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Have you made peace with mortality?

More than ever?

After I got married, I started thinking about death a lot because I was like,

I just did this really adult thing. Yeah. I'm a married man. What a married men do? They have kids.

Eventually they die. They have jobs. And they die. 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 question back on me.

My guest this week is Rami Yusuf.

I always view what we do as there's this

conversation that needs to happen. Maybe the door is jammed and people don't know how to get to

the conversation and maybe part of what I do is go, oh, I'll hold that door. I'm not really sure

if Rami Yusuf sleeps because this actor, writer, comedian, producer, director is doing all the things at once right now.

He, of course, created the show Rami about a spiritually anxious Egyptian-American kid and his Muslim family, which earned him several Emmy nominations.

He also co-starred in the Oscar-winning film Poor Things in 2023.

His latest comedy special dropped last fall.

His newest TV creation, Number One Happy Family USA, came out in April.

And soon, he will share the screen with Steve Carell in the new movie Mountainhead.

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