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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Mom's Car: Timothy Simons

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.668.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Mom’s Car we welcome actor extraordinaire and Timothy Simons. Tim, Dax, and Best Friend Aaron Weakley talk through the full day of testing he underwent in the 90s to diagnose him with ADHD and how a comorbidity is a heightened sensitivity to injustice. The team hit a two-banger order while Tim discusses seeing behaviors in his kids that are really just reflections of his own, having a contrarian streak in the beginning stages of his career, and finding a backdoor into comedy acting through casting commercials.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Mom's Car. Today we have Timothy Simons. Oh my God, what a wonderful and tall

0:08.7

human being Timothy is. You probably fell in love with him on VEP as I did. He was also on

0:13.9

Handmaid's Tale and let us not forget nobody wants this. Tim is a party. He's honest. And boy, did he teach us a lot about ADHD?

0:23.6

Please enjoy Timothy Simons. Checking Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds

0:29.0

on car insurance is smart. Unfortunately, not checking that your sunroof is closed before going

0:34.6

through the car wash is not smart. Yeah, checking first is smart.

0:39.2

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0:44.6

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0:48.3

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1:10.2

Thank you. Northbrook, Illinois. I grew up in Maine, central Maine, like woods and lakes, rather than ocean.

1:14.8

Okay.

1:15.3

But I was going to say that when I was growing up, there was like this Shakespeare theater

1:18.5

that was in a really amazing building.

1:22.2

The actual building is beautiful.

1:23.5

The theater is beautiful.

1:24.5

So it's kind of a destination for like New York equity actors to come up and do Shakespeare and get out of the city. What's the other one? There's one in the Berkshires too. Is it kind of like that? Williamstown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not big like Williamstown. Okay. Williamstown, I feel like big names go and do shows. Right, right. And I think people that are playwrights at Yale will do shows up there. You're like a sort of steadily working equity actor in New York or Boston, and you just get to like get out of the city. And the pay is kind of shit. And you live with other people in the community. But growing up, one of the people that was always in shows there was David Harbor. Oh, really?

2:01.3

Is he from Maine?

2:02.8

No, he was a New York guy, but he was up there for like four or five summers.

2:06.5

So I saw him do a bunch of Moli airplays and two gentlemen of Verona.

2:10.2

And I worked at the video store and he would come into the video store and I treated him

2:14.7

like I was meeting.

2:16.7

Brando. Brando. It's like, oh, my God, man, how's it going? Do you mean any secret copies of anything? I would, like, try to do, like, a cool video store. I mean, I was probably 14, 15. Oh, my God. And I'd be like, I got recommendations for if you need them. And he was probably like, yeah, man, I kind of know. I'm an artist. I'm an artist. I think. Yeah. But I always kind of love seeing him around. That's really fun. I imagine it's a small town. Very. My hometown was really small. It was like 2,000 people. And the town that that theater was in was even smaller. Like, we made fun of it for how small it was. Oh, really? Their high school, Monmouth Academy, they had literally like 10 to 12 people per graduating class. Oh, wow. Wow, that makes dating rough. Yes. I was on a basketball team in high school, and it was always the only team that we could

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