John Green

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1,964 appearances 40 recordings 7 series first heard Dec 2021 last heard 25 Jun

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · How John Green Turned Celebrity into Obsessive Optimism · 25 Mar 2025 podcast

Thank you. That's how I prefer to think of myself.

I fell in love with a fourth-tier English soccer team called AFC Wimbledon. They had their team taken away from them, like the Baltimore Colts were moved to Indianapolis. That had never happened before in English soccer.

And so the fans had to restart the club. And they started out with literal tryouts in a public park. They started out in the ninth tier of English football. And because in England and European football, you can get promoted or relegated, you can move up and down the ladder.

They moved up the ladder rung by rung until finally by 2011, they were one step away from being a full-time professional team again.

And they made it all the way to the playoff final in a penalty shootout with a 19-year-old kid who worked part-time at a rental car place.

Saving the two penalties. Man. An incredible story. I think the greatest underdog story in the history of sports.

And now they've been a professional team for, you know, about 15 years, and they're doing great. They're owned by their fans, so there's no rich guy to fund the team or anything. It's just a regular bunch of people, and everybody pitches in the way that they can pitch in, and one of the ways I can pitch in is financially.

Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. I recently found myself at an airport, as I often do, sitting at the gate waiting for my flight to board, and I couldn't stop thinking about how everyone in the airport would, within a century or so, be dead. Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday.

So something you might not know from having watched my last couple videos is that this has been the most stressful two-week period I have experienced in a while. Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. I have to tell you about a profound mortification I recently experienced, but first, it's time to manifest second shot in arm. Let's go get vaccinated.

What is a nerdfighter? A nerdfighter is a person who, instead of being made out of, like, bones and skin and tissue, is made entirely of awesome. So you're saying that nerdfighters don't fight nerds. No, we're clearly pro-nerd.

So I started out playing FIFA, the video game, and I would livestream it or upload the videos or whatever.

And then I'd use all the advertising revenue to pay for an actual sponsorship. So then I could see my own logo when I played the video game. I could see my own logo on the player's shorts. I will say this. There are lots of professional FIFA players and semi-professional FIFA players out there.

But among them, do you know any other than me who has successfully gotten DFTBA Nerdfighteria written on the shorts of a professional football team? So I've got that going for me. I'm on the back of the shorts, the liminal space between left thigh and buttock. That's my chosen area. That is the finest real estate. Yeah, no, people say that.

Why be on the front of the shirt when you can be on the back of the shorts, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah, and as I'm sure you noted, I'm not very good at it. You are trash.

They're third in the league this season. They've got a real chance to get promoted up to the third tier. And I couldn't be prouder. Every year, I use some of the money I make from live streaming to try to help them buy a player. And this year, we bought a player who's absolute mustard. His name's Marcus Brown, and that kid's got amazing, amazing feet.

Yeah, that is correct.

Yeah.

Yeah, about five years. I do have a weird job, but, you know, that's the privilege that The Fault in Our Stars, the success of that book and movie gave me was the privilege to really follow my dreams. And you can have really uninteresting dreams. Like, I feel like a lot of people who are in this position, like, just dream of having more. And, like, more than enough is not interesting to me.

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