Re-Release: Michelle Zauner
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today we're re-releasing Minnie's episode with Michelle Zauner, author, songwriter, and lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Japanese Breakfast. Japanese Breakfast just released their fourth studio album, For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women), and begins their supporting tour this weekend. Minnie Questions will return with new episodes soon!
Minnie questions Michelle Zauner, author and musician who performs under the name Japanese Breakfast. Michelle reflects with Minnie on the loss of their mothers, shares how cooking takes her out of her head, and recalls childhood memories of sneaking through a fence to the Willamette River.
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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 |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:54.3 | 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 IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Yeah. I mean, I feel like we've let go of timelines so hugely in this past year and a half, like the idea of deadlines and timelines and time lines and time has just been so elastic. I've had to create discipline that I didn't have previously. And I also like react badly when people are like, okay, this has to be done by this time. And it's like, well, why if time is elastic? Is that what you say? |
| 0:56.6 | How does that go over for you? |
| 0:58.0 | There's literally, there's like, I wish I'd said that. |
| 1:00.5 | I didn't say that to anybody except you. |
| 1:02.6 | That's what I'm going to start. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm going to start saying that to my manager. |
| 1:05.7 | Time is elastic. |
| 1:07.6 | What do you mean? |
| 1:09.4 | What do you mean 1130? |
| 1:11.0 | Time is elastic. |
| 1:14.1 | Hello, I'm Mini Driver and welcome to MiniQuestions. |
| 1:18.4 | I've always loved Proust questionnaire. |
| 1:20.9 | It was originally an 18th century parlor game meant to reveal an individual's true nature. |
| 1:25.8 | But with so many questions, there wasn't really an opportunity to expand on anything. |
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