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 ...

January 30, 2025 • Actor, writer and director Jesse Eisenberg says he has had more failures than successes. In this week's Wild Card, he opens up about ambition and his his defense against despair.

Most weeks on our Wild Card podcast, host Rachel Martin asks a famous guest to draw a card from the Wild Card deck and answer a big question about their life. Well, recently, Rachel tried ...

Bowler sat down with Rachel Martin on Wild Card to answer questions about her life pulled from a deck of cards. Here's Rachel. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) RACHEL MARTIN: One, two or three.

He writes about sports and death and love and family, which just so happened to be the kinds of topics they like to explore on NPR's show Wild Card. So here is Hanif Abdurraquib speaking with Wild ...

Actor Michael Shannon, known for Shape of Water and Boardwalk Empire, talks with Wild Card host Rachel Martin about how change is the only constant in his life.

Jesse Eisenberg plays characters who spend a lot of time grappling with anxiety. That includes his role as David in his latest movie, A Real Pain, which he also wrote and directed.

Jesse Eisenberg came up with the story for his new movie, "A Real Pain," after seeing an online ad for a tour of Auschwitz. The movie he eventually wrote and directed is about a pair of cousins going ...