Interview 24641 – Caption Index: 552
Would you explain the Science Oasis Museum, why it started?… Read More
Would you explain the Science Oasis Museum, why it started?… Read More
He was talking about baseball, of course. But anyway, it was a great experience. Read More
Well, first the parents are there to claim the kid’s body. And you know, they were pointing to me, “He’s an American. Well, he didn’t try to save our son, because our son is a Palestinian,” you know, and all that kind of crap. And they did bring, take the… Read More
Ran back to the car and there was my briefcase. Opened it up, there’s the $100,000. There is really a minimal amount of crime in that country. And one of them is, you know, if you do certain things, they’ll behead you. And every Friday at the main center, city… Read More
And that’s what they think, and to a great extent it’s true. And outside of that, no problems, no problems. But those Palestinians, they didn’t like Americans. They’re prisoners of the Israelis there. Read More
I mean, we did everything we could to bring him around. And it didn’t work. He was dead. We took him to the nearest hospital, and they pronounced him dead. And his family was then there and they were Palestinians. And the biggest, the only problem I ever heard over… Read More
So you went to the United States with $100,000?… Read More
They could never could deliver anything. And I said, “Look, American zoos, I can go over there, and probably in 30 days I can get the rest of these animals.” “Yeah, but how much will it cost us?” “Some of them they’ll give to us.” “Why would they give them… Read More
I had my tickets and all that, still three or four hours to go. And we got a call from the watchmen, watch people, that there was a kids swimming in the pool, and one of them looked like he was in trouble. So we drive up there, I get… Read More
The night before kids were coming into the zoo. We had these pools, a lot of large pools and were swimming. And I had the, my boss, the smart one, had gone to the bank and had $100,000, in a briefcase in, I don’t remember, $100 bills, I guess. And… Read More
Is that a hummingbird again? Yes it is. No, that’s a moth, I think. Anyway, that went on for about four days. But I did get some people, and I hired the zoo director, ’cause he’d allowed me to come in and raid his people. And went to India and… Read More
The Australian company, they were gonna just take them to the cleaners. They had already delivered one giraffe. And I think they wanted, they got $25,000 for that giraffe. Now the city paid that, paid to the company. Now then the company paid him about five. I told them, I… Read More
So I hired them, real nice guys. And they played Scrabble with in Swahili. But when, once a week I would, they would invite me and we would have a feast, and we would play Scrabble in English. And they always beat me. They’d use these little three letter words… Read More
I don’t think I have. Things like that. I was able to say, “Well this is really, you know, this is a muskrat. Or this is, this is that animal,” and all that, without going into too much perjury. And we also got some animal names withdrawn ’cause we just… Read More
So I went to the Philippine, the Manila Zoo. I had had a letter from the director of the zoo. He wanted a job. And so I met with him. I said, “Well, why do you wanna leave this zoo?” “We haven’t been paid in six months.” So I needed… Read More
And they all speak excellent English. So the deal was that they would, the next day, I hired a couple, that did have experience, convinced me that they knew something about it. Then the next day I was gonna hire a reptile keeper. So we posted that. The next day… Read More
No, they had a list that the alcoholic, the one who spent the time in Miami. The night they submitted their contract, their bid for this contract, he was making a list of the animals. And he had a book on animals of the world, or something. We got it… Read More
And muskrats, have you seen a muskrat in an American zoo?… Read More
Well- You have the final say?… Read More
And I said, “Now, each one of them is gonna, has a armband. If there’s any complaints, I insist that you give me the number. And we will bring him in, he or she, and we will take solve the problem.” Well, the complaints dwindled quite a bit, quite a… Read More