How To Change The World Podcast
John Green: How to Hope
Friends, this was a fun one. I’m somewhat embarrassed to say, I didn't know who John Green was until relatively recently. We met on a Zoom call where I first learned about the fan-owned English Football Club, AFC Wimbledon. Now we’re working together on a film about the power of community ownership through the lens of sports, which feels particularly relevant as more and more soccer teams get snatched up by some of the worst humans on earth. You probably know John from his smash-hit novel and its film adaptation, The Fault in Our Stars , or from Vlogbrothers, the YouTube series he's run with his brother Hank for nearly two decades, or maybe from Crash Course, their series shown in classrooms across America. He's as prolific as he is thoughtful. And, he has a phenomenal new book out called Hollywood, Ending . We talk about his book Everything Is Tuberculosis - and how a disease we've been able to cure for over 80 years, is still the world’s most deadly infection. We also talk about a hope that stands up to scrutiny, why history doesn’t belong to the past, and how we’re both the cause and the cure to most of the things that plague us. Buy John’s New Book! Check out Henry Reider , a TB survivor who inspired Everything is Tuberculosis who has a phenomenal Youtube channel. ----------- The How to Change the World Podcast is produced by World Within Studios with PRX. Producer and Composer: Alexandre Miller Editors: Eve Weston and Martin McGreevy Cinematography: Jonathan Vogler and
