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wherever you get your podcasts. Are you good at forgiveness?

Yes, I think I am. New card. No, I'm just kidding. I think I am. No, I hope there's more to say

there. You know, people say like, I forgive, but I don't forget. I'm the opposite. I don't

forgive, but I do forget. So that eventually turns around to forgiveness, because I've stopped

fixating on it. I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard, the show 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 Raphael Bob Waxburg.

There's a line about grief on the show where one of the characters says to the other,

it isn't a straight line.

And I think that has been so much of what I have had to grapple

with through my experiences with grief. Raphael Bob Waxford makes animated TV shows that are weird,

and they are funny and deep, which happened to be three of my favorite qualities in any form

of entertainment. His first series, BoJack Horseman, was about a

half man, half horse, in an existential crisis. Now he is back with a brand new show called Long

Story Short. There are big themes, religion, and identity, and grief, but it never feels heavy. And the

end result is an animated story that feels very real. I am so happy to welcome Raphael Bob Waxburg to Wildcard. Hi.

Hi. It's great to be here. I'm so happy to have you here. What a treat.

First three cards. Memories. One, two, or three. I'm going to go with three. Three. Yeah. Let's skip to the good stuff.

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