That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Minnie Driver

Episode Date: July 7, 2023

For our bonus Show n Tell episode this week, Minnie Driver tells us about the thing (or rather creature) that brings her joy! This is one for all the animal lovers out there... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many say we give everybody a little extra nugget. We give them that little, the thing that brings you joy. And he's here. Come here, stinky. She's actually not talking to me. No. Stinky. Up up.

Oh, you're going to snuffle. This is Bob. Hello, Bob. How are you? Hello, Bob. Tell me about Bob. Bob was tied to a tree in a really bad part of Los Angeles. And this friend of mine who has a rescue, she used to walk by the yard every day

and see this dog and she'd bang on the door and ask the guy to please give her the dog and he'd tell her to fuck off every day and then after about two months one day we don't know why he just screamed at her

and said take him and so she took him and he needed to be fostered and he's probably like from the puppy mill because he's a shitsu and a Maltese and he's adorable and he is honestly

my boyfriend says he actually displays singularly no dog-like quality. He's a human. He's the most human dog. He has no interest in, he doesn't do sort of smiling and like doggy wagging tail stuff. He just stares at you and when you pick him up, we call him the hostage. Because whenever you pick him up, he really sort of goes stiff and like stares out at whoever's looking at him. Like when he tolerates everything, he just tolerates life.

And I love him so much. And I think he had such a hard life. I love treating him like a prince even though he does... Who saved him? He doesn't care. How long have you had him? We've had him for five years

and we don't know how old he is. He's got slightly blue eyes so I think he's probably around eight or nine. He's so lovely. He's the most human. The really weird thing is he looks like you've got a human child on your lap but you've put him in a dog mask.

We do. We also think that maybe he was, you know, someone put a spell on a person. And he's actually, that's what he is. That was Henry's. He's an enchanted person. He's an enchanted person. I wonder what the spell was.

We, I'm so funny. I'm to see if I can reverse the spell. No, because I want him to stay. Bob. Yeah, no, Bob, you can stay. Stay as Bob. I love the way he twitched his ear. You could stay as Bob.

I'm not going to do the magic trick. It's going to be fine. He's now giving us that look. Minnie, thank you, and thank you for bringing Bob. Thank you, love, very much.