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Just a little heads up, this episode contains a little bit of cursing.

Hey everyone, it's Rachel. I hope you're having a great holiday break. heads up, this episode contains a little bit of cursing.

Hey everyone, it's Rachel. I hope you're having a great holiday break and that you really have gotten a break. In the spirit of making things easier this holiday season, our team here at

Wildcard has put together a curated best of episode just for you. The whole point of the game is to get to the good stuff fast, right?

And that's what we're doing for you here, giving you our very favorite moments from

2024 wrapped up with the bow for your listening pleasure. Moments like Lena Waith,

describing the Wizard of Oz as her religion. Ted Danson's optimistic spin on his fear of death,

and David Lynch being David Lynch. If you're newish to the show, this episode is a great

explainer for what we do here. And if you're a long time listener, first of all, thank you,

a thousand times over. Thank you, thank you. And I promise you're going to love revisiting these

card questions as much as I do.

As always, we're breaking the show up into three rounds. We'll get deeper as we go. And a heads up,

there's some profanity in some of these answers. We're starting with the novelist Taffy Brodesser Ackner.

Three cards in my hand. Pick a card. One through three. Uh, two. Two. Where would you go to feel safe as a kid?

Oh my gosh. When I was a kid, my mother had a brown Volvo station wagon. I think it's a 240.

It was the one that everyone had at the time. And in the way back,

which ironically is not a safe place, like no seatbelt. You're just sort of bobbing around

and hoping that your mother who is smoking cigarettes while she's driving has her eyes on the road.

That was the place. I was always,

I've always felt safe when I was in motion. Really? Yeah, which says so much about kind of what a disaster personality I am. First of all, what specific motion, not the car with your mom driving?

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