Speaker 1: I am all in. Thank you. I Am all in
Speaker 1: with Scott Patterson, an iHeart Radio podcast. All right, everybody,
Speaker 1: we have a very special episode here. We have a
Speaker 1: very very special guest. And by the way, Hi, this
Speaker 1: is Scott Patterson and this is the I Am All
Speaker 1: In podcast with iHeart Radio. As I was saying, we
Speaker 1: have a very very special guest today. Her name is Maya,
Speaker 1: and she's coming to us from a children's hospital in
Speaker 1: Denver and she has her own radio show and her
Speaker 1: own podcast inside that hospital. Ryan Seacrest spent millions and
Speaker 1: millions of dollars of his own money building state of
Speaker 1: the art recording facilities and studios inside of many, many
Speaker 1: children's hospitals across the country. So good on them for that.
Speaker 1: And Maya is one of these lucky kids that has
Speaker 1: a chance to have her own podcast within one of
Speaker 1: these children's hospitals, and we're going to talk to her.
Speaker 1: And there she is. Hi, Maya, how are you, I'm dead?
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm doing great? Nice to meet you,
Speaker 1: and we're very excited to talk with you today. So
Speaker 1: thank you for asking us and reaching out to us.
Speaker 1: You emailed us and had a few questions for us.
Speaker 1: And we're excited to talk to you. So, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: so excited to be talking to you. This is just great.
Speaker 1: So tell me a little bit about why you're there
Speaker 1: and how you got involved with doing your own You're
Speaker 1: doing your own podcast, right, yeah, I'm well, it's notoppedly
Speaker 1: a podcast, it's just it's at the studio that it
Speaker 1: broadcasts to all the patients rooms and then yeah, and
Speaker 1: then I record, they record my interviews so I can
Speaker 1: upload them to my YouTube channel. Wow, that is just fantastic.
Speaker 1: So also, all the patients over there, all those kids, Hi,
Speaker 1: everybody love you. And uh, I am so honored to
Speaker 1: that you reached out and wanted to talk to us,
Speaker 1: and we're very excited. Can I ask you a couple
Speaker 1: of questions before we turn over the floor to you
Speaker 1: so that you can interview me, because I know you
Speaker 1: wanted to interview me and you had a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: But can I ask you a couple of questions? First? Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So first, first and foremost is is why are you there.
Speaker 1: I was diagnosed with a brain tumor before I was
Speaker 1: three years old, so I had surgery and then two
Speaker 1: and a half years of chemotherapy, and then I was
Speaker 1: cancer free. But then I still had a ton of
Speaker 1: doctors appointments for other shoes that would cause But then
Speaker 1: in January, in January, I was diagnosed with another brain tumor,
Speaker 1: and so I had six weeks of radiation and now
Speaker 1: scans every three months. Okay, how's it looking Okay, looking good? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's stable. There's ship Now there's their issues. Now there's swelling.
Speaker 1: Like the radiation I caused swelling, So now I'm having
Speaker 1: treatments to control to stop the swelling. Well, we wish
Speaker 1: you the best, and you are very very strong and
Speaker 1: very talented young lady, and you have a lot to
Speaker 1: offer the world. And like I said, it's really an
Speaker 1: honor to be on with you, and thank you so
Speaker 1: much for reaching out to us, because you know, I
Speaker 1: can already tell this is going to be my favorite
Speaker 1: episode that we will record in the whole history of
Speaker 1: this the podcast, however long it goes. This is really
Speaker 1: exciting to talk to you and tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about have you met Ryan Seacrest? Have you talked
Speaker 1: to him? My mom and my sister and I were
Speaker 1: actually at the hospital when the Seacrest studios opened on accident.
Speaker 1: It was, and it wasn't actually me that had the appointment,
Speaker 1: it was my sister, and so we were there when
Speaker 1: it opened, so we got to meet Bryan Seacrest and
Speaker 1: everybody that was there, and then my mom had would
Speaker 1: have to make sure we had time either before my
Speaker 1: appointment or after so we could go into the so
Speaker 1: I could go into the studio. And then yeah, that
Speaker 1: So it opened when we were in sixth grade, and
Speaker 1: then a year later I found out patients could do
Speaker 1: their own show. So then in seventh grade I started
Speaker 1: my show. And then in eighth grade I started reaching
Speaker 1: out to people. Wow, what a spirit you have? Huh
Speaker 1: get you know, well you have a brain tumor. And
Speaker 1: then uh, yeah, but I want to do my own show. Okay,
Speaker 1: my god, how strong are you? Unbelievable? How amazing for you?
Speaker 1: I mean, just it's absolutely amazing that you can handle
Speaker 1: all this all I mean, because you know, I know
Speaker 1: what I go through to try to to prepare for
Speaker 1: our We're doing two a week now, and it's just
Speaker 1: like I have no free time. I can't even imagine
Speaker 1: how you do it or how you find the time.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's it's really a testament to you
Speaker 1: and your intestinal fortitude and your and your life drive.
Speaker 1: It's it's really remarkable. Okay, so thank you Ryan Seacrest.
Speaker 1: Incredible human being, uh, generous human being with a heart
Speaker 1: as as big as a mountain. That guy. And I
Speaker 1: am going to turn over this podcast to you because
Speaker 1: you have questions for me, So go ahead. Well my
Speaker 1: first well, first of all, I just wanted to say
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me on. I've been
Speaker 1: so excited for this so well, it's it's our pleasure
Speaker 1: and it's our honor to have you on. Trust me.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So my first question for you is when
Speaker 1: was the moment you first knew you wanted to be
Speaker 1: an actor. Oh, that's an interesting question. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I was, I was. I used to play professional baseball,
Speaker 1: and I remember I was dating I was dating an
Speaker 1: actress and she was on a show. She was on
Speaker 1: an Errand spelling show, and I was, you know, this
Speaker 1: was a long long time ago, by the way. This
Speaker 1: was I don't know, nineteen eighty five and I was
Speaker 1: still playing professional baseball, but in the offseason I'd come
Speaker 1: to La to stay in shape in the good weather.
Speaker 1: So I'd spend my winters in Los Angeles, you know,
Speaker 1: training and all that kind of stuff. So anyway, so
Speaker 1: I met this this this actress at a restaurant and
Speaker 1: we began dating and I would read her. I would
Speaker 1: read with her for her next day's work, right that
Speaker 1: she had to go shoot. And she stopped me once
Speaker 1: and said, you know what, you're pretty good at this.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you should consider doing this after your
Speaker 1: baseball career. And I know, and you know, I never
Speaker 1: really thought about being an actor. I mean, I really
Speaker 1: wrote more than anything, and I enjoyed, you know, the
Speaker 1: arts very much. I wrote poetry and I wrote short
Speaker 1: stories and you know that kind of a thing. And
Speaker 1: uh and I read, you know, I read plays like
Speaker 1: everybody does in high school. And my mother was an
Speaker 1: actress in the local plays and players are in the
Speaker 1: town I grew up in. So the word was she
Speaker 1: was very talented, and but she had four kids to raise,
Speaker 1: so she couldn't really put that much time into it.
Speaker 1: But I'd never really thought about it. And then I
Speaker 1: started thinking about it when my girlfriend at the time
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five, suggested I do it. So I
Speaker 1: took an acting class. That's the first time. I I
Speaker 1: went to the Stella Adler Conservatory in LA and took
Speaker 1: an acting class. And then when I a year later,
Speaker 1: I retired from baseball and moved to New York and
Speaker 1: studied in New York. So am oh cool. So when
Speaker 1: you read the role of Luke for Gilmore Girls, did
Speaker 1: you connect with Luke right away? Yeah? Yeah I did.
Speaker 1: I two things went through my mind simultaneously after I
Speaker 1: finished reading that script, is that I don't want anybody else.
Speaker 1: The first one was I have no chance of getting
Speaker 1: this role because it's just too good a role. The
Speaker 1: script is too good. And at that time, in two thousand,
Speaker 1: they were starting to hire, you know, film actors with names,
Speaker 1: real names, were starting to do television. That's when it began.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of them were crossing over into television.
Speaker 1: It wasn't taboo anymore to do it because they were
Speaker 1: usually separate. You were either a TV actor or you
Speaker 1: were a film actor. And very few film, if any,
Speaker 1: film actors to television, and very few TV actors were
Speaker 1: lucky enough to do film. But so I thought, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't have a chance to do this because they're
Speaker 1: going to hire a big name film actor and the
Speaker 1: second thought was, I don't anybody else to play this role,
Speaker 1: so I went for it. So I really prepped it
Speaker 1: and I worked on the one scene that I thought
Speaker 1: I had one and nailed it. And they wanted me
Speaker 1: to do another scene that I hadn't prepared because they
Speaker 1: made a typo and it said Duke instead of Luke
Speaker 1: on the pages that they gave me for the audition,
Speaker 1: and they said, well, would you mind going outside for
Speaker 1: a little bit five minutes and prepare the second scene?
Speaker 1: And I, you know, I didn't think I had a
Speaker 1: chance anyway, so I didn't care, and I said sure.
Speaker 1: So then I went in and I did that scene
Speaker 1: pretty well, and by the end of the day I
Speaker 1: had the job. So yeah, it was pretty fast. It
Speaker 1: was shocking and fast, but it was just a guest
Speaker 1: star role in the pilot. It wasn't to be a
Speaker 1: serious regular. It was just to go up and be
Speaker 1: in the pilot. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, turned turned into
Speaker 1: something pretty nice from humble beginnings, right, yeah, So did
Speaker 1: you ever wish that Stars Hollow was a real place.
Speaker 1: It is a real place. There are there are places
Speaker 1: like that. Uh. The Northeast has many many small towns
Speaker 1: that are that are wonderful, beautiful, eccentric and and just
Speaker 1: great places to grow up. And all over the country
Speaker 1: there are actually places like that that is not a
Speaker 1: stretch by any imagination of the imagination, but it's it's
Speaker 1: it's really a very accurate depiction of many, many small
Speaker 1: towns in America. So I don't I you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of grew up in a place like that. It
Speaker 1: was a little bigger than Stars Hollow, but you know,
Speaker 1: we had our eccentric people, and we had our odd balls,
Speaker 1: and we had our small town mentality and our communities
Speaker 1: and you know, our sense of community, and everybody knew
Speaker 1: each other's business, and you know, everybody was accountable. So
Speaker 1: it sort of dictated how people your people would behave
Speaker 1: and you know, so wonderful experience. Yeah, oh cool. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I have been watching Gilmore Girls. I mean I always
Speaker 1: watch it, but during Quarantine especially, I've just been rewatching
Speaker 1: it and just I just always wish like I lived
Speaker 1: in Stars Hollow, Like I just I just want to
Speaker 1: live there, so you can there are many places that
Speaker 1: are like that. Yeah, I my mom and I were
Speaker 1: talking about it than how like I just I kind
Speaker 1: of just want to live in a small town, and
Speaker 1: my mom said she thinks my anxiety would probably be
Speaker 1: better in a small living in a small town. So
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, we're going to move to stars Hollow. Then, well,
Speaker 1: you know, there are many historic, wonderful, beautiful, quiet small towns. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, I mean,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, I mean all over the Northeast. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you what part of the country. Oh, oh, so
Speaker 1: you're in Denver. I mean they have they have places
Speaker 1: in and around Denver that are like that. So you
Speaker 1: know they're they're they're not It's not that hard to
Speaker 1: find a place like that. They really do exist. I've
Speaker 1: been to many of them, and they always remind me
Speaker 1: of Starsoul. I've been to many of them since I
Speaker 1: filmed the show, and it's a lot like Starsoul. What
Speaker 1: was the most challenging part of reprising the role of
Speaker 1: Luke after so many years for Gilmore Girls, a year
Speaker 1: in Well, so much had happened in those nine years.
Speaker 1: I'd lost both my parents and it changed me a
Speaker 1: great deal. I got married and had a son in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, and then twenty sixteen came rolling around and
Speaker 1: we were doing the reboot, and I had a two
Speaker 1: year old son, and I was married, and it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I had mellowed a great deal and my
Speaker 1: heart had opened up a great deal, which is what
Speaker 1: happens when you have a child. And I just didn't
Speaker 1: really feel like the character anymore. But there was you know,
Speaker 1: we're similar in some way, so I kind of leaned
Speaker 1: on that and depended on that to get me where
Speaker 1: I needed to be. I remember the first and I've
Speaker 1: told this story before, but I'll tell it to you.
Speaker 1: You know, the first day of rehearsal, I just did
Speaker 1: not feel the first day of shooting. We're in rehearsal
Speaker 1: and before we were shooting, and I just did not
Speaker 1: feel like the character at all, and I was in
Speaker 1: trouble and I just you know, I said to the director,
Speaker 1: I need to take a walk, you know, give me,
Speaker 1: give me five ten minutes to walk around stars Hollow
Speaker 1: because they rebuilt the set the back a lot of
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers where we shot the original series, so that
Speaker 1: was familiar to me. So I was hoping that would
Speaker 1: trigger the old you know, get the trying to get
Speaker 1: the old scent back, as it were, and that worked.
Speaker 1: You know. I walked around and I thought the thoughts
Speaker 1: and I had the memories and walked back into the
Speaker 1: diner and said, okay, I'm ready to shoot. I felt
Speaker 1: like the guy, you know, a nine year old version
Speaker 1: of the guy. You know. Well, I'm really sorry about
Speaker 1: both of your parents. It's part of life, you know,
Speaker 1: I had. I had fifty great years with my mom
Speaker 1: and uh rest rest are soul and uh and my dad.
Speaker 1: My dad passed about passed in twenty thirteen. And it
Speaker 1: it just changes you. It's it really really changes you.
Speaker 1: You know. Shooting the reboot was was a lot of
Speaker 1: fun because we knew it was a finite period of time.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like we were on a series again year
Speaker 1: after year after year. It was three and a half
Speaker 1: months of shooting and then we were out. So I
Speaker 1: think it made everybody happy that and plus we got
Speaker 1: some closure. If it would indeed be the last time,
Speaker 1: I don't know that it will be the last time
Speaker 1: we shoot anything. I don't know anything. But it was
Speaker 1: nice to catch up and so many people had changed
Speaker 1: yet they'd stayed the same, and it was it was
Speaker 1: just fun, you know. It was just a lot of
Speaker 1: fun every day. Oh cool. Yeah, So what was your
Speaker 1: favorite episode two film of Gilmore Girls. Well, it's always
Speaker 1: the pilot for me because it was the most surreal
Speaker 1: and it was the most enjoyable time I've ever had
Speaker 1: on a set, and because I knew something magical was
Speaker 1: in the air, I knew something special was happening, and
Speaker 1: it felt like it was happening, and it felt very special.
Speaker 1: And uh, and I know that first scene I did
Speaker 1: with Lauren at the counter, you know, please please please
Speaker 1: more coffee and I said, she you're a junkie and
Speaker 1: you have a problem, and that kind I just after
Speaker 1: just rehearsing that scene with her before we started shooting,
Speaker 1: I thought, boy, this is this is wonderful. You know.
Speaker 1: I thought she was wonderful and her timing was great
Speaker 1: and her delivery and every you know, everything, the physicality
Speaker 1: of the character, that the Laurel character was just absolutely
Speaker 1: specific and wonderful, and it gave me so much to
Speaker 1: play off of. And I just knew it would work.
Speaker 1: I just knew the relationship would work between Luke and Laureline.
Speaker 1: I knew that I was the guy, and I knew
Speaker 1: that this pilot was just sort of a heat check
Speaker 1: between Lauren and I to see if I was going
Speaker 1: to be the guy, you know what I mean, Because
Speaker 1: it wasn't me, it would have been somebody else, but
Speaker 1: I was. I was very very pleased with that experience
Speaker 1: of shooting the Pilot, and especially that first scene because
Speaker 1: that was the first thing I shot when I got
Speaker 1: to Toronto, because we shot to Pilot in Toronto, Canada.
Speaker 1: We shot the series of Warner Brothers in Burbank, California.
Speaker 1: But very special. Yeah, it was very very fond, wonderful
Speaker 1: war memory. Yeah. Cool. So I know that you have
Speaker 1: your own coffee company and how how did Scottype's Big
Speaker 1: Mug Coffee come about? Well, I'm very entrepreneurial and as
Speaker 1: nice as it is and as easy as it is
Speaker 1: to be an actor and not have any ownership position
Speaker 1: in the project that you're doing, just being purely an
Speaker 1: independent contractor is is nice because you show up for
Speaker 1: work and they pay you, and that's as simple as
Speaker 1: it is. You don't have to worry about anything else
Speaker 1: except just showing up doing your work and then you
Speaker 1: collect your paycheck. And it's a tremendous amount of fun
Speaker 1: on top of that. So but I always wanted to
Speaker 1: own something, you know, be have my own company and
Speaker 1: build it up from scratch and build it up over
Speaker 1: time and do it the right way, you know, in
Speaker 1: small steps, and not try to bite off too much
Speaker 1: and grow too fast and all that. So I thought, well,
Speaker 1: you know, Warner Brothers has done you know, sixteen seventeen
Speaker 1: years of international marketing for me personally and has gotten
Speaker 1: my name out there with the Gilmore stuff. And I
Speaker 1: serve coffee on the show, and I'm kind of known
Speaker 1: for being a coffee pusher on TV. So I figured
Speaker 1: coffee was the natural way to go because we'd already
Speaker 1: you know, on the marketing side, had already had established
Speaker 1: that that character did that, So coffee was the natural choice.
Speaker 1: I'm a big coffee nut, so I searched far and
Speaker 1: wide for great coffee and uh and have some wonderful
Speaker 1: partners and and we're just you know, we're just having
Speaker 1: a great time selling coffee. We love it. So is
Speaker 1: a line from any Gilmore Girls episode that stuck with
Speaker 1: you and has had a big impact on you. Well,
Speaker 1: the one that resonates with me the most is what
Speaker 1: I named the podcast after. I am all in you
Speaker 1: know where I grew up and where I'm from, you know,
Speaker 1: friendship and loyalty was very, very important. And there's another
Speaker 1: expression that was not used in Gilmore, but it's an
Speaker 1: expression I heard growing up a great deal. It's called
Speaker 1: in for a penny, in for a pound. And what
Speaker 1: it means is in terms of friendship and loyalty is
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be somebody's friend, be their friend, you know,
Speaker 1: don't dance around the edges, and you know, be an acquaintance,
Speaker 1: be a friend, you know. And so that I am
Speaker 1: all in really represents me as a person and always
Speaker 1: has and it really impacted me because I think, you know,
Speaker 1: the writing really nailed it in that circumstance with Laurela
Speaker 1: because he's laying his cards out on the table and
Speaker 1: it's like he's not messing around. It's like, I am
Speaker 1: all in. I want you to know that I am
Speaker 1: all in, and that means you can trust me, and
Speaker 1: that you means you know, I'm gonna stick it out
Speaker 1: through the thick and tin, because all relationships have up
Speaker 1: and ups and downs. You can't avoid them, you know,
Speaker 1: And you know, you want you want a solid, solid person.
Speaker 1: You want to you want to be with a solid
Speaker 1: person who's willing to make that commitment. Who's in for
Speaker 1: a penny or who if they're going to be in
Speaker 1: for a penny, they'll be in for a pound, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So, is there someone from Gilmore
Speaker 1: Girls that you've remained close friends with? Yeah, Sean gun
Speaker 1: Uh probably the closest, Yanni Trusdale a little bit. I
Speaker 1: just saw CaCO. We just had her on the shelf,
Speaker 1: so that was nice. Yeah. So what is your biggest
Speaker 1: pet peeve? People that aren't considerate of other people. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a big stickler on manners. I like it when
Speaker 1: people are considerate of other people's feelings and considerate of
Speaker 1: other people's space and are polite and classy. I I
Speaker 1: like that. You know, there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are you know, they appear to be, you know,
Speaker 1: nice people and honorable people, and then they turn around
Speaker 1: stabby in the back. I mean that's everybody has experienced that,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it really surp rises you. And sometimes it's like,
Speaker 1: well I kind of figured that's gonna happen. You kind
Speaker 1: of know who those people are and they're just not
Speaker 1: your people. It doesn't mean they're evil people. It's just
Speaker 1: that they're not your people. So you guys just have
Speaker 1: to find your people. And uh, but yeah, I'm big
Speaker 1: on on consideration, you know. I think it's it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty much the glue that holds our society together. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what is Luke's biggest pet peeve? Why? I believe
Speaker 1: it's cell phones, which means his biggest pet peeve is
Speaker 1: technology and change. He doesn't want to change. He doesn't
Speaker 1: want to leave that town. He doesn't want to see
Speaker 1: that town change. And maybe another one of his, maybe
Speaker 1: a bigger pet peeve of his, is that anybody who
Speaker 1: dates Laurela he doesn't like that because he wants it.
Speaker 1: But again, and he's wrestling with he's wrestling with all
Speaker 1: those questions about well if I if I date her
Speaker 1: and it goes bad, she won't come to the diner anymore.
Speaker 1: It could change the complexion of the town. So in
Speaker 1: a practical sense, as a businessman and as a responsible
Speaker 1: citizen of a very small town, maybe it's not a
Speaker 1: good idea to get together with her. And it could
Speaker 1: disrupt Rory's education, It could disrupt Rory's world. So I
Speaker 1: think he's so selfless and his needs are so much
Speaker 1: on the back burner that I think maybe there's a
Speaker 1: part of him that feels like the town is better served,
Speaker 1: He's better served Rory and Laurel I are better served
Speaker 1: with him just keeping the relationship on a friendship level.
Speaker 1: But then circumstances propel him into like other guys she's dating,
Speaker 1: kind of makes him jealous, so he you know, he
Speaker 1: wants to ask her out, and you got to be brave.
Speaker 1: Is there a fine line between where odd Patterers and
Speaker 1: ends and Luke Danes begins. I think in some aspects
Speaker 1: there is a fine line, but in other aspects there's
Speaker 1: a there's a wall. Uh if you will, Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean to draw the similarities are he's very hard
Speaker 1: working and and and I am too. I've I've never
Speaker 1: nothing has ever been handed to me. I have always
Speaker 1: had to work extra hard for anything I've ever gotten.
Speaker 1: And uh, and that's I learned that very early on
Speaker 1: in life, that when you you must work hard to
Speaker 1: acquire a skill set and then take advantage of any
Speaker 1: opportunities that come your way and apply those skill sets
Speaker 1: as best you can when those opportunities arrive, and if
Speaker 1: it goes well, you could make a nice living. If
Speaker 1: it doesn't go well, and that happens, then you keep
Speaker 1: acquiring your skill set and keep adding to your skill set,
Speaker 1: and when the next opportunity arises, because I believe you
Speaker 1: create your own opportunities through your hard work, you take
Speaker 1: another shot at it, and this time you'll be a
Speaker 1: little bit better at it. You know, I grew up
Speaker 1: in a world where people didn't complain. They worked. They
Speaker 1: just got to work. They rolled up their sleeves and
Speaker 1: they got to work, and they didn't blame anybody else
Speaker 1: for their problems. They just sort of got up in
Speaker 1: the morning and got to work whatever it is they
Speaker 1: wanted to do. So, I mean, that's what I've always done.
Speaker 1: That's what I watched my father do. It's what I
Speaker 1: watched my mother do. My mother got up every morning
Speaker 1: and went to work. She walked to the speed line,
Speaker 1: she took the train into Philadelphia, and she worked all
Speaker 1: day and then she came home and she walked home.
Speaker 1: That was her exercise, and she'd make dinner, then she'd
Speaker 1: take a shower, and she'd go to bed. She'd do
Speaker 1: it five times a week. On weekend, she read books,
Speaker 1: and so you know, there's a I was inspired by
Speaker 1: my parents to have a work ethic, and they always
Speaker 1: told me, you'll never amount to anything unless you dedicate
Speaker 1: yourself to something. And it's if you want to have
Speaker 1: a nice life, you know, choose something that you love
Speaker 1: to do and then just work like crazy at it,
Speaker 1: to be great at it, to be an expert at it,
Speaker 1: and then you can have a nice living because you're
Speaker 1: you're earning money doing something you love to do. And
Speaker 1: So if you could hang up with any of the
Speaker 1: characters some gale More girls, who would it be if
Speaker 1: I could hang out with you mean, as Luke or
Speaker 1: as Scott yea, as Scott Scott. Hanging out with any character?
Speaker 1: One character? Who do I want to hang out with?
Speaker 1: You know, maybe Jess because I was a lot like
Speaker 1: him when I was at that age, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the young Jess the two thousand and two whenever he
Speaker 1: came on the show. And I think it would be
Speaker 1: interesting because I could guide him a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: I could be a mentor to Jess and let him
Speaker 1: know in my way what to expect and what to
Speaker 1: avoid and you know, just provide a little guidance to
Speaker 1: that that that's searching young man. Yeah, Jess was one
Speaker 1: of my favorite characters. So I was so sad when
Speaker 1: he left. Yeah, we all were, we all were. But he,
Speaker 1: you know, he was destined for bigger and better things
Speaker 1: and uh and it all happened for him. So we're
Speaker 1: all very happy for you know. Yeah. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: just have one more question, okay, and it's who do
Speaker 1: you consider to be a real life superhero? And why?
Speaker 1: My mom because of her fierce loyalty to her kids
Speaker 1: and even when times were tough, she never broke. And
Speaker 1: where there were some tough times financially and emotionally, and
Speaker 1: she never broke. She just never broke. She was just
Speaker 1: so strong, and you know, she wouldn't let anybody complain.
Speaker 1: She never complained about anything. She just said, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes life gives you lemons. You gotta make lemonade. As
Speaker 1: simple as that that that's the reality. Deal with reality.
Speaker 1: And reality was this is what we're going through now,
Speaker 1: and prove it, make it better. And she did and
Speaker 1: she did it every day, and she understood that it
Speaker 1: was a daily discipline. It wasn't and nothing happened overnight.
Speaker 1: Like if you want something, son, dedicate yourself to the
Speaker 1: study of it, you know, and it takes time, and
Speaker 1: if you don't love it, you're not going to hang
Speaker 1: in there long enough to really become an expert. So
Speaker 1: so I think, you know, that's the thing. And I think,
Speaker 1: because you know your listeners, these other kids they're in
Speaker 1: the hospital because they're you know, they're sick a little
Speaker 1: bit here and there, or they're dealing with more serious issues,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they don't have aspirations and doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that they don't have dreams. And you know, there was
Speaker 1: a girl on America's Got Talent who wrote that that
Speaker 1: been sang that beautiful song and she's now had to
Speaker 1: step back to take care of her health from what
Speaker 1: I read, But what an inspiration to so many people
Speaker 1: in this country that she has been. And I think
Speaker 1: I don't remember the name of the song, was it
Speaker 1: Blackbird or something like that or Bluebird? But anyway, she's
Speaker 1: such an inspiration and and and she inspires me. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's people like you, it's people like
Speaker 1: your listeners, and it's people like, uh, this girl that
Speaker 1: we're talking about. This you're extraordinary people because you offer
Speaker 1: a glimpse into a different kind of a world where
Speaker 1: maybe you can be all taken away from you, and
Speaker 1: you're living each moment at a much higher level where
Speaker 1: there's more gratitude or there's it's it's things are sweeter,
Speaker 1: things are more beautiful, things are more impactful there there,
Speaker 1: and I think you don't waste your time. You do
Speaker 1: what you love. You strive for what you want, and
Speaker 1: whether it's chemotherapy or surgery or whatever, it doesn't stop you.
Speaker 1: It just makes you stronger, which is why I admire
Speaker 1: you so much. And the people that are listening to
Speaker 1: this right now, it's such an inspiration to talk to you.
Speaker 1: You have no idea how uplifting this is. And and
Speaker 1: I know at times you feel down and you feel
Speaker 1: physically weak and maybe a little sad, but you're stronger
Speaker 1: than anybody that is considered to be in really good health.
Speaker 1: So you're you. You are the inspiration. And and your
Speaker 1: friends in that hospital and hospitals all over children's hospitals
Speaker 1: all over the all of the country and all over
Speaker 1: the world, that those are the strong ones, those are
Speaker 1: the those are the special people that we learned from
Speaker 1: that would that inspire us. So thank you. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: since I got sick at such a young age, TV
Speaker 1: became like this escape for me in a way, just
Speaker 1: to leave everything behind. And so Gilmore Girls is one
Speaker 1: of those shows that just gives me an escape. So
Speaker 1: thank you. Well, there's You're welcome, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of love coming out of that show, isn't there? And
Speaker 1: it's a nice uh, it's a nice experience to to
Speaker 1: wrap wrap those shows around you like a blanket to
Speaker 1: keep you warm. And I appreciate those thoughts because I
Speaker 1: never thought in a million years that I would become
Speaker 1: an actor. But once I decided to, I worked very
Speaker 1: hard and persevered and went through a long period of
Speaker 1: no work and hard times. And it's very satisfying to
Speaker 1: not only have association with the show any kind of
Speaker 1: a show, but one that is so iconic and really
Speaker 1: kind of woven into the cultural landscape and it will
Speaker 1: be forever and I feel very lucky in that regard.
Speaker 1: So it's been a it continues to be a very
Speaker 1: special experience and has colored my life in very positive ways.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, so I appreciate it, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: that you you get comfort and inspiration from the show,
Speaker 1: because it's really I think anybody set out to do
Speaker 1: so mission accomplished. Yeah, Well, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me on your podcast and letting me interview you this.
Speaker 1: You have no idea how excited I've been for this
Speaker 1: or how much this means to me. So thank you. Well,
Speaker 1: You're very very welcome, and I am honored to be
Speaker 1: on your show that all the kids are going to
Speaker 1: get to listen to. And and my message to all
Speaker 1: to you and to all the kids that are going
Speaker 1: to listen is that that I love you and you
Speaker 1: inspire me every day, and just to keep fighting and
Speaker 1: to just continue to pursue your dreams because there is
Speaker 1: important as anything. I mean, the true, the true secret
Speaker 1: to life is to just day and day I'll continue
Speaker 1: to pursue your dreams and you're doing that, so you
Speaker 1: should be very proud of yourself. Thank you. And I
Speaker 1: am wanting to tell you that my mom, my mom
Speaker 1: is a huge fan of yours too, and so my
Speaker 1: sister So they boots hi. Okay, what are their names.
Speaker 1: My sister's name is Leah and my mom's name is Shiwa. Wow,
Speaker 1: beautiful names. Wow. We'll tell them. I said hello, and
Speaker 1: thank you very much, and maybe one day I can
Speaker 1: meet all of you wonderful people. And uh and it's
Speaker 1: been great talking to you. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time. Okay, oh, thank you all right. I hope
Speaker 1: maybe we can talk soon, you know, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would love that. Yeah. Please keep in touch, let us
Speaker 1: know how you're doing. Okay, okay, thank you all right,
Speaker 1: much love, thank you, bye, all right bye. Sweet hey everybody,
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