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What is a failure you still think about?

A failure.

The thing is, is I love failure now.

I love it.

I smash it up into a powder and I snort it.

It's so good.

I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard, the game where cards control the conversation.

Each week, my guest chooses questions at random from a deck of cards.

Pick a card one through three.

Questions about the memories, insights, and beliefs that have shaped them.

If somebody tells me, I'm the worst thing that ever happened, and that happens sometimes,

I have access to the internet, it's not true, you know?

By the same token, if someone tells you're the best thing that ever happened.

Also, not true.

When I left news and started the show Wildcard, I thought back over the many years of

interviews I had done, and I did a sort of mental inventory of people I'd like to go back

and talk to again, in this way, through this game.

Not everyone is good at this, right?

You've got to be honest about your own life, and it helps if you don't take yourself too

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