Hundreds of times. But the guy from Iowa has never done it. The guy from Iowa has never been in with a giant tortoise and is absolutely blown away by this opportunity. And the whole point is, A, we’re giving ’em those amenities, those extras. B, we’re giving ’em some… Read More
Isn’t that great?… Read More
But we worked it through, and we worked out, and tried, and experimented, and have come up with a cafeteria plan of people having more engagement with animals. And these are upscale, they pay more for this opportunity, but getting people engaged with the animals so they understand it and… Read More
How many times have we done that?… Read More
And I’ll have to be honest with you, when this first started, I was getting concerned, what does this really look like?… Read More
Public. Public. Well, very important. And I think there’s a couple of things that, and I have to give credit to the CEO for kind of instilling some of these amenities, as they call it. I think zoos cannot just stand on their own when it comes to people coming… Read More
Amenities meaning public or?… Read More
How important are amenities at the zoo?… Read More
What were your priorities, did you want to accomplish first?… Read More
I’m just Larry, you know, I never felt, A, that anybody had to do that. That was way too much. I’m just, Larry, just treat me as Larry. Now, you’re director of the zoo. Some questions. Read More
No, I didn’t encourage it. I said I’m Larry, you know. Now, I said I’ll be honest with you, formal introduction at an event or, you know, something to that effect, absolutely. But just call me Larry. And today, when I go to the zoo, I’m down there three or… Read More
Did you encourage that?… Read More
Some people still refer to me as doctor, you know?… Read More
‘Cause it’s like, you know, you need to take the hat off, and get down in the mud with the rest of us, and have fun. So yeah, whatever it may be, you know, whether it’s going to a hockey game or going to a football game or whatever, it’s… Read More
Just because you’ve said that, did people call you Dr. Killmar?… Read More
And I had a couple people tell me, I have to work at that, you know?… Read More
In some cases, you know, I wasn’t in their class at all, but I was just there, you know?… Read More
And a couple of ’em came up to me and said, this has been great, you know, learning you in this different environment. And I said I’m no different, you know, I’m still the same guy. But I think people have a tendency to take a title and push it… Read More
And they admit it, you know, they just didn’t want to talk to me about it. They were afraid, you know. So what I had to do, Mark, is I had to, you know, there’s the off-work Larry, and then there’s the on-work Larry, that I had to bridge those… Read More
Now, sometimes it’s an hour, sometimes it’s a couple days, but I’ll eventually figure it out and then I’m gonna come back to you and say, why, why did you not give me the whole story?… Read More