I don’t know, I just, I, all those years I cleaned cages at the clinic. I didn’t mind cleaning cages. You know, I don’t know what it was, but I just had fun hosing and cleaning. Maybe it was, another relief for me, or just something I was accomplishing. I… Read More
I then took his pet shop, I opened up a boarding kennel, I’m building about these trailers out back real nice. I made me a little pens, with goats and sheep and not exotic, you know, llamas and stuff like that. And ’cause Knoxville Zoo was 20 miles away. I… Read More
I think it didn’t help at all, as far as having pets as exotic pets. But one thing I didn’t do, I didn’t go out selling lions and things like that, by any means. I had Daisy, my lion, I learned from. You know, I learned from this lion. She… Read More
They thought I might be avoiding it, but I wasn’t because my best man at my wedding, my five best friends were all killed in Vietnam in eight months. So, you know, I knew I had to do something, but therefore I got removed out on a medical thing after… Read More
“I mean, your courses you took, “you majored in political science.” I did that because I’ve dropped back a second ’cause I was drafted the army during the Vietnam War. So, all my family went in the service, but that’s another story. The point is I just wanted to graduate,… Read More
So it made me feel bad, you know?… Read More
And I said, “I don’t care. “It didn’t change my dream.” I’ll come out and answer your question about Steve Rasmussen, or not Steve Rasmussen, he’s the head of Nationwide Insurance. But Mr. Rasmussen, he had just pet shop, and I heard it was for sale. A real nice one,… Read More
“Jack, you’ve worked hard. “We know that you had a hard time in classes, “you graduated.” And you also had already married my wife on our senior year. Read More
“Why would you want to go and work “in a smelly place like a zoo?… Read More
“Are you crazy?… Read More
So why am I going to see the president?… Read More
He looks at me like that, he goes, dead serious. He says, “Young man,” he called me young man. Read More
“Why would you go to school here?… Read More
The point is that I graduated with 2.2, all right?… Read More
So I knew I graduated. Read More
He and I were very close. I was on the board of Muskingum, as a matter of fact, later in life. But Dr. Miller called me in two weeks before graduation. I’ll never forget as long as I ever live. Read More
He looked at me in the face, ’cause I didn’t, I just knew he’s the president, two weeks before we graduate?… Read More
I said, “What, what the president wanna see me for?” I mean, I had always told my dad, A’s are awful, B’s are bad, C’s are commendable, D’s are dandy, and F’s are fine. Well, I did a lot of D’s and C’s, every once in a while that the… Read More
Agnes Moorehead, the actress. Other than that, you know, it was just a small 2000-people school in New Concord, Ohio. Here, I’m in Ohio today. I’d never think I’d even come back to Ohio. Nothing wrong with Ohio, I just went to school there. Went for four years there, married… Read More
‘Cause then, well my dad would take the truck back. He said, “Okay, Jack, you got permission?” I said, “I don’t know, I’ll take care of this.” So I went and talked to some fraternity guys. I didn’t even know them. I said, and they, “Oh my God, yeah. “Put… Read More