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Home of the Brave

Working For The Friendly Man

Home of the Brave

Scott Carrier

Society And Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

a short stint in commercial radio

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0:00.0

Act 5. Hoaring in radio news.

0:04.7

And his job as a reporter in Salt Lake City,

0:07.9

Scott Carrier did not seek fame.

0:10.1

He did not care about, making it into People magazine

0:13.3

or getting a big break in the infotainment industry.

0:17.1

He just wanted to have a steady job.

0:19.5

With bosses he did not hate and who did not hate him.

0:23.0

And he found that job for a short time in commercial radio.

0:27.3

There are a lot of bad ways to wake up, but surely one of the worst is by looking into the floodlight from a police car.

0:34.1

I was in a field, some farmer's field next to a power plant just outside Lawrence, Kansas. I was sleeping there next to my car. I was in a field, some farmers field next to a power plant just outside Lawrence, Kansas. I was

0:40.3

sleeping there next to my car before driving into Kansas City in the morning. The policemen somehow

0:45.9

saw my car from the road, and they pulled up right in front of it, and I didn't even wake up.

0:51.1

I was lying on the ground on the passenger side of the car, and when I did wake up, one of the

0:56.0

policeman was in the front seat, I guess looking for drugs, and the other was 40 feet away in

1:01.0

the hayfield, and I don't know why he was out there unless he had his gun pulled, covering his partner.

1:06.0

He said I scared him when I woke up so suddenly.

1:09.0

I sat straight up. Boom.

1:11.4

Awake.

1:13.4

And I bet he nearly shot me dead.

1:29.4

They wanted to know what I was doing sleeping in the field. And I told them that I didn't like motels, which was only partly true.

1:32.8

So I decided to tell them that I was born here in Lawrence, but that I don't live here

1:36.8

anymore, which was completely true, but somehow didn't achieve the level of meaning I hoped

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