Speaker 2
out late to mix nuts and olives, hot as deer, happy, marrising your cherries.
Speaker 1
But it was great, because youre sitting next to frank to ford, who was like the big sports writer of his day. A guy named garry smith came to work there. He was a national magazine a ward winner for many, many years. And it wasjt, a blast. It was the best time. Sounds incredible. And then, like a lot of artistic successes, it was not a commercial success. And like a lot of start ups, it went belly up.
Speaker 2
Sounds like the paris review and many, many others. There you go. And
Speaker 1
so here i am in new york, and basically, i've now achieved everything i'd set out to achieve when i was kid. And i'm looking around saying, what am i going to do now? Where am i going to go? I had no idea, because i knew if i took tha incise forts, was not a job. It was an experience. It wasaa an event every evening. Who was coming to night an? I didn't know what to do. So lled up my mam and dad and i said, you know, i think i'm going to take some time off. And traveland, my mam, who's always really supportive, said, oh, cal, that's wonderful. And little did she know when i said it, that i wasn't coming back for ten years. But i didn't know it either. I just bought a ticket, had to go over to europe. Left with guys, and that started a ten year odyssey of
Speaker 2
cow going around the word thet's k.