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Speaker 1: Minnie. This is such a good idea. I love the

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Speaker 1: questions and they do draw out a frightening the confessional

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Speaker 1: quality because their their tough ones to grap with. Are

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Speaker 1: they adapted prooft questions? It was the concept of the

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Speaker 1: prosting questionnaire. I've always loved it. It's what I would

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Speaker 1: turn to in the back of Vanity Fair. But I

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Speaker 1: needed to modify them because there were other things that

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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask. I feel that really specific questions

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Speaker 1: can elicit answers to questions other than the ones asked.

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Speaker 1: If you see what I mean, I'm mini driver and

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Speaker 1: I have questions. In fact, everything I've done in my career, acting,

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Speaker 1: music writing, I've done to investigate the human experience because

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Speaker 1: there's so much we don't know and so much that

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Speaker 1: defies our understanding. In my new podcast, Mini Questions, I

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Speaker 1: wanted to dig a bit deeper, so I put together

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Speaker 1: a little experiment. I wanted to ask trailblazers across different

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Speaker 1: disciplines the same seven questions, questions about what made them happy,

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Speaker 1: what they're curious about, what love means to them, with

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Speaker 1: each episode presenting a new guest a new data point.

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Speaker 1: In this great experiment, I wanted a musician's perspective, so

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Speaker 1: I cooled up Dave Girl of the Food Fighters, What person, place,

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Speaker 1: or experience most altered your life? I would have to

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Speaker 1: say the first time I saw a band play on

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Speaker 1: the stage, and it was a band called Naked Reagun.

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Speaker 1: They were like an infamous. I was in this dark

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Speaker 1: barred it smelled like bleach and beer and they started

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Speaker 1: playing and like, my chest was against the stage and

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Speaker 1: their sweat was on me. I was getting thrown around

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Speaker 1: people with mohawks, and so I was like, this is

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing for the rest of my life. I

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Speaker 1: was curious how an actor might answer this question, so

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Speaker 1: I asked the brilliant Viola Davis if I could pick

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Speaker 1: her brain. My dad dying was a big one because

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Speaker 1: I was there. You're not thinking about how we pissed

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Speaker 1: you all. You're not thinking about but he was an alcoholic.

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Speaker 1: You're just thinking about the fact that I loved him.

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Speaker 1: He was my father and he's gone. It whittles life

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Speaker 1: down to absolutely the essentials of really what makes a

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Speaker 1: life and what makes joy. It leveled me. Then I

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Speaker 1: wanted to hear a journalist's response, so I wrote to

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Speaker 1: pull it surprise winning investigative reporter ronand Pharah. I had

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Speaker 1: pitched a story when I was a TV reporter about

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Speaker 1: the Hollywood casting couch. It didn't, in my case, feel

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Speaker 1: like a triumphal moment of yes, I'm going to do

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Speaker 1: the right thing. What it feels like at the time

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Speaker 1: is incredibly shitty and scary, but I think you do,

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Speaker 1: invariably in those situations have a little voice saying, you know, well,

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Speaker 1: here's what the right thing is, regardless of what the

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Speaker 1: strategic or savvy thing is. And I think it's good

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Speaker 1: to listen to that. And I didn't stop that. I

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Speaker 1: called more and more people with my questions, and now

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Speaker 1: I'm sharing my archive many questions with you. Each episode

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Speaker 1: you will hear a guest I admire answered these seven

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Speaker 1: questions so that together we can examine how is people

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Speaker 1: were both similar and individual. Join me in my exploration

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Speaker 1: on many questions on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Seven questions, limitless answers,