"Okay." "Let me just check my levels here and we'll be ready." "Okay." "Test one, two, three." "All right." "Have you ever been told you look like a celebrity?" " Jane Fonda." " Jane Fonda?" "My father always told me I looked like Jane Fonda." "Wow, that's a stretch." "Hey, one guy told me, "Hey, from the back you look like Bob Hope."" ""And from the front, no hope."" "So, I kind of look like Beyonce." "With a Monique shape." "You hit a note, girl." "How do you like this repartee?" "I've had a cold for six weeks." "Are you taping this already?" "What do you feel about winter?" " I don't like winter." " I don't like the winter." " Don't like the winter." " Don't like the winter." " Don't ask me how come I'm living in Alaska." " Don't like the winter." "Well, I'll tell you something, if you live in the Great Plains as long as I have, you have respect for winters." "They'll come and haunt you, especially if you're not prepared for them." "He hates the winter." "It's horrible." "He goes into a deep, deep state of depression." "It's bad." "My mood in the winter is always very happy 'cause I like depressing things, and I like darkness." "So I don't find the shortness of days a problem at all." "I don't know." "It's hard for me to say." "I have never spent a year without a winter, so it would be hard for me to say whether I like it or not." "Much like life, it is thrust upon us against our will." "Everything kind of retreats or dies or goes into some kind of natural exile during the winter." " Natural exile." " Yeah." "It's called hibernation." "It's very difficult to get up in the morning when the days are short, the nights are long." "I like to sleep more." "...which is from the Latin word for winter." "What is the Latin word for winter?" " Hibernation?" " Hiberna." "Oh." "I see the cold not only as a physical problem, but as an intellectual problem." "Like, how do you stay warm in this cold?" "How do you go into a climate that's maybe 100 degrees below zero at times?" "You have to have some kind of imagination, some kind of thought wave that makes this totally bearable, totally enjoyable." "One thing Jared and I love to do during the winter is spoon." " Oh, God, we spoon all right." " We spoon like mad dogs." "It's like..." "We either spoon where both heads of the spoon are facing the same way, or sometimes we spoon where one of the heads of the spoon is facing the other way, the other one's facing the other way." "So it's really, it's not even..." "Well, then we're making..." "What kind of spoon is that?" "Wintertime's a nice time to have a woman living with you, if at all possible." "That's the best time of the year for that." "One that will keep you warm in the winter." "Well, I have a fur coat, I'm sorry to say that." "But to me, winter just means fur." " Real fuzzy warm feeling." " Yeah, fuzzy." "Fleece is a lot lighter than wool, but it doesn't feel as comfortable to me." "I just like wool a little more." "I like to gain as much weight as I can in the winter." "I eat anything that I can run down, catch, eat raw, whatever." "Deer, turkey, rabbit, buffalo, antelope, elk..." "If you have the correct things to wear, I think winter's fine, the cold is fine." "If you don't have a good insulating property on whatever you have, you're going to be cold and then, therefore, it's not going to be fun." "What things do you like about playing in the snow?" "We made a snowman." "Building a snowman?" "So, do you like to drink hot chocolate when you're done?" " Yes." " Great!" "It's pretty, though, to see the snow." " You know, it's scenic." " Very, very nice." "And we like that." "We look across the street at the park and it's very pretty." "But at our age, the consideration is not to fall." " That's a very big thing." " I fell in the house, I didn't need snow." "I like it when it's movie snow, powdery and flaky, and it looks sparkly like stars, and it blows away." "You can just blow it away with your breath." "It's that light, fluffy kind of snow." "Don't like the winter." "What parts of your body get coldest?" " My ears." " My ears, definitely." "And my nose." " I hate it when my nose gets cold." " My hands, my hands." "Oh, my goodness." " They turn, like, into little icicles." " I can't use my hands." "Red icicles." "I hate when that happens." "And I have to duck under 'cause I don't have a hat sometimes." "It gets really cold." "Everything, from head to toes, I be freezing," "I be shivering and everything." "My mouth like..." "Horses are meant to be outside, you know." "They're tough." "They can survive 80-below blizzards." "They may complain about it, but they're fine." "When you go in the cold water, certain parts of our bodies lose all the blood and shrink." "And the colder the water, the more the shrinkage." "I don't like it bitter cold, but I do like it..." "I do like fresh, crisp, cold stuff." "I like the going out in the morning and seeing the breath." "It's so quiet and it's just beautiful." "And there's still moisture in the air and it just kind of crystallizes and just, that's floating in the midair, it's just special, very special." "Oh, I say the water was about 38 by the amount of shrinkage I have today." "Excuse me." "Winter cold!" "Winter's cool." "He's Hawaiian, he no do too good in cold." " Somebody mention winter." "What that?" " I don't know." "Why do birds..." "Why do birds fly south in the winter?" "Because it's too far to walk." "I really like that one." "I've been coming to Florida for a good 30 years in the winter." "I go about the middle of October, when it's just starting to get cooler." "Then I say, "It's time for me to go south!"" "Here in the South we have beautiful long falls and hardly any winter." "Though, we have a nice harvest moon." "Don't you like the moon?" "I do like the moon, but I have no idea of what you just said." "I'm talking about the harvest moon." "What harvest moon?" "What's a harvest moon?" "The big harvest moon ball that comes out in the fall." "Don't you see it in the fall?" "I think I see it every single day of the year, Mom." "Not the harvest moon." "The harvest moon is very special." "It comes out in the fall." "You should check your calendar." "I don't have a calendar." "Meteorologically speaking, winter..." "Think of it like a flashlight pointing at the Earth and because the Earth is tilted at 23-degree angle, at some point in time, as it's orbiting around the sun..." " You want me to keep going?" " Just start at the top again." "Okay, first of all, it has to do with the tilt of the Earth on its axis." "I love the groundhog." "Why do they call it a hog?" "Why can't they call it, like, the "ground beaver"?" "Why does it have to be a hog, it doesn't look like a hog, it's not a pig." " That's true." " Yeah, why can't words ever be right?" "I mean this is ridiculous, you know?" "Have winter be over already." "I can tell when spring is coming 'cause it smells like crap outside." " Yeah..." " It does, it smells like dog crap." "I think it starts with the winds that are shifting." "Mom, I don't think you know what you're talking about." "How do you..." "Wind does not change season to season." "Sure it does." "I was trying to say, you know, the winds are cold," " and then they start getting..." " You think you know more tropical breeze." "...what you're talking about, but you're actually not saying anything." " Well, I'm not a meteorologist or anything..." " You can say that again." "Of course, I always liked spring." "There's a season of rebirth coming." "The grass is going to green up and things growing, and the call in the morning of the meadowlark and the killdeer." "I mean, what more could you ask?" "That's a sign that makes life worth living." "Do I think I look like or feel like a what?" "No, do you look like someone famous?" "Oh, if I told you, you wouldn't believe it." "Gertrude Stein." "Who told you that, Nat?" "A lot of people have told me." "I haven't seen that." "You know she was a lesbian?" "Yes, I have been told that, I would think it was about 17 years ago, and I was told I looked like Paul Newman." "Some of the guys call me "Dolly."" "They thought I look like Dolly Parton." " I was a lot skinnier then." " I know." "So, could you talk a little bit about how they treat you in here?" "They want to know how you're treated here." "I didn't hear him ask." "I'm repeating the question that he asked me." "I'm repeating it to you." "They want to know how you're treated here." " How I'm treated here?" " Yeah." "Okay." "Talk into the microphone." "I am treated well." "You know, this place is like a resort." "This is the type of place you want." "You want a place where there's comfort, a swimming pool, things to make us comfortable and the things to keep us happy." "And this is what we have here." "It's very hard to leave this place." "I don't think it's a horrible existence." "I'd like a little more freedom, but it's real safe here and I get fed nicely." "It's not like prison." "It's more like camp." "And I think it can be good for some animals." "It could be safe, a safe place." "Yeah." "And, you know, they gets pretty good care." " Yeah." " I mean, they got great veterinarians and they've got room service..." " And they get their picture taken all the time." " It could be worse." " Could be worse." " It doesn't sound like a bad life to me." "I am underpaid, under-loved and overworked." "I am the..." "I mean, this place is hell." "Very intolerant of people staring at me." "Do not stare." "Don't make me all uncomfortable, all undressing me with your eyes." "Don't." "Especially, nowadays, with all the technology." "Take a picture." "I think animals should be able to explore." " Yeah." " No matter how big the cage is..." " Yeah." "...it's not a real habitat." "It's not a natural habitat." "And a natural habitat, I think, is better for the animal." "No matter how hard they try to make it look like one." "Well, if I was in charge here, I'd do a little better job screening the personnel." "I'd make the service a little better." "What do I want?" "Okay, I want a Slushee machine, that would help." "Okay, I'd like a full array of pens, pencils, drawing paper, so if I want to create something I can create it." "What else do I want?" "You know, let's have some soft porn, too." "I think that's a really good learning device for children and adults, people especially who are not world travelers, to see live animals that they would never see anywhere else except on television." "I'm from a part of Peru that is in the jungle of Peru." "I'm a jungle queen." "Elephants..." "Elephants, whatever that is, zebra, koalas, kangaroos, a seal and a..." "I can't believe it, they don't have any polar bears." "This is a business." "It's a turnstile business, just like going to a ball game, a circus or anything else." "You want people to come back." "And to get them to come back, there's a level of entertainment that has to be provided for the money they pay." "But what do you get a lot of?" "Mediocrity." "A zoo at least has to have a polar bear or else it's not really a zoo, because nobody wants to visit it, because they have no polar bears." "He wants to know how you get along with the people here." "There are some people who can be annoying." "I don't start, by the way, but once I'm pushed, then I react normally." "I kill them, okay?" "He would not kill them, really." "What a lot of people don't know about the zoos are that there is a whole world that goes on there when they're not there." "They have no idea what goes on." "I can't tell you more than that, sorry." "Well, there is, to some degree, some flirting going on." "And I think that's healthy." "And some successfully, and some not so successfully." "And there's a great deal of obnoxiousness, too." " Like what?" " Like what?" "You said obnoxiousness." "What?" "Tell me what." "Detail it." " Inappropriate comments." " Like what?" "Be more specific." "Trying to learn something here." "Well, like a preoccupation with women's chests." "What?" "Yeah, after hours at the zoo, everybody does like to go out and have a good time." "We are party animals." "How many times have you told me how big my chest is?" "I never recall telling you how big it was." "I might have said how nice it was, not how big." "I probably misheard." " My suggestion is, wear a burka." " My suggestion is, you go... yourself." "You hear that?" "I hope they don't use my name on this 'cause I'm going to get fired." "Look at how big that giraffe is!" "Oh, my, don't look now, but they're having a very sensitive moment." "Tell me about the food here." " About what?" " The food." " Fues?" " Food." " What is fues?" " No, food." "Fues." " Food!" " F-O-O-D." "Food." "Oh, fues." "I've heard some bad things about zoo feed." "I've heard that they feed them worms, bugs..." " Thawed rats." " And what's this whole theory about, like..." " That's the yummiest thing there." "...they feed the tigers dead racehorses?" "So is the food nice?" " I am trying to be nice." " No, is the food nice?" "Feud?" "Sometimes, you know, you're sick and tired of the same routine." "Morning, get up, go for breakfast." "Lunch, then get up, go for lunch, for dinner." "You know, you want to go out." "You want to be out with the people." "If you going to keep animals, you really shouldn't confine 'em." "'Cause I think that's why some animals just, they be confined for so long, they been confined, they really, really can't handle it." "Zoo is a three-letter word for jail." "They talk about, "Oh, this preserves things" ""and that's the only way kids learn about animals."" "How would I escape from a zoo?" "I've got no skills in, like, rock climbing or escapology or lock picking." "I don't like violence so I can't, like, overpower a guard or anything." "You know, I'd probably fake an illness and try to get into the hospital." "That always seems to be a good one on TV." "I think animals at the zoo should be free, and two days ago I signed a petition that we're sending to some animal people, telling them that animals should be free instead of in captivity." "Our ancestors never had zoos." "No, I think, like I said, zoo is a three-letter word for jail." "F." "O-O..." " D." " D?" " D." " D." " D." " D." " D." " D." " Feud." " Food." " Feud." " Food." "Yes." "Food?" " Yeah, tell me about the food here." " The food." "Say it this way." "I am hungry." "You know, that's very hard what I'm coming from the other country." "Just, I don't have, you know, special close friend over here like I have before." "No close friend where for you could share everything." "I don't have that." "My first day that I arrive here I thought I was lost and I thought I was going to just die." "I wanted to die." "I was very lonely and I never thought I could survive here on my own until you came along, Wilma." "And we just happened to like each other." "And since then we've had a wonderful life." "And we just stick together and we help each other." " I'm gonna cry." " And I think this is going to be my home for the rest of my life." "I'm going to cry." "I'd like to know who decided that giant old truck tires are fun things for monkeys to play with." "You know, who decided that that's cool?" "This is the life, honey." "You know?" "I have been told that I look like Charlize Theron, or Theron, or whatever her name is." "I've never been told that I look like anybody." "I'm just me." "I just told you, you look like Doug Mientkiewicz." "I don't look anything like Doug Mientkiewicz." "Kind of." "I just look like me, pretty much just like me." "Occasionally somebody'll say something about Suzanne Pleshette." "There's just no way I look like Suzanne Pleshette." "Yeah, there is no way." " You do kind of resemble Charles Atlas." " Yeah, right." "Do I look like anybody?" "Mostly my mother."