Hello and welcome to the Anthropocene Reviewed, a podcast and as of today also a book where

we review different facets of the Human-Centered Planet on a 5-star scale.

I'm John Green and today I'll be reviewing a nice landic hot dog stand and the act of

signing your name 250,000 times in a 5 month period.

Speaking of which, signed copies of the Anthropocene Reviewed book are available in the US

and Canada and also maybe in other places.

There's an audio book as well narrated by me and there is an e-book if you prefer your

reading screen-based and searchable.

My podcast hero Anna Sale of Death, Sex and Money set of the book, the Anthropocene Reviewed

somehow satisfies all the contradictory demands I have for a book right now.

It stimulates my brain while getting me out of my head while taking me to far away

places while grounding me in the wonders of my everyday, which is incredibly kind and

exactly what I hoped the book would be.

So thanks for reading and I hope you like it.

Alright, let's turn our attention to Iceland.

In the summer of 2008, my wife Sarah and I traveled to Europe with another couple,

our friends Laura and Ryan.

I like Laura and Ryan a lot but one thing you need to know is that they are the sort of

people who really try to suck the marrow out of life and make the most of their brief

flicker of consciousness and all that stuff.

This is very different from my style of traveling where in I spend most of the day cycling myself

up to do one thing, visit a museum perhaps, and the rest of the day recovering from the

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