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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Rob Delaney

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Rob Delaney, comedian, actor, and writer. Rob shares stories of dealing with the grief from losing his son, why his career in tech companies didn't last long, and how a Boston Red Sox hat led to him meeting his wife.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:06.7

Well, hello everybody and welcome to the Mini Driver Bonanza and Wild West Review podcast.

0:13.7

I can't believe we're going to be talking about Bonanza TV.

0:17.4

Yeah, it's an important show.

0:18.6

Very important.

0:24.6

Hello, I'm Mini Driver. I've always loved Proust's questionnaire. It was originally an 19th century parlor game where players would ask

0:30.9

each other 35 questions aimed at revealing the other player's true nature. In asking different people the same set of questions,

0:39.1

you can make observations about which truths appear to be universal. And it made me wonder,

0:44.1

what if these questions were just the jumping off point? What greater depths would be revealed

0:48.8

if I asked these questions as conversation starters? So I adapted Proust questionnaire and I wrote my own seven

0:55.3

questions that I personally think are pertinent to a person's story. They are, when and where

1:00.5

were you happiest? What is the quality you like least about yourself? What relationship real

1:05.7

or fictionalized defines love for you? What question would you most like answered? What person, place or experience has

1:13.2

shaped you the most? What would be your last meal? And can you tell me something in your life that's grown

1:18.9

out of a personal disaster? And I've gathered a group of really remarkable people, ones that I am

1:26.3

honoured and humbled to have had the chance to engage with.

1:29.5

You may not hear their answers to all seven of these questions.

1:33.2

We've whittled it down to which questions felt closest to their experience or the most surprising

1:38.7

or created the most fertile ground to connect.

1:44.5

My guest today on mini questions is Rob Delaney. My guest today on mini questions is Rob Delaney.

1:48.3

I think people think of Rob as a brilliant comedian and actor.

1:52.9

And I mean, I do too.

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