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Iceland gets great exposure in The Late show with David Letterman
Broadcast transcript from 21 December 2006
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Date December 21, 2006
Time 11:35 PM - 12:35 AM
Station CBS
Location Network
Program The Late Show w/David Letterma
DAVID LETTERMAN, host:
Ladies and Gentlemen, here's Tom Brokaw. Tom. Thank you
very much.
Mr. TOM BROKAW (Former NBC News anchor): Thank you.
LETTERMAN: It brings a smile to my face. How are you
doing, my friend?
Mr. BROKAW: I'm doing very well, thank you.
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LETTERMAN: And what about recent trips? Business,
pleasure, anything exciting? Anything exotic?
Mr. BROKAW: Well, you know, we do like to travel fairly
adventurously in our family. Meredith and I are going
right after the first of the year; we're going to Rwanda in
Africa. We're going because I got involved in the
International Rescue Committee, a big refugee organization,
and we're going to check out those operations that are
doing really the gold standard of work there. And it went
through a god-awful civil war as you know, the Hutu and the
Tutsis, and almost a million people died, and they're
trying to put that country back together. And while we're
there, toward the end of the trip, we'll do a trek up into
the mountain where's we hope we'll be able to see the
gorillas and their natural habitat. Gorillas, not the
fighters but the--
LETTERMAN: The animals.
Mr. BROKAW: The animals who live there, and we'll see that
and then we'll work our way back home. Meredith already
this year is ahead of me. The most that I did--well I did
go to Vietnam in January, and I did a whitewater rafting
trip in Idaho, but Meredith with our youngest daughter went
on a horseback safari across Iceland with a herd of horses
and group of friends and they rode all day every day from
farm house to farm house.
LETTERMAN: Good heavens. I mean how do you--how do you
sign up for that? I mean honest to god, where--I never see
that posted anywhere. How--?
Mr. BROKAW: Yeah, it's not exactly the Carnival Cruise it
turns out. No, it's not where you're going to--the love
boat is not there, there's no casino at the end of the day
or happy hour.
LETTERMAN: Well now what is that terrain like? It's
starkly beautiful, isn't it?
Mr. BROKAW: Iceland is one of my favorite countries. A
lot of people find that hard to believe. You don't go in
the wintertime, but in the summertime it is stunningly
beautiful. A lot of fjords. The Icelandic culture is
fascinating; they've had a parliament for a thousand years.
They're the most literate people in the world. It's
sparkling clean, the food is excellent, it's very
expensive, and the women are drop-dead great looking.
LETTERMAN: Is that right?
Mr. BROKAW: Yeah.
LETTERMAN: Wow.
Mr. BROKAW: They were very big in the Miss Universe
contest, but they stayed out of trouble so--
LETTERMAN: So far as we know. Well I--that sounds like a
wonderful trip. Was it, like, a week, a month? How long
was she up there doing that kind of thing?
Mr. BROKAW: She did it for it was a little more than a
week and the weather was not great but they had the time of
their lives. Icelandic horses are small horses that are
very sturdy and they--now that you're a horseman you'll
know what this means--they cantor all day long. They kind
of lope and cantor all day long in movement. And we now
have one, an Icelandic horse. We do, yes, and it's--
LETTERMAN: Now, wait a minute. How do you get it from
Iceland? What, do you got it in the apartment? Where is
this horse?
Mr. BROKAW: What you try to do is you try to bay it from a
breeder here in America.
LETTERMAN: Oh, I see.
Mr. BROKAW: We've had it in Montana. Meredith has it back
here now and you know it looks a little strange when you
see her riding off on her, but she just loves riding it.
The--it rides easily.
LETTERMAN: Yeah, and when the time comes they're good
eating.
Mr. BROKAW: True.
LETTERMAN: A little something for the cookbook.
Mr. BROKAW: It'd be good for the cookbook.
LETTERMAN: We'll be right back here with Tom Brokaw,
everybody.
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