Speaker 1: Imagine you ask two people the same exact set of
Speaker 1: open ended questions. Even though they may start in the
Speaker 1: same place, their answers will invariably go down entirely different roads,
Speaker 1: depending on their experiences, their environments, and the way they
Speaker 1: see the world and beyond. But maybe there are some
Speaker 1: common threads that tie us together. I'm Mini Driver, and
Speaker 1: this was the idea I set out to explore in
Speaker 1: my podcast Mini Questions. I ask every guest the same
Speaker 1: set of seven questions. Together, we hear about the parts
Speaker 1: of their life that bring them comfort, the questions that
Speaker 1: keep them up at night, the moments when my life
Speaker 1: changed direction, and how they truly see themselves. From author
Speaker 1: and front women of indie band Japanese Breakfast Michelle's Honor.
Speaker 2: We had dated for about a year and a half
Speaker 2: when my mom got sick. You know, getting married was
Speaker 2: never really that important of a thing for me, but
Speaker 2: I knew it was a tremendously important thing for my mom,
Speaker 2: and that if I ever got married and she wasn't there,
Speaker 2: it would just destroy me. So we threw together a
Speaker 2: wedding three weeks before my mother passed away. I mean,
Speaker 2: I told him, well, just get divorced if it doesn't
Speaker 2: work out, you know, like we'll be like young hip divorces.
Speaker 1: To act a comedian and writer Simon Pegg, there is
Speaker 1: God with a big gray beard and a clipboard.
Speaker 3: That's how the clipboard and all my imaginings of God.
Speaker 4: He has a clipboard like people's name.
Speaker 2: Not thinking about Santa, you're conflating Santa and God to.
Speaker 1: Egot winner via the Davis.
Speaker 3: My dad dying was a big one because I was there.
Speaker 3: You're not thinking about how he pissed you all. You're
Speaker 3: not thinking about he was an alcoholic. You're just thinking
Speaker 3: about the fact that I loved him. He was my
Speaker 3: father and he's gone. It whittles life down to absolutely
Speaker 3: the essentials of really what makes a wife? It leveled me.
Speaker 1: And now I am excited to announce many questions is
Speaker 1: coming back for a third season. This year, we bring
Speaker 1: a whole new group of guests to answer the same
Speaker 1: seven questions, including actress and star of the mega hit
Speaker 1: sitcom Friends, Courtney Cox.
Speaker 5: It takes a lot of bravery to end something that
Speaker 5: has so much passion or any kind of relationship. It's
Speaker 5: so much easier just to stay and ride things out
Speaker 5: and make excuses, and you can't go around it, so
Speaker 5: you just go through it. This is a roadblock, it's
Speaker 5: kind of catch you down the road. Go through it,
Speaker 5: deal with it.
Speaker 1: Comedian writer and star of the series Catastrophe, Rob Delaney.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't feel guilty about my son's death. He died
Speaker 4: of a brain tumor. But the sets of smell part
Speaker 4: of my brain, the fight or flight part, is like, yeah,
Speaker 4: but he died before you. It's your fault. You did
Speaker 4: something wrong. You didn't dig a whole miles under the
Speaker 4: earth in Sweden to try to find a friggin route
Speaker 4: that you could get essence of to cure his cancer.
Speaker 5: You didn't.
Speaker 4: It's your fault, you know, And so you need to
Speaker 4: know that you're going to feel the guilt if your
Speaker 4: kid dies before you. It's part of what happens when
Speaker 4: your kid dies. Intellectually, you'll understand that it's not your fault,
Speaker 4: but you'll still feel guilty.
Speaker 1: Singer, songwriter and old rock icon Liz Fair.
Speaker 6: You know, though I wanted to be a visual artist,
Speaker 6: the personal disaster of me sort of having my I'm
Speaker 6: not going to school anymore. I hate everything, I hate everyone.
Speaker 6: That personal disaster wrote Guyville, So everything comes out of
Speaker 6: a dead.
Speaker 1: End, and many many more. Each episode is a new story,
Speaker 1: a new lesson, a new example of how his people
Speaker 1: were both similar and individual. Join me as we continue
Speaker 1: this exploration on season three. Of many questions on the
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Speaker 1: Seven Questions, Limitless Answers,