Are you ready to do this game?

I'm ready.

Okay.

All right.

Let's do it.

I'm Rachel Martin.

This is Wildcard, the game where cards control the conversation.

So you know when you're talking with someone and things go to really unexpected, even profound

places and you come out on the other side feeling like something special just happened.

You understand

that person on a deeper level and yourself too. So I want to have those conversations all the

time, but that can be a little intimidating, right? So we made a game out of it. Each episode, I asked

my guest a series of questions, that they choose at random from a deck of cards. Pick a card

one through three. Three. So even I don't know exactly where the conversation's going to go.

What is proof that somebody really knows you? I talk with all kinds of creative, thoughtful

people, like comedian Jenny Slate, actor Issa Ray, musician

Jack Antonoff, and poet Ada Limoan, and we get into really big questions about the experiences

that shaped them, lessons they're still learning, and beliefs that help them make sense

of the world.

Like, I have Post-it notes everywhere, like, what is a good life?

That slow, slow, slow, boredom of where I grew up made my imagination run wild.

The nice thing about being in my mid-too-late 40s, I forgive myself all the time.

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