Have loved Scott carriers work for years and grateful old stories are getting reposted. The visual of the pizza slice upside down on the floor has stuck with me since the first time I heard it. Descriptions of Scott’s travels and observations in Prisoner of Zion has also reverberated in my minds eye for years. Thank you for sharing your stories 🕊

So glad you’re back. I’ve missed you. Plus, I’ve been a little worried about you. It’s tough being a depressive crazy. How do I know? Well let’s just say I know. Keep it up!

I love your podcast! Your writing is beautiful. You always present me with a new and interesting way of looking at the world.

Please keep reporting, please keep searching for the truth. It’s so important and we need more like you. Your most recent release was so moving.

In the past, I would recommend Scott’s podcast to all my friends, thinking he was an incredible story teller with a unique ear to stories. Now I think he’s a dangerous person. He reports live to mic interviews with zero reverence to the truth, telling one sided stories with no care to the full context or history. Don’t waste your time just move on from this channel of antisemitism and ignorance.

Scott is very thoughtful. His words are what I needed this morning, in this currently sad state of our country.

So happy to see that he is well and traveling. This should be intetesting.

Scott Carrier’s voice is rare and necessary. I’ve missed you,Scott. I’m glad you’re back, but, like you, I wish it weren’t under these circumstances. Please keep doing the good work.

Original and intelligent voice. Such a great podcast that’s hard to describe. Just listen!

Title says it all, thoughgul the insights, giving a voice to free thinkers and such. Pit your bias away for a moment and give this a listen. Thanks for the hours of thought provoking audio.

Very enlightening! This podcast makes it possible to understand what others are thinking without having to engage with them directly. My conclusion is that we are so divided that any sort of consensus is highly unlikely.

So nice to hear another episode come back. Especially when you have Alan Chiu on. Great work.

Such a treat to hear a new upload during these troubling times in the world. Thank you for this.

I have had your voice in my life since I was a toddler and you were hitchhiking. You have helped me grow up to be a good human. I can’t thank you enough. I miss you. But please, take all the time you need. You diserve it.

We miss you!

I like the work of Scott Carrier a lot. If you were to evaluate it by conventional standards, you could identify a lot shortcomings. So don’t. He’s more of an artist than a craftsman and he happens to be an exceptionally good artist. Sometimes he knows what he’s doing and sometimes he doesn’t, but in both cases, there are frequently flashes of brilliance. He doesn’t create so much as he channels. The result is that he would be on a list of the ten best audio/radio monologists of all time.

I love this podcast. Scott Carrier feels like Jack Kerouac’s kind little brother, rolling across America (and other countries) searching for dialog, listening to personal experiences and celebrating the humanity of those he encounters. Every episode feels like a mini road trip and I feel better for having made the trip along with Scott. Thoughtful, hopeful and good.

Listened to your ‘Creeped Out’. You slept in a cornfield? You won’t even go talk to people to learn more about them, you just assume they are different than you? You just watch them from a distance and report on what you think you know? They should be the ones creeped out by you, but they go on with their lives, not worried about what a long-distance, anti-social wanderer thinks about them.

Grass roots journalism at its finest. Please come back.

This is one of my favorite podcasts! From his interviews traveling through Trump Country, a recording of the death of a person at the border, to a hike through the pacific northwest, this podcast will grip you with its deep honesty. I love how Scott Carrier pursues all kinds of different topics; when the spirit moves him, he dives in deep and emerges with an episode that is spellbinding and always leaves me wanting more. If you are somebody who likes to hear and feel the view through someone else's shoes, this is the podcast for you!

I’m a long time listener and I love this show. The recent stories really mean a lot to me. The latest one I listened to twice in a row. I’m around all these different people at work daily. Some are far right, some far left. I can’t believe how divided they've become. Thanks Scott!

If you’re not listening to Scott Carrier you’re missing out on being reminded what a caring and thoughtful person is in a world that has gone crazy. Listen to him now, please.

And always return for inspiration.

This podcast is a gem. I only wish I knew about it sooner. No one else can do it like Scott. Updated Aug 2020- oof. That round river episode really touched me. Thanks Scott for all that you do.

Mr. Carrier is determined to produce art in a medium that many think structurally excludes the possibility. I think he's successful more often than not. This is amazing: producing a single work of art in a lifetime would be an accomplishment. He manages this regularly. Also, I can't imagine why anyone would rate his podcast below five stars. Are they immuned to art? I suppose that's possible.

You may feel that life United States is like having a boot smashed on your face. But it is not okay to post this kind of content (the snuff audio,) it is the exploitation of someone’s final moments for you to get patreon dollars. You are a journalist and you know how to put in the work to make a story and contextualize the audio. This is just lazy and disgusting. This is just another example of white people profiting (socially and monetarily) off the suffering of black and brown people. Podcasts are entertainment, and while some people may get entertained by being faced with the guilt of privilege, the darkest expression of this entertainment is the de-contextualization of another human being’s final moments.

Thank you, Scott. Your stories, insights, and interviews are beautiful.

Hands. Down.

Been a listener since the TAL 1990’s and love you Scott. Keep up the good work.

I look forward to every episode and am a grateful, monthly supporter. I can’t imagine a world without this beautiful work in it.

This is by far the most beautiful, terrifying, wonderful, and enchanting podcast. Scott Carrier’s soothing voice, and boundless curiosity and empathy is a pleasure to listen to, and his extensive archive of a lifetime of audio producing and gonzo journalism is a priceless resource. I can not recommend this podcast enough.

Extraordinary Podcast interview with Elliott Woods , a Veteran of our unending wars. He has a balanced and on the scene approach which is compelling. Too bad our foreign policy “ experts “ didn’t speak to him before this situation got out of control.

I listened to the Other episodes with curiosity. I thought just the title alone was telling me he was already dead set against the other side. After listening to them I found my assumptions correct. I am a tolerant person but am continually amazed at the complete lack of tolerance by people who claim they are open minded and liberal. Both ends of our political spectrum always leave me shaking my head. This narrator is a hypocrite though and that’s on him.

Just perfect : the words, the tone , the questions , the search , the quest, the poetry and absurd mixing with the cement of our world. Listening to this podcast feels like standing outside in the mountains and feeling the cold air on my face : it wakes me up and reminds me of the vastness, beauty and heartache of this world . It’s a great skill to be able to report the news in a way that reaches into my bones and heart and helps me to connect more deeply with myself and the world around me . Thank you

Conversations with real people that have honest opinions. Keep on trucking ✌️

We need good stories and good story tellers. Scott Carrier is a compassionate story teller getting into under represented topics and sharing unique experiences. Amazing “of the people” journalism.

When in a setting, Scott will bring you there with him, be it live unscripted situations, more creative nature-centric storytelling, or a mix of the two. HOTB could be considered a foundational building-block of any forward-thinking, truth-seeking, thoughtful podcast listener’s library.

I love listening to Scott's raw, beautiful recordings. His full embrace of ambiguity, the chaos lurking in all elements of life, especially those big things that proclaim to be clean, resonates deeply with me. I rely on Home of the Brave for a full detox from the yapyapyap of too-highly-produced radio, which often acts as though it has something to hide. Nothing to hide here- let's jump on a plane and see what's up! Thank you!

Scott Carrier produces captivating soundscapes from the real world, as it emerges. He narrates his and our way into understanding that, while there may not be a consensus to this reality, there can be, and he’s trying to find it. He carries a torch lit by Chuck Bowden.

Unparalleled in radio journalism, the podcast to end all podcasts, cannot recommend enough, not beholden to anyone but his listeners, willing to go into debt for what compels him to document, support him at all costs

Been a fan since hearing him on TAL years ago. Refreshing look at our world, check it out.

just listened to the two latest, an interview with a war photographer and a former air force colonel -- both thinking about war in powerful ways. can't wait for the next reports from the tense regions of the fight between the u.s. and iran

Scott Carrier goes where few American journalists dare to venture. His curiosity, curiosity, and master storytelling skills make for a wonderful listen.

Scott Carrier’s words and stories are beautiful, unhurried without being indulgent, clear, and true. I listen to most podcasts while doing something else. For this one, I pour a cup of coffee and just listen, transported. Thank you, Scott.

Scott Carrier’s reporting is powerful. He is brave in the subjects he tackles, yet humble and kind. My heart aches as I hear the stories of people in war zones, on the U.S. border, and the other places he dares to explore. This is important work. I just made a small contribution and I hope others will find this podcast and help make possible reporting of this caliber.

Scott- I loved this episode and the idea is superb. I want more of this content because of the way you reported it, the people you talked to and the light you shed on the “working people” you met. The voices, the laughter, the music and the pictures the sounds created was refreshing. I hope to hear more.

Always smart. Always opens new vistas. Never cliched.

I never fail to be moved by your insights and observations. Your work represents what’s best about podcasting. Thank you.

Thank you so much for your work Mr Carrier. I love your podcast for its content as well as its art. Please keep producing new episodes!

I’m totally stunned by this work that the amazing radio journalist Scott Carrier is producing independently. He’s currently in Central America reporting on the conditions of violence and poverty that are causing people to flee north. Scott and the crew making the podcast need funding to keep doing this work. Unlike the news cycle, Carrier interviews people in the caravan and in the places people are feeling to ask why they left and what they carried. He talks to people at the wall (which already exists, Trump just wants a bigger one). The reporting is beautiful and human. I recommend subscribing and if you can, digging for a few bucks to kick their way.