About
Brad Balukjian (Bu-lewk-gee-in), founder of The Brad Pack, has dedicated his career to learning and writing about the things he loved most when he was six—pro wrestling, baseball, and islands. He never got the memo that these were supposed to be hobbies, and if he had, he would have crumpled it up and thrown it in the trash. Because when you love what you do and you do what you love, the boundary between work and play dissolves, and then you’re golden.
Brad grew up in Greenville, Rhode Island, which, like everything else in a state that small, is a suburb of Providence. He earned his bachelor’s degree in island biogeography from Duke University and his PhD in entomology from UC Berkeley. For ten years, Brad taught biology at Laney and Merritt Colleges in California’s Bay Area, where he also founded the Natural History and Sustainability program. Now, he’s taken to the Road, living the life of a digital nomad in search of his childhood quarry. This is his first time writing in the third-person.
You might be a member of The Brad Pack if:
The phrase “be kind, rewind” makes you smile.
Mike Tyson not Tyson Fury.
Facial hair without irony.
The Angels play in California, not Los Angeles, and they’re certainly not “of Anaheim.”
Music is on MTV.
Han shot first.
You have a Facebook, not Facebook.
You know what it feels like to hold a recording device up to a radio You know what a radio is. And a Shack that sells them.
2000 is and always will be the future.
Randall Cunningham is the Ultimate Weapon.
Tecmo Super Bowl.
You know more than your own phone number.
Elon Musk sounds like a terrible cologne and nothing more.
It is and always will be the WWF.
You read things longer than this paragraph. 😏