BAM. World's Fastest Centenarian

Brand Anthony McDonald
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The Centenarian Journey. Is a blueprint for radical self-mastery? Follow the BAM, Chief Strategist, through the multi-decade mission to break the 100m dash record at 100, master Handstand Pushups, lifelong learning, and achieve professional voice over status. Each week connects the dots between diverse projects: NASM CPT/CNC/CES certification study, building software Tech Tools, analyzing books/movies in All the Spoilers, and the science of discipline with the Better Vice Club. Will BAM prove that anything is acquirable with the right strategy? Listen and follow the journey to find out.

  1. WanderLearn Virtual Tour-Rooted with Ruby

    2d ago

    WanderLearn Virtual Tour-Rooted with Ruby

    WanderLearn.WitUS.Online is a Virtual 360 Tour App with an LMS tool. Take your online learning to the next level with 360 video tours. The sample you're watching was shot with an #Insta360 x5 camera. I build custom apps. I built this app to allow me to give virtual tours to compliment the classes I teach. Visit WanderLearn.WitUS.Online to see more tours. More tours added everyday.

  2. BVC The Way of Tea Season 1 Episode 2

    May 29

    BVC The Way of Tea Season 1 Episode 2

    White, green, oolong, black, all from the same plant. Discover how geography and culture turn one leaf into the world's most powerful ritual. Better Vice Club, Season 1, Episode 2. Anthony slows everything down for tea and one surprising fact that changes how you see your cup forever. White tea, green tea, oolong, and black tea all come from the exact same plant: Camellia sinensis. One species. Infinite expressions. In this contemplative episode, you will visit a tiny tea shop in San Francisco's Chinatown, climb the misty hills of Darjeeling in India, walk through Japanese gardens at the foot of Mount Fuji, and trace the Silk Road tea routes that connected China to the rest of the world. You will explore the Boston Tea Party as both a tax revolt and an economic flashpoint, learn why Camellia sinensis can grow from tropical Sri Lanka to 40°N Turkey, and meet the cultural traditions Japanese chanoyu, Chinese gongfu, British afternoon tea, Indian chai that shaped entire civilizations. For ELA students, this episode is a masterclass in nested narrative, ephemeral imagery in poetry, and how vocabulary travels along trade routes (cha → chai → tea). For Geography and Social Studies learners, it maps colonial trade networks, monsoon climate patterns, and the British Empire's hold on Assam and Ceylon. Aligned to Indiana Academic Standards, grades 9–12.

    21 min

  3. May 21

    Indy 500. 3.2 Million Bricks!

    How a 1909 disaster, 63 days, and 3.2 million bricks built the most kissed surface in American sports. Five people died on the opening weekend of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909. The track founders had two months to fix it before everything they had built collapsed. Their answer: 3.2 million bricks, hand-placed in 63 days. This is how the Brickyard got its name and why three feet of those bricks still remain. When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened in August 1909, the racing surface was a mix of crushed limestone, gravel, and tar. Within two days, the surface broke apart at racing speed. A wheel came off Wilfred Bourque's car and he died when it hit a fence post. Charlie Merz's car shredded a tire and flew into the crowd, killing two spectators. By the end of the opening weekend, five people were dead, including the two paying customers. The AAA threatened to ban racing at IMS. Indiana's lieutenant governor wanted racing outlawed across the entire state. The four Speedway founders had two months to find an answer or lose everything. Their answer was bricks. 3.2 million of them. Laid by hand in 63 days. Plus a 33-inch concrete wall to protect the spectators. The final brick, laid on December 14, 1909, was made of solid gold. In this episode: Why the original 1909 surface failed Why bricks beat concrete and asphalt for that specific moment The math of 50,000 bricks per day, by hand The story of the 33-inch concrete wall, the first permanent spectator barrier at any American racetrack The 1961 decision to pave over almost all of it The 36 inches that remained, and the spontaneous joke between two friends that became the most kissed surface in American sports Sources include the IMS Museum, the Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, Brickhunter, Burns Stainless, First Super Speedway, History.com, and WISH-TV's 2025 reporting on the Turn 2 excavation that uncovered original 1909 bricks for the first time since 1937. Full bibliography in the show notes and teacher curriculum. Hosted and produced by Anthony McDonald in Indianapolis, Indiana. Part of the Learn.WitUS curriculum platform. Full teacher curriculum, worksheets, knowledge checks, and Indiana Academic Standards alignment available free at the course page. Episode 3, "Voices in the Air," releases next week. 3.2 million bricks, Yard of Bricks, Brickyard, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IMS, civil engineering, materials science, Wabash Clay, Dale Jarrett, kissing the bricks, Indiana history, educational podcast

  4. Indy 500 The Race That Started It All

    May 16

    Indy 500 The Race That Started It All

    A high school classroom docuseries about the Indianapolis 500. Four men, one cornfield, and a 31-year-old engineer who put the first rearview mirror on a car. How the Indianapolis 500 began on May 30, 1911. On May 30, 1911, eighty thousand people watched Ray Harroun win the first Indianapolis 500. He drove a yellow-and-black single-seater called the Marmon Wasp, with a small mirror bolted above the steering wheel. It is believed to be the first rearview mirror ever mounted on an automobile. This is how it started. In 1908, Indianapolis did not have a racetrack. Four men changed that. Carl Fisher, James Allison, Arthur Newby, and Frank Wheeler bought 328 acres of farmland five miles northwest of downtown for $72,000 and built a 2.5-mile oval. Three years later, on May 30, 1911, a 31-year-old engineer named Ray Harroun crossed the finish line first in a yellow-and-black car called the Marmon Wasp. He had designed it himself. He had also bolted a small mirror above the steering wheel, copying an idea from a horse-drawn taxi he had once seen in Chicago. It is believed to be the first rearview mirror ever mounted on an automobile. This episode covers: Why four Indianapolis businessmen built a private racetrack in 1909 Why the original gravel-and-tar surface killed five people on opening weekend How Ray Harroun's engineering mindset changed motorsports forever The math of the 1911 race compared to a modern Indy 500 One specific habit you can borrow from a man who lived more than 100 years ago Sources include History.com, the IMS Museum, Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, the 1911 Indianapolis 500 entry on Wikipedia (citing primary sources), The Henry Ford collection, and Marmon Holdings corporate history. Full bibliography in the show notes and teacher curriculum. Hosted and produced by Anthony McDonald in Indianapolis, Indiana. Part of the Learn.WitUS curriculum platform. Full teacher curriculum, worksheets, knowledge checks, and Indiana Academic Standards alignment available free at the course page. Episode 2, "3.2 Million Bricks," releases next week.

  5. Stories in Every Cup. The Morning Ritual

    May 13

    Stories in Every Cup. The Morning Ritual

    How a 6:30 AM cup of coffee carries 1,000 years of Ethiopian tradition, colonial history, and the power to vote with your wallet every morning. Welcome to Better Vice Club, Season 1, Episode 1. Host Anthony McDonald opens his kitchen at 6:30 AM and pulls apart the most ordinary moment of the day — making coffee — to reveal something extraordinary underneath. In this episode, you will travel from the Ethiopian highlands, where the Oromo people created the first coffee ceremonies over 1,000 years ago, to the 17th-century European coffeehouses where the American Revolution was planned over shared cups. You will learn the geography of the Coffee Belt (25°N to 30°S), the economics of a $4 latte (the farmer gets $0.12), and the cultural difference between Ethiopian Buna ceremony and your local drive-thru. This is more than a podcast about a drink. It is an invitation to see your morning routine as a daily vote for the kind of world you want to live in. Whether you support fair trade, direct trade, or commodity coffee, your choice ripples back to farmers in Colombia, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. Better Vice Club is an educational podcast for high school students, teachers, and curious adults, aligned to Indiana Academic Standards across Geography, Social Studies, Economics, and English Language Arts. New episodes weekly.

  6. FlashLearnAI How to Start a Flashcard Study Session

    May 13

    FlashLearnAI How to Start a Flashcard Study Session

    I've been building. I built a flashcard app to help me learn and keep my brain sharp on my centenarian journey. FlashLearnAI turns any source (PDF, image, YouTube, audio) into AI-generated flashcards and schedules reviews with spaced repetition. Free to start. Public REST API. Multiplayer Versus Mode for study groups. FlashLearnAI-Flashcards & Spaced Recall Smart flashcards from any PDF, video, or audio. #ShopWitUS #GroWitUS #StudyPrep #Finals #Study #Flashcards #ForeignLanguage

  7. BVC Stories in Every Cup The Morning Ritual

    May 13

    BVC Stories in Every Cup The Morning Ritual

    How a 6:30 AM cup of coffee carries 1,000 years of Ethiopian tradition, colonial history, and the power to vote with your wallet every morning. Welcome to Better Vice Club, Season 1, Episode 1. Host Brand Anthony McDonald opens his kitchen at 6:30 AM and pulls apart the most ordinary moment of the day, making coffee, to reveal something extraordinary underneath. In this episode, you will travel from the Ethiopian highlands, where the Oromo people created the first coffee ceremonies over 1,000 years ago, to the 17th-century European coffeehouses where the American Revolution was planned over shared cups. You will learn the geography of the Coffee Belt (25°N to 30°S), the economics of a $4 latte (the farmer gets $0.12), and the cultural difference between Ethiopian Buna ceremony and your local drive-thru. This is more than a podcast about a drink. It is an invitation to see your morning routine as a daily vote for the kind of world you want to live in. Whether you support fair trade, direct trade, or commodity coffee, your choice ripples back to farmers in Colombia, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. Better Vice Club is an educational podcast for high school students, teachers, and curious adults, aligned to Indiana Academic Standards across Geography, Social Studies, Economics, and English Language Arts. New episodes weekly.

    23 min
  8. Harlem Rhapsody - All the Spoilers ReadWitUS

    Feb 18

    Harlem Rhapsody - All the Spoilers ReadWitUS

    Have you read Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray? The cover of this book caught my attention when I saw it in the fiction section of my local library. The story didn't disappoint. In this episode I share my thoughts on the first four chapters. #SpoilerAlert

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The Centenarian Journey. Is a blueprint for radical self-mastery? Follow the BAM, Chief Strategist, through the multi-decade mission to break the 100m dash record at 100, master Handstand Pushups, lifelong learning, and achieve professional voice over status. Each week connects the dots between diverse projects: NASM CPT/CNC/CES certification study, building software Tech Tools, analyzing books/movies in All the Spoilers, and the science of discipline with the Better Vice Club. Will BAM prove that anything is acquirable with the right strategy? Listen and follow the journey to find out.

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