And he actually, he used to eat possum and raccoon. But apparently the saying is with a possum, you have to take a rock and you put it in with a possum and boil it. And you boil it for quite a while until you can take a fork and… Read More
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That was back in the days of Four Mile Run. And we had a little farm so it was possible to go out there. I remember if I might reminisce a little bit, I will go back to that and then answer your question. The neighbor had a big Jersey… Read More
In those days, we would go to a place south of Tallahassee, Florida called Alligator Point. And that was a main migration route of raptors including the (indistinct). (phone ringing) Oh, boy! Sorry about that. (indistinct) (laughs) I’ll turn this off. Are talking about… You’re living a lifestyle, you hadn’t… Read More
You were enjoying your passions, you’re here in Florida. Were you thinking about…… Read More
You weren’t thinking about the next step beyond that?… Read More
And… Well, I wasn’t… Yeah, I’ll continue that– (indistinct) I’ll continue that thought of my progression and I call it the evolution of awareness. As you go through life and you’re lucky enough to follow your passions, which I was, you do change in your perceptions and your awareness. And… Read More
And what plans where you’re thinking about for yourself?… Read More
You’re saying I’m gonna be here for a long time, or maybe there’s more out there I want to try and do?… Read More
Well, I think I had the… It could have been because of my father and mother and having four brothers or so, but I was fairly independent and I knew I didn’t plan what I was gonna do. I think I was fairly irresponsible and not looking into the future… Read More
Were you just a trainer or?… Read More
I was trained. I was a trainer and I also was lecturing. That’s where I started taking animals and being on local television and things like that. But I also started realizing that communication. I had an indication in those days, that communication was probably the name of the game. Read More
But I started at Birds of Prey. I would… The Today Show came down, Dave Galloway. There used to be a program called Wide Wide World. And I did that very early on. I was flying falcons and doing all kinds of things there. But it introduced me to try… Read More
Probably, dealing with the public is much more dangerous than anything I ever did on Wild Kingdom because. (laughs) Yeah. Yeah. So you’re there, you’re getting an exposure to television. Right. Read More
And he was a very interesting man. He had this knowledge of how to train an animal and how to handle it. He could do that with just about any…. And he was very good with people as well, if I might add. So there I was reintroduced to him… Read More
But I also pride myself on having been around the world and done some pretty interesting things before I ever had to pay income taxes. I never made enough money to really, (chuckles) till I was about 35 years old. I think that’s pretty interesting. But I had a nice… Read More
Now, at the Bird of Prey Center, what they have you do?… Read More
Anyway, I was too tall for the draft when I got out of the college. They wouldn’t take you if you were around six foot six. Now, let me just tell you a little bit on the side. If somebody was shooting at me, I could dig a foxhole just… Read More
I mean, remet him because it had been four or five years since I went out to college. I had no contact with him. And the biology class from Earlham College wanted me to guide them through Florida. And I was down in Albany, Georgia on the plantation. So the… Read More
And he had been, by the way, he was the person that the US Fish and Wildlife Service sent over to Asia to bring back all the monkeys that were the Salk vaccine research monkeys. There was an island off South Carolina where all those monkeys were kept, but he’s… Read More