Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 627
Are there any that say to that, you go, these are good zeuss, but why do you say that?… Read More
Are there any that say to that, you go, these are good zeuss, but why do you say that?… Read More
And, and where are they?… Read More
So they, they let me form a task force. They said, you have to lead the task force. I had advice from another board member saying, Rick, don’t lead the task force. You’re new to this community. You gotta have somebody that’s born on the plantation, is what he said. Read More
He did it for, he, he just passed away. And he was, he was my mentor. He was a good man. Mm, sorry. That’s okay. Did he give you some good sage advice that, that stayed with You Always take the high road no matter what the audience is. I… Read More
So it never happened. So I got, I got a man named Bill Barnett who was, he was the managing partner of Baker bots of biggest law firm in Houston at the time, but also the chairman of the Rice University board. Bill was unbelievable. People couldn’t believe, first of… Read More
This is the year 2000, right?… Read More
I came in, they, they headhunted me and they, and, and people said, why the hell you wanna go to Houston?… Read More
I’d just come off at Disney, you know, I was getting paid pretty well, you know, now, now I come to, I’m gonna accept a job at Houston, which was a city zoo. The salary was half of what I was making, you know. But I went out there and… Read More
Or, or Disney?… Read More
Well, I saw that question earlier, you know, and I, I, I always am I just anxious to go on to the next thing all the time. So, you know, I go back to Disney and I say, yeah, I guess, I guess the, the forming that, that, that advisory… Read More
Were there other things that you were very proud of achieving at Houston?… Read More
And, but that dynamic there, it, it got, it got tension filled. One time when Judson Green, who was our, the head of Disney Parks, was talking to Bill Conway and, and the board, and, and Bill and Russ, and were recommending that they establish a fund for conservation before… Read More
Justin Judson said, you’re, he didn’t say you’re right at that point. But we, we had, we got a lot more money. Only ’cause of, only ’cause of Bill Connoway. So the, the board, the advisory board was a wonderful accomplishment. Read More
But are things that you wanted to, that you Yeah, bring an elephant, bring, bringing, bringing a herd of elephants in from Krueger, very controversial, but they were calling elephants in Krueger National Park. This is 1994. Because they had too many, well, they said they had too many. So… Read More
But it would’ve been an incredible exhibit for, for, and, and I, the el the elephants would’ve been better off too. I think Chris Krueger was getting decimated the, the habitat. But, so that, that was kind of a disappointment, but it was a, it it was a political it,… Read More
Like Bush Gardens was not too far away either. Right. And we’re building a safari park, you know, and Bush Gardens already had one. So they, they wanted to keep it really close knit. But they, they gave, with Joe’s, Joe’s support we got, and then Michael Eisner would, he… Read More
You know, I, I think I’m right, but I, I wanna be challenged here too. And so we brought in an advisory board, and then we brought in the big guys, you know, and then, then Conway and, and Meyer and Terry Maple. I said, we had Bill Burnham from… Read More
A little bit rubs off, you know?… Read More
But, but I, I was, I was, so the biggest achievement was Joe and I, we convinced Conway to come back. You know, Conway was, they were using Conway as a consultant, and then Conway couldn’t do it anymore. And he recommended me, but he never told me that. I… Read More
You can’t be both. He said, very rarely. Can you be both?… Read More