Annie Leonard

The JV Club with Janet Varney

Maximum Fun

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5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week it’s a story of stuff (life stuff! Not clutter stuff!) with Annie Leonard (The Story of Stuff, Greenpeace), who talks about how experiences in the margins of high school can be liberating, the joy of optimism (and worms!), and the satisfaction of a really great opera cake.

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0:00.0	Hey guys welcome to episode 214 of the podcast with my guest Annie Leonard. I wanted to thank
0:05.6	Amir Toulai, a past guest of my podcast and a dear friend for E introducing Annie and me. I am excited to share with you guys things that inspire
0:17.0	Annie and kind of what her teenage years were like and how they impacted her ability and confidence to make waves in the
0:26.1	world and to feel like she could be impactful because I know that's something that we all
0:30.6	kind of struggle with sometimes. And I want to thank Christine for her email and I will get caught up with more soon, but I want to say anybody who's around in the Southern California area this weekend.
0:43.1	Stan against Evil is going to be having a kind of a sneak peek panel
0:48.3	and Q&A with John C. McGinley and me and Creator and co-star Dana Gould at Monster Palusa on Saturday.
0:59.8	So check that out.
1:01.0	I tweeted about it and I'm sure there's other stuff I'm forgetting
1:04.5	that I want to let you know about, but it wouldn't be an intro if I didn't feel like I was
1:07.9	forgetting something. So hope you guys enjoyed the episode and I will talk to you soon. Thanks.
1:14.0	Now entering Nurdest.com. Oh, I feel like I want to ask the requisite how's the weather in the Bay Area
1:49.7	just because I don't feel like I ask that with every guest that I podcast remotely but because it's sort of my favorite place in the world in many ways
1:58.6	It's always nice to kind of do a little check-in and find out how everything's going up there
2:03.0	You know, everything is always going great here.
2:06.0	It is beautiful and sunny and not too hot and not too cold and I just checked my tomato
2:11.0	plants out back are just so abundant you know abundant you know what it's great oh now you're
2:16.8	really rubbing it in I know I don't usually tell people that because it's hard
2:21.4	not to glow if you live in the Bay Area but you
2:23.5	know you guys gonna glow back when we have our next big earthquake. Yeah well there
2:27.0	well being I'm in L. A so who knows what's gonna happen down here I feel like you
2:30.9	can you can use the earthquake thing when people in Texas are
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