Well, they were offering more than double what he made, and he wasn’t about to go there naked without other people that he knew. So he wanted to take me with him, and he wanted to take another couple of people with him. Alberto Rogers, who some people know, was there, and he wanted to take Leroy Thomas with him. And so it was a lot of, you know, doubled my salary for one thing. And it sounded like we could build a zoo the way we wanted to build it. We had free reign in a way. And it just sounded like a good deal. Because at that time, well you know, Oklahoma City was having some money problems, and it didn’t seem like we were ever gonna get any more, like primate facilities, for example.
