Category Archives: Survival and Emergency Preparedness

Shortly after my Father took his own life in the mid ’80s, I decided to leave law enforcement and go my own way. Since that day, I spent a great deal of time in “the wilderness” trying, amongst other things, to square my mind with his actions. Along the way, I learned to survive in those wild places out of necessity. The need to find shelter, food and water all the while compelled to navigate in unfamiliar surroundings and to survive whatever Mother Nature would throw my way became a passion of mine. Truth be told, I’m a bit of a gear freak as well. Soon, the term “wilderness survival expert” attached.

Admittedly, there are survival skills that are helpful out in the middle of nowhere; I subsequently came to understand however that those same skills worked in urban areas and scenarios (hurricane Katrina jumps to mind)  as well. Survival, I grew to understand, is a mindset. Wherever you find yourself, the skills to survive are as much mental as they are mechanical, as much of temperament as technology. I came to believe that survival is a part of our inherent Buried Logic.

Jump forward to today. Of late, I’ve a realization that I never saw coming; NEVER. Like most impromptu scenarios, they come at the corners of our eye. I never thought I would have to learn how to survive politics, politicians and their overall power grab. Wilderness survival, yes! Wall Street and Washington D.C., no!

Naive, on my part, you bet!

I realize now that our Constitution and the Government it provides us has been nearly hijacked by politicians, political parties, special interest groups, some media outlets and those lawmakers that never saw a situation they didn’t want to legislate themselves out of or in to. Government, is by its nature is a service organization. Most politicians and political parties today are about sustaining power, not public service.

Thankfully, survival and liberty are closely approximated. Navigating Nature or an encroaching political class, regardless of party affiliation, requires the same skill set. You square your shoulders, survey the situation and take action. Survival is your responsibility.

It’s time. I’m trading my backpack for a briefcase and a laptop. I have decide to turn my efforts into political survival and highlighting the skill sets needed for you and I to survive and thrive while confronted with our fading list of freedoms. To that end, I am putting the final touches on The Brian Brawdy Show, my upcoming book Survivalnomics and continuing the blog at BrianBrawdy.com.

The Radio/Video Show will highlight breaking news, commentary and techniques for surviving and thriving in the 21st Century. Brian’s Bottom Line will kick off the show with thought provoking attitude about the daily headlines. Guest interviews, political analysis, Lowlifes Making Headlines and Return To Vendor polls along with the Daily Gullibility Monitor and Worthy/Worthless news of the day will round out the broadcast. The overall goal is to create Political Survival Experts of its listeners and viewers.

The Brian Brawdy Show will be broadcast via satellite from the SRMR, or Self-Reliant Mobile Residence and will initially be web based and housed at LiveStream while the audio will be available via BrianBrawdy.com and iTunes. MauroMedia will be handling the technical aspects and helping me with the creative as well. I am currently negotiating with a national publisher and should have some details shortly on Survivalnomics.

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