I do know one thing, that this, up here at this zoo, people come here for one word, and we done a lot of money on research on this. We had a survey and you can add this where you want to. I have to go through this stuff while… Read More
To have fun at the zoo, To see the animals, to have your picnic, to be safe?… Read More
There was two other, I’m sorry, I don’t remember what they were. Read More
Yes, you better darn well do it, our curators, and you, the director, whoever it is. And yes, it’s serious business, but don’t try and preach that to the public. They don’t want, they don’t, they want you to produce the animals so they can learn and love about them. Read More
I’d done some wrong things, all right?… Read More
This is the other place, by the way. But you see where I’m coming from. I’m not knocking what we do, we’ve done a great job. All, everybody has, but we have to really get serious about this, and really start working together very much closer, very quickly. I know… Read More
And then we got EMPAs, all these big terms, and it is important, but you know something?… Read More
Our zoo visitor, excuse my language again, but you can edit it, didn’t give a rat’s ass about SSPs. They don’t come to learn about SSPs. That’s our job. My daughter’s brain tumor. I didn’t ask the doctor if he was going through the foretex, ortex, all this stuff. I… Read More
But we have a hard time even getting sustainability in our own zoos. They practice, they’re preaching things. They don’t practice what they preach, that’s all. And I’m gonna do a lecture before I retire someday, and try, it’s getting much better, don’t get me wrong. We still have, not… Read More
We still have that thing of, well, do we want the wilds?… Read More
We had the 10,000, we were able to send some animals here, oh my God, that, they’re gonna get PR out of that. We don’t care about, I’ve preached to my people. We don’t care about the PR to the wilds. I could give a rat’s you know what. If… Read More
You know what, people say this sustainability program, how are we gonna work together?… Read More
We don’t even work together in the state of Ohio. Read More
I love all those other zoo directors, okay?… Read More
And when I go to, when I come back from out of town, like I did yesterday, what’d I do?… Read More
She’ll tell you. I went to Africa, I made a few suggestions. They can do it or not do it. I went and saw the bathrooms. I just was a little late here, ’cause I wanted to go see the bathrooms in my office. I just, I watch things like… Read More
Maybe when it started really growing about 15 years ago. That lady is incredible. We took her away from Honda. I go in there and she’ll, I even, I haven’t seen Kate, let’s say I’m filming for three or four weeks. I don’t go to the office. I’ll run right… Read More
Tell me, I don’t even run the zoo, by the way. But I want to know what’s happening. Then I go to my office because the gist is in that human resource office of the people work here. A lot of people preach it, they don’t practice it in this,… Read More
I can’t, I still can’t get over it, okay?… Read More
A parking lot, the parking lot out there, that’s the largest one in Ohio, I think. Someone says it is. Well, second for sure. That cost me, cost the zoo, $9 million to build it. I said, “You’re crazy! “I don’t wanna build a dumb parking lot. “Park on the… Read More