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How old were you?… Read More

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My first real job was working on a friends’ farm and castrated bulls. Read More

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And when did you get your first real job, where they’re paying you money?… Read More

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I went to high school, yes. I was a sophomore and we moved from Madisonville to Knoxville. Then that’s where I had water in the house and toilets in the house, and things like that. Read More

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Then from there, were you able to go to high school?… Read More

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Yeah. Read More

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So this was when you were in Tennessee?… Read More

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Yeah. No air conditioning, it’s two grades, sometimes three in one room with one teacher and had an outhouse. In fact, the outhouse was out near the playground. I remember Halloween, we played tricks on things like that. So we tied a rope around the outhouse at school and tied… Read More

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School?… Read More

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What schooling did you have?… Read More

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He’s gonna break horses and fool with animals. Can you believe anybody could do something like that?” Well, that’s what I did, and I was very blessed by it. Read More

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In fact, my first wife, my first ex-wife, at her home, her father said, “What are you gonna do for a living?” I said, “I’ll train animals and break horses.” He said to his wife, “Peg, did you hear what he said?” And this is a city boy from New… Read More

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Well, as I said, I used to catch everything I could catch and I’d observe everything I could. I’d crawl on my belly for a half a mile just to get a look at a coot in water. I never had to worry about or give a thought about what… Read More

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How did that start to come about?… Read More

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What did you think about what you wanted to do in life?… Read More

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Is that the career you thought?… Read More

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But did you think you were gonna be working with animals?… Read More

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Because most people in those days in the hills, they all raised their own foods, hogs, cows ate, slaughtered them. I helped clean hogs every October when it got cool. We put hogs in boiling water and scraped them and butchered them. Read More

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For some reason, I was fascinated with things in nature, for some reason. But my mother helped me along with that. I always wanted to be… I would go out and catch something like a possum or whatever. I’d bring it back on a pole like Frank Book, bring them… Read More

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Was that when you were at the zoo?… Read More