We Need Creativity & Saxophone Solos with John Green
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Why do we need creativity and art in our lives?
Making art is not optional for humans.
That is such a lovely way. To
say I didn't go to class. Yeah. You know, a lot of us don't want to want much of what we want, but we want it anyway.
And
we're all pregnant.
Yeah, we get older every
day. Got more wrinkles, that's okay. Yeah, we're laughing when we age. Life is like a comedy stage. And that's what we
got
there.
Hey friends, I'm Kim Holderness. And I'm Ben Holderness. Welcome to
Laugh Lines. If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain... You're home. You're home. And if you have like a weird aversion to that song, not a weird aversion, if you have an aversion to this song because you actually listened to the lyrics recently and realized it's all about adultery...
I've always been annoyed by that song. Yeah. Because they were, and then they found such joy. What would you, if you were, I guess the modern day would be if we were on. Tinder. Tinder.
And we saw each other on Tinder.
And we, or, and then we met up at a restaurant. Would you like joyfully embrace? Or we're like, we both got
busted. I would look at you and say, our marriage is deeply, deeply flawed. We need to seek therapy.
Yeah.
And by the
way, if you're
watching on YouTube, our dog has joined
us. Oh, yeah. Sunny's here. I feel like we should notice. Yes.
We are overjoyed for today's podcast. You are going to love the discussion. We had such a great conversation with John Green. He's an artist, an activist, a YouTuber, and he has a new book coming out. And we had the most amazing discussion. I hope you love it. But first, we have to promote our own things. Before we talk about his book, we have to talk about ours.
Like we're going to talk to John Green about how selfless he is and how he really puts causes ahead of him. But first we're selling a book guys.
It's get
it done
and have fun. ADHD hacks for awesome kids. It comes out one week from today. I think this book will help people,
which is why
I don't feel guilty promoting it.
Yes. So look, It comes from a real place and it comes, honestly, it comes from you guys because what we hear the most when we talk about ADHD is how do we motivate, encourage, or find like a system where our children are able to do things that are just so boring it hurts. And I went through this as a kid. Right. So that's kind of what the book's about and it's fun.
You can join us in person on our book tour. Go to getitdoneandhavefun.com to find out where those dates and locations are or virtually because there's a webinar tomorrow, September 23rd at 1 p.m. with Attitude Magazine.
We love those
guys. And we're just really excited to get this out into the universe and we hope it's really helpful to a lot of families.
It is time now to meet our guest. Our guest is an author and a darn good one who's done nonfiction. He's got a fiction book coming out. Before long, he'll probably be in our book club, like our discussion book club that we have as a group. We got to get him in there.
What you may not know is our team at the Holderness Family Company We have our own little book club and every few months, everybody's in charge of picking a book. I picked before, this is going to be our next book, Hollywood Ending, if you're not, but I picked Calamity Club for everybody to read. Penn thought Calamity Club was science fiction. So he has been waiting for like 1930s Mississippi. He's been waiting for a spaceship.
OK, so here's what you said. First of all, sometimes you tell me things are science fiction, I think, to get me to read them. And they don't. You told me Atmosphere was a great science fiction book.
I just said there were spaceships in it. It says about NASA. That's not science
fiction. I loved it. It was great. It was so well-written, but it was a love story. So this one you were like, yeah, it's, it's, it starts out in Mississippi and just kind of jumps around in time. And I was like, time travel. Sweet. So like I'm waiting for Meg to discover the rift in reality or the alternate universe. And like I saw this morning, I'm like, so Meg's great. I don't see how this is going to become a science fiction book.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why do we need creativity and art in our lives?
0:00–20:41
2
What motivated John Green to return to fiction after nine years?
20:41–25:57
3
Why is empathy the core of writing fiction, according to John?
25:57–28:12
4
How did John rediscover the joy of writing when he was eight?
28:12–42:09
5
How does social‑media pressure affect creators and Hollywood storytelling?
42:09–43:49
Speakers
3 identifiedMore from Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness
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