I think it came on at a time when there were lots of people that were looking, because it was a time where people could do a lot of the things that they wanted to do. We weren’t as regulated in those days. And I have people come up to… Read More
So sometimes I wake up two o’clock in the morning and wondering let’s see if that snake had gotten me, could he have done any real damage?… Read More
But so that may be funny in some aspect, it was funny because the cameraman and the Indians ran away from the situation wouldn’t even come back. They lost it, because they considered a big snake that got an advantage over me. They considered it, what they call the canaima… Read More
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Of course. All right later on I got the snake back in the holding area and it broke loose when it got really healthy and a kitchen apart, snake that weighed over 200 pounds, and I could see the trail going through the forest. It was about that wide, and… Read More
The Indians told me they’d heard the sound of the dog for two days, but they wouldn’t go near see what was happening. Well, the snake had wrapped the backside of the dog, but the front end was still audible. Like I say, the snake could hold on for a… Read More
‘Cause a big snake doesn’t have anything else to do. They don’t have to take their kids to a soccer match, they don’t have to pay taxes. So if necessary they’re built so they can keep tightening and keep that pressure on you for as long as they want. So… Read More
You often will. If you go into shock, you lose control. And that’s the way some animals kill other animals. I don’t wanna get off on another subject, but if a buffalo’s that weighs 2000 pounds is attacked by four or five lions, the lions jumping on his back, they… Read More
And I was able to break some of the teeth and get it backing off of me, and I was able to get it back (chuckles) in the holding area. There’s one more little addition to that story. Read More
And I had two snakes there. This is the kind of thing I used to do on television. I put to show him why he was afraid of snakes, I put or why people work. ‘Cause I didn’t know at that time that he was deathly afraid of snakes. So… Read More
And so then I started that story about the snake swallowing my arm. It was 22 feet on. Oh, by the way, I expected some help from my trusty Indian guides companions. They ran off in the jungle and they never did come back. So I was there left with… Read More
But anyway, so I had to handle the whole thing myself. And I told Alan King, I said, “Yeah, Mr. King, when the snake had to me up “to the shoulder,” I said, “I was wondering, should I go in like this?” Well, he got sick on the show. Alan… Read More
And he, I saw him 10 years later at the US Tennis Open and he remembered me instantly. And he said, don’t tell me any more of that story. But anyway, the snake I… Bryant Gumbel once asked me, he said, “How in the heck did I got loose?” And… Read More
You can’t pull out. If you pull out, you’re gonna end up with gangrene and that area. So I had to let the snake have my hand and I had to grab the tail because even then I knew that the danger point of a big constrictor like that, is… Read More
And it was a very exciting spot because I had taken into the studio in New York, two 12 foot anacondas that I had brought back when they were babies, and they had grown to be 12 feet. They were in the museum at Earlham College and I borrowed them… Read More
And I noticed he was a little nervous and I was telling him why people are afraid of snakes?… Read More
It was very aggressive. In those days a snake that big would be this high off the ground, ready to strike, you know, defend itself. And I was not afraid of big snakes. It’s knowledge or fear is a lack of knowledge, actually. So I knew what I had to… Read More
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