I think the biggest problem facing US zoos today is we’re running out of wild animals. I mean, today we’ve got, you’ve got a coyote over there, our coydog. But the the wild creature, the space is just, they’re just doomed, they’re doomed. Maybe it’ll take 100 years. Tigers are… Read More
So when you finally left, they gave you your passport back?… Read More
What is the largest professional problem facing US zoos today?… Read More
Oh, yes, yes they did. I couldn’t have left without it. Okay. What is the large, this is more of your opinion. Read More
Yeah, I wanted, this was in ’97. And I decided I really wanted to do my thing in the States now. And I’d done the museum, and I’d done the zoo. During the Desert Storm, I went up and helped with the evacuation in Kuwait city of the British Embassy. Read More
That’s the source of… The Indian trade minister at the Indian Embassy was the king of the bootleggers. And when I was at the zoo, it was like Christmas, he would drive into my, I had this big high wall around my villa and my bosses would be there. And… Read More
Oh, and Lawrence, you like wine, don’t you?” And Black label. And I mean, it was, I don’t know what it cost, but a lot. Read More
And then from there you made a decision to leave Saudi Arabia?… Read More
Here’s a picture of him and I with, at the zoo.” So I have a picture of the governor, six years later on this. And it was, I enjoyed it very much. And it was, the public ate it up. Well, we set telescopes out, they were hungry. So you… Read More
The lawyer for the agency, and some other guy, a bean counter, and me. And the rest of the place was empty. Somehow it didn’t go over. And Prince Diana had been there, and spent the night there with, what’s his name, Prince Charles. But then they closed, they just… Read More
Now, you still consult for the Zoom?… Read More
I do it frequently, frequently. For anything or do you specialize in something that they- All kinds of weird things. And the prince, also, on the science museum… By the way, it was opened, and I told you that the king’s son, his oldest son opened the zoo. Prince, the… Read More
We opened the Science Oasis. Oh, and I had some, an animal area. And I would, I’d put Saudi animals in there, had the vipers. There’s some beautiful animals. Beautiful lizards there, blue (indistinct). Anyway, oh, and a big deal was in the summer, or in the, yeah, in the… Read More
I took my wife there the first time. Within two days, the water is just teeming with shrimp. Looks like a king crab, like a horseshoe crab. They’re little, and those are desert shrimp. And I had a perpetual exhibit of those. We would get the eggs and hatch them… Read More
One was for one year, two year, and then 20 years. All 20 jars with eggs in. They’re on a shelf still in Riyadh. But they’re aging, they’re aging. Lived in a, what they called the Tuwaiq Palace, which was a hotel, combination hotel and conference center. And guest place… Read More
And that’s about a three hour, two to three hour flight. And you’re in Africa. And you can stay there as many days as you want, and then fly on the States. If you want to go to the Frankfurt Zoo, you can stop at Frankfurt. If you want to… Read More
Jerry (mumbles). No, no, anyway. He was short little guy, kind of a smart ass. Anyway, they hired him. I was hoping I could go over there and hire him, but I had to do this other. So I mean, anytime I… The beauty of living in, and working in… Read More
So it’s a great way to travel and visit other countries. So I thoroughly enjoyed it. The science museum was interactive. You’ve been to the Exploratorium, so you know how it is. We hired the exhibits to be made. I did come to the States to do that. There’s a… Read More
So they own everything and they run the, it’s all run as a business. I went over and, you know, studied the building, and I kind of sketched up a science museum. And, you know, “Well, how much will it cost?” Will I learned my lesson on that one, and… Read More
And told them, I gave him a list of people to hire. And one of them, I’ve even forgotten his name. He used to be at… Anheuser-Busch, was that at Tampa? Yeah. Read More