You don’t, you hire people that are better than you, that challenge you, that make the organization better. And if you can’t, and you’re eventually gonna get phased out, and then you do something else, or you, or you stay. But the best advice I got, and that’s your question… Read More
There’s, there’s my curse word. Okay?… Read More
But, so I, and I still agree, I still agree with that philosophy. I don’t agree with people hiring puppets. That, and basic, you, if you’re loyal to me, I don’t care how qualified you are. Read More
But it is, you know, then you’re hired. That is bullshit. Read More
This sounds a little political right now, you know?… Read More
You know? Yeah, it is, I think it’s, it’s the approach you use. It got me in trouble. It got me slapped down a couple of times. But you get back up, you know, I, I think it taught me resilience. You know, there, there were bosses I had that… Read More
But I knew in the long run, I knew at Disney, I hired a woman, Beth Stevens, that would run this place. I knew she was capable of doing that. It’s not what I wanted to do. I wasn’t good at, I was good at, I was a builder, not… Read More
Now if you could go back in time, what, if anything, as a zoo director, would you have done differently?… Read More
You say, well, you could do that, but how about we do this instead?… Read More
You know, there’s little things, but as far as me as a person, I probably should have been a little bit more diplomatic. Not sacrifice my principles, but I was pretty outspoken. I could see some of the people that had to manage Rick Bargi had their hands full. ’cause… Read More
You know, you can, you can, you can focus on, well, yeah, well this, and this is, I I, I don’t wanna be told to do this. I don’t want to. Hey, that’s part of the game guys. You can play that. These are recommendations sometimes too. They’re not like,… Read More
And ZAA is the same way. You know, they have some very good owners in there. And there are a few institutions that are, are members of both, but very few. But it’s a shame. It should be, to me it should be one organization. ’cause it’s, it’s confusing. ’cause… Read More
You know, or, or is it too risky, this or that?… Read More
I think this should, ideally it should be one organization. And, and, but I just, I don’t see that happening. ’cause it got it, it it, it started because this, a ZA was such an exclusive club and it was more expensive than people wanted. And the accreditations facility, the… Read More
Hey, there’s always a little bit of risk. But when you have a one-to-one ratio, or you have a, if you’ve got, if your animal care staff has plenty of time to work with the, the more the animal does something, the more reliable and the more dependable it is,… Read More
You don’t wanna feed the draft too much. Read More
He says, you bring ’em to your house, you got ’em captured there, and then you can ask ’em for money. All I can do is send out notices and mailers and tell ’em how dire the situation is. And, and, and great videos and stuff. I mean, you know,… Read More
Are there certain issues that you’d like to see these national or international organizations be addressing now?… Read More
’cause they’re, they’re organizations. They have so much power. Yeah, well, I, I, I did associate myself a lot with some of the NGOs, non-government institutions, especially with Conservation International with, ’cause Russ Meyer was there, a friend of mine. And then of course, you know, the, the, the Waza… Read More
I never, I was one, but I was one back in the, in the sixties. So I, I, I don’t, if I had all the distractions and all the temptations that they have now, I don’t know if I’d be sitting here today. Mark. I mean, that, that’s, that’s scary. Read More