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Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

Tim Minchin

Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Minnie questions Tim Minchin, musician, actor, writer, composer, and comedian. Tim shares the joy he finds in spending eight hours clearing weeds, remembers the angry unsent letters he’s written, and reveals how spending years working on a movie that got cancelled inspired his TV show about transporting a piano, Upright.

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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.

0:22.8

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.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen if there are no girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:37.2

I'm bad for the same reason because if someone asked me a question, I just answer it to the best

0:42.0

of my ability.

0:42.6

A hundred percent.

0:44.1

But if it's really a silly question, I'll go, oh, I'm not much good with those sorts of

0:48.9

questions.

0:50.2

What I need to be better at is someone asks a good question, and I think, oh, that's a good question.

0:55.8

I'm going to unpack it.

0:57.5

And it's, no, I don't, that's what gets me in trouble, because I'll go, you could look at it like this and you could look at it like that.

1:03.5

And then the press will go, he said that thing.

1:05.9

And I'm like, no, I was doing the thing I'm trying to do, which is to be self-aware about my bias that doesn't work out.

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