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
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
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
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
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
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 And we also got some animal names withdrawn ’cause we just… Read More
Well- You have the final say?… Read More
And muskrats, have you seen a muskrat in an American zoo?… 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 I’ve got a picture, it’s still in Riyadh of him. He and I going through the gate, and all. It was interesting. And before he came, two guys came in with like torches, except they were burning incense. And they stayed together and they went everywhere in the zoo… Read More
How did you acquire these animals?… 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
And the mutawa obviously saw, they reported me to the head mutawa, that the American Zoo director was going over to take pictures of ladies on ladies day walking through the zoo, and that’s not permitted. Read More
Well, how do you know I was gonna take pictures of a lady?… Read More
My bosses said, “You didn’t show us those pictures. We wanna see them too.” I didn’t do it. You know, I’m innocent. So things like that. The concessions guys, we got so many complaints from the mutawa. Well, they said, “This one pinched her, and this one leered at her,”… Read More
“Well, the fathers will bring the children and all.” But that’s not, I mean, you know, here I am telling them how to run their country. But I said, “You know, really this is zoo can be a great family thing.” Well, we went down and talked to the mayor,… Read More
So I learned about things like that. And the family days lasted about 30 days. And there were so many complaints from the mutawa. We had a pygmy hippo born about that time. And I’d forgotten where I’d gotten that one from. No, this was later, now that I think… Read More