"I was a temp freelance reporter at NPR [at first]-I was asked to fill in on the religion beat for a year. Covering religion was a shortcut to the most important things in a person's life: What do you think happens when we die? What feels like praying? I was like, 'This is awesome, they just tell me this stuff that's so central to their being.'"
"I went off to pursue a bunch of different news-oriented jobs. One conversation [during my reporting career] stays with me: It was in Baghdad in 2007. People were dying so often that we had a whiteboard in our bureau in the Green Zone and we kept a death tally from the car bombs. Our reporting was really circumscribed, we couldn't go out a lot. I remember casting out for stories: How am I going to get anything? I can't go anywhere. "
Wild Card asks celebrities blunt, personal questions drawn from cards across categories, prompting candid and often surprising responses. Guests and the host frequently become disarmed by the direction of the conversations, producing moments of vulnerability and connection. A guest with obsessive-compulsive disorder receives a compassionate reframe that the guest calls a gift. The podcast host draws on prior journalism experience covering religion and foreign affairs and cohosting Morning Edition. A 2007 conversation in Baghdad about pervasive death influenced the host's approach to eliciting deep, human stories in constrained reporting circumstances.
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