“Okay, can I just do this?” And then Wayne came to see me at the zoo. He and I got in touch with, I never met the guy. He comes here. Kate, who works for me said. ‘Cause you know how some people wrote about Wayne, how he wears the… Read More
I wanna show you it all. I said, “You know something, Wayne, “we can work something out here. “I’ve talked to the agricultural guys. “The veal are in small things. “Let’s say we increase,” And Wayne started out in HSUS. “Let’s say we increase the veal boxes to raise the… Read More
“Okay? I’ll help you with some of this stuff.” I went back to the agriculture department. Read More
Like an elephant, an elephant go down, you don’t use a pitchfork to get him up, but you all know, you can’t have an elephant laying there, they’ll suffocate. Anyway, they got that on video. They got the, the veal, showing the terrible, you know how veals fill up a… Read More
I said, hold it, hold it, hold it. I called the governor, he’s a buddy of mine. I said, his assistant, Jay. Read More
I said, “Can I have a meeting just “with the agriculture department just once?… Read More
And people don’t like that, some of these people, but he has, I’ll think of it, Wayne Purcell, all right?… Read More
Wayne, what we had in Ohio. This is a very good lesson for any zoo director to learn this. In Ohio, the car industry got blown out of here. We lost our number one industry. Read More
Agriculture, the number of industry now, right?… Read More
Cattle, beef cattle, all, veal chickens, all sorts of agri farms in Ohio right now, grain, everything, and our state, our state relies on it. And so a do lot, and so do the family’s lives, by the way. All of a sudden Wayne came in here with a lot… Read More
I’m not saying something won’t happen. I’m not saying somebody got hit, hurt tomorrow. You’ll never see me in an interview ever, say that something will never happen in this zoo. Don’t, I encourage any zoo director. Don’t ever state that you’ll never have a death at your zoo. Don’t… Read More
Every race car driver has, you know?… Read More
We do everything we can to make our zoo safe and comfortable for the, both the animals and the people. But as far as the animal rights people, there are some good organizations, there really are. And I’ve tried to work with them. One example is very clear HSUS with… Read More
Sometimes we don’t use common sense in this business and it backfires on us. Read More
You had mentioned about animal rights people when you were in Columbus, did you have to deal with animal rights people and what would you project for zoo directors and other people to?… Read More
Very good question. Now I didn’t back then because no one cared. Today? Oh yes. I have to deal with them because of maybe what we are today and maybe what I am, I don’t know. I just don’t know why I’m not the same, I’m the same person I… Read More
Hey mark, guess what?… Read More
You’re off chemotherapy. Oh my God, Mark’s off chemotherapy. He’s gonna die. Read More
No, it means you’re hopefully not necessarily cured, but you’re you see I’m coming from?… Read More
Why is that?… Read More