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What have you learned to take less seriously?

Everything I've learned that life is... have you learned to take less seriously? Everything.

I've learned that life is such a gift and can be enjoyed, and it's all okay.

It's all okay.

Everything is beautiful.

I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard, the game where cards control the conversation.

Each week, my guest chooses questions at random from a deck of cards.

Pick a card one through three.

Questions about the memories, insights, and beliefs that have shaped their lives.

So I sat and closed my eyes and boom.

My guest today is filmmaker David Lynch.

It was as if I was in an elevator and someone snip the cables.

Within I went.

That idea right there about the elevator being cut loose,

that's about the first time David Lynch tried transcendental meditation.

Down he plunged into his own subconscious.

And that's also what it feels like to absorb David Lynch's work, whether it's the TV show Twin Peaks or the movie Mahala Drive

or the music that he's currently making with the artist Christabel.

It feels like you're plunging into a dark, surreal part of the human psyche.

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