Marlin Perkins

Um-

Marlin Perkins and...?

Ah, they talked a- they put him in the chat yesterday.

Jim.

Yeah, what was that guy? The guy f-

There you go.

Yeah.

There we go.

Love it.

This is Marlin Perkins for Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, every Sunday night.

And then the, you know, Walt World, Disney World after that.

I love the fact that you went old school on me and harkened back to the beginning of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, because I've seen it written where you attribute your interest in wildlife and conservation to the television shows that you watched as a child, including the original Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

I can remember still, Dr. Rae, watching on Saturday nights at seven o'clock on NBC here in New York, and I can still hear Marlin Perkins saying, "While Jim goes down the river." I still see that show.

So, Dr. Rae-

[laughs]

So the boat's still floating, and we're trying to kill a few birds with one stone here, so to speak.

I feel a little bit like Marlin Perkins here, but I'm in the cockpit so our friend Jim can hand me the used disc zinc for me to get the hexagonal nut out of it.

The other one's right here.

Uh-huh.

Well- To make a long story short, after I got out of veterinary school, I went to Africa for two years, and I was able to fulfill a boyhood dream.

I was able to be a Frank Buck for two years and work with Marlin Perkins.

Many of you will remember him from the Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, and he's a great gentleman.

And after two years of working with elephants and rhino, people used to ask me, "Are, are you a small animal vet or a large animal vet?" Well, I would tell them I'm a extra-large animal vet 'cause I work with elephants and rhinos.

Right.

Now, St. Louis, we didn't even have a problem fundraising, 'cause we had Marlin Perkins, the guy on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

Mm-hmm.

And he was on The Tonight Show all the time.