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Pablo Torre Finds Out

How John Green Turned Celebrity into Obsessive Optimism

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

"The Fault in Our Stars" is one of the bestselling novels of the century. Why did its author just devote five years of his life to a staggering work of non-fiction about... tuberculosis? Because John Green became a super-fan of fourth-tier English football. He employed FIFA and Belichick-level tactics to build a compassionate community on YouTube. He understood the difference between enough and more than enough. And he never forgot to be awesome. • Order "Everything Is Tuberculosis" https://everythingistb.com/ • Subscribe to John Green's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers • Subscribe to Henry Reider's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Tuberculosis-l1jSurvivorHenry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.8

I'm on the back of the shorts, the liminal space between left thigh and buttock. That's my chosen area.

0:12.2

Why be on the front of the shirt when you can be on the back of the shorts?

0:15.4

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1:03.6

I love this book, by the way. Thank you, man. I read it. I always have to just like dangle all of the

1:09.2

dog ears and the ink. It's burrowed into my head

1:12.0

in a way that I want to get to. And by the way, thank you for being here. Oh my God. This is so cool.

1:16.1

I do feel obligated though because we are a technically sports show. Yeah, we got to talk about sports.

1:21.6

I want to talk about how you are one of the most absurd characters in professional soccer.

1:25.5

Thank you. That's how I prefer to think of myself.

1:28.6

The whole idea of you and English soccer,

1:31.4

and how do you tell that story for people who don't know the lore of John Green?

1:35.7

I fell in love with a fourth-tier English soccer team called AFC Wimbledon.

1:43.3

They had their team taken away from them, like the Baltimore cults were moved to Indianapolis.

1:49.0

That had never happened before in English soccer.

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