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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if we know about this, but over

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Speaker 2: the weekend I read an amazing article on Steve Irwin

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Speaker 2: and those final minutes before he passed away.

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Speaker 1: Sad to think about.

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Speaker 2: They were shooting the nature documentary Ocean's Deadliest. He was

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Speaker 2: in the water with Philippe Costeau, Jacques Cousteau. Jacques Cousteau,

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Speaker 2: so it must be a relation to Jacques's Custau, but

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Speaker 2: it was Philippe Custeau junior and they were out there.

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Speaker 1: There was a cameraman as well.

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Speaker 2: His name was Justin Lyons, and Steve always said that

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Speaker 2: you have to keep recording no matter what's happened. So

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Speaker 2: he would always say, I don't care if I've been

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Speaker 2: if I'm getting eaten by a shark or a croc.

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Speaker 2: The main thing is it has to be filmed, which

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Speaker 2: is weird to say. And then obviously you want to

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Speaker 2: go and help him in a situation like that. But

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Speaker 2: when the sting ray came through and wounded him, everybody

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Speaker 2: knew that it was a bit full on because that

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Speaker 2: the blood was just pouring out and they just kept rolling,

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Speaker 2: so there is vision of us.

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Speaker 1: You would suggest that. I mean, for what happened, a

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Speaker 1: barb straight to the heart. There's nothing anyone could have

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Speaker 1: done in this situation, and I think it was irreparable.

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Speaker 2: No, So those who were present have told how the

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Speaker 2: father of two calmly looked around and uttered the words

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Speaker 2: I'm dying before losing consciousness. Oh my gosh, he knew

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Speaker 2: I'm gone.

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Speaker 1: You know what. I think everyone remembers where they were

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Speaker 1: when they heard that Steve Irwin and died. And you know,

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Speaker 1: there was some critics that came out and said, well,

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Speaker 1: if you put yourself in those sort of situations, you

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Speaker 1: know you're always risking this. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: you know what he brought to us in terms of

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Speaker 1: the energy he had and the love for Australia and animals.

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Speaker 1: You respected what he did as well because you couldn't

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Speaker 1: believe how he lived his life and it was fascinating

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Speaker 1: to watch.

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Speaker 2: So this is this is another interesting one. It had

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Speaker 2: to be passed over. The footage had to be passed

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Speaker 2: over to investigators just to see. Investigators have claimed to

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Speaker 2: have destroyed the tapes they were given in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and seven and said there was only one copy remaining,

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Speaker 2: which was given to Erwin's grief stricken widow, Terry Right,

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Speaker 2: who said she would never watch it, and she ultimately

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Speaker 2: got rid of it. There's no way she could watch that.

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Speaker 1: No, you wouldn't. You wouldn't bother and you don't need to.

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Speaker 1: And the great thing is that she hasn't seen it.

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Speaker 1: And she remembers Steve the way Steve was, and probably

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Speaker 1: when she said goodbye to him before the trip he

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Speaker 1: was going.

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Speaker 2: He just a ball of energy.

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Speaker 1: The fact that he I remember hearing a great story

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Speaker 1: because the way he'd go on TV and he'd bring

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Speaker 1: a crocodile out or whatever it was. He had so

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Speaker 1: much energy. And he had a strict rule as well

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Speaker 1: that he had to be in bed at ten o'clock

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Speaker 1: at night, no later. Yep. Wow, it wouldn't go past

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Speaker 1: ten o'clock. And I remember they wanted him for the

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Speaker 1: Logis and they wanted to do him to do at

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Speaker 1: the end of the Logis and he said no, He said, no,

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Speaker 1: I can't do that.

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Speaker 2: Guys.

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Speaker 1: You need to get me out of there by nine

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Speaker 1: point thirty second. Make sure I'm in bed by ten.

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Speaker 2: So if you're down the pub with Steve and you're

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Speaker 2: just starting to kick in.

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Speaker 1: Ye now I'm gone. I don't know if he was

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Speaker 1: even a drinker, but you know, that story was that

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Speaker 1: they had to adjust the whole running schedule of the

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Speaker 1: logos so Steve could get a crocodile on stage posit

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Speaker 1: of age thirty and then wind it up, have some

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Speaker 1: food and go to bed.

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Speaker 2: Oh you miss him.

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