May 12, 2025 • 28 mins
In this episode of Ramplifi, host Andrew Caravella sits down with Tim Adele, a longtime English professor at Victor Valley College, who reflects on his 25+ years at VVC. Tim shares his journey from North Park College in Chicago to McNeese State in Louisiana and his unique teaching experiences in Texas, China, and Greece 🌍. They share fun stories, like Tim being mistaken for Bill Gates, Andrew getting compared to Dane Cook and Austin Mahone, and their karaoke mishaps 🎤😂. Andrew also touches on his experience in radio, which Prof. Adell is shocked to learn, mentioning how he’s often recognized by voice, especially by students who listen to talk radio and podcasts 🎧. Tim also shares the fascinating story behind his name change during one of the world wars and offers his take on zodiac signs 🔮.
Tune in for laughter, insightful stories, Tim's philosophy on student teaching, and a mix of personal experiences!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
It is another day and another episode of the Ramplify
podcast here at Victor Valley College. Hello, I'm your host
Andrew Caravella. And look, we don't have a student this time.
We couldn't find one to pull in off the off
the run path there for the lake, so we brought
in professor Adele Hi. Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm a student of life.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So student of life. How long have you worked here now?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Twenty five years full time than two part time before that?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Okay, all right, so I came.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Here when most of our students did not exist.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And let's see English? Has that always been what you've
done here and nothing else?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well? English and creative writing, creative writing. That's that's the
thing I'm most strictly trained for, to teach creative.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Writing, creative writing. Okay, where'd you where'd you get your credentials?
Where did you go to school?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I went to went to undergraduate at North Park College
and Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh wait, hold on theological? So were you trying to
go down a different path in life?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was trying to trying to be saved and it
didn't work, So it's so I was. But then graduate
school was at McNeese State in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Go cowboys.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You ever come across any hurricanes during your time there?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
No, well, no, no one come to think of, there's
one hurricane. My parents have never seen me play soccer
because they came in to see me. I was going
to play in the Lake Charles, Louisiana Intramural Championship game
and Hurricane Danny came in. Oh dang it, they have
never seen me Daniel. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's you guys. Get that right. It's a challenging name,
there it is. It's it's a kid thing.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
If well, but I mean, if it hadn't been Hurricane Haley,
all of us would be dead.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Oh well, there's that too. Haley's here. Hailey and Jorge
today say hello, guys. Good there they are.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They'll be they'll be silent after this.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, So while soccer, I actually grew up playing soccer too.
What position did you play?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I My biggest position was left wing because uh, when
I when I went to college, I uh started I
started just playing and I and I hadn't hadn't played before.
So my first between my freshman and sophomore year, I
went home. I was working at Del Taco. I had
no girlfriends, which you guys can understand, and uh so
(02:30):
all I had time to do was go to the
field and kick with my left foot. You're left footed,
I'm right footed, but I was kicking entirely with my
left foot. So I came out the most improved my
sophomore year. And I was left wing because I was
the only person who could kick with both feep.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Okay, all right, I'm left footed. So interesting, okay, del Taco.
But you're just a little older than me. So where
did you grow up, because dell talk, I.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Grew up in Banning, Oh, okay, and Banning, yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Right, so in an empire? Ask right, So do you
still have like roots there in Banning?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I live in Beaumont. I lived Banning in Beaumont, and
I I okay, I went out. I went to college
in Chicago, went to graduate school in Louisiana, which.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Was a culture shock, I'm sure for you.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Actually not really not that much, because I growing up
as a southern California boy, I was used to being warm,
and so I had four years in cold country to
make me a man. As my dad wanted wanted to happen,
and then when I went back to Louisiana, I was
used to being warm again.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Then I taught in Texas for a little while, taught
in China for a year, taught in taught in Greece.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So you worked abroad. Oh wow, Yeah, you're a very
world traveled man.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Okay. In my youth, I worked in China, I worked
in Greece, and I worked in Texas. So that's three
foreign countries.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, So do you know, like, like, did you pick
up on any of the language or just enough to
get by.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Eating in Highchipol hall.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I have no idea what you just said.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, Sherifangamin, which means I am counter revolutionary.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay. I was about to say, you need to double
check that. We may have to bleep this episode because
I don't know what he's saying. But okay, okay, well okay,
so I said culture shock, But what about when you
were when you were abroad, then any any culture shock,
anythings that like you encountered for the first time in
your life and you were like wow, blown away by.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, every day in China was something new. Every day
I saw things I had never seen, and sometimes it
was just simple things like like if you go and
buy some dofu.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, wait, I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Okay, to you buy some dofu. You don't buy it
in little cups. There was a huge wiggling amount of
brown daufu and you would cut off a hunk of dofu.
So imagine all all like this wiggling. It's like it
looked like brown jello. I'm not gonna say what brown
jellow would look like.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I can visualize what that is. Yes, But did it
tastes good?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I don't know. I don't like do foo. I wouldn't
it tasted like dofu?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The thing I loved was when you could go out
on the street, out on the streets and just get
I think the thing we have here would be Mongolian barbecue.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh I love mcgolian. Did you guys eat that? Yeah? Yeah?
Poor He's like yeah no, he totally went there in
his eyes like that's what he's getting to.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Lunch just disappeared. And so you just get this stuff,
you mix it in and you and you have what
you what you want?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Okay, So I have to know because everyone else is
probably thinking the same thing or not. Did McDonald's taste
the same in China?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
No, they didn't have McDonald's in China. I would I
was there from the fall of nineteen eighty eight to
the spring of nineteen eighty nine. I left a month
after tenn okay, not because of that. I was reagially
scheduled to leave, but I left left there.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Interesting. All right, Well, that's cool, very neat. Uh, let's see,
we have a lot to get to in this podcast
with Tim. Tim's really quick, as you guys probably figured
out with him responding to my question. So we're gonna
take a quick time out and then when we come back,
we're gonna keep things rolling and uh, it's gonna get
really really fun. So keep a lock. We'll be right back. Sorry, Andrew, No, No,
(06:06):
it's fine, it's totally fine. I'm just I'm just shocked.
The kids know who I am. That's that's I literally
talk at schools and they know who I am before
before well they hear my voice, before I introduce who
I am. They already know who I am. So yeah,
that too. The music thing, so so just so you know,
(06:28):
because I am your demographic, I for the last going
on five years, have been the weekend news anchor in
Los Angeles for k IF I AM six forty. Happy
New Year, LA. I'm Andrew Caravella, live from the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Well it's a different story in
the Deep South. The new year has opened with tragedy
(06:48):
in New Orleans. Oh really and all of iHeartRadio, so
I do now trending also on Kiss FM and Coast
and my FM, all the LA music stations here hear
my voice do whether they're to. But on the AM
side twelve to six pm, I'm doing the news really
every fifteen minutes for the last attention to that now, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, no, it's okay, It's it's okay, Yeah, it says
with no absolutely zero bitterness. I low.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
This is not not to get into the ego, but
there are times like and it's it's common where I'll
be at an event with somebody of the demographic and
maybe two hours after talking to me, they it's they're
bothered because they can't they can't put the voice to
to to the face and they're like, I know you
(07:37):
we've met somewhere before, and I know we haven't, but
you probably do know me and they go, where do
I know you from? And then I and then and
then I go down the list, I go, have you
ever been in traffic in LA? Like? Yeah, like you
know I commute? Like, okay, you listen to the radio? Yeah, okay,
Well I'm Andrew Caravella from k IF. I am six forty.
Oh my god, I knew it. Yeah, happens all the time.
(08:01):
I am shocked. Really. Usually people will identify who I am,
and then the next question is, you know, what's it
like working with Bill Handle? That's that's literally what they
go to next. For John John cobelts, Oh okay, it's okay.
When was the last time you listened to the radio?
I'm just like actually flipped it on and got your news?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Just I mean, besides KVCR, I love k.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I used to work at KVC. Really, I did social media,
though I wasn't necessarily on the area.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
No, besides kvs are the last time I actually listened
to the radio was probably in college. It's okay, okay,
So what I wanted to do is rephrase that do
you know who I am? To do you know who
I am?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
No? I could I could totally play the character of
are Caravell. Do you know who I am?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Do you know what you just stepped into? Sir?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
For all the fans that actually know who I am,
I'll do one more time here for everybody, live from
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom, I'm Andrew Caravella. Yeah see,
it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's a thing, Okay, and life from a room in
the upstairs of the ASB on Tim.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's really funny though, because sometimes parents like they they're
not listening to KFI. This is really weird. And I
don't know why this is. But when I go to
the high schools and you know, I do like my
presentation and I say KFI, it's ah like they know yeah,
And I'm like, why are you listening to Todd Radio?
(09:35):
You're like sixteen's But that's a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
These podcasts are much more than anything nowadays. Yeah. I mean,
I've got I've got people who get all their news
from podcasts.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, do you guys have a favorite
podcast you want to just shout out? Okay, well that
that was great, shameless brown noser. Okay, all right, okay,
so I have a question for you, Uh, do you
recognize any of these two individuals.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Okay, one is me and the other is George Clooney.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Well, yes, correct, one is you? Do you know which
one is you?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, I'm the one on the right and Bill Gates
is Big Gates is on my left.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yes. So fun fact, we went around campus and asked
several students which one professor Adell was, and the majority
of them picked the one on the left.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Really, yes, is that because there's just whom I'm a leftist.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
To shame? Look look at what those political humoring. It's
so funny. I don't know it's I guess some students
think you you resemble Bill Gates.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's it's been something that I've all my life, basically
as long as Bill Gates has been around, I've been
confused with him. The other one I look like that
no one gets anymore is George F.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Will I don't even know who that is. George. We'll
put his picture up right now.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The conservative columnists that I that I do in fact
look like My favorite time, My favorite Bill Gates thing
is when I was in I think it was twenty
ten with the Mady United Nations. Dino Bosanello's Shandon Lessened
and Boat, both two big guys ex military were walking
down to the Twilight Twilight Diner and this woman stopped.
I'm in the middle and she said, wait, are you
(11:16):
Bill Gates. I said, yes, I am, and these are
my bodyguards and they just flex.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I get Dane Cook.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Dane Cook, Dane Cook. Yes, yeah, is he still working?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Uh no, awesome a home looks like me, completely different
Dane Cook.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I can see. I can see.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh well, thank you, thank you. I've been getting him
since I was seventeen, so yeah, just a couple of
years ago. Yeah, he's actually doing comedy again and he's
going out doing tours. So it's I'm like, oh great,
I'm gonna be like that lookalike face again.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, the second string Dane Cook.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
That's what I just got dusted by. Adele. Wow, I
don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Is that like hr worthy file of the grievance?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
For the grievance, it's a d e what.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
A singer? Adele? Yeah, okay, yeah, because that works.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Okay, file a grievance against the singer.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Singing by the singing? Do you sing? Is that a
thing for you? Anny Hobby?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I used to I used to sing in high school,
and then I went to the college choir and found
out I was not that good. I was not that
I was with the actual singers. And I found out,
okay that the height of my glory and singing in
college was when in a ninety person choir I sang
a wrong note and the choir director looked at.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Me, well, we'll have to have a karaoke night here
at ASB to redeem yourself one of these days. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I participated for one song in karaoke to at the
SB retreat two years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh wow, you did, Queen Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Thunderbolts and lightning. It was indeed frightening.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Okay. Yeah, Well, and on that we are going to
take a time out and we'll be back at the
second half of tim Adelle's interview here on Ramplify. Don't
go away, and we're back with Professor tim Adele. Anyone
(13:18):
call you timoth things that a thing.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It's a thing when they want to get in trouble.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, Adele, what is like? What background is that?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, okay, I'm Swedish and when we came over, we
went by the Swedish custom, which would mean if you're
if you're a man, you go by your father's name
and ad soon. If you're a woman, you go your
father's name and ad daughter. Okay, So in the going
into World War One, we were the adolph Sons. Wow,
and they said that it sounded to German.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Did they change it to Adele very not, because I
think I think they figured out and I'm glad we
weren't Adolphson in World War two or just eight off.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, they probably wouldn't have worked out well, the Adolphs Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But I've been called adele odell Ardale. The worst I
ever got was Airdale air Adel. He was doing a
purpose he was that was intentional.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
What does it mean at its root? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Nothing at all, nothing, nothing except except I heard that
in the in the early nineteen hundreds they said that
Adele is a word word for a potentially overweight singer.
And I didn't know why that was. And we found
out it's a prophecy.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
That is not a prop That's a problem.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I fought a lot. If you are disputing prophecy, is
what your problem is.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He's just throwing out just fibbs your mouth over your mouth, Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I expect Haley to to disrespect my heritage.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
But that's great. What's your sign? He're Zodia. I had
to think the cancer, you're a cancer? Okay. So July
is that July July, July eighth, four days after Independence Day?
So how American are you?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
How American am I? I find out out how American
I am. The farther I get away, I get away
from America.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Okay, I'm That's that's an interesting anisal because every place
I've ever lived, they just say I think of myself
as cosmopolitan, okay, but they.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Point out how very American I am. Give me an example, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Living in China, we had this this this British couple
that was part of our expat group. They were they
were hanging out and they were going they were about
to leave, okay, and I did what all of us
Americans are doing. We're just coming in and hugging him
and hugging him. And you could it could feel the
people enduring it, okay, because they said, Okay, he's American,
(15:47):
He's going to be hugging. I wish I could express
that sort of affection that I have for him, but
I don't. But I'm British and I'm stiff.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So I haveveral UK friends. I could, I could, I
could test testify to that. Yeah. So, yeah, we are
an emotional society here in America. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, at the same time, we're emotional, but at the
same time there's kind of a a male custom of
cutting down emotions and expressing emotions in unhealthy ways. So
one thing I noticed that, and this isn't exactly unhealthy,
but I'm eternally fascinated by the by the sociology of teasing. Okay,
go on, Okay, as Haley wouldn't understand, because I never
(16:30):
tease her. But but the idea of of we recognize,
recogon reckon our connection to people by how much they
will pitch us.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, And if.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You're not somebody, somebody's going to tease you don't really matter.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I could, I could understand that. Yeah, assessing that in
my head, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And and so I'm eternally and it's a kind of
a give and take betwe between people, where where we
establish how cool we are with each other by how
much much how much we tease each other and how
much we RaSE each other. It's a sort of sort
of because you can't go around hugging everybody, right okay,
and and you can't do that all all the time,
but you can you can ras them.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Do you tease your students?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh yeah, except for Haley. Haley Uh was dead serious.
There's never any never, anything off off base about that.
We just just just the facts.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Just the facts. Okay, all right, do you do you
do you find teasing actually kind of builds that relationship
and that trust with your with your students.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it does. But it also
it kind of has to has to work by based
on on the personality of the individual. I mean, I
know I have some colleagues who don't tease because that's
not their personality.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
It'd be weird if they did. Yeah, it would be
weird if they would be.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It would be h grievance for me. Okay, but uh
but I am naturally. I am naturally. I grew up
playing sports and middle child or no, the most valuable child.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Okay, you're quick.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, like we we noticed, you know the genetic rule
that that DNA has a limited shelf life, and after
the first child, the quality of the DNA goes down,
so there's a notice. Well, I mean, I mean, I'm
don't don't dispute the science.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Wow. That's twice I've been dusted in this interview. Wow, Monica,
I hope you are watching this right now.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay, yeah, somebody got to do it exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
We waited until this episode to rasp me like this,
my gosh. Okay, fair enough, fair enough, okay, uh quick break,
and when we come back, we are going to play
a surprise segment on Professor Adell. We call it roast
or toast. We will be right back, and we are
(19:01):
back for our final segment ever ever with Professor Timodeal. Now,
this has been great. I think we're gonna have to
bring you back one of these days if I can
get the powers that be to let us maybe do
some political talk. I think you would be a really
fun person, since I come from the news world, to
just have those open discussions about where our world is,
(19:21):
because let's be honest, it's been way more interesting the
last several years than ever before. So I think that
would be really fun to bring you back and have
some conversations.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It's kind of like that old Chinese christ me you
live in interesting times?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, sure do so this segment is most famously going
to be referred to as roast or toast. So the
idea is is that we have scoured the interwebs for
the latest, greatest and I don't know what else rhymes
with that, most sedating, most settiest YELP reviews on you
(20:00):
Oh great, my professor from rate my professor. So these
have just been collected over the years, and we had
our research team.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
With the research team. Yeah, it's magic, shut up.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
We are a research team put this together to find
find the top ones to go over with you, okay,
because it's not every day we get to openly go
over the reviews with the review EID with the review ead. Yes,
so this is roast or toast. Now we know why
it's called that. So we will begin. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I am ready?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Okay, great? This one was from April twenty six, twenty
twenty three. Okay, great professor for a first year student
never failed to make the mornings a lot easier and
his jokes were always awkwardly funny. Ten out of ten
would recommend and would take again. Do you have any
awkwardly funny jokes that you could you could just throw
at me? Real quick.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I can't, I am it's impossible for me to awkward,
So I don't know what that what that would would
sound like. Okay, okay, I've been accused of telling a
dad joke and I can't, for the life of me
think of which are the dad.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, I mean, you're dressed like one right now, so
that we got that going on.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I like the sixties, I like the early sixties, chic.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I can see that you're probably going bowling after this. Okay.
This one is from May fifteen, twenty eighteen, so pre pandemic.
He's really funny and has a great personality. Gets off
track a lot during lectures when his pre reading your
essays or when he is pre reading your essays. He
gives great feedback to make you work better. Is it?
Are you known? Is that a behavioral characteristic to get
(21:44):
off track during lectures for you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, there's a there's a there's this kind of digressive
thing where there's an associated thing that happens now. First
of all, lecturing nowadays is not the traditional lecturing. You're
never going to sit there and talk for an hour straight.
That's always supposed to be kind of a dialectic between
yourself and the students. Okay, So the student may say
something and I'll go off. There's also an association that
(22:06):
happens place like I will be talking about something and
suddenly it reminds me of something that happened while I
was in China, and I'll talk about that, and then
I will usually be able to find a place to
weave it back in.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You know what I call that? And I do this
because I identify as somebody who suffers from that. That's
called ADHD. That's what that's called.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't think I have ADHD.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I have adell, which is adel. Oh he's quick. He's quick.
You know you can't spell adderall without adel right right.
November thirteen, twenty seventeen best English professor at VBC. I
took him for English fifty as well, and prepared me
(22:49):
for English one oh one. He's definitely taught me everything
my high school teachers could not. I enjoyed his class,
except that the entire class is about Harry Potter and
Lord of the Rings. He gives the best feedback. Ever,
how can I forget? He is hilarious? So I mean,
are you a teeny bopper when it comes to Harry
Potter and Lord of the Rings. Is that like, No,
are you a fan?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I'm a fan boy started, I'm a fan. I fan,
I started up. But what I really wanted is in
two thousand and three, when the Harry Potter movies were
coming out and the Lord of the Rings movies were
coming out. I'd been reading the Harry Potter books for
a while, and I wanted to read the Lord of
the Rings. I wanted something that would be allowed them
to deal with two different works and they're going to
(23:30):
going to bring them together. And so for about ten years,
I Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings were what
I was and I had to stop because I was
getting tired of it.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Oh, really, have you ever gone to the park at
Universal Studios to see.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Like you really feel like you're in the movies.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I believe it. I've I've had students go I one
student started hating Harry Potter and Harry Potter, and then
a year later she was getting herself a wand at
Universal Studios.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah, no, that's good. Both are really, you know, brilliant,
brilliantly written universes. I think so. April twentyeth fo twenty sixteen,
coming back to write this after having transferred from VVC
to a four year college. So I took a TIL
two years ago, and his class is his classes were
the toughest I had taken, and I took about every
(24:21):
English course at VVC. But seriously, if you want to
be prepared to transfer, transfer, then that tough grading is
perfect experience. Plus he's funny, very knowledgeable, and easy to
talk to. So you're funny, but you're a tough grader.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Now, that's the one that makes me happiest when I
hear things like that, because my philosophy is teaching is
to be eternally demanding and eternally cheerful. Just the idea
that the idea that you're going to you're going to
demand a lot of them. That to help him along.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Do you feel you are the envy of the English department?
I do not, Okay? Just how to ask Pearl Harbor Day,
December seventh, twenty fourteen. Hilarious professor provides all the in needed.
Coming to class was exciting. Looks like Bill Gates, This.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Is true, this is true, okay, and yet yet Bill
sometimes spell checks me.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I hope Bill, I hope Bill watches this because that
would be great.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And finally May thirty, first, twenty thirteen, So just a
little beck, I need to start off by saying that
Tim is one of the best teachers I've ever had.
He's extremely accommodating and super personable, always willing to take
time to help with anything. He's a pretty incredible writer
and knows his material. My writing improved profusely after that.
Profusely is a good word. Yeah, after taking his class.
(25:42):
He's an inspiration and I highly recommend him. I mean,
it sounds like you got a solid four star rating
out of five for sure. Last question before we wrap
up the podcast, who do you look to for inspiration
when when it comes to life, where, your career year
in general, or even even in your journey or your
(26:04):
path in life to get to where you are now?
Who Who were those figures that you you looked towards,
whether you knew them or you didn't know them.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, I mean, obviously my parents. My parents were a
huge influence on me, and every once in a while
still hear myself speaking like my dad, speaking like my dad,
doing things things like my dad. But in terms of
actual influences. There have been many writers like U. T.
Coregas and Boyle, Uh, Jim Thurber, all these different things.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It's kind of like Jim Thurber sounded like nothing like
you were trying to pronounce.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
But okay, Jim Thurber and James Thurber actually okay, it's
just the uh and uh and just kind of pg
O Rourke gives a huge influence. Said that we've lost
him and uh. And then I was thinking the other
day when we were talking about uh viewing other Cali's classes,
(27:00):
how when you're reviewing a colleagues class, you're kind of
looking at somebody who has influenced you. You're looking at
things you take from colleagues, you give to colleagues. Okay,
there's a especially in the English and math departments right now,
there's just a wonderful atmosphere, not only between our department individually,
but being the English and Math department. I mean, students
are surprised when they find out we like each other.
(27:21):
We know each other, but we like each other.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'm shocked. I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh yeah, okay, well, I mean, I mean, this is
how long I've been here. Jerem Feewag the chair for
the math department was my student.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Fascinating.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
He came into my class wanting to be an English
major and came out of math major. So I'm not.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Sure that how well could have been the trauma.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's a trauma.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Definitely, the trauma of you, the trauma. So hey, you
know what, Tim, thank you so much for being a
great guest, good sports, and I think we'll definitely be
having you back in the future.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
So much fun.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yep, all right, we'll see you guys next time later.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Ramplify. The podcast is filmed and recorded in victim, California.
This podcast is made possible with the support of the
Associated Student Body of Victor Valley College. The views and
opinions expressed in this production are those of the speakers
and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of
Victor Valley College or its affiliates. Ramplify as hosted by
Andrew Caravella, produced by Robert A.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Sewle.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Production crew includes officers of the Associated student Body of
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It is another day and another episode of the Ramplify
podcast here at Victor Valley College. Hello, I'm your host
Andrew Caravella. And look, we don't have a student this time.
We couldn't find one to pull in off the off
the run path there for the lake, so we brought
in professor Adele Hi. Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm a student of life.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So student of life. How long have you worked here now?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Twenty five years full time than two part time before that?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Okay, all right, so I came.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Here when most of our students did not exist.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And let's see English? Has that always been what you've
done here and nothing else?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well? English and creative writing, creative writing. That's that's the
thing I'm most strictly trained for, to teach creative.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Writing, creative writing. Okay, where'd you where'd you get your credentials?
Where did you go to school?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I went to went to undergraduate at North Park College
and Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh wait, hold on theological? So were you trying to
go down a different path in life?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I was trying to trying to be saved and it
didn't work, So it's so I was. But then graduate
school was at McNeese State in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Go cowboys.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You ever come across any hurricanes during your time there?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
No, well, no, no one come to think of, there's
one hurricane. My parents have never seen me play soccer
because they came in to see me. I was going
to play in the Lake Charles, Louisiana Intramural Championship game
and Hurricane Danny came in. Oh dang it, they have
never seen me Daniel. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's you guys. Get that right. It's a challenging name,
there it is. It's it's a kid thing.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
If well, but I mean, if it hadn't been Hurricane Haley,
all of us would be dead.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Oh well, there's that too. Haley's here. Hailey and Jorge
today say hello, guys. Good there they are.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They'll be they'll be silent after this.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, So while soccer, I actually grew up playing soccer too.
What position did you play?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I My biggest position was left wing because uh, when
I when I went to college, I uh started I
started just playing and I and I hadn't hadn't played before.
So my first between my freshman and sophomore year, I
went home. I was working at Del Taco. I had
no girlfriends, which you guys can understand, and uh so
(02:30):
all I had time to do was go to the
field and kick with my left foot. You're left footed,
I'm right footed, but I was kicking entirely with my
left foot. So I came out the most improved my
sophomore year. And I was left wing because I was
the only person who could kick with both feep.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Okay, all right, I'm left footed. So interesting, okay, del Taco.
But you're just a little older than me. So where
did you grow up, because dell talk, I.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Grew up in Banning, Oh, okay, and Banning, yeah, all.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Right, so in an empire? Ask right, So do you
still have like roots there in Banning?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I live in Beaumont. I lived Banning in Beaumont, and
I I okay, I went out. I went to college
in Chicago, went to graduate school in Louisiana, which.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Was a culture shock, I'm sure for you.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Actually not really not that much, because I growing up
as a southern California boy, I was used to being warm,
and so I had four years in cold country to
make me a man. As my dad wanted wanted to happen,
and then when I went back to Louisiana, I was
used to being warm again.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Then I taught in Texas for a little while, taught
in China for a year, taught in taught in Greece.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So you worked abroad. Oh wow, Yeah, you're a very
world traveled man.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Okay. In my youth, I worked in China, I worked
in Greece, and I worked in Texas. So that's three
foreign countries.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, So do you know, like, like, did you pick
up on any of the language or just enough to
get by.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Eating in Highchipol hall.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I have no idea what you just said.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, Sherifangamin, which means I am counter revolutionary.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay. I was about to say, you need to double
check that. We may have to bleep this episode because
I don't know what he's saying. But okay, okay, well okay,
so I said culture shock, But what about when you
were when you were abroad, then any any culture shock,
anythings that like you encountered for the first time in
your life and you were like wow, blown away by.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well, every day in China was something new. Every day
I saw things I had never seen, and sometimes it
was just simple things like like if you go and
buy some dofu.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Okay, wait, I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Okay, to you buy some dofu. You don't buy it
in little cups. There was a huge wiggling amount of
brown daufu and you would cut off a hunk of dofu.
So imagine all all like this wiggling. It's like it
looked like brown jello. I'm not gonna say what brown
jellow would look like.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I can visualize what that is. Yes, But did it
tastes good?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I don't know. I don't like do foo. I wouldn't
it tasted like dofu?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The thing I loved was when you could go out
on the street, out on the streets and just get
I think the thing we have here would be Mongolian barbecue.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh I love mcgolian. Did you guys eat that? Yeah? Yeah?
Poor He's like yeah no, he totally went there in
his eyes like that's what he's getting to.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Lunch just disappeared. And so you just get this stuff,
you mix it in and you and you have what
you what you want?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Okay, So I have to know because everyone else is
probably thinking the same thing or not. Did McDonald's taste
the same in China?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
No, they didn't have McDonald's in China. I would I
was there from the fall of nineteen eighty eight to
the spring of nineteen eighty nine. I left a month
after tenn okay, not because of that. I was reagially
scheduled to leave, but I left left there.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Interesting. All right, Well, that's cool, very neat. Uh, let's see,
we have a lot to get to in this podcast
with Tim. Tim's really quick, as you guys probably figured
out with him responding to my question. So we're gonna
take a quick time out and then when we come back,
we're gonna keep things rolling and uh, it's gonna get
really really fun. So keep a lock. We'll be right back. Sorry, Andrew, No, No,
(06:06):
it's fine, it's totally fine. I'm just I'm just shocked.
The kids know who I am. That's that's I literally
talk at schools and they know who I am before
before well they hear my voice, before I introduce who
I am. They already know who I am. So yeah,
that too. The music thing, so so just so you know,
(06:28):
because I am your demographic, I for the last going
on five years, have been the weekend news anchor in
Los Angeles for k IF I AM six forty. Happy
New Year, LA. I'm Andrew Caravella, live from the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Well it's a different story in
the Deep South. The new year has opened with tragedy
(06:48):
in New Orleans. Oh really and all of iHeartRadio, so
I do now trending also on Kiss FM and Coast
and my FM, all the LA music stations here hear
my voice do whether they're to. But on the AM
side twelve to six pm, I'm doing the news really
every fifteen minutes for the last attention to that now, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, no, it's okay, It's it's okay, Yeah, it says
with no absolutely zero bitterness. I low.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
This is not not to get into the ego, but
there are times like and it's it's common where I'll
be at an event with somebody of the demographic and
maybe two hours after talking to me, they it's they're
bothered because they can't they can't put the voice to
to to the face and they're like, I know you
(07:37):
we've met somewhere before, and I know we haven't, but
you probably do know me and they go, where do
I know you from? And then I and then and
then I go down the list, I go, have you
ever been in traffic in LA? Like? Yeah, like you
know I commute? Like, okay, you listen to the radio? Yeah, okay,
Well I'm Andrew Caravella from k IF. I am six forty.
Oh my god, I knew it. Yeah, happens all the time.
(08:01):
I am shocked. Really. Usually people will identify who I am,
and then the next question is, you know, what's it
like working with Bill Handle? That's that's literally what they
go to next. For John John cobelts, Oh okay, it's okay.
When was the last time you listened to the radio?
I'm just like actually flipped it on and got your news?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Just I mean, besides KVCR, I love k.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I used to work at KVC. Really, I did social media,
though I wasn't necessarily on the area.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
No, besides kvs are the last time I actually listened
to the radio was probably in college. It's okay, okay,
So what I wanted to do is rephrase that do
you know who I am? To do you know who
I am?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
No? I could I could totally play the character of
are Caravell. Do you know who I am?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Do you know what you just stepped into? Sir?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
For all the fans that actually know who I am,
I'll do one more time here for everybody, live from
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom, I'm Andrew Caravella. Yeah see,
it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
It's a thing, Okay, and life from a room in
the upstairs of the ASB on Tim.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
It's really funny though, because sometimes parents like they they're
not listening to KFI. This is really weird. And I
don't know why this is. But when I go to
the high schools and you know, I do like my
presentation and I say KFI, it's ah like they know yeah,
And I'm like, why are you listening to Todd Radio?
(09:35):
You're like sixteen's But that's a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
These podcasts are much more than anything nowadays. Yeah. I mean,
I've got I've got people who get all their news
from podcasts.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, do you guys have a favorite
podcast you want to just shout out? Okay, well that
that was great, shameless brown noser. Okay, all right, okay,
so I have a question for you, Uh, do you
recognize any of these two individuals.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Okay, one is me and the other is George Clooney.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Well, yes, correct, one is you? Do you know which
one is you?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, I'm the one on the right and Bill Gates
is Big Gates is on my left.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yes. So fun fact, we went around campus and asked
several students which one professor Adell was, and the majority
of them picked the one on the left.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Really, yes, is that because there's just whom I'm a leftist.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
To shame? Look look at what those political humoring. It's
so funny. I don't know it's I guess some students
think you you resemble Bill Gates.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's it's been something that I've all my life, basically
as long as Bill Gates has been around, I've been
confused with him. The other one I look like that
no one gets anymore is George F.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Will I don't even know who that is. George. We'll
put his picture up right now.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The conservative columnists that I that I do in fact
look like My favorite time, My favorite Bill Gates thing
is when I was in I think it was twenty
ten with the Mady United Nations. Dino Bosanello's Shandon Lessened
and Boat, both two big guys ex military were walking
down to the Twilight Twilight Diner and this woman stopped.
I'm in the middle and she said, wait, are you
(11:16):
Bill Gates. I said, yes, I am, and these are
my bodyguards and they just flex.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I get Dane Cook.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Dane Cook, Dane Cook. Yes, yeah, is he still working?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Uh no, awesome a home looks like me, completely different
Dane Cook.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I can see. I can see.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh well, thank you, thank you. I've been getting him
since I was seventeen, so yeah, just a couple of
years ago. Yeah, he's actually doing comedy again and he's
going out doing tours. So it's I'm like, oh great,
I'm gonna be like that lookalike face again.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, the second string Dane Cook.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
That's what I just got dusted by. Adele. Wow, I
don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Is that like hr worthy file of the grievance?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
For the grievance, it's a d e what.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
A singer? Adele? Yeah, okay, yeah, because that works.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Okay, file a grievance against the singer.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Singing by the singing? Do you sing? Is that a
thing for you? Anny Hobby?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I used to I used to sing in high school,
and then I went to the college choir and found
out I was not that good. I was not that
I was with the actual singers. And I found out,
okay that the height of my glory and singing in
college was when in a ninety person choir I sang
a wrong note and the choir director looked at.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Me, well, we'll have to have a karaoke night here
at ASB to redeem yourself one of these days. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I participated for one song in karaoke to at the
SB retreat two years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh wow, you did, Queen Wow.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Thunderbolts and lightning. It was indeed frightening.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Okay. Yeah, Well, and on that we are going to
take a time out and we'll be back at the
second half of tim Adelle's interview here on Ramplify. Don't
go away, and we're back with Professor tim Adele. Anyone
(13:18):
call you timoth things that a thing.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It's a thing when they want to get in trouble.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, Adele, what is like? What background is that?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, okay, I'm Swedish and when we came over, we
went by the Swedish custom, which would mean if you're
if you're a man, you go by your father's name
and ad soon. If you're a woman, you go your
father's name and ad daughter. Okay, So in the going
into World War One, we were the adolph Sons. Wow,
and they said that it sounded to German.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Definitely.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Did they change it to Adele very not, because I
think I think they figured out and I'm glad we
weren't Adolphson in World War two or just eight off.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, they probably wouldn't have worked out well, the Adolphs Yes.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
But I've been called adele odell Ardale. The worst I
ever got was Airdale air Adel. He was doing a
purpose he was that was intentional.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
What does it mean at its root? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Nothing at all, nothing, nothing except except I heard that
in the in the early nineteen hundreds they said that
Adele is a word word for a potentially overweight singer.
And I didn't know why that was. And we found
out it's a prophecy.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
That is not a prop That's a problem.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I fought a lot. If you are disputing prophecy, is
what your problem is.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He's just throwing out just fibbs your mouth over your mouth, Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I expect Haley to to disrespect my heritage.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
But that's great. What's your sign? He're Zodia. I had
to think the cancer, you're a cancer? Okay. So July
is that July July, July eighth, four days after Independence Day?
So how American are you?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
How American am I? I find out out how American
I am. The farther I get away, I get away
from America.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Okay, I'm That's that's an interesting anisal because every place
I've ever lived, they just say I think of myself
as cosmopolitan, okay, but they.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Point out how very American I am. Give me an example, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Living in China, we had this this this British couple
that was part of our expat group. They were they
were hanging out and they were going they were about
to leave, okay, and I did what all of us
Americans are doing. We're just coming in and hugging him
and hugging him. And you could it could feel the
people enduring it, okay, because they said, Okay, he's American,
(15:47):
He's going to be hugging. I wish I could express
that sort of affection that I have for him, but
I don't. But I'm British and I'm stiff.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
So I haveveral UK friends. I could, I could, I
could test testify to that. Yeah. So, yeah, we are
an emotional society here in America. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, at the same time, we're emotional, but at the
same time there's kind of a a male custom of
cutting down emotions and expressing emotions in unhealthy ways. So
one thing I noticed that, and this isn't exactly unhealthy,
but I'm eternally fascinated by the by the sociology of teasing. Okay,
go on, Okay, as Haley wouldn't understand, because I never
(16:30):
tease her. But but the idea of of we recognize,
recogon reckon our connection to people by how much they
will pitch us.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay, And if.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You're not somebody, somebody's going to tease you don't really matter.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I could, I could understand that. Yeah, assessing that in
my head, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And and so I'm eternally and it's a kind of
a give and take betwe between people, where where we
establish how cool we are with each other by how
much much how much we tease each other and how
much we RaSE each other. It's a sort of sort
of because you can't go around hugging everybody, right okay,
and and you can't do that all all the time,
but you can you can ras them.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Do you tease your students?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh yeah, except for Haley. Haley Uh was dead serious.
There's never any never, anything off off base about that.
We just just just the facts.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Just the facts. Okay, all right, do you do you
do you find teasing actually kind of builds that relationship
and that trust with your with your students.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it does. But it also
it kind of has to has to work by based
on on the personality of the individual. I mean, I
know I have some colleagues who don't tease because that's
not their personality.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
It'd be weird if they did. Yeah, it would be
weird if they would be.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It would be h grievance for me. Okay, but uh
but I am naturally. I am naturally. I grew up
playing sports and middle child or no, the most valuable child.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Okay, you're quick.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, like we we noticed, you know the genetic rule
that that DNA has a limited shelf life, and after
the first child, the quality of the DNA goes down,
so there's a notice. Well, I mean, I mean, I'm
don't don't dispute the science.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Wow. That's twice I've been dusted in this interview. Wow, Monica,
I hope you are watching this right now.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Okay, yeah, somebody got to do it exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
We waited until this episode to rasp me like this,
my gosh. Okay, fair enough, fair enough, okay, uh quick break,
and when we come back, we are going to play
a surprise segment on Professor Adell. We call it roast
or toast. We will be right back, and we are
(19:01):
back for our final segment ever ever with Professor Timodeal. Now,
this has been great. I think we're gonna have to
bring you back one of these days if I can
get the powers that be to let us maybe do
some political talk. I think you would be a really
fun person, since I come from the news world, to
just have those open discussions about where our world is,
(19:21):
because let's be honest, it's been way more interesting the
last several years than ever before. So I think that
would be really fun to bring you back and have
some conversations.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It's kind of like that old Chinese christ me you
live in interesting times?
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, sure do so this segment is most famously going
to be referred to as roast or toast. So the
idea is is that we have scoured the interwebs for
the latest, greatest and I don't know what else rhymes
with that, most sedating, most settiest YELP reviews on you
(20:00):
Oh great, my professor from rate my professor. So these
have just been collected over the years, and we had
our research team.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
With the research team. Yeah, it's magic, shut up.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
We are a research team put this together to find
find the top ones to go over with you, okay,
because it's not every day we get to openly go
over the reviews with the review EID with the review ead. Yes,
so this is roast or toast. Now we know why
it's called that. So we will begin. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I am ready?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Okay, great? This one was from April twenty six, twenty
twenty three. Okay, great professor for a first year student
never failed to make the mornings a lot easier and
his jokes were always awkwardly funny. Ten out of ten
would recommend and would take again. Do you have any
awkwardly funny jokes that you could you could just throw
at me? Real quick.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I can't, I am it's impossible for me to awkward,
So I don't know what that what that would would
sound like. Okay, okay, I've been accused of telling a
dad joke and I can't, for the life of me
think of which are the dad.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, I mean, you're dressed like one right now, so
that we got that going on.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I like the sixties, I like the early sixties, chic.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I can see that you're probably going bowling after this. Okay.
This one is from May fifteen, twenty eighteen, so pre pandemic.
He's really funny and has a great personality. Gets off
track a lot during lectures when his pre reading your
essays or when he is pre reading your essays. He
gives great feedback to make you work better. Is it?
Are you known? Is that a behavioral characteristic to get
(21:44):
off track during lectures for you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, there's a there's a there's this kind of digressive
thing where there's an associated thing that happens now. First
of all, lecturing nowadays is not the traditional lecturing. You're
never going to sit there and talk for an hour straight.
That's always supposed to be kind of a dialectic between
yourself and the students. Okay, So the student may say
something and I'll go off. There's also an association that
(22:06):
happens place like I will be talking about something and
suddenly it reminds me of something that happened while I
was in China, and I'll talk about that, and then
I will usually be able to find a place to
weave it back in.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You know what I call that? And I do this
because I identify as somebody who suffers from that. That's
called ADHD. That's what that's called.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't think I have ADHD.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I have adell, which is adel. Oh he's quick. He's quick.
You know you can't spell adderall without adel right right.
November thirteen, twenty seventeen best English professor at VBC. I
took him for English fifty as well, and prepared me
(22:49):
for English one oh one. He's definitely taught me everything
my high school teachers could not. I enjoyed his class,
except that the entire class is about Harry Potter and
Lord of the Rings. He gives the best feedback. Ever,
how can I forget? He is hilarious? So I mean,
are you a teeny bopper when it comes to Harry
Potter and Lord of the Rings. Is that like, No,
are you a fan?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, I'm a fan boy started, I'm a fan. I fan,
I started up. But what I really wanted is in
two thousand and three, when the Harry Potter movies were
coming out and the Lord of the Rings movies were
coming out. I'd been reading the Harry Potter books for
a while, and I wanted to read the Lord of
the Rings. I wanted something that would be allowed them
to deal with two different works and they're going to
(23:30):
going to bring them together. And so for about ten years,
I Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings were what
I was and I had to stop because I was
getting tired of it.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Oh, really, have you ever gone to the park at
Universal Studios to see.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I haven't.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Like you really feel like you're in the movies.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I believe it. I've I've had students go I one
student started hating Harry Potter and Harry Potter, and then
a year later she was getting herself a wand at
Universal Studios.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah, no, that's good. Both are really, you know, brilliant,
brilliantly written universes. I think so. April twentyeth fo twenty sixteen,
coming back to write this after having transferred from VVC
to a four year college. So I took a TIL
two years ago, and his class is his classes were
the toughest I had taken, and I took about every
(24:21):
English course at VVC. But seriously, if you want to
be prepared to transfer, transfer, then that tough grading is
perfect experience. Plus he's funny, very knowledgeable, and easy to
talk to. So you're funny, but you're a tough grader.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Now, that's the one that makes me happiest when I
hear things like that, because my philosophy is teaching is
to be eternally demanding and eternally cheerful. Just the idea
that the idea that you're going to you're going to
demand a lot of them. That to help him along.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Do you feel you are the envy of the English department?
I do not, Okay? Just how to ask Pearl Harbor Day,
December seventh, twenty fourteen. Hilarious professor provides all the in needed.
Coming to class was exciting. Looks like Bill Gates, This.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Is true, this is true, okay, and yet yet Bill
sometimes spell checks me.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I hope Bill, I hope Bill watches this because that
would be great.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And finally May thirty, first, twenty thirteen, So just a
little beck, I need to start off by saying that
Tim is one of the best teachers I've ever had.
He's extremely accommodating and super personable, always willing to take
time to help with anything. He's a pretty incredible writer
and knows his material. My writing improved profusely after that.
Profusely is a good word. Yeah, after taking his class.
(25:42):
He's an inspiration and I highly recommend him. I mean,
it sounds like you got a solid four star rating
out of five for sure. Last question before we wrap
up the podcast, who do you look to for inspiration
when when it comes to life, where, your career year
in general, or even even in your journey or your
(26:04):
path in life to get to where you are now?
Who Who were those figures that you you looked towards,
whether you knew them or you didn't know them.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, I mean, obviously my parents. My parents were a
huge influence on me, and every once in a while
still hear myself speaking like my dad, speaking like my dad,
doing things things like my dad. But in terms of
actual influences. There have been many writers like U. T.
Coregas and Boyle, Uh, Jim Thurber, all these different things.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It's kind of like Jim Thurber sounded like nothing like
you were trying to pronounce.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
But okay, Jim Thurber and James Thurber actually okay, it's
just the uh and uh and just kind of pg
O Rourke gives a huge influence. Said that we've lost
him and uh. And then I was thinking the other
day when we were talking about uh viewing other Cali's classes,
(27:00):
how when you're reviewing a colleagues class, you're kind of
looking at somebody who has influenced you. You're looking at
things you take from colleagues, you give to colleagues. Okay,
there's a especially in the English and math departments right now,
there's just a wonderful atmosphere, not only between our department individually,
but being the English and Math department. I mean, students
are surprised when they find out we like each other.
(27:21):
We know each other, but we like each other.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'm shocked. I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh yeah, okay, well, I mean, I mean, this is
how long I've been here. Jerem Feewag the chair for
the math department was my student.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Fascinating.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
He came into my class wanting to be an English
major and came out of math major. So I'm not.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Sure that how well could have been the trauma.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's a trauma.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Definitely, the trauma of you, the trauma. So hey, you
know what, Tim, thank you so much for being a
great guest, good sports, and I think we'll definitely be
having you back in the future.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
So much fun.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yep, all right, we'll see you guys next time later.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Ramplify. The podcast is filmed and recorded in victim, California.
This podcast is made possible with the support of the
Associated Student Body of Victor Valley College. The views and
opinions expressed in this production are those of the speakers
and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of
Victor Valley College or its affiliates. Ramplify as hosted by
Andrew Caravella, produced by Robert A.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Sewle.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Production crew includes officers of the Associated student Body of
twenty twenty four through twenty twenty five. If you'd like
more information about this podcast, please reach out by email
info at VVC dot edu.
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