Episode 49 - Phoenix Island by John Dixon

Can Bryan and Robert rise like a Phoenix after reading the book Phoenix Island by John Dixon? Only listening to this episode will give you the answer!

At 16, Carl Freeman is already a state and national boxing champion. But his penchant for stepping in and punching out anyone victimizing or bullying anyone else has got him into big trouble, over and over.

So much so that Carl has had to move around the country, as institution after institution can't handle his fits of rage against the underdog anymore, as well as the trail of bloodied noses and broken jaws.

But Carl is doing his best to live up to his deceased father's expectations of doing good. Badly wounded in a domestic violence investigation, his father retired from the police force a broken man, his mind destroyed from his injuries. At a very early age, Carl was left to defend his traumatized father from neighborhood taunts ... until a judge suggested he join a boxing club, and he met his mentor.

Then Carl's father passed away, and his mother committed suicide.

Now ... with no place left willing to take him, one judge sends Carl to Phoenix Island, to be held captive until he reforms and he is eighteen. Or face life in prison.

Carl accepts his fate ... but has no idea of the hell he is about to face.