Mia Dell

What’s your name and where do you live?
Mia Dell. Washington DC.

When did you start listening to TBTL? How did you find the show?
I found you when you had Kristen Schaal on as a guest (10 years ago?) and I was hooked.

How would your friends describe you?
I’m the one they are most surprised became a "dog person.”

What was your favorite cereal when you were a kid? Is it still your fav?
Blueberry Morning. It's like eating a slice of blueberry pie for breakfast. At 52, that entire situation includes multiple elements that I need to stay away from (sugar, wheat, dairy). Aging, you guys...

What food do you love to eat the most of?
As a mother of three, it is hard to claim any particular food just for myself. However, I tend to hoard melon (especially watermelon in the summer), cutting up a small bit for the other four people in the household and quietly taking most of it to work with me. My husband pointed that out.

What’s the best or worst nickname you ever had?
I go by Mia because my actual name is Millie, so as a kid someone once called me "Silly Millie" and trauma ensued.

If you could play one song on TBTL, what would it be?
The cover of "Jessie's Girl" by the Gear Daddies. I saw them perform this live in concert in Indiana in the 90s. I have never found it in a recording though. It takes the greatest pop song of all time and reimagines it as a guitar heavy jam.

What’s a special skill you have that you’re most proud of?
I find the best people.

What’s a special skill that you *wish* you had?
After having studied Spanish, Japanese, and Marathi, I still cannot speak a sentence in any language other than English. It would be lovely to successfully learn to communicate in something other than my mother tongue.

If you were driving down the street and you saw Luke and Andrew on the sidewalk, what would you yell at them as you drove past?
“What you do is so important!”  :)