You're going to be. Hello beloved survivors. My name is Autumn Brown and this is how to survive the end of the world.

For me what I would probably try to do was I would probably try to get go to

a dad's house and get my wooden catamas.

Remember I have those one catamas?

Oh, yeah.

Something to protect yourself.

Yes.

The other voice you're hearing is my 11 year old kid Finn.

In our conversations about apocalypse survival, Finn and I keep returning to the question of

skills.

What skills do we have? and what skills do we need, and how do we get those skills?

Of course, if the electricity stuff working, we would have to figure out a different way to get that

water out of the ground, like we would have to figure out a way to to get that water out of the ground like we would have to

figure out a way to generate our own electricity to make the well work or there's a

well pump or we can just use the easiest way to purify water from the

lake what is the easiest way to purify water from the lake.

What is the easiest way to do?

What you're supposed to do is like, uh, use like a sock and put like a banana peals. a Once you don't know, that sounds disgusting.

I'm sorry, but that's what that's the first step.

Shortly after how to survive the end of the world was birthed into being as a podcast project. We were contacted by a brilliant duo named Soe and Pannar, who created a project in 2015 called

Queer Nature, designed to answer exactly this question about skills, and

answer it in a way that tends to trauma, healing, depth, and stillness. We have wanted to interview Queer Nature since 2017, when we started the podcast,

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