Kicker: Surprise in the wilderness

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Fred Ramsdell and his wife went hiking in the Wyoming wilderness at the end of September, off grid and blissfully ignorant of the routine.

So when the couple returned to civilization this week and cell service returned? Audio from the Nobel Prize folks:

RAMSDELL: My wife’s phone blew up.

Yeah, it did! Messages galore awaited as people were trying to notify her husband of something quite unexpected:

RAMSDELL: She started yelling and I thought there was a grizzly bear nearby. Turns out it was not a grizzly bear. She said, ‘You won the Nobel Prize!” And I said, ‘I did not!”

The immunologist helped discover the cells that keep our immune systems from attacking itself. Congratulations to him!

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Indeed! Sometimes the best calls come after you go off-grid.

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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