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Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 174

He said, “Paul,” I said, “Forget it, Robbie, you didn’t hook it up right.” I finally got the elephant after two-and-a-half hours. It cost me a little over $8,000 for the golf course, $8,000. He got on the greens and we, and I didn’t want to hurt the elephant. I… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 169

The Pachyderm Emporium, by the way, the golf store I created?… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 170

Well, I took the pachyderm, little So Big, I told you, the elephant?… Read More

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I had me a little horse trailer. while you always on a farm, you always check your trailer. You put it all your, you always, no matter who puts your trailer on, you check it. You have to on the farm. Well, Robbie, my buddy Robbie. Robbie got a $4… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 166

And you think I’m kidding?… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 167

You ask my wife. I literally wanted to die. I learned my lesson then. I said, I finished the Lord’s prayer, they did. And I said, “People, I’m sorry, I,” They did start laughing, thank God, after the prayer. But I felt like a piece of garbage. I said, “I… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 168

I said, “I can’t do this with Petie. “He’s just not good for my speeches.” but that’s kind of what happened. I mean, everything happened. I even had a central, you’ve read my book, maybe. At the center for our zoo, I tried to create everything. Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 163

Didn’t have a secretary. Do my stuff, go back over to the zoo, help clean cages, help feed, do speeches for like Kawanas. I don’t care what it was. If there were three people, a little church group of women, I don’t, oh yeah, that’d get me a mynah bird,… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 164

And Petie, I got him from a guy who was a, I don’t know where he hung out, but Petie did say all S H I T, Okay. He’d say he acted like a vacuum cleaner. He did about four or five things. I took him to church. I didn’t… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 165

It wasn’t, you didn’t have much back then. I took him to this church, and I’m sitting there and talking to women. And I said, “Could you folks,” I started, my wife’s father’s a minister. So the ladies said,”Can we start the Lord’s prayer?” I said, “Yes, Ma’am, go ahead.”… Read More

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Oh my gosh. Read More

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Were you an animal keeper or just sit at a desk?… Read More

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Oh I didn’t sit at a desk, but I had a little desk in a bank building on the second floor about two blocks from the zoo ’cause we had no office at the zoo. We had a freezer and cooler, and a fence and a parking lot out of… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 162

But to me, that was the biggest thing in my life. I had an office. They put Zoo Director Jack Hanna sign onto that door. You’d think that I was president United States of America. I swear to God. I’d go like this, I’d walk through there. I didn’t wear… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 156

You guys, you got, you had to meet the guy, Terri and Benny. I just got through doing something with Terri and Benny several weeks ago. You got to meet them to see their heart and their passion in it. The millions of dollars, million, tens of millions they spend… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 157

I do some autographs all over the place. Yes, I miss planes, Rachel will tell you, that they keep trying to stop me from doing things, but people are what makes it happen. Not just Jack Hanna, but why this zoo is here, and why the AZA is accomplished, why… Read More

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What were your daily activities as the prestigious director of the Sanford Zoo?… Read More

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Because you’re saying, you’re not supposed to. Trust me everybody. Read More

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You know what Steve Erwin gave to conservation?… Read More

Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 155

That’s the difference to guys today. He gave over 400,000 acres to conservation around the world. He didn’t live like a monk. He could live like a kajillionaire. He was a brand. I’m not a brand, even I’m not even a brand today. I should have maybe branded myself, but… Read More

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