Minnie. This is such a good idea. I love the questions and they do draw out a frightening the confessional quality because their their tough ones to grap with. Are they adapted prooft questions? It was the concept of the prosting questionnaire. I've always loved it. It's what I would turn to in the back of Vanity Fair. But I needed to modify them because there were other things that I wanted to ask. I feel that really specific questions can elicit answers to questions other than the ones asked.
If you see what I mean, I'm mini driver and I have questions. In fact, everything I've done in my career, acting, music writing, I've done to investigate the human experience because there's so much we don't know and so much that defies our understanding. In my new podcast, Mini Questions, I wanted to dig a bit deeper, so I put together
a little experiment. I wanted to ask trailblazers across different disciplines the same seven questions, questions about what made them happy, what they're curious about, what love means to them, with each episode presenting a new guest a new data point. In this great experiment, I wanted a musician's perspective, so I cooled up Dave Girl of the Food Fighters, What person, place,
or experience most altered your life? I would have to say the first time I saw a band play on the stage, and it was a band called Naked Reagun. They were like an infamous. I was in this dark barred it smelled like bleach and beer and they started playing and like, my chest was against the stage and their sweat was on me. I was getting thrown around people with mohawks, and so I was like, this is
what I'm doing for the rest of my life. I was curious how an actor might answer this question, so I asked the brilliant Viola Davis if I could pick her brain. My dad dying was a big one because I was there. You're not thinking about how we pissed you all. You're not thinking about but he was an alcoholic. You're just thinking about the fact that I loved him. He was my father and he's gone. It whittles life down to absolutely the essentials of really what makes a
life and what makes joy. It leveled me. Then I wanted to hear a journalist's response, so I wrote to pull it surprise winning investigative reporter ronand Pharah. I had pitched a story when I was a TV reporter about the Hollywood casting couch. It didn't, in my case, feel like a triumphal moment of yes, I'm going to do
the right thing. What it feels like at the time is incredibly shitty and scary, but I think you do, invariably in those situations have a little voice saying, you know, well, here's what the right thing is, regardless of what the strategic or savvy thing is. And I think it's good to listen to that. And I didn't stop that. I called more and more people with my questions, and now
I'm sharing my archive many questions with you. Each episode you will hear a guest I admire answered these seven questions so that together we can examine how is people were both similar and individual. Join me in my exploration on many questions on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Seven questions, limitless answers,