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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Jia Tolentino

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions writer Jia Tolentino, author of New York Times Bestseller Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion. Jia shares how reporting on Britney Spears’ conservatorship has illuminated the challenges women face in the entertainment industry, how her upbringing within a narrow religious education taught her freedom of thought, and the story of a childhood dream about an abandoned bicycle.

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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

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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

0:21.9

built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

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.

0:34.9

Even before I read your book, I always go and look at the author picture. I laughed so hard that in the back of your author picture. You saw Monkey Jesus? Yeah. Ech-Homo, yeah. I painted him myself, I'll say. I want to, you know, those places where you can drink wine and paint that's just like in a strip. Well, there's one in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, and I just got hammered and painted monkey

0:56.3

Jesus.

0:57.6

But I think about Cecilia Jimenez.

1:00.4

I think about the woman who just Google Eke Homo and see that there was this sort of, I feel

1:07.5

like it was from the 30s.

1:09.0

It was like this picture by Elias Martinez

1:11.6

and this very lovely custodian of a church

1:15.4

did a terrible...

1:16.9

A restoration.

1:18.5

And he looks like monkey Jesus now.

1:22.8

It's one of the most beautiful things that humans have ever done.

1:26.2

Just amazing. It's so good.

1:28.9

So brilliant.

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