Imagine you ask two people the same exact set of open-ended questions.

Even though they may start in the same place, their answers will invariably go down entirely different roads,

depending on their experiences, their environments, and the way they see the world and beyond.

But maybe there are some common threads that ties together.

I'm Mini Driver, and this was the idea I set out to explore in my podcast, Mini Questions.

I asked every guest the same set of seven questions.

Together, we hear about the parts of their life that bring them comfort,

the questions that keep them up at night, the moments when their life changed direction,

and how they truly see themselves. From author and frontwoman of Indyband Japanese breakfast,

Michelle Zarner, we had dated for about a year and a half when my mom got sick. You know,

getting married was never really that important of a thing for me, but I knew it was a tremendously important thing for my mom and that if I ever got married and she wasn't there, it would just destroy me.

So we threw together a wedding three weeks before my mother passed away.

I mean, I told him, we'll just get divorced if it doesn't work out, you know, like would be, like, young, hip divorcees.

To act, a comedian and writer Simon Pegg, there is God with a big grey beard and a clipboard.

That's how I see God.

I've never seen him with the clipboard.

In all my imaginings of God.

He has a clipboard with, like, people's names on.

Are you not thinking about Santa?

You're conflating Santa and God to egot winner viola Davis my dad dying was a big one because I was there you're not

thinking about how he pissed you off you're not thinking about he was an alcoholic you're just thinking about how he pissed you off. You're not thinking about he was an alcoholic.

You're just thinking about the fact that I loved him.

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