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Well, I’m certainly in their hall of fame for rugby, and, sure, a lot of people send me notes all the time about the work I’ve done all the last 45 years. Yeah, but it’s a great school. Read More

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So do you believe that your initial interest in marine mammals, as opposed to terrestrial animals, came from this first unique encounter?… Read More

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It was exactly at that point. I had gone to school. I wanted to be a dentist and I was in pre-medicine and pre-dentistry. And I had a very low lottery number my senior year of college and I was gonna get drafted. And I’d already gone for my physical. Read More

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So I didn’t have to go to Vietnam. Read More

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But I had a BS in biology and I’m thinking, “What am I gonna do?… Read More

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What kind of a career do I wanna?” So I thought, “Well, I’ll go back to grad school.” And then I thought, “Ah, that’s not a good idea. I’ve got plenty of student loans and I’m up to here with the debt.” So I stumbled into this job that I… Read More

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Did you bring stuff home?… Read More

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We used to, we used to fish a lot and bring starfish and things like that. I mean, the realization of dead starfish hanging on nets in your patio sort of hit me as I got older and realized that was really a dumb thing to do. Read More

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So when did you realize you wanted to work with animals?… Read More

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Was it at that exact point when someone offers you a job?… Read More

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I was 22 years old at the time. And you had never been to a zoo or aquarium before that. Never had. Read More

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And the only animals you had were?… Read More

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A dog and a cat and the stuff I saw in the ocean. Read More

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My father was a Los Angeles City fireman, and also a cement contractor, because, as you know, fireman only worked every fourth day or every third day or something like that. And he had to have other income to support the family and keep my mother from going to work. Read More

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As a kid, were you able to visit zoos or aquariums?… Read More

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No, I was not. I never really went to a zoo or aquarium when I was a kid, not at all. In fact, in 1972, after I had gotten out of school, my father was doing some cement contracting work at Marineland of the Pacific. And so I was helping… Read More

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How old were you?… Read More

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My name is Brad Andrews. I was born in Englewood, California in 1949. And tell me about your childhood growing up. I grew up with two other brothers in Redondo Beach, California, and was a surfer and loved the ocean and played lots of sports and had a good time. Read More

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What did your parents do when you were (indistinct)?… Read More

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And I thought that if you were a Senator or Congressman, a governor, a mayor, you name it, it was everybody’s zoo. And so we tried hard to keep the political facet out of it, but certainly we were dealing with political entities, and that’s where a lot of support… Read More