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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood.

I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Adrienne Marie Brown,

an author and the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.

She recently published Grevers, the first in her novella series with the Black Dawn imprint.

She's also the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia's Parables Podcasts.

Adrienne, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Danny.

I am just so pleased that you could be here.

I am in the studio this week for the first time and quite some time, so I'm still stunned by the fact that my dogs aren't trying to eat my microphone cord.

Yeah. And I'm just so looking forward to this. How is everything? How are you doing?

Oh, things are good over here. I feel like this is today, you know, Wednesday was a sweet day today. I locked myself out of my house and I didn't panic. So that's always good. I was like, oh, I have community. I have my phone. I have my wallet. I'll be okay. And, you know, I was able to move through quite a lovely day where a lot changed

in the process of it, but it still was fine. That strikes me as a deeply lovely approach.

And I think quite a useful ones, especially if you have an eye towards finding ways to survive

a variety of apocalypses or world ends. It's just that thought of,

well, I'll be out of my house for a while. What should I do? It's all good. Yeah. I have also locked

myself out of my houses and apartments enough times that I also have a real like, well, this just

happens to me sometimes approach, which is not to say I've gotten any

better at figuring out how to handle it so much as just something does always end up happening again.

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