Hot and Vibrant for the Apocalypse with Denée Benton
How to Survive the End of the World
How to Survive the End of the World
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Denée Benton (Eliza Hamilton in Hamilton! Cinderella in Into the Woods! Peggy Scott on The Gilded Age!) joins the sisters Brown to explore how creative work can serve social movements, the importance of community rituals, the evolving role of celebrity in activism, the strategic importance of joy, feeling panicked less and feeling vibrant more.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Autumn Brown, Front Woman of the Soul Pop Band, Autumn, a queer science fiction writer, a theologian, a mother of dragons, |
| 0:23.4 | and a healing justice facilitator for social movements living on Dakota and the Shinave land, |
| 0:29.3 | currently known as Minneapolis. |
| 0:32.4 | And I'm Adrienne Marie Brown, a dragon baby, a luscious black queer witch writer Auntie, an apocalyptic love scholar, |
| 0:40.6 | public conversationalist, and gardener of healing ideas. I live in the land of the Okanichi, |
| 0:46.2 | Shakori, Skorri, Tescorra, Ino, and Lumby peoples, currently known as in Durham, North Carolina. |
| 0:53.1 | I love that you just stay coming up with new titles for yourself. Thank you. Public conversationalist. Yes. Yeah, I was like she is a public conversationalist. I just want that to be clear. I was like, that's not a public speaker. I'm not a public speaker and I don't, I'm not a big interviewer, although I can do it. But really what I love is a good combo. |
| 1:11.7 | Good conversation. |
| 1:12.7 | And this is a good conversation called How to Survive, the End of the World. |
| 1:17.4 | Our podcast about learning from apocalypse with grace, riga, and curiosity. |
| 1:23.6 | As a reminder, we have no ads because we're better than you. |
| 1:27.5 | We are listener supported. |
| 1:29.8 | And you are the better people who are the listeners. |
| 1:35.2 | Girl. |
| 1:35.9 | So join our page on for exclusive content. |
| 1:39.8 | Exclusive, exclusive. |
| 1:41.1 | All right. |
| 1:41.4 | Do you want to read this exciting, thrilling bio that we have or do you want me to read it? |
| 1:44.6 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:44.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:45.9 | Wait, can we both read it? |
| 1:47.3 | Okay, let's go. |
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