Interview 24641 – Caption Index: 497
And I said, “Well, why don’t we meet in New York?… Read More
And I said, “Well, why don’t we meet in New York?… 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 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
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 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 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
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
We’re talking about after you left Oklahoma City. Oh yeah!… Read More
How did you get to Saudi Arabia?… 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
And what happens in crawfish, have you ever eaten a crawfish?… Read More
Momentarily, where was I going with that?… 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
Or your next job was in Saudi Arabia?… Read More
But they’re (chuckles) about the same. So I decided, I had an offer from LSU to come down there and do a doctorate in aquaculture, which kind of appealed to me. Because I think one of the biggest problems that we have, one of, is the food, availability of food,… Read More
Well, I went to, I talked to some universities. And I was, I felt that I needed a time out maybe from zoos for a while. Leaving Oklahoma City wasn’t as bad as leaving Fort Worth, but I was there 16 years. And you know, you put a lot of… Read More
So you leave Oklahoma City?… Read More