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What are you like when no one is around?

Ooh.

I think the funny thing about being an introvert is in your head, you're kind of like almost godlike in that I'm like, I have so much to say and I'm this huge personality.

And it's all like contained inside.

I'm Rachel Martin and this is Wildcard,

the show where cards control the conversation.

Each week, my guest answers questions about their life,

questions pulled from a deck of cards.

They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one back on me.

My guest this week is comedian Apparna Nancherla.

As soon as someone, including me, I guess, imposes structure on myself, I'm immediately enraged that someone's trying to make me do something.

Aparna Nancherla seems to me like someone living between two impulses.

One of them pulls her to stand

on a stage and tell jokes and take up space and stand out, and the other pulls her in the

opposite direction, inwards, into her own head, where anxiety is just waiting to regale her with

all the worst-case scenarios that it's drummed up while she's been out being a famous comedian.

Aparna has made her anxiety a big part of her comedy, which has landed her in a new documentary

about the struggle that unites a whole lot of comedians. It's called Anxiety Club. And I'm so happy to

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