 Joan's macho style and open fondness for younger women provoked the inevitable question Does bother me that I sound like a male chauvinist. No, I am a male chauvinist. I think women are wonderful I think every man should own several Can I ask this is maybe a unfair question is there sex between you is Is it true as I've heard all over Hollywood that the reason your wife divorced you is because you can no longer get it up Or is that just a savage rumor is there sex between us you damn right? My wife what the hell else would I have her for you know? Is that really true? I mean are you offended by that kind of characterization? Don't you feel embarrassed by that? Would you like to have a sexual contest? Starlets here and have a you know Big game hunter soldier of fortune still carries a pistol said to have killed six hundred elephants Seventy-three men in his lifetime, but he feels sorry only for the animals He's real his name is Arthur Jones self-educated man too powerful too rich and too aggressive to be called eccentric But who's tough talk about his projects his passions and philosophy of life and sometimes offend the faint of heart Here's Arthur Jones one of a kind Three things of value Younger women faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles Is it all what you've probably heard about him has to say the least not been flattering For instance one of the most recent articles written about Jones called him quote a tortured soul Antisocial an inventor who has devised a three-part plan to bring the United States to its knees The article also quotes Jones is saying that the only invention he thinks the public would use correctly is a cyanide pill They can either take it or not take it In every television show you've ever seen or every article you've ever read about Arthur Jones That is in fact how he is depicted as an eccentric millionaire tyrant who lives in the middle of central, Florida Who Brooks no interference and tolerates no mistakes and that perhaps is Arthur Jones biggest complaint That he is often misrepresented by the media not just him, but everyone else as well Now what about do you carry a gun? They have what they call a Sullivan law in the state of New York. That's an embarrassing question What we pass over that but did I embarrass you about carrying a gun? I Was once quoted and accurately as saying that a gun is like a tourniquet You may never need one, but when you do you need it very badly and very quickly Hmm Now your your business is booming and and the I read read this afternoon where you also don't like to You don't you don't like to publish the the sales figures or the the profits and losses and so forth Well, you don't hand clubs to people to beat you with so Yeah, but if you do you get lumps on your head, but is it I don't have enough hair for that Is it how how much can you give us a hint as to how much the company is worth? I don't know. Yeah, someone once said that if you knew what you were worth. You're not worth very much Yeah, so this would be probably beyond our wildest imagination In this narcissistic me decade where disciples of physical perfection pump iron on the zen route to personal fulfillment There was one man in the right place and at the right time He created an exercise formula and turned it into a 300 million dollar empire These are just a few of the better bodies built by Nautilus Odarek Victoria principal and this 21-year-old beauty who's married to the king of firm flesh a man who started with a plastic card with no Credit left and wound up on fortunes 400 wealthy American list 60-year-old Arthur Jones And if they had bothered to check my account, I had about 42 cents in it. If that may be 18 cents the credit card had a top limit of $300 and At that point I think I had about $2,000 charged to it It all began with one simple machine built in a rented garage Thanks to a small loan from his sister 14 years later his company projects 10-year earnings of over nine billion We are 700 times as big as we were 13 years ago And I believe we will be 700 times as big 13 years in the future as we are today today that empire has skyrocketed to include three 707s an intercontinental jet and a fleet of twin-engine planes Well a joke is a joke, but when Arthur gets serious He comes out with some quotes that seem intended to shock and they're pure Arthur Well, I have been quoted as saying that I'm 64,000 miles to the right of a till of the hun But I think that's an understatement Teddy Roosevelt said Walk softly and carry a big stick In 1900 that might have been appropriate Today you sneak around and carry a Thompson sub machine gun I don't admire much else about the Arabs But I do admire their attitude towards theft Chop off the hand the first time and the head the second time But a ninth-grade education in the 1930s was equivalent to about two PhDs today And that's giving the PhDs the benefit of the doubt Armed with his ninth-grade education Arthur set out to conquer the world and he started by learning to fly Today Arthur owns a fleet of jets and his number one pilot is wife Terry. I didn't teach Terry to fly I stuck her in the left seat of the airplane and said flight And when she made a mistake that might otherwise have killed her then I saved her She flies the three 707s They keep beside the house and will attempt to break in around the world speed record later this year But last summer the plane was put to a different use It became sort of an elephant bus in the largest single animal airlift in history Arthur rescued 63 African elephants from certain starvation and brought them home to the backyard at a reported cost of one million dollars Why did he do it? Well, he says the elephants are for medical research, but just what kind of research he isn't saying When we are ready to publish the results, we will publish the results in the meantime. We won't talk about it Meanwhile, the elephants are thriving in the Florida sunshine Willie this little fellow has just had a root canal and Shupa the smallest has gained over 100 pounds and likes to follow Arthur and Terry around like a puppy I always wanted a horse farm I never thought I'd have a farm with elephants and rhinos and gorillas. Yes, there's a pair of white rhinos That just had their first baby over 150 rattlesnakes copras and pythons And close to 500 alligators and crocodiles meet Makulu one of the largest crocodiles in captivity and his lovely mate And then there's Mickey the gorilla all 400 pounds of him Well, he's into advertising now and earns his keep starring in television commercials