I don’t know where the heck he came from. I don’t know where the elephant came from that tore our tent down right next to me over there, could’ve killed anybody. And usually elephants think that tent is, as you know, as a, as a, like a fortress, they don’t… Read More
Some shows, these guys because they want to be on TV, they’ll set up fake exams. I don’t, I don’t want to go, remember I make sure that they don’t that kind of stuff, without just taking care of Jack Hanna. That’s how a different way we film there. This… Read More
He just, he just, he just liked, like this. You could see, he didn’t even scream. He was just, he was groaning. And I said, “Oh God almighty, he’s gonna lose his leg. We called the ambulance, took him to the hospital. Next day, this is him. Read More
From a guy that had a hang glider, took me over Victoria falls at two in the afternoon. The dadgum thing was going up and down like a dadgum, 50, I said, get this thing out of here. I want to go back now. And they had another helicopter filming… Read More
I think of it, a minute. Anyway, he’s in a helicopter, the helicopter this time, doing his filming. He would film like this and go down there. And plus he would film people working with giraffe, you know, roping them out in the wild. You know, catching them for not… Read More
We had a rhino picked back of our Jeep up. I don’t know where the thing came from. We had our sound man almost lose his leg. We were doing the elephant seals on the west coast, in this country, we had a veterinarian, a Game and Fish guy and… Read More
Have our comfort zones crossed?… Read More
Yes, we had a rhino, we were so, I make sure elephants and rhinos, you know, I know they can do a lot of damage in a split second, or even cape buffalo. I’ve had too many things, watching, seen happen. We’ve had accidents, we have a death, we’ve had… Read More
But you know what the deaths have been from?… Read More
“You know, you’re taking away all the feeling I have “of being out in the jungle, “and trying to represent how I feel to the viewer. Read More
“And can we stop it?… Read More
“None of that, Can we, you are gonna stop it.” “If you wanna go back in your tents at night, “or wherever you’re staying “and turn your dadgum computers on, “turn them on all night long, I really don’t care about it. “You know, but don’t ever do that out… Read More
Guy Nickerson, Spectrum Productions, Tampa. I said, “Guy, come here a minute.” I stopped everything. I said,”I cannot bring the world Africa or the, “our country on film, if a cell phone goes off. “I’m sitting here trying to be myself in Africa. “All of a sudden, your cell phone… Read More
“That tells me, why the heck do the show?… Read More
These TV shows today, it’s called reality TV. Our society is changing. I don’t even have a computer. I’m not proud of that. I wouldn’t know how to turn on a computer. Someday, I know I’ll have to learn that. But right now my life is focused. When I go… Read More
I’ll be out there trying, I can’t remember, I think it was the elephant. Anyway, look at this, this is the, I think we were in Tanzania, Look at the elephants out here, must be 15, 20 of them. All of a sudden the guy’s cell phone rings. This hadn’t… Read More
You don’t do this for 25, 30 years almost. We have a comfort zone in the animal, a comfort zone of my film crew. That even applies I think in the zoo world. You have a comfort zone of each of these, when there’s a crossing of a animal or… Read More
Did you really respect the zoo when you went there by not throwing trash on the ground and not throwing peanuts at the elephants?… Read More
That’s just what everybody did, so, you know, that’s what I did. I didn’t think twice about if they’ve selling peanuts to let the elephant hit you with peanuts, or the chimpanzees or whatever it might be. Today, again, is a different world. Today you respect. When you come to… Read More
India, obviously the Middle East, we had to turn down Jordan recently, which I hated. It’d be a heck of a show. But there’s obviously some wars there. Some people didn’t have their kids. So what we’ve been successful at, is having the country, now the Department of Tourism, whatever… Read More