Interview 26791 – Caption Index: 484
What are the shoes like that you’re selling in the shoe store?… Read More
What are the shoes like that you’re selling in the shoe store?… Read More
You know, it’s like, it’s a shoe store. Read More
What the heck is in the exhibit?… Read More
You don’t have to, you can build something a lot cheaper. So I think the exhibitry side has been fantastic. I mean, technology, and the imagination, and all the things are great. Read More
They didn’t do that ’cause they can do it at McDonald’s or Burger King or anything else, okay?… Read More
But then what’s going in ’em, you know, if you’re not putting things in ’em that people are going, whoa, that’s very cool or has a story to tell, then what’s the point about building a $10 million exhibit?… Read More
Oh, I disagree with you. I said well, you can disagree all you want, but they came here to see animals for crying out loud. And so that’s still important. People misinterpret when I say that, that that’s not important. It’s vitally important. But don’t forget, you’ve gotta have animals… Read More
I know you do. That’s ’cause we got a lot of people coming through the gate. I’m not saying it’s bad food but they did not park in the parking lot, pay whatever they paid to walk in to go buy a hamburger. Read More
Well, what do you mean, we sell a lot of food?… Read More
Okay?… Read More
Not the fact that we sold X amount of widgets today. Good day. Well, that’s important too. The widgets are important but what’s also important is your animals, ’cause that’s why people are coming. And I got into this wonderful discussion with the food service guy in San Diego about… Read More
Why are we here if we’re not doing it?… Read More
I mean, you’re gonna sit here and store animals. Is that what we’re, you know, that’s certainly not why I got in the business anyway. We’re not sitting here to store animals. I think there was this whole thing about some people going to single-sex species so they don’t have… Read More
So what major directions do you think zoos should be taking for their future?… Read More
So everybody seems to be in the same kind of status quo is fine and status quo cannot be fine in our business when it comes to animal management. It’s a very dynamic process. It needs input, it needs change. And I’m not seeing the leadership to get us there. Read More
I think we gotta pick ourselves up by the bootstraps and say, hey, you know, we gotta get back to some of our roots here. We gotta get back to the days of making sure we have good robust collections. Read More
Yeah, that’s a big question. I think, again, my concern settles on the fact that I’ve strong belief that our collections are not gonna sustain genetically where they need to be because we haven’t been recruiting enough new genetic material. I’m not saying the SSPs are doing a bad job. Read More
But I think there’s been so much dial-down in not importing, not exporting, not doing this, not doing that because maybe it’s politically difficult or maybe it would, you know, raise the ire of someone because why are you importing these animals?… Read More
And that’s all manageable and can all be answered without any difficulty. But the tendency has been to stay away from it. If I don’t have to deal with it, then I don’t have to worry about it. So I see us in kind of a stalled mode right now. Read More
And we can fill that niche, as long as we’re giving ’em a quality experience. And so those are the shifts I’ve seen. We kind of went from a nature base away from it, now, kind of back to that and then that ability to be more engaged in what… Read More