First of all, I want to say thank you so much for spending some time with us. I'm very excited to talk to you right now for everybody listening.

Everybody watching already knows who we're talking to, but everybody listening. We have the legend, the tiger god, if you will.

Boggo on doc. Antel is in the building or at least calling in.

I'm so excited. So many things to ask you. First of all, this is the first question.

What did you do to piss off this documentarian?

And I think he was just going for what he thought would cause the most playground insanity of murder, mayhem and madness, right?

That's what he was going for. That's the stuff that he was trying to tag and he did a good job of just making it crazy.

Dude, he, well, there was something specific and it actually bothered me. And maybe I noticed it more just because I'm in the industry and I know how annoying editing is, right?

But like the documentary obviously Tiger King everybody knows it. The episodes were about like 40 some odd minutes, right?

So they made it for TV. They thought they were going to sell it to a TV channel because they had commercial breaks built in, right?

Yeah.

And he would leave in a little bit longer when he was filming you. He would leave him before you were going to start recording because you were offering to like help spruce up the scene going,

Hey, why don't I introduce you guys. I'll come in from the apartment or he's never done. He is not a director. He's a turtle connoisseur.

The guys deeply into collecting turtles and he ran some nightclubs, but he's not a director. And he'd be there just languoring. And I'd be like, okay, I'm going to come through the door. We're going to do it like this.

I did that stuff with him 10 times. And if you listen at that exact moment, the cameraman's like doctor X so much better than Eric.

No, listen to the audio. He says it right there. You can hear it.

Oh, where the cameraman was sick to death of him. He was a frickin amateur about the entire process, but it saved him in a lot of ways because I just thought he didn't know what he was doing.

But he had such an alternative plan. Is this who came to me and just said, Hey, I'm making a show about wildlife education, conservation. I got Richard Branson talking about all the lemurs on his island.

And I'm a turtle, dude. I'm the number one collector of turtles in the room. The dude's got millions in turtles.

And I've got all these turtles. And I'm going to talk about the world of conservation for wildlife.

And I know you've done all this great stuff with your tigers and all of your work in sumatra, your ranger stations that you've built there.

I want to just document all of that. And I know you've got stuff going on in Africa. I'm going to come with you to Africa on your next trip.

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