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Blair Braverman

@blairbraverman.bsky.social

writer and dogsledder, host of story podcast “what to carry, what to burn”

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Blair Braverman@blairbraverman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Jen’s whole way of seeing the world is so beautiful. Like a dog’s, even… and this book is available for preorder now!

The Golden Ratio@thegoldenratio4.bsky.social · 5d ago

An honor of my new book, Think Like a Dog, is that my friend @blairbraverman.bsky.social let me interview her about dogs, kindness, loyalty, & trust. She shared this amazing story + others. The book is out 9/1. It's all about dog psychology and what makes them (& us) happy linktr.ee/thegoldenrat...

“I was once in a dogsled race called the Bear Grease, which runs for about 380 miles through the North Shore of Minnesota in the Saw- tooth Mountains. I was completely unassisted, I’d been on the trail for days with the dogs and it was very, very cold, about thirty below. And I had something happen to me which in twenty years has only happened to me twice.” Every musher’s nightmare, Blair tells me, is falling off the sled. And if you fall off the sled, your unstoppable, highly motivated dogs will just keep on trucking without you, taking all your survival gear (and any hopes of winning the race) along with them. “We were going over a snowbank, the sled flipped over, and I was dragged along on an icy road. Eventually my arms gave out and I lost the team. I immediately started running after them in my huge parka
@celticjade13.bsky.social · last wk.

Me hearing @blairbraverman.bsky.social say they spotted land: Yay! They're going to be OK! Me looking at the time and realizing it's only a half hour into an hour ep: Or not.

Blair Braverman@blairbraverman.bsky.social · 2w ago

New podcast episode is out today at What to Carry, What to Burn! This one's the story of Valerian Albanov, who escapes an icebound ship and ends up the reluctant leader of a trek across the frozen sea. Featuring thieves, lice, kayaks made out of barrels, and polar bear livers.

A blue-tinged artwork of a polar bear looking down off a rock into a gray-blue sea. This is modified from James Audubon's artwork that's in the public domain.
Blair Braverman@blairbraverman.bsky.social · 2w ago

New podcast episode is out today at What to Carry, What to Burn! This one's the story of Valerian Albanov, who escapes an icebound ship and ends up the reluctant leader of a trek across the frozen sea. Featuring thieves, lice, kayaks made out of barrels, and polar bear livers.

A blue-tinged artwork of a polar bear looking down off a rock into a gray-blue sea. This is modified from James Audubon's artwork that's in the public domain.
Blair Braverman@blairbraverman.bsky.social · 2w ago

My theory: survival stories and true crime are actually photo negatives of each other, because in true crime, someone's dead who should be alive, and in survival, someone's alive who should be dead, and in both cases you're trying to figure out why

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2w ago

One more thing on What to Carry, What to Burn: Podcasting's devolution into chat /true crime has depressed me as listener & writer. It's labeled--wrongly--as latter, & at first seems to be @blairbraverman.bsky.social "just" talking. But it's so arfully structured! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Bartholomew Collins@bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social · 3w ago

only a well-orchestrated marketing campaign can produce material this slick bsky.app/profile/bigf...

Bartholomew Collins@bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

unfortunately listening to you and Sarah discuss survival has put the character of Marshall Braverman, a woman who patrols the old west righting wrongs, into my mind, and now I have to make it everyone else's problem. I promise this picture is not meant to mock you or Sarah, it's the best I can do

Just the worst goddam sketch of a woman in a long coat with a star pinned to it and what could be a cowboy hat and boots. she looks like she is out to get whoever drew her face like this.
Blair Braverman@blairbraverman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just learned that Noah Kahan’s Willing and Able is (maybe?) a reference to Cain and Abel and I’m not sure why but it is ruining me 😩 I didn’t listen carefully before and just assumed it was about a breakup

Blair Braverman@blairbraverman.bsky.social · 3w ago

10000% fine for the podcast to not be someone’s thing (for any reason! not everything is for everyone!) but I PROMISE I am not running a sketchy astroturfing / sock puppet marketing campaign. 😭 But thank you to the people who said so many sweet things that other people decided they must be fake!

A screenshot from Reddit of the following: flava_town_420 • 5h Really enjoyed the first few episodes of What to Carry, What to Burn! -8 votes arb7721 • 4h Not sure why this podcast is being pushed all over the place, it's meh, I don't understand the hype. It's possible there's a marketing campaign that is blasting it in this sub. The storytelling is meh and, dare to say, boring, especially when she describes stuff like she was there personally when it happened 100 years ago, let alone when the finishes the podcast with some cringy generic "you can do it" cliche. If someone likes this genre, l'd suggest Real Survival Stories, accurate storytelling and the survivor recalls their experience as well. edit. just noticed that this account is new with low karma, similar to other accounts who push this podcast. It reinforces my impression that it's an orchestrated marketing campaign ran by the podcast creators themselves. 18 votes
Blair Braverman@blairbraverman.bsky.social · 4w ago

New episode of What to Carry, What to Burn is out today! It tells the story of José Salvador Alvarenga, a shark fisherman who drifted across the sea for over a year in a small open boat after his motor broke. This story, and José’s resilience, absolutely blew my mind.

A digital drawing of a small white boat drifting over a massive spotted whale shark