Hour 1: Happy Birthday Ron Magill!
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Who is Ron Magill and why is his birthday significant?
All right, coming in to meet the legendary Tony here at the legendary Arbetters, baby. Tony, three-point Tony, man. How you doing?
Good to see you, Ron. This is hollow ground. It is hollow ground. Your name is on the wall. Well, you know what?
Did you pay for it? I spent a lot of time here, man. High school days, this was the stomping grounds. We'd come in here and we'd rag on the Columbus guys.
Where'd you go to high school? Miami Palmetto. Palmetto. Okay, so we're already bitter rivals from the beginning because I'm a Killian guy. Oh, big cat trophy. I'll have you say that. I won it every year that I went to school. Really? I didn't win it once. The reason why, Tim Hardaway Jr. stopped me every single time. Oh, that's right. Can you take us back to the beginning?
I was born and raised in New York City. My father was Cuban. My mother from Colombian descent. My first language was Spanish and I purposely forgot Spanish. I was like, yeah, yeah, I purposely forgot it because I just thought that was that was like a bad label for me because it gave people a reason to make fun of me. Right. I never played a sport in my life. OK, it wasn't until in high school that the coach put me out of the hallway and said, hey, Ryan, you're going to play basketball. I laughed at him. I said, have you seen me walk? I mean, come on, it's ridiculous. And we went to the tryouts, you know, you go to the tryouts and then they'll pin up the people who make the team on the list. And I go up there and then I see my name on the list.
I see these guys who didn't make it. And then I'm ridiculed even more.
You just got there because you're tall.
I got there because I was tall, you know, and... And I went to the coach and said, Coach, you're killing me. I don't even want to be on this team. It's just making things worse for me. I don't forget what he told me. He said, at the time, because I was so tall, he said, Ron, you can't coach height.
He still can't, by the way.
I'm going to take the time and invest in you. And that coach, he's probably the single most important person in my life outside of my immediate family.
How did you get from the trajectory of good at school, Playing sports, giving you the confidence in sports, left turn animals. Where did that come from? Animals were the focus from the very beginning.
The left turn was sports, was getting to be accepted into society. When I was a kid, there was one show, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. And there were two co-hosts in that show. There was a guy named Marlon Perkins and another guy named Jim Fowler. Jim was the guy who did the crazy stuff. I mean, Jim was jumping out of helicopters on top of caribou. He was rappelling down mountains, grabbing condors with one hand. I'm like, that's what I want to do. I want to be that guy. And when you have a job, if you love doing what you do, you're really not going to work. And I mean, that's the reason why I've been at the zoo for over 44 years is because, dude, I, you know, when you get paid to do things that people pay to do, you know, I just got back from two weeks in Africa. I mean, I've traveled around the world.
So you go from working with other animals in a capacity that lands you on Salo de Gigante with Don Francisco.
It's true. I was literally at the zoo, as a zookeeper, walking in the... Normal day. Normal day, and I was doing, I think, a presentation about an animal. And this guy, Don Francisco, who I don't know who... I have no clue who he is. Right. He comes up to me in this kind of a heavy accent. He goes, I would like you to be a macho. I said, okay, well, what's your show?
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