Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 146
I will say the word I, you know, I don’t usually say that, but no, I wish, I wish I could sit here and tell you that, oh man, I gotta be like Jim Fowler, you know?… Read More
I will say the word I, you know, I don’t usually say that, but no, I wish, I wish I could sit here and tell you that, oh man, I gotta be like Jim Fowler, you know?… Read More
Some people wanna be like Steve Irwin, don’t they?… Read More
And you know something?… Read More
Three-fourths of TV I do, there’s not one penny involved. Not one red dime involved. Read More
But promote the zoo world and the Columbus Zoo, and what we all do, the AZA?… Read More
So I said yes sir, no sir. And, and to this day I see Jim and he still is, you know, but, it’s funny I never, I never thought, I never dreamed about being on TV. I dreamed about traveling like Marlin Perkins. I will, my dad will tell you,… Read More
Even though I do three national television series, and seven national television shows, I don’t have an agent or a manager. Nobody in this business does that. I have Rachel, Kate runs my life, Aaron and Ray, three of us. Now we have 2004, 2,400 employees here at the zoo. Read More
I don’t care if I’m watching, if I’m interviewing you and I don’t care if two people see this, I get to communicate with you about what I love. I get to communicate with now the world about what, you wanna get a map over here and see where we’ve… Read More
You know, I never would miss that, but to be able to work for Jim Fowler, are you kidding me?… Read More
I never even, I didn’t think that, I mean, I never got out of state of Tennessee or, I mean, I, no kidding, I just get to go to Georgia and to go to Albany, and it was like me going around the world. And then going to Florida was… Read More
But Jim was a, to me, a mega star, you know?… Read More
Yes, he was doing something, yeah. Okay, was, were you able to pick up anything from him that later on in your career in television. You were able to go, like you were telling about learning other things. Yeah, remember, and this is important, I don’t get to say this… Read More
You get Marlin Perkins, like a lot of us, right?… Read More
I’d sit there, watch out before Disney. I never missed it. Set my little thing here in Tennessee. Read More
Was he?… Read More
No, I left Jim Fowler and went to work– When you were working for Jim Fowler. Mhm. Read More
Was he doing this thing with Marlin at that time?… Read More
The prisoners, all right?… Read More
They came out of there with shotguns. They brought them inside the pen of the zoo. That’s where they had to keep them while the dadgum place was burning down. I mean, I mean, these are things I can’t make up. I wish I could. I got a lot of… Read More
Great, greatest years of our lives. And then Stan Block approached me about doing this video. Now, when you were at the zoo. Well, let me back up just a minute. You worked for Fowler. Read More