Tim Bratley was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1984. While Tim was just at the young age of 5 he still did not have any idea what he wanted to do for a living, other than be an astronaut. Tim moved to Lilburn, Georgia in the 4th grade and ended up attending Parkview High School, graduating in 2002. He attended West Georgia for a year and a half, but decided to transfer to Georgia State, located in Atlanta, in 2004 once he realized that West Georgia did not offer an astronaut major. Tim soon found out that neither did Georgia State, so he settled for studying history. It was in 2004 when he began to make comedy short films with Tyler Stanton and Tripp Crosby. Tim graduated in 2006 with a history degree and does not use his degree, but knows a lot of useless information. In 2007 Tim tried out for the game show Jeopardy and failed miserably.