Graydon Carter
👤 Speaker
756
total appearances
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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
So when everything goes to hell in a handbasket.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
I can say.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
You can go to Italy.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
Ich bin Berliner.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
Yeah, I'd get it right too.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
I think it means I'm a donut, doesn't it?
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
No, ich bin ein Berliner means I'm a donut.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
Okay, sorry.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
His father is English.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
He read The Call of the Wild, Jack London's book, and decided he didn't want to be an engineer in London.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
He moves to Western Canada back when it was truly wild in the 1920s, and he becomes a fur trapper.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
And then builds up a huge trading post.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
He sells it to the Hudson Bay Company.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
And my father grew up in that environment.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
And then they moved to a town called Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
Great name.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
And he loved flying.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
He enlisted at 16 during World War II.
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
More Rosebud in NYC - Graydon Carter
And he just loved flying planes.