Scott Gurian - Far from Home - New York

<p>Remember traveling? While you’re stuck inside in the pandemic, you can still travel far and wide thanks to the Far from Home podcast by public radio veteran Scott Gurian. Scott takes you along for the ride on one of the world’s epic road trips from London to Mongolia and back across the deserts of Iran and mountains of central Asia. The Peabody award winner talks about how a not-so-adventurous guy from New Jersey came to document that trip and others.</p> <p>Countries featured: Iran, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Cuba, Mexico, USA</p> <p>Publications featured: NPR, WNYC, Planet Money, Pacifica radio</p> <p>Scott discusses beginning his career by making it up as he goes along in advocacy and community radio (6:44), his “driveway moment” that turns him on to NPR and getting into mainstream public radio in Oklahoma (13:17), being thrust into covering Hurricane Sandy (25:47), how a trip to Cuba set him on a path toward Mongol Rally and travel podcasting (30:00), the nitty gritty of the economics of podcasting, the ins and outs of public radio universe and the tension between podcasts and radio (41:10), jpw frozen equipment in Alaska and sketchy bootleggers lead some stories to fall through (47:00), his years reporting about the Hurricane Sandy response and the Peabody winning story (51:08), and finally the lightning round (55:25).</p> <p> </p> <p>Here are links to some of the things we talked about:</p> <p>Scott’s podcast Far from Home - <a href='http://bit.ly/3qpH2Ec'>http://bit.ly/3qpH2Ec</a></p> <p>HowSound podcast by Rob Rosenthal - <a href='http://apple.co/3pmQdnk'>http://apple.co/3pmQdnk</a></p> <p>WNYC’s Peabody winning coverage of Hurricane Sandy response - <a href='http://bit.ly/3ai2VQb'>http://bit.ly/3ai2VQb</a></p> <p>Scott’s story on Antigua and Barbuda for Planet Money - <a href='http://n.pr/3d5rlOy'>http://n.pr/3d5rlOy</a></p> <p>Vox podcast Today, Explained - <a href='http://bit.ly/3dapcRD'>http://bit.ly/3dapcRD</a></p> <p>An Arm and a Leg podcast - <a href='http://bit.ly/37beYwH'>http