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Home of the Brave

Scott Carrierhomebrave.com
Home of the Brave: new and old stories from "This American Life" contributor Scott Carrier.
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Episodes

Some Spring Time Stories

I just got back from speaking at two radio conferences in Europe. I saw the leaves come out on the trees along the canals in Amsterdam. I woke up in Ireland next to a pasture with four wooly alpacas, one just a baby. I spent days talking about how podcasting works from the bottom up, forming a lattice of connections that reach around the skin of the earth. This is better than the top-down fear-mongering of the corporate media. I said these things with confidence, because of you. I get letters fr...

Apr 16, 2019

The Pacific Northwest Trail

This is a story I produced last summer for The New Yorker Radio Hour. It’s about a controversy over one of the newest long-distance hiking trails in the United States. It was a difficult story to cover and explain, but I had excellent help from the NYRH producers and editors. I’d like to work for them again. Donate Ron Strickland, father of the Pacific Northwest Trail. The PNT crosses the Kootenai River Valley, north of Sandpoint, Idaho....

Mar 14, 2019

Warriors Zulu Nation Honduras

A day inside the gang-ridden community of Chamelecon, Honduras. Donate The ceiba tree in the park where the rap battle took place. Chamelecon, Honduras. The playing field under the tree. Rapper 23 is “Yosie,” who reads history for inspiration....

Feb 19, 2019

Tijuana

Ruth Pena and her daughter, from El Salvador, at the beach in Tijuana. That’s the border wall in the background. Donate The outfield at the ball park in Tijuana. Near second base at the ball park in Tijuana. Scar from eight bullets on the thigh of one of the Honduran men. Leaving the ball park. Standing in line for breakfast outside the ball park. Inside one of the Evangelical refuges in the hills surrounding Tijuana. Outside one of the Evangelical refuges in the hills surrounding Tijuana....

Dec 22, 2018

Across the Desert

A sticker on one of the steel columns of the border wall south of Las Cruces, NM. Donate Another sticker on the wall,south of Las Cruces. Katie Davis and Molly Molloy at the wall south of Las Cruces....

Dec 12, 2018

Casa del Migrante

Juana and Estela talk about why they left their homes in Guatemala to seek asylum in the United States.

Dec 04, 2018

No Solution

Immigrants crossing the border near Agua Prieta, Sonora, 2005. Photo by Julian Cardona . Welcome to Season Two of Home of the Brave. This is the first of a series about the US/Mexico border and the present immigration situation. For background, I replay an interview with Charles Bowden recorded just a couple hundred yards from the barbed wire fence separating the two countries in the spring of 2005. Donate Migrants from Mexico crossing into the United States at the Buenos Aires National Wildlife...

Nov 14, 2018

End of Season One: A Walk On the Beach

I need to take a break so let's call this the end of season one. And I'd like to play the second story I produced for the show, an interview with Alex Chadwick. Thank you very much for your support. I'm going to turn off the subscription service (Pay Pal), but you can still donate and buy tee-shirts, tote bags, and patches. I hope to be back soon. Music: Slow Bicycle by Mum .

May 08, 2018

Rumble Strip: It's a Podcast

Erica Heilman produces Rumble Strip from her home in Calais, Vermont. I like it because I never know what she's going to do next. This is a satire about modern life in America. Donate

Apr 27, 2018

Lick the Crickets by Larry Massett

Collage by Charles Hope From following the news lately I feel like I don't know who to believe or who to trust, like I don't know what's going on or why and things are only going to get worse and there's nothing I can do about it. In times like this maybe surrealistic poetry and Dada make more sense than realism. Donate Collage by Charles Hope...

Apr 18, 2018

Bear's Ears, Part Three: The Sand Island Petroglyphs

From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River" by Joe Pachak Donate From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River" by Joe Pachak From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River" by Joe Pachak From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River" by Joe Pachak From "Early Rock Art on the San Juan River" by Joe Pachak...

Feb 13, 2018

Bear's Ears, Part Two

Bear Ears Buttes in the background. Looking north from the top of Cedar Mesa, San Juan County, Utah. Elevation 7000 feet. A conversation with author Terry Tempest Williams about the source of the problem in the battle over public lands in southern Utah.Click here for a link to some of Terry's work.Music by Glenn Gould playing Bach's Goldberg Variations . Donate Bears Ears from the west. In the foreground is one of the many sandstone canyons draining Cedar Mesa. Elevation 5000 feet. The bridge ov...

Jan 30, 2018

Bear's Ears, Part One

Looking south towards the Navajo Reservation from the top of Cedar Ridge, Utah. The first in a series of reports about the controversy over public land in southern Utah, plus a story by radio genius Joe Frank, who passed away January 15, 2018. Donate

Jan 16, 2018

Ski Lesson

I don't know who took this photo, but it sure is a good one. Maybe it's Thor. Something to get your mind off the sorry state of affairs these days.You can make a one-time donation by Stripe, below, or hit the Pay Pal button in the menu bar to subscribe for as little as on dollar a month. Thanks for listening. Donate

Dec 06, 2017

The Bicycle Artist

One of Grant Petersen's personal bicycles. An interview with Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycles Works in Walnut Creek, California.Music: Slow Bicycle by Mum Donate One of Grant's Bridgestone bikes...

Nov 22, 2017

War of the Worlds

This is a Halloween special for people who have not heard the original 1938 CBS broadcast.

Oct 30, 2017

NFL Sunday

A short commentary on the protests. Donate

Sep 29, 2017

The Oracle

My friend Alex and I try to visit the Utah Data Center, 20 miles south of my house in Salt Lake City. DONATE BY TEXT 801-876-1913 Check out The Sonosopher , a documentary about Alex Caldiero.James Bamford's article on the Utah Data Center in Wired Magazine .Music from the film The Day the Earth Stood Still .

Sep 01, 2017

The Continental Divide, Part Two

I try it again, this time with some respect.The short clip of music in the middle of the story is by the Icelandic group MUM .The music at the end is a North Vietnamese boys' choir, a recording given to me by Alex Chadwick. Donate...

Jul 07, 2017

The Continental Divide

The top of the highway through Rocky Mountain National Park. The day before it snowed three inches. Donate...

Jun 16, 2017

The Green River

Paul Brennan, Creighton King, and myself at the Green River Lakes in the summer of 1991. I thought, considering the recent mind-fuck of news, it would be good to play a relaxing story. This is a re-run from a couple summers ago, although I originally produced it in 1991 for Weekend All Things Considered. Donate

May 26, 2017

Trump's Wall: Your Neighbor

An undocumented farm worker in New England, USA. Photo by Erica Heilman. Donald Trump promised to build a wall along the border with Mexico but at this point there is little support in Congress to actually fund the construction. And there's been a sharp decline in illegal immigration since Trump took office, even without an actual wall. Perhaps the reason for the decline is the fear generated by Trump's deportation policy. So this story is an interview with an undocumented farm worker. He talks ...

May 10, 2017
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