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Interview 7568 – Caption Index: 272

And that’s been rerun an awful lot. I’m now down to residual payments. Each time that’s shown of about $6 and 50 cents. But that’s using… What I’m really saying is that television, we have to work with it. It’s not gonna go away. And the greatest way to influence… Read More

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But I have to limit myself and make sure that I capture the attention of the audience with the animals or with a film that I show. And then I can say something of value, and by the way, I evolved quite a while ago into somebody who wants to… Read More

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But nevertheless, I think I was able to show some respect for what I had. Read More

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I had a hawk on Seinfeld that went after George and which was, you know, and that show the story is often, you can’t quite figure out what the show is?… Read More

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But Kramer was sitting there wanting to do a talk show in his apartment, and they were at the restaurant and Jerry said, or rather Kramer said to Jerry, he said, “Jerry, my show is not going very well. “I think I’m gonna get Jim Fowler and his animals,” And… Read More

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No, I think the trick and the key and people in our position who have an interest in a mission trying to get out some important things about the natural world. We have to use television rather than it use us. And you gotta know how to do that. Often… Read More

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Can you give me one example of that?… Read More

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Yeah, the Conan O’Brien is a pretty good example and Today Show. Today Show allowed me to use Today Show to promote the natural world. Although they’re fairly sensitive about how I present an animal and what I say about it, but they know that that I’m a serious person. Read More

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But you did other jobs other than being the personality on camera?… Read More

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When I was doing Wild Kingdom, I was pretty well full time with Don Meier. But I did, before the show was really bought, I had been lecturing quite a bit around the country. And that’s why I had all my animals with me and I continued to lecture not… Read More

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What is television to you?… Read More

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The question about what is television?… Read More

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It wasn’t… Wild Kingdom. Yeah, I think we did have a budget we had to look very carefully on. But Don Meier had the ability to do things for the right price. He was quite a negotiator, and also there had to be enough money left over that didn’t go… Read More

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Well, so what?… Read More

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Getting these experience and everything else. Read More

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It showed them a part of the world that was interesting and fascinating and gave them some hope that some of them that they could actually do that. I have a lot of people on airplanes even today. It’s amazing number of people that still remember chapter and verse on… Read More

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They prey on our fellow human beings by trying to create animals that are dangerous to humans. A lot of television now is so commercial. It’s going after an audience who don’t know anything about the natural world. They’re killing alligators in Louisiana. They think that’s a big deal. That’s… Read More

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I’m a bit discouraged now about, they have programs called “When Animals Attack People”. Animals are the last thing that people have to worry about. The incident of a person being damaged by an animal is so small that it’s dramatic when it happens, you know, Siegfried and Roy, or… Read More

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Was Wild Kingdom on a tight budget because you had to be part of the shooting crew?… Read More

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Well, they’re good questions especially when he asks why Wild Kingdom was popular?… Read More

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