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Hey there, it's Rachel, and today we've got something a little different for your ears.

Wow, that's a really deep question. I'm really thrilled that you asked that.

Oh, that is such a hard question. That's a hard one. Yeah, you hear that? It's people out in the

wilds of the world. Okay, they're just in Washington Square Park in New York, but that place can be wild.

They were people I didn't know who agreed to sit down with me at my little table and microphone

and share really personal things about how they see the world.

Strangers, who became way less strange after playing a couple rounds of our game.

Usually for this show, I'm in our studio here in Washington, D.C.,

and the guests are people with some kind of public profile,

and they're talking to me from wherever they are.

But all of us here at Wild Card have wanted to take our show on the road, so to speak.

To get out of the studio, get away from the famous people, no offense, famous people,

and test our questions out in the real world. So yeah, wild card in the wild. It was a beautiful day in

New York, tons of people out and about. I talked with more than a dozen of them over a couple of hours,

and today we're sharing excerpts of a few of those conversations. Just a heads up, these are New Yorkers, right?

So you're going to hear a little bit of salty language come up in some of these conversations.

In this first segment, you'll hear from Sina, Diane and Akira.

Um, two.

Yeah.

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