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Hello and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood. I am your host, Danny M. Levery,

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 Grievous, 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 Powerables 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 in 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, so. That strikes me as a deeply lovely approach,

and I think quite a useful one, especially if you have an eye towards finding ways to

survive a variety of apocalypses and rural 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

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