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"john green" Discussed on Entrepreneur on FIRE
"Welcome to the graduation speech of bestselling author John Green and this took place at kenyon college back in 2016. 17 years ago, I was supposed to be graduating from kenyon. It ended up taking me an extra semester. But I was in the audience that day with my friends and classmates. I remember nothing about the commencement address except that it lasted 10,000 years. Empires rose and fell and still the speaker droned on sakada like in his monotony. So I come to you today with one solemn promise. One way or another, this will be over in 14 minutes. I want to spend one of those minutes if you don't mind in silence. This is a trick I learned from the children's TV host, Fred Rogers. If you don't mind, I'd like us all, not just the students, but all of us, to close our eyes and think for a minute. Just a minute about the people who loved us up into this moment. Family.
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The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh Discusses the Firing of Football Coach Jon Gruden
"Matt Walsh from the daily wire Welcome back to the show Thanks for taking the time with us today We appreciate it Hey Dan thanks for having me Yeah you got it So Matt this situation with Jon Gruden the Las Vegas Raiders coach You know is this the new standard You're one of the best commentators out there on the ongoing culture war against us which we didn't ask for by the way I mean is this the new standard you send an email ten years ago with some crappy language in it I mean really if all of us had our emails from the last ten years disclosed publicly I mean we'd all be fired and part two of the question if I may You know they have a M and M Matt performing at the halftime of the Super Bowl show What do you think his emails Yeah Eminem we don't have to look at his emails and we just look at the lyrics that a song these performed for the public and millions of dollars and same for Dr. Dre snoop dog they're all performing And they're going to perform some of those very songs where they use the language that John Gruden just got fired for using And that's why I agree with you I mean look any of the people who are pretending to be offended by John Green's email I would encourage any of them I challenge any of them to just publish their Gmail password and let us comb through it We'll keep it in your loan go back farther than that I promise But let us look through ten years of messages and give us your text messages to have you never in ten years said one message send one message with a content Of course that's not the case And that's why we have to understand what's happening here with Jon Gruden This is prosecuting by mob tribunal a thought crime This is the problem is the thought that he express it's almost no different Like if the canceled mom I've had the ability the technology to actually literally read your mind They would eagerly do it and they would cancel you for things you haven't even said out loud There's only one step removed from that and canceling someone for a private email sent from their private email account to a friend who was not offended by it I mean it's the definition of a victimless
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"It was porto from keg. You know so. It's just it's just different shop better. It was amazing. Well i give this conversation. I give them five stars. I'd give it six. It really did exceed. My expectations and expectations were incredibly high. Okay the danger with this with meeting. Anybody that you admire is that they will be a bum. You out and disappoint you so well i have to say i loved this conversation. Have i loved it as much as i love my snow brush. No no no. My snow brush is just so good. If i were to add to this book and john i might Here is what else. I'd like to see reviewed The american healthcare system zero out of five stars rescue dogs who are completely indifferent to their rescuers. Five out of five stars love. I love dog. Who is ungrateful. I love a dog. Who's like okay. And what else do you want like. Yeah okay sure sure that you you brought me into your home and you feed me and bathe me and take care of me and love me. Would you want from me okay. I didn't ask for this Friends who remember your birthday but never remember to text you back through out of five stars. I that friend teachers who intentionally embarrassed their students in front of their peers. Zero out of five stars. Find another outlet for your aggression billionaires one out of five stars in that one star belongs to mackenzie bezos only all billionaires l. Other bill bullet. You know. I don't want to say the word about that. Women are taller than their male partner. Five out of five stars me six out of five stars. Let's give me and other Other bill bullet. You know. I don't want to say the word about that. Women are taller than their male partner. Five out of five stars me six out of five stars. Let's give me and other Women like me a six six out of five stars a glass of whole milk with dinner. Five out of five stars And if you are lactose intolerant. I am sorry cannot enjoy that and if you are a person who finds it weird when an adult drink smoke. You don't wanna have dinner with me. I'm so sorry. John's book is available. Wherever you get books. I highly recommend also listening to the coordinating podcast which is also called the anthropoid reviewed. He has a very soothing voice. As you obviously just heard we will be doing some more episodes like this. So if you want to hear or once you do not let us now. Our phone number is six one two five six four. Four four one. We listen to voicemails. Because i'm a senior millennial and i love the phone. And a voicemail is such a lovely way to communicate. Isn't it This has been terrible. Thanks for asking. I'm nora mcnerney. Our production team is beth perlman. Marcel malecki boo jacomb maldonado. medina jordan. Her gen our theme music by joffrey. Lamar wilson we are production of american public media. This episode was recorded in mackinaw ernie's studios. It is my closet. I do not have enough. Legs base my posture's horrible and what it is really done is make me pare down my belongings because when you have to stare at them repeatedly you start to think. Maybe i don't need this pair of pants that has not fit me in ten years. Maybe a combat disco about that. What i'll see you guys later. You have a good one. You have a good one one being whatever you're doing right now have a good one.
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"A lot of hurt and today. This is the direction that i am channeling. It erecting yet. Yeah yeah it is really hard. I am hugely suspicious of the five star scale in general which is one of the reasons why i wanted to write about it in this way. Because i don't think we can distill our experiences down to a single data point. I just don't and i think we do that not for ourselves or for each other. But for these data aggregation systems that cannot comprehend real qualitative analysis but can comprehend like a single data point. But i find myself now thinking almost against my will about whether or not something is good like what my rating of it would be usually pre internet. I would go out to a restaurant. Not that often but like when i would go out to a restaurant i wouldn't think like is this meal. Great i would think like this man was good because of the person i was with or it was bad because the conversation wasn't good or maybe it was bad because the food was bad but there was a lot going into it but didn't have anything to do with the restaurant and that's still true for me. When i go out to eat. I went out to a restaurant for the first time about a week ago with my wife launch and it was the best meal i ever eaten in my entire life and it was not good food. It was the best meal because someone made it for me. It was hot. I wasn't in my house wasn't in my house. I felt like seventeen different kinds of alive that haven't felt an eighteen months and it was an amazing nine star. Michelin guide lunch at a burger joint. But you can't you can't you can't you. The whole idea of being able to distill that into one data. Point is ludicrous. Because what made the meal. So special was that sarah was there and that we were vaccinated and that the burger was hot and i hadn't had a burger that i didn't make in a year and a half. That's what made it amazing. You also get to get toppings that you're like. Oh god i'm not going to buy like a- sauce for one burger now we're going to eat the. Is burger us now. Slept some catch up on it. We got like two tablespoons left in the bottom of the bottle. I'm not buying an onion just for this burger. Yeah it that is a big part of what may oh god. It was so great. I feel for the next fifty years. I'll close my eyes and picture that launch had a beer it was really cold. It was porto from keg. You know so. It's just it's just different shop better. It was amazing. Well i give this conversation. I give them five stars. I'd give it six. It really did exceed. My expectations and.
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"Because i don't want to read the four star and five star reviews. I only want to read the one star reviews and sarasota doing this once and she was like did you just sort good reads by one star reviews and yeah how. How else would you sort it ensures. Like why do you want to know and has like. Because i wanna i wanna know like what's wrong with my work and she was like well. Let's read some of these and see if they explore. What's wrong with your work. Or whether they just like explore personal vendettas. Or i was having a bad day. Or like i i think about the books that i would rate one star and i think some of them aren't good books but like i read in the wrong time in my life or there wasn't a book for me for me and that's okay but the problem with sorting reviews by one star. Is you end up. Like trying to make stuff for the people who are definitely not going to like it. They're definitely not gonna like it. They're not that people who are going to be into it and so i have also stopped doing that but it did take me a while it lyell. I the first one that i read that. I still have a screen shot and i used to put it in like talks male. Bring it back. Because i didn't just click through to see the two stars. John clicked on her name. And i was. What else does she review. Oh my god googling her and were like. I need to know everything. Why don't you like me. The only other thing that she had reviewed was a snow. Brush like for your car. She wrote on my book. Nothing special like the husband dies. No that special. Like we've seen it before john green did it. I know brush repair graphs five stars. She loved this snow brush. The great snow brush greats the reach that could be. They deserve raping mechanism the padded handle. It met her expectations. And i like that is cringed. That is absolute krijn. Also i was like nora nora nor nor nora. What are you doing nora seeded. A huge percentage of your consciousness to someone who thought to themselves. You know what i should write a thousand words about today my snow brush. It didn't let me down now the way this book did. I'll tell you what you can count on this. No brush the do whatever you do. While you're buying this snow rush. Make sure like not to pick up at target this crap book. Super sad god. But it's like. I just love the concept of taking matt like the very and again when we talk about. Are you talking about like. Oh we're inventing human nature right like we are inventing human nature. It is very recent that we are able to. You have this capacity and this compulsion to rates review sorts every single part of our lives and everything that we've sort of come into contact with and i do wonder like future. Generations will look back and be like. Oh my god. I mean someone gave you a bad size pizza and you had you got what you wanted to bring this guy down. Okay answers we are no. I'm not okay. I'm carrying a lot of hurt and today. This is the direction that i am channeling. It erecting yet. Yeah yeah it is really hard..
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"I mean suffering is never distributed evenly or a fairly or justly in any way and it's also true that the thing that makes life meaningful all the things that make you know human life writ large meaningful as the fact that it is temporary like the fact that it does like in include suffering and that is a hard thing to acknowledge. Also when it's very easy to tip into you just you know not not even toxic positively but i cringe follow. People like in the influencers space where they'll be like. Your pain is a privilege or just these things like to turn it into. An aphorism is so easy and really. It's like there is like sort of a maybe not necessary but a unavoidable level of suffering. No matter who you are and also some people just have it worse. And that wrecking socks. Yeah it's a really hard thing to navigate. Because i don't find a lot of comfort personally in everything happens for a reason i really bristle at you. Know suffering is how we become grateful for every day or whatever which is just a not my experience and be. I also think like if you're saying that from inside a place of suffering like that's fine. I don't know how to tell other people with their lives but like it doesn't help me if you're saying it from outside but at the same time part of the meaning of life is that we're only here for a little while and we got to try to be good to each other. I also think that there's a separate thing which is suffering universal and suffering unjustly distributed and sometimes suffering unjustly distributed just because of bad luck but a lot of time suffering unjustly distributed because of these unjust power structures that privilege certain kinds of people in certain lives and don't others and so that's also complex to navigate when you're talking about the meaning of suffering or the meaning of pain is that you never want it to be a way of saying it's okay that these systems don't work that they aren't fair. I've often struggled with kids feeling. Like i don't deserve the incredibly lovely things that have happened to me professionally and personally because i don't deserve them but i also don't deserve the shitty things you know. I think deserving is mostly just the wrong lens like yeah. There's no deserving. There's literally no deserving bees are not merit badges. None of yeah exactly like none of it is merit based the good stuff isn't but also the terrible stuff isn't like you know my brother doesn't deserve all the great things that have happened for him in his career he also doesn't deserve to have all sort of colitis like just not the way it works lake. I am so hard wired to like. Think of the universe says somehow rewarding or punishing me according to my virtues and vices..
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"I in a turn of phrase poetry can anchor us or shift a moment a day or even a whole life. You can join poet edelman at the slow down for handpicked poem and a moment of reflection. Every weekday listened to the slowdown. Wherever you get podcasts new episodes are out. Now hagan terribles. This episode of the terrible reading club is sponsored by better help online therapy better. Help's mission is to make professional counseling accessible affordable and convenient so anyone who struggles with life's challenges can get help anytime anywhere. John and i have been talking about what it's like to become a fully formed adult. And if you're like us what it's like to be a person who remembers what the world was like before the internet existed growing up is truly awkward and when he finds a wonderful about john's work is that this sensitive kid hiding behind his trenchcoat and keyboard grew up into a compassionate observer and writer when we think about our childhoods and our teen years all the ways that we were socialized for better or worse. I'm reminded that we're all still very much works in progress that we deserve some grace as we stumble into the person we will eventually become and talking about. It helps to thanks to the internet. We now have remote counseling and one of the great things about remote counseling. Is you have access to it. When it's convenient and women's really needed better helped makes it easy to connect with a trained professional. A study by the berkeley wellbeing institute help to be as effective as face to face. Counseling and ninety eight percent of those surveyed reported that they made significant progress. Better help is committed to finding that empathic and compassionate counselor that matches your unique needs and it's easy and free to change their abyss. If needed you can also schedule weekly video. Phone or live chat appointments log into your account anytime. Send a message whenever you need our listeners. Get ten percent off their first month at better help. Dot com slash. Tefa that's better h. e. l. p. dot com slash. Tefa.
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"And the way that feels as a person because it's so difficult to sort of define and redefine yourself when so much of who we are in the west is defined by what we do like. What's your job and i gotta say being a chaplain and children's hospital unimpeachable unimpeachable junk hard hard to hard to impeach and i still have a ton of respect and admiration for the people who do that work by the time. I was a senior in college. I knew exactly what i wanted to do. With my life. I had a very set idea of what was gonna happen. I thought i knew who i was gonna marry. I thought i knew what i was gonna do for graduate school. And then what. I was going to do as a job and i was gonna go to divinity school. I was going to graduate. And i was going to become an episcopal minister and that was gonna be my wife and i felt quite certain about that stuff and as part of the training for becoming a minister most people work for a time as a student chaplain a prison or at a hospital and i worked at a children's hospital and it was very difficult for me because i did struggle with being present for people for one thing. I was twenty one years old. I wanted to be present for people on the worst day of their lives. I was not able to leave it at the door. I was not able to walk away and feel like well that was work and now i'm in a different space. I walked away and never was able to do that. Still not it. Still i think are doing in the book as the axis around which my life spins in and it does feel that way. Sometimes there was this break relationship. We were my goals for my career. I realized that i wasn't going to go under divinity school and i wasn't going to become a minister and for several years that was extremely difficult because i'd had a plan and i had a really hard time accepting. That plan wasn't going to work out the way that i thought it was. I think it's especially difficult. When like as is the case for you and to some extent me your identity is really wrapped up in what you do and who you are and what you do aren't fully separate because so much of your work has been about acknowledging your own experience and your own pain as as a bridge to others and it's really hard to answer the question like who are you separate from your work when like your work is deeply wrapped up in who you are and what your life experiences have been. We're going to take a quick break Do you need a break. When i do. I realize that poetry has the power to connect our universe and the outer world..
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"Oh god like when you trace like when you lift up. What's under fear or with under sort of like anger or was under sort of like all of unrest and cruelty like you do see fear like you. Yeah it's an intense fear too. I mean grief is grief is for me anyway very very close to fear. I'm afraid for people. I love afraid for myself. I'm afraid that the stability i feel. I'll never feel again. I'll never feel okay again. I think maybe what's different about. Grief is that there's also this intense longing to go to a place that i can't go to any more or to be with the person i can't be with anymore to give back to past that i know i can't get back to and that makes you feel very very raw very exposed and it's it's close to fear but it's not quite you know like it's a little different. I don't know. When i was working at the hospital. I would sleep in the pastoral care. Office may had like a little library of sad books. I've read a grief observed during that period and it was hugely helpful to me and had a big impact on me back then. Yeah you mentioned working in the hospital and the at i mean you are like you're a person with a lot of tenderness i think. People have a lot of empathy and a lot of compassion compassion to suffer with somebody and it can be hard to witness suffering without taking it on. I'd love to hear you talk about that time. And that affected tat on you as an adult would like to switch tracks when you think that you know what you're going to be doing.
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"Like you were dying song about like jump out of a plane wrestle a boulder the ground whatever. Oh like aaron did watch netflix. We watch net flicks. We went to work. We like eight shitty frozen pizza and sour patch kids and like that's what it meant to like live like you were dying is to have this reu appreciation for the mundane and there is so much Like beauty in the mundane. And i picked up on that in your book too. I wanna talk with scratch and sniff stickers the the sort of ephemera of life that also ends up signifying something bigger to us to. Yeah i think. You're i think that's exactly right. That so often the mundane in the every day gets overlooked. Because it's every day and because it happens often um but if we start to pay a different kind of attention to it it gets really fascinating and and beautiful. And i wanted to write about scratching their stickers. Initially because i found out that the technology behind it is the same technology behind time. Release medication and there was something sort of mind-blowing to me about the fact that like the medication that i use to treat my obsessive compulsive disorder relies on essentially the same technology. That scratching sniff stickers. Do not least because when i was in like middle school i used scratch and sniff stickers as a mental health treatment for lack of a better term like i would come home after. He's really difficult days at school. And you know if i if i didn't feel like wanting to go through telling my mom about what what had happened and how difficult it had been. I would just go into my room. And i would close the door and i would open up this sticker book that i had since i was a kid. This beautiful pink sticker book. And i would just smell the scratch and sniff stickers and i would feel like i was a kid again and i would feel small and safe. It was a huge gift to me. Initially i didn't want to write about that because that fell like really vulnerable in close to me. And so in the podcast version of it. I just read about like oh isn't a wild scratch and sniff. Stickers used the same technology that now helps me treat my ocd. But when i was writing the book. I was like i do need to write about this. Because it's such a huge part of my life. And and no scratch and sniff stickers like the reason they worked is because smell is so powerful it can transport a so profoundly and you know in that time when i felt really unsafe and you know some really difficult days not gonna pretend that scratching sniff stickers solve the problem or anything but they were a break and i needed. I needed that. We're going to take a quick break when you're that age was ocd. Even a part of your vocabulary or was it something that your parents were aware of. No it wasn't part of my vocabulary. I mean if it was part of my vocabulary. I had very specific associations with it. You know like washing your hands a lot. I don't have any compulsive behaviors around handwashing and so never would've crossed my mind that that i had was he wasn't until i was in my twenty s. That psychiatrist pointed out to me that a lot of the behaviors that i was doing. Were compulsive behaviors related to trying to manage these obsessive worries that i i couldn't vanish from my mind and that's actually what. Ocd is not not hand washing. The oh comes first for reason like one one thought floats in like a snowflake and then you're looking at the snowflake and you're like well i don't want that to happen and then suddenly it's a blizzard and there's nothing but those snowflakes and you have no ability to choose your thoughts no ability to control the worry and it really overtake me and kind of hijack my consciousness and then like.
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"Home and i think that we are kind of part of the last generation that remembers life before and after yeah and there was a huge change for sure. There's a big change for me personally. Because once i discovered that you could talk to people on the internet. It meant that. I didn't have to like be myself anymore. Like i could be made out of key strokes instead being made out of you know meet and i was really really uncomfortable with being myself and i was bullied a lot at the time and so it was a huge relief to be able to connect with people and it was a place where because i was made out of my key. Strokes of impossible to differentiate from other people which was a huge relief and it really was one of the first times. I felt like i had a community and that internet had all the same problems that this internet has just on a different scale and and i don't want to romanticize it because i think that there were lots of bad things happening online in the nineties just as there are today but it was a huge gift for me to be able to find peers who i felt like understood me because i often didn't feel that way at school or like more generally in orlando what it takes to find those friends. I think to some extent gis luck in time. I had an amazing best friend in high school. This guy todd. Many gifts that todd gave me is we would go to parties more like meet up with people or whatever and then we would leave and after we left he would in a very generous way be like so. That was great. You're great you're great guy. I do have some notes. You lean forward when you talk to people and then they lean back and you just kind of keep walking and then they're up against a wall and that makes them uncomfortable so watch out for that one and he would just of go one by one teaching me..
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"I'm not in a hurry. this is got to do today. i actually. It's my kids last day before summer. Break for me. So i'm luxuriating inhabit on the house to myself. They're gone they're gone. How old are your kids. They're eleven and eight so it's Yep it's an exciting time it is. It is the last day second grade the last day of first grade for my daughter. She's actually about to turn. I shouldn't say she's a she's going to be an days yet. Do not rob her of that. But my son school ends in like another one more week. So alison someone starting tomorrow and we still got another week of henry's fifth grade dude kicking her feet up going to relax. Not yeah you gotta go in for that last week of like popsicles desk cleaning. I know stressful this the end of elementary school too. So it's like a kind of kind of goodbye. It's goodbye to a building and all the memories there that's intense you know. It looks different to adults. But when you're a kid and it's the only school you've known for all these years like it's a big. It's a big goodbye. I also think that going to middle school as a eleven year old is so bananas. Is there such a big difference between a sixth grader. And an eighth grader. You and i entered sixth grade. I was sure that the eighth graders were like married with children. Honestly i was like who. Alex loose brock. If you are out there. I was like holy crap. This is a man okay. There's a man in our midst. Yeah it is. It is really surreal to be in sixth grade and to be like. I'm still a kid and my main feeling in sixth grade was like. I feel like i'm being rushed into this like i feel like i'm being told that i'm ready for something that i'm quite sure i'm not ready. I cried the night before six grade. Because i was like. I'm not prepared to have a locker. I'm not prepared to have a third location to leave things. It's just stressful. Yeah and to go from class to class and have a class schedule and after remember to this classroom at this time and then that's not even mentioning the social stuff so middle. School is hard and i'm really really glad that i never have to go to it again. We'd never have to do it again. We never have to do it again. Which i actually just going to ask you about that chapter in your book like you talk about the internet and remembering kind of i would arrived in your house and what it was to you which was like just lived inside a box in your.
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"john green" Discussed on Terrible, Thanks For Asking
"Businesses and organizations can find customers or lose them everything there is nuance like everything about people. It's fascinating author. John green is one of my favorite observers of humanity in part because of how gentle he is with even the most maddening parts of human existence. Illness mental and physical human foibles our failures. His novels is youtube. Videos is podcasts. And maybe most impressively just the fact that he is a creator who is existed on the internet without letting it completely destroyed him and his opinions of humanity so john's wife had this brilliant observation about the element of modern humanity. That i was talking about before that like most things. The reviews themselves are not about the thing being reviewed but about the person who wrote it. She compared these reviews too. Little mini biographies of the reviewer. A little bit of their own personal worldview and history shared with the masses way of being known and seen and putting that message out into the ether of the internet. When you think of it that way isn't that phenomenon kind of beautiful. So why are we talking so much about reviews. John took that brilliant observation by his wife. And did what so many writers do. He stole it. Let's say borrowed. It stole it and used it to fuel his own creativity and this very new era of human behavior exists within the newness of humanity itself. It's a geological age that we are in now called the anthroposophy and and all of that brings us to john's latest book the anthropology seen reviewed. And this conversation. You're about to hear and the book itself it so soothing. It's so refreshing. It is a look at parts of this. Anthropoid seen era both big and small filtered through the lens of john zone experience and then to fit within that ludicrous five star scale that we have reduced almost all parts of our human consumption too. So here's me. And john and jacob listening in as a john green superfan slash producer..
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"H. e. l. p. dot com slash tefa. I'm nora mcnerney and this is terrible. Thanks for asking. I am not alone or even a little bit creative when i say that human beings are such fascinating creatures i saw you know in tweets end up on instagram. And so you can't really even tell like who said it And also in a recall it poorly which is basically on par with somebody describing their dreams to you but it was an imaginary conversation between a person and an animal and the person was like. Oh we're so smart. Were superior in the animals like you're also the only species that pays money to live on earth. I laughed so hard. 'cause stings a little and it's also Very very true. We are the only species that pays to live on this planet and there are a lot of strange things about being a person and in this century i think one of the strangest things is that we are all so committed you having opinions on everything and you also having those opinions on everything heard and documented so twenty years ago. If you wanted to know whether restaurant was good you'd ask a friend maybe and the friend would say Yeah it was pretty good. Try the burger and if you want to know what to read next you would maybe ask a bookseller. You would ask a librarian. You would ask the entrepreneurs who is always reading like four bucks a week and they'd say something like well you know it just depends. What other books have you enjoyed. What kind of fiction do you like. What kind of non-fiction do you like. And now you go to one of many many many review sites where people say things like. Don't go to this restaurant one time. The hostess was rude to me. Because i wanted to bring my parrot inside or don't read this book. The person who wrote it is deeply anti parrot. These are two examples. I made up although i bet if you look they do exist out there so our opinions are shaped before our experiences can even happen and our opinions are easily and readily broadcast to total strangers. Who might not know that. Actually we are in the pockets of big parrot. It's true so there are many good things about this. Of course like this is the democratization of opinions and taste. We don't have to wait for siskel and ebert to tell us which movies get thumbs up. That's a reference for ever who's a senior millennial an older we can go to rotten tomatoes and see what thousands of other people have thought about whatever. We are considering for friday movie night. That's cool right in. This is also how smaller businesses and organizations can find customers or lose them everything there is nuance like everything about people. It's fascinating.
The Rich Eisen Show
"john green" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Going the opposite directions. But the guy who a couple of barry john green. Who's a friend of mine. Now was a fifty dollars bid so when a guy raises him. I hit on the scorer's table. Alto he hit me. There's no reason for anybody to be raising their hand. Chairing because the game is not going on america. You hit me. I wanted not direction. John green was solely run in a kind of like. Oh i hope don't around doesn't think as me right so so the diaries hand because he john green fifty dollars and he hit me so was just drunk having fun which everybody does that silly things but you know cost me. It cost me tons and tons of millions of dollars. But your friends with the guy who who hit you with the beer. Absolutely this is a reason why this is the reason. Why reach out to him. Because i i don't like to hold grudges you know. And then also and this life is bigger than getting hit with a cup of bear against the spending losing tens and tens of millions of dollars and You know life is bigger than that you understand and things happen and move on how did you. How'd you find him hundred. Find well when i got suspended from abroad everybody hated me. I was still young. You know in my own mind. I had like three four personalities at that age or herring things. I was just going crazy at that age. And then i'll say you know. I need to get rid of this. I need to feel better by myself. So i reached out to go on twitter. I said hey if anybody could find his pitcher. I'll take you to lunch. I didn't put the name. Because it was john green and i didn't want people to think rana tested reach out to john. Green started five. You know so. I'll put the picture up. And this guy said i know who that is as john and he found him for me. He gave me his number. I called the number from direct message and said this number has been changed. And then it gives you the right number right so and so i don't make no sense why they do that back in the days right suber your not cold call the number i said his ron can i speak to john. His wife insist and she says after she says. Stop playing games. I said serious. This is run and then she said. Hey john ron's on the phone right like we are friends. It's a funny story. I wish we could have found it. John answers the phone and this is this the guy who threw the cup at me. I can see why he's crazy. He answers the phone says. Hey ron what's up. Like he knows me you understand. Hey what's up. How you doing very sorry right away. It was me like he just knew me. I would have i would. I would have paid anything here. that kind. It was amazing. It was and he said you know what i'm sorry about what happened. Did he told.
Men In Blazers
"john green" Discussed on Men In Blazers
"Like roh jay unique to find that singular style that i did. I persuaded my mother to buy linen pants which were amazing in a tropical climate miami. Not so much about friendship. English winter but the pope culture really shake me who i was. How encountered the world. My world unfortunately was liverpool in the one thousand nine hundred eighty s and make significant city in the world but one that full and on such dark times lost. Its meaning as a great poet to the world. When britain post war transitioned into a post industrial reality in the coal mines the steel mills the cult mills all just went silent under thatcher omeday venite and the flurry of goods and services that used to go out to the empire from liverpool. Went to a trickle. Unemployment heroin epidemic misery and say what came in via soft power. American culture was led the joy the possibility the laughter and why sore around may was really schooled. That yeah i kept thinking about the sort of it almost the way you drew liverpool almost seem to be in gray tones almost seem to be in black and white and then the way you wrote about miami vice you could feel the color you could feel the the pastels of every variety clashing with each other. And how exciting that must have been to to a child in liverpool you. We want to write about this in the book. The three biggest in focus on english television. When i grew up were all vicarious experiences of deep working class misery. It was coronation street. Working class people in manchester. It was east end. This working class people in london and brookside working class misery and liverpool and the felli proposition was english people. You think you're sad. What often our this terrible lives. Look how much better off than you already. Shut up stop. And then these american shows would come in chose charge dynasty not slept where where the problems rule about having too many oil wells too many food too many places to send money on holy crap light possibility aspiration. What ways the thing entrepreneurship. That italy shaves kind of proposal and it was. It wasn't just looked really cool. I was like life does not have to fail hopeless. I don't have to feel trapped the raw other pathways. That could be open. Two million just to throw in the federal. Mike family three generations ago. That man who's i always have in right behind me. This is my great grandfather harris poll. Who lands him in his russian army. Gary is forced to serve for twenty five years and then he fled ukraine. And a butcher approachable. Joe was headed to chicago like many thousands came to america and the myth of the liverpool jewish community is when the doctor refueling liverpool in the early nineteen hundred. He's the the other three thousand jews in liverpool with low. I q ones who saw the one toll building on the liverpool skyline like. Oh we're in new york disembark and make afford you and got stranded in liverpool so this american ideal jim. It was in our families dna. I would sit with my grandfather. Sam who's the other guy always sits behind me right there in his english only uniform for the second world war when things were bad he always pay the statue of liberty off the fire. The mental piece. This cheap shot skeeve which looks ridiculous faintly ridiculous and he pick it up with me and he just say we should live there. We should live there. And that's how. I grew up thinking. That's where mentally and now you do and and and we will get there like the glory of you finally living the dream of your childhood self but also the dream of of your ancestors but i wanna i wanna stay in the the the gray tones of liverpool for a little bit if you don't mind because you've referred to this a lot in passing in in your work and all the gop's you know have heard have heard a number of your childhood liverpool stories. But i have to say that the way you write about your school experience in this book is really harrowing and truly terrifying. And i promise that we can get back to the funny parts of the of of the of the night shortly but you know you and your classmates really endured abuse. And there's no other of their word for it and it's devastating to read about in in a lot of places but then alongside this. There's this immense joy and hilarity in your friendship with jamie your best friend and i wonder if you can talk a little bit about that and how being friends with jamie shaped and in some ways like maybe even saved your life jimmy who. I still speak to every single day. Play chess with a every single day. Currently beating me in a game and it's really annoying. Was it really my childhood friend. Since the era and we were thrown together in this what we call public school in england. eucalypt cry at school it slightly confusing and it's a vestige of the empire in liverpool. He'd seen the movie great goldens. It really is a great gardens. Ask education where these teachers who will life as Still believed the outside the walls of the college of still an empire that children should be seen not heard while they study the classics lesson. Greek and ancient history and any deviation from those gnomes would lead to a incredible thrashing with any real object was to hand and look back on it one of the cruelest poets. The thrashings canings just to be clear that it was totally normal right in. I did interview this week. Where the person asked me if i knew when canings outlawed in england and i think it was like the year two thousand kit with no. This is old news save. It's totally normal. You you'd see kids limping out. The school bloody big gash to their parents would pick them up and be like. Don't not boy today were and it was just telling people were like. Oh my god how is your. How do you have a set. Take off from a rushing. Your parents just like you shouldn't have done that. So it's totally normative. And when i think back to it well two things. The individual individualism was just beaten out with people. So that notion. That's a very american notion individualism I crave singularity individualism creativity. I didn't know it. At the time. I go to school reports. That really fairly hilarious asked lots of questions. Some of them occasionally mildly relevant. Might brain was like doing things but it was ultimately. They wanted that. They won't said everyone was on that pathway to becoming like a mid level accountant or omay officer would just a good citizen. Shut the hell up and ask questions. But in that situation where the space that physical threat and just ridiculousness of of the education. I think huma becomes a deeply important refuge. America was a refuge. huma becomes incredibly important. Refuge jamie is the funniest gentleman on the proper for us still to this day made his career ultimately in In comedy and it was just a nourishing we made a will that a metre world this american dream that we share together but we always laughed because always make each other laugh. We will always law thing. We escaped into this bubble of like obsessive american dreaming together. But you're right job. It was a deeply healing deeply therapeutic humor that ultimately i hope in blazes his full people particularly over the last fifteen sixty months. We've really tried in a To my producer. Jonathan williams about this law just to bring joy return big joy to the world or meaning or wisdom not for me but from our guests from an to lift people's spirits ultimately that's in the book what jamie and i did together. Yeah and it's such a special friendship in the way it's drawn is so beautiful and hilarious and i. You know it for people who are. This is a great book to read. If you've never heard the name. Roger bennett which is i. Think like the highest compliment you. Can you can pay to a.
WorkLife with Adam Grant
"john green" Discussed on WorkLife with Adam Grant
"A kind of safety or security a sense of deep sense of home that i may don't feel now because circumstances have changed. I'm in a different place in my life. And that's what i was thinking about. I was thinking about how there's always there's always a past that you can't get back to that part. At least part of you wants to return to right. Like i would love to have a conversation with people. I love who've who've died. Or i would love to be able to. I would love to be able to go back and spend one day in the apartment that sarah and i shared in in new york when we were in our twenties. Now i am happier in almost every way now than i was then but i still do sometimes feel a longing for for an old an old self so that that speaks to what i found so interesting about it after i stopped rejecting the idea it it seemed like you were defining a new type of nostalgia or at least one that i never thought about before because normally when i thought about nostalgia. It was longing for an experience or a moment that was passed. Its person i've lost or It's a place. I was in a group that i was part of. That's moved on and you wanted to go back. it sounded like identity nostalgia. You wanted to recover a version of you. And as i thought about it more i realize yeah there are parts of my pass selves that i miss The just the the sheer wonder of being curious about what career i might pursue a little bit even though that was mostly an anxiety provoking but but i think there is a weird phenomenon where once we've gone through something it feels different so everything feels survivable after you survive it and i think that's a lot of why i allow myself sometimes to think about those those past versions of myself fondly. Well my favorite review that you did in the whole book was cut..
710 WOR
"john green" Discussed on 710 WOR
"Very this is what's your uncle right here on W. O. R. Where the topics are always interesting. There's no other programs in the country. That talks about snails and skin, Aiken Guarantee that and for good reason. All right, 803 2107 10 is the phone number 803 2107 10. So I wanted to mention a product called plex a term for a moment flecks of Germans, not my product, but it is a great product you might have seen. The infomercials on cable TV. What is plaques a germ? Well, you know, they've got that person that has bags under her eyes, and they smear this stuff called Flex a germ on the bag. And then they do a little time lapse photography over about two or three minutes, and those bags disappear. It's quite remarkable now. Of course, they don't really go away. It's more like makeup because make up his temporary right and so is plaques determines the silicone material. Not a snail material. It's a silicone material and as it cures as it dries, the kind of makes your bags go away. And it also does the same with your jowls to to a lesser extent, depending on how big your jowls are. And to the wrinkles around your crow's feet and on your neck Plexus room is really quite a remarkable substance, and it has its role in my world because a lot of my patients Might have wrinkles and you know they might not want to go to the operating room for lasers or faceless or things like that. But they do. Many of my patients use Plexi germ, and it is a temporary substance. So you put it on. Let's say before date, put it on before. A zoom meeting. Put it on before a TV appearance. If you're gonna be on, you know, Jimmy Fallon's show tonight, You know, you might want the plexus. Um I actually know a lot of celebrities that use this, and I'm not kidding. No names here. Go to my grave with those names, but they do use Plexi term. And it is quite effective. So John Green Hut, my good buddy. I did products with him for years has given me an 800 number to give to you. And if you use this number here in to get half off when you buy Plexi term 800 95 9963. That's 809 259963 you get 50% off plex a germ once again write it down 809 to 5. 9963 you will love plexus term Now The thing about Plexi term is when you wash your face. It's the Cinderella product. You know how the carriage disappeared? Became a pumpkin again or so well that Z What happens to you when you wash off flexing your wrinkles come back. Your bags come back, So make sure if it is when you're on a date, you know you're alone. The lights are out Venue. Wash off the plaques a term. All right, 809 259963. I'm Dr Arthur Perry and host of the show for a long time. Give me a call 809 803 21. 07 10. So there's a lot of things that grow on people skin. You know, As you get older, you accumulate these things. Sort of like a zoo. You know, you go to the zoo. You see that this animal on that? Well, there's all these different things that can grow on your skin. So we're gonna talk. We're gonna spend the rest of the show. Talking about all the things that kind of grow on your skin. It's not so much fun getting older, but it's a fact of life that you will accumulate freckles. You know, you get those when you're Ah, youngster, right? But when you're an adult and no longer freckles or kind of age spots, well, that's pretty common. We get things called Savary Carat. OSI's Those air raised things they kind of look like something that's on your skin that you have just kind of, you know. Flake off your skin or scratch it off. But it doesn't come off so easily. So we're gonna talk about 70 Charito sees and actinic Charito sees which our son related also, most of these things their son related But those are pre malignant. There are things called San I'll Angio Mazz, those of those red spots on your face. Sabeh cious hyperplasia. How many of you have that those air? Not so pretty, but we tend to get those They're overgrowth of the Glands that produce oil in the scan. And of course, we all get malls. The average person has 20 to 30 moles on their skin. And then skin cancers. While we can get skin cancers, they start in in your twenties. I've seen people in their twenties have skin cancers. Basal cell carcinomas. Those are the people who go to the sun tanning salons. Who spent all their days on the beach. You know the jersey Shore Atlantic Beach Jones Beach, Right, You know, you know what I'm talking about, Maybe a intensifying the sun exposure. When I was a kid, they used those mirrors Those three mirrors, you know, and you got twice the sun damage your face. But you know when you're 16 What do you care, Right. Well, it catches up to you. By the time you're 50 or 60. You know exactly what I'm talking about. So the skin cancers form basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas and heaven forbid melanomas. So these are the common things and they are very common. I mean, everybody gets something on their skin, Everybody And even if you come into my office and you complain about let's say sagging skin of your neck and I look you over in a consultation. We're going to talk about everything from skin care. To removal of these things, because a lot of people have like moles on their face. You know, they forget about that. Moles are sort of, you know they come when you're a teenager. They come when you're in your twenties to tend to get Maura's you get older. Some of them are pigmented and some are non pigmented. You tend to forget about these and when you look in the mirror Tend not to focus on the moles of your face. You tend to focus on the new things, the new things that occur the things that weren't there a few months ago, But are there now? The things that remind you of your mother or father in the mirror. You loved your mother, right? You love your father, but you just don't want to look like them. And as you get these wrinkles, and as you get those malls, lot of people got moles in the same spot their mother animal. And there must be some genetic. You know, some gene that tells you where to get these things, but they certainly haven't identified that. But certainly Ah, lot of people have familial moles. And you say, Well, my sister had that same mall and my mother had that mole. It's not so pretty. It really isn't so pretty and you forget about them because you're looking at them every single day. It's almost like a filling in your teeth. You know when you get a cavity, and yet a filling your tongue goes to that spot in the beginning for a day or two or three. And then a month later, you don't even remember the filling was because your brain doesn't lose use energy thinking about where that filling is. It's just part of you and the same thing with a mole or a scar like a chicken pox scar. You know, they don't get him anymore because the kids get the vaccine. But remember you and I older than 50. We got chicken pox, in fact older than I guess it's about 30. Now. That's when the vaccine came out. S Oh, about 30 or so years ago. So people under 30 are not gonna have this chicken pox scars, But those of you over 30 year you're gonna have those remember the chicken pox parties. You know, the mothers would infect all the kids anyway. All right. So you have these things on your face. You've got moles. You've got Chicken pox scars, Maybe the scar from when you went sleigh riding as a nine year old and you hit Iraq. We have all these things that are on the face and you forget about those. It's not worth the mental energy, but when someone looks at you for the very first time First impression. You know they're looking at your mall. They really are. They're looking at multiple moles in many cases and wondering, why haven't you taken care of that? And I see actresses on TV all the time. And as a plastic surgeon. I'm not really watching the show. I'm just watching the actress or actor and thinking, you know, what can I do to improve their appearance? I'm sorry. That's true. That's what I do is a plastic surgeon. I have no idea what's going on in the show. I'm just looking at the actors and their physical defects and what I can sorry and what I can do to improve their appearance. And it always amazes me when someone comes on television with it, objectionable mole or a scar Or that there was that actress on the new Dallas that had that big scar between her brows. I don't know her name. Yeah, I could fix that in half an hour. I don't know why she didn't have a fix. But anyway, all right, So you have all these things that are on your face, and you go to the plastic surgeon. What can we do about these things, so certainly age spots with the most common thing. Everybody has them..
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Ingesting Poison: Hot Dogs vs. Chemotherapy
"Hello and welcome to the anthroposophic reviewed a podcast where we reviewed different facets of the human centered clan it on a five star scale. I'm john green and today i'll be reviewing two forms of ingesting poisons on the one hand. We have chemotherapy of medical intervention to treat cancer sir on the other hand. We have a hot dog eating contest. Let's begin at the corner of surf and stillwell stillwell avenues in brooklyn's coney island home to nathan's famous a restaurant that started out in nineteen sixteen as a hot dog stand run by polish immigrants nathan and ida hand worker the hotdogs were made from ida's recipe and if they tasted like contemporary nathan's famous miss hotdog they were fine. A nathan's famous hot dog is not the best food you will ever eat or even the best hotdog you'll will ever eat but there's something special about the experience of eating one the brackish smell of the atlantic ocean in your nose the fading in in of the once great coney island in your ears and the hot dogs do have a pedigree they've been eaten by king george the sixth and franklin delano eleanor roosevelt stalin even supposedly eight one at the yalta conference in nineteen forty-five coney island used to be the huckster capital of the world where fast talking barker's wearing straw hats would sell you on this carnival attraction or that one now like all places that survive on nostalgia. It's mostly a memory of itself. The beaches are still packed in summertime. There's still align at nathan's famous and you can instill ride the carousel but they're not selling fun anymore. They're selling reminiscence except one day. A year are coney island becomes. It's old self for better and for worse every year on the u._s.'s independence day of july fourth tens hinz of thousands of people flooded the streets to witness a spectacular exercise in metaphorical resonance known as the nathan's famous hot dog eating contest like the most widely observed annual celebrations of american independence are one fireworks displays which are essentially imitation battles complete with rockets and bombs and to a contest in which people bowl from all over the world attempt to discover how many hotdogs and buns can be ingested by a human within ten minutes to quote the great yakov smirnoff enough. What a country like
60 Minutes
Author John Green: Reaching young adults and dealing with mental illness
"With his multi media multi million dollar empire John green is using his can his keyboard in this video camera allies teeny social awkwardness in also to de stigmatize mental illness you've said that it's important for young people to be able to see successful productive adults challenge by mental illness yeah expand on that well I have a really wonderful life I have a really rich fulfilling life I also have a the serious chronic mental health problem and those are mutually exclusive and the truth is that lots of people have chronic mental health problems