So I didn’t know that at the time. So I said, “Then, Mel, you talked to Jerry. “You know, he’s here, in your department. “And right now we’re under your department, “even though we have a private zoo board here.” He called up Jerry and said, “I’m gonna look at… Read More
To answer your question. So yes, I needed help, because I couldn’t continue to do all the shows that I was doing on a monthly basis, versus Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures, which became really the, one of the longest, if not the, we don’t know yet, the longest running television… Read More
Like I was back then. Mel said I could still be very much involved in major decisions at zoo. What we build, what we do, how we promote it, Da da da da da. I just was not involved in the day to day. It was hard for about the… Read More
There was a guy named Jerry Borin, he’s a nicest guy, he loves people. He’s not, don’t know anything about animals, he has a dog. You know, but sometimes in this business, believe it or not in the zoo world, sometimes someone that doesn’t know anything about animals can be… Read More
I told Mel Dodge, he said, “You better get Jerry Borin, “he runs a senior citizens center, are you crazy?… Read More
I said, “Mel,” because he always, Mel had to have his ideas, okay?… Read More
Yes, my family, you kidding me?… Read More
Myy wife and my children are important, just as important, but you know, you do things in life that you think, you don’t forget about them, but you do forget about them, and you just, the zoo is your life, that’s all. It’s that simple. It’s seven days a week,… Read More
“When’s the last time you saw your daughters, by the way,” the three girls I had, “cheerlead?… Read More
“When’s the last time you went on a vacation “with your family?” “When’s the,” he started to ask me saying, I said, “I don’t have to, Mel.” “oh yes, you have to, Jack. “I could be your father almost. “You’re going to start doing that. “You cannot do the TV… Read More
You know, there’s a question that I’ve really never been asked. I thought about that obviously, but I wasn’t thinking too much about it, I guess at the time, because what happened to me. Yes, the Letterman show started. I’m sorry, Good Morning America started, the Letterman show, I could… Read More
That’s when Mel Dodge, who was like, my dad, as I told you, he was on the board of the zoo, and there’s 17 members. And he said, “Jack, you need to come up with some person “that can come here and be the director of the zoo. “While we… Read More
I said, “I’ve worked so hard, Mel, to build this zoo, “you know, and it doesn’t have to be me, but I don’t, “I think I can do both.” “No you can’t Jack. Read More
But I’ve only done four of them in 30-something years of TV and that just my belief, all right?… Read More
Whether you like it or not, you know, that’s how I do things. Read More
How did, how did being on television and doing the shows that you did with Letterman and Good Morning, how did it affect you and your responsibilities as director of the zoo?… Read More
“You buy your own shirts?” I said, “Yes, I do.” “Are you crazy?” He almost choked on his Turkey. “How can you be doing that when, look at, “I have a huge company with my golf shirts, “and my golf clubs, you are not serious!… Read More
“Where is your brand?” I said, “I don’t know, brand, what brand?… Read More
“I eat Raisin Bran.” He said, “That’s not even funny. “You’re not, you gotta be kidding me. “I’m gonna have somebody call you.” And then I’m too old, this was six years ago. I don’t wanna do, you know, if somebody wants to brand something, call me up with something… Read More
“I’ve been getting them for 12 years now.” “Where in Australia?… Read More