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Does the idea of an infinite universe excite or scare you?

Infinity scares me.

If you're telling me I am dead for a trillion billion, million years, and then I'll get

to come back for one day, then I'm fine.

But if I'm gone forever, very scary.

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 them.

My guest this week is actor Jimmy O. Yang. Anything infinite is scary.

I look out the ocean at night. I get a little scared. It seems so vast and infinite.

I first saw Jimmy O. Yang in a Christmas rom-com. It's my little personal tradition to lock

myself in my downstairs guest room and wrap presents while watching the so bad their good genre of

holiday movies. A few years ago, the streaming algorithm recommended a movie to me called Love Hard.

No, it wasn't adults only fair. It was just the worst name for a Christmas movie ever.

That, however, did not stop me. And I'm so glad because I got to watch Jimmy O. Yang cut through the saccharine

mush of those movies and deliver the most authentic, maybe even subversive performance I'd

ever seen in a holiday rom-com. Yang had already made a name for himself as a recurring character

on the HBO show Silicon Valley. He was only supposed to be in a few episodes,

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