Do Go On - 78 - Steve Irwin

Episode Date: April 18, 2017

Matt Reports on the Crocodile Hunter himself, Steve Irwin! Learn about his life and crocodiles and his career and reptiles and also find out which member of the Irwin family Jess cannot stand! She rants pretty hard... Dave also mime humps a crocodile multiple times. ENJOY!Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. Welcome to Do Go On. It is Matt Stewart here.

I'm here with, well, I'm here by myself actually because I'm here actually sitting in the studio in Dave Warnocky's chair. So I feel a little bit bad because I am. But those guys aren't here because I'm here to tell you that we've just done another live episode at the Imperial Hotel's part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which was a lot of fun. So I'm just introing that now by myself, which, geez, without them raining me in, who knows what kind of madness I could get up to here. It actually feels quite weird speaking into the mic in a room by myself. That's all right. I hosted this one this week. I was the report giver, and it was quite a bit of fun.

Before we get into that, I should let you know next week. there is one final episode or this week coming, this Sunday coming, if you're just listening to this, the week it came out at the Imperial Hotel again. And we've got a special guess so there'll be four of us this week. I wonder if you could guess who that is. I'm a bit sick in this week's episode and still am now. So how about hashtag pray for Matt for once? Hey, how about that? I bet I won't get that trending because you guys don't give a fuck about me like you do about Jess. That's okay. I'm cool with that. I've sort of have resigned myself to that fact.

What a sad start to the show. Sorry about that everyone. I know you care and I appreciate that. Yeah, big episode this week. Anyway, I don't know if there's anything else I need to tell you before getting into the episode. I'll check back in at the end. Thanks for listening.

I love news. Welcome down to Do Go On Live at the Melbourne Comedy Festival Week 3. How you doing? I had not noticed this is an aircon right there. Yeah, it's cold. It's very distracting. Well, everyone, everyone, thank you for respect. respectfully leaving two roads as we as we do prefer.

Yes, it is Issa Sunday, so our son of respect. Two rows. The father of the son and the Holy Spirit. You are the Holy Spirit. Matt, how are you? You're in a jumper. Yeah, I'm not feeling very good. He's fine.

Is that your go-to stance when you're not feeling good you put on a jumper? Yeah, especially when you position me right underneath the air conditioning. I've got a cold. I told you that and then you made me sit right underneath anyway, it's fine but...

I feel like it's a terribly place air conditioner can anyone in the audience the hottest part because you are rent hot by the way can anyone feel that air conditioning stop hitting on the audience oh you can

see you should have sat at the front rows up the back you can burn for all I care whatever you made your choice if there are people at the back who want to move forward there's literally six seven seats out the front if you want to move if not totally fine

it's the hot section up is where the action up is where the action is at. If you really want to get in the pod. Get in the pod. It's like going to this... There's a seat right here and Dave will probably touch you if you sit there. He will definitely touch you. I promise not to touch you.

I make no promises. I'm also really unwell. No, I'm just hung over. I was dancing till 4 a.m. I am sprightly. I went to bed at 10 o'clock last night. Let me hear it for sleep. Yeah, that's right. You're well rested because

He was bands are sleeping in the house. It's going to be a big Sunday. It is the long weekend in Melbourne. But comedy never sleeps. Comedy never sleeps. Does anyone know the footy school? The Saints are on at the moment. Anyone?

They're down. Okay. Great. Well, so am I. You really could have lied just to pep him up because he is doing the report today. So you've probably just ruined the show. I don't want to put that on your show.

Well, the Saints did that, didn't they? Yeah, the Saints did that Oh wow, okay I'm good, let's do it, all right podcast, trivia, all right Oh, God Question one, okay Give me a round of applause

if you have heard the podcast before This is good Okay, front row, you're very brave But have you heard the podcast before? Not one, no, not once, never. You have a lot of faith, thank you very much. Thank you, what brought you here then? Oh, very cool.

Oh, you're her sister. The cool sister. Am I right? Am I guessing that right? I got it right. You should have seen her face. She was like, yes. She is cooler than me. I'm lame, but I'm trying, and that's why I'm here today.

She said that with her eyes. All right. You read a lot into that. Have you just lost faith in us? Slowly. Slowly. Give me a round of pause. If, like a friend of the front row, you have never heard the show before.

A few others. awesome. Up the front, this is amazing. There's people on the back that have heard every episode 10 times. They feel more comfortable with their eyes closed, you know? They're on the tram or they're on bed. They don't want us to be real people. Sorry. If you haven't heard the show before,

I hope you at least vaguely know what it is. What happens is one of us is going to do a report on a topic. This week it is Matt. And some of you probably know what the topic's going to be because I imagine some of you support our Patreon, do you? That's what I'm talking about. All right.

They don't know. They know the options. Oh, so they don't know the results. So they wouldn't know the options because what we do is with Matt's topics, he throws them out onto Patreon and all our subscribers get to on there, get to vote for the topic they'd like Matt to do. And Matt, have they chosen wisely? Just for the people who are new to the show, a lot of it is just admin. We just sort of, a lot of explaining things that go.

We'll reference ourselves a lot. And then, yeah, we'll wrap it up soon after that. So that is a pretty fun time. If you're into admin, and we are big time. And stats. It's a fact slash admin-based podcast. Can I just, should I? Yeah, please.

So at the planet broadcasting launch, I ran into a listener named Harrison, right? And he was like, oh, there's not enough Australian topics, right? That's what he said to me is, can't we do some more Australian topics, you know? And I told him my first ever report was actually about Australian rules football, right? And he goes, yeah, yeah, but apart from that, And I was like, oh, well, my second report was about the Australian explorer's Burke and Wheels.

And he go, yeah, sure, apart from that. And I said, oh, I've all said on episodes on Triple J's Hotest 100, Stephen Bradbury, the Wiggles, the Great Emu War. And he said, yeah, of course. But, you know, apart from that. So I said, oh, yeah, yeah, apart from that. Good point. So this week, the three suggestions I took out of the hat were all Australian topics. And I put them up to the vote.

and these are the topics. And I guess my question to you is, which one did they vote for? Oh, okay? Okay, we have to get into the mind of the listener. Option number one, Nick Cave. Option number... I remember one time we had a listener comment on our Facebook page, and they wrote Nick Cave, meaning Nick Cage,

and I thought that they were doing a hilarious joke, and they were like, sorry, I don't know who Nick Cave is. So, it was just a typo. What a fun story, Dave. Thank you so much for sharing. Just applause for Dave's fun story. Thank you. Good job, Dave.

Option number two, Steve Irwin, aka the Crocodile Hunter. Right, one time there was this comment on our Facebook page. Someone made a hilarious joke, and I thought they were saving Steve Perwin. They met Nick Cave. Hilarious. Dave Warnockie, everybody.

Thank you. And option number three, Vegemite. Oh. The enemy of all tourists. I mean, notice how celebrities come out here? They're like, you must try veg, you must. And they're always just like, eh. Eh.

Sorry, Dave. What do they like? Eh. Uh-huh, uh-huh. That's my impression of all celebrities. I think it's, Vegermite's similar to the other two. You've got to grow up with them to understand them, I think.

Don't you think? Yeah, but I would say that out of the three, There's one that I think would appeal to our overseas listeners the most. Okay. So it's what I would have picked purely for the stats for our overseas listeners to appeal. Yes. There's a lot of... But I don't know, maybe the Patreon people don't...

You're going to say it out loud? Do you're going to tell them what you're thinking or... Nick Cage. I mean... Well, if you were asking what, I'd say Steve Irwin, I think. Jess. I would also say Steve Irwin. Yes, you guys are correct.

From the 152 votes, 25 went for Nick Cave, 51 for Vegemite, and 78 for Steve Earl. It's over 50%. That's math, so I'd look that up. On a calculator. That's what you do on a calculator? I looked it up on a calculator. Use a calculator like Google. I'm a little sick.

So this topic was suggested by a couple of people. Cameron via Twitter at Camyabba and Callum. BW on the E-mail. Oh, on the E-Mail? They both sound like true blue Aussie patriots, Cam, Yabba. Yeah. Yabbadoo, as we

say here in Australia. Okay, well I'm going to forge on. Steve Irwin, I was a wildlife conservationist. Good start. A zoo owner, television personality, educator, and most famously a crocodile hunter. Oh, but I've never heard of him.

Oh, well. You think he's Nick Cage. Stephen Robert Irwin, full name, was born to parents Lin and Bob in Essendon, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Okay, you guys here will be fascinated to learn that. I was on the 22nd of February 1962. Essendon, as you guys will know,

is the team that won the first VFL Australian Rules Football Premiership. I'm just linking it back to a past episode, right? but it's also the suburb of Melbourne that Burke and Wills camped in on the first night of the exhibition. Okay. It's a hotbed, Essendon.

It's a hotbed. It's a sacred suburb of DoGo on. Steve's family were right into native Australian animals. They were bloody right into them, you know. Are you trying to imply that there's something untoward going on between the Irwin family and these native animals?

No. They were right into them. They were right into them. Particularly reptiles. And Steve was actually... Steve was actually given a 12-foot python for his sixth birthday. Sixth birthday. Dave.

It sounds like you're saying it like I do. Sixth. Sixth. Dave, have a go. Sixth. Is that right? Yes. Is that right?

Feels right. It feels so right. This is just like in the studio where I'm going to keep trying to start a sentence. I'm going to interrupt you constantly. In 1970 when... Sixth. Sorry. Fuck.

Set that one up. All right. In 1970, when Steve was still quite young, the family moved from Victoria to Queensland, where his parents founded the Beer War Reptile Park. Beirwa? How do you spell beer? Beirwa. Beer.

Ah. Oh. Yeah. As a boy, Steve would head out to the Queensland Outback with his old man, Bob, to help trap lizards, snakes and crocodiles to take back to their park. Isn't Bob a good dad name? Is anybody's dad's name Bob? Disappoint? Oh, I hang on there.

Couple of hands, couple hands. That was a pity hand. Your dad is not called Bob. But thank you so much for having my back. Unlike the rest of you, jerks. Nah. They were quite proud of it that most of nearly all the reptiles in their park were captured by them by hand. So they were quite proud that they'd taken some animals that were once roaming free. We're now inside a small container.

Yeah, they were proud of that. I imagine that their whole zoo was inside something that could fit understeen. you've spent. Like a show-and-tell project. There's like several hundred crocodiles inside. Many animals died. But I'll let Matt tell you about it. Many animals died.

Not the stopping well. At the fledgling park, there's sometimes in the studio while I'll have about four or five cracks at a word. But I don't have that luxury here today. At the fledgling park, a young Irwin became increasing. involved in the day-to-day operations taking on jobs such as feeding the animals and also some maintenance tasks So it is a pretty interesting report so far

There's the admin, but there's more he also accompanied his dad on expeditions for the East Coast Crocodile management program Which was a government Crocodile management Imagine I'm the boss of all the crocodiles No, I'm imagining a business school for crocodiles, and they're all wearing ties. That is pretty good. It's a fun place I went in my head.

I wish you all could have been there. You just can't. It was a government-funded program intending to reduce crocodile hunting by relocating them to less populated areas. So to reduce crocodile hunting, and this man would grow up to be the crocodile hunter. Oh, the irony. is there, I suppose. If you look hard enough, which you did.

But he took him from these populated areas to other places such as his park. You know, less populated, only unless you're talking about tourists, and then it's quite populated. But I guess, anyway, apparently, it's my new catchphrases anyway. Apparently, on one of these outings at age nine,

Steve wrestled his first crocodile. That's a classic ride of passage. At nine. For an Aussie boy? I did it at seven. Jess, how old were you when you were a young boy that wrestled a crocodile? Five. Oh.

That is young. Thank you. A crocodile prodigy. Yeah. I'm the toughest one on this podcast. I will kill both of you. She will. He did it by jumping on its back, right?

And on one of these sources I read it said, a technique he used many more times through his career. Ah, jump on their back. Not somehow jumping on their front. Flip them over. I'm on top of them. I am essentially humping a crocodile. Dave.

Sorry, everyone. I went to a fun place in my head just then. I wish you could all have been there. It's Easter Sunday. Come on. Hey, we've got the seats of respect. We can say whatever we want. That's true.

As Steve grew older, he continued to work with the East Coast Crocodile Management Program. Into his early 20s, Steve started to work with him on his own. And for months at a time, he would live in the bush by himself, just hanging out with crocodiles. Just months and years at a time. Just living amongst the crocs. Just living in the bush amongst the crocodiles by himself. What a bloody character. Sometimes he would get a little bit lonely.

Don't. I regret asking the question. Is that my face when I have sex with a crocodile? Oh, with a crocodile, that's right, then. It's burnt into my brain. Sorry, everybody. So during these years spent out in the bush alone with the crocs. Just teaching them management skills.

He also learned a lot about the craft of catching crocs, which is a little bit different from other people's crafternoons, I guess. Croftanoons? Croc... Big fans of craft. Big fans. In 1991, at the age of 29, Steve took over the beer-wah park from his parents.

And once again, how do you spell beer? It's beer. Uh-huh. B-W-R-B-R-B-E-Y-H. W-A-H. It was an important question and worth following up on. Is that a capital B? Yes.

I'll know. after taking over the following year he quickly made his mark by changing its name to the Australia Zoo which is what it's famously known as now who prefers the name Beowar

that seems more Australian somehow than the Australian Zoo cut those motherfuckers every week every week in 1991 he also met an American traveller named Terry Rains

that's a great name Raines it's a good name no one's on board no Raines I'll say it more Terry Raines

oh come on that seems excessive we should enter our show like that imagine if we called the police someone is being murdered next door but we record the whole thing that's so good and then they're like hey do you guys know

who called the police we're like No? You guys would have our backs, right? Oh, I don't buy that. They would not. They'd throw us under the bus. You're all snitches. Anyway, Terry Raines.

Yeah, so we met her in 1991 when she came to visit the zoo. Raines was an American businesswoman from Eugene Oregon. Eugene Oregon. Eugene is not a good name. I've heard of that. Something about it, I really love. You guys are easily impressed with names. Eugene oh

Eugene oh that's a place though called Eugene you weren't impressed with a place called beer it's doing nothing for you it's doing nothing Eugene

Eugene Oregon no I don't like that really does something for me cool back home Ryan's father ran a trucking company where she had also worked she was learning the skills

of managing a large business That large business being the trucking company that I just mentioned. But not, sorry, just to clarify, not managing crocodiles. No, not. Or teaching crocodiles management. No, not, it was just... Interesting. Just the truck stuff.

Not a leadership development program for young, up-and-coming crocodiles. Who we see potential in? I wish it was now. I really do. I wish it was also. I really do. You've never let me down more than with this report right now. I mean, the report doesn't like exclusively say that she only did trucking.

It's possible. Yeah, okay. I'm willing to rule that in. Okay. Let's rule it in. Her father ran a trucking and large crocodile management teaching university company. Thank you. Where she had worked, learning the skills of managing a large business,

including crocodile management and double winds and knots on crocodiles. Yeah, you got to know. They've got thick necks. Do you have a big old neck? I think you've got to get custom-made ties. In some ways they're all neck. It's a long neck. That's beautiful, Dave.

In some ways, they're all neck. I'm putting that on a t-shirt. And a crocodile with a really, really long neck. But then he's got a tie, just right at the bottom. Just above his little arms. I'm having a good time. We know a lot about crocodiles. Long neck. Arms.

Green? Matt, do go on. No, I was enjoying that. You weren't. Your face said, shut the fuck up, you idiots. I was thinking about the Saints. Any updates on the, okay. Can I get, this is Jess's iPad,

can I get footy skills on this? No. Terry's dad often... That was easy. Terry's dad often brought home injured animals so he found along the highways that his trucks traveled down. Were they ever crocodiles?

Doesn't say that they weren't So we don't know for sure So yes And this has been seen to be Where her passion for the animals Sort of kicked off In the 1980s Terry started a rehab facility

Called Cougar Country It was just for old ladies Who had a taste for younger men Yes Now that's an academy I want to be a part of We'll teach you how to get them All right girls

Leopard print and low cut I think it's a reality TV show. Cougar country. I like it. Starring Terry Raines. That's my future. What, running me or being part of the Cougar country? Both.

Well, if I'm running it, I'm part of it, aren't I, dickhead? That's why you are an entrepreneur. That's why I understand crocodile business management. Am I far away? I feel like I'm still very far, but I moved forward so that I could see you better. but now I feel like, now I feel like I'm over here, like, having a good time. It's like you're over there playing keyboard. Anyway.

Matt's the lead singer, please sing on. There we go, there we go. So this cougar country thing, as well as doing the stuff that you were just saying. You were not listening. She was also there to re-educate and release predatory mammals, such as foxes, possums, raccoons, bears, bobcats, And, of course, cougars.

Ah. Elderly ladies who got lost in the wilderness. And send them back into the wild, yeah. I don't know what the re-education involved in. Exactly. What are they re-educated? Just giving him a compass? I think, yeah, it's weird, like saying, don't be predators,

but that would just be sending them out to their death, wouldn't it? So I guess it's just educating them on... Management skills. Management skills, yeah. How to better manage my teams. Self-esteem. Self-esteem. Believe in yourself.

Bobcat. I think that Bobcat was Bobcat gold twight as well. That was just before he went into the Police Academy franchise. Okay. Good on you Terry Raines. She also worked as a vet technician. Did she have like a hundred jobs? She was bloody busy.

I'd said that somewhere. I read it. Real busy. A real busy body. In terms of having a lot to do. which is a different meaning to the That face that you all just witnessed is my favourite face

on this planet it's Matt's regret face It's so good It's a oh no We see it a lot So much Now you'll be able to hear it You know you'll know what it is

But not so busy That she didn't have time to pop down to Australia To check out some of our wildlife parks Just pop down. Just pop down. Pop down. She was on a little holiday. She wanted to check out some, you know, some Australian.

Some Australian. Fauna and fauna. You pause too long there. Fauna. Fauna. Just to emphasise, she really likes fauna. There it is. That's another version of the regret face.

Flora. Flora. There we go. And fauna as well. She was underlining the fauna. While she was on the Sunshine Coast visiting a friend, she decided to check out Steve's park. Are you winking at me?

There's a nervous twitch. Wink at them, wink it, there we go. What do you mean by check out Steve's park? Does beer-wah park mean anything to you? No. B-E. Apparently they met while Steve was doing one of his daily crock feeding demonstration.

A scenario straight out of a romance novel is what I've written here. That's how I dream of meeting my future man. It's just a little too cliche, really. Yeah, I know. It's been... The couple got engaged four months later. Oh, wow.

That's a quick... What do you call that? It's courtship. Is that what you call it? You nailed it. Good. And I just think that's quick, but I think that's nice as well.

They knew. They knew. you know, you know. Does anyone known? When you know, you know. Anyone out there known? Oh, interesting. It's a lonely audience we've got in today.

Looney podcast listeners. Those are our people. We're lonely as well. They were married in 1992 on the 4th of June, just the next year. So, you know, got it done pretty quickly. Terry left her American life behind, including her family's business, her rehab centre and her vet work. She left it all,

including the crocodile management and the Cougat country old lady thing as well. Terry and Steve had a great time on their honeymoon. Oh, that was better. And they filmed a lot of their shenanigans. Oh, did they? Oh, Steve's Park.

Oh. I filmed their honeymoon shenanigans. Their honeymoon shenanigans. Terry, don't come in. Don't come in here. What a way to find out. I thought you were taking a long walk. That's why you shouldn't get engaged so early.

Yeah, you've got to figure these things out about someone. You're going to iron out those. When you think you know, but you don't know everything. Does he fuck crocodiles? You got to find out. Where did they go on their honeymoon? Are they what they went out and about? No questions, please, Dave.

What sort on the internet says, Stephen Terry, had a great time on their honeymoon? Their honeymoon shenanigans were a little different to most. Oh, I bet they weren't. On their honeymoon, they got up to a little bit of old-fashioned crocodile hunting. If you know what I mean, I've written here. I think you do. I just mean, yeah, just going out and...

hunting crocodiles. So he's left his job as a crocodile hunter to go on holiday as a crocodile hunter. This guy's crazy. I really like this. I've read a bunch of... There's an article on the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's not hugely in-depth,

but this line, I feel like, was very insightful about... The honeymoon? About the honeymoon, and then recording the stuff there that said. This is from the Encyclopedia Britannica. So it's obviously a good source. Irwin recorded...

of his exploits on tape using a video camera mounted on a tripod. That was about 10% of the whole page about Steve Irwin's life. Was mentioning that the camera was mounted on a tripod. Oh, cool. Thank you, Encyclopedia Britannica. Back to Wikipedia, I go. It's one of the few things that set him apart as a crocodile hunter. He thought to use a tripod.

Every other crocodile hunter just had it on the floor and was just filming the ground. And you just hear a guy going, Oh, I've got him. I've got him by the neck. Yeah, all right. And then they come back and it's really worthless footage. It's just the sand.

Yeah. You put that on a tripod. You're going to get, I imagine, offers from the Discovery Channel pretty quick. You are not far off. You are not with it. I am not right. Okay.

I think that's fair to say. The Britannica did go on to say that Steve was hired as a consultant for a television commercial, not long after this, and he showed some of the tapes. He showed the commercial of people how to put a camera on top of the tripod. It blew their minds. They were very impressed. Do you remember in 1992 when ads in Australia started to be visible? Before that, it was just the...

That was him. He did that. That was him. Yeah, thanks Steve. So, yeah, he was hired as a consultant on a television. commercial and he showed some of the tapes to a producer at Australia's Channel 10 network in Australia

and they immediately suggested turning them into a documentary. Pause for effect. Hold for applause. Mentioned the word documentary they're going to lose their minds. The result of which was the crocodile hunter.

Oh! Which first aired in Australia in 1992 He's like his documentary show. And did they use the footage from the honeymoon? That year might not be right. I'm not sure about that year. It aired on TV though. Right, good.

And but did they use the footage that he'd already shot or did they refilm it all? No, that was including, yeah, some of the bedroom. Some of the bedroom. Some of the honeymoon scenes. It's a great show, but we've only got five out of six episodes. We just need another half an hour of footage. Don't worry.

Terry and I've got this. Submit a personal tape. The sixth episode, number six, is very different from the first five. No crocodile hunting at all. Just crocodile burning. Boney. It was a success, hey? The boning?

Yes. He aborted that sentence. It was a success sentence. Oh boy. It was a success which led to further documentaries being made and eventually a series being commissioned. And four years later in 1996, the show was picked up. by the Animal Planet Channel

of the Discovery Network in the United States of America. Oh, I've heard of it. Which is called it a big time somewhere. And that's when things really started to take off for the crocodile hunter. Is anyone around in the 90s here? Did you?

Hang on, hang on. Hang on. Hang on a sec. Hang on. I'm looking. Yeah, I reckon they all were. Yeah. No, but does anyone remember? I don't remember him in the early to mid-90s at all. Does anyone remember? He didn't exist here, really.

You were busy, you know, being 112. That's true. I mean, obviously, I had things to do. I don't know what else you were doing. But I just don't remember him being around at all. Anyway, anyone? No, cool. Is it away?

I think he was big, it was a lot bigger. He was bigger in America than he was in Australia for a long time. Just like Nick Kay. Well, not America, but the UK. So that wasn't relatable at all. Look, sometimes the thought pops into your mind, and then you say it. Get out loud.

And now... And you crash the car. I'm crushing my car. I'm crushing my car. But what I'm trying to say is bigger overseas. Much like Veggimite, no. Much like this... Much like this podcast.

Actually true. Actually true. At its peak, Steve Irwin's TV shows were shown in more than 100 countries. Name them. Guam. Puerto Rico. Et cetera.

Some sources... None of those are countries. No, fuck. Oh, didn't you say territories of America? Yeah. Some sources actually said more than 200 countries. Are there even that many countries, Dave? Yes, yes, they're up.

Okay, good. It's most of them. Okay, yeah, so he's big. Real big. Audiences were in the multi-multimilions, which is a lot of millions. And people really loved watching Erwin's dangerous encounters with snakes, spiders. spiders, lizards, and crocodiles

from the title of his show and over his career he was bitten many times, often on camera. I don't know if you've seen any of these. One of the ones that I watched, which is really great, which I'll post during the week. It was so much fun. There's this video when he was on an Australian kids TV show. The snake's like wrapped around his neck

and leading up to the butt, this is what he was saying, right? It's so fun. He goes, I'm not. scaring him, so he won't bite, and he hasn't got venom, and that's the python. Like, almost gibberish, but it's... It's just like all these fragmented and centres. It's so much fun. I've got to start from the beginning.

I'm not scaring him, so he won't bite me, and he hasn't got venom, and that's the python. But it's very difficult in, from a distance to tell a python from a... Ah, we might have to cut it. Ah, ah, it's biting my neck. I'm serious. But it was literally to monitor. Like, he was so chilled out about it. But he's like, ah, we might have to cut here.

It's biting me now. It was so good. I got to, I got to... We might have to cut. I can't reach the tripod. Yeah, that's the best thing about him. Oh, no, he did a lot of good things in the community as well, but fuck, that was funny.

Erwin nearly always got about in his trademark khaki shorts and shirt. You'd probably know that sort of his classic outfit. His trademark Kaki. Kaki. Kaki. Is that not right? Kaki. Kaki.

Kaki. Kaki. Babados. Steve, what are you going to wear today? My kaki shorts and my matching kaki shirt. We might have to cut. It's a little too. tight. It's

taking out the circulation to my neck. Cucky. That was kind of, like, that was what he became famous for in a lot of ways, was his apart from his attitude and just like his love of the dangerous Oh, come on. I can't even imagine,

I can't even think of a time I ever saw Steve Irwin outside of the cuckie. I know, now I'm imagining him wearing a suit and it's very funny. It's still cucky. I wish you could all come with me to where I am in my head. It's very good. It looks like he's going to court.

He's been sued by a snake. And the snake is wearing a tie because he went to a subsidiary of the management school for crocodiles. In some way, a snake is all neck. Please do we go on that. Absolutely. You broke the tech guy.

Hey, Webby, remember the time he said snakes are all neck? He's dead now. He's done. Oh my god, he's having an asthma bother. I'm so sorry. It's not good. So he is, him and his cackies became so entrenched in popular culture.

And he started turning up on all sorts of TV shows. Do you remember him on any? Yeah, like late night. Yeah, he was, I don't know. He appeared in heaps of times on Leno's show, on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. like multiple times. Also on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

It was on the Oprah Winfrey show. It was on Rove Live. You get a snake. You get a snake. Everybody gets a snake! It's my Oprah impression. It's pretty damn good. Thank you.

Now, what's your Rove Live? Say hi to your snake's mum for me. All neck. It's funny when he says it, isn't it? He was also on Wiggly Safari, which was a Wiggles Special. Like he was on a whole episode. As himself. Get out of town.

No, no shit, yeah. He's jumping on Dorothy's back. I got her. I've fucking got her. He tries to put her in his zoo. It's funny. Hey, it's okay. How dare you?

This is a serious topic about an Australian hero. Sorry. You've started to get a little too silly there. I'm sorry, everybody. You had to see that. So, yeah, we did a Wiggles topic in the past, right? So he's connected to a few of them. He's also connected to The Simpsons.

They parodied him in an episode when they had a little snippet of a show called The Gator Bader. And he just got eaten alive. And Bart was disappointed that he... Sounds like he's wanking off alligators. Gator baita. Oh, Bater. Alligator, mastabater.

You've had to do a fair bit of work there So does the Gator Bay don't know It takes a long time It was also parodied on South Park They had Irwin jumping on crocs And putting his thumb up their butts So and this is the only way This will really piss him off

And this is the only way you can really learn about a crocodile Is when they're pissed off So it's a pretty fun parody putting his thumb up their butts you see which seems you know I'm into that as an idea as an idea stop talking I will not I'm just really distracted by these two rows of chairs

and that they're like that one in particular is like Jess length and I could just have a little lie down do it that cords got length anyway I do go on that chords all neck he did it it's a little like a joke isn't it He was also seen on the big screen with a cameo as himself in Eddie Murphy's Dr. Doolittle 2.

Familiaria with that one. Yeah, Dr. Doolittle 2 is this time it's personal. I don't know if it made it. Dr. Doolittle 2, Back in the Habit. Put a crossover that would be. Back in the Habit is my go-to for Eddie any sequel. It's the best sequel, man. I saw Trainspotting 2 the other day.

I was like, ah, train spotting 2, back in the habit. Oh, that works. Ah, that's where that goes, Dave. That's not where that goes, Dave. Dave's trying to do drugs like Oh no No no Alright Jess

What I'm doing there is I'm tying a belt around my upper arm And then I'm tapping my lower arm To make my vein pop here I've done heroin many times Please You do have the physique of a heroin man It's heroin cheek Alright

Also we haven't mentioned this today But you love Hitler I do not That is not true It's funny that we hadn't mentioned it I know. How did we get this far in? I was having a great time until then. He was also the year after that, in 2002, he was in his own feature film.

Do you remember this? Oh, yes. Actually, I do remember. I think I saw that movie. I mean, I didn't because I'm cool. Well, I'll tell you a little bit about it, and you can tell me what your thoughts on it. What was it called? It was called The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course.

Collision Course. I like when an original movie that needs a subtitle like that. Normally. It should have been Crocodile Hunter back in the habit. It works for everything. Only if he was burning him again.

Uh, one. And the film co-starred his wife Terry. According to IMDB, this is what happened in Collision Course, the Crocodile Hunter

mistakes some CIA agents for poachers. And he said... Hang on, sorry. Is it not a documentary? Already. No, it's a film. Sorry.

Was everyone else under the assumption that it was a document? I didn't think there was a scripted. No, it's a spy film. It's a comedy adventure, I think. But I have questions as to why there'd be CIA agents. Are they in the outback? Well, look. I mean, I saw the movie.

Sorry, I'm really excited now. I was just a... We could act it out. All right. So the crocodile hunter mistakes some CIA agents for poachers and sets out to stop them from capturing a wily crock, which, unbeknownstance, him has swallowed a tracking drone.

So it's... What's the opposite of far-fetched? I think that's pretty... Maybe it was a documentary after all. What's the opposite of far-fetched? It's a pretty solid storyline, which probably makes it a bit surprising you guys to find that Meta-Cricketacritic...

Metacritic scored it a mediocre... Metacet cricket scored at 10-466. with one endings remaining can Steve Irwin recapture the ashes scored at 50 out of 100 which is pretty average probably exactly average I guess

but that's not that bad it's not the shittest thing of all time but it's it means it's pretty shit I think right a movie is half good that's no good that's two and half stars I think it's not bad enough

to be good again you know so you think it's that's the sequel Crocodile Hunter, bad enough to be good again. Back in the habit. Do you have any idea how well it fared box office was? Fine. 50 out of 100.

Yeah, right. The only stats I got here is 50. So I think that's, yeah, out of 100 box offices, it got 50. So that's not too bad. He doesn't understand how it works. I'm pretty happy, you know, 50. get to raise the bat for meta cricket and a cricket joke there.

Pretty good? There it is. There's a regret face. Has it come off my face yet today? Erwin did find himself amidst controversy on a few occasions. He was often criticised saying that he put entertainment ahead of the animal's welfare, right? You know, he's sometimes, like I think that's kind of what the South Park parody was saying. Oh, putting his thumb up there,

Yeah, basically saying, oh, I look. No, I love these crocodiles. That's why I'm wrestling them when they're just happily swimming around in their, you know, their habitat. Because I love them. It does seem a bit unnecessary. Did he have an argument to why he can wrestle a crock? Yeah, because he loves them. Oh, right.

Ah, checked out. Yeah. And yeah, they did strenuously deny, you know, whenever they talked about it. I've never wrestled a croc in my life. So I love them and I just want to get to know them. I'm learning. I'm helping everyone. learning, I'm helping educate people. But have you jumped on a person in the street?

Have you jumped on a person in the street? As I often do. I just want to get to know him. You go into jail. Not if you give the, I'm just getting a know-em argument. I've seen that stack up in court. Have you stacked that up in court? I have, yeah.

I've stuck that right up. In 2004 was when it came the most publicised controversy. That was when he was photographed for. eating a crocodile with his baby son Bob in his arms. Some were shocked by the images and accused Steve of child endangerment. But he was, he's like, no, man, it's cool, right? As long as he doesn't mix up which hands. Baby here, meat here.

Oh, hang on. Oh, Bob? I'm going to kiss my little baby Bob, the red steak. It took him days to realize. He's in a bit of steak in a high chair. Geez, Bob lost his appetite. Yeah. Hasn't eaten in days.

Also, Bob is not a good baby name, though. Bob. Anybody, a baby called Bob here? Is it anybody... Same guy. I love you. The rest of you can fuck off. No, you're great.

Please say forever. This is you and Bob. Son of Bob. Hello, Bob. Erwin wasn't charged over the incident. What? Some people thought he should be, and apparently laws in Queensland were changed. You can't feed a crocodile with a baby in one-home.

Yeah, that's explicit now in the law. You can't. Apparently you can't have babies right next to crocodiles anymore. That is why. That is a nanny state. You thought we were in a nanny state. I tell you what, back in our day, you could, I mean, geez Louise. Well, back in my day.

Your day, we used to feed our babies to crocodiles. And that's how they'd learn. The ones that survived Got to put their thumb up their butts And that is Wait That's what I called primary school Their own butts?

Who's learning there? That was the lesson And they had to figure it out for themselves Nobody spoon feeding back in my day No, fair enough, I'll get there, hang on So the baby gets fed to the crocodile Okay And then the, maybe the crocodile's learning

that's grisly? Yeah, the butts are grisly? I don't know, look, I was looking at what's next and I missed what you were doing there. I should, I say, I didn't,

I didn't mention he had a couple of kids somewhere along the line. Bob was one of them and also another one named Bindy. Yeah, it was on Dancing with the Stars. Oh. And I like, I want to, I want to like her,

but I fucking don't. Yeah. Is there something, like, she's like 18. right there's something so patronising about that bitch like go on her Instagram like go on her Instagram and it's hi everyone I'm like what are you hiding Bindy let the hate out let her I want to I want to like her here's the thing guys I want to like Bindy Irwin because I know it's probably the right thing to do for our nation you know she goes and she goes hey I'll just be one seat

Am I too loud now because I'm standing in front of Matt, you know, checking the Saints, you fuck it. I'm doing, I was doing an impassioned speech about Bindy Irwin. And Matt zoned out to check the footy scores again. Saints are up. All right. Anyway, I just don't like her, but you know what else I don't like? This is our good friend Kieran here.

Yeah, we met Kieran in Stratford, didn't we, Matt? We did a gig in Stratford. And Matt came out and chatted to some people. people after the show and then he came back to me he's like yes come on you got to meet someone someone here listens to the podcast and I was like oh awesome and we're chatting away to kieran lovely dude really lovely guy I like him a lot I got no problem with him or anything about him that's interesting neither did I and then I and then we say so what do you do up here Kieran what do you do for a living I'm an accountant oh no I still love you Kieran

Kieran bought me beers so love him a lot can't buy my love Kieran Bindy Irwin. She's just so patronising. Don't talk down to me. I'm older than you. Respect me. Fuck off, Bindy. Go dance, you little bitch.

That was too far. Yeah, that was too far. Sorry. I felt a little strong. But like, oh. And then she was talking about her boyfriend. They're like, oh, I love him so much. You don't know what love is. You're a child. It'll end.

That's pretty much. That's true. direct place. Hey guys, you want to come to my comedy festival show this evening. I got some opinions. You've just seen half of it anyway, so I wouldn't play.

I wouldn't play. My show's called fuck you, Bindy Irwin. Fuck you, Bindy! And I invited her to come and she's not coming. And I was like, yeah, typical. I'm busy. Fuck off.

And also, Bob. Oh, no. Do not lay a finger on Bob. He's better now, but the bowl cut went for way too long. Like, that's fine. What age is a bowl cut okay till? Like, five maybe? At maximum.

I know you're shaking your head, I agree. But, like, at maximum, maybe four or five. But he had it until he was like 106. Like, not okay. That's not on him, though, is it? You hate his mum. Yeah, no, the ball cut was definitely on him. I don't hate his mum.

Oh, no, I don't like Terry either. Don't like the Irwins. Don't worry, Jess. I've got a good feeling about this story. All right, hit me. Matt, do go on. Sorry, everybody, sorry Kieran, but also not sorry. You know what you did.

A couple of years later, after that, the child feeding incident, on September the 4th, 2006, Jess, get ready. I really don't know how to react now. Erwin was filming a program, off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland, Australia. Sounds like any other day. Sporke... Port Douglas, beautiful.

He was snorkeling. Oh, lovely. Near a stingray. Oh, he's favourite. This got fucked. But if you think about a stingray, if the big bits the head, the rest of it, it's kind of all met.

So he was snorkeling, you know, having a good time, filming a show. Oh, he's on the show, lovely. All of a sudden, he was... Doing what he loves. He was... struck in the chest by the stingray's barb. A stingray's just saying hello.

It hit him in the heart. These guys all were previously under the impression that Jess was kind of nice. Were you? I don't know. No one was under the... Sadly, I've written here, but obviously not everyone agrees with that phrasing.

Sadly, Steve died of cardiac arrest shortly after aged only 44 years of age. Age 44 years of age. Just to confirm. How old? 44. And I'd just like to say, Jess, if that makes you feel any better, Bindy's dad died when she was young.

Does that make you feel... You piece of shit. You absolute piece of shit. I... Okay, that doesn't... Okay, that's very sad. And obviously, I think now that I think about it, Steve was the only one I did like,

and maybe I'm just reacting this way because I miss him. But also, you don't get to be a condescending bitch. I love koala. And fuck off We're going to hear from Bindy shortly Yeah Webby is that that live cross is all set up I imagine She has been watching this whole time

Special guests here tonight I just love this podcast And you're like this podcast Oh please please don't like this podcast Bindy If she's listening Oh man She's not listening She's above podcasts

That's a good point she is God bless her I love you, Bindy 5,000 people attended his memorial a few weeks later and an estimated 300 million more around the world tuned into the live television coverage That's crazy I know where you're going

His young daughter Bindy gave a speech Which left no dry eyes in the house It sucked so much It sucked Matt are you gonna She said My daddy This is, oh boy

That is That's how it started That's how it started. I'm just going to read a short part of it here. I have the best daddy in the world and I will miss him every day. This is at a... that's funeral! Jess is leaving. When I see a crocodile, I will always think of him and know that Daddy made this zoo so everyone

could come and learn to love all the animals. Russell Crow noted from America that Irwin had been headline news all week on CNN. saying, this is a quote from Russell, there are not many zookeepers who would command that sort of attention, which I think Rossi was spot on with there. What an interesting point. That went into the memorial as well. Here you go on to list all the other zookeepers that would have gotten the attention.

Russell Crowe. Who's now or was dating Terry Irwin? Oh! Oh, what a nice guy. Oh, so many zookeepers. Yeah, I'm going to fuck your wife. Is that true? Is this true?

They've denied it. And that's more than 10 years since he passed. Look, I have regrets. I mean, surely eventually you're allowed to move on, Jess. Not to Russell Crow. No one is allowed. Anyone but Russell Crow. At the memorial, this is quite a nice touching tribute, I thought.

The zoo workers laid their floral tributes on the ground to spell out the word crikey. Eh? Oh. Nah, that's all right. I don't know if everyone, the mic picked that up in the room, but geez, there was a lot of tears. We couldn't hear the tears at home. November 15 has been designated Steve Irwin Day, an international tribute held annually in recognition of his life and work.

Every year, November 15. Why November 15? Bloody good question that. Fun facts. Fun facts. Are we going to end with some fun facts, yes? We're going to end with some quick fun facts. I didn't find these myself.

I found this website called 10Factsabout.com and the headline for this one is 10 fun facts about Steve Irwin. How many of them are actually fun? I haven't read them yet, let's find out. You're going to do all 10. We'll see how they go and probably not. Fact number one. Steve Irwin, who was also known as the crocodile hunter,

was a wildlife expert ironically killed by a stingray. That is... That's fun. I don't know, so it's fun. It's not fun, and we've already heard that over the last 50 minutes. Is it ironic that he was killed by a stingray as the crocodile hunter? No, it's not all that. But that person obviously doesn't have a grass. Fact number two.

If you got hit by a car. Isn't it ironic that he died after being hit by a car, even though he's the crocodile on top? That is ironic. Oh, yes, yes, it is. The CEO of RSPCA called Irwin the modern-day Noah. What the fuck? Eh, a bit of fun.

The CEO. Oh, here's a fun one. Oh, finally. At the time of his death, he was struck several hundred times in the chest by the tail of a stingray. He died at the scene. What a fun.

Now we're getting fun. I don't think it's going to get any more fun than that. Oh, no, I mean, this is fun. They're all fun. This one's fun. Erwin's funeral ceremony in burial was in Australia's zoo and not accessible to the public.

Oh my God, that is fun. I love access facts. That's what I want to know. Are you giving up on the fun facts? Probably a good call. I think so. Yeah, we're almost out of time, actually. Ladies and gentlemen, Matt Stewart on Steve Ehrland.

Well, we've all learned a lot today, especially about Jess's hatred for a young... Holy moly. Such a wanker. A young... Girls can be wankers, well-meaning, 18-year-old. Not well-man. No, there's something there.

Mark my words Eventually it's going to come out that she was on crack this whole time Oh all of a sudden there's an issue with crack You're a real piece of work mate I'm so sorry Anyway That is the end of the show Thank you so much for coming out today

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Before we go, I should always thank the Patreon sponsors. We like to thank a few of our special supporters this week. Dave obviously put a bit of work into him last week. I just listened to that earlier, and he looked up a dictionary and stuff. I'm just going to open up the page now and read them straight off the thing and see if I can Anyway, how about this? I'd love to... A big thanks to Jordan Theobald.

Obviously, Jordan being a basketball. He started his career out at North Carolina. I don't know if anyone knows that fact. That's one of the great facts I have about Jordan. Someone did send through a few other facts about North Carolina, and I can't remember him. Not relevant to Jordan Theobald here anyway. Let me just click on him, see if I can find out whereabouts he's from.

Oh, he's an Australian. Anyway, it's from New South Wales. Good on you, Jordan. We should come up and visit you. I think Sydney seems realistic if that's anywhere near you. I'd also love to thank Jordan Theobald again because I don't know if I quite hit that hard enough. You're a real good guy, Jordan.

And I got a picture in my mind of being, you're the classic bronze-dossi, I reckon. You've got the long flowing hair. You surf in the morning. You catch crocodiles at night. And in between, you just, buddy, be nice to people. I don't know if that's a classic Australian thing, but that's what makes you different.

That set you apart from your neighbours. Those assholes down the road, yeah. I'd also love to thank Brian Dillon. Brian Dillon, Bob Dylan actually may be related to you. Probably not because it's entirely different spelling, and I don't think that's his real name. But he just won a Nobel Prize for literature, I think. And I think in a similar way, Brian Dillon, you are also a word smith.

You're an Irishman, right, but you'd spell your name the English way, Brian with an I, which I don't like. No, I do like it because you have done it. You've turned me around. I'm traditionally a Brian with a Y kind of guy, but you've brought me back. Brian with an eye is my new preferred spelling of Brian. You are a classic Irishman, I'd say, which is, you know, you surf in the mornings, you catch crocs at night, and in between you're just a bloody nice guy. Well done.

I appreciate your work. I don't know if you'd believe this, but I'm nearly entirely made up of Irish heritage, which I think everyone says. I met a few Irish people in my backpacking days, and they found that very annoying when people would tell them that they had Irish heritage. They're like, yeah, everyone fucking does, you all right?

Like, okay, cool. Got shut down. I thought I was just trying to connect. But anyway, you know, they weren't into it. And finally, I'd love to thank, sorry Brian, that felt negative. I love your work, Brian. You are a gun in all the good ways. And finally, I love to thank Scott Ho. He's a Californian. I'd love to be in California right now. In my head, that is always sunshiny. It's a sunshiney place. And

it's where the OC's from it's where Californication is from uh i think that one's pretty clear and uh all those great shows as well uh there's always sun shining in california uh scott ho classic guy you know what i reckon he gets up to he catches crocodiles in the morning he's a bit of a wild cat like that and he surfs at night uh he doesn't care about being able to see the waves and that sort of stuff. A lot of people say it's dangerous to surf at night, but not Scott Ho. He is a mad dog. Scott Howe. Mad dog and a wild cat. He loves and hates himself, but he does it in all the right ways. Thanks so much, Scott. What a mess that was, and I think you would expect nothing less from me. Just wrapping up, I'd love for you guys to get in touch. Let us know if you want us to do anything

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