![]() It was the last in a long line of childhood moves.Randy Gardner: I'm the oldest of four siblings in a military family. He came that way (laughter).Shankar Vedantam: Randy and Ilona are now retired, which means lots of time to focus on George and their hobbies.Randy Gardner: These are photographs that I took.Shankar Vedantam: The walls are covered with some of his favorite shots.Randy Gardner: The Golden Gate in San Francisco.Shankar Vedantam: And stacked on the shelves are knickknacks and toys.Randy Gardner: At one point, in the crawl space, I had over 500 puzzles.Shankar Vedantam: Oh, my God.Shankar Vedantam: Our story really begins in 1963 when Randy moved to San Diego. Share their place with a 13-year-old Bengal cat George.(SOUNDBITE OF MEOW)Shankar Vedantam: Sorry, what I meant was Prince George (ph).Ilona Gardner: We did not spoil him. Randy and his wife Ilona.ILONA GARDNER: I have a family nickname of Nona.Shankar Vedantam. ![]() Randy lives in a small green-and-white house, surrounded by sandy-brown stucco homes. He's wearing a lemon-colored shirt and sky-blue shorts that set off his deep tan. He gives me a warm handshake and a smile. It's so nice to meet you.Randy Gardner: Shankar, nice to meet you.Shankar Vedantam: How are you?Randy Gardner: I'm good.Shankar Vedantam: Randy Gardner greets me in the driveway of his home. I had some downtime, so I decided to visit someone I'd been wanting to meet for a long time.Shankar Vedantam: Are you Randy?Randy Gardner: Yeah, I'm Randy.Shankar Vedantam: Randy, Shankar. His punishment, he understood, was payback.I was in San Diego recently for a conference. Many years ago, as a teenager, he tempted those very same gods. It's like you're going insane.Shankar Vedantam: But Randy also knew he was different from everyone else. There's a lonely communion that binds those who plead with the gods at 3 o'clock in the morning.Randy Gardner: No one can help you. Standing in the moonlit shadows, he would call out in agony.Randy Gardner: I would go out in the backyard at 3 in the morning and scream my head off like a wild animal.Shankar Vedantam: Many people are familiar with the suffering Randy experienced - insomnia. He would stand beside the cactuses he'd planted and listen to the cars that whizzed by on Highway 54, which runs behind his home in San Diego. I'm Shankar Vedantam.(SOUNDBITE OF CRICKETS)Shankar Vedantam: In the early hours of the morning, when the air was heavy and the ticking clock ran slow, Randy Gardner would step out into his yard. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. ![]() She began her radio career in 1973 at public radio station WBFO in Buffalo, NY.The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. in communications from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and received a bachelor’s degree in English and M.Ed. Murrow Award for her “outstanding contributions to public radio” and for advancing the “growth, quality and positive image of radio.” Gross is the author of All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists, published by Hyperion in 2004. ![]() In 2003, she received the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Edward R. Fresh Air with Terry Gross received a Peabody Award in 1994 for its “probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insight.” America Women in Radio and Television presented her with a Gracie Award in 1999 in the category of National Network Radio Personality. It is produced at WHYY in Philadelphia, where Gross began hosting the show in 1975, when it was broadcast only locally. She was awarded a National Humanities Medal from President Obama in 2016. Terry Gross is the host and an executive producer of Fresh Air, the daily program of interviews and reviews.
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