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🗓️ 20 May 2013
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Skye returns from Switzerland with stories of fondue, then the gang jumps into a lively discussion of recent comments by Stephen Hawking and a new book claiming historical reports of Christian persecution in the Roman Empire were largely fabricated. Fun, fun, fun!
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0:00.0 | Hey there, this is Phil. Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Skye. Hello Phil. Hi Skye. Welcome back from Switzerland. Thank you. And Christian. Hey Phil, I'm Hey Skye. We're glad you're back. Hi Christian. Welcome back from South Wheaton. Yeah. Yeah. I had a request, a couple requests for theme songs. Actually quite a few requests, but the one that caught my eye was to sing the theme song as Tiny Tim. |
0:30.0 | Who's Tiny Tim? See, we have a generational issue here. Tiny Tim. Oh, I know. He's from the Dickens Christmas Carol. No, not Tiny Tim. Tiny Tim. He was a, he was kind of a, he was a singer dancer back in the, yeah, he didn't really, he was just, well, he was on the tonight show a lot in the 70s. 70s. And he played the ukulele and he sang in a full set of voice. So he was kind of a novelty singer. Was he kind of like Phil? |
1:00.0 | No, he was, no, he was actually very large. So he looked funny. He was a sarcastic, but he sang in a full set, oh, with a very odd vibrato. And he ended up getting married on the tonight show with Johnny Kerr. So who was it? Was it Charles? No, that would have been a good, because I thought about another 70s. I know, you know, you know about Charles, but not Tiny Tim. No, I remember her from our boat reruns. Yeah. But there weren't reruns of. And I thought we had a request for |
1:30.0 | a sky and Christian to sing the song. Oh, yeah, there was that too. Well, I have to do that next time. So you guys can rehearse. You need to meet between now and then. I want to learn to play Plinky Pete. I can do that. I don't think Plinky Pete wants that. He's not that kind of ukulele. He's a one man instrument. This is Tiny Tim singing the podcast theme song. Hey, it's a podcast. What do you know? Hey, it's a podcast. So there's no video. Hey, |
2:00.0 | it's a podcast. So I was hoping you would hit that high note. And he did it. So I was hoping you would hit |
2:30.2 | it, and my dad loved Johnny Carson in the night shows that we'd watch it all, I remember a single tiny Tim. Yes. Those were the days. I'm going to just cause and get a little sentimental. |
2:44.5 | Okay. What's going on? Ping! You were in Switzerland? What do they have? Why? Why? Why? Where were you trying to avoid the Needless World War? What were you doing there? Y, Yamme. |
2:56.1 | He was trying to be neutral. |
2:58.1 | Why why am I was with why wham what's why wham why wham is youth with a mission? |
3:02.8 | They have a what's their mission a pointless and list list use that's my organization list list youth youth with a coma |
3:11.2 | Youth with the hangover youth with you can attitude no good reason to be here right and see with a mission |
3:18.5 | They have a training school outside of Geneva, Switzerland in this little farm community |
3:24.3 | It was beautiful this village and they asked me to come out and and teach for a week for their master's degree program |
3:30.3 | So it was mostly why wham leaders who have been in the organization for 20 plus years cool. Why you what are they my book with? |
3:39.6 | Was part of their curriculum and so they invited me to come out and talk on that and other things |
3:43.6 | So I taught every morning from 9 to noon and then they were very gracious host and they gave me a car for my wife and I had to go around and enjoy |
3:51.9 | Did you get a library? No, was it like a tiny Swiss car? It was a Mazda. It was a Mazda six. Oh, no, not time |
3:59.7 | But of course they do have tiny Swiss cars. I saw a lot of wonderful pictures on Facebook. Yeah, I haven't seen the |
4:06.8 | And if you like his Facebook page. Yeah, then you can see him with hair. Yeah, we do that right. Yeah |
4:13.7 | So what was the highlight of Switzerland? You know, you know, you got to bring Amanda. I did and actually that was my highlight |
4:20.4 | It was I would not have wanted to do this without her. Yeah, so it was like a second honeymoon |
4:26.0 | Yeah, a lot of ways to get away and it was just Swiss honeymoon that you'd always dreamed of |
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