The Story

Dick speaks with Bill Gabbert, who was a hotshot fire fighter for decades, battling wildfires across the country.

Daran Kravanh grew up in Cambodia playing music in his family. When the Khmer Rouge came to his town, he was taken into the forest to be killed. But he survived. He managed to get through all of the terrible hardships that came afterwards, in part because of music and his family. This story comes from Dmae Roberts.

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.

An audio meditation on riding the bus to work every day.