John Green Gets REAL: OCD, Consumption Core & Working with Hank
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What does living with OCD feel like for you?
Wave.
You talk pretty openly about your struggles with OCD and anxiety.
OCD tends to attack what you love. Perfect. I mean, the way in which it's most profoundly impacted my work is that I ended up writing a book about a young woman with OCD called Turtles All the Way Down.
There's people in my life that I'm close to that have OCD, and reading that book was the one big, like, whoa, the whole time. Now, when Olivia says someone close, she does mean me.
Shit.
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How did writing *Turtles All the Way Down* help you understand OCD?
Girls are magic. Reading is hot. And so are you.
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Ladies, grown-up summer camps are spiking in popularity. Would you go to one? Have you seen these? The idea of it seems so lovely. Yeah. Do I think I would get along with the people who go to one? Yeah, that's probably my same thing too. I have seen, I think there are ones that I see that it is very more like band camp
theater-y, theater kid vibes, but adults. But I have seen other ones where like friends rent out.
Oh, yeah.
Like camps and whatnot.
Sign me up.
I
wouldn't call that summer camp.
Right, but there's gotta be ones out there that
offer a vibe like that. I yearn to be 10 years old at a summer camp.
I yearn,
dude. Overnight. I just saw this one video of this guy who was at an all-girls summer camp and he's strumming a song. And it was like, what song is he gonna play? And then he plays Taylor Swift. Did you see this?
No.
The
girls go crazy. I'm like, the joy in that place. I saw a comment that said, I would have thought about you every day for the rest of my life, by the
way. That would have been my sexual awakening at a camp like that. I would have fallen in love with that man.
Yeah, they would have all loved him for sure. Oh my gosh. I think this summer camp thing is cool. In your older age, it's hard to find community. It's hard to find friends. This is like a force in a way of people who also want to find that community.
Yeah.
I'm down for it for some people because there's a loneliness epidemic. I know it's for men, but I think for women as well. And we want so much for that. So go to summer camp. Get outside. Do something that's not just
eating and drinking.
Go do some freaky stuff in a bunker. I'm just like I'm saying, if I'm at one of those things and there was other hot people, like I'm fucking in the woods. Well, I hope there's hot people at these camps. I hope so. Well, if you'd be there. I do love when people have weddings at summer camps. Oh, that cute. That is really cute. Oh, yeah. Because like you've got they do it after the season, you know, so like when kids go back to school and that way everybody can stay.
Why do you think adult summer camps are making a comeback?
That's a great idea. On
site.
And if it's a lakefront... We did one summer of a summer camp. I think about that. Camp Tirole Cross. You had to go to Mass every day. Mass
every day. It wasn't that bad, though. But you didn't even mind
because it was so fun
the rest of the time. So
fun. We spent three weeks there. Mom was the nurse. I had a big fat crush on all the counselors. Big fat crush on these counselors. And it was like... We'd never experienced it before. And it closed down literally the summer after we were there. And we loved it so much. But...
I mourned. I
was
deeply sad for a very long time. Like I left a
part of myself there. And people love their summer camps. Like I know many friends who they love it. Like this was their years of. And people, a lot of people have met
their partners, like their husbands and wives when like at those like
growing
up. That's our
problem. We only did it once.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does living with OCD feel like for you?
0:00–0:55
2
How did writing *Turtles All the Way Down* help you understand OCD?
0:55–3:17
3
Why do you think adult summer camps are making a comeback?
3:17–5:38
4
What emotions are you feeling about the release of *Hollywood Ending*?
5:38–13:46
5
How did you become interested in tuberculosis and its history?
13:46–32:41
6
Why do modern beauty standards still echo tuberculosis‑era aesthetics?
32:41–49:14
7
How do you approach conversations about death and mortality?
49:14–53:48
8
What’s the final challenge you gave John Green at the end of the episode?
53:48–55:07
Speakers
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