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Does the idea of an infinite universe excite you or scare you?

Depends on the day.

You know, growing up in church, so much of your life is focused on knowing exactly what

happens when you die and making sense of it all.

And here's the book and it tells us everything.

I found a lot of freedom in deciding that I didn't know and was never going to know.

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. As an adult,

it's easy to feel sad and hopeless and scared. My guest today is comedian Taylor Tomlinson.

And I think when you are a kid, you're obviously more naive, but I think being naive can be good.

Usually when I watch stand-up comedy, there is a safe layer of remove.

Like the situations they're describing of stories they're telling happen to someone else, right?

I don't relate, but I get why it's funny.

When I watched Taylor Tomlinson for the first time, I laughed in the way that only happens when you have lived the joke, but you

couldn't see the funny. And when Taylor points it out, it's a special kind of hilarious that

comes with a good dose of perspective. This is a long-winded way of saying that Taylor Tomlinson

makes me feel seen deeply. Conservative Christian upbringing, check.

Dead mom, check.

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