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Speaker 1: Look, it's been a big year so far for Robert Irwin,

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Speaker 1: from bearing it all for Bonds to shimming his way

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Speaker 1: onto the dance floor for the US version of Dancing

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Speaker 1: with the Stars, which kicks off in September. But he's

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Speaker 1: back on home soil, and this time he's behind the

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Speaker 1: lens to launch the Crikey Photography Competition. Robert irl Hello.

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Speaker 3: Hey guys, it's so good to see you. It's good

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Speaker 3: to chat. How have you been pretty good?

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Speaker 1: Your life has just exponentially exploded. And I was reading

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Speaker 1: the other day that people are seeing you in a

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Speaker 1: very different way, and particularly in the States since you're

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Speaker 1: under shoot. And yeah, and you're too scared to look

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Speaker 1: at your DMS right now.

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Speaker 3: That is true.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have been very light on the dms currently.

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Speaker 4: But you know, it's funny. I just took my niece

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Speaker 4: to disney Land a couple of days ago with the family,

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Speaker 4: and it was a it was a different experience. You know.

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Speaker 4: I used to be able to walk around and I

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Speaker 4: can't do that anymore. And it's and it's a different

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Speaker 4: it's a different thing, and I've always sort of grown

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Speaker 4: up being in the public eye, but this is definitely

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Speaker 4: kind of a different level. But you know, it can

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Speaker 4: be challenging to navigate. But I think for me, I

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Speaker 4: am just so happy that there's more people than ever

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Speaker 4: that are listening to my message, which is wildlife conservation.

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Speaker 4: I am through and through an animal and conservation advocate,

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Speaker 4: and our world needs animal advocates more than ever before.

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Speaker 4: Our environment needs people to stand up. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I truly mean it when I say I absolutely love

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Speaker 4: any opportunity to talk to you guys.

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Speaker 3: You're the absolute best of the best, and we think the.

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Speaker 2: World that you're saving the endangered one ab at a time.

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Speaker 2: And what let's talk about those abs. For a lot

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Speaker 2: of people would say there was a bit of highlighter

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Speaker 2: on there, Rob, Is that true as it was a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit of nun doing?

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Speaker 2: Is that you no?

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Speaker 3: I know, I work too dang hard to have any

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Speaker 3: sort of photos and I believe that I believe.

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Speaker 4: That no photoshop involved go airbrushing definitely not.

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Speaker 2: Are you satisfied with that answer, Amanda? That was a

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Speaker 2: question from Amanda. She said, just this just ask that question.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I was interested.

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Speaker 1: You just said before, you're happy to highlight the animals.

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Speaker 1: It was obviously a decision that you would pose with

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Speaker 1: a snake and with spiders and not cute, cuddly animals

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Speaker 1: that people associate with the straighter obviously deliberate choice to

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Speaker 1: say we support all wildlife.

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Speaker 4: That is exactly why I did it. I mean, that's

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Speaker 4: exactly why I did it. I love my crocodiles, I

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Speaker 4: love my spiders, I love my snakes. To me, the

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Speaker 4: crocodile is as much an Australian icon as the kangaroo,

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Speaker 4: one hundred percent. You can't go and give them a cuddle,

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Speaker 4: but it doesn't mean they're not still awesome. So I

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Speaker 4: really wanted to exemplify that. And when Bond said, hey,

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Speaker 4: we want you to do this this shoot with us,

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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, that's that's amazing and such an

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Speaker 4: iconic Ossie staple. But I went, mate, I don't really

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Speaker 4: get my gear off, that's not really what I do.

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Speaker 4: And they went no, no, no, you'll be covered in animals,

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Speaker 4: You'll be right, and I'm like, okay, sign me up,

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Speaker 4: let's go. So it was it was cooling and now

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Speaker 4: you know, I was just in the States and the

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Speaker 4: amount of people that are talking about the animals as

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Speaker 4: part of that campaign. That was the takeaway was the animals,

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Speaker 4: And that's what I wanted to achieve.

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Speaker 3: I want to get.

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Speaker 4: Wildlife into people's hearts, into people's living rooms, just like

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Speaker 4: my dad did. You know, in a bit of a

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Speaker 4: different way. There was no way in the world he

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Speaker 4: was going to do that. You know, he was going

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Speaker 4: to keep a good solid layer of parking on fair enough,

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Speaker 4: but you know what, I was ready to just go

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Speaker 4: for it there at all.

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Speaker 2: And now on the dance floor, the DF.

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Speaker 3: You've got DF.

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Speaker 2: So Bindy, you were twelve when Bindy went on it

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Speaker 2: all those years ago.

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Speaker 3: Can you beat Bindy?

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Speaker 2: Can you go further than Bindy? Well, she won won,

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Speaker 2: so you've got to double beat Bindy.

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Speaker 4: To me, there is there's no there's no competition. How

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Speaker 4: could there be. You'll never top You'll never top that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I come into this with the sense that

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Speaker 4: I want to bring you know, that that Irwin energy

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Speaker 4: that she brought. I want to bring it back into

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Speaker 4: the ballroom. And that's what I'm excited for.

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Speaker 1: And probably best not to mention ballroom to stuffter you're underpants.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 1: Let's move to the Crikee photography competition. Are you judging?

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Speaker 1: What's your role here?

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Speaker 4: I am so so I I and our wonderful, wonderful

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Speaker 4: team here in Australia's have kind of been the masterminds

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Speaker 4: behind really something. It's become quite a passion project and

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Speaker 4: so I've always loved it. Most of my best mates

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Speaker 4: are photographers and so we wanted to create something for

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Speaker 4: the world.

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Speaker 3: We get thousands of entries.

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Speaker 4: Every corner of the world, every age that are putting

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Speaker 4: in their best photos and using that to spread a

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Speaker 4: conservation message because you know, it's part of our Criykee magazine.

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Speaker 4: So you get to make the cover of krike Magas

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Speaker 4: which goes out to you know, a bunch of different countries,

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Speaker 4: thousands and thousands of people, and there's you know, there's

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Speaker 4: a bunch of cool prizes as well. But it's a

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Speaker 4: really good way to spread that message.

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Speaker 3: And I'm a.

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Speaker 4: Harsh judge, you know, I'm looking, I'm looking for excellence

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Speaker 4: and I'm I so far have not been disappointed.

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Speaker 3: It is really wonderful to see the caliber of.

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Speaker 2: Entries and no doubt you would have got some odd

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Speaker 2: photos coming in on your DMS, i'd imagine, but they

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be. They're not going to make the country for

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Speaker 2: any publication that doesn't go.

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Speaker 3: In a brown paper bag. Yeah, those are not the applications.

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Speaker 4: No, no, you have to enter your photos via the

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Speaker 4: Australia Zoo website, not Robert Owen's direct messages.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Robert, it's always great to talk to you. For

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Speaker 2: details and to ender the Cranky Photography competition. Head to

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Speaker 2: Australia Zoo dot com dot au. Say hi to your

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Speaker 2: mom and you see this and the rest of the

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Speaker 2: Klan thank you for joining.

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Speaker 4: Us to love to you, Robert, Hey, love you guys,

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Speaker 4: good on, great to chat

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Speaker 1: You go well bye bye