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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Baratunde Thurston (Part 1)

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Baratunde Thurston, writer, activist and host of the How to Citizen podcast. In this first installment of their two-part conversation, Baratunde and Minnie discuss the difference between doing right and being right, the comfort of being oceanside and how being “in” love isn’t actually a destination.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass who got pushed out of the company he built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. When Black Panther came out, I was like, I should have been in this. I'm not even like an actor.

0:38.3

100%. I'm like, I'm black. I should have been in this. It's like my reparations request. I have met Ryan Coogler a few times in different ways. I let it be known. I'll do anything for Black Panther too. Like Wakanda needs a janitor. It's like in the background, like a squeaky wheel in the background.

0:36.9

It's just more about being a part of the universe, you know? This idea that you now, I'm feeling you're going to have to run with this of curated reparations. I feel like this is some interesting. I'd like to see what Zeeway and Jeremy O'Harris have to say about that. Yeah, you should get to choose. Yeah. I want to be in Black Panther movie. Yeah. Like I want massages on a weekly basis to work out the knots of racism that reside within my body. So it's very related, you know. And it's like a job creator. You know, that's like a real, that's a skill. And I'm rewarding that skill with

1:28.4

taxpayer money. Hello, I'm Minnie Driver and welcome to Mini Questions. I've always loved

1:35.0

Proust's questionnaire. It was originally an 18th century parlor game meant to reveal an

1:39.7

individual's true nature. But with so many questions, there wasn't really an opportunity to expand

1:45.3

on anything. So I took the format of Proust's questionnaire and adapted what I think are seven of

1:50.8

the most important questions you could ever ask someone. They are, when and where were you happiest?

1:58.0

What is the quality you like least about yourself?

2:05.3

What relationship, real or fictionalised, defines love for you?

2:08.5

What question would you most like answered?

2:13.3

What person, place or experience has shaped you the most?

2:16.1

What would be your last meal?

2:22.1

And can you tell me something in your life that has grown out of a personal disaster?

2:28.7

The more people we ask, the more we begin to see what makes us similar and what makes us individual.

2:35.0

I've gathered a group of really remarkable people who I am honoured and humbled to have had a chance to engage with.

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