Ron Magill

against the uh backlash of county officials who gave me all kinds of about it and i was very thankful um to a herald uh columnist who defended me fabiola santiago defended me she said he's going there for conservation conservation's you know the animals in cuba are not democrats republicans they're not political they're part of the heritage of all of us anyway to make a long story short i'll never forget i go into little havana i'm walking down the streets of little havana people are yelling my name tony from the balconies

People are coming down the stairs and they're coming and they're giving me food they don't have, Tony. They're offering me things that they don't have in their own house. They just want to take a picture and I go, And they go, I go, They got this whole business over there, Tony, where they had these thumb drives.

People are coming down the stairs and they're coming and they're giving me food they don't have, Tony. They're offering me things that they don't have in their own house. They just want to take a picture and I go, And they go, I go, They got this whole business over there, Tony, where they had these thumb drives.

And these guys are like little blockbuster video stores, little incognito in the corners, where they have the thumb drives, where these people are like pirating the show. They get it to these guys, and then they rent out the thumb drives, and people watch Saba de Grande every Saturday, part of La Paquete. It's all over Cuba. I mean, when they say the Cubans resolve, resuelve. Resuelve. Resuelve.

And these guys are like little blockbuster video stores, little incognito in the corners, where they have the thumb drives, where these people are like pirating the show. They get it to these guys, and then they rent out the thumb drives, and people watch Saba de Grande every Saturday, part of La Paquete. It's all over Cuba. I mean, when they say the Cubans resolve, resuelve. Resuelve. Resuelve.

Always. I mean, it's unbelievable. I look at the cars. I remember the old cars. I'm going, oh, my God, that's beautiful. Classic. What happened? Let me look at the engine. I open up the hood. It's like a lawnmower engine. Exactly. Put together with rubber bands and paper clips from all kinds of different engines. These people are so ingenious in what they do.

Always. I mean, it's unbelievable. I look at the cars. I remember the old cars. I'm going, oh, my God, that's beautiful. Classic. What happened? Let me look at the engine. I open up the hood. It's like a lawnmower engine. Exactly. Put together with rubber bands and paper clips from all kinds of different engines. These people are so ingenious in what they do.

It was so rewarding to me because I got to be honest with you, Tony, I've never been to Cuba. And I remember my father, who had since passed away. thinking he was New York. When I went to New York on the little Cuba, that's the way he spoke. When I went to Cuba, I realized, no, he was Cuba.

It was so rewarding to me because I got to be honest with you, Tony, I've never been to Cuba. And I remember my father, who had since passed away. thinking he was New York. When I went to New York on the little Cuba, that's the way he spoke. When I went to Cuba, I realized, no, he was Cuba.

I saw my father's face in every one of those faces when they came to me and said, oye, hermano, como esta, compadre, all that stuff. These are all the terms my father used to use. I said, wow, this is where my roots are. Here, Tony, they would invite me into their little bodegas and give me food and they would not take my payment. I had to throw the money at them.

I saw my father's face in every one of those faces when they came to me and said, oye, hermano, como esta, compadre, all that stuff. These are all the terms my father used to use. I said, wow, this is where my roots are. Here, Tony, they would invite me into their little bodegas and give me food and they would not take my payment. I had to throw the money at them.

How can you do that when I know you're starving? When you have nothing. You have nothing. You have nothing. And that makes me proud. Makes me proud of my heritage. So that's probably the most meaningful to me now. It's the most surprising recognizability of the sábado que gata show. That guy, Jim Fowler on Wild Kingdom.

How can you do that when I know you're starving? When you have nothing. You have nothing. You have nothing. And that makes me proud. Makes me proud of my heritage. So that's probably the most meaningful to me now. It's the most surprising recognizability of the sábado que gata show. That guy, Jim Fowler on Wild Kingdom.

And he's the one who taught me all this stuff. And of course he was a huge international star. So I asked him to go down with me to Panama to work on this Harpy Eagle project. And we had to go way into the rainforest in the Dariang, which is on the border of Panama and Colombia. It's not a very safe area, but it's an incredible forest. A lot of people. Exactly. A lot of bad people.

And he's the one who taught me all this stuff. And of course he was a huge international star. So I asked him to go down with me to Panama to work on this Harpy Eagle project. And we had to go way into the rainforest in the Dariang, which is on the border of Panama and Colombia. It's not a very safe area, but it's an incredible forest. A lot of people. Exactly. A lot of bad people.

So we had to take a dugout canoe for four hours down the river to get to this village of these indigenous people. I mean, these people living in the forest. No electricity, no nothing. Women, bare-breasted, stuff like that. So I got the GPS to go there and Jim's with me. After four hours, we finally get to the riverbank where the village is and the chief comes out.

So we had to take a dugout canoe for four hours down the river to get to this village of these indigenous people. I mean, these people living in the forest. No electricity, no nothing. Women, bare-breasted, stuff like that. So I got the GPS to go there and Jim's with me. After four hours, we finally get to the riverbank where the village is and the chief comes out.

Guy just in literally a loincloth. He's wearing nothing else than some beads. From a movie, just the same thing he's seen in a movie. Comes up, he looks at me and he goes, And I'm not, now I'm sure I'm being punked. Now I'm sure. Where's the camera? Where's the camera here? What's going on here? And Jim looks, oh, come on. I'm the one who's being punked here because Jim's the international star.

Guy just in literally a loincloth. He's wearing nothing else than some beads. From a movie, just the same thing he's seen in a movie. Comes up, he looks at me and he goes, And I'm not, now I'm sure I'm being punked. Now I'm sure. Where's the camera? Where's the camera here? What's going on here? And Jim looks, oh, come on. I'm the one who's being punked here because Jim's the international star.

And I paid this guy to do this with Ron McGill and who's Jim Fallon, right? And I realized, and he goes, and I go, how do you know him? We walk with this guy into the village, and as we're walking in the village, they got a television set up there that's rigged in one way or another to a car battery with a satellite dish.