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
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
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
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
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
Oh my gosh. Read More
Were you an animal keeper or just sit at a desk?… Read More
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
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
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
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
What were your daily activities as the prestigious director of the Sanford Zoo?… Read More
Because you’re saying, you’re not supposed to. Trust me everybody. Read More
You know what Steve Erwin gave to conservation?… Read More
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
Steve Irwin was a guy, if you knew him, I was the first person to film him almost. And when he was running around his little zoo, about as big as this yurt here. It wasn’t even on an acre, just like that central Florida zoo. But Steve would say… Read More
Everybody, some of these guys on, I won’t name the network or whatever on cable, whatever it is, they want it’s reality TV. I don’t go for it. If you watch my shows. Yes, I’ll try to pick up an animal if something happened but I don’t go chasing animals. Read More
He did do things, but you know, they taught you as well. It’s a much different TV today than it was for those guys. Yes, there was a chimp that helped Marlin open the show. Again, things were different. You know, I try to explain that to people. I admire… Read More
Steve was a friend of mine. Read More
The problem with that is, is Steve Irwin, I told you I’m gonna jump around, didn’t I?… Read More