Exactly, Stan Brock had this film he wanted me to promote. I’d opened the zoo up. I saw an opportunity to Knoxville to go back as well. So I went back to Knoxville where I was raised in the mountains there. And, well, you’d mentioned the forgotten wilderness. Yeah, the… Read More
Were you able to have hands-on?… Read More
We’re going through it right now with our levy, you know. We’ve done nothing wrong up here. We’re being questioned by a lot of the taxpayers, not taxpayers, a party out of this country. I won’t go into it. And that’s why today’s gonna be a little shorter day because… Read More
They’ve supported the zoo both financially and with their papers, we all positive, even negative. Everything we’ve done, we’ve kept it open. And I learned that at Sanford. Read More
When ultimately you left Sanford zoo, you left because bigger horizons?… Read More
Be as you were, progressing there in Sanford?… Read More
Yeah, obviously we learned a lot from, from the media. You know, you learn by, by being basically honest from the standpoint that this camel died, or this cat died or something like that. Obviously, you know, you have to go out and tell them it died. Some zoos don’t… Read More
Nothing happened too major. It was like a deer or something, you know, I think it broke its leg, hit a fence or something. And they said, “Oh my God, what are we gonna do with it?” And I said, “Well, we got to call somebody and tell them because… Read More
Did you stop it?… Read More
No, I didn’t stop. Okay, so please stop. Read More
What is it that you need?… Read More
later on with your message?… Read More
Yes, when, is this crackling?… Read More
On my collar, over there?… Read More
Okay, now. But you can add to that, that thing about how I feel about zoos. I’m sure you can add that in. I don’t wanna repeat it, about why we’ve been successful at the Columbus zoo. It’s F U N, that’s why. Now we, you’re very eloquent when you’re… Read More
Was some of this, again, just to go back to Sanford for a minute, where you were dealing with the press and dealing with the media, were you picking things up from them?… Read More
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I didn’t even know about Gabon. In animal wildlife. Incredible. The president invited me there because he wants to start ecotourism, but he didn’t understand why we should save the forest elephants. He understands, but that’s their culture, they eat the animals. So it takes a while to do that. Read More
You educate them in a zoo and they’ve left here going, “Golly, I didn’t know the giraffe “had the same number of vertebrae we had. “I saw that up there at the zoo, I didn’t know.” And they came here for Dora the Explorer, or Spiderman, or the light show,… Read More
And we’ve had fun doing it. And we want our visitor to have fun doing it. And we want to work with everybody, all the other zoos, except I don’t wanna get in this one. The guy in Denmark. We pulled all of our breeding loans from Denmark. We also… Read More