Well, the maintenance people tried to pull something on her. They put the cereopsis goose out there, you know, she was definitely afraid of birds and that, and she was assistant supervisor of the maintenance, doing the restrooms. Read More
The goose bit her in the calf, right?… Read More
She’d been told them, they knew not to do that, all right?… Read More
What is this guy doing?… Read More
You know, because I’m sorry to say that we had a cereopsis goose up here, which is, I think it was endangered at the time, maybe it still is now, I don’t know. And this lady worked in the maintenance got, was afraid of geese. Read More
They would bite her, you know?… Read More
Yes. At that time, Maruska and I were now are very good friends. Read More
At that time, he probably wondered, who is this guy up here in Columbus, Ohio?… Read More
Were you getting advice from any others zoo directors?… Read More
Yup. Read More
When you started here at Columbus?… Read More
A lot of guys in the zoo business, they might not tell you, I don’t, you know me, I’ll tell you. A lot of them they go, “Oh my God. “Don’t let anybody know I like the circus.” I don’t give a, whatever, anyway. Read More
So, yes I do, you wanna get into the what, some of the promotions I did?… Read More
Because I’m not proud of it, but I did it. We’ll talk those. I want to just ask a quick question about when you were the directors. Read More
Only me, Joel Olsteen, the minister, were allowed with his family, ’cause I’ve just been fascinated by the Wallendas, you know. That had nothing to do the animals. Just I’m bad as anybody by that kind of circus stuff. That’s all. And so was, by the way. So was my… Read More
Clayton?… Read More
So, you know, the answer to your question is I think, you know, when did I know that I was accepted?… Read More
When the employee started working with me, when the trustees said, “Jack, what do you think we should do up here?” Well, we gotta do a lot of stuff up here. You know, we’re gonna get people, that get in the place first to believe in their zoo. I’d go… Read More
But Ringling is a circus that has progressed. It gotten better, just like I told you, zoos had gotten better. If anybody knows anything about Ringling, by the way, I’ll just throw these in, throw it away if you don’t wanna use it. Look at their Asian elephant research, just… Read More
Nothing, I don’t care the president, I don’t care if anybody gave me the Nobel peace prize, forget it, you know?… Read More