Toby facts

My friends say I am: Too serious

Best advice ever received: Give up your right to yourself-Oswald tells me daily

Worst advice ever received: Be independent

Favorite pig-out food: Popcorn

Role model: Oswald Chambers

Nobody knows I'm: Into alternative music

Something I always take on the road: A portable phone

Born where and when: Fairfax, VA, October 22, 1964

Family stats: 1 lovely wife, Amanda, 1 boy, Truet

Pets: Weimaraners-Kingston, Montego and Manchester (RIP)

First job: Janitor (but I was crew chief)

Hidden talent: Singing

Favorite toy from childhood: Stretch Armstrong

Guilty pleasure: Hearing dc Talk on the radio

Favorite hangout: Tait's jacuzzi, Tower Records, House of Insomnia

Best way to make you laugh: Obnoxious shock humor-which tends to get us in trouble

Most annoying habit: 1. Mid-sentence subject changes unbeknownst to the listening party (the sign of a wandering mind) and 2. Trying on every t-shirt in the stack (although they're identical size and color) because I'm convinced they're each cut differently

Thing you can't do to save your life: Tame the blond chaos on my head

First album you remember buying: Steve Miller Band, "The Greatest Hits" and Kool & the Gang, "Ladies Night"

If they made a movie of your life, who should play you? Steve McQueen

What would you like to be when you grow up? Sade's bassist

You've been made President of the United States for a day, what are you going to do? Have a national day of repentance and forgiveness: White Americans confess the racial sins of our past, and African-Americans find it in their hearts to forgive us

Word or phrase you most overuse: Ya know what I'm sayin'

Write your own epitaph: Here lies Toby Mac and he won't be back, for fact

Barbara Walters Tribute Question: If you could be any kind of tree, what kind of tree would you be?: The dogwood outside my window, because it makes Amanda smile

FAVES AND RAVES
Book: My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers)
Movie: No Way Out
Albums: Stronger than Pride (Sade), Only Visiting This Planet (Larry
Norman)
Hymn: It is Well
Food: Tabouli
TV show: "Fat Albert"
Color: Tattoo Green
Cities: Interlocken, Switzerland; Capetown, South Africa; Capri, Italy
Breakfast cereal: Cold-Honeycomb, Warm-Cream of Wheat
Bible verse: Isaiah 43:19

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