Interview 30880 – Caption Index: 226
Do you have a favorite zoo animal?… Read More
Do you have a favorite zoo animal?… Read More
How Did that work with the politicians?… Read More
Oh, you know, how many times have I testified before the politicians in hearing rooms and things like that?… Read More
You’re talking to an old man who doesn’t do Facebook any social media, but I know the value of it. And that’s what my successor brought into it years ago, was the connectivity that way through social media and communicating through social media. And the zoo does a very great… Read More
You, you, you give them the authority to go with the responsibility. And they did that and they ran with it. And I, I think it’s, I think it’s a double-edged sword, to be honest with you. I never wanted to replace the actual experience of the zoo. I don’t… Read More
That’s, that’s really, really, and again, I’m an old person. Okay. And my wife is definitely a leadite. And, but I do texts, but that’s about all I do. You, you were Lincoln, the Children’s was in the state capitol. Yeah. Read More
But they res we respected each other very much. It was a lot of work. Read More
How would you say the new technology now can assist in promoting zoos, Twitter, Facebook, remote cameras to draw attention to wildlife relationships?… Read More
How did you nurture that?… Read More
You know, I couldn’t take a penguin into the studio, but they could come to the zoo. And then I’d go and we’d talk about the penguin footage that they had and things like that. Or the tiger footage that they had. And always bringing them up to date on… Read More
By always being honest with them. Okay. I mean, I knew editors, news anchors, news people, radio personalities. I mean, I was, I did at least four radio interviews every week. At least two or three TV live appearances every week. Okay. So I was out there constantly connected. You… Read More
Very, very successful. So yeah. So I didn’t have to tell my successor at all what to do. He’d been there forever. He became a zoo guy. Okay. Over his years of experience and step, we just switched titles. He stayed in his office, I stayed in my office. He… Read More
Did you have, you had good relationships with the press. Read More
And he and I had many cups of coffee together feeling each other out, okay. Read More
Going, is this gonna be a plan?… Read More
And Evan Colleen is the zoo’s CEO now. And we had more discussions. And I said to the zoo board, this is the man that we want and this is the man who will be my successor. And Evan came in 14 years ago, 15 years we overlapped. And every… Read More
I said, do you mean you’re taking my zoo away from me?… Read More
You’re gonna do that. You’re gonna go out and be the face of the zoo more than you are now. We’re gonna take you out of the day-to-day operation. Read More
I love the operations of the zoo. Once I calmed down and thought about it and discussed it more with the zoo board leadership and going, you’re right. They had tried to have the same conversation with me four or five years earlier, but I was too cocky too. And… Read More
I had to get done. I had to get the zoo remodeled physically with great animal exhibits and husbandry. I had to get great education programs going. I had to get financially stable at the zoo. I had to get an increase in conservation. I had to expand the zoo. Read More