But when Marlin left and went to St. Louis and I took over, of course, everybody wanted to know when I’m gonna be on television. And my answer was, at that particular moment in time negative, because by the time Marlin left, there were a lot of difficult ill-feelings between him and the park commissioners and the superintendent, because the people felt that Marlin had gone from a part-time TV person, literally to a full-time TV person, and therefore a part-time zoo director. And I felt golly, I didn’t wanna get caught up in that kind of political backlash.
