Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 272
And then we got EMPAs, all these big terms, and it is important, but you know something?… Read More
And then we got EMPAs, all these big terms, and it is important, but you know something?… Read More
Our zoo visitor, excuse my language again, but you can edit it, didn’t give a rat’s ass about SSPs. They don’t come to learn about SSPs. That’s our job. My daughter’s brain tumor. I didn’t ask the doctor if he was going through the foretex, ortex, all this stuff. I… Read More
But we have a hard time even getting sustainability in our own zoos. They practice, they’re preaching things. They don’t practice what they preach, that’s all. And I’m gonna do a lecture before I retire someday, and try, it’s getting much better, don’t get me wrong. We still have, not… Read More
We still have that thing of, well, do we want the wilds?… Read More
We had the 10,000, we were able to send some animals here, oh my God, that, they’re gonna get PR out of that. We don’t care about, I’ve preached to my people. We don’t care about the PR to the wilds. I could give a rat’s you know what. If… Read More
You know what, people say this sustainability program, how are we gonna work together?… Read More
We don’t even work together in the state of Ohio. Read More
I love all those other zoo directors, okay?… Read More
And when I go to, when I come back from out of town, like I did yesterday, what’d I do?… Read More
She’ll tell you. I went to Africa, I made a few suggestions. They can do it or not do it. I went and saw the bathrooms. I just was a little late here, ’cause I wanted to go see the bathrooms in my office. I just, I watch things like… Read More
Maybe when it started really growing about 15 years ago. That lady is incredible. We took her away from Honda. I go in there and she’ll, I even, I haven’t seen Kate, let’s say I’m filming for three or four weeks. I don’t go to the office. I’ll run right… Read More
Tell me, I don’t even run the zoo, by the way. But I want to know what’s happening. Then I go to my office because the gist is in that human resource office of the people work here. A lot of people preach it, they don’t practice it in this,… Read More
I can’t, I still can’t get over it, okay?… Read More
A parking lot, the parking lot out there, that’s the largest one in Ohio, I think. Someone says it is. Well, second for sure. That cost me, cost the zoo, $9 million to build it. I said, “You’re crazy! “I don’t wanna build a dumb parking lot. “Park on the… Read More
I fixed up the bathrooms. Read More
And then the help started. ‘Cause I let them, everything we built back then, was done in house, everything. Read More
Now, today, you kidding me?… Read More
I dunno, I like architects. Don’t get me wrong, architects, you didn’t run the zoo. I’m just saying that a million dollars to design something. Read More
And finally they saw that I was just gonna, by God, help them. I got them new uniforms and said Columbus zoo, not Sewers and Drains. That’s how I started. They called me Traprot Brown, because I took all these buildings that were falling down and painted them. I said,… Read More
It’s the people and the visitor that suffer. The staff that suffer. The animals, yes, they may have mud, they may be lousy accommodations, but most of them look pretty healthy. I’ve never been to many zoos in this country where the animals just sit there, except roadside things, where… Read More