Why Jenny Slate sometimes feels like a 'terminal optimist'
Briefly

I spent a lot of years hosting news shows at NPR and I got really tired of covering stories that reinforced how bad everything in the world was. But it was also bigger than my job. My dad died unexpectedly and my mom had died a long time ago, so I felt empty and sort of lost... what if we talked about this stuff out loud? And wouldn't it be cool to do it with people who, on the outside, seem like they've got their existential act together?
We made this little deck of cards with really big questions on them. My guests pick cards from the deck at random. And then they answer the questions. And I'm telling you, it's amazing what happens. They start talking about ideas and experiences they haven't talked about before, and then, I'm doing the same thing.
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