No, I think the trick and the key and people in our position who have an interest in a mission trying to get out some important things about the natural world. We have to use television rather than it use us. And you gotta know how to do that. Often… Read More
Can you give me one example of that?… Read More
Yeah, the Conan O’Brien is a pretty good example and Today Show. Today Show allowed me to use Today Show to promote the natural world. Although they’re fairly sensitive about how I present an animal and what I say about it, but they know that that I’m a serious person. Read More
But you did other jobs other than being the personality on camera?… Read More
When I was doing Wild Kingdom, I was pretty well full time with Don Meier. But I did, before the show was really bought, I had been lecturing quite a bit around the country. And that’s why I had all my animals with me and I continued to lecture not… Read More
What is television to you?… Read More
The question about what is television?… Read More
It wasn’t… Wild Kingdom. Yeah, I think we did have a budget we had to look very carefully on. But Don Meier had the ability to do things for the right price. He was quite a negotiator, and also there had to be enough money left over that didn’t go… Read More
Well, so what?… Read More
Getting these experience and everything else. Read More
It showed them a part of the world that was interesting and fascinating and gave them some hope that some of them that they could actually do that. I have a lot of people on airplanes even today. It’s amazing number of people that still remember chapter and verse on… Read More
They prey on our fellow human beings by trying to create animals that are dangerous to humans. A lot of television now is so commercial. It’s going after an audience who don’t know anything about the natural world. They’re killing alligators in Louisiana. They think that’s a big deal. That’s… Read More
I’m a bit discouraged now about, they have programs called “When Animals Attack People”. Animals are the last thing that people have to worry about. The incident of a person being damaged by an animal is so small that it’s dramatic when it happens, you know, Siegfried and Roy, or… Read More
Was Wild Kingdom on a tight budget because you had to be part of the shooting crew?… Read More
Well, they’re good questions especially when he asks why Wild Kingdom was popular?… Read More
I think it came on at a time when there were lots of people that were looking, because it was a time where people could do a lot of the things that they wanted to do. We weren’t as regulated in those days. And I have people come up to… Read More
So sometimes I wake up two o’clock in the morning and wondering let’s see if that snake had gotten me, could he have done any real damage?… Read More
But so that may be funny in some aspect, it was funny because the cameraman and the Indians ran away from the situation wouldn’t even come back. They lost it, because they considered a big snake that got an advantage over me. They considered it, what they call the canaima… Read More
Why was Wild Kingdom popular?… Read More
These are good…… Read More