No, I was not. I never really went to a zoo or aquarium when I was a kid, not at all. In fact, in 1972, after I had gotten out of school, my father was doing some cement contracting work at Marineland of the Pacific. And so I was helping him, and he was telling the general manager that I was good with animals. And (chuckles) I’m not sure what he meant. We had a dog and a cat at home, but he asked me if I wanted to work there and I said, “Sure.” So that was it. In fact, he asked me, he said, “Would you ride on the back of a killer whale?” And I said, “Sure.” And to be honest, I didn’t even know what a killer whale was.
