So I had to cut down a little bit, but Johnny being from Nebraska, he had a basic interest in the natural world. And Johnny Carson’s talent was that he didn’t ever try to be funny. Johnny knew what television was all about. Some of the guys on now who… Read More
The funny things are things that happen unpredictably. And after lunch we’re gonna about that. Read More
Interesting. Yeah. Read More
How did I get involved on Johnny Carson show?… Read More
I’ll think back on that a little bit, but one of the first times, I think that it was when Wild Kingdom was just beginning and the Johnny Carson show was in New York. And I had met somebody from NBC because they were interested in promoting Wild Kingdom and… Read More
But so I actually got to know one of the, what do you call on the, not the, well, the talent coordinators. Yeah. And I met her and she realized that when I came out with some of the animals, the ratings went up. People loved that. According to Ed… Read More
I’m a scientist, and sometimes the details that I look at, aren’t that important to a artist, right?… Read More
So she could see a different big picture than sometimes than I was. And she enjoyed the companionship with the Africans or natives or in a remote situation or wardens. She’s very social. In fact, I called my wife, miss big apple. She loved crowds. I never did do very… Read More
So she knows big cities. My son and daughter, amazingly enough, because we did live in the middle of New York City for awhile. They grew up part of the time there. I finally got them out to an area in Connecticut that has a lot of forest and ponds… Read More
And then we’ll break is, how did you first get involved on the Johnny Carson show?… Read More
It all became real to them. So they’d learned a few things on these trips. Yeah. They must have thought it was pretty cool for dad to be doing all this things. Well, yeah, I don’t know. I think they do now. Yeah. Yeah, and of course then when you’re… Read More
I took them quite a few (indistinct). I took my daughter to the Antarctic once when she was quite young, and my son went around a lot with me, my wife loved to travel, but she also was a… She’s a wildlife artist. My wife, Betsey. And artists have a… Read More
Well, I was lucky to be able to take some of my family with me. Marlin Perkins on his travels his wife insisted on going along, and I was able to take my wife and my kids when my kids were six and eight years old. I had them on… Read More
And I knew how to bluff elephants. So I got out of the car and rushed over there, and tried to bluff the elephant. It was a male. Had it been a female, especially with a calf, we’d all be in trouble. But I was able to extricate the two… Read More
I’ll never forget Mark got it. My son Mark got educated pretty quickly because we were in a open Land Rover once driving through an area along the Zambezi. And we had some wardens up ahead of us and some African scouts. And they had rifles with them, because in… Read More
She was gonna try to kill us. And the thing is (indistinct). (chuckles) The driver, my cameraman, he didn’t quite understand what was going on. And I looked around the first thing I knew my son’s eyes were pretty big and the closest the elephant God, the bigger his eyes… Read More
Did they participate?… Read More
Were they involved in your work?… Read More
How did you balance that?… Read More
If you destroy the ocean and start contaminating it, you’re gonna weaken the phytoplankton. The big gaps in the ocean today where there’s no phytoplankton, places like New Jersey where they’ve dumped millions of tons of garbage out there. They don’t realize that they’re taking a chance on reducing the… Read More