Crash Curse: John Green and the Inconvenience of Superstition

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

John Green is an American author best known for his young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, and Paper Towns. His work often explores love, loss, and mental health with emotional depth and wit. Green is also a prominent YouTuber, co-creating the educational channel Crash Course and the Vlogbrothers with his brother Hank. He’s an advocate for global health and education through initiatives like Project for Awesome. Known for his thoughtful storytelling and openness about living with OCD, Green has become a major voice in both literature and online media.

In this episode of We Can Be Weirdos, the pair discuss the possibility of life outside of earth, the power of influencing football matches with superstitions, the strangeness of human consciousness may affect our belief in the afterlife and the existence of God.

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0:00.0	You've got an email.
0:03.7	A very important message from Love Island HQ.
0:07.2	Love Island is back, spearheaded once more by our CEO of Love, Maya Jama.
0:12.8	The team have been flat out working on the biggest series of twists and turns ever.
0:17.9	So clear your calendar for the 9th of June and circle back because Love Island is
0:22.3	returning on ITV2 and ITVX. Attendance is mandatory.
0:32.0	This is a global player original podcast.
0:36.1	Warning! The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories,
0:40.3	unexplainable experiences, and a haunted barn.
0:43.3	It may not be suitable for younger weirdos.
0:47.3	... Hey, everyone.
0:57.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos.
1:14.0	This is the show that believes that everyone, no matter how rational they may think they are,
1:18.7	harbors a little bit of bad shit in them and that that is no bad thing.
1:23.6	My name is Dan Schreiber and I am coming to you today from the waiting room at the center of the universe.
1:31.0	That's according to Salvador Dali at least.
1:33.4	What I'm actually sitting in is a train station in Pepignon, which is in the south of France.
1:39.6	I'm in a sort of tucked away little quiet waiting room while the rest of the station.
1:45.0	Maybe you can hear it in the background here.
1:47.0	It's sort of in the distance through another door.
1:50.0	But this is a pretty important waiting room because in 1963 it was here that Salvador Dali said that he had a cosmic revelation.
1:59.0	He said he was standing on a platform here and he felt a
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