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
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
And what happens in crawfish, have you ever eaten a crawfish?… Read More
Momentarily, where was I going with that?… Read More
Or your next job was in Saudi Arabia?… 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
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
So you leave Oklahoma City?… Read More
Yes. Read More
Did you have a direction that you wanted to go after that?… Read More
Bill wrote me and said, “Well, somebody has to respond to Morris, to Desmond Morris on ‘The Naked Cage’ stuff.” Well, I wrote Jim, I wrote Bill back, and I said, “If you’re saying the naked cage doesn’t exist, and this is propaganda thing from Desmond Morris, I’m afraid, I… Read More
And did give he leave an alternate?… Read More
Or if you mean we’ve really got to get our act cleaned up and clean, get rid of these naked cages, fine. You know, then that’s how I would respond to him. Read More
Yeah. You left Oklahoma City. Yeah, the racetrack was the last straw. I didn’t get all those 525 acres to have some goddamn mafia racetrack owner grab the best parts of it. And I wasn’t gonna do that. I quit, I didn’t get fired. I quit. In Fort Worth (chuckles)… Read More
You mean, a different career?… Read More
I was gonna finish it in Portland, ’cause I had time there and I didn’t do it. Then in Oklahoma City, I even had a contract to write a book on zoos with apprentice. And Conway wrote me a letter. He says, “I understand you’ve got a contract.” And he… Read More
The West? Oh, with the convention, wait a minute now. When you were at Oklahoma City. Yes. Read More
When did you make the decision that, I want to do something else?… Read More
‘Cause you left Oklahoma City. Read More