A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: When I left news and started Wild Card , I thought back over the many years of interviews I had done, and I did a mental inventory of people I'd like to go back and talk to again through this game. It would have to be someone who is honest about their life and it helps if they don't take themselves too seriously. And when I thought about who I'd want to hear answer these questions, I immediately thought of Rob Delaney.
Delaney is a comedian and an actor known for creating and co-starring in the award-winning series Catastrophe . And he's currently in the summer blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine . I first talked to Rob in 2022 right after his memoir came out .
It's called A Heart That Works , and here's where I tell you that Rob has lived through the worst of things. The book is about the death of his two-year-old son from brain cancer. But believe me when I say that I have never read a book that made me laugh as much as it made me cry.
I've thought a lot about that conversation with Rob since then. I'm a parent, so it's inevitable that a story would stay with me. But specifically, I feel grateful to him because he gave me this ridiculous image.
When we talked about what happens after we die, he said, "I think we're ingredients in the big stew and we'll be mixed into dinner for some cosmic Godzilla. And he, in turn, will metabolize us and then belch us into his next incarnation." This is now what I teach my children about the afterlife.
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