Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 433
Are you kidding me?… Read More
Are you kidding me?… Read More
I felt like a, there’re all kinds of terms I could use, but I just, I could see nobody would talk to you, nless you had all those blue ribbons on and had your big badge, Columbus Zoo on there. And my first AZA conference in New Orleans, you know… Read More
Foreman?… Read More
Yes, boy you got genius. Goss, those two guys, it hadn’t been for them, I would not be here. No doubt about it. And then Ed came on board later. Those two guys said, “Jack stick in there, you know, “you’ve got a tough job to do. Read More
“Any way we can help you?” Those two guys were great. Who was the other zoo?… Read More
I’m sorry, Akron, I don’t even, the young guy who wrote no, you wouldn’t have, no, he was gone. And then finally Pat Simmons came in years ago, and she and I are very close. I’ve helped her with many fundraisers up there, but which I try and do by… Read More
Phil Skelton?… Read More
No, but yes, Phil Skelton. God, you’ve got a good memory. Phil Skelton, that guy was so nice to me from day one. A little bit different situation over at, no Cleveland too. Read More
Goss?… Read More
“Jack, you seen the paper?” “Yes, sir, I just heard about it.” “What are we gonna do about this?” “I will pay you, Mr.Maruska, “if I have to work for the rest of my life for the goose.” “That’s not really the problem. “I’m not asking for a penny for… Read More
Ted helped me understand Ed and work with Ted. And now we’re very close friends. But the other guy in Toledo there, I don’t remember his name. It’s bothering me. He was here for years. Read More
I had to call them. Read More
I thought it wouldn’t be that big a deal, right?… Read More
That, we had a Citizen Journal in the morning paper, and had an afternoon paper. I called him up here. I said, just that morning paper. I said, “Just let me tell you “a little thing happened up here. “We lost an endangered animal called a cereopsis goose “on a… Read More
“No way. That’s not ours! “It’s on a breeding loan from Cincinnati.” Now Ed was already, he wasn’t mean to me. He just, you know, Ed was Ed. And so I had to call the man and tell him his endangered goose got eaten by a cheetah. I had, I… Read More
He goes, “How’d he get eaten by a cheetah, Jack?” Like that, you know, in his firm voice. I said, (sighs) “You’re not gonna believe this. “Somebody did it, and it was their fault. “They’re gonna pay the price.” Trust me, they did. I didn’t fire them, but they paid… Read More
You know what the cheetah did to the goose, right?… Read More
Oh God. I a get things on my little, I only had two walkies. I was unit one, I had unit two, somebody else, I don’t know. Read More
I said, “What? The cereopsis goose?… Read More
This is probably the mess, one of the mess I ever got. They put the goose, she got bit by it. Read More