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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Who doesn't love the Irwins. I'm a huge, huge fan

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Speaker 2: of the Irwin family. Their series Crikee It's the Irwins

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Speaker 2: returns this weekend, giving us an inside look into the

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Speaker 2: struggles and the challenges that they face at Australia Zoo.

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Speaker 2: Though this season what a burst of joy. The Irwins

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Speaker 2: have a new cub of their own, little Grace Warrior,

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Speaker 2: and Robert Irwin joins us. Now, Robert, Hello, hor is

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Speaker 2: get a good to talk to you, guys.

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Speaker 3: How are you? We're great? I am Uncle Robert. How's

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Speaker 3: that all going? Mate?

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Speaker 4: It is the coolest thing ever out of all of

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Speaker 4: the animals I've gotten to experience, Grace is by father

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Speaker 1: She is just an absolute little legend.

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Speaker 4: I'm the proudest uncle Bindi and Chandler, you know, my

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Speaker 4: sister and my.

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Speaker 1: Brother in law.

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Speaker 4: They are amazing parents. Just they love it a bits.

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Speaker 4: And Grace is such a lucky little kid. But I'm

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Speaker 4: having so much fun. She's only not even a year old,

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Speaker 4: but I'm taking her on adventures.

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Speaker 1: I'm teaching. He had to play the guitar.

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Speaker 4: Chandler and I have and getting in there, having her

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Speaker 4: experienced wildlife, and yeah, it's just an absolute whirlwind and

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Speaker 4: I love it so so much.

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Speaker 2: It's the best I love on a social media. I

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Speaker 2: think you guys are amazing because you share a whole

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Speaker 2: lot of content for free, about about beautiful grace, about

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Speaker 2: all the work you do at the zoo. You're very generous,

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Speaker 2: but the Zoo's the zoo is just powering ahead.

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Speaker 4: It is, Yeah, absolutely, And you know, going through something

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Speaker 4: we're all going through. We all are experienced that is

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Speaker 4: experiencing it in different ways, and it's affecting everyone and

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Speaker 4: It's a really tough time. And we always feel that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: we've always been kind of sharing our journey through through

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Speaker 4: lockdowns it was really important to kind of share that story.

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Speaker 4: So you know, through our show and through all that

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Speaker 4: tough time. And you know, for the zoo, it doesn't stop.

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Speaker 4: We've got what twelve hundred animals, we've got almost four

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Speaker 4: hundred staff, We've got conservation projects that are relying on

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Speaker 1: Hear at home. Our beautiful Big Wildlife Hospital.

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Speaker 4: Australia Zoo is so much more than you know, the

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Speaker 4: keeping all of that going is difficult, but we're very

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Speaker 4: proud to say that through it all our conservation work

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Speaker 4: never wavered. You know, we're still supporting everything and it's

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Speaker 4: And it's thanks to the support from everyone all over

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Speaker 1: That's how we're getting through it.

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Speaker 4: So it's my mum hasn't slept in in years and the.

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Speaker 5: Last time we spoke to Terry, she said, and I

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Speaker 3: It's the food bill is mental and that's just you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's just me, the teenage boy.

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Speaker 1: I feel very I'm sorry.

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Speaker 4: I mean I probably equate for half of that food bill,

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Speaker 1: So it's yeah, it's it's very hard.

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Speaker 4: But honestly, I got to tell you it's my mum

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Speaker 1: I have so much respect for my mum, and.

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Speaker 2: She's one of the funniest people I have ever met.

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Speaker 2: She's so hilarious, isn't she tell us about the gator move,

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Speaker 4: Oh that yeah, mate, that was crazy. So that's kind

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Speaker 4: was just absolutely carnage. I mean just gators everywhere. You

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Speaker 4: I mean there were broken fingers, there were just we

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Speaker 1: It was awesome.

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Speaker 4: Well, see, this is a good question. If it's one.

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Speaker 4: give them a pat, a crocodile, you tried to do that,

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Speaker 4: and you know, rip your arm off. But when you

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Speaker 4: get to the point where you have multiple alligators, like

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Speaker 4: when we were doing this alligator move, we've got forty

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Speaker 4: forty of them, if you get surrounded, that's it.

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Speaker 5: And particularly when it's costing you eighty grand a week

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Speaker 5: to feed them. I guess you'd keep away from the

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Speaker 5: alligator enclosure during the lean times that Australia Zoo.

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Speaker 3: Saying hey, Mum, I might just go and check on

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Speaker 3: the peacocks. You see how they're going.

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Speaker 5: And until we get Bindy Bindi and Chandler can deal

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Mate, It's always great to talk to you.

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Speaker 5: Crikee. It's the Irwin Season four is back on Saturdays.

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Speaker 5: It's six point thirty on Animal Planet. It's also Irwin

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Speaker 5: Month throughout February on Animal Planet on Fox. Tell that's

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Speaker 5: its thing, mate.

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Speaker 1: Before we go, I've got something to show you. One

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Speaker 4: Okay, my mom told me to bring this on, right,

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Speaker 4: She said, you guys gave us a tea towel.

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Speaker 1: I think ages ago.

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Speaker 3: Yes, well we still use it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we love it. Our favorite teatowel. Help.

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Speaker 4: Mum's got like old tee towel collection, right, and so

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Speaker 4: this takes pride to play.

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Speaker 1: No, we're always we're flying the flag.

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Speaker 4: I love.

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Speaker 2: That's not you telling us we're all washed up.

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Speaker 3: I'm hoping.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, not at all. We love you guys, Robin.

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Speaker 3: It's so great to catch up with you. So high.

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Speaker 3: To all the game for us, mate, and look after

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Speaker 3: yourself well do.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, Thanks he

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's gamation