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How are you with authority? Terrible. Terrible. I think I have something that I've learned about recently,

which is some people call pathological demand avoidance, which is I don't respect anyone who

doesn't respect me. I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard, the game where cards

control the conversation. Each week, my guest answers questions about their life pulled from a deck of cards.

They're allowed to skip one and to flip one question back on me.

My guest this week is actor Natalie Morales.

So I'm like totally fine with somebody being in charge, but if I sense any kind of disrespect to me or to anybody else, it's gone.

I'm out the window.

I do not respect you at all.

I'm going to start today off with an admission.

I watch a lot of shows, like a lot of them.

Mainly on the treadmill, which is sort of my excuse.

It's entertaining and it's healthy.

And I have been watching and running for like 30 years, which means I can trace a lot of actors'

careers. And I have my favorites. Actors who aren't necessarily always the lead, but I look

forward to seeing them in everything they do, and I seek out their stuff. And Natalie Morales is one of those

actors. And she has been in so many things. Girls, Parks and Rec, Dead to Me, The Morning Show,

indie movies like language lessons and movies with huge names, like No Hard Feelings with

Jennifer Lawrence or Battle of the Sexes, with Emma Stone. And every time Natalie pops up in something, it makes me so happy.

She plays these characters that can be wonderfully irreverent

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