John Green Reveals His Biggest Regrets, Quarantine Anxiety, How Fame Changed Him &... Ep. 43
A Conversation With...
Philip DeFranco
4.8 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 96 minutes
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01:47 - Hank Green is My Boss 04:30 - Reflecting on Ze Frank’s “The Show” 06:32 - Why bigger communities become more disconnected 08:39 - Success is a Drug 11:20 - Rich or Famous? 11:39 - BUY JOHN’S BOOK! 17:58 - What was your childhood like? 21:44 - Can Parents Still Grow? 24:37 - How has 2020 impacted your life? 28:23 - Feeling hopeful during a pandemic 31:48 - I would do anything to take away the pain from my kids... 35:47 - What is the secret to your success? 41:28 - What is something your parents taught you that you now know is wrong? 45:21 - What’s your biggest regret? 47:38 - When do the Green kids get social media? 49:41 - If we went to high school together would we have been friends? 52:27 - Describe the first that your perspective has changed significantly on something 56:36 - Did Hank come to you when he wanted to start writing? 1:03:38 - What’s your greatest fear about getting older? 1:05:38 - How do you deal with conflict? 1:20:50 - John’s questions for Phil 1:28:22 - How Phil’s 14 years on YT changed him 1:34:32 - Goodbyes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to a conversation with. |
| 0:02.1 | My name is Philip DeFranco and possibly our final conversation of the year. |
| 0:06.2 | We might change it up, but possibly is the fantastic John Green. |
| 0:10.7 | Hello, sir. |
| 0:11.3 | How you doing? |
| 0:12.1 | Nice to see you. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm doing well. |
| 0:14.1 | How are you? |
| 0:14.9 | Good. |
| 0:15.6 | I mean, I think it's, I'm glad we were able to get you on. I think I feel like you sent Hank to the podcast first to just like to feel it out. Make sure it's not a gotcha podcast. And then how is a actually if you don't know who John Green is, how dare you? But John, I mean, at this point, what do you consider yourself an author first? Or you and your brother have so |
| 0:38.2 | many different jobs. Yeah, just as you do as well. But I was an author before I was a YouTuber. |
| 0:45.1 | My first book came out before YouTube even existed really. And so I think of myself as a writer |
| 0:51.6 | first because that was my job before being a YouTuber was part of my job. But I also think of myself as a writer first because that was my job before being a YouTuber was part of my job. |
| 0:56.1 | But I also think of myself as a YouTuber. |
| 0:58.0 | And for those of you who don't know, my brother Hank and I started making YouTube videos just a few months after Phil started, I think, back on January 1st, 2007. |
| 1:09.1 | And so over the last 13 years, my brother and I've had a conversation |
| 1:12.9 | back and forth on YouTube, but we've also expanded to do lots of other different educational |
| 1:18.2 | video projects like Crash Course and SciShow and Eons, the art assignment, lots of other shows. |
| 1:23.7 | You guys, but you've done so much. And I'm like, it's weird because I'm always like, I'm proud of you. And then 10% of me is like, I resent you. Because you guys have done such an amazing job. That's very kind of you to say. I feel that way about all of my, my colleagues, about 90% amazement and wonder and really proud of them. And then 10% like, why can't I do that? |
| 1:47.9 | My brother is the driving force. I'm really the tale to the comet, to be honest with you, even though |
| 1:52.8 | I'm the older brother, like, he's the CEO and I literally report to him. And I have my annual, |
| 1:58.0 | you know, check-ins where he tells me the parts of my job that I'm bad at |
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