What emotion do you understand better than all the others?

I'm trying to literally name any other emotion and anger is the only one coming up for me.

Let it go. Let it out. It's just anger, baby.

I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wild Card, the game 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 Jeanette McCurdy.

To me, work is where I take risks and where I say

the things that maybe we're not supposed to say out loud. There's no instinct towards safety for me

in writing. There never really has been. It's so the opposite for me. If you're a young adult who

spent a lot of your childhood watching Nickelodeon, then you know Jeanette McCurdy as Sam Puckett from the hit shows I Carly and Salmon Cat. If not, you still might recognize the title

of Jeanette's 22 memoir. I'm glad my mom died. Grim title, excellent book. Turns out this former

child star grew up into a writer able to capture some of the darkest parts of human nature with unflinching honesty and devastating humor.

Her new book, her first novel, is called Half His Age.

And I am so happy to welcome Jeanette McCurdy to Wildcard.

Hi.

Hi, Rachel. I'm so happy to be here.

Thanks for having you.

I'm so happy to talk with you.

Round one. You ready? Yeah. Yeah. Memories. First three cards. I hold up three random cards from our deck and you pick one, two, or three. Let's go one. One. Where would you go when you wanted to feel safe as a kid?

Wow. What an amazing question. It couldn't be more timely. I've really been exploring this

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