It always affected my personal life in some form. My wife is a wonderful person and she has a busy life with her horses and we share common interests when we’re together. I’d always communicate with her when I was moving. And I imagine one of the things that was… Read More
So, right now, is the structure- And it still works. (laughs) Good, is the structure at SeaWorld the same?… Read More
The responsibilities, basically, were much the same. Read More
However, we he now had a board of directors who, again, wanted to know about why would we do this and why would we, you know, “What’s the criticism coming from Tilikum the whale?… Read More
“What’s going on here?” So you had to spend more energy trying to explain to them a 40-year history or a 45-year history leading up to that particular point in time, why we’re talking about these things or why this seems to be an issue or why it’s not an… Read More
You didn’t replace anybody?… Read More
No, they created the title based upon the new corporate structure. We all became officers because it was a public company now. And I thought, “Well, sure, call me what you want. I was a fish boy one day, so I don’t care. It doesn’t make any difference, I don’t… Read More
I just got a job to do.” And, again, more responsibilities, or pretty much more of the same?… Read More
So Jim talked to one of the pilots on one of our flights one day and said, “Well, can we change the internal cabin pressure?” And he goes, “Sure.” He says, “The temperature may get a little colder.” And I said, “Well, getting colder is not gonna hurt anybody. We’ll… Read More
Again, did you raise your hand or was us ’cause you were around and doing a good job?… Read More
Well, I think my actions were being rewarded, again, positive reinforcement. I did a good job, they said, “Keep doing a good job. Here you go.” It was a new title. Read More
Did the moving of killer whales or dolphins and so forth evolve into even a smoother type of thing?… Read More
It seems, to me, complicated to move it rather than an elephant, but that’s what I know. Read More
Was it getting better as you were understanding things more or did techniques essentially stay the same?… Read More
No, I think it all evolved, equipment evolved. Dr. Jim McBain, who I worked with for many, many years, was our chief veterinarian. And he always realized that some of the respiration rates on some of the cetaceans seemed to be a little bit higher when we were flying. And… Read More
I don’t think they were paying attention to the public and the millennials that were coming of age. And the people that were coming to zoos and aquariums love zoos and aquarium. But there were some people that were hearing messages and suddenly saying, “Well, we maybe we don’t wanna… Read More
And it was silent. but it was getting more vocal. And it was a small percentage, but it was effecting people, especially today with the social media blogs and the way they can do it. So I saw changes in our company in terms of our ability to… I always… Read More
And how we would do that?… Read More
And inspire people to say, “I wanna help flamingos in the wild. I wanna help penguins in the wild. How do we connect the dots to a guest who sees a penguin and says, “I wanna help. How do we do that?” That’s the biggest challenge ever. Part of this… Read More
What kind of evolution did you see occurring?… Read More