twenties, I think it was number 22 went to Minnesota and with that pick they took Justin Jefferson and he's amazing, he's an amazing talent.
Speaker 1:Again, whether you follow it or not, I'm just describing him. He just, he's just. He catches everything and he's fast and he actually one of his best catches ever. I think his best catch ever, honestly, was against us, the bills, and if it wasn't for his amazing catch, they would have lost that game and they end up winning. They beat us in a crazy game, one of the craziest I've ever seen. It seems like we always lose the crazy games. I don't know why we don't win those, but anyways, um, one of his nicknames is j jettis and and I'm not sure he gave him that name, I'm not going to focus on that name, but he. So that's one of his nicknames. But the other one he liked and he said he likes it better actually is Jet or Jets.
Speaker 1:And if you watch Receiver on Netflix, it's it just came out. There's quarterback was last year and now Receiver's this year. He describes it. He says that's like his alter ego. Again, we're talking about alter egos and personas because he's not normally a, you know, like that on on, what he's like on the field is not normally what he's like in real life. He says. He says he's more shy and reserved, kind of like, you know, beyonce, um and jet is his alter ego for confidence on the field and he just turns on. Well, it turns on the jets, but he turns on that persona when he hits the field and it's just.
Speaker 1:The common denominator in these three people is that they're different people when they get to their, I guess, say, their jobs, their careers, on the field, on stage. They're different people because they created this alter ego or this persona. So why am I talking about all of this? Well, tell you what. Let's do a cowbell tip of the day, here we go. All right, so your tip of the day is you know, as a PE teacher, I'm I'm a different person. I'm not outgoing. I lack confidence at times, I worry, just like everyone else. I don't have a cool alter ego name, but Dave and coach Carney are definitely a different person. You know, I'm called coach Carney. Hey, coach Carney, um, and Dave or David that's my obviously my real name. We're not the same person. I mean we can be, but you know, I, I see my former and current students at my the arena I work at, I see him at target.
Speaker 1:I even seen a girl recently at bush gardens, which is two hours away, and she was like, hey, did you, were you the PE teacher at Treeline? I'm like, yeah, so we started talking. That was like 10 years ago. I had her as a student, but you know I can't always be on quote unquote, right, I try to.
Speaker 1:You know, outside of school, in public, sometimes, even at our public, our pool, in our neighborhood, our public pool. You know sometimes, oh, hey, coach Carney, you know I'm swimming with my family. You know what I mean. Like, and it's fine, I want to say hi to them, but I'm a different person, that's. That's. That's not me, um, always being on, but when I'm at school, I'm coach Carney, I'm energetic, I'm fun, I'm outgoing, I'm loud, I dance.
Speaker 1:By the way, I don't dance in public with adults usually, not usually, and, trust me, there's a lot of times they'll be playing a song that we play at PE. They do Even on the cruise ship. You know, there was, like you know, ymca or Timber or one of those songs, and I'm like I know how I do those dances with the kids, but I don't, and I could do it with 100 people or 150 people. Kids. I can do it in front of In front of 10 adults. That's not me, but Coach Carney can.
Speaker 1:Right, in large groups. I usually sit by myself. It's just I don't know, I, just that's how I am In large groups of adults, you know. I just I don't know what it is. I'm quiet in front of a large group of adults, unless I really, really really know them, and but with over a hundred students, I'm Coach Carney, it doesn't faze me at all, you know, and I almost, I feel like I almost lost it when I went to middle school for a tiny bit. I'm not going to go into all this.
Speaker 1:But you know, I left PE in the middle of the year because I felt like I had to get out of a bad situation and I went to middle school, for it was a little over half a year, it was around Thanksgiving, it was the COVID year, it was after, it was like 2020, but in the fall and I felt like I lost my identity and your identity shouldn't be just you're a teacher, that's your identity. But I didn't know who I was. Was I Mr Carney, the history teacher, or was I Coach Carney? And by the end, when my current position opened up, I'm like you know, I'm Coach Carney. That's me, right, that's me.
Speaker 1:And so I know it's a long cowbell tip of the day here. Right, but think about if you have an alter ego, and who is it and does it help you? Is it you or is it somebody different, or do you need it? You know how are you different from home and school and, if nothing else, it's something to ponder and be aware of. You know it's not a good thing or a bad thing necessarily. It's just something to be aware of and you know how are you different and you know it's hard to be on all the time when you see kids, you see your students somewhere, but I and I try, but it's like it's. It's not easy, right? So, anyways, think about that, your alter ego. Do you have one, do you need one, is it good, is it bad? And and who are you inside of school and outside of school? So, anyways, that's it. That's your cowbell tip of the day.
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