She’s sitting on the console. I’ve got the research director, I’ve got the mammal curator, who was Amos Morris at the time. I’ve got the mammal curator, I’ve got a guy from Wuppertal, elephant manager. I’ve got our elephant manager, I’ve got the marketing and PR people, we’re all going… Read More
I’m paying their salaries, right?… Read More
So there’s an inch of snow that’s starting to fall on the ground, right?… Read More
But we’re going anyway. So I pile ’em all in there, we take off. I’ve got nine people in the car. Read More
One person, our little development director, ’cause if we buy this, she got to raise the money to buy it, to fund it, right?… Read More
Which actually was the thing I thought was the most interesting, ‘Cause who does that, right?… Read More
It’s miles of fencing. Anyway, and so I said, I’m gonna load up my Yukon this afternoon, anybody who wants to go can go. Pile in. I said, I’m gonna go look at this hunting ranch. Now mind, this is Pittsburgh in March. Read More
And the way I do things at the zoo is like, I like to have everybody’s opinion, right?… Read More
And so I tell that department head, I said, I’m going out to see this ranch, just ’cause curiosity’s killing me. ‘Cause I don’t believe he’s got a perimeter fence, 10 foot high, electrified all the way around the darn thing. Read More
It’s like all the infrastructure you would need, except for an elephant barn, right?… Read More
And so, I got a whim, and this is March. I’ve actually got a colleague, an elephant manager from the Wuppertal Zoo, and he’s visiting Willie Tyson. Read More
And so it took me about a week to open it. And then when I opened it, I’m like, holy cow, this is a really nice place. Holy cow. I mean, like, it had four houses on the property, beautiful houses, I mean, really nice. It had this restaurant that… Read More
One end was mechanical, the next one was hay, next one was carpentry. Read More
And he said, well, can I send you some pictures?… Read More
I’m like, what the hell?… Read More
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
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
And I just lost it. Read More