‘Cause I already built the zoo in Knoxville. I wanted to go back to the Knoxville, maybe see help at that zoo. Now, I could live there and promote this movie around the Southeast. Well, I tried that, the day we moved, I tried that about two weeks. Then we… Read More
At that point, we just lived in that house. And then Julie, my daughter, is where our life changed again. I mean what Dr. Chesney told me. About we wake up that morning, hadn’t even unpacked the boxes. Got in that night before. Her temperature’s over, right at 106. And… Read More
I got four of my buddies put in 25, we all lost it. Read More
Anyway, so I had to go out and promote that movie, right?… Read More
They were already starting to build a new one, all right?… Read More
But then I went out and talked to people, raised some money, more money for them. I didn’t know what the heck I was doing. And then we moved the zoo to the new site, the Central Florida Zoo is on today, because it was very small. I could, took… Read More
You don’t ever borrow money invest in anything, but I borrowed 25,000?… Read More
That’s how I did get Daisy ’cause I saw that movie. And, so anyway, so we go back over there, and we’re in a trailer, you know, we did our wash and put the, put our drain in a tub and the dryer, and animals everywhere. I got to take… Read More
I don’t care. How big is it?… Read More
Two acres downtown Sanford. You gotta get pictures of this zoo on two acres. Today, I went there in 73, and 75 July the fourth, exactly. Read More
He comes out and sees, well, he says, “That’s typical Jim. “Come over and stay at my place.” I’m telling you this because it affected my life. This was a plant, I never seen a plantation. Oh my God, I mean, it was like 10, I don’t how big this… Read More
You know, I hated that. But anyway, Lou came over there, took us in his family. I stayed there in this mansion thing for like two weeks, and they put my mobile home up, and then we had the greatest year of our life in that mobile home. It was… Read More
All of us in these trucks. We get there about five o’clock at night, Jim Fowler’s supposed to have this trailer, mobile home set up for me while I’m gonna take care of his animals. Read More
Elephants, giraffe, is like a dream, you kidding me?… Read More
Take care of all these animals. I’m kind of in charge. And I got there and it was a piece of pipe coming out of the ground with a spigot and electrical plug. There wasn’t even a mobile home there, nothing. ‘Cause he wasn’t even there. I just pulled in… Read More
I said, “I’m sorry, mom and dad, you know, “I’ve got, we gotta leave.” At that point’s when I found out about Jim Fowler, having his thing, I remember the call Stan gave me. I’m like, God, the Lord’s blessed me. We’re going. He said, “When you be here?” “Two… Read More
She drove his little old, I think it was a station wagon, breastfeeding my second daughter, by the way, with two pair, I’m sorry, I did keep two parrots, two McCall parrots of my buddy’s, a spider monkey, Jokomo, ’cause he was a, someone had as a pet, and he… Read More
Here we go, traipsing down to Albany, Georgia, right?… Read More
“That’s what you are?… Read More
“Don’t do it, Jack. I know you, don’t quit.” So he talked to me. I thought about what he said the next day, I came down out of my room. You know, I called the parents, and there was, because of legalities, you know, I wasn’t allowed to do anything. Read More