The Story

Producer Phoebe Judge updates us on the saga of the teenage whopping cranes.

In Florida’s remote sugar cane country, there’s a place where sex offenders can live without violating the state’s strict sex offender residency requirements.

Peter Maerz was on the program about a year ago. Peter is an avid scuba diver, and he told the story of being out off the coast of Florida – when the scuba boat left him behind. Well, telling that story on the radio radically changed his life. Today, we find out why.

A year ago, Adam Pinkert headed to Robinson Crusoe Island, a sparsely-populated eco tourist spot, in what Adam calls "the Galapagos of Chile." He awoke in the middle of the night to rumbling and rising water coming into his third floor hotel room. Adam tells Dick Gordon about his escape from the tsunami that destroyed the village of 700 people and the island's only town. Also in this episode, when Larry Whitlow hears about tsunami warnings, he can't help but remember the terrifying experience he had after the Indonesian quake in December 2004. Plus, David Brooks shares his story involving Johnny Cash and his grandmother Winafred.