Their attorney goes, “Your honor, the.” he did the giant panda in Latin, by the way, used the Latin name for the animal. Okay, I don’t even know what it is, that shows you how dumb I am. Pandarus, whatever, who knows what it is. I’m just being funny right… Read More
And he liked me, and that kind of stuff. But that made no difference who he liked, you know, the trial’s, a trial. Read More
So it goes to the trial date, like five days before the panda, we’ve already built the thing, spent quite some money, you understand?… Read More
The community’s excited. All of a sudden they want to file suit and stop it. What did we do? Obviously it went to court. So the pandas I think were already on the way to the airport, to be staying there for awhile. Read More
I said, “Jack, I’ll help you.” I never been in a courtroom, okay?… Read More
Judge Canary was a federal judge. I think he’s 80 something years old. He passed, a federal judge can pass them on the bench. And so I knew Judge Canary. He wasn’t a friend or anything, But I just, he loved canaries, so I’d take him a stuffed canary or… Read More
And we just had a lot of fun, you know?… Read More
Why, how’d the Columbus Zoo, by the way, I’ll get into it, start their conservation fund?… Read More
Because of giant, the little pandas. And real quickly. Yes, about a week before they were to come here. I think it was a week or 10 days. I think it was the World Wildlife Fund. I don’t remember, you can check out the archives, and change this. I’ll apologize… Read More
And we had attorney here, John Kuwas, who’s been our board for 30 years. Read More
I guess I can’t add. Anyway, that was a big thing. Columbus went in and spent 10, actually it’s like a world’s fair. They spent a lot of money, hundreds of millions of dollars on that world, on this thing being celebrated here, our anniversary of our country. So I… Read More
“You know, for our 1992.” And I didn’t think anything about it. ’cause other zoological parks had done it, but it came to little old Columbus Zoo back in 1992, do it, and I think what happened was, I think the AZA knew that there’s a little old Columbia Zoo… Read More
Yes, the zoos made money off of it. Of course he did. You’re right. Read More
Do you think I’m an idiot?… Read More
You think I’d try and get the pandas without the approval of the AZA?… Read More
I’m not that dumb, okay. And I’m gonna probably mentioned some names here, that that’s fine, the guys can watch it. I don’t care, really care, because these are also friends of mine that I think did this. So I had the letter from Bob. I don’t even remember who… Read More
1492 I got Columbus, Columbus, Ohio 1492, 500 years, right?… Read More
And every zoo can be that way, I guarantee you, every zoo. Look at new Orleans, look at Brookfield Lincoln park. Look at, I could go on and on for you. And then, also, now I won’t name the other zoos you look at because no one’s gonna give you… Read More
Okay, (laughs) I figured that’d come up. The panda incident. That hurt me probably more than most people imagine. Not hurt me because I’m a baby. It’s because I had in writing, by the way, from Bob Wagner, and Bob was a friend of mine, yes, but Bob was also… Read More
Sewers and Drains, okay?… Read More