But anyway, so I had to handle the whole thing myself. And I told Alan King, I said, “Yeah, Mr. King, when the snake had to me up “to the shoulder,” I said, “I was wondering, should I go in like this?” Well, he got sick on the show. Alan… Read More
And he, I saw him 10 years later at the US Tennis Open and he remembered me instantly. And he said, don’t tell me any more of that story. But anyway, the snake I… Bryant Gumbel once asked me, he said, “How in the heck did I got loose?” And… Read More
You can’t pull out. If you pull out, you’re gonna end up with gangrene and that area. So I had to let the snake have my hand and I had to grab the tail because even then I knew that the danger point of a big constrictor like that, is… Read More
And it was a very exciting spot because I had taken into the studio in New York, two 12 foot anacondas that I had brought back when they were babies, and they had grown to be 12 feet. They were in the museum at Earlham College and I borrowed them… Read More
And I noticed he was a little nervous and I was telling him why people are afraid of snakes?… Read More
It was very aggressive. In those days a snake that big would be this high off the ground, ready to strike, you know, defend itself. And I was not afraid of big snakes. It’s knowledge or fear is a lack of knowledge, actually. So I knew what I had to… Read More
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But that’s a little bit like doing this. And if you do it wrong, you’re in trouble. As I was pulling the head over this snake was six feet off the ground, ready to strike. Getting it off balance, I started to drop the stick, but my elbow hit the… Read More
But one of the most, it was so funny what was happening to me, but I have some Amerindians in the Amazon. This was actually before World Kingdom. And they had heard that I wanted to film in big anaconda, but I didn’t tell him to bring it into camp,… Read More
So anyway, they brought it into camp and I had to dig a hole in the ground and let this snake come back and try to recover from all the damages it obviously had. And I put it in there for about a month and it started obviously feeling better. Read More
He was scared of spiders. He just about went crazy when he saw a snake. And here it was I wanted him to film me trying to measure this big snake. Well, he refused to do it for a month or so. And finally, (chuckles) I convinced him that he… Read More
A reporter. That’s generally they’re interested in conflict or dangerous situations usually. And it’s a little bit funny. I can think of other things… I’ve gotta think…… Read More
That’s a good question is what were some of the funniest things?… Read More
So he wasn’t sure whether I’d had a concussion or what. So I woke up a little bit later at 90 miles an hour, trying to get to the hospital in what was in soldiery ’cause he didn’t know quite what happened, but he had his survival kit with him. Read More
So I couldn’t be on camera for a while without a hat. And it was quite an experience, but it was also rather hilarious when I found out what he had done to me. A lot of people like to hear stories. Read More
One of the first questions they asked me is what almost killed you?… Read More
Can you describe maybe something up your mind from a funniest time that happened to you while doing that filming?… Read More
There were so many different times. I was trying to think of some of the funniest times (chuckles) that we ever had. Well, there were a lot of things that didn’t work very well. And if you don’t mind a little storytelling, I can tell you a couple of those… Read More
And this was a pretty big giraffe. There were three Africans in the back of this open Land Rover. And at that time I had the camera and I was trying to film all this. I was sitting in the passenger seat and the trouble is, Tommy was a pretty… Read More
The Africans had the loop and the long pole and I was filming. But he hit a hole in the ground that was dug by an aardvark quite deep. Well, this caused the Land Rover to come to a automatic stop. So three Africans went 20, 30 feet over our… Read More