¶ Steve Irwin Episode
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G'day mate this is Living with Maydaly . It's a nostalgic TV podcast . My name's Andrew and I'm joined by Leroy . How's it going , mate ?
It's great . It's fantastic mate .
Yeah , I want to do an entire episode like that , but I can't I can't You're cutting out .
You weren't bad there .
I think it's an easy one to do the Aussie accent . It's a bit different to the New Zealand ones .
It's a bit more subtly different , isn't it ? Yeah , the certain vowels are different South African people struggle with . I think I can do a good South African .
Do a South African ? I used to work with South African . What do you want me to say ?
Can you please tell me if Coronation Street is on tonight ? All right , mate , I think that Coronation Street might be on your TV tonight . I suspect it might be on around about 7.30 , maybe 8 . Unbelievable , completely mental introduction , isn't it ? This is Steve Irwin episode of the podcast .
This is the Steve Irwin episode , steve Robert Irwin , to give him his full title .
I think what we're going to do is , rather than just say you know , because obviously he's got a massive career , rather than just saying we want to play this clip , we want to play that clip , we're going to do a little bit what we did with JP and drop in some of his better moments in between his talking .
Yeah fair play to our good friend Eg , who has sent lots of clips in because I couldn't find the video that I wanted to use . So , yeah , you're going to hear bits of Steve cut through the general conversation . It's another free and easy one . You've done well . You've opened Wikipedia .
I'm here more as a fanboy on this one , because I absolutely loved Steve Irwin .
What a beautiful snake . You know what . I'm a professional . You see a snake like this , don't muck with it . And one thing's for sure don't try this at home . Far too dangerous . This snake could have enough venom to kill me and a hundred other blokes out here in the West . What an honour to share territory , share space , with such a beautiful animal .
Oh steamer , I gotta tell you I'd rather deal with this snake than a lot of people I know . I reckon that people are much more dangerous I was going to mention .
Actually , last night you said to me , if I criticize steve irwin , you're ending the podcast that we're going to mention . Actually , last night you said to me , if I criticise Steve Irwin , you're ending the podcast . That would have been the end , wouldn't it ? That would have been an old one Liam thing , wouldn't it ? The final straw yeah . The final straw .
I mean I've criticised Westlife who you like . I'm trying to think who else you've liked that I've criticised .
General , like music that I like , that you don't like , really isn't it ?
yeah , a lot of music I'm gonna say any of . I don't mind a bit or any , but anyway . But this we're going to be the final straw . But I do like steve irwin . I'm not as uh , I don't know as much about him as as you do or other people do it .
I did used to watch it now and again when it were on , but I don't know , I just I like him a lot but I never watched it , a bit like Robot Wars . Anyway , a little bit about him . He was born on his mother's 20th birthday . Did you know that ? No , yeah , so that's quite straightaway interesting .
And he was born in Upper Fern Tree , gulley , in the same place where Shane Warne was born , the cricketer , well , yeah it's really like that , because they have a .
In my mind they're kind of twinned , like I would believe they're brothers or cousins or something like that him and Shane Warne .
Is that just because they're both Australian , you don't have that many Australians ?
Yeah , maybe so , but they do look and feel about him , don't they ? People sort of say Shane Warne was a great storyteller and you ? Get that same feeling about Steve Irwin . I think people would be drawn to him in a room . I certainly would be . His energy is phenomenal .
It's amazing , actually . I mean , obviously it's a massive place . It's not that big . If I said to you we're doing Jason Donovan this week , there's no way I'd have started this episode going . All right , man , do you know what I mean ? He's like a completely different man , isn't he ?
But if I were doing Shane Warne , I would start the episode in the exact same way .
Yeah , I don't know , he's a bit more . Do you remember Sweet Valley Hider ? It was like one of them was a nice twin and the other one was a bit sort of meaner .
Yeah meaner .
Yeah , now I'm hearing one's got a bit of a meaner . Look to him all right . Yeah , more aggressive , like I think steve irwin's the sort of nicey knight . I really like both of them , but I think steve irwin's the one who he's never going to let you down . Is he , steve irwin ? No , anyway .
his parents were of english and irish descent . He moved with his parents as a child to queensland in 1970 , um and his parents started the small queens queensland reptile anduna Park . Is it Fauna ? Is that right ? Fauna ? Yeah , fauna Park , yeah , where Steve grew up around crocodiles and other reptiles .
Steve himself began handling crocodiles at the age of nine , after his father had educated him on reptiles from an early age , and at age nine he wrestled his first crocodile under his father's supervision . I love that .
You read that when he was six , his dad gave him a 12-foot python as a present .
Yeah , yeah yeah , he grew up with , obviously . I mean Irwin took over the management of the park in 1991 . I mean , I'm trying to work out how old he would have been there 1942 . He was born . No , no , that can't be so . Yes , it's not that thing . But he took care of the management of the park and he renamed it Australia Zoo in 1998 , would you ?
have you never been to Australia ? No , not any reason . I quite like the Aussies generally . I know there's a bit of rivalry between us both , but I think it's . I think they're kind of very similar people to the English , aren't they ? I know they're a bit like our sort of madder cousins , aren't they ?
Yeah , yeah , yeah . Convict Island , isn't it Australia ? That's where it started .
Yeah , do you think that's why there's a bit of like a madness in the Australians ?
Again , though , if I mentioned Jason Donovan , to you .
You would not think you were mad , would you yeah ?
he's quite a calm man , isn't he ? Oh , and obviously in a completely different way , rolf Harris . Um , he's a madman , but not in the like . I mean , forget everything that he did .
But you know , like again I want to go all right , he's very kind of larger than life , Steve Irwin .
Who's the most famous Australian ?
Kyler Minogue .
Yeah , I'd say so . Russell Crowe , kyler Minogue's not big in America at all .
I don't see . Although I know Russell Crowe is Australian , I kind of almost he blows into being an American for me . I like the kind of Australians who are more Australian .
Yeah , so not like your Nicole Kidman's , because she's American in my eyes , even though she obviously is Australian . Heath Ledger , he's an Australian . Yeah , I didn't even know he was .
Australian yeah , yeah , yeah , he's number one . Yeah , I didn't even know he was .
Australian . Yeah , yeah , yeah , he's number one according to thefamouspeoplecom . If I went to Australia .
I would hope that there are people like Steve Irwin around . Just he could be up for anything . I can imagine you wake him up at four in the morning and say I've got to go out and there's a car stuck in a ditch . All right , mate , get your boots on . Get your boots on . Yeah , get out , anything goes .
I think he'd just be up for anything and I think , yeah , just just an incredibly likable chap .
Yeah , yeah , absolutely . Do you know what I thought ? I've been watching clips of him recently .
I little bit of what paul sykes could have been if he'd have grown up on the right side of the tracks . Yeah , I see where you're coming from . Yeah , I think he he's got that intensity , hasn't he ? Like ? He's kind of I don't know , he's like manic , but but he's in a very positive way , isn't it ?
yeah , he's the positive side of like psych . So when he's , there's a clip where his kid's being born and his eyes are genuinely the widest eyes . Have you seen this clip ? Yeah , yeah , yeah , where he's like , oh my , it's like he's stunned that he's having a kid , Like he's brilliant to watch , but it's like he's proper manic , isn't he in his ?
eyes . Is that the one where it's like he's almost forgotten that he's already had another kid , because he says something like , oh my God , cool , this is the best moment ever . Well , it was when I had the first one as well .
Yeah , yeah yeah , yeah , yeah it's like I better never want to get . But I didn't know . I never wanted to be a dad , did I ? I was just completely obsessed with crocodiles and shit . I didn't want to have kids or anything , no time for anything other than crocodiles ?
yeah , you follow his kids like what they're . I've seen Bindi does some stuff that I've seen on TV and I know it's Robert . I think he's now sort of running the zoo or between .
Yeah , yeah , yeah so .
I'm aware of them , but they've not grabbed me in the same way . I remember the first time that I saw Steve Irwin . It was like right , whatever this is , I'm watching this every week . I presume it was Crocodile Hunter where I first saw him .
Well , that's his first big thing . Yeah , crocodile Diaries debuted on Australian TV in 1996 , which is before he changed it to Australia Zoo in 1998 , sorry , yeah . So he eventually reached 500 million people worldwide , though , and his catchphrase Crikey became known internationally . Sir David , worldwide , that , and his catchphrase crikey , we became known .
Uh internationalized , uh said , say . David attenborough praised erwin uh for introducing many to the natural world . He said he taught them how wonderful and exciting it was .
He is a born communicator , so if you've got attenborough on your side , then you know well , yeah , and I get his point because I love nature documentaries , obviously , other than , uh , bears catching salmons , I'm up for you don't like penguins , do you ?
I know I don't like penguins either is it pandas you don't like um , or is it just penguins . Have I got mixed up ? I think it's .
I would like if I wouldn't want something exclusively about pandas , but if they were part of it , I wouldn't turn over but you're penguins I don't mind them on land , I think they're quite funny sort of waddling about , but I just don't really get . Yeah , I just don't really get them . Um , sorry , that was a complete tangent now .
Yeah , but yeah , I think attenborough's it is a bit dry , like I . I get why some kids would listen to attenborough , like when it's quite slow and this is where the the tortoise finds its dinner , whatever he's talking about .
¶ Steve Irwin's Safari Adventures
Whereas you've got this madman . He sort of jumps onto screen , doesn't he ? Like all right guys ? I love what he's dealing with , sort of like snakes and spiders and things , how he calls everything . Mate , you all right mate .
Yeah , you all right , mate . I've got this little man here all day . Hey , mate , calm down , mate , calm down . Why is he always in his safari gear ? Can you tell me that , even like when he's just doing normal things ?
The best part about that is because , yeah , he's always in his safari gear , whatever he's doing . But one of the clips Eggie sent yesterday I don't know if I've seen before , but it made me laugh out loud he goes surfing in his full safari kit . Yeah's like he's big boot in the sea . Yes , and he's a good like he's good .
He's a surfer really good .
Surfer yeah , really good yeah he's in full safari kit and then at the end of it you'll you'll hear it at some point . I'm probably a good point to put it in here now . But he's sort of surfing in the waves . And then he , he dives under the water , he goes oh right , he comes up with that . He says I've got a poisonous snake in my hand here .
This is why I love being out here .
He's just grabbed like a poisonous snake by the way , obviously because I know it's steve irwin , it's real . But if I didn't know steve irwin and he's doing this surfing thing and what he did , what he just talked about , I had a thought that's cgi .
Yeah there's no way anyone's just dived on the water and come up with a poisonous snake .
We're over here looking for hot snakes and hot surf . Oh , how's this ? There's a venomous snake sheer on our surf spot . Have a look at this . What a beauty . And this is what I love about surfing in Indonesia Sitting out here waiting for the waves to come , and this beautiful big girl comes up , as if to say G'day , Steve-o , have a look at me .
And finally surfs up . One thing left to do get the big gun out and hit it . Surf's totally blown out . Have a look at this , have a go at this .
Can you surf in massive boots ? I'm sure there's a reason that people don't wear huge shoes .
I've never seen anybody surfing in either just shorts or a wetsuit . I've never seen anybody wearing any other clothes for surfing . He's got a safari suit .
Safari suit brilliant Crocodile Divers ran for nearly 11 years and it was the second longest running program of any Discovery communications network behind Mythbusters , which I've never seen . Mythbusters , oh , I've seen some of them . Yeah , it's all right . Is it as good as what's his face ? Jonathan Frakes , not this time , no way .
Uh yeah , it's a different sort of thing , like they do experiments to try and prove , like I don't know , do you know , like safe I'm thinking of . There's something in a film where somebody sort of curves a bullet shot . They sort of swing their arm across and they manage to curve a bullet around something and they sort of test .
Yeah , yeah , yeah , it's not possible um one of them's always like really grumpy and one of them's quite happy . But yeah , the crocodile hunter . I don't know if it was hunter or diaries or if they both blurred into one , I'm not sure , but did you used to watch it where ?
Because obviously , like it was clips of him out and about , yeah , calling animals mate and stuff , but then some of it was about the zoo and I love that's like a result and it's like relegated it to .
It's just him calling animals mate and that you know . Yeah , but he .
Yeah , but there'd always be , sort of like this week , there's a drama when one of the I don't know the cage for the anacondas is falling apart . Yeah , and they'd have to go on some kind of mission to sort of fix the cage .
Yeah , yeah , yeah .
There's a guy called Wes in it that I remember . Yeah , I don't know if you've got notes of all the other ones , but no , no , uh , I haven't got the names to be honest , I'll try and I'll try about , though about like you have to do stuff .
But did you know you might ? You probably know this , I think it's fairly famous , but in november 2003 , erwin , we're filming a documentary uh on sea lions on the coast of uh california . In uh california , pennies failure come on , pennies whale yeah , that's right pennies in California , in Pennsylvania .
Come on , pennsylvania , that's right , pennsylvania , pennsylvania .
No , it's not no . Pennsylvania , mexico . Anyway , anyway , fuck it . You know , if you know , you know . Anyway , he heard via his boat's radio that two scuba divers had been reported .
Oh yeah , I read this , yeah .
Yeah , yeah , yeah . So Irwin , entire crew suspended operations to try and look for this guy , these two guys , should I say um and his team's team's divers search with the actual rescue divers , and erwin used his vessel to patrol the waters around the island .
On the second day of the search they found one of the divers , uh , perched on a narrow ledge , um , just outside of a cliff and they escorted into erwin's boat um the other lost driver , kat Katie Vrooman , unfortunately found dead by a search plane later , but just goes .
You know a real measure of the man he abandoned everything he was doing to try and find these two in trouble divers .
Yeah , and absolutely . I don't believe for one second that that was sort of for publicity . I just think he's out there .
We've got to find him mate .
Yeah , that's it . He wants to help . I just think that's the guy that he was .
Look over there . Look over there . Can you see it ? Some sort of bush hand looks like a freaking panda . I reckon it's got two , maybe even four plus legs . God , it looks like a ? L a lazy son of a bitch . Come on , let's dive on the shit . You didn't expect that , did you ? The little prick ? Get off my dog . What have you done ? What have I done ?
I've dived on you , you donut , and I'll dive on you if you don't sort your head out . Get out . I am a freaking nightmare .
Other things that we did outside of Crocodile Diaries , by the way , is we went on to star in the Croc Files Sorry , the Crocodile Hunter Diaries , which were different to the Crocodile Diaries , which I didn't really know , and the Ten Deadliest Snakes in the World , and he also had a cameo in Doctor Dolittle 2 . And he starred in his own comedy film .
I'd like to ask you about this , because obviously I've never seen it . It's a film . I've never seen Doctor Dolittle 2 or one or anything with Eddie Murphy in it . I don't think You've never seen a film .
¶ Celebrity Parenting and Tragic Death
I've seen Professor Klump's , I think . Is it Clumps or is it ?
the Clumps ? Yeah , Professor Clumps . Are you mixing up two different things there ? I'm not sure .
I've seen one of them . I've seen one of them , that one where he gets really fat in it . Yeah , or is it ? Nutty Professor ? Nutty Professor .
Professor Clumps .
Yeah , I've seen one of them too at a cinema , but other than that I don't think I've ever seen any . I've never seen lethal weapon anyway um , I think you're eddie murphy .
Um , you must see beverly hills cop never seen it .
Wow , never seen . Yeah , I've never seen beverly hills cop . Um , I've seen seeing a weevil in a weevil , which is completely different film .
But I do like that .
Um , but that's richard pryor in it , like eddie murphy , so , um , complete anyway . Uh , I'd like to ask you about this comedy film . Did you know that he starred in his own film , the crocodile hunt ? A collision course ?
no I want to see this . I don't know , it's an actual film ?
um , it's not . It's not a documentary , it's a film . Um got awful reviews but it did make 28 and a half million at the box office , um , which were against the production budget of just 12 million .
So it was a success , um , but , yeah , terrible reviews apparently a really , really really bad film , um , but you sure I'm adding it , so I think you should probably go and watch it . Yeah , I will have a look for that , definitely on january .
The second , and I think this is where you're gonna uh use one of your heartfelt defences of Mr Irwin On January 2nd 2004 , irwin carried his one-month-old son , robert , in his arm while hand-feeding a chicken carcass to Murray , a 3.8-metre , which is 12ft , 6in saltwater crocodile .
The infant was really close with the crocodile and comparisons were made to when Michael Jackson dangled his son outside of a German hotel window .
TV's crocodile hunter , steve Irwin , takes his one-month-old son to his debut crocodile feeding in Brisbane , australia , in front of a crowd of onlookers . Not since Michael Jackson dangled his baby over a balcony has a celebrity's parenting decisions been so questioned .
Little baby , bob Irwin , is being held in daddy's arms just a few feet from a full-grown crocodile , with mom grinning as she looks on at the stunt .
Now you're not having this , are you ?
Well , that's just a life they lead Like . That's just that they lead like that's . That's just . That is what it is like some people . Some people might say I can't believe you put your child in a car and drive at 70 miles an hour a motorway with other four ton piece of metal driving at speed around you .
That's just his life , that's what he's , that's what he's doing . He's got his kid with him and he needs to feed a crocodile .
He said he was in complete control all the time . I imagine his dad did exactly the same to him . You know what I mean . I imagine , like I mean there is . Admittedly , I get . I mean if you were doing it , I'd be saying what the fuck is this guy doing ?
But you're not a trained crocodile hunter , are you ?
it's not , I don't think . Don't try this at home the funny .
the bit I found funny is not the bit where he's feeding the crocodile to it , but he then sort of puts his kid on the floor and sort of makes it walk and , like , kids always look funny , like when they're like that , when they kind of can't yeah , they're so sort of incompetent , aren't they ?
Young kids , shit like compared to animals , run around and jump and stuff , yeah yeah , yeah , it's useless for ages , isn't it ? Yeah ?
Well , I mean , I don't know , what would you say about Michael Jackson then you think that's completely different , because Michael Jackson's not a trained I mean , obviously , if Glace Hernandez is listening here , a friend of the show , we have to be very careful , but do you think what Jackson did were worse then ?
I mean they're both they . I mean they're both a mistake away from disaster , aren't they ? If you drop the kid and a crocodile grabs it and takes it underwater , that's it . If you drop your kid off , however many stories up he was , that's it . So , it is unnecessary risk , but I just think , I don't know .
I think Michael Jackson I can't imagine what he was doing , but I just think , with Steve Irwin , whether or not he became famous , he would have been feeding some crocodiles and he's got his kid with him . That's what he does .
Yeah , I'm going to be jumping around a bit here , but I do want to talk about his death , because I found this I didn't know this about his death . Yeah it's crazy Fourth of September .
Know this about his death yeah , it's crazy 4th September 2006 after being pierced in the chest by a short-tailed stingray Barb while filming for a documentary called Ocean's Deadliest .
I made it sound like you were doing a royal family impression . But I said Barb .
Right , barb , barb , barbara . He was stabbed immediately and he was pulled from his water , pulled from the water by his colleagues onto a 75-foot yacht which attempted to rush to shore as he started bleeding , obviously , which eventually killed him .
An hour had passed before they made it to land , during which time Irwin's colleague and the man who was behind the camera as he was attacked , justin Lyons , performed CPR on him while a second cameraman continued shooting footage . This is what I found really interesting .
Um , because erwin apparently said from if I die on camera , I want , I want it to be filmed , I want this to be filmed . His final words were I'm dying , but he , he was happy for for the cameras to be filmed .
And this is now one of the most highly sought after pieces of Lost Media , which I'd love to do an episode on Lost Media , by the way , because it is out there somewhere , unless the family have gone out and destroyed it , which some people obviously have said .
Yeah , there was a period where , like supposedly you could kind of find it if you wanted to see it . I was absolutely devastated when he died . He's one of my , you know . I think jokingly said JP was one of your top ten people . Yeah , he's not really Steve Irwin would kind of be in my sort of top .
I don't know ten , twenty celebrities ever we should do that , That'd be a good episode .
That Our top ten TV men of all time .
That's a good episode we might do that next year Like sort of dream dinner guests and stuff like that , not necessarily dinner guests because , I don't know , maybe there's a difference , isn't there , between , like , steve Irwin and Mike Paré ?
I would go on a night out with Mike Paré that's a lie , but Steve Irwin's obviously a better man than Mike Paré . But how do you compare those two , two giants of the game in completely different ways .
Yeah , we'd have to sort of perhaps come up with categories like who do you want to go for a pint with ?
Yeah .
But then another one would be like who are you going to be in a car with on a long journey ? Because you wouldn't want Parry for that , would you ?
You probably wouldn't want Steve Irwin either be jumping out . Look at that crikey Diving out out like getting I don't know . It looks like some fucking bush hound and he's just like like a dog or something .
Yeah , every time he's , yeah , an animal , you've got to stop the car .
¶ Steve Irwin's Legacy and Fears
Oh , come on , steve , there's a lot of chat there's a lot of sorry . There's a lot of chat on his death about you know , people think , because he wanted people to see his death and he wanted it filmed , should the public be able to see it . As he's considering he's like one of your favorite men . How do you ? What do you feel about that ?
well , I , I remember sort of seeing things like a video of steve irwin's death and I've never sort of clicked on it . I don't , I don't . Yeah , I want to see it , um , but I know what you mean . If he wanted that to be sort of , this is the reality of working with dangerous animals , there's an argument that should be shown .
I , just as I say someone who I have a lot of affection for , I don't really want to see him die . You know , it's like you said , it's really sort of sad hearing that his last words were I'm dying . It's not like .
Yeah , it's not like no time to think about it almost .
He must be watching somebody process the fact that they know they're dying , and that must be awful one of my favorite pieces of lost media and it's not really a favorite because it's horrible .
But do you hear about that news reporter who shot herself live on air ? I think you've told me about that . Yeah , and the the only the audio is out there . It's horrible .
Obviously , christine chabot I want to call her , I think that's her name , um , and she wanted that to go out live but her brother has like sort of said , look , no , somehow it got leaked the audio . Someone does have the footage of that .
I think that's a bit different , doesn't it ? Because that's somebody who's clearly sort of mentally in a very bad place .
Yeah , yeah , yeah I completely agree with what I had to say . I think that shouldn't be shown , or whatever , because but ? Steve Irwin is doing the job that he loves and knew the risks , and I suppose it's down to his wife and kids , isn't it , terry ? Terry Irwin ? Do you know much about Terry Irwin ?
No other than that . Obviously she appears in a lot of stuff with him . Yeah , I don't . Again , she seems quite a likeable sort of character , but no , I don't know a huge amount about her .
Steve . Irwin Day is an annual event on the 15th of November , honouring the life and legacy of Irwin , and the date was chosen because it takes place on the birthday of one of Irwin's favourite animals , a tortoise from the Galapagos Island . Galapagos yeah are you a tortoise fan ? No . I'm a longevity of the guys I like people have them as pets , don't they ?
but yeah , I'm not not that fussed about it . People have them as pets don't they ?
I don't know if , like you're getting much , I don't know what you're getting out of a out of a tortoise , though I mean , if people got tortoises , let us know what do they get ?
up to . I think you put them in a box over . I suppose , like waking him up again is a bit like a thing , isn't it like should we go get him ? Wake him up , wake him up .
He must be really tired we're talking about like 150 , aren't we ?
erm , I don't , I don't know , I don't have any facts . Yeah , I'd certainly think over 100 , I would guess . Erm , you think , by the way , like this I'm just not well , like this I'm not well . I suppose I am making light of it , but yeah , do you not think Dick is the only person in the world with that death ?
Do you know that when you go on Wikipedia and it says like cause of death , do you think anybody else has got stingray injury to the heart ?
Well , I put that the animal actually that killed him . I can't remember what it is now I've wrote it down Stingray . Yeah , but it was a uh short tail yeah , anyway , and it's like it's not known at all for killing . I think that's what I was shocked about when I heard about his death .
Like when he died , I think fucking hell must have been a crocodile or some sort of fucking bear or whatever up to . And you think , right , it was just a short tail stingray . And you think really , really surprised by that .
Um , but you could have been like considering the massive animals that is wrestling , wrestling with I would have guessed sort of venomous snake , I think yeah , yeah , snakes another one .
Yeah , so I was just thinking it's not really known . It says , like you know , humans can normally approach them . According to wikipedia , this is anyway .
Um , so it was , I mean obviously we went to we weren't actually Disney World , it was second week in Orlando but we went to the , the sort of I don't know what you call it , like a water park really , and I know some people are sort of against these sort of places . They have got dolphins there , you know .
I don't quite know how I feel about after this story .
Liam , remind me , tell them about that lie . You told me when we went to the zoo and I believed you for some reason .
All right , okay but but yeah , so we , we went into like a big pool and you swim with loads and loads of stingrays and I must admit I did keep thinking like I I don't really , obviously I don't want to die , but there was something quite nice to sort of go in the same way , steve Irwin , you and Steve .
Irwin on Wikipedia people killed by Stingray Steve Irwin . Stingray to the heart . Yeah , popular .
I mean if and when well , if and when , when my time will come , when it's not an if , but when it comes , I don't know . Ai mate , yeah that , that's yeah that . I didn't want one to get me , but I did think it would be quite nice if the same ending as Steve Irwin in a way would you like to go out the same way ?
obviously Jonathan Pearce is dead so I can't compare myself to him . I'm trying to think of a hero . I'm not genuinely going to say he's Freddie Mercury , but obviously I don't want to . I don't want to go the same way as that . But yeah , I'm trying to think who else are like , who are my heroes ?
James Dean , was he like just ?
John .
Lennon .
Shot . Yeah , I think that's definitely a better one . James Dean , were we a motorbike man ? Weren't we better one ? Irwin's in it ? Uh , james Dean , what were you motorbike man ? Werner ?
Yeah , we're at a car crash or a motorbike crash Drunk , um sorry .
I'll tell you the best one . Uh , entwistle the uh who basis do apparently . Uh , he had like two women on the go and he was doing cocaine in his room . So maybe not choosing that , choosing that mate , yeah , oh you've not really chosen that over freddie mercury terrible , terrible um I think , yeah , let's , let's move on from that move on from that .
Uh , do you know what animal he was afraid of the most ? Two animals that he were afraid of the most , um , I can understand the other one . I'm not even afraid of himself wolf . Now , one of them's a hippopotamus yeah , deadly , deadly yeah , um . After his death , the ?
Um footage came out about him saying he does not want to ever do anything with hippopotamuses . He's got no , no interest in it . Um , because he's afraid of them .
Yeah , I do not want anything to do with it .
I do not want anything to do with hippos . Strange statement to make , isn't it ? And the other one , parrots . Yeah , I don't quite get that one . It says for some reason parrots have to bite me , that's their job . I don't know why that is , but they've nearly tore my nose off . I've had some really bad parrot bites in the past .
Yeah , I don't like birds up close . They're a bit jittery , aren't they ? You can't trust them , can you ? Around your eyes , I think .
The parrots you mean , or just birds in general ?
Well , parrots have not got the sharp beaks . They're probably not as bothered about that . To be honest , I can't even think of when I've ever been close to a bird , so I don't . I don't know when I've ever put that to the test , but I don't think I'd like a bird sort of .
You know people haven't sat on the hand like I don't like the idea of sort of being around my eyes , yeah .
Fair enough .
One quick peck and that's it , isn't it ? So you know I can understand it completely .
Yeah , well , you think they might be on some sort of collective revenge mission ?
Yeah , I think so . Yeah , I think they've obviously listened to that podcast in particular . You fucked it . Next time you go to Brighton or wherever there's loads of seagulls and shit . Yeah , yeah fair point , but that is basically the thing of my research there , liam . So what I want to do here is sort of pass on to you to give like I mean him , so I .
What I want to do here is sort of pass on to you to give , like I mean , I'm putting you on the spot a little bit , but I know this is one of your favorite men and I know that we can't really do injustice and stuff , but what is it ? Would you say that you , where did you ? Where did you meet the man ? Like when you first saw him , did you think ?
I'm watching this guy every week ?
yeah , from from the first moment I saw him , I was sort of hooked on what , whatever he was up to , and yeah , I just I loved , like I mean , I'm sure there's a lot of preparation in what he did . Well , I'm not sure there was actually , but I just loved how sort of reactive he was .
It's sort of he's walking along , talk to camera , and then it's like , oh right , hold on a minute . And then he's up a tree like he's got a snake somewhere or like he's in a river somewhere . Like , yeah , I just I just can imagine he was sort of a joy to be around . He just he just seems such a happy man all the time . Yeah , yeah , he went .
So animals are biting him and things it . It was always sort of really quick to point out look , it's always my fault if something goes wrong .
It's not the animal , the animal's just doing what it does I don't know whether you can see it I got hit by an alligator last night like right .
Did a pretty heavy makeup job on it . I was on the .
Jay Leno show and it goes . What Hit me right in the cheekbone ? I'll get bitten occasionally , you know , every now and again . But it's never the animal's fault , it's always my fault . I know what I'm going up against when I go in and if I take a hit .
Nobody's kind of got a bad word . It's not like some people were like production people said it was yeah , it was hard work . And what's going on with the Greg Wallace thing , by the way , what's that ?
I know we don't do this sort of stuff midweek , but I mean , I've heard some stories you know I like to keep up my tittle-tattle with celebrities . Yeah , I've heard there's a bit of a creep behind the scenes to the ladies and he said some very nasty things Not nasty things , but sort of you know , you won't like , you know it's not .
He genuinely , apparently said this is what I've read that when he went to I can't remember where he was someone said who's in charge ? And it were a woman and he goes no , come on , really , who's in charge ? Can't be you , darling , very sexist man . I think he's a bit of a prick .
Obviously , there's that famous Twitter exchange I don't know if you've seen that where someone says all right , greg , and he put , okay , no problem , mate , it's only cancer . Fuck off , master , master , twat right ?
no , I don't think I knew that . So , so is he off , off screen . Is he suspended then ?
he's been suspended . Yeah , he's been suspended . I've never liked him . I don't know why , I think I think he just gives that for all . I mean , he's that fantastic article as well in the I can't remember what magazine it was where he talks about a day in the life . I honestly thought have you read this ?
Yeah , I remember this coming out . He sort of begrudgingly , seemingly by the article , gives his wife and kids off an hour and then he's off out doing his own stuff .
But he's so slight part of it . He says , like I go to the gym early , they open up for me early so I can have a swim on my own . So that's pretty way like a prick .
Yeah , Partridge is shopping at Tandy , isn't it ?
Yeah , yeah , yeah . Then he says something along the lines of he's on about wellbeing and stuff and he says so I like to listen to the experts , although I'm an expert myself . Well , yeah . And then he says he likes to spend about an hour a day with his kid , who he didn't want .
Yeah , I don't know , I don't find him likeable , I don't know exactly what the accusations are , but yeah , I mean we don't condone him . I don't condone him at the moment because I don't know what he's done .
Yeah , but he's obviously not on the same level as Steve Irwin . If he was still around , Irwin , do you reckon he'd just be doing the same stuff now ? Do you think he'd have branched out ? Maybe he'd host a MasterChef Crikey ? What the Tastes like some sort of he doesn . I swear to someone's had a fucking sausage .
Can you imagine him just grabbing stuff out of the oven Like , oh my God , it's fucking red hot , it's burning me hands
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Do you reckon he's like that with everything ? Because he was really into his sport , weren't he ?
Yeah , he was into mixed martial arts . I didn't know that , some sort of jiu-jitsu , I think he did .
Did he do ? It weren't rugby , I think it might have been Aussie Rules , which is obviously even rougher . And he tried he got the strongest bloke in this team , or whatever it were like a famous Aussie Rules team to rugby tackle him and although he went flying , he got up like a delight a day , didn't he ? You're alright mate . You're alright mate .
It's my fault , not your fault . I don't know . I reckon everything Just purely from that video of him looking at his kid , which is obviously an amazing moment , but I can imagine everything just blows his mind .
Yeah , it does seem just to find joy in everything .
Have you ever seen him in a bad mood ? Have you ever seen any episode where he's like not really up for it today , guys ?
No , I don't think so , like it's just everything's like just a challenge to him that just needs to be dealt with Like the zoo . It's like you say it's hard to do without swearing . He never swears . To do without swearing . If they never swears , I don't know why . Yeah , the , uh , the fucking kangaroos have got out .
Now problems , we'll go and fucking find them and get them back in . Um , I don't know if you ever swore like even off cameras , I don't .
I don't know if you ever swore , but I think we're getting out from the bob mortimer sketch yeah yeah , there's a bob mortimer sketch , we're gonna drop it at some point we're not gonna tell you which one it is . I'm sure you'll be able to tell . Well , you will do now anyway . But we're going to drop a .
Bob Morton did a sketch called the Croc Botherer which I absolutely love , and it is Steve Irwin where he's . There's a brilliant bit in it where he goes . I brought some fucking tinnies with me , like because it was .
He just has one sip of it and then he throws rest at cans and goes ah , sweet , it's absolutely brilliant making fun of the steve irwin type , and he has actually had some criticism . I couldn't actually find any sort of sort of anything to read out on this , but I do remember there's sort of being stick around , was it ?
Was it peter , the protection of animals , or so shit . People sort of said he the way that that he kind of just goes out .
I thought you meant Peter . I'm thinking of like Peter . I'm thinking who's fucking Peter ?
No , like P-E-T-A , I think there was some claims made about him , yeah where the P-E-T-A . you're right . Yeah , the way that he handled wildlife and how sort of intrusive he was and you know , that sort of grabbing a snake by its tail and sort of distressing it , but I mean , I don't know , it wasn't . They weren't captured or darted or sedated .
He just sort of , you know , had quite a couple of minutes to show you what they were and then let them go on the way and made sure , like I seem to remember him sort of like oh , we'll make sure we cover him in some nice cool leaves .
I think he did his best to not be disruptive , whilst trying to show the public , and particularly in a way that was really good for kids , to sort of engage with animals . So yeah , I don't criticise him .
If there's one thing that I , steve Irwin , would want to be remembered for , it's be remembered for passion and enthusiasm . Conservation is my job , my whole persona , my life revolves around that . So do my friends , family , colleagues .
Everyone I know is involved in conservation and you know , I get this overwhelming feeling that I'm sharing my wildlife encounters with you . What a beautiful thing . I never really thought that was going to happen . A lot of people say why ? Why did you touch that snake ? Why did you catch that goanna ?
If I can't get animals into people's hearts , there'll be no conservation , there'll be absolutely conservation . There'll be absolutely no love for our wild animals , and that would be devastating . Everything would just suffer and this would be a very ugly world .
We need wilderness areas which are conserved by looking after , let's say , crocodiles , to produce food and water and to have a very healthy green planet and , in essence , by conserving wildlife , I am helping humanity . That's what I'd like to be remembered for .
That's what I'd like to be remembered for . I mean , obviously I'm not an expert on this , but it seems like they got absolutely hammered for criticising him . To be fair , when I've tried to have a look about because obviously they put loads of tweets out it was on his 57th birthday . Actually , petter . This is it Petter P ? I don't bloody know . I don't know .
Yeah , whatever they're called . They put loads of tweets out basically just criticising him , talking about how wild animals should be left alone and they shouldn't be there for entertainment and stuff like that , and they got an unbelievable amount of backlash .
It's a bit like the Zeus thing , though , isn't it ? Where do you stand on ? Oh sorry , we're going to say what did I tell you in a zoo ? That you believed ?
Oh yeah , the're going to say what did I tell you in Azu that you believed ? Oh yeah , the Azu Was this in Tenerife . Yeah , the monkeys , if you remember this ? Yeah , can I remember this ?
I'm not sure remind me .
I can't remember why you said I can't remember how I believed this , but you told me that after every year , they kill the monkeys and replace them because they're new ones monkeys and replace them because they're yeah , we're new ones . And you thought they did . Oh , absolutely gutted .
I remember walking around like yeah well , the funniest thing I remember about that is we were stood , and again this goes back onto the ethics of a zoo . Are they rightly wrong ? But it's sort of conservation and raising awareness and raising money and all that sort of thing are the pros , aren't they ?
But then there are times when you go to a zoo and this , this was a bit like that in Tenerife . It was almost just like a concrete box and there was , I want to say I don't know what they were , there was some sort of monkeys in there and there was like three of them sat down . It's just ridiculous .
And our mate Stratford was there , who's kind of got a very he's a very strange character , isn't he ?
He's a bit like Steve Irwin A little bit .
Yeah , he sort of speaks as he finds and very eccentric . But there was a young family stood next to us and obviously we were in Tenerife , but loads of English people there , so it weren't as if they couldn't understand .
They were English and they were looking at these little monkeys and Stratford turned to me no wonder , no wonder all the fuckers have got cancer why did ?
he say that good , I don't know and I said what were you talking about ?
and he pointed sorry , he pointed at the biggest he pointed at the biggest monkey sorry , this is the most I've laughed for ages . He said look at the state of that guy . He'll be dead .
Oh shit , I'm laughing now . I don't even know what you're going to say .
He pointed at the biggest one and he said look at the state of that guy . He'll be dead in weeks .
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Why did he decide to deal with cancer ?
And then he just marched off like that was it , Just move on to the next animal . Why ? Did he decide that he wasn't saying it to be funny . He was just sort of thinking out loud .
Why does he think this guy is funnier to us , probably , than to the audience ? Oh , sorry about that he gets things in his head which he's decided . He does this a lot , doesn't he ? Where he gets things in his head which he's decided . He does this a lot , doesn't he ?
where , like he'll decide something's true , and then he'll get outraged . He winds himself up about something he's called himself .
Yeah , and he's made it up , yeah , yeah , he's made it up in his own head . It's unbelievable . Yeah , I forgot about that on the Zoom . Well , on the Steve Irwin with Petter Peter , I with petter peter I'm going to call him peter because he sounds more , uh , disparaging .
Um , they uh woman here called maureen johnson who said steve erwin and his family reclaimed land for animals and run a massive wildlife rescue . His life mission was to save animals and educate people about them . I'm one of the many vegetarians who rip their hair out whenever peter petter weighs in . Shame on you . And that got 28 and a half thousand likes .
All right . Well , that's good then . Maybe that's why I couldn't sort of find much on the controversy .
Loads of others as well . Yeah , they say . You , Petter , are just a bunch of sharks who feed on controversy . You do nothing useful at all . Yeah , they got hammered for it . So you know 1-0 , Steve Irwin is what I'm saying .
Yeah , so the conclusion is that he is and was a great man . Yeah , I mean , there's not . I haven't got loads more to add on him , to be honest . Yeah , like you said , obviously he did play some rugby , rugby union . Yeah , I'm just skipping through to see if there's anything else worth talking about .
Yeah , because obviously , you know this is a bit of a free and easy one , because we can't do him justice . He's done what 20 odd years or whatever .
There was something about his achievements or awards that I'm not sure we've gone into . Honours Should have been that . I know you can't , but there was something about yeah , this is the bit I wanted to read out . So , um , some , somebody found a new type of land snail and they named after it . They named it after him . Have you read this ? No , no , no .
Can you guess what they called it ? Steve Irwin ? No , they called it a crikey . Steve Irweeny . That's quite good , actually .
I quite like that . Are you happy ?
with that Er yeah .
I don't understand what would you ? Is there any animals You'd like to be named ?
Why was it Steve Irwini ? Why put the I on the end ? I don't know why , steve .
Irwini , I don't get that . Erm , is there any animals or insects that you'd like to be named ? I'd like to be named after the humble ant . You must be named after it , not after the . Sorry , I'd like an ant the humble , imagine . They don't live very long , so that'd be a waste of time , wouldn't it ? Uh , you what ?
you want . You want an ant named after you , yeah , yeah , because they don't live very long species , if it's . If it's around now , it's been around for millions of years on it , so it's doing all right , yeah , but I'm not very good .
But they're very good at like building stuff , aren't they ? And obviously I've got dyspraxia , so that would be a terrible idea for them imagine dyspraxic and like people falling down and stuff .
Everyone's looking at him . He's done that bit . Yeah , side of the nest falling off again yeah , I don't know what else I do .
I mean , I like all the animals .
I love gazelles , to be honest well , so you'd like a new species of gazelle to be named after yeah , to name after me , they're .
They're quite . I mean , they're not clumsy as such , but they're a bit , you know , I mean a bit erratic yeah and they're ginger , I don't see you as a gazelle , to be honest .
But yeah , okay , you can have that . What are you calling it ?
hey , guinea uh , I'll call it um . Panchero is actually a good name , isn't it ?
yeah , a panchero , yeah yeah , I don't know what I would want named after me . Um , what am I gonna go for , I don't know . Yeah , just uh , just a bug or something , right ? So ?
that's Steve Irwin . We always wanted to cover him . We didn't really know how to do it . We've probably not done him justice , but with all these things we're going to try and do more . The stuff that we've stayed away from because there's too much to go at , we're just going to . We're just going to have a go at him . We're going to have a go at him .
Yeah , we're just going to have a go on the limb .
We're going to have a go at him . Go and have a go . Yeah , we're just going to have a swing and a hit , and if it's a swing and a miss then we apologize . But that's it .
There's a lot of things that we wanted to do and we've not covered , because we said how'd you tackle this with all this ?
what we would have done with steve irwin is we would have said watch this particular episode . But I think , yeah , we just wanted to do more of a bit of a tribute to the guy rather than just focus on one episode or something . And yeah , that'll probably be similar to what we do . We mentioned Sopranos .
Yeah , we'll do more tributes , and next up is Rolf Harris . Next up we're actually doing a documentary because we want to get another one out fairly quickly and a documentary is always easy to do and it's one that we've had in the vaults in it for ages .
And major charles um , fresh from his uh baby byfield , coming out with the you know you can nominate for the baby by- yeah , can you still get your nominations in ? I think you can still get your nominations in we'll . When we do a midweek , we'll go through the groups and stuff for the baby byfield awards . Good , go on major charles's pay .
I don't know if he's locked it , just put Baby Byfield on Twitter .
Yeah , and it's Our sort of interpretation is he's wanting the most Sort of thing you would associate with football this year , from this year . Yeah , and it Generally he's a person , but it doesn't have to be .
Yeah , so he's the most 2024 footballer this year . Not necessarily a footballer Could be , but David Coote's getting a lot of . Yeah , yeah , this year , so not necessarily a footballer could be , you know , but David Coote's getting a lot of nominations because obviously he's the sort of man that you think . Oh , yeah , I remember that . You know what I mean .
The sort of person you remember . Oh , I remember that .
You nominated the , the official who was eating a sandwich in front of Chris Wilder , did you ?
Yeah , the official sandwich . In front of Chris Wilder .
I've gone for Noel Gallagher doing co-commentary which I just find absolutely outrageous , by the way and I've gone for Glenn Helder , which I'm sure no one will realise unless they've listened to our podcast , but that's the Jesus Christus guy we talked about on the England route to the final podcast that we did a couple of months back , jesus Christus Living with
Madeleine . So that's Steve Irwin . Thanks for listening there . Next up we had a bit of an issue with this , didn't we , liam ? This is a re-record , isn't it ?
We tried to do our duty to Major Charles , didn't we ? We'll consider ourselves part of his regiment and we let him down , joe-joe Stevenson .
maniacs both of us aren't we ?
Oh yeah .
Yeah , but it sent us the .
What was it ? The Millennium Dome Trouble at the Top .
Yeah , millennium Dome episode . So we started watching it and then I realised , well , we started watching it . And then I realized , well , I started watching it , then I realized it was part four of four and we couldn't find part one , two or three .
It was a documentary about how the millennium dome were fucked , so we didn't know if he wanted us to do that particular episode or all four , and we're worried . We didn't want to let him down , so we come to an agreement with him online .
We're going to do another one of his suggestions in a couple of weeks , but as we were looking at that , we come across something that we are going to do and it's another trouble at the top , but it's the story of books , fizz well , yeah , books fizz v uh go on david van day .
David van day . It's on . It's only 40 minutes long . It's on youtube .
¶ TV Show Review and Upcoming Episodes
Trouble at the top books fizz v , david van day . If you want to listen to that before we do our episode , give it a go , it's worth it .
It's good , isn't it ? It's really good . Uploaded by Shitstain Knobknocker If you can't find it , but it's really worth a watch . Neither of us are Bucks Fizz fans or anything , but this is brilliant . I think it's the closest thing we've watched to that .
Do you know ?
anyone who would say he's a Bucks Fizz fan . Well , the two people in the show , in fact , I don't even know if one of them is , but yeah .
It's a strange statement to make . We are not Bucks Finn fans , bucks Finn . I can't even tell you Bucks .
Fizz . Yeah , we do not condone books , fizz , but yeah , so that'll be next week . Well , it might be this week , we don't know yet , to be honest , but whenever you see it , because we're going to try and get a couple of Christmas episodes out .
Yeah , we've been a bit sloppy . I've taken a bit of time in the edits , a few bits going on . You should get that one fairly soon after this episode , all being well . Right , I'll see you then . Then Certainly will do . If anyone wants to get in touch with us , send us anything .
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