Matthew McConaughey

Wild Card with Rachel Martin

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 990 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Matthew McConaughey likes finding the rhythm in every role he takes – whether it’s delivering a monologue in “The Wolf of Wall Street” or a tearful goodbye in “Interstellar.” And now, as author of the book “Poems & Prayers,” he is finding the rhythm and prose in his own life, and sharing what he’s learned. To listen sponsor-free and support the show, sign up for Wild Card+ at plus.npr.org/wildcard

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:15.6	Just a heads up, there is some strong language in this episode.
0:19.9	Has ambition ever led you astray?
0:22.9	Oh, hell yeah.
0:25.2	Oh, geez.
0:26.6	I can over-leverage myself with my ambition.
0:29.0	Okay.
0:29.8	I love to accomplish.
0:31.0	Mm-hmm.
0:31.7	It gives me significance.
0:33.8	Mm-hmm.
0:34.7	Makes you feel significant.
0:36.1	Significant.
0:36.6	I need significance.
0:39.0	I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard, the show where cards control the conversation.
0:46.2	Each week, my guest answers questions about their life, questions pulled from a deck of cards.
0:52.0	They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one back on me.
0:56.2	My guest this week is Matthew McConaughey.
0:58.3	I believe because I have proven to myself that I can take on more than I thought I could.
1:03.9	But what can happen and where ambition is let me stray is you end up with a bunch of brick and
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