And we’re going to use some local labor. I’m sure of what we’ve done as well as you do, but here are your tickets.” Well, it was at midnight. “You mean we have to leave at midnight?” “Yeah, yeah, midnight. There’s your ticket.” “Well, what about our equipment?” “Well, maybe… Read More
And we’re gonna meet with the contractor.” They had a British contractor. And so, 6:00, 7:00, I said, “Well, what time is the meeting?” “Well, we told them about 6:00.” “Well, it’s 7:00 now.” Well, we’ve still have, they drink.” And the one, two of those three guys were alcoholics,… Read More
First, we have to go have, you know, they eat at night. And this was very close to Ramadan, as I recall. So I was their guest. I mean, I had my summer suit on, from LSU, from Louisiana, and this was in October. What happened was, for a week,… Read More
They had a company, they were a company. Read More
And then, you know, we’re that much closer.” “Well, I, it’s not convenient for me, and so I’d rather do this.” “Fine, I’m with you. I wanna make it easy on you, wherever we meet.” So I went to Los Angeles, we do all that stuff. We get on the… Read More
And they had a contract with the city to stock the zoo and to hire personnel in there, and then to run it, okay?… Read More
So I’m in Los Angeles, I’ll send you a ticket.” Okay, fine. So I went to Los Angeles. And this guy knew nothing (chuckles) about zoos. He knew all about Saudi Arabia. He was not a Saudi, but he was a, Syrian, he was a Syrian. And so he said,… Read More
They’ve hired him to stock the zoo, and they want a zoo director. And if you’re interested,” why he gave me the contacts. So I was very interested. I mean, here again, I’m so close on my dissertation, but I needed a job, and I didn’t wanna just get out… Read More
And I said, “Well, why don’t we meet in New York?… Read More
And you can look through them. There’s a little water windshield wiper on the other end, fantastic. Nowadays they take pictures through them. But I didn’t have that out there. So I got that and I started going around, this was in the summer, in the late summer, going, looking… Read More
And the only thing that, well, I found out a lot of things, but one of them was that the breeding probably occurred much earlier, before they even went down into those deals. The breeding occurred in the pools. Anyway, that’s what my deal was. Then I got a call… Read More
So I had had (laughs) a colostomy, no, not a colostomy. Where they insert a tube, which is vision. Colonoscopy. Colonoscopy, yeah. And I went to a, urologist, or no, a digestive disease specialist. And I said, I want to borrow your longest scope. It’s a fiber optic thing, and… Read More
And I wondered, you know, here this whole industry, and it’s a hell of a big industry in Louisiana, in Texas, and in Alabama and this raising crawfish, but nobody knew what the hell, the key factor. Read More
So what happens?… Read More
‘Cause if we have a big problem, then, you know, if they stop being harvested, being reproducing, then where is the problem?… Read More
What happens? How do we keep them?… Read More
Okay. So I went to LSU and I was there for a year. Oh, on the crawdads crawfish, because it’s kind of interesting. And I think this is one of my strengths is innovation of design, of concept, of theme and so forth. And so what happens in Louisiana, and… Read More
How did you get to Saudi Arabia?… Read More
We’re talking about after you left Oklahoma City. Oh yeah!… Read More
Yes. It’s very good. Very good. I use to love shrimp more than anything, but crawfish I’ll take any time over shrimp. Anyway, but those were good shrimp that we had today at lunch. Read More