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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nations bad.

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Speaker 2: News in your world.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I was really sad to hear of the passing

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Speaker 1: of Ian Finlay. Ian Finlay passed away at the age

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Speaker 1: of eighty nine, a former ABC journalist. This is a

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Speaker 1: man who did everything, but the man he was to

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Speaker 1: me was one of my colleagues at Beyond two thousand.

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Speaker 1: When I first joined Beyond two thousand in the early

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Speaker 1: I guess the mid eighties, I was terrified that show

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Speaker 1: had been going already for a number of years with

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Speaker 1: the most respected journalists you can imagine. So when Simon

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Speaker 1: Reeve and I started, we were such junior Burghers that

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Speaker 1: Ian Finlay was one of the nicest people I have

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Speaker 1: ever met. That show itself was quite extraordinary when you

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Speaker 1: look back at it as you talk off in Jonesy

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Speaker 1: about the silly stories and the things we missed and

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Speaker 1: the walking on the water shoes and all of that.

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Speaker 1: But have listened to Ian here in nineteen eighty eight

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Speaker 1: talking about climate change.

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Speaker 2: Hummans have walked this earth for close to three million years.

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Speaker 2: Our industrial world has existed for a mere two hundred years.

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Speaker 2: So if you think about that a slightly different way

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Speaker 2: and try and imagine humans being around for only twenty

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Speaker 2: four hours. Then the Industrial Age would have started just

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Speaker 2: five seconds ago. And we're only now realizing that in

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Speaker 2: those five seconds we've caused major changes to our planet's

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Speaker 2: atmosphere and ultimately will change its climate. Now there's been

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Speaker 2: a lot of talk in the world's media about these

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Speaker 2: possible changes, but much of it, let's face it has

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Speaker 2: been full of hot air.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty eight, it was around the time that

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Speaker 1: they got rid of chlorofluoricarbons, and that made a big difference.

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Speaker 1: It actually closed the hole in the ozone layer. Ian

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Speaker 1: and his wife Trish were so great to me, and

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Speaker 1: they were such an inspirational couple. They traveled while widely,

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Speaker 1: they were interested in all kinds of things. They wore

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Speaker 1: their hearts on their sleeves in terms of causes. Even

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Speaker 1: recently they're doing some work in Laos. They are incredible,

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Speaker 1: incredible humans. And Ian had a disorder, a rare disorder

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Speaker 1: called amy ludosis, which were a protein bill up in

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Speaker 1: the organs and can lead to their failure. So he

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Speaker 1: chose in the last few days voluntary assisted dying. So

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Speaker 1: this is the decision the family came to and as

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Speaker 1: Ian said, and what makes me emotional? What a great speech,

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Speaker 1: he said. I've always been interested in the unanswerable questions life, death,

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Speaker 1: and the whole darn thing I look on. Birth and

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Speaker 1: death has been the two great adventures of life.

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Speaker 2: Oh what a guy.

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Speaker 1: Condolence, Oh, absolute condolences to Ian and Trish, their kids

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Speaker 1: and all of those who are in their orbit. An

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Speaker 1: extraordinary man, and he'll be very much mess.

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Speaker 2: Ahead of his time.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely curious about that. That particular story about climate change

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Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty eight. You're on that very same episode

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Speaker 1: talking about meat meat meat, Well, if a portion size

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Speaker 1: is anything to go by, this should taste like Noville cuisine.

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Speaker 1: Smells okay, he goes little dry, quite tasty though it's

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Speaker 1: actually not a salty I thought it would be. It's

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Speaker 1: not your eye fill it and it could probably do

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Speaker 1: with a bit of mustard, but that's not bad for

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Speaker 1: meat that's eighteen months old. While Ian was talking about that,

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Speaker 1: you were winging about dry on meat. Well, I hope

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Speaker 1: that's not what they play for me when I pass away. Well,

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Speaker 1: how inspirational I was. I'll play you getting salty on

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Speaker 1: TikTok taker.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. Rest in peace, absolutely,