So, so it was intimate. She got to, everybody got a book signed, she got a pic. Every it was, it was, it was a special night. And Joe Rody was there, you know, and he introduced Jane. I had, because he’s an, he’s just an amazing, he’s so dynamic… Read More
And then Joe Roadie came the second night. And the third night we had the fundraiser. So it, it was probably her most, it was the last contact with animals. And I have a picture with her. You have it, I think with the giraffe and our big male giraffe… Read More
Can we do, I, I know you promised you could do a fundraiser, could she rest for two days?… Read More
And on the third day we do a fundraiser. I guaranteed her a hundred thousand dollars for her project in, in, in Tanzania. Jane’s Dream, which is her legacy project, which is just being built. Joe Roddy, Joe Roddy is designing it for free, the Imagineer. So it’s great. And… Read More
And she didn’t know. And then about two months before she came to Long Neck Matter, so about four months ago, I get a call from her assistant. Susanna said, look, we’re gonna be in Austin, and then she’s gotta be in New York, but she’s got three days Rick… Read More
So she said, yeah, well write something. I did, of course she changed a little bit, but she hadn’t been there. And I said, Jane, is there any way, you know, if you come to Austin, she was in, and I saw her in Austin the year before. Read More
So when, when I told her what I was doing, I said, would you give me a, could you give me a quote?… Read More
I said, are you coming back to that donor?… Read More
And so it was like that Gary Lawson cartoon where, where the two chimps are on the, on the t. Did you ever see that one? And the one chase another blonde hair you’re doing, you’re doing research with that tramp Jane got all again. And Jane loved that. She,… Read More
She would ask about elephants and other stuff. And, and sometimes I give her the answers she wanted to hear. And sometimes, sometimes she didn’t. She did it her way. Read More
So, I don’t know, it’s just a nice story. That’s why it chokes me up sometimes. But it’s just, She must have been amazed. I think she was, I th she, I know she appreciated it. But Jane is very reserved at first. She’s not, she’s not gonna say, oh,… Read More
I don’t know why did I get choked up about this stuff?… Read More
No, it’s, it’s, no, it’s good. It’s good stuff. Yeah, No, I mean, just ’cause she’s gone now. But Yeah. So he shows me this larger than life. David Graybeard at the entrance to the amphitheater that you go inside the, the bug show. And he’s, he’s got his hand… Read More
Because it’s good. You, you didn’t stop, did you?… Read More
Come down, stop. Read More
And he said, yeah, yeah. The lady with the chimps, he knew who she was. I said, is there any way I know the tree’s almost finished, you can put a chimp on this tree. And he goes, well, send me a picture. So I sent him a picture of… Read More
I said, do you know who Jane Goodall is?… Read More
He goes, no, I got monkeys. Read More
And I said, Joel, I said, do you have a chimp on the tree?… Read More
She was, you know, at that point, she was in her sixties, but she, she was very spry and she scooted up that thing. And we went up and we talked about it. And she just, it’s amazing. And then she looks at me and says, but Rick, I don’t… Read More