’95, 2005. I said, “My God. You’re 40-something years old. “Of course you have grandkids.” But for me, he set me back. I said, “Jack, you’re old buddy.” Like, you, I didn’t know I’d been doing this stuff that long. I don’t even think about it. But think about this… Read More
And remember this, remember that?… Read More
Somebody can say, “Jack, you’re using the animals to make a lot of money.” I just told what kind of money’s involved. No, that’s not quite it. I still believe that while I was teaching on Letterman, there was college students back then, especially, they can learn something. Even though… Read More
And yes, the animals have rooms, and yes they are transported in places that are beautiful, you know, there’s not just putting an animal in some box. Yes, they’re in their crates. And the ones that go there are animals that are used for education. So that’s how all that… Read More
Then all of a sudden Letterman starts in ’85, and much different, a much different show, by the way. I never knew who David Letterman was. Never even watched the show. And went to, we were on Carson on NBC there, Rockefeller Center. Then it moved after after five years… Read More
But the exposure there is incredible. Read More
Now why is it important?… Read More
Then what happened, what?… Read More
Four or five years ago we sent about 30 of them back on Mount Kenya. So that’s how the zoo world has changed. You know, I know I’m jumping around here, but I’m just trying to say what we can do in the zoo world now. What we’ve learned about… Read More
Our staff can even introduce them to some of, it blows, I can’t watch this, when that big Silverback’s in there. They don’t do it at first, but they’ll put him in there eventually. And then sure enough, it’s, knock on wood. We’ve never had one getting wiped out yet… Read More
Collect the sperm or the eggs from the animals and bring them back here. Just like we sent the bongo antelope back to Mount Kenya, when I was with Don Hunt, when they were gone on the mountain. Read More
I said, “Don.” That’s when he started working with Cincinnati, remember that?… Read More
And we started working with us and we have few bongo. Read More
You know, the mother in the, in the nursery there, obviously the mother was, you know, in there, they filmed her too, ’cause she was, Nick had gone inside there and stitched her up. But that was when the Columbus zoo, or Jack Hanna, whatever. That when ABC Good Morning… Read More
I have no problem with that, you know. it’s just that, “Sure, I’ll get some animals.” These animals treated better than most people are. As I tell people today, when I debate animal rights folks, 98% plus for animals, they come from other zoos. They don’t come from the wild. Read More
If I need a cheetah or giraffe or gorilla, I’m using examples, I can take a veterinarian over there right now from Ohio State, these guys, are yu kidding me?… Read More
He runs in there, still filming everything, these cameras. He runs in here and just rips it, the afterbirth off, and the baby starts going like this. For first we saw nothing, and he started going like this, you know, moving and stuff. So he grabs the baby like this… Read More
All of a sudden the children’s zoo calls, “where’s Nick?” “I don’t know where he is, where, he’s down there, “he’s been there for 10 minutes ago.” He can’t find him. Finally, we, everybody bust out of the building, go flying, screaming his frigging name. He’s in the maintenance office,… Read More
“Don’t do it, Jack. The baby’s not nursing. “She’s bleeding real bad. I got to go in there. “So we’ve got to fix her.” So both of them were raised there. Both of them grew up together. Good morning America just started. Because of that question, you maybe ask, I… Read More
So what happened is, it’s laying there, right?… Read More