How John Green Turned Celebrity into Obsessive Optimism
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 44 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"
• 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
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.4 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm on the back of the shorts, the liminal space between |
| 0:41.3 | left thigh and buttock. That's my |
| 0:42.8 | chosen area. Why be on the front of the |
| 0:45.4 | shirt when you can be on the back of the shorts? |
| 0:47.7 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:50.4 | You're listening |
| 0:51.3 | to Draft King's Network. |
| 1:07.7 | I love this book, by the way. I read it. |
| 1:09.1 | I always have to just like dangle all of the dog ears and the ink. It's burrowed into my head 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. I do feel obligated, though, because we are a technically sports show. Yeah, we got to talk about sports. I want to talk about how you are one of the most absurd characters in professional soccer. |
| 1:27.7 | Thank you. That's how I prefer to think of myself. |
| 1:30.8 | The whole idea of you and English soccer, and how do you tell that story for people who don't know the lore of John Green? |
| 1:37.9 | I fell in love with a fourth-tier English soccer team called AFC Wimbledon. |
| 1:45.5 | They had their team taken away from them, |
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