We’re gonna build this park. And I know Jane’s not a super fan of zoos, but we’re gonna do this the right way. And he said, well, I’ll let her know. And he did, because a couple of nights later, my phone rings, I’m working late and I pick it… Read More
You mean Jane Goodall? Yeah. Yeah. Well, yes. Well, Jane was at our facility just, just 10 days before she passed away. And I’ll get to that in a minute. But I have a 30 year relationship with Jane. I have like a five or six page blog that I… Read More
Can you relate the story of your experience with that person at Disney and then at Long Neck Manor?… Read More
And, and, and I, again, it’s gonna allow me to do more tours simultaneously. ’cause I don’t want to increase the number of people on a tour. Again, I like that 10 to 12. The most people that will do, we do private tours too, where you can just go… Read More
And that’s the oppi. And that’s a special, special animal. And we’ve got a far, we’ve got a whole forest area. So now I’m doing a, a campaign, a $5 million campaign. Two and a half million is for the Rhino Conservation Center. ’cause it’s not just the barn, it’s… Read More
So my goal is that by the year 2030, that we’re budgeting a million dollars for conservation every year. And, and then in addition to that will be other donations, but that’ll be budgeted into our earned revenue model. And for a zoo our size, that’s more, that’s at least… Read More
Oh no, they came at the same time. Ah, – I, I, I didn’t, I didn’t copy giraffe manner. I, I want, I rhinos came in the same week as the, as I wanted to, I wanted to do rhinos, giraffes, and cheetahs. And I didn’t do the cheetahs because… Read More
But you expanded tother animals. Why Not yet?… Read More
I’m, I’m raising money now to do that. Yeah, But you, have you expanded to Rhinoceros?… Read More
Ji, we’re very happy for you, but could you explain what just happened?… Read More
They didn’t know. That just doesn’t happen. And so TikTok saved my butt, even though I’m not a fan of TikTok. And, and they’re, you know, it’s, it is built up since then. We’re not sold out now. ’cause we built four villas now. And we have, so we have… Read More
They, they love giraffes and they don’t have time to go to Africa. They know they can’t feed ’em in Africa unless they go to the Giraff Manor place, which is really nice. But I think then my model worked, but it was all, it, it, it was, it was… Read More
He’s, he’s in a bomb shelter texting his friend. They heard about Long Neck Matter. So TikTok, this is January of the next year. It went viral. And we booked out the Giraff suite. It’s two night minimum for that whole year. Every single night. Bam, bam, bam. And you… Read More
But you e everything came into the bank account. And then I opened up, I said, well, let’s increase the price and open up 20, 23. Three about three weeks that took. So now I’m booked for, for the next two years. Now TikTok first of all, is not the… Read More
And then the kicker was, my bank account went from $10,000 to over a million dollars in, in a month. So the bank calls me up and said, Mr. Read More
And then there’s a little door under supervision. You open it up and the tongue comes in the living room and you feed ’em. And then it ends with them on the, on the catwalk with the whole giraffe right there. It went viral on TikTok. And when I say… Read More
And, and, and his friend wrote him and said, Hey, have you heard about this place?… Read More
So it, it starts, you walk in, there’s giraffes looking right at you, right?… Read More
And I’m down to not a lot of money left, you know, in my savings. I didn’t ask for any help. And then, and then a couple came in and did this film, eight seconds or 10 seconds. And they put it on their website, which had a lot more… Read More
So I did that in, in 2001. Again, this is just me, no partners, just my money. I had architect friends that helped me a lot. I had a lot of help along the way. I hired just two keepers at that point and me. And so we opened up… Read More