Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 341
Well, first of all, I’m not sure I was a good director. Read More
Well, first of all, I’m not sure I was a good director. Read More
You know, it depends on the time period. But I would think that I did okay as a zoo director. ’cause I had good communication skills. You have to have good people skills. It’s not about the animals, it’s about the people. You know, you, you board especially, you have… Read More
Tell me to begin with, what made you a good director?… Read More
What do you think?… Read More
I had, I had, I had some, we had families come up, we had some two, two girls. A friend of mine’s girls that are really Jane Goodall fans. They’re 10 and 12. They were amazing with Jane. And Jane was amazing with them. And then my dogs, you know,… Read More
She’s so steady and, and it’s just, I had a, another photographer capture that picture. And then we had her with the rhinos too. And she just, she really enjoyed it. I know she did. And that was, you know, that, that was really special. She got to meet the… Read More
So, and then it was even more special because now she’s gone. But she has a, a memorial on Tuesday in Washington DC at the National Cathedral. And Diana going to that. Joe Roddy’s going, bill, con’s going. A lot of people will be there. Read More
And then Joe Roadie came the second night. And the third night we had the fundraiser. So it, it was probably her most, it was the last contact with animals. And I have a picture with her. You have it, I think with the giraffe and our big male giraffe… Read More
It was like she was 30 years ago, you know. But afterwards, you could see she was spent, we had, we had to drink. She always had her little scotch, single malt scotch every night. And we sat there and talked for a while. And then, and then when I… Read More
So, so it was intimate. She got to, everybody got a book signed, she got a pic. Every it was, it was, it was a special night. And Joe Rody was there, you know, and he introduced Jane. I had, because he’s an, he’s just an amazing, he’s so dynamic… Read More
And on the third day we do a fundraiser. I guaranteed her a hundred thousand dollars for her project in, in, in Tanzania. Jane’s Dream, which is her legacy project, which is just being built. Joe Roddy, Joe Roddy is designing it for free, the Imagineer. So it’s great. And… Read More
And she didn’t know. And then about two months before she came to Long Neck Matter, so about four months ago, I get a call from her assistant. Susanna said, look, we’re gonna be in Austin, and then she’s gotta be in New York, but she’s got three days Rick… Read More
Can we do, I, I know you promised you could do a fundraiser, could she rest for two days?… Read More
So she said, yeah, well write something. I did, of course she changed a little bit, but she hadn’t been there. And I said, Jane, is there any way, you know, if you come to Austin, she was in, and I saw her in Austin the year before. Read More
So when, when I told her what I was doing, I said, would you give me a, could you give me a quote?… Read More
I said, are you coming back to that donor?… Read More
She would ask about elephants and other stuff. And, and sometimes I give her the answers she wanted to hear. And sometimes, sometimes she didn’t. She did it her way. Read More
And so it was like that Gary Lawson cartoon where, where the two chimps are on the, on the t. Did you ever see that one? And the one chase another blonde hair you’re doing, you’re doing research with that tramp Jane got all again. And Jane loved that. She,… Read More
So, I don’t know, it’s just a nice story. That’s why it chokes me up sometimes. But it’s just, She must have been amazed. I think she was, I th she, I know she appreciated it. But Jane is very reserved at first. She’s not, she’s not gonna say, oh,… Read More
Because it’s good. You, you didn’t stop, did you?… Read More