Home of the Brave

Four more interviews with people on the street in Beirut.

An interview with Yehya Youness, owner of Electrip, an electric scooter company in Beirut.

I lifted this image from a L’Orient Today story. beirut_3 Download I made a mistake about the date. I meant Friday, October 11th. This is a short piece recorded in my hotel room following last night’s bombing in Central Beirut. Donate

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A family camping out along the beach in Beirut to avoid being bombed in their home. Beirut Part One Scott Carrier Download Donate

I'm going to take a break for awhile, at least until the pandemic is over. Thanks very much for your support and letters. I will be back with more stories soon.

Alan Chin describes what it was like at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday.

Part Two of a trip across the country two months before the 2020 election.

Interviews from a road trip across the country.

The seventh and final report from a long trip across the country before the 2020 Presidential Election.

The sixth report from a long trip across the country.

The fifth report from a long trip across the country.

The fourth report from a long trip across the country.

Third report from a long road trip across the country.

Second report from a long trip across the country.

A new series of reports from a long trip across the country.

I went fishing in some beautiful mountains I first visited in 1968 when I was a Boy Scout. When I was older, we took our kids there so they could see it as well. It’s still very beautiful, but things have changed due to global warming.

My thinking is off, my approach is wrong...time to go fishing.

Coming To Ground Scott Carrier Download I recorded these interviews with my family two weeks ago, before George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis. Now they seem unimportant, like from another era. Except that in my family it’s the younger folk who have been mostly fucked by the virus pandemic, and it’s been young people, mostly, who’ve been out on the streets protesting. I hope their effor...

Coming To Ground: Introduction Scott Carrier Download Following the news is like watching a competition for the worst case scenario and I’ve grown weary of all the blaming and shaming. Now we can’t trust anyone, not even ourselves. But at some point we’re going to have to come together in order to survive. I’m working on a story where I interview people in my family about how they’re coping with t...

The Neighborhood Scott Carrier Download It seems more of us are paying attention to our neighborhoods lately, so perhaps this is a good time to replay this story, produced in 1988. I still live in the same neighborhood, but it feels different now. It’s like there was a tall tree in my front yard but now the tree is gone and only a stump remains. I am stumped. I used to depend on trust—standing or...

Echo People by Trent Harris Scott Carrier Download My friend Trent Harris has a problem caused by the coronavirus. It’s not a big problem compared to a lot of other things that have come up recently, like the possible collapse of the economy and thousands of people dying. Trent’s problem is more like a temporary embarrassment. Basically, his reputation is on the line. Donate Swackhamma tells Harve...

Shana from Achterarder, Scotland. Our Show by Erica Heilman Scott Carrier Download My friend Erica Heilman has a podcast called Rumblestrip. She drives around Vermont and talks to people about their lives. Last week she was sitting at home, like everybody, trying to figure out what to do, and she decided to ask her listeners to send her audio recordings of what and how they’re doing under self iso...

The Dry Wall Scott Carrier Download This story was originally broadcast on All Things Considered in 1993. The ground was shifting under my feet back then and I had to figure out what to do. Now it’s shifting again, this time everybody’s in it together. There are things we can do, stories to tell, that can make us feel better. Thanks for listening and supporting this show. Donate

Adrienne Kinne just after basic training in 1994. Adrienne Kinne, 2020 Anti-War Stories: Adrienne Kinne and Douglas Peacock Scott Carrier Download I should confess that I have a personal interest in listening to veterans talk about how they recover from war. I was never in the military, but I spent some time overseas as a war correspondent for Esquire, Harper’s, and Mother Jones magazines. I was n...