The Anthropocene Reviewed Complexly, John Green

I have a problem. Correction, I have many problems; I think too much about too many things, I'm a bad listener and I spend too much time on things that doesn't matter. But I digress, my problem, relevant to this is, I listen to too many podcasts. I have too many to comfortably look at my grid of shows, and therefore I rarely browse my own selected "want-to-listen-to's". The only exception to this is The Anthropocene Reviewed and 99% invisible. Whereas the latter makes me want to do everything at once, The Anthropocene Reviewed makes me want to do nothing but experience this World, in which we all float through our existence. This podcast can touch parts of my being that I almost never see, but I adore those parts, and the mindset I find myself in, while listening, is treasured beyond measure.

If I could only listen to one thing throughout the rest of my time on spaceship Earth, it would be this. I return to some episodes even though... No Because every time i listen, i weep for the beauty I can find in the phenomena described, the language describing them or the care with which the language is formed in the description.

For me to review this piece of art, to langua-fy the way it makes me feel and what it communicates to me, is almost a crime. The languafication may render this wonderful corner in the world banal, but John Green asked. And after I have enjoyed his podcast beyond measure, who am I to deny him his only request in return.

The only problem I have with this show is that I consume it too fast.

It is a rare idiosyncratic collection of historic information and contemporary raw emotion. I love everything about it.