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Speaker 1: Imagine you ask two people the same exact set of

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Speaker 1: open ended questions. Even though they may start in the

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Speaker 1: same place, their answers will invariably go down entirely different roads,

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Speaker 1: depending on their experiences, their environments, and the way they

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Speaker 1: see the world and beyond. But maybe there are some

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Speaker 1: common threads that tie us together. I'm Mini Driver, and

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Speaker 1: this was the idea I set out to explore in

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Speaker 1: my podcast Mini Questions. I ask every guest the same

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Speaker 1: set of seven questions. Together, we hear about the parts

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Speaker 1: of their life that bring them comfort, the questions that

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Speaker 1: keep them up at night, the moments when my life

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Speaker 1: changed direction, and how they truly see themselves. From author

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Speaker 1: and front women of indie band Japanese Breakfast Michelle's Honor.

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Speaker 2: We had dated for about a year and a half

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Speaker 2: when my mom got sick. You know, getting married was

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Speaker 2: never really that important of a thing for me, but

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Speaker 2: I knew it was a tremendously important thing for my mom,

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Speaker 2: and that if I ever got married and she wasn't there,

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Speaker 2: it would just destroy me. So we threw together a

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Speaker 2: wedding three weeks before my mother passed away. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I told him, well, just get divorced if it doesn't

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Speaker 2: work out, you know, like we'll be like young hip divorces.

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Speaker 1: To act a comedian and writer Simon Pegg, there is

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Speaker 1: God with a big gray beard and a clipboard.

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Speaker 3: That's how the clipboard and all my imaginings of God.

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Speaker 4: He has a clipboard like people's name.

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Speaker 2: Not thinking about Santa, you're conflating Santa and God to.

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Speaker 1: Egot winner via the Davis.

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Speaker 3: My dad dying was a big one because I was there.

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Speaker 3: You're not thinking about how he pissed you all. You're

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Speaker 3: not thinking about he was an alcoholic. You're just thinking

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Speaker 3: about the fact that I loved him. He was my

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Speaker 3: father and he's gone. It whittles life down to absolutely

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Speaker 3: the essentials of really what makes a wife? It leveled me.

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Speaker 1: And now I am excited to announce many questions is

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Speaker 1: coming back for a third season. This year, we bring

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Speaker 1: a whole new group of guests to answer the same

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Speaker 1: seven questions, including actress and star of the mega hit

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Speaker 1: sitcom Friends, Courtney Cox.

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Speaker 5: It takes a lot of bravery to end something that

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Speaker 5: has so much passion or any kind of relationship. It's

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Speaker 5: so much easier just to stay and ride things out

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Speaker 5: and make excuses, and you can't go around it, so

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Speaker 5: you just go through it. This is a roadblock, it's

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Speaker 5: kind of catch you down the road. Go through it,

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Speaker 5: deal with it.

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Speaker 1: Comedian writer and star of the series Catastrophe, Rob Delaney.

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Speaker 4: I shouldn't feel guilty about my son's death. He died

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Speaker 4: of a brain tumor. But the sets of smell part

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Speaker 4: of my brain, the fight or flight part, is like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: but he died before you. It's your fault. You did

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Speaker 4: something wrong. You didn't dig a whole miles under the

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Speaker 4: earth in Sweden to try to find a friggin route

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Speaker 4: that you could get essence of to cure his cancer.

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Speaker 5: You didn't.

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Speaker 4: It's your fault, you know, And so you need to

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Speaker 4: know that you're going to feel the guilt if your

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Speaker 4: kid dies before you. It's part of what happens when

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Speaker 4: your kid dies. Intellectually, you'll understand that it's not your fault,

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Speaker 4: but you'll still feel guilty.

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Speaker 1: Singer, songwriter and old rock icon Liz Fair.

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Speaker 6: You know, though I wanted to be a visual artist,

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Speaker 6: the personal disaster of me sort of having my I'm

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Speaker 6: not going to school anymore. I hate everything, I hate everyone.

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Speaker 6: That personal disaster wrote Guyville, So everything comes out of

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Speaker 6: a dead.

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Speaker 1: End, and many many more. Each episode is a new story,

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Speaker 1: a new lesson, a new example of how his people

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Speaker 1: were both similar and individual. Join me as we continue

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Speaker 1: this exploration on season three. Of many questions on the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Seven Questions, Limitless Answers,