This is 99% invisible. I am Roman Mars.

On this show, we tell stories about what we make and what it says about us as humans.

But we never rate those things on a five-star scale. The Anthropocene

reviewed is here to correct that oversight. I love this show. It's by John Green

he's the author of best-selling books like The Fault in our Stars and Turtles all the way down.

He also makes some of the best stuff on YouTube with his brother Hank.

Today we're going to feature two of my favorite episodes of his new podcast that I think

will be of particular interest to a 99 p. I

listener. Plus we'll have an interview with John about a lot of things like

sports and learning to love pop music as an adult. I think you're really gonna

like it. After I got done talking with

John I just felt good all day about life, it was great. But first here's an

episode of the Anthropocene Review.

Hello and welcome to the Anthropocene Reviewed, a podcast where we review different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale.

Today I'll be reviewing a 17,000-year-old painting and the Taco Bell breakfast menu.

Let's start with the painting. So if you've ever been or had a child, you will likely already be familiar with hand stencils. They were the first figurative art made by both our kids.

Somewhere between the ages of two and three, my children spread the fingers of one hand out across a piece of paper,

and then, with the help of a parent traced their five

fingers. I remember my son's face as he lifted his hand and looked absolutely

shocked to see the shape of his hand still on the paper, a semi-permanent record of himself.

I am extremely happy that my children are no longer three and yet to look at their little hands from those early

artworks is to be inundated with a strange soul-splitting joy.

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