Sure, send me some pictures. So he sent me some pictures, and it took me like, I don’t know, a week to even open the email. I’m like, I don’t want no hunting ranch. I don’t need a hunting ranch. Still had 400 animals on it, primarily whitetailed deer, they… Read More
I’m like, what the hell?… Read More
And he said, well, can I send you some pictures?… Read More
She’s gone at four o’clock. Read More
And so I’m like, a hunting ranch?… Read More
And so I’m like, I said, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’ll get control of myself. I said, it’s just kinda hysterical that you’d call the zoo and ask them if we wanna look at a hunting ranch. And he’s like, “Well, I got this property, it’s about an hour from… Read More
I mean, I just lost it laughing, to the point where he actually asked me, is there somebody higher up I can talk to?… Read More
And I just lost it. Read More
And I’m laughing, because my assistant’s left, so I answered the phone, right?… Read More
He says, “I’m so and so, and I’m with this real estate agency, and we have this hunting ranch, and we wondered if the zoo had any interest in a hunting ranch.” And I’m like, a hunting ranch, are you kidding me?… Read More
And so I get this call, and it’s a real estate agent. Read More
But anyway, long story short, I’m sitting at my desk on Friday afternoon at four o’clock one day, right?… Read More
I’m not making any heavy decisions at Friday afternoon at four o’clock, after a long 10 hour day all week long, right?… Read More
And I’m sitting there, and I don’t know what you do at work at four o’clock on Friday afternoon, but I’m brain dead. Now I’m reading magazines, I’m reading “The Connect,” “The Communicate.” I’m reading “The Vet Journals,” I’m reading magazines. Read More
We had one exhibit, we had a bull corral, and that’s all we had to manage all these elephants, with babies, which make it even more crazy, ’cause they’d go where no elephant should ever go. And so we had to make a decision. So we decided then to look… Read More
We were outta space. We also had a bull elephant named Jackson. Jackson’s marvelous, he’s fabulous. One of the best elephants I’ve ever met. Sad history, but turned out really well. Anyway, and so we had Jackson, breeding bull. Most valuable breeding bull in the country, still is. And so… Read More
Ironically, that grew out of an accident we had with a keeper, where we lost one of our keepers at the zoo to an elephant accident. And we decided after that accident, I had a meeting with the whole team and I said, okay, we’re at a crossroads. We have… Read More
We’re done, we’re over, we’re not gonna do elephants anymore. Or, if we’re gonna do elephants, the only way we’re gonna do elephants is we’re gonna do ’em big. If we’re gonna be in elephants, we’re gonna do ’em big. We’re not gonna be willy-nilly about it, we’ll make a… Read More
Do we get outta elephants?… Read More
How did it come about?… Read More