Behind the Mic with Christine Barrington, host of Apocalyptic Supper Club

Christine Barrington starts a new show on KSQD this Friday: Apocalyptic Supper Club. But Christine is hardly new to KSQD—in fact, she’s a Squid super-volunteer. Apart from hosting Talk of the Bay for several years, Christine was a board member, volunteer coordinator, behind-the-scenes producer, and host of a series called Behind the Mic. In this series she interviewed many of the roster of fascinating people who make up KSQD’s volunteer on-air presence.

This week, Babblery host Suki Wessling turns the tables and sends Christine to the other side of the board so she can talk about her new show. Christine explained what it’s all about:

“It’s called The Apocalyptic Supper Club, nourishment for dire times. And the reason I call it that is it’s sort of at many levels, but most important, it’s that for us to show up when times are so hard, I believe we have to be fed many, many more stories, many, many more ideas and strategies that actually lift us up and make us feel better. So much political news and political talk is really quite depressing. It fills us with fear and uncertainty, it impacts our neurochemistry and instills what I call civic learned helplessnessPeople kind of check out and we need them to check in and find joy in getting involved. So they need to get nourished. And so it’s a supper club. It’s gonna all kinds of beautiful, tasty things.”

The first episode airs Friday at 5 pm PT and will be available as a podcast. Please listen in and subscribe.

Mentioned in this episode:

• This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
• Hang Out Do Good
• Red, Wine, and Blue
• Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
• “\” by Christopher Armitage

A selection of Behind the Mic shows with Christine Barrington:

• Classical music and gardening host Joe Truskot
• What a Week hosts Erik Nelson and Tony Russomanno
• Be Bold, America host Jill Cody
• Narrative Species host Rick Kleffel
• Don’t Fence Me In host Bruce Larson
• Heritage Gospel Uplift’s Jinx Deruisa
• New Squid in Town’s David Bean
• B in the Night’s Bobby Bishop
• The Computer Guy, Luigi Oppido
• KSQD Chief Engineer Sandy Stone
• Brooklynbilly Mashup’s Andy Fuhrman

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