Have you ever found yourself trapped in a situation so bizarre, it's straight out of a sitcom? Let's just say, my (Tim) impromptu after-hours escapade in a French museum gave "cultural enrichment" a whole new meaning. On this episode of the Psych and Theo Podcast, we're peeling back the curtain to share the quirks and capers that make us who we are, beginning with Tim's tomboy antics among seven sisters and the tale of Sam's infamous knee scar.
Then, it's your turn to grab the mic as we call out for your top book and film suggestions to keep our cultural appetite sated. We'll chuckle over action flicks from Rocky 4 to Commando, and reflect on the mutual admiration for The Patriot. Closing out, we extend a heartfelt thank you for tuning in and contributing to the rich tapestry of our conversations. Join us for this laughter-filled amalgam of personal tales, cultural exchanges, and the psychological and theological musings you've come to expect.
Have you ever found yourself trapped in a situation so bizarre, it's straight out of a sitcom? Let's just say, my (Tim) impromptu after-hours escapade in a French museum gave "cultural enrichment" a whole new meaning. On this episode of the Psych and Theo Podcast, we're peeling back the curtain to share the quirks and capers that make us who we are, beginning with Tim's tomboy antics among seven sisters and the tale of Sam's infamous knee scar.
Then, it's your turn to grab the mic as we call out for your top book and film suggestions to keep our cultural appetite sated. We'll chuckle over action flicks from Rocky 4 to Commando, and reflect on the mutual admiration for The Patriot. Closing out, we extend a heartfelt thank you for tuning in and contributing to the rich tapestry of our conversations. Join us for this laughter-filled amalgam of personal tales, cultural exchanges, and the psychological and theological musings you've come to expect.
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Speaker 2:
any more questions on our board.
Speaker 1:
Let's see, here I think we have one more. Let's see. Okay, yeah, the last one here will do fun facts, oh the fun facts. Fun facts Fun facts.
Speaker 2:
What did I write down for my fun facts?
Speaker 1:
Oh, okay, and I'll let you go first on this one.
Speaker 2:
Okay, so fun facts about me. One, so I didn't mention this in my upbringing. I have seven sisters and zero brothers. Did you know that about me? I did not know that about you See, folks see, See this is the proof that we don't script this out. No, this is all natural, we're all hardcore at this podcasting right here.
Speaker 1:
Wow. So where are you in the number, second youngest. Second youngest.
Speaker 2:
Okay.
Speaker 1:
So you have six older sisters.
Speaker 2:
And one younger sister.
Speaker 1:
Wow, okay, how was that? What do you mean Like, how was it growing up with sisters that?
Speaker 2:
was crazy.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
I mean, you know, like being the younger boy, they would. They would, like, you know, pick on me and stuff Now they would. They'll say like, oh, I was the favorite because I was a boy. But that was not true. And if any of you are listening to this, you know it's not true.
Speaker 2:
But yeah, you know, like one of my, one of my older sisters, she was kind of a tomboy growing up and so like her, me and her would would like go outside and we'd play with my best friend who lived next door. We'd play army and you know pirates and all that stuff, you know all the climb trees and dick ditches and all you know play in the creek. But yeah, you know, I don't know like it's, I can't compare it to anything.
Speaker 1:
So yeah, yeah, okay it's good Fun fact Well I guess we'll alternate, yeah, oh yeah, one fun fact about me is I have a huge scar on my knee and the way that happened is we would play football in our school or school didn't have any grass, it was just gravel, it was a desert right. So had that and I always like to talk about it just because it's a very visible scar and when you think about scars and you think about healing it just always stands out to me. But basically, it's a huge scar on my knee and I had to keep my leg from bending so that the stitches would seal up the cut right. For how long? No-transcript? I think it was like four weeks.
Speaker 2:
So I couldn't bend your leg. For four weeks I couldn't bend my leg. Oh, that sounds miserable.
Speaker 1:
It was just like I had to walk straight. I didn't. I used some crutches for a little bit, but for the most part I just kind of limped around. How was it when you bent your knee after four weeks? Well, here's the dumb thing that I did is that I was so tired. After a week and a half of doing that I said, well, I could, I could kind of run, so I was able to bend my knee a little bit. So I played kickball and I said I'm going to try to kick, I'm going to try to kick with my left, but as you're running, you kick. And then, as I was running to first base you know hobbling along it just opened up, just the cut a little bit.
Speaker 2:
I said I can't.
Speaker 1:
it's never going to heal, so I had to stay for me three weeks just doing that. So that's a fun fact. Scar needs.
Speaker 2:
Have you ever thought about making up like a fictitious story about your scar, like you got into the fight with a lion from Sabo I?
Speaker 1:
have thought about it, but you know, sometimes people will start asking how'd you end up there? And then I just fall apart and explain the story.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, you're going to lie to cover it up.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, ok.
Speaker 2:
Well, another fun fact about me I am colorblind. What yeah? What's the color? See blue, blue, red. I am what they call a do turt, which is like it's not full spectrum. I can see vivid red green, but a lot of red green blend together.
Speaker 1:
OK, between those two specifically.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, but I mean it affects a lot of things, yeah, so I've failed every colorblind test that I've ever taken, you know in the military and outside the military. So I haven't got those classes there's what are they called in chroma glasses? Yeah, yeah, there's that, that's right, yeah, maybe we can get them as a sponsor and they'll send us a free copy or something.
Speaker 1:
That would be good, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
I heard they're really great. Yeah, I've heard that too. Ok, you know, they're expensive, I bet, I bet.
Speaker 1:
I mean. So how do you do a drag?
Speaker 2:
But with a discount and a rebate, a promotion code. Yeah, so I'm colorblind, yeah.
Speaker 1:
How do you do a driving if it's red and green?
Speaker 2:
I mean, I guess you could tell which one's on top I mean, yeah, and you know your eyes do get trained a little bit. I'd say I think now traffic lights are a bit, they're brighter now. And so it's a little bit easier to tell red from yellow, but the older ones that are dimmer, it's it's very hard to tell so you got to like, like, like.
Speaker 2:
if I come to an intersection with just the blinkers, like a blinking light, I have to. I lower my eyes to look to see if there's stop signs and so I can identify it there.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that's cool, yeah, cool.
Speaker 2:
You know you live with it, it's OK.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, yeah, eventually it just adapts, and so on, yeah.
Speaker 2:
It's not like we don't colorblind people. It's not like we don't see color. There is a form of colorblindness that they only see gray, yeah Right. But most of the time, the way I describe it it's like normal vision people, you're watching life in vivid HD, 1080p, 4k kind of stuff. We are watching life in like a 16 color television kind of old television, old color TV, yeah.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
It's dimmer, not as definitely not as high contrast and definition, things like that. So you're like wearing or like wearing sunglasses inside, the kind of thing.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Not that dim, but the colors are dimmed, and so the contrast between the colors are not so great. So you guys can just see more and more distinctions in the light spectrum than we can.
Speaker 1:
Right, yeah, that makes it so. You're born like that. It's not something that happens. Yeah, yeah, ok.
Speaker 2:
About 10 percent of the male population is like that. 10 percent yeah, that's surprising. They walk among us.
Speaker 1:
Wow, they walk among us. So you all are OK. You make your voices heard, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, you know, there's no special legislation for that.
Speaker 1:
So now we're going to change the whole system. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
You're going to bend, you guys to my will.
Speaker 1:
You'll understand what as you listen to more of our episodes. Another fun fact fun fact my mom was my teacher, not, not homeschooled, you weren't home. Okay, I had not homeschooled, this was, she was my, one of my. No, sorry, let me say this this way. She was my sister and my brother's teacher. She was a teacher who worked in the school where I attended, but along with that, I was also my brother and sister's teacher. So you know, think about the Situation there. They were the ones who got most in trouble because I couldn't show favoritism. So I felt this pressure like, okay, they can't see them being favorite, favorite in my siblings, so I have to be tougher on them. And so, yeah, fun fact, and we still talk about it to this day, more so my sister and I, because for them, is it trial, is it trauma?
Speaker 1:
Yeah, more. So I think my sister would just say you know it was a pain having you as my. Yeah, she, she knew I was expecting a lot of her for my younger brother. I had him for maybe a year or two, I think I in one of my classes. But yeah, so, a family Tree of Education, okay, so okay.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, all right. Well, here's a fun fact about me I have been to all seven churches of Revelation, the book of Revelation. Really you know, like the seven churches, that yeah, every Bible study walks through.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, yeah, I've been one in Revelation the, the, the piss or the letters at this is Marna Pergamum.
Speaker 2:
Now can I name them Philadelphia, sardis, laodicea and what's. Sunlight strip no, no, no, I'm blinking on one. I think is this artist Philadelphia Laodicea. Oh, thigh tire. I missed that tire.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, those seven. Yeah, I've been to all seven three times, yeah, and what is it like? Honestly, they're pretty cool.
Speaker 1:
Okay.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, some of them are a little smaller than others, but it's just, it's one of the. If you go on this, they're all in Turkey, southern Turkey, so, and you can do a Bible tour with different, lots of different companies that will do these tours. But it's think you think of it as a pilgrimage because you're on a bus, a lot and you got to travel to these cities to see the ruins. But some of them are a lot smaller than others, where there's just like a little half city block of ancient ruins but then others are Massive.
Speaker 2:
I mean my favorite is pergamum because it's up on a mountain and you Some of the descriptions in the letter to pergamum. You can see Be there to this day the throne of Satan that's mentioned in and the letter to pergamum like you can you can see what is likely, what what John was referring to okay, there which is the temple to the altar of Zeus. Yeah, you can see those things. It's. Ephesus is massive.
Speaker 1:
Is it?
Speaker 2:
okay, oh yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1:
So yeah, fun fact about me.
Speaker 2:
I love, I love that trip. I love that tour. I've taken students there. It's a really really cool place to go to that.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that would be cool. Hmm, all right, um, I guess. Last one for me, as you can say, it's not really, I guess, a fun fact, but I don't have a middle name, um, and most people do. But the fun fact I wanted to mention was actually about my car. I don't know anyone recently that I know of, and you may, you may know someone, or you may have this as well that has a car still from o2, so it was an o2 on the civic. I bought it in o5. My dad helped me buy it and I've had it ever since.
Speaker 2:
It's that white hunts civic right up, and so that would mean doesn't have nos in it, like no those Honda civics back then during the fast one.
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, it was during that era, I'm gonna get the white rims.
Speaker 2:
I'm actually disappointed that it doesn't have nos, oh man, I was gonna get the spoiler.
Speaker 1:
That was my cousin. My cousin did that.
Speaker 2:
These cars- but uh, we'll talk your drift going on the muffler, everything.
Speaker 1:
Um, didn't do it and you know there was a time where they started stealing those cars so I had a yeah, a little away from that, but um, I've had it since o5. Wow, so that means I've had how many miles in? Years it has 160. That's pretty low.
Speaker 2:
It is well, yeah, so. I could sell it, but it's one of my 2011 Kia Sorrento, which I don't have any more folks that had a 160 on it. How old was it? It was the 2011.
Speaker 1:
Okay, so, yeah, well, I had a good mileage, yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, um, yeah, named it Karen, but Karen, karen, I've never named my cars, yeah.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, karen, I named it Karen because it looked like. It looked like a soccer mom kind of car.
Speaker 1:
Okay, but now I have the back of the case, and she was always complaining like Karen, was that?
Speaker 2:
for the manager, so uh-huh.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so it's either Karen or after the Karen era, after the.
Speaker 2:
Karen era sort of contemporary. Yeah, it's yeah, okay, yeah, but uh, she got totaled this summer, so okay, yeah, that's when I got my truck.
Speaker 1:
But which is a sweet truck, by the way.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, ladies, tim single, he has a truck and he's a good guy. Wow, wow, run that out there. We went there. All right, I'll edit that part.
Speaker 2:
Okay, I told you folks this is the unedited, so all right. Um, let's see one more. I got one more for you. Okay, yeah, I got locked in a museum. Two story howling I was 22, okay, I was an adult. So what happened? So it wasn't just that I got locked in a museum, I got locked in a museum in France.
Speaker 1:
Oh man yeah.
Speaker 2:
I was. I was on an internship. I was this is the summer of 2008 I was on an internship Um with some church planters in the city of uh leol, which is in southern france. It's spelled l y on, so english people would say lion um, if you didn't know anything about church history, the church father of erineus called erineus of lions or erineus of leol.
Speaker 2:
Anyway so, southern france I'm there for the summer, um, I find this ancient history museum that's right next to an ancient amphitheater, that's uh near where, uh, the martyrs of leon were, were killed in 177 ad. Anyway, I had a fun, fun history lesson for you Did my master's thesis on that. So well, okay, yeah, um, but so I'm in this museum, okay, I just love ancient history, okay, and I'm walking around, and in france is something you got to learn about the french culture the hours of operation that you see on the wall of, like, a shop or or museum or anything, mm-hmm, that doesn't mean that that's when they're going to open and close. It's just more like, probably, when they're going to open and close. So today was obviously one of those days where they decided they weren't going to stay open that long. Okay, maybe they thought there's no one in here, we'll just close our like. So I'm walking around and I just a little bit embarrassing part here I had to use the restroom, okay.
Speaker 2:
So, who doesn't in a museum?
Speaker 1:
Okay.
Speaker 2:
So find the restroom. I go inside the restroom and, like in the short amount of time that I was in there, I heard this bell ring like a not like a ding, but like a almost like a fire alarm kind of bell like for like a five seconds maybe or something, and I was like what was that, you know? And then I come out of the restroom and all the lights in the museum are off.
Speaker 1:
The hell was that, except for?
Speaker 2:
like the ground lights, the kind of like security lights around some of the exhibits, and I was like, well, this is odd. And I kind of like walked around I didn't see anyone, but I decided to don't panic, just play it cool, yeah. So I continued to look at exhibits, so I was just for a few minutes. I was just like. You know what I'm just going to act like.
Speaker 1:
This is normal, yeah, what happens Like three o'clock, so it was still light up Three, three, 30, maybe four o'clock.
Speaker 2:
Yeah yeah, it was light outside, weird.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:
Okay, and you know there's like daylight coming in some of the windows, you know, and I'm just like I started to get a little worried after a few minutes. I'm like Especially not seen anyone yeah. You know, I'm like I should probably go to the front. So I walked through the museum and go to the front and I get to the front door and that bell I heard was the cage coming down on the front door you know like storefront, so they have those metal cages that come down.
Speaker 2:
That's what the bell was, and I am the only one in this building and I'm like, oh no, For no reason. And this is like a you know, a museum like an ancient history.
Speaker 2:
Like these are like important artifacts that are in here and here I am, this American college kid, you know, and they're like I'm like I'm going to get a jail. So I'm like at this cage I'm sort of like just like jiggling the cage with like exercise and futility, like why would the cage open if I just jiggled it, you know? And but I happened to hear. I look over, I hear just one of my ears. I look to the side and there was a gift shop that was also. The cage was down but there was a woman in the back of the gift shop that was walking out. She was about to shut the door of the back of the gift shop.
Speaker 1:
And.
Speaker 2:
I ran as fast as I could over there and grabbed onto the cage and started shaking it and I was like man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, you know, like screaming, you know something to get her attention. I scared her after death.
Speaker 1:
I was. You know I'm supposed to be in this museum.
Speaker 2:
She looks at me and I'm like help you know. So, she calls security and the security guys come down and none of them I didn't see you in the cameras.
Speaker 1:
Did they not have cameras? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:
This is interesting, yeah that's right, yeah, and so I. Well, I think it was like I was in the restroom. So they just probably just took a glance at the floor and didn't see anyone.
Speaker 2:
So none of them spoke good English very well and of course I didn't speak French very well. So we had this like problem of going back and forth, you know, and like finally they were like one of them was translating a sort of broken English, like what were you doing here, you know? Like what were you doing when the museum closed? And I was like tried to explain discreetly oh, I was in the restroom and she's like, you know, and I kind of had to like go back and forth till she got it. She explained to them in French, you know, what I was doing and they all kind of looked at each other like ha ha, they are sort of laughing at me and they pointing at me.
Speaker 2:
I was like oh, yeah, haha, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So then they're like Okay, okay, well, just write your name here so we know who you were. Okay, so I just I wrote my first name. Is just like a blank piece of paper, so just wrote my first name and I'm like it was even official. Yeah, I just I wrote, I wrote Tim.
Speaker 1:
And I was like and.
Speaker 2:
I was like last name anywhere? And they're like, no, no, that's good. And then I was like, okay, yeah. And then they just like walked me out to this downstairs area and out this back door and dumped me into an alley. Oh man, they're like over, you know. They shut the door behind me and I'm like what on earth just happened?
Speaker 1:
Oh gosh, and was that your first time there at France? Oh, that was my first time in France. Yeah, yeah, that's, that's. That's crazy, man. Yeah, so you survived, but that I can imagine that being pretty scary.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, well, for a few minutes. I was like oh no.
Speaker 1:
Locked in museum. That's a good fun fact.
Speaker 2:
I like that. That is pretty good, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:
Then we hit all our big questions. Guys, hopefully we haven't scared you, you know we.
Speaker 2:
Talked about a lot of people. We swear normal people.
Speaker 1:
I think you guys would have some great answers to these. If you do have anything that you would like to share, feel free to share and we will gladly read them. So at least we'll be collecting them and then we can announce them in our later yeah, maybe you have some good books or good movies for us to watch. Yeah, yeah please share with. Tim needs to know more, more good movies.
Speaker 2:
These were subpar. I'm an uncultured pig that's what he's saying.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, who doesn't like these movies?
Speaker 2:
Who doesn't like Rocky 4. Commando, who doesn't like Commando? Commando?
Speaker 1:
I'm glad we agreed on the Patriot, though.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:
But, guys, we're so happy that you have been tuning in and listening to these fun facts and awesome questions about our back stories and how we came to create this podcast and I hope you're able to tune into all these episodes and hopefully you enjoy and see your personality and see how we tackle these topics from a psychological and theological perspective. But, tim, any closing remarks? I have no closing remarks.
Speaker 2:
No closing remarks. I hope you guys enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:
We talked a lot and we covered a lot of different things, so hope you enjoy it. We look forward to hearing from you and have a good one, see ya.
