Tig Notaro

Wild Card with Rachel Martin

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 990 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Tig Notaro knows all about how humor and grief can coexist. She's explored those topics in her stand-up comedy, TV shows, and podcasts. Her latest project is "Come See Me in the Good Light," a documentary about her friend, the poet Andrea Gibson's, who died of cancer last year. She tells Rachel about growing up skiing with gators in Mississippi, and what Andrea taught her about the preciousness of life.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Ever since we launched Wildcard, there is one thing that you have asked about more than anything else.
0:06.3	Where can I get the Wild Card deck? We hear it constantly. You've been very patient and I'm so excited to finally announce that it is here. The Wildcard deck. It's available at the NPR shop. You can find it at shoppnpr.org.
0:20.5	And we've selected some of our very favorite questions
0:22.8	from the show. And we made this custom deck for you, our audience. It is just a phenomenal way
0:28.2	to think about your own memories, insights, and beliefs over dinner with the family, maybe on a
0:34.8	road trip with friends. It's a way to connect and learn new things about people you are just meeting or people you have known all of your life.
0:42.4	Check it out at shopnpr.org.
0:44.9	We are so excited for you to try it out.
0:47.6	Again, shopnpr.org.
0:52.3	What's a place that shaped you just as much as any person did?
0:56.3	Mississippi.
0:59.5	My family was full of characters, and my friends would be like, they're like out of a storybook,
1:07.7	and I was like, what do you mean?
1:09.2	And they were like, what do you mean?
1:10.4	What do I mean? I'm Rachel Martin, what do you mean? What do I mean?
1:11.6	I'm Rachel Martin and this is Wildcard, the show where cards control the conversation.
1:19.0	Each week, my guest answers questions about their life. Questions pulled from a deck of cards.
1:24.7	They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one question back on me.
1:29.0	My guest this week is Tignito Tignatooro. You know, I'd share stories of like, oh yeah, my brother
1:34.9	and I would water ski in the swamps and they were like with alligators. And I was like,
1:40.2	well, yeah, but I didn't see him. There would be signs. I mean, it was Mississippi, but it was also Mississippi in the 70s. TIG Nataro has built a career dissecting her own life. In her stand-up, podcasts, even a TV show, Tig has brought her audience into some of the most personal parts of her own living. Growing up as a gay kid in the South, falling in love with her wife,
2:01.8	her struggle through breast cancer. But in her latest creative project, TIG turned the spotlight
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