"Nobody Wants This" star Timothy Simons | The Latest With Maya

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SPEAKER_02 0:11

Hi Timothy. Welcome to the latest with Maya. You've seen Timothy Simons in Veep. Don't worry, darling, Scream Seven and more. Timothy currently stars as Sasha and Nobody Wants This. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm so excited to be talking with you.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

Yeah. Um, I actually just wanted to say quickly, I was um, I was just recently in LA and I actually went to the um Four Year Consideration event for Nobody Wants This.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

Oh, you did?

SPEAKER_02 0:52

Yeah. And it was so fun to see.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Oh, nice. Was that the one that Andrew Reynolds did? Oh, great. Yeah, that one was fun.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

Yeah. Um he Andrew's a really good friend of mine, so it was also really fun to see him.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Oh, great. Yeah, he's a sweetheart.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

Yeah, he is. Um so who do you uh most admire and how has that affected the way you live your life?

SPEAKER_00 1:25

Oh, wow. Oh, you're hitting big questions right off the bat. Oh my god. Um let's see. Um who do I most admire? Um I mean, like uh when it comes to like uh when it comes to like uh people in the industry, uh you know, like other actors that I always looked up to, a big one for me is Steve Buscemi, who was somebody that I loved as a performer growing up. Um uh and I I and and one of the I think one of the reasons why is that he can just sort of fit in seamlessly into anything, and he's good in everything. Like he can be in Fargo playing like a weird rat boy that you don't trust, and it works perfectly, and he can be in Cohen Brothers movies and uh uh uh and I remember him on The Adventures of Pete and Pete, which was like this Nickelodeon show that was big for kids my age, and uh and he can be in comedies and he can do indie dramas and he can he can be in uh uh uh uh uh what was the oh the the space movie with the rocks, Armageddon. Like he can be in Michael Bay movies and he works in those. I think he's just like an incredible performer who can sort of fit in seamlessly into everything. Um uh so that's somebody that I really admire. And then beyond that, uh I think like maybe the more like wholesome answer would be like uh I admire uh people like I I admire people who like do stuff for their local community. Like I grew up in a really small town in Maine, and there like I I I had a lot of teachers who not only were great teachers but did great stuff for their communities. Like an example I'm thinking of is I had a teacher named Steve DeAngelis, who was my physics teacher when I was a junior, and he uh was like very involved in the community, and just sort of an example of like the stuff that Steve DeAngelis does is uh you you live in Colorado, right?

SPEAKER_02 3:50

I do, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

So so you might know about like snow snow sports, uh like you know, or any sort of winter sport, skiing and and uh uh that sort of thing. Like there's usually a cost uh associated with winter sports. Um and you know, skis are expensive, lift passes are expensive. And uh one thing that Steve did recently was he started a uh uh like a it was like it's a gear library, so you can just go to his little gear library and sign out uh cross country skis or downhill skis or ice skates so that um so that that cost doesn't have to be a barrier to participating in winter sports. You know what I mean? Yeah, like people that do that kind of stuff for their local communities, I I really admire.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Oh yeah, I love that. Yeah. Um so what small things bring you joy on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_00 4:58

Oh, man, God, you're really asking big questions. I love this. Um small things that bring me joy on a daily basis. Um uh I when my kids make a funny joke that like when my kids say something legitimately funny that shows that they're like developing a real sense of humor, that makes me laugh. Uh that like that I really enjoy. Um I I I would say pretty much daily, it's kind of out of focus in the background here, but I have like a physical media collection of Blu-rays, uh Blu-ray movies, and it gives me a lot of joy at the end of the day, because I'm like the late, uh I'm like the night owl in my family. And so I stay up a little bit later than everybody else, and so most nights I end up just like kind of going through the stack of movies that like going and and just kind of like feeling out like what's the vibe tonight for what movie that I'm gonna watch. And that is like a really fun thing that I that I love doing is trying to figure out like okay, I have all these, like, which what's what am I feeling like tonight? Is it like sort of comfort? Am I trying something new? Am I going for something from the 30s? Am I gonna go for something that I've seen recently and just really want to rewatch? That's that's something. Um and and uh uh walking my dog and bumping into a neighbor, and then all of a sudden you're all you're walking your dogs together, that's something that makes me happy too.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

Oh yeah, I love that. Yeah, I I love having I still love having DVDs of different shows and movies.

SPEAKER_00 6:53

Yeah, it's important. They go away too quickly. Sometimes they can just get pulled from streaming services and then you can't watch them.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

Yeah, definitely. There there's a movie um that I there's a movie that I love that I can't find on any streaming service, so I just I bought it on DVD when I found it. It's called Christmas Eve.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

Oh, I don't know this one.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

Oh, it's with um James Rodet Rodriguez and um Sir Patrick Stewart and Cheryl Hines. Um there's a ton of people in it, and it's really good.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Oh, nice. All right, cool.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

Yeah. Um yeah, so it makes me very happy to just have have the DVD of that, and I have the whole um I have the whole series of friends on DVD because my sister got it for me a while ago, so and I'm I'm never getting rid of that.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:55

Um, so what has been the um biggest obstacle either personally or professionally that you've overcome?

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Uh you know uh the biggest obstacle that I've overcome I mean, I I guess like if uh there are a lot, I mean, like a lot of the obstacles uh that are there are you know just kind of part and parcel of the of the business itself. Like it's not uh it's not a business that uh has any sort of straight line to working. It's all i everything is pretty subjective. You know, you can have all the necessary skills to to uh to get a job, and uh uh it might just not work out for uh uh for a for a number of reasons. It's not like you know, I I didn't like learn how to code and you know apply for a job coding where you can either code or you can't. Like I know I can act, but there are all these other sort of subjective things that go into getting a job or not. So I think the biggest obstacle, uh at least for me, was the was just kind of the sticking with it that like the amount of time that it took for me to catch a break. Because I think, I mean, like I started acting when I was in college, um and then uh and when I graduated, I went and you know, I got a job like at I was working at a children's theater in Kentucky, and then I worked at a Shakespeare theater in Maine, and then I moved to Chicago and I was like trying to do plays there. And I didn't like I got cast on Veep when I was I had moved to Los Angeles in 2008, and I think maybe two and a half years later, three years later, I got cast on Veeep, and that was the break. I haven't had to do anything else since then. But that was probably 12 years after I graduated college. So I think that would be the biggest uh obstacle was this idea of like, even though uh I had been, you know, I had been doing it, I'd been out of college for 10 years and hadn't made a full-time living doing it. There is something in your head that is like, well, you gotta keep going with it, you know. That can be an obstacle. Just like it's not like I I was never working, I was just I wasn't, you know, I'd very rarely make a full-time living doing it. Um so I think that was the biggest thing. I just maybe the part of your brain that like yeah, shutting off the part of your brain that says you should just stop this, you know.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Yeah, yeah. Oh wow, yeah. Um, yeah, so what lessons from your childhood have most impacted your worldview?

SPEAKER_00 10:58

Um I think I like coming from Maine and uh my dad uh owned his own business. He was a photographer, and you know, so he ran a business out of our house, like built a studio onto our house. And I I think seeing the amount, like the work ethic that was sort of that was um that we were shown of just how much work it took. And that I I think is a big one, just like uh uh and you know, and that's also like the people that I grew up around as well, like a work ethic, I think was something that uh was instilled pretty early on. Um and and then uh also just to like have joy in what you're doing, even if it's hard, you know? Like those are the things that that kind of keep me going. Like the the work of it is fun. It's hard, but it it is fun, and then and even though it is hard, you should still also be able to find some joy in in the hard moments of it, you know? Yeah, yeah. I think those things come to mind.

SPEAKER_02 12:18

Oh, I love that. Yeah, um, I love your glasses, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

Oh, thank you, thank you. I just got them. I'm excited about them.

SPEAKER_02 12:28

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

All right, that that compliment will keep them on my face for another couple months and then oh good.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

All right, yeah, I like them. Nice, yeah. Um so if you had a warning label, what would yours be?

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Uh we'll make a good joke at the wrong time. Uh uh will stay up too late and be cranky the next morning because he's because he didn't get enough sleep. Um will hyper focus on the wrong things. Uh we'll uh will have a temper sometimes. And uh and uh and yeah, I think those would be the things that I'd say would be on my warning label. Those would be I could probably go on with a few more, but I feel like you know, at some point people will just stop reading the label once they get five or six things in. So I'll just leave it at those like three.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

I like those. Yeah, yeah, I like those warning labels.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

Um, those are good ones. Um, yeah, so I am uh pop culture obsessed, and I go in stages of shows that I cannot stop watching. Um, is there a show that you are currently obsessed with?

SPEAKER_00 14:07

Um the this will be a long answer because there are a fair amount of them that I do why I uh uh my wife and I have been uh uh been watching DTF St. Louis, and I've really been really been enjoying that. There's like a really like uh like there's a tenderness to it that I think is incredible. The performances are fantastic, and there's something about the writing, like I'm a huge fan of repetition in comedy, and and that show uses repetition for comedy in such an amazing way. Just people like like an I I think an example is like when they whenever they talk about like the choice quality suites, like the hotel where they would meet up, somebody would be like, and you would meet up at the choice quality suites, and the other person will say, Yes, we would meet up at the choice quality suites, and then the person will be like the choice quality seats, and they'll be like, Yes, the choice quality suites. Uh they'll just I love repetition in comedy, and that should uses it really well. Um I also recently uh the first four years of Veeep we filmed in Baltimore. And I can't remember what brought this on, but I had been thinking about Baltimore a lot, and just decided I was like I I I I watched uh We Own This City, which is a David Simon George Pelicanos show from a few years ago about the Baltimore Police Department and corruption in the Baltimore Police Department, and that really made me miss Baltimore. Uh, so I then so I watched that and then I just re-watched The Wire, you know, I think for the third or fourth time. Uh, and I hadn't seen it in years, and it was really great to revisit that one as well.

SPEAKER_02 15:57

Oh, I love that. Yeah, I um yeah, I loved uh DTF St. Louis. I thought that show was so good.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

It's so good, but we haven't finished it yet, so don't don't say anything about the ending if you know.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

Okay, yeah, I won't.

unknown 16:12

All right, cool.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

Yeah, we'll have to talk about it after you finish it.

SPEAKER_00 16:17

Yes, once we finish for sure.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Yeah, yeah. I um just finished watching uh season two of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, um, which is a Netflix show um that I love, and so season two was really good, and then I've been watching a lot of rom-coms lately. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

Which one which ones stick out?

SPEAKER_02 16:45

Oh, well, I okay, I just watched one this morning. So this morning I watched uh Maid of Honor with Patrick Dempsey.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

And is that Jennifer Lopez as well?

SPEAKER_02 16:59

Uh no, that's Michelle Monegan.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

Saying her last name correctly. Um yeah, and then I also recently watched Pretty Pretty Woman, which is my new favorite.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

Oh, excellent. Yeah, that's a classic.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Yeah. Um, yeah, and then The Wedding Date with Deborah Messing.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Okay. Oh, so you're you're going deep on rom-coms right now.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

I am, I I found a bunch on uh Netflix that like when they added Pretty Woman, I I had I don't know why I hadn't seen that before. And so I was like, I need to watch it, and then I've just gone down the rabbit hole of watching so many rom-coms they have. Awesome. Yeah, because those movies just make me so happy. Like their new one, I watched their new one office romance with uh Jennifer Lopez and um Brett Goldstein. Uh-huh. Um so yeah, um, yeah, I'm going down a rabbit hole.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Awesome.

unknown 18:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Um so um what lessons from your oh sorry, I don't know why. I just went back to uh question that I already asked. Sorry, I lost my place. So um when you have a day off, uh, what would your perfect day look like?

SPEAKER_00 18:33

Um I like I I'm a big this is like uh this is gonna be so boring to everybody that doesn't golf. Uh but if you do golf, this is exciting. I really like playing golf. And so any I think like perfect day off would be like golfing in Palm Springs in November, December, when it doesn't get so hot and the golf down there is incredible. And uh like going out early, playing golf in Palm Springs, and then and I don't like have a house down there or anything, it's just like I've been able to go down and visit a few times and like my family will get like an Airbnb. But um uh playing golf and then having people over and the family hanging out and like sitting around a fire pit and having dinner, that would kind of that's kind of a perfect day for me.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Oh, I love that. Yeah, yeah. Um, so what genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_00 19:44

Oh god. Um uh what genre of movie? Uh I think uh you could say that uh albeit my life has gone great so far and I'm very happy with it, I think you could play uh I think you could play uh most of it as a a very funny as a very like uh funny like dark comedy uh where nothing goes exactly right most of the time. Uh uh and and uh like you know like uh uh yeah, very uncomfortable, awkward, dark comedy is I think what I would put it in.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

Oh, I love that. I I wanna see that.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

I'll try to make it just so you can see it.

SPEAKER_02 20:50

Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

But we'll add in a romantic comedy element just so that it comes up in your algorithm.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Oh yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

So that you so that you don't miss it. We'll put that in there so they can they can classify it as a rom-com. That way it'll come up in your algorithm, you won't miss it.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

Oh yeah, thank you. Yeah, I um um I think my life story would be a dark comedy too, which I love dark comedies, but then also my dream is to have it be a musical rom-com with some dark comedy.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Excellent.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

So yeah, that that's my dream. Um, so what uh three words best describe you?

SPEAKER_00 21:38

Oh, um God. Um I think I'm funny. I think that would be one of 'em. Uh hopefully. Thoughtful and uh and I hopefully uh yeah, I think I'm funny. Hopefully, people think of me as a thoughtful person and uh and persistent. I think those would be the three.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

Yeah. Oh, I love those. Those are good ones.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Those are good ones? Alright.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I also um I just wanted to tell you quickly, also, my um family and I uh a couple months ago we watched Scream 7. And it was um um it I just it was such a great movie and I love it. Um and I don't like horror movies, so but I love this movie. Um and um my family and I watched it together, and it was one of my favorite it's one of my favorite memories because um there were a few times we all screamed and it was it's just fun to like scream together.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

Um so and at one point we scared our dog, and so she jumped off the couch and she like hid behind the couch and just started barking. Um that's awesome, yeah, which was also very funny.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

I am a huge, I'm a huge horror movie fan, and I love I've always loved the scream movies. Like, I'm old enough that I saw the first one when it came out in theaters, and it sort of, you know, Wes Craven, you know, after sort of one thing I love about Wes Craven is that he, you know, reinvent he invented a certain genre of horror movies in the 80s with uh with uh Nightmare on Elm Street, and then he completely reinvented his own genre with Scream, and so I've always been a fan of those movies, and I was really excited to get a call asking me to be in, you know, because now I just I always get to be a part of like the history of Scream movies. Like that was sort of a dream for me. But I but just to your point about screaming together, it's like there's you know, as a horror movie fan, there's like nothing better than like seeing a horror movie with an audience where everybody all screams together and and then everybody laughs about the fact that it that they all scream together. Like it's just it's a great experience going to see horror movies in a movie theater.

SPEAKER_02 24:40

Oh yeah, I love that. Yeah, I I like um I usually like thrillers, but not the horror movies. But this movie I I wanted to see because I it just looked it's looked so good, and also there were so many people in it that I've interviewed, so I was like, I really need to see this. So yeah. Yeah. Um so do you have any irrational fears?

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Oh, um oh no, all my fears are completely rational. Um I am I I know there are lots of things that I'm afraid of. Although I don't know if I don't know if any of them are uh necessarily irrational or like something that sort of like controls uh I don't know if there was anything that like, you know, is like something that I would say is like a debilitating fear. Um I I do for a long time after my kids were born, I became a very nervous flyer. Uh but that one is sort of success is sort of uh has sort of toned down as as like they've gotten older. It was just really hard to fly. Got very nervous flying when they were younger. Um uh I think it was just because I was like, oh well like what uh like what if this plane crashes, then my kids will be sad forever because their dad died in a plane crash, you know what I mean? And and I think once they started to get older and there was like the rational thing of like, oh well planes very rarely crash, um then that sort of subsided. Um I would say maybe maybe an irrational fear is that thing of like uh you go to a you go to a party and you just think you've said the dumbest thing. I have like done a lot of work and maybe it's just uh maybe it's just experience at this point of knowing that like all those things at the end of the night where you're like, oh man, I said the dumbest thing, I said the dumbest thing, like nobody's thinking about the thing that you said. Nobody's thinking about it, nobody's remembering the the dumb thing that you think you said. Uh you you just have to like no nobody is thinking as much about you as you are thinking about yourself. So sometimes, you know, for a long time I had that irrational fear of like, you know, uh just thinking that I said the dumbest thing at a party. Uh and I feel like I've maybe gotten over that one a little bit too. But there are definitely still things I'm afraid of. I just don't know. I've just like tried hard, I've tried hard to talk myself out of them.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Oh yeah. Yeah, I um I mean I I can relate because I I feel like my brain is one big irrational fear. So things you were just talking about, I'm like, I I understand that. I mean they do they are rational fears. Um, but yeah, I I always joke with my family that uh when I say something out loud, and it'll be either my mom or my sister will look at me and say, You get that's irrational, right? And I'm like, well, when I say it out loud, I do. But in my head it seems very rational.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Yeah. Um so what is um the greatest lesson you have learned from a character you've played?

SPEAKER_00 28:31

Oh, um uh when it comes to uh when it comes to Jonah from Veep, I would say that just confidence can get you everywhere. Uh he was somebody that had very little skill but a lot of confidence and it got him very far in his life. Um uh and and maybe from Sasha it would be like you know speaking speaking out will get you more of what you want rather than staying quiet about it.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Yeah. Oh, I love those. Yeah, those are great lessons.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

Excellent.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

Yeah. Um, so what song, whenever you hear it, brings you back to specific memory, and what is that memory?

SPEAKER_00 29:32

Oh, um it's been coming up a lot recently. I don't know why. I've been listening to there are these two songs by Andrew WK, uh uh I Get Wet and Ready to Die. Uh uh that I think that album came out in like maybe 2001. Yeah, 2001 or 2002. And uh uh my roommate in Chicago, I had just moved to Chicago, and my roommate Scotty, uh, he worked for this uh he worked for this theater company called the Neofuturists, and they had a show called Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind that would happen every Saturday night at like 11 o'clock at night. And I would I would give him a ride to the theater and we would roll down the windows and like and just blast Ready to Die by Andrew W. K and like scream the lyrics as we were going down the street as I was dropping them off. And then uh there was one time uh these are both kind of related, probably around the same time I went to go visit uh I went to go visit some friends of mine in Boston that I had gone to college with, and uh I found uh I found an old cassette with that had the song We Built This City, which I think was Jefferson Starship, like we built we built this city on rock and roll, and we just drove or we just did circles around Boston Common, playing that song as loud as we could, screaming the lyrics to everybody as we passed them. And uh just because in a way, because it was like an incredibly stupid song that made us laugh, and I we liked that as we went by people they there was like some sort of joy brought to them. Like you could they were like in that way of like we were not expecting to see like two 22-year-olds screaming the lyrics to We Built This City on this random Tuesday afternoon, so I think about that a lot too.

SPEAKER_02 31:38

Oh, I love that, yeah. Yeah, there's so many songs for me that have very I have very strong memories attached to. Um, yeah, and my sister and I like whenever we're together and we go on drives, we just roll down the windows and um like scream Taylor Swift lyrics. Excellent, yeah, and it's especially her 10-minute version of All Too Well, that's like our song that we listen to when we're together. Yeah. Um, so if you could give someone in your life a star on the walk of fame, who would it be?

SPEAKER_00 32:30

Uh uh probably my mom. Uh, because she's incredibly funny. I think my mom's the funniest person I've ever met, so I'd probably give one to her. Uh and also, I mean, like, you know, my wife is a my wife is a public school teacher, and I think it probably would also be nice to give one for her. Uh, just because I I don't know, I live in a I I live in a in a business that has a lot of vocal praise and recognition. Uh uh, it's like a very public-facing job. You get a lot of feedback about if people like it, you get a lot of feedback. And and teachers don't necessarily live in that world. Like uh like teachers deserve to be celebrated much more so than actors. And so I think it would probably be good. We like we should start like a Hollywood Walk of Fame for teachers. We should throw that out there. So I would throw, I would throw, I would throw one out there for my wife as well, just to recognize the incredible, I mean, like the truly incredible work that she does for the public school system in Los Angeles, and uh it just deserves to have more recognition.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

Yeah, definitely. I love that, and yeah, I I love that idea. I think there needs to be a walk of fame for um or yeah, a walk of fame for uh teachers, yeah, yeah. Um so um what show or movie do you find yourself quoting all the time?

SPEAKER_00 34:08

Oh, uh I think you should leave uh is one the the Tim Robinson sketch show. Have you seen that?

SPEAKER_02 34:16

I haven't.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

I it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I think there are three seasons of it. Um it's like a just a very absurd sketch sketch comedy show, and uh Tim Robinson is wildly funny in it, and there is something uh somebody smarter than me said this, but I think it's true that like the watching that show makes you makes you think of like the secret language that you have with your closest friends, and like the just like layers of inside jokes that just somehow also translate to like people that don't know the inside jokes laughing too. Um and so that's one that gets quoted a lot uh with me and my friends. Like I have a friend uh DJ, uh, and there like there will just be days where we communicate uh solely with I think you should leave references.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

Oh, I love that. Yeah, my um brain is just filled with show and movie quotes and scenes that I reference.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

Well, check out I think you should leave. You'll get a bunch of new good ones there, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

Oh, I'm excited. I'm writing that down. Thank you for the recommendation.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

No problem.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

Yeah. Um, so if you uh could put a message on a billboard for everyone to see, what would that message be?

SPEAKER_00 35:57

Uh don't take unprotected lefts on Beverly in Los Angeles. And uh and like a zipper merge is more efficient than than everybody lining up on one side. Like when you get to like if there's like a lane closure, do a zipper merge one after the other. Don't try to do like two and then one, like don't try to cut somebody off, don't try to drive up in front of somebody, just zipper merge, just just one at a time, up at the front, and it'll all be very efficient. That's what I would put on the billboard. That's important to me.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

Yeah, I like those.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

Yeah, it's it's practical. I don't have a big, I don't have like a big thing to say, it's just uh like something that will practically help everybody's life.

SPEAKER_02 36:45

Yeah, I like those. Yeah, there are um so many things my mom said to me and my sister while we were growing up that have always stuck with me that I'd want to put on a billboard and then um a line from um one of my favorite shows that has always stuck with me.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

Which one is that?

SPEAKER_02 37:10

Uh so it's called A Million Little Things. Um, and there's the second episode in the first season, one of the characters says love each other, and that's always stuck with me. Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_00 37:27

That's a good that's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 37:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:31

Might be a little better than zipper merge. Probably a little more meaningful than zipper merge, but I mean, I think that one's good too. All right.

SPEAKER_01 37:41

They could be side by side.

SPEAKER_00 37:43

Yeah, you're you're being very nice. I appreciate that. Yours is better.

SPEAKER_01 37:49

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 37:53

Um so uh I just have uh one more question for you. Um so today, what are you most grateful for?

SPEAKER_00 38:05

What am I most grateful for? Um I think I mean a couple things. Like I remember when our kids were young and we would like go around the table on Thanksgiving uh uh on Thanksgiving and we would say the things that we were thankful for, the one that I said the most often, and it still comes up. Like, so my kids were born quite early. They were born almost three months early, and so we they were in the NICU for a really long time. They were in the NICU for about two and a half months before we got to bring them home. And it's like, you know, it's very nerve-wracking. You know, a lot can you there's like a lot of stuff to worry about when your kids are in the NICU, and so uh something I'm sort of always grateful, grateful for is like the continued health and success of the kids. That's a that's a huge one. Um and then uh and right now, just like day to day, I am like really grateful right now that I have a job as an actor. Like that's they're hard to come by. It doesn't always work out, and I've been able to I I've been able to not only make a living doing this, but make a living on things that I enjoy being a part of and um and doing them with a casting crew that I really like, you know, that you know, sometimes I've had plenty of friends who have been on shows where people do not get along, and you know, and so it's like, yeah, like you know, uh good news, bad news, good news I got a job, bad news is I don't like any of these people, and that has not been my experience broadly. So I'm I'm uh it that the that's something I can say that I'm grateful for as well.

SPEAKER_02 39:47

Wow, yeah, and I I'm so glad to hear your kids are okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:53

They're doing good. They're doing good.

SPEAKER_02 39:55

Oh, good, yeah. Um, well, thank you so much for joining me. Um, I've had the best time talking with you.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

Thank you. This has been really fun. Thanks for asking me. Thanks for asking me to be on.

SPEAKER_02 40:10

Of course, yeah. I um and if you ever wanna come back on, I'd love to talk with you again.

SPEAKER_00 40:17

Absolutely. Anytime.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

Thank you. And um, yeah, I thank you so much, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

Thank you, you too.

SPEAKER_02 40:29

Thank you. Uh and that's a wrap on today's edition of The Latest with Maya.