So I said yes sir, no sir. And, and to this day I see Jim and he still is, you know, but, it’s funny I never, I never thought, I never dreamed about being on TV. I dreamed about traveling like Marlin Perkins. I will, my dad will tell you,… Read More
Even though I do three national television series, and seven national television shows, I don’t have an agent or a manager. Nobody in this business does that. I have Rachel, Kate runs my life, Aaron and Ray, three of us. Now we have 2004, 2,400 employees here at the zoo. Read More
I don’t care if I’m watching, if I’m interviewing you and I don’t care if two people see this, I get to communicate with you about what I love. I get to communicate with now the world about what, you wanna get a map over here and see where we’ve… Read More
You know, I never would miss that, but to be able to work for Jim Fowler, are you kidding me?… Read More
I never even, I didn’t think that, I mean, I never got out of state of Tennessee or, I mean, I, no kidding, I just get to go to Georgia and to go to Albany, and it was like me going around the world. And then going to Florida was… Read More
But Jim was a, to me, a mega star, you know?… Read More
Yes, he was doing something, yeah. Okay, was, were you able to pick up anything from him that later on in your career in television. You were able to go, like you were telling about learning other things. Yeah, remember, and this is important, I don’t get to say this… Read More
You get Marlin Perkins, like a lot of us, right?… Read More
I’d sit there, watch out before Disney. I never missed it. Set my little thing here in Tennessee. Read More
Was he?… Read More
No, I left Jim Fowler and went to work– When you were working for Jim Fowler. Mhm. Read More
Was he doing this thing with Marlin at that time?… Read More
The prisoners, all right?… Read More
They came out of there with shotguns. They brought them inside the pen of the zoo. That’s where they had to keep them while the dadgum place was burning down. I mean, I mean, these are things I can’t make up. I wish I could. I got a lot of… Read More
Great, greatest years of our lives. And then Stan Block approached me about doing this video. Now, when you were at the zoo. Well, let me back up just a minute. You worked for Fowler. Read More
And so I’m just telling you, that’s how we ran the zoo there for three years, because what am I to do?… Read More
And one last thing that happened there was a tragedy. You, it’s in this, it’s in a, the county there, I’ll think of the county here in a minute, that Sanford was in, not orange county. Volusia County, I think, yeah. The courthouse caught on fire. That’s where the jail… Read More
Oh who cares?… Read More
I won’t edit this out, but you can use this, by the way, ’cause I don’t get to tell stories like this very often. So I put her in there with her shorts on, and she served cotton candy. Everybody liked to buy cotton candy there. I don’t know if… Read More
Anyway, that’s what we did. Read More