From Parable to Practice: Building Your Go Bag
How to Survive the End of the World
How to Survive the End of the World
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Join adrienne and Autumn as they discuss the fundamentals of creating a go bag on HTS producer, Zak Rosen's podcast, The Best Advice Show.
Inspired by wisdom from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and a listener's inquiry, Zak and the sisters delve into practical steps for emergency preparedness, the psychological barriers of starting, and the importance of preparing in community. From essential items to include to practicing quick evacuations, this episode is packed with valuable advice for surviving in unpredictable situations.
The excerpt of Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler was read by Lucie Putnam
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, beloveds. This is Adrienne, and today you're going to hear an episode of our beloved producer, Zach's podcast, The Best Advice Show. |
| 0:14.3 | And it's Autumn and I talking about how to make a go-back, which we think about a lot and sort of putting it in context of other things. |
| 0:24.8 | But we thought you would really enjoy this too. |
| 0:28.5 | So we're putting it in both feeds and hope that it is just a useful nudge in the direction of moving towards survival. I love y'all. |
| 0:42.6 | Hey, it's Zach, it's the Best Advice Show, where every episode I invite on different guests |
| 0:47.4 | to give me some advice. As of today, Thursday, January 16th, the red flag fire warnings are expiring in L.A. |
| 0:57.9 | The winds are easing. |
| 1:00.3 | But firefighters are still battling fires. |
| 1:03.5 | At least 25 people have died. |
| 1:06.2 | 100,000 have been displaced. |
| 1:09.2 | Tens of thousands of acres have burned. And these past few days, |
| 1:14.1 | it's really just settled in that nowhere is safe. We are living in a poly crisis. Some of us are |
| 1:22.8 | dying in a poly crisis. And that's why today I want to talk to two of my favorite sisters from other |
| 1:31.0 | misters. |
| 1:32.0 | Actually, they're both from one mister, Adrian and Autumn Brown. |
| 1:36.4 | Together, they are the co-host of the Beloved Podcast, How to Survive the End of the World. |
| 1:41.2 | The three of us started that show seven and a half years ago. |
| 1:45.6 | There's over 200 episodes. |
| 1:51.6 | If you haven't started listening yet, I encourage you to. The sisters just put out a really tender episode in the wake of the fires that is called The Solidarity of Unconditional Presence. |
| 1:59.2 | Adrian and Autumn are authors and artists. They're scholars of the visionary |
| 2:03.5 | science fiction author, Octavia Butler, whose book Parable of the Sower will draw from in today's |
| 2:09.4 | episode because it is hauntingly prescient. Octavia and Adrian and Autumn have thought a lot about life in an emergency. |
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