Crash Curse: John Green and the Inconvenience of Superstition

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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