Jonathan Goldstein on Wild Card

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Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships, Comedy

4.9 • 17.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week, Jonathan joins the ranks of A-list celebrities as a guest on NPR's Wild Card with Rachel Martin. Death, ghosts, the pleasures and perils of talking to strangers... Rachel and Jonathan talk about it all.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:06.6	Hello everyone.
0:12.5	Hello.
0:12.9	Hi.
0:14.1	Hello.
0:14.9	Hi.
0:15.8	Here we all are in the studio.
0:18.1	Yes, indeed.
0:19.1	And today we've got something a little different. Oh, but
0:23.8	Kaylee, I don't like different things. Well, Jonathan, you might just have to give it a chance,
0:29.1	because sometimes trying new things can be scary, but... Rewarding. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, well, here comes the
0:35.6	Choo-Train of listening. What do we got here?
0:40.1	Recently, you're a guest on a show called Wildcard. Do you remember that?
0:44.5	Of course I remember. How can I forget? I was interviewed by Rachel Martin.
0:49.0	How did it feel, Jonathan, to be in the guest seat?
0:52.6	It felt, I didn't like it. It was a tremendous loss of control,
0:56.1	I have to say. It was like the spider had become the fly or something. But you know, here's the
1:00.8	incredible, this is nuts. It doesn't even make sense to me. I'm just looking at their past episodes,
1:07.4	okay, of Wild Card. You know who was on two weeks ago? Who? Someone that's so famous,
1:15.7	they're known by one name. Sherr. Adele. It wasn't Cher or Adele.
1:20.4	Someone more, actually, dare I say, maybe someone more famous. Obama. I'm going to say as
1:26.6	famous as Obama may be more famous.
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