And the alligator has some very sophisticated senses.

The old brain is still there. You still have that alligator brain.

Well I'll argue a non intelligent brain, we got hold of an old brain, and we're going to say it's like a non mammal, like a reptile, so I'll say, an alligator we have an alligator.

But we don't consider the alligator very intelligent, not like in a human sort of way.

Now, Mr. Alligator never did come, but the idea of Mr. Alligator coming actually saved my sanity and made it OK for me to keep going because I believed, in the distance, there would be someone coming to rescue me.

And I would go and pack a little bag and I would wait for Mr. Alligator to come.

For example, you know, in New Orleans we have Cajun Chinese food, where they serve Sichuan alligator and sweet and sour crawfish, right?

And so it's not going to break very easily, but if it does, virtually every piece in this machine can be swapped out and replaced with a hex wrench and a screwdriver.

And I actually made up a little character whose name was Mr. Alligator, and I would call him up when things got really bad, and I would say it was time to come and pick me up.