Hello and welcome to the Anthropocene Reviewed, a podcast where we review different facets

of the Human-Centered Planet on a 5-star scale.

I'm John Green coming to you today with a slightly different episode.

I suppose this is in a roundabout way a review, but it is our most self-absorbed review

yet, which is really saying something.

Today I'll be reviewing the podcast, the Anthropocene Reviewed.

So, just to make the announcement at the beginning, this podcast will be taking an indefinite

hiatus after next month's episode.

I think we'll be back at some point with some new reviews, but it will be a while.

And today I wanted to let you know why, and also talk about the place this podcast has

had in my life.

My novel Turtles All the Way Down was published in October of 2017, and after spending

that month touring for the book across the United States, I came home to Indianapolis,

and I blazed a trail between my children's treehouse and the little room where my wife

and I often work, a room that, depending on your worldview, is either an office or a shed.

This was not a metaphorical trail or anything, it was an actual trail in the woods, and

to make it, I cleared dozens of the prolific and invasive honeysuckle trees that choke

much of central Indiana, and I dug up the English ivy that had taken over, and then I

covered the path in woodchips and lined it with bricks.

I worked on the path 10 or 12 hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week, for over a month, and

when I finally finished, I timed myself walking along the path from our office to the treehouse.

58 seconds.

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