I can’t be, you know, Ed Maruska or Warren Thomas or some of the people are gone now. People were my buddies, you know. I can’t be that. I could never have the intelligence they have. I guess I’m just who I am. I have not changed, I don’t think… Read More
I think I know a lot about the animal world in a common way that I can teach the average person watching. I think, if anything that I’ve done, is try and bring the animal world to people that way, both at the zoo here, as well as teaching a… Read More
I guess or our success, the Columbus Zoo is that I relate to people where they can do it too. That’s that, if you look at all my shows, go look at them someday. You’ll see that maybe you could go to the places I go to too. And that’s… Read More
Now, why would you say you have been successful in dealing with the media and what would you tell a zoo director in regards to dealing with the media?… Read More
Again, we do things obviously in two-man submarines that they’re given, they’re not given to us, that we can film from that you get just can’t really rent or anything. But very few of those shows I do are something they couldn’t do. Read More
So what’s my success?… Read More
And that’s why when people doing the marketing surveys with us and by the ad time they go, “What is your audience, Jack?” What am I always in my speeches?… Read More
Anybody from a three-year-old to a hundred-year-old. It’s the whole family can sit back. And that’s where the difficulty comes in. Trying to have an animal show that the kids will watch. You know, the attention span is obviously a little difficult, as well as the guy who’s 80 or… Read More
You know, man, I notice that he’s doing things I could do. You can’t, I can’t do things Steve Irwin could do. I can’t, sure don’t do things that people in reality TV do today. So I’m trying to bring them a show that they can actually go and do… Read More
If he doesn’t want to do it, then fine, you know?… Read More
It’s not gonna kill me to get off TV. The point is, I love it so much because I know that my audience now are people, and you asked the question, our audience isn’t, this isn’t a show for children. This is show for everybody. Read More
Everybody said, “I can’t believe “you’re not doing this sueing.” “I can’t believe you’re not doing, you’re not so upset.” What am I gonna do?… Read More
You know, I can’t do anything. He’s gone, because he worked for a higher up that, I won’t mention that name, who you’ve heard of what he owned. No way I was gonna go after them. I said, forget it. I’m just gonna leave and start my own television series. Read More
Then she met a guy in England, got pregnant and had babies and screwed my whole show up. So then I had to get my wife to help me. Now Sue helps me now, but Kathleen’s kids are in school now. So she’s been on my last two shoots. And… Read More
Supposed to be pretty good to you, you know?… Read More
That’s why you work so hard, and nothing, not one penny. Read More
You know something?… Read More
Animal Adventures just developed, I guess, around my character, they got the people I worked for. They just had heard me doing a little show called Zoo Life. I did 40 shows, a guy in California asked me to do 40 shows. He went down the tubes because he was… Read More
We did over 500 shows all over the world. This guy, I will not say names, was like my brother, he got caught for embezzlement. I was supposed to have a backend on TV. As you know, reruns were on the back end. Read More
How did you develop the television shows that you do and what audience were you trying to attract?… Read More