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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
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"Look for the golden world soccer ball, then pass the ball to fellow fans for a chance to score custom swag. Scan the QR code on specially marked bags of lay's, Cheetos, or Doritos, or visit Frito lay score dot com to join the past the ball challenge. Nobody just necessarily wasn't as if the USB-C 18 plus C was everyday score dot com. I'd like it and you have a great manicure. I'm keeping my hands out of sight. Oh, and I'm getting them done today. They're like little. You know what? I went to high school in New Jersey. I know you will. And by the way, that's a good thing. If it shows in your hands that you grew up in, you went to high school in New Jersey. That's the right place for it to show up. Exactly. Every now and then I just need a little dose. My Jersey years. I also have man hands, so no, you do. Anything that makes them look. I love your hands. They're beautiful. Palm of basketball. Yeah, totally. A friend of mine said, he saw my hands, it goes Christ. He goes, last time I saw hands that big, they had a Super Bowl ring on him. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to the mini questions season two. I've always loved priests, questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other players true nature. It's just the scientific method really. In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are. When and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising or created the most fertile ground
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Dressed as lady Diana. I just say, you know, I thought that was a sort of demure innocence about you when you came in. It was so funny, my friend was at my house and she was like, why are you wearing a Victorian nighting? Out of the house. And I was like, all right, lots of people are wearing these and you're all the rage. They're not. People look like they seem to be a ghost. Here's to those places haunted. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to many questions season two. I've always loved priests questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other players true nature. It's just the scientific method really. In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are. When and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising or created the most fertile ground to connect. My
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Share your team on live at the FIFA World cup 2022 final in Qatar. Frito lay is giving you the chance to win two tickets by joining their past the ball challenge. Look for the golden world soccer ball, then find friends and score daily entries every time you pass the ball. Scan the QR code on specially marked bags of lay's, Cheetos, or Doritos, or visit Frito lay score dot com. 50 USD C 18 plus brain price entry deadline 1110 22 entries received after 1122 are only eligible for secondary prices. At Frito lay score dot com. When the world gets in the way of your music, try the new Bose quiet comfort earbuds too. Next gen earbuds uniquely tuned to the shape of your ears. They use exclusive Bose technology that personalizes the audio performance to fit you. Delivering the world's best noise cancellation and powerfully immersive sound, so you can hear and feel every detail of the music you love. Bose quiet comfort earbuds two. Sound shape to you. To learn more, visit Bose dot com. The thrill of forging your own path is powerful. Nissan is bringing that thrill to our community and collaboration with the black effect podcast network to create the thrill of possibility, a community impact program and summit, curated to support HBCU students and science, technology, engineering, arc and mathematics, or steam, and introduce them to exclusive opportunities. Nissan is committed to creating opportunity for the whole community and ensuring that black excellence is a part of the new future of automotive. For more information about this program and how to apply, visit black effect dot com slash Nissan. That's disgusting food on our childhood. Did you? Inedible. My mom did some cool chicken mess. Oh God. Which is yesterday's leftover chicken with a tin of asparagus soup. Oh God, oh God. A tin of mushroom soup. And macaroni and she'd slurp it around. I loved it at the time. And then I went back like those in my 20s and I thought, oh my God. So disgusting. That really does sound disgusting though. I have to say, however, I can think of some pretty rank things that my mother used to make, boiled beef and carrots. Boiling beef. She's trying to find a way of doing it so it would be tender and it turns out there is nowhere. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to the mini questions season two. I've always loved priests, questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other players true nature. It's just the scientific method really. In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are. When and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising or created the most fertile ground to connect. My guest today is bestselling author and psychotherapist Julia Samuel. Doing my own podcast feels like therapy and awful lot of the time. So it felt only right to have an actual psychotherapist on the show. I was first introduced to Julia's work when my mom died and somebody gave me her extraordinary book, which is called grief works. And even though I couldn't read it right away because reading about other people's experiences of grief and loss, just compounded my own, but it's interesting in the process of grief, you reach a point where you need to feel that solidarity or I did and you need to feel like you're not alone. And that book helped me so much and every time I have a conversation with Julia, I feel like I unravel some deep gordian knot that I've been holding on to and this conversation that we had
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
AJ on Harvey Weinstein and 'Good Will Hunting'
"I registered today that reminded me of the very wicked wicked ways of Harvey Weinstein. But this time he was screwing a guy. Now not the way you think. You got to go back to the days and 1997 when the smash hit, good will hunting was out in theaters, they spent 10 million to make that movie with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and it ended up earning 225 million at the box office, one couple of Oscars, Matt and Ben got the screen playwriting award and Robin and Williams got best supporting actor, but there was some bullshit that occurred. You know, years ago I told you the story where Harvey paid Matt and Ben has started amount of money. No one expected this movie to blow up like this. All different types of screenwriters to punch up the script. In fact, word is the original script didn't even have a love interest that was played by Minnie Driver. There was some other things in the script that just in the initial script that Matt and Ben wrote that were not there. And Harvey had to do considerable amount of work finding script doctors to punch it up and he did. So when the movie time started to make a ton of money, Matt and Ben were very grateful, but there's a famous story that he told me where they said, you know, we really feel like we didn't get paid enough. I mean, in hindsight, they're right, but shit, the guy gave them their starts and they won an Oscar, but they still cried about, you know, we only got a certain amount and now the movie is over a 150 mil. And Harvey, it was in a hotel. He met them in a hotel, and I'm sorry, they called him. They had a meeting. They told him to man. And so I think about it. But he was pissed off. And then they kept hounding him. And he said, where the fuck are you guys? And they tell them what I'll tell they were at. I should stay put. And about two hours later, Harvey had a $1 million in a hefty bed, a garbage bag. And he threw it at them on the bed. And he said, I don't ask you another fucking thing. I'll kill you. I'm kidding, but I'm not. Now, then in that work, considerably happy back then to get a quick extra mill on top of whatever they got paid. I guess that shut them up, but that's one side of Weinstein. But on the same, the very same film. Kevin Smith, the director, was telling a story. That Weinstein actually pulled the movie from the fears early because he wanted to fuck around with Robin Williams Korea. Now, generally you hear him, you hear these stories about Harvey being this play with women. I've never heard much about him doing this sort of thing to a man.
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Was so great. Thank you so much. Thanks for this mini. It's been fun. Graham's fourth novel forever home is out now. And for our friends in the UK, Graham will be on tour to discuss the book through October 23rd, so if you've enjoyed hearing his musings and I know you have. Please do catch him live. Many questions is hosted and written by me, Minnie Driver. Supervising producer, Aaron Kaufman, producer, Morgan levoy, research assistant Marissa Brown, original music, Surrey baby, by many driver. Additional music by Aaron Kaufman. Executive produced by me, many driver. Special thanks to Jim nikolay. Will Pearson Addison O'Day. Lisa castella and a unique oppenheim at wkp. De la pescador Kate driver and Jason Weinberg and for constantly solicited tech support, Henry driver. Hey,
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"We have a son named Henry as well. Oh. Also enjoys the hot pocket now and then. I tried to make them. I tried to make them because I was like, okay, we're going to like a hot pocket. It's not that far off like a calzone. So that's been feeding Italians from time immemorial. So perhaps we should just have a go at making a hot pocket. And Henry was like, what is the Italian word for Kelso and me and again? And I was like, so, and he was like, yeah, mom, you made a song. It tastes like a sock. Nice. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to the mini questions season two. I've always loved priests questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other player's true nature. It's just the scientific method really in asking different people the same set of questions. You can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are. When and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising or created the most fertile ground to connect. My guest today is the author Anthony daw, whose book all the light we can not see won the Pulitzer Prize. This turns out is not surprising at all if you have ever read a single word he has written. His more recent novel pad cuckoo land is genuinely one of my favorite books ever. And the level of lyricism present in his writing is there when he speaks to. I wrote down so many things he said all the way through the interview. You know, as though the whole thing wasn't being recorded and I had to take notes. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. I'm very interested to start out with since my mother died, but since my mother died, I think about the things that I didn't realize until after she'd gone, that went into the basic architecture. The stuff that was in passing rather than the big moments. And it was weird it was like, it was like having the foundation of something revealed when I really just been looking at the building. The whole time, this beautiful building because she was this amazing person. It's been like this weird posthumous gift to feel all these other things so like now when I do something and my son rolls his eyes and makes things that I'm super embarrassing and that we've spent 5 hours making a sock. I do go now you know what? He's going to remember this because we listen to new order while we made this calzone and we chatted about something. So interesting because that's kind of the lesson for beginning writers want to write about the big architecture. You know, they want to write about love for what it feels to be confused. But the only way to deliver that to another person is through detail through like these MoMA by moment details of life. That's how memories get built, you know, is new order and making a calzone. Exactly. And you know what? I had this teacher who I dedicated my book to my English teachers. My three teachers were so huge in my life as a whole. But Alistair, one of them, on a Monday morning, a piece of a four paper would be posted on the notice board in my school from the age of ten onwards, and there would be a list in his really beautiful strange italic handwriting. And it would be like drinking a cup of tea, tying my shoe laces, getting out of bed, and he had to write two sides of a four, describing this extraordinarily mundane thing, and he was like, this is just like exercise. He was like, this is the same as you're running around playing fields, playing hockey basketball, whatever it is. So many years later, when I was still working my way through the anthology of what he told me to read in my life, he said, it was about getting you to pay attention to not just having to do this thing. The thing was not the thing, but to your life, to all those things that it would trigger that whenever you noticed something, it would trigger the memory of your interest in the fact that you've had that muscle built in from an early age to appreciate it and to be able to kind of develop ideas from it. Yeah. Detail is how you communicate with people. If you had said, I have this teacher, Alistair. He was meaningful to me. That would kind of bounce off me. But if you describe his handwriting and you describe this list on his door and the details of what he was asking you to do described tying your shoelaces, it means something to me. That's how you communicate emotion. It's ironically, it's like you're reaching for the stars, but the way to do it is like the tiny little pieces of broken glass on the ground. And that we keep retrieving memory. I've just moved back to the town that I'm from. I don't like how it feels because I don't feel like I can make new memories here. I'm so in the trough of what went before. And I'm fascinated by it at the same time as feeling incredibly sad. It feels palpable. I keep asking everybody, how do you create new memories in a totally familiar environment? That's super interesting. It makes me think about Germans and like the 70s trying to deal with the weight of the memory of all the stuff that had happened. And you're just trying to like listen to music and be 18 years old and there's always this to renew. I mean, I think that's what's so beautiful is grass always ends up growing over the battlefields and it's so important to remember that blood was spilled there, but at the same time allow space for young people to move around. So our twin boys just went off to college. Oh wow. Yeah, I worry so much about this world. I keep saying like, well, the world's warming up Owen, like it's gonna get worse. You know, he doesn't need that. He needs to be able to go make new memories and discover the world a new and go to a party as if it was like the first time anybody ever went to a party. To go to any good parties, I want your basic going. Can you believe the ice caps? Not. What about that cappa gamma? That's totally it. Yeah. And then his mom's like, ask him about COVID. Oh my gosh. She's like the cherry on top. That's very funny. Well, God, I'd better get on 'cause I could really just ask you about a thousand questions that have nothing to do with these 7 questions, but I will glean all the answers that I would like to ask you out of these 7 questions that I'll ask you. Willie tell me where and when you were happiest? Of course. I thought about it. I'm gonna choose a general win, but a specific wear, I love to ski, I live in Idaho and the mountains in the United States. One of the last places middle class families can still ski and afford it. We raised our boys skiing in this mountain called brundage mountain about two hours north of here where they just put a keg of beer in the snow and like grill hamburgers and you could still get a season pass for about 200 bucks. Oh my
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Hey, it's mini driver. What if you had insights into your genetics that could help you live healthier? How would you use that knowledge to change your life? You can hear me talk with 23andMe CEO Anne wojcicki about how insights from our DNA can affect our health journeys and the new season of the podcast spit from iHeartRadio and 23andMe. This season host baratunde Thurston explores how DNA isn't just about ancestry. It's a key to understanding your health when the new season you'll hear me and 22 other podcasters and influencers discuss what genetics taught us about ourselves and how that knowledge can impact the way we live our lives. Listen to my episode out now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. The economy is crazy right now. All time high inflation very stock market rising home prices and interest rates make your money go further and work harder with a certified financial planner professional from facet wealth, certified financial planner professionals, and fiduciaries. They're legally bound to do what's in your best interest. Facet has a simple flat fee, no hidden charges. There are no commissions. Try facet wealth dot com, TRY, FACT wealth dot com. That's a wealth is an SEC registered investment adviser. This is not an offer to buy your cell security, nor is it investment legal or tax advice. These days, our health feels front and center, with many of us monitoring our symptoms today in hopes of a healthy tomorrow. But what about tomorrow's tomorrow? Forward is focusing on your long-term health by building the world's first long-term doctor. That means smarter preventive care, with biometric monitoring, real-time lab results, and 24/7 access to care and a smarter way to do it. One flat B with no copays. Visit go forward dot com slash iHeart today to join for just $99 a month. Go forward dot com slash iHeart. There's something about a fitted sheet. It feels personal and it also feels just like bad design and that nobody thought it through and that there were all kinds of ramifications that pissed me off. I've looked up on the Internet how to do it and I get there's a way, but it's not really exactly how I would want it to be. It's not neat. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to the mini questions season two. I've always loved priests, questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other players true nature. It's just the scientific method really in asking different people the same set of questions. You can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are. When and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"It all leads back to apius. The evolution. They think they call it the reptilian brain. I prefer atheism. I prefer atheism too. I'm going to go with apizza now. The monkey brain, the monkey mind. Monkey mind. If we evolved from if we evolved from something that didn't really care if we were involved in turtles, I'm going to make some turtle specialist very mad now, but I'm just assuming the turtles, they don't really care about territory and tribes. If we have all from them, we'd have shells, but we'd also wouldn't care as much. But Donnie one, you know what? You being able to see that and you being 13, it gives me hope that that question I want answered is that it's possible. It might get answered and that a global response to territorial terrorism might be found with your generation. Yeah, I don't think you need to bust in my room with your turkey and salad. You had that figurative. Thank you, Don. We all just needed to talk to you about it. And I figured out what my question was. Talk about my very easy to talk to. I've been told. You really are. I think I told you. I made you. Yes. Good for you. You know, thank you for the reminder. I'm not taking credit for you completely. You are you, truly. Another book idea. You are letter R you exclamation point. Yeah, we need like really cool colors, a nice gray scale photo, some looking off in the distance. We have this book. By the way, that is what I didn't want for my memoir. The whole idea of a black and white gray scale picture of me sort of like, you know, hand under your chin, kind of staring off out of the ocean. Yeah, I'll just like, just like looking off like this. Yeah, just looking like pensive. What would be your last meal? Well, it's about that it would be with people. So it would be weird. You adds onto Katie Percy Jess lily, mom, dad, my stepmother, my two brothers and their families. And it would be us on a beach, but with it would be catered by this restaurant on the Amalfi Coast called Los golo, which is the best food I've ever eaten. The most transporting food I've ever eaten in my life. And there would be a way of making sure everything was like hot and the perfect temperature and perfectly served, but we would all be on the beach together and then at the end of eating. I know it sounds nuts, but there's this courgette zucchini in American pasta that is unlike anything I've ever eaten in my life. And these fresh anchovies, which are not like the anchovies that you think of in a can, they are white, they have just come out of the ocean with the warm tomatoes that come from the garden in the back of the restaurant. So these warm vine ripened by the sun, tomatoes, with these fresh white anchovies that have been grilled to perfection with olive oil and lemon on them and they're presented on a plate in like a star. You lose your mind. You lose your mind, which if it's my last meal, I don't care about my mind anymore. I just want to be eating that food with all of you. And then at the end of that, right when we've just finished everything delicious, I want to hear the tinkling of an ice cream van. So I get that feeling that you get when you hear the tinkling of the ice cream van. Brings you back to your childhood. Yeah, and immediately you get that butterflies in your stomach. It still happens to me when I hear an ice cream van now. And then I want us all to race up the beach and go and get a mister whippy with two flakes in it. Two flakes, not three not one, two. Two. For American listeners and mister whippy is a soft serve ice cream that comes out in a coil into a cone and a flake is this chocolate bar that you get in England that's arguably the most delicious chocolate bar to meares and that's stuck in the top of the ice cream. Crumbly. It's really nice. Oh my God, that is my perfect last meal. It's perfect. And then I want to take off into whatever's next. As if I had like power jets in my feet, so I would literally just wave goodbye to everybody and then just shoot straight down. Oh yeah. Fireworks, fireworks, with your ice cream. And like a really good firework display. And I really good music. And that would be as I ascended because they would be some kind of ascent. In your power rocket boots with your two flag, not one not three mister whip from an ice cream van after you've eaten this delicious zucchini. And then there would be a giant rainbow over the beach and glitter. That's really great. Men out. Such a great answer. I think incorporating people that you love and stuff that's really interesting. And then auntie case you would be like, okay, let's pack up the leftovers. Don't waste anything. How quickly you need to go? My way should we have to go. You can use getting dark and leave. It's getting dark. If the meal has all your friends and family and everyone, what would you want to talk about? Love, I just love stories. I love it when people tell stories, but my dad used to tell the best stories. Mom used to tell the best stories. I just, and I loved hearing the same stories like, mom and dad used to tell the story. And they would tell it about each other when the other one wasn't present and they'd tell it when they were together. It used to crack me up that they both would tell the story, which was when mom and dad went to Morocco and they weren't on this amazing, crazy adventure. And they were in this place and they were serving lamb and my dad goes the lamb was green and mom goes, the lamb had a green sauce. And my dad would be like, the lamb was green because it was bad. And my mom was like, the lamb had a green sauce because everyone knows that you eat mint sauce with lamb and that mint is very, very common in Morocco, so dad says I told her not to eat it and mom's like, he told me not to eat it and I said you're being ridiculous. And dad said she wouldn't listen. And then mom eats the lamb and obviously nearly dies of food poisoning. And my dad manages to be both completely empathetic and take care of her whilst also massively doing the I told you so dance as she's throwing up an almost dying from food poisoning. So that's what I would like everyone to be talking about is like telling the funniest stories and laughing really hard. Just like when we all start laughing in Cornwall. Yeah, that's my favorite thing. In your life, can you tell me something that has grown out of a personal disaster? Yes. Looking back, I know that every time I thought the world was ending when, you know, a relationship didn't work out when I was suddenly broke and didn't know where the next job was coming from. When I look and I see invariably things grew out of all of those things. I have so many disasters because I think people do, but invariably, every choice that you're forced to make when something doesn't work out. Leads you to what your life is and how can you not celebrate that. It's a heavy one, but it's true. I got it. When mom died, I was like, it is not possible to recover from this. So I kept thinking, well, this is terrible. Nothing good can grow out of this. And it's true for a long time. Nothing did. And then, so strangely, like the little shoots you see on a tree that looks dead in winter. You know, the trees near our house in London that just looked like there is no way they are coming back. And then one day, in March, you see a little tiny green shoot coming out of a branch. And I had that this year because I was still feeling so much grief. And when I saw that little green shoot on the Magnolia trees, I felt this thing inside, I felt this recognition that it was growing anew. And then it reminded me of mom because she loved the spring. She died in the spring. She loved the spring. She loved the notion of renewal. She loved being able to say, it is shit right now, excuse my French, and it is going to get better. She loved that. So there is something in March of this year. When I saw those shoots growing out of the trees, I knew it was going to be okay. And that didn't mean that I wasn't going to have days where I would miss her so much, but it reminded me that it is true at all things evolve, even grief, even loss, and sometimes they can evolve in the absence of the thing that you think has to happen to make you feel better. And in that case, it was, she has to be alive again in order for me to feel better. And the problem of the thing is, is that she isn't going to be alive again. And she would be the first person to scoff with laughter at me thinking that could ever happen. But she's definitely what gave me the ability to notice the green shoots on the Magnolia tree and actually connect that to the evolution of.
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"What person place or experience most altered your life? Well, you did. Really, it's you, but like it's going to become repetitive if I just keep saying that you, but you must know that and people will know that you are the person who changed my whole life. But when I was much younger, a person who really did have this huge impact was this girl who is one of the stories in my book. You're writing a book mom? Did I tell you I have a book coming out? It's out right now. It's called managing expectations. Well, mom. So in this book, there's a story about how, when I left college, when I left drama school, you know, absolutely intent on becoming an actor. I was the only kid in my class to graduate without getting representation. You know, an agent or a manager. Nobody was interested. All my friends got them. I didn't. And I was absolutely stuck. I had no idea what I was supposed to do. My whole life, since I was 5 or 6 years old, had just been gunning for this notion of becoming an actor, and I'd also been told that the only way that you could get work as an actress if you had representation. So there was 19 absolutely stuffed and mom was so hilarious. She was like, right, well, I suppose you'd better just get a job as a waitress. She had no sympathy at all. She was just like, go and find a way to pay your rent. We need money, now, please. Yeah, exactly. Get on with it. So I was like, okay, and I had to work. I didn't have any money, so I was singing in jazz clubs. I was like doing whatever I could. I hated waitressing so. I was a terrible waiter. I was always questioning people's wine choices. You know, like my dad, sadly, it taught me about wine. And I would mutter under my breath. Oh God, don't order the peanut cliche with a beef. That is just what I was thinking, oh my God. I was really just sinking. I pictured you saying, dude. Terrible. Though I'd get fired off and so then I just started singing in jazz clubs and dinner jazz, no one was listening. And through this summer, it was this explosion of this music called acid house. And I would go to these parties, these raves out in the middle of the countryside in like warehouses and barns and wherever. And these huge parties and it was amazing and you just dance all night till it got light and then a bit further. And then you go home. And during that time because I wasn't really as you know. I just I don't drink a lot and I didn't really do all the drugs that the kids were doing at that time. So I was pretty sober and I would be driving home and there was this one girl who I'd always seem to be, you know, I connect with her because she was also sober. And we'd like to have these great conversations. And like we partied all through the summer and had this great time and she was just really cool, but we never really hung out in between. We just see each other at these parties. And towards the end of the summer, I was just dreading September. Reality was bench pressing in the parking lot waiting for August 31st to switch over to September 1st and then I was just going to get my ass kicked. And we must have been driving home early one morning, and she was like, you know, what do you do? And I was like, oh, well, you know what I'm supposed to be an actress. And she was like, what do you mean, space to be? I was like, wow, I left school, I don't have any work. I'm singing. I'm trying to do that. I don't know what I'm doing. And she was like, oh, I work for a casting director. And I was like, do you? And she was like, yeah, you should come and meet her. And that was like on the Saturday night, Sunday morning. And on the Monday, I went and met this casting director who was one of the nicest people and one of the biggest casting directors in the UK and in the world. And I don't know, I don't know what she saw in me. I had nothing to recommend me, except a smart mouth and making some jokes. And she called up an agent who had seen me in a play at drama school and had been like, she's rubbish. And she just convinced her to give me a trial, just to give me a try. Just try me out for a few weeks and see if I could do something. That girl that I used to go raving with. She really did change my life. I feel like I've heard some of it before. I think that's really cool. How life just kind of life on the way. It does, actually. The next question, what question would you most like answered? I know this is the difficult one for you. You told me, it's going to be a bit hard. I listen, I ran into Henry's bedroom night before we were setting up for this and I was like, babe, I don't know what to say to this question. Like, I don't know what. I've been asking it, and I ask it because I don't really know what should I say and Henry just sat there watching me eat turkey and lettuce going, I don't know. I said, how long does the battery last? Because that would be pretty cool. Oh, I mean, I do want to know why does my electric car tell me that I have 260 miles. And then I drive 16 miles and it says that I've used up 50. It's such a lie, like that, that bugs the crap out of me. I put I know what, that's just to do with commerce and metrics and the way stuff looks. The question I would most like answered is I want to know how to stop this savagery that man shows to people. And I say man because it is always men. Starting wars and creating this profound unrest. I want to know rather than will it ever end. I want to know how to stop it. As a society, how we could globally unite to stop this, that there would be like, what's the protocol when you start to see the troops amassing on a border? What do you do? How do we all come together really quickly to stop that from happening? I would like to know that. That's definitely that's sort of expanding on the end world hunger kind of thing. Do you mean like solving like these huge issues that we have as people? Yeah, like these massive issues. I think that's like taking a step further with wanting to know how. But I think you're definitely right. If it's a tier list of questions that need to be answered, it's pretty high up there. What's kind of like a hair question, right? It's the same thing about saying that we're human or spiritual, because obviously I want to know, am I going to see mom again? Am I going to see her again? If someone could just tell me that, I wouldn't worry so much. I wish I could know that. But that's also this sort of spiritual question, then there are these human questions about being here and now like could we actually affect change here if we knew the answer to some of these huge questions could we make this experience less awful for so many people? I think well, because you sort of shown the two roads to sort of question for yourself and the question for humanity. I'm referencing what's happening in the Ukraine right now and it feels it's like a dead end because we don't know how to or what's going to happen. I mean, I think that's one of the issues with some of the big questions. You ask them, there's no real answer. It's it leads to a dead end, but I think exploring that. I think that's really that's important. Knowing what life means, knowing how to make peace. I think what it means dead end, I think that sort of means very important and too important to have a short answer. It would take textbooks of context books to solve peace, world hunger, because there's just so many different sides to it. It's really difficult to sort of create one single piece of perfectness. But let me ask you this. Why do you think Addison would say it's because of tribalism, but we are human beings before we are tribes. Why as human beings can we not unite around that humanity? Why is it always about the tribalism and the kind of furthering what Putin is doing is like the furthering of Putin's agenda, like he's also a person, like how does that get this is so terrible you poor thing? I'm so sorry. I'm pushing this on you. Oh, no, no, it's completely fine. I thought about this. But I wonder why the humanity doesn't come first. Like, why isn't there some a chip in our brain a part of our brain that kicks in when we start acting only in our own self interest? How come there isn't this thing that completely reminds us that we are part of something so much bigger and where people were not just a person. I so badly, I don't want to say tribalism, but I think since we are descendants of the ape, I feel like apes, they're very tribalistic. They like territory there. I mean, as much I know is of apes. I think since our brains evolved from them and we've evolved from wanting to be together with our tribe, the wanting to keep out the others. I think there's just that small bit from being age. I think that's left in our brain of just that we don't want our tribe to be taken away from us. But it all leads back to, I don't know what the word I am going to say atheism because that sounds correct..
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"What relationship real or fictionalized defines love for you? Well, if you weren't interviewing me, I would say you, like, becoming a mother, and maybe it's pertinent because it's Mother's Day, but there are really two things it's a two prong. It really did. My ideas about love and what that was. When you were born, it wasn't even like it was suddenly like this great. Aha moment. It is like this deep inner knowing that it is completely okay that everything you thought before about love was sort of pales in comparison from this actual definition of it. It's this all encompassing unconditional feeling of peace and that everything is right. And that's the only way that I can describe it. And the tangent of that is like the love that I have for Addison, which is that feeling of things just being right. And then the other, I guess this is three pronged not two prongs, units, more of a fork, is with surfing. How I feel about surfing and when I'm surfing, it dovetails into how I felt when you were born and how it was to fall in love with Addison, which is, again, this feeling of its dynamic. It requires you being completely present. There is huge respect in it and strength. You can never underestimate it. And in a way, if you humble yourself to it, you will reap the rewards, but it requires a lack of ego and insistence on things being done your way. There's something about surrender in love, and like having a baby is the ultimate surrender like your body, like when you first start having contractions, which are the pains that you have to have a baby. You're just like, no, no, no, no, no, no, this can't happen. It's gonna happen. I can't do this. I can't do this. You have no choice. You just have to keep going. And surrender to it. In the same way that I ultimately surrendered to Addison's kindness. I'd never really been with someone who kindness was their fundament and respect was their fundament. So those three things for me, you, Addy and surfing, and my pyramid of love. Triangles, the strongest shape. Is that right? Yeah, I was probably put that up. I know, because you're in school paying attention to geometry. Of course, paying attention, yeah. Well, back on topic often school. I think that's a really interesting definition of love, because I know there's a lot of people that say love is just about being with people, and it's connecting, but not connecting on a deeper level. I think what you're really saying is you're not just there with them and you're not being with them, you're not helping them with the groceries, but you're with their personality or you're really there with them instead of just being there to cook them food, you're sort of you're there for the love and you're there for the surrenders here. There's the good times the bad times, not just the times where you want to be there. That's so funny because what I hear in that is it speaks to the duality of being a human being. You have this physical experience, which is doing the groceries, taking care of the thing, the this that that all of which are expressions of love, a 100%, like when you make me breakfast in bed when you make my coffee and eggs and toast, that is an expression of love. And then there's the other the spiritual side of being a human being, which is slightly more difficult to articulate, but just that deep feeling of peace and safety with someone. Like strangely that's how I felt like during COVID when it was just you me and ads together in this really scary time seeing really scary things happen and terrible things happening to so many people, but that feeling of us together was the safe unit. But it's funny, isn't it? There's like, there's the human, the physical experience, and then there's this more spiritual is the only way etheric experience that maybe runs parallel with it. Yeah, so it's a two prompt for. So it is a two pronged. I'd say I'd say the third prong, it's there. It's just maybe on the other side. So it's like stabbing instead of pokey. Instead of pokey, it stabby instead of folks. It's a double sided two pronged in one pronged fork. My definition of love is three pronged, but you're saying like existential love is too pronged, human and spiritual. Yeah, great. I think you should write a book babes. Wow, the two pronged fork of love. Yeah, I'd buy that book. I'd buy that. I think we should illustrate that cover later. The two pronged fork of love. Following up with your whole way you've been saying, do you think you would have answered this question differently, 20 years ago, like before you had me before you've gone through all the stuff, et cetera? Yes, Christ. Yes. I would have, I would have. I would have thought that this idea of romantic love, this idea of a family unit looking the way that I thought it was supposed to, even though I don't even come from that, which is, you know, two parents who were married, who then have children. Like my parents weren't married, they had kids. They had kids with other people. I had you without having a partner who was sort of, you know, doing the shared duties with, like, 20 years ago, I would have said that it was some romantic, ridiculous idea that had been pushed on me by how I'd processed society, which was looking around going, oh, if somebody chooses you and marries you, that means that you are loved, as opposed to being in life, discovering that love for yourself and seeing what kinds of expressions of that love show up, IE a beautiful baby that comes miraculously out of a connection with a person, you know, there's more magic now. Wow. It's really beautiful. How perspectives can change and the 20 years? Do you ever do that? Do you have a write down your thoughts now, like a time capsule thinking, oh, I'm going to look back, I'm just going to see. I'm going to leave a breadcrumb trail for myself, and then I'll come back to this in 20 years and see what I think about it. I think I've done that before. I think I've read it for school. Yeah. It sounds a bit squirrelly, doesn't it? Sorry. I'm sorry. I don't mean to down on your cool style, but it does feel sort of like, you know, write down, think about later. But I think your explanation of, you know, 20 years ago, love sort of felt like something pushed instead of something that you felt. That's really beautiful. That feels like a little garden of love, sprouting up, changing and evolving. Oh, you know what? Also, like, that is actually a really clear indication that evolution is possible in my bumbling old brain. But actually, so maybe going back to that question before of like, will this the stuff I don't like about myself or that evolve? It's like, well, your idea about love evolved, and why can't that happen to other things? That's true. So then maybe maybe it'll be when I'm 80. I won't have a ball of catastrophe. Two pronged fork is turned into a.
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"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Me on in such a special time. Okay, over to you. Cool. Let's get into the questions. The first question, as you know, is one and where were you happiest? Right, well. My happiest moments, they are always on the beach. With everyone, and by that I mean, our family and friends and the surf involved and like a long day at the beach and then us staying and having a barbecue on the beach as it's dusk and how mom would always have her cocktail shaker Volker and tonics. Like handy. Yeah, I remember that. I remember that. I loved did you remember she used to have those shed these amazing red frame glasses and she'd have her red lipstick and she'd be in some cool puffer jacket because it was England and it would be cold and she'd be sitting in her chair. I think I've got so many pictures of her just roaring with laughter whilst reading the newspaper while pouring herself a vocal and tonic, like in the middle of nowhere in Cornwall. Those were good memories. Why do you think it's on the beach? Do you know this reading something the other day about how, as you get older, you return to the memories that you had as a child. So basically I think before everything, you know, sorry for the spoiler alert, but everything gets messed up as you go. Come on, this is like, you know what I mean? I read this thing saying that you return to these places. You recreate them in your adult life. The places that you feel happy is that the places that you were actually happy is when you were a child. And like pre everything, pre my parents separation, pre, everything in our lives, me and my sister's life-changing. I just remember the beach only good things happen at the beach. The ice cream van, learning to swim full attention from my parents because otherwise, you know, you might run off and get lost or drown. So they had to pay attention to you. My sister burying me, you've seen those pictures right of Kate used to bury me up to was just my head sharing. And then she would literally leave. In a hall, not able to get out. I mean, I think that also for me, that would be a perfect memory. I mean, sitting in a nice enclosed pit of sand by myself, tide coming in. Oh, the thrill. The thrill, yes. You do love it. You did make me do that the other day. Yeah, but that was a joke. I mean, I don't see the joke with hunky cade. I gave you boobs and a fishtail. I seem to remember, which is really infantile on my part, and I apologize, but it was funny. Yes, ma'am. I now have that video. So are you aware? I know you're supposed to be asking me the questions, but are you aware of times that you're happy? Do you clock it when you're going, God, this is a really good time. Like, do you have an awareness of them happening? I think I have a vague awareness. I think you don't know it's better until the moment's over, which I think is what the beach is so good because, you know, in the moment, you're splashing around, then you leave, and it's sort of like you look back on that. And you're like, wow, that was really good. And so I think I don't notice, but then what I've left, I notice. That's a really good point. In fact, that is so interesting because I was thinking that right before we did this, I was, as you know, I went out for a surf. That path from our house to the beach that I have walked a thousand thousand times. I still have that feeling. When I come around the corner and I'm walking down the path towards the ocean and the sage, the smell of hot warm sage is blowing and it's sunny and it's beautiful and I can sort of hear tinkly voices from the beach. It's like it triggers all those other memories of the beach, like all those other memories of happiness are triggered every time I return to this beach. But it's almost like it's on a loop in some deep place in my heart, and maybe that's it that we should keep triggering our happy place. We should keep finding ways of triggering our happy place. Like whatever that is in our life. Whether it's on the beach in the city wherever it is, you're just trying to go back to them and have it happen again. Yeah, or have a new experience in that place that you categorically know is a place that you have been happy. I don't know if that always worked. I think I'll definitely make sense. Good, I'm glad I'm not sounding drunk. That's good. What quality do you like least about yourself? I mean, I know that you're probably having an opinion about this. But the thing that drives me maddest about myself is so I'm explaining this to you even though you watch it happen. You know, often. When something difficult happens, I don't let it just be about that difficult thing that's happening. It's like that thing becomes a magnetic ball that attracts all of the other difficult things that are either going on currently or have gone on in the past or might happen in the future and they all attach to this magnetic ball that was just one small problem and suddenly it's this overwhelming ball of catastrophe. And it drives me insane and I'm completely aware that I do it and Addison is really good at stopping me now and going hold on hold on hold on. This was about the waste disposal not working for the 6 day in a row not about your current unemployment. I know what you mean. I've seen it happen before when I'm sitting like some raisin bran in the kitchen. And I think something minor comes in and it becomes a bigger thing. I don't think it's your fault. I think it's just sort of a way that your brain is programmed if you know what I mean. I don't think it's really changeable, but I don't think it's the worst thing. I still love you. I love it. Do you really think it's not programmable? Because like if you have awareness about something, do you not think that awareness is like the first step to changing it? Yeah, I mean, when I say program, I don't mean like you can ever change it. I'm just saying that's sort of like born into you. Yeah. Sort of like how I used to have blond hair. Now I don't have blond hair. It can change. But it takes time. You have to put work into it. I didn't put work into my hair. But you know what I mean? About an allergy. But it's a great analogy, darling. I liked it. The thing is I then used that against myself and it becomes part of my ball of catastrophe going. Why are you not changing quick enough? Why are you aware of this thing and why on earth you see how distressed you become and how distressing that is for the people around you? So why do you keep doing it? I don't quite understand what needs to happen in order to evolve. I would like to have a drink like Alice in Wonderland to speed up the evolution of a certain aspects of my psyche. I get what you mean. I guess also that's part of being human. We have issues that we bring. And then we all deal with issues in different ways. You bring other things in. Some people, they'll try to ignore it. It's always different for people. But I think if you're really trying to change it, which I don't think you need to, because I mean, you're perfect in every way. Oh, stop it. I think if you're really trying to change it, you have to really believe that you can. Because if you're constantly, I know that everyone says this, but if you're constantly being angry and you're attaching things and you're doing because you don't want, you have to really focus on what's happening and you have to try to move away from it. It's true. It's like you come back to the present moment and go all of that other stuff isn't happening. It's just this one thing. I don't know, it seems incredibly difficult at the time because, you know, you're thinking, oh no, the pies burning. I'm unemployed. You know, there's a bunch of stuff happening. I'm not saying that to be bad. That's literally how it goes. We both know that is exactly how it goes. The apple pie is burned and I can't get a chop. I don't mean it to be mean, I'm just repeating what you said before. I'm sorry. It's so not mean. It's so exactly true. I'm here for it. I think you're seeing those things. And we really have to do is think, okay, the apple pies burned, but it's fun. We still have some lasagna, you know? I'm going to find a job and you just have to think that it's not forever, and you can move away from that and you can get away from that place and you can find positives. It's difficult because in the moment you feel like you're useless and it's all bad and nothing else is going to happen, that's good. But over time, you have to know this all just, it's going to fit together like a little puzzle and just become good. It's absolutely true dying. I think that is sage advice. It's really just taking a breath and going in this moment, just this thing is happening. And it's just like taking a running jump off a cliff, and I think we do that as people or I know I do it. And I really hope that this conversation is a sea change in the way in which I barely up to the trickier things in life sometimes. So, you know, thanks for the empathy babes. I think it's part of being something that we have to be empathetic..
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
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"Can you imagine he loves a hot pocket? You know what? The hot pockets are great. They are delicious and probably nutritious. You know, I eat them a lot. I had one this morning. Think about that. So he eats Henry traditionally, has never been a breakfast person, ever. Oh, never. I can have a hot pocket in the morning. It takes two minutes. If I want to make cereal I have to get the box, I have to get the milk, I'll pull. Yeah, but it's also this is like terrible parenting. I get so. Let me talk about my hot pocket addiction now, okay? Sorry, carry on, carry out. So it's two minutes to cook a hot pocket. And you eat it, boom. I'm not hungry anymore. And it's tasty. But I also offer to make you like delicious food like our make you pasta, cacio Pepe. I'll make that beer with some carrot batons and hummus. And you're like, whatever, I'm having a hot pocket. You see, do you want to go through all that effort? Or do you want me to put a hot pocket? Sorry, we're off topic. We're off topic. When I was so off topic, quick, I've come back to the topic back. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to the mini questions season two. I've always loved priests, questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other players true nature. It's just the scientific method really in masking different people the same set of questions. You can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline. And it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are. When and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising or created the most fertile ground to connect. Hi, I'm Henry driver sitting in today for my mom, Minnie. On this special episode of Mother's Day edition for many questions. My guest today is perhaps unsurprisingly, many driver. Hi, mom. How's it going? It's going well. Congratulations on your new book. Thank you darling. You're in it. I'm in it. Wow. That's pretty cool. I'm in a book. You're hosting my podcast and you're in a book. I'm practically taking over your career, mom. By me, actually, I could use some youthful energy. I think we look close enough, we could probably switch out for some movies or something. I wonder if anyone would actually notice you're almost as tall as me now, like if you just rocked up on set one day and were like, I mean, that would be very cool. I think we sound similar as well. So we would just be a perfect match. Well, I like doing my impression of you, but I know you don't like it when I do it. Every night I like doing my freshman year, basically. But you're like, you're two more. I love it when you do an English accent. I'm going to have a ball. You cherries and tomatoes, you darling no. No, it's not tomatoes. It's tomatoes. Tomatoes, we have a bath with some tomatoes and a sofa. Okay, that's ridiculous. I'm really grateful that you're doing this darling. It's this is our Mother's Day edition. And you know, Mother's Day and my book was just published yesterday like it's quite auspicious, and which is what makes me grateful that you're doing this. So thank you. Thank you, mom for having me on.
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Com. Cheap Caribbean. Less planning, more beach. Let me guess you could make it through your morning routine with your eyes closed. Is it Tuesday or Thursday? They all feel the same. Here's the good news, just going through the motions every morning is over. Why not let sheets make the day get ready for you? Take your daily dose of caffeine to the next level and try an espresso milkshake for three 9 9. This wake shake gives you the icy cool burst of energy you need to breeze through your day. And for our listeners, please your order on the sheets app for curbside delivery with promo code wake shake to get a dollar off. You have two sisters. I have two sisters. So I live with my middle sister. Are you the youngest or the oldest? I'm the youngest. I see. I was the youngest to then became the middle of three. So I get it. I get that dynamic. We very much have the birth order dynamics in our family. We all tease each other about that aspect. It's a real thing. No, I joke. I was like, in the company, one of my superpowers is learning how to ignore people. And I learned that from my siblings. So I never mind getting criticism. I never mind taking feedback because I'm really good at ignoring it. You can say whatever you want. I'm gonna make my own decisions. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to the mini questions season two. I've always loved priests questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other player's true nature. It's just the scientific method really in asking different people the same set of questions. You can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline and it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are. When and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalised defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising or created the most fertile ground to connect. My guest today on mini questions is the founder and CEO of the BioTech phenomenon 23andMe and wojcicki. And founded the company with the central idea of creating a consumer product that sought to rework the healthcare model by empowering individuals to take control of their own health. I know when I did the DNA test, I was interested in my ancestry. You'll perhaps be unsurprised to hear that I'm virtually a 100% northern European, specifically Anglo Saxon. The other focus though of 23andMe are these health reports, the company also offer that give you a deeper, more complex view of your health using your DNA. It's pretty extraordinary to be able to find out if you're at increased risk of developing certain diseases ahead of actually developing them. It gives you a chance to take preventative measures to really see your own health from the place of knowledge being power. Anne is an incredibly inspiring person to talk to. She was the kind of child who lay in bed at night, wondering about molecular biology.
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Apple Pay. You can now just tap with your phone or watch to get on the bus or train all over the D.C. area. Add your smart trip to the Apple wallet than just tap to ride. Apple Pay on iPhone. Now arriving on metro. I've been a metro station manager for 20 years. People need to know we are ready for them. That means keeping everyone safe. Right now, the focus is on trains and COVID precautions. Rioters and employees wear masks. All buses and trains have improved air filtration. And we're working hard to get all our trains back on the track. My name is Jeff doubt. I'm doing my part to keep the D.C. area moving. I didn't have a chance to meet you the other night, and I saw you walk into the event. And I was like, oh my gosh, I don't know many people here, but I'll go over and introduce myself. Oh, I wish you had. And I got stuck in a conversation. I saw you got second in conversation, and then as soon as I finished, I looked over, I was like, she's gone. Turn it. Dang it. We're talking about post Academy Awards parties. Did you have a great time? I did. It's definitely not my world, so I definitely just had to be super outgoing and I like the challenge. I mean, I don't know who is of that world because the whole thing is just ersatz humanity. Like we're all pretending. I sure wish we'd seen each other to say hello because it really is. It's like, that is just what that party is. It's running into interesting people and having an excuse to have a conversation. That's how I look at it. I go out to people, I would never go up to. And I'm always in workout clothes, and snowboard clothes. Nice to get dressed up. Yeah. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to the many questions season two. I've always loved priests questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other players true nature. It's just a scientific method, really. In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline, and it made me wonder, what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines. So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are. When and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalized defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising or created the most fertile ground to connect. My guest today on mini questions is the extraordinary Olympian Lindsey.
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"Know if you heard, but my podcast checking it has been nominated for an end of AACP image award in the category of outstanding lifestyle and self help podcast. I'm grateful for the nomination. I almost didn't even do a podcast because I was just wondering there are thousands of podcasts out there and why is my voice needed, but a nomination from the NAACP lets me know that I made the right choice. And I encourage you to do don't worry if there are thousands of something else that you want to do. Nobody has your sauce. So listen, you can still vote, go to vote that NAACP Image Awards dot net. You have until February 5th, 9 p.m. eastern standard time, and please listen to my podcast, we're a part of the black effect podcast network on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you for checking in. I have an 8 year old and then this little baby who's one and a half. And the 8 year old is kind of like curious about all the older kids stuff. I actually told her what the swear words were this morning. She asked and I was like, I'm gonna just tell you what they are and how to spell them. And if I tell you then, would you just not say them? Does not say them for a while. My mother really never told me anything, but then when I went and was like, hey, what about this? She was like, I know. It's crazy isn't it? Wait a minute. What do you mean? Why don't you tell me she's like, I don't know. I just, I thought I would wait for you. Amazing. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver. Welcome to mini questions season two. I've always loved priests questionnaire. It was originally a 19th century parlor game where players would ask each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other player's true nature. It's just the scientific method really. In asking different people the same set of questions, you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. I love this discipline, and it made me wonder what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed if I asked these questions as conversation starters with thought leaders and trailblazers across all these different disciplines? So I adapted Bruce questionnaire and I wrote my own 7 questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are, when and where were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real or fictionalized defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person place or experience has shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am honored and humbled to have had the chance to engage with. You may not hear their answers to all 7 of these questions. We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or.
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"What if you asked everyone you knew the same 7 questions? How do you think the answers would change between people of different backgrounds, professions, even stages of life? Do some questions send us all down completely different roads. Are there some answers that ring true for all of us? I'm mini driver, and this was the idea I set out to explore in the first season of my podcast, many questions. In season one, I asked every guest the same set of 7 questions. Questions about the inflection points in their life? What they're curious about, the qualities they like least about themselves, and what relationships have defined love for them. From music legend Dave Grohl, the first time I saw a band play on the stage. I was in this dark bar that smelled like bleach and beer and they started playing. And like my chest was against the stage. And so I was like, this is what I'm doing for the rest of my life. To television host, hoda kotb. You know, you always want an at a girl from your dad. But instead, when you don't have that, you're like, I guess there's more this mountain decline. If I hadn't gotten sick, I wouldn't have the guts, like I wouldn't have had the courage. I would have never asked that. When did I usually do, but instead, it was urgent. To Amazonian tree frog enthusiast and celebrated actor comedian and writer, Stephen Fry. Well, I think first love is fictional love to some extent. It's so overwhelming. It's expectations are so high that it's a vertical moment of happiness, one little drop of bliss. And now I'm excited to announce the second season of many questions. This year, we bring a whole new group of guests to answer the same 7 questions, including vocalist and founding member of The Rock band blondie. Debbie Harry. Can you tell me about something that has grown out of a personal disaster? I think one day I did have a revelation. It was that CBG business as a matter of fact. I went on stage. I walked out and I realized I was waiting for the audience to give it to me. It would be. Then I realized that I had to make them. I have to demand that. And that was a real revelation. Comedian and writer of the HBO show starstruck rose Matthew, what would be your last meal? Thank you so much for asking. If you haven't existed and you die and you look back on the highlights really the last day and you see that you had like a print sandwich or something. You're like, no, why did I eat that? I didn't stand up to a few years ago. Being on a plane and really specifically designing what film that you're watching because somebody's scared of flying. I don't want that plane to go down and I die. My mom's like, what was the last thing she was watching? And I would just be like, Despicable Me too. It's like you don't want to want that to be the final one. Pioneer of Drummond base, artist and creative juggernaut, Goldie. If you can tell me where and when were you happiest? I woke up to the mountain, I high club, and this is like a ten K light going up and down, but just being in that environment and seeing life and death in front of you. Right in front of you is a really beautiful reminder of how insignificant we are and how being at the happiest moments there. And I got there and scream and crying and laughing and I find that being the happiest. And many more. Each episode is a new entry in the archive. A new opportunity to examine how as people were both similar and individual..
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"minnie driver" Discussed on Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
"This is the this is now the recycling truck. That's like the regular trash. Johnny ashim agree in green. Great another garbage. What back the other way now in my little by little community. There's a lot of trash happening a lot of garbage happening. You know what. It's after the fourth of july. That's you're exactly right. He's doing great. He's like wow people went great especially since they were finally able to be sociable. So so there's lots of trash. Hello i'm minnie driver and welcome to many questions. I've always loved prese question app. It was originally an eighteenth century. Pala game meant to reveal an individual's true nature but with so many questions that wasn't really an opportunity to expand on anything so i took the full price question and adapted what i think a seven of the most important questions. You could ever ask someone they are when and where will you happiest. What is the quality you like least about yourself. What relationship real fictionalized defines love fear. What question would you most like onset. What person place or experience has shaped you the most. What would be your last meal. And can you tell me something in your life that has grown out of a personal disaster. The more people we ask the moon we begin to see what makes us similar. I'm what makes us individual. I've gavitt group of really remarkable people who i'm honored and humbled to have had a chance to engage with my guest today. Many questions is actor producer and director colman. Domingo komen is what i would call a connector. He connects people and ideas and moves through the world with a kind of creative joy..
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver?
Interview With Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Ronan Farrow
"I go backwards and forwards on the first question of wearing and when will you happiest. Because we're so encouraged to be happy all the time rather than the place that we're headed. I don't think that's a well not to be terribly pedantic right out of the gate but you know what is happiness is what you come very quickly and answering this question rided any way and i also found it. Surprisingly hard to answer by any metric that there are a lot of professional moments of fulfillment that came to mind as the answers. Getting a tape of harvey weinstein trying to entrap a woman. After months and months of trying. To get that those are obviously moments of fulfillment of kind. But then i think was a happy then because those high points were also marked by a lot of stress and can also be frankly kind of scary. I mean i think both on a level that any writer would relate to where. You're in the zone crafting a scene but also you're on a terrifying deadline and stressful. And you're afraid you're going to fail. And there's a lot riding on anything particularly when it's investigative reporting and in ways that are unique to my kind of work which is very combative in some ways and you know there are sometimes private. Investigators hired to follow me around and smear me in various ways so those moments of the film and are often entwined with ryan easy. And i don't know of happiness quite captures what those moments our exclusive. No i agree. It is part of the satisfaction of doing an incredibly hard job. That is dangerous and frightening at times but also incredibly necessary and then that paying off. I think there are ways in which that's a healthy happiness. If you were doing something whatever your profession is that you feel is contributing in positive way to other people's lives. That's a great thing to nurturing yourself. On the other hand that can take a lot of unhealthy forms. Yeah i i know and really respect a lot of great war reporters who famously do get high off of being in conflict zones and during time spent in in some of those types of places you encounter a lot of those people who are in it maybe for all the right reasons but also i think you know if they were to search themselves on a personal level. It's probably not the healthiest thing that they need to be in those high octane places all the time so is that happiness or is that kind of getting a certain kind of high again regardless of how noble the intentions
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver?
A Conversation With Award Winning Actress, Viola Davis
"It's really hard being an actor and interviewing you. Because all i really wanted to be doing. It's like sitting in an empty theater asking you questions. And then getting to guns of de scenes walk you move your your most recent beautiful lorraine is black bottom twice now and i don't know where to start i don't know about you and i don't know where to start about chadwick boseman and that's not even talking about the supporting character who a role in their own movies. That are exclusive. I'm telling you. I'm gonna get my baseball bat and all common stars swinging around if you good either way to t- because you don plenty of that i'm going to stick to these questions first question. What relationship real or fictionalized defines love or mercy. Oh i know shadowlands. Fat film is about redemption. And the idea that love is not the absence of pain and with with so conditioned to believe that that. It's supposed to be the absence of pain that it's meant to be joy and happiness in this. It redeems. love redeems does reading. And it's not based in mystery a friend of mine at her wedding. She said something absolutely beautiful with her vows. She told her then she said i promise to love you exactly as god made you and i think that that's i mean i watch my mom. Sit by my dad's day bid when he was dying pancreatic cancer and he would he would just scream her name every two seconds may- alice malice balas and she would say dad. I'm right here. It say oh oh and then shoot. Hold him and for me that that's it.