By the way, my son mark is a documentary film producer and he’s done three or four shows for National Geographic that had been very successful. I told my son, I said, Mark, you’re not as smart as I was, because when I came out of the shoot, I worked… Read More
And Charlie’s a pretty good guy to be on. I don’t wanna fool around with some of the talk show hosts nowadays, because some of them are having some of my colleagues John who are more interested in scaring the host or joking about an animal than they are being… Read More
That’s the interesting thing. I’m still a private contractor, I guess, is the right call. And they’re using me. But you know, I have a partner in this whole thing with Mutual of Omaha. His name is Peter Gross and he has gotten pretty well-known by being on, or first… Read More
But he’s a great guy and he was two years or so on Wild Kingdom, but he’s been my partner in Wild Kingdom for quite awhile. Read More
To what extent has your celebrity been able to open doors for your message?… Read More
Then we wanna eventually work for a convention and have people who represents this is a regional, the right word that I was looking for. We’re gonna start with regional workshops. And then the regional workshops will help elect this organization, the leaders of it and the people who represent… Read More
To what extent are you still involved with Mutual of Omaha?… Read More
I’m a private contractor with Mutual of Omaha. And I’m glad you mentioned that, because this year 2013 is the 50th anniversary of Wild Kingdom. And so we’re gonna be celebrating, Mutual is gonna be celebrating the 50th anniversary the whole year. And it should be promoted on television. And… Read More
Is that your individual effort or is that connected to Mutual of Omaha?… Read More
It’s not connected with Mutual Omaha. Like I say, I’ve tried to form groups in the past. I had one group called O-W-L. Organization of Wildlife Lectures, but it’s been difficult cause I’ve strung myself out a little bit too thin. But I really am enthusiasts. Now, I have about… Read More
And like I say, they’re probably a thousand people from nature science centers from zoological parks, private individuals who are dedicated to go out and talk to groups without live animals. Or they don’t have to have live animals. They can be show film or they can do whatever they… Read More
And then I had one of the kids come up and help me find the cockroaches by putting them back in my pocket. So I started developing. I was scared of 1400 forth graders in a big auditorium, but I started perfecting ways that I could capture the audience’s attention… Read More
And they would say, we’re the people from Mutual of Omaha and Wild Kingdom. And there’d be a smile on the person that lived in the house face and they’d let him in. He would open them up for a conversation by just talking about Wild Kingdom. So that was… Read More
Is that group part of…… Read More
And guess what?… Read More
They were 1500 forth graders. That’s the most frightening situation I’ve ever been in. Read More
How do you get the attention of 1500 forth graders?… Read More
So I had a backstage. I had a guy that had a lot of hissing cockroaches in a jar. So I stuck… That’s why these pockets are so great. I loaded my pockets with this pocket with part with hissing cockroaches, and then I took a ball snake, you know,… Read More
Yeah. I think I learned a little bit on how to get the… I already knew how to get the attention of the audience, but I started refining what I was talking about. Read More
At that time I was evolving intellectually and trying to figure out what should I be talking about so that people would remember what I said, and why it was important to the big picture?… Read More