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This is Rebecca Loew or Rebecca Loewa if you listen to Suboptimal Radio and you are listening to Men in Blazers on the NBC Sports Network.

Welcome to a Men in Blazers pre-season pod special. The man by my side, master storyteller, a gentle thrives in both the constantly changing world.

He is a very challenging world of online content and the charming agent through back art of novel writing.

We love him for so many reasons. I really do. Mostly because of the eclectic passion he carries for so much which is good in life, football, crying, curiosity, meaning and philanthropy,

all of which barely scratch the surface to explain his infinite love of Liverpool Football Club.

There's only one American who sponsors a North Stand at League 2 side AFC Wimbledon. Yes, they will play in front of the John Green Stand season.

And we'll talk about why. There's also only one American who created paper towns and then executive produced the movie based on the book which hits theaters this Friday.

We welcome, yeah, Hankies, important friends, more important. We welcome back to the pod. Mr. John Green.

It's so good to be back. Thank you for having me. It is so good to be with you. It really is paper towns. To say it is one of the most hotly anticipated movies of the summer is to be conservative with my praise, to be candid.

The trailer generated more buzz than most movies that hit theaters. I couldn't be more excited. I read in your words you said the book is about our fascination with manic pixie dream girls and our relentless mismanaging of each other which sounds essentially like a Rahim stilling biopic.

I want to know from you. I mean, the premieres tonight in New York City. Yeah, it was a launch of a movie emotionally different to you when you part of a team than the launch of a novel as an individual.

I remember when my first book came out in 2005 and the publishing, you know, we there was all this lead up months and months to the day of publication and then the book came out and I and nothing happened like nothing.

There's no party. There was no red carpet. Nobody called me and nobody bought the book. So that's the main way that it's different. Like at least there will be a party tonight and you know, I know that famous people will be there. My wife will be there. It'll be fun.

But I mean, emotionally, I like working in my basement a lot more than I like working in public. So this has been an amazing experience the last two months. I've been able to travel all over the world with Nat Wolfe who stars in the movie and is one of my closest friends. And that's been awesome.

But I will really enjoy just being a suburban dad in Indianapolis who gets to watch River Bull on Saturdays when this is all over.

You like Clark Kent. You are like that. Well, I'm my day for Ralph, friend of Rihanna and of course the great car Delavink. Yeah, car is great. She's so good in the movie. I'm so excited for people to see the movie so they can just.

Hey, her American accent. She kills it with an American accent. She's such a great actor. I'm just excited for people to see that she's a stop stop being like, oh, they cast a model as an actor and just be like, whoa, she's really good in the movie.

I've got to tell you seen the two of you together gives me great pleasure. It's like watching how I imagine.

Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe back in the day. Our generations. You'd mention the Premier League. John has got me all the quiver. How much have we missed it?

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