Wild Card with Rachel Martin
NAMED A TOP 10 PODCAST OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
There are interview podcasts and then there's Wild Card. Rachel Martin rips up the typical interview script and invites guests to answer questions they've never been asked before about life's biggest questions. Actors, writers and musicians open up about their fears, their joys and how they've built meaning from experience – all with the help of a very special deck of cards.
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There are interview podcasts and then there's Wild Card. Rachel Martin rips up the typical interview script and invites guests to answer questions they've never been asked before about life's biggest questions. Actors, writers and musicians open up about their fears, their joys and how they've built meaning from experience – all with the help of a very special deck of cards.
Want to listen to Wild Card sponsor-free? Support NPR by subscribing to Wild Card+. Learn more at plus.npr.org/wildcard.
Latest Episode
Malala Yousafzai (13.11.2025)
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- Padma Lakshmi
- Brandi Carlile
- Shonda Rhimes
- Nick Offerman
- Jeff Hiller
- Brené Brown
- Matthew McConaughey
- Bobbi Brown doesn’t listen to men in suits about makeup
- Raphael Bob-Waksberg doesn’t forgive, but he forgets
- Elizabeth Gilbert no longer believes she’s a bad person
- Ocean Vuong doesn’t erase pain from beauty
- Harrison Ford knows how weird his life is
- Our favorite Memory Time Machine trips
- LeVar Burton is learning to embrace the chaos (encore)
- Father James Martin is okay with not being liked
- Aparna Nancherla doesn't know why she's here
- Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
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