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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's We love catching up with these two humans.

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Speaker 1: Their series crich It's the Irwins returns for series three,

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Speaker 1: who giving us an inside look into the struggles and

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Speaker 1: the challenges they faced. Australia Zoo Terry and Robert Eoin.

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Speaker 2: Hello, kay, you know as we say in Australia Season

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Speaker 2: three Season Free mate, the season Free kicks off with

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Speaker 2: you reopening after having to close obviously during the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's not like when Australia Zoo closes you

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Speaker 1: can sit at home and watch Housewives of Beverly Hills.

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Speaker 1: Those animals needed to be fed and to be cared for.

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Speaker 1: What a huge challenge we.

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Speaker 3: Tried to get the housewives.

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Speaker 2: So it was strange because we still needed half our

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Speaker 2: staff about two hundred people to come in every day

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Speaker 2: to feed everything, tend the gardens, and then all the

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Speaker 2: food and beverage staff had to come in to feed them.

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Speaker 2: So it was like we were open every day but

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Speaker 2: without an income. So feeding the animals was about eighty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars a week and it was a bit dodgy.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I think then when we got through

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Speaker 4: it and got on the other side, of it.

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Speaker 5: It was the most ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Feeling because it's the first time in fifty years, fifty

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Speaker 4: years of Australia Zoo that we've ever had to shut

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Speaker 4: and it was seventy eight days that we were closed,

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Speaker 4: so reopening it was one of the most emotional things

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Speaker 5: It was just crazy.

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Speaker 2: And you know, if somebody had said you're going to

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Speaker 2: be closed for seventy eight days, that would have been

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Speaker 2: scary enough. Had no idea. We didn't know. We didn't

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Speaker 2: know if it was going to be seventy days, weeks, months.

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Speaker 2: You just had no idea, So.

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Speaker 5: It was very scary.

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Speaker 1: How did you manage that without an income stream? You

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Speaker 1: did the government step in?

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Speaker 2: You know, they stepped The government stepped in marvelously, but

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Speaker 2: it's such a slow moving animal that they say here,

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Speaker 2: we're going to help you and then months later you

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Speaker 2: actually get help. So that was the challenge. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was tremendous help. So what I thought, as any

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Speaker 2: mother would, I thought, hmm, what do I do.

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Speaker 3: Exploit my child?

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Speaker 2: Sober Robert was selling his photography around the world and

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Speaker 2: people from everywhere stepped up and were marvelous and we

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Speaker 2: were selling about forty thousand dollars a week in Robert's

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Speaker 2: photography work from his gallery.

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Speaker 5: It was crazy.

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Speaker 3: It covered half our cost, so it was just wonderful.

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Speaker 4: But everyone was so keen to help, and I think

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Speaker 4: that that was really important for us. I mean, Australia

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Speaker 4: Zoo is so much more than just the zoo itself.

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Speaker 4: We have so many conservation projects. Where we are now

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Speaker 4: is in our Wildlife Hospital where we've taken in over

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Speaker 4: one hundred thousand animals to care for them, and so

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Speaker 4: it seems like we sort of had this responsibility not

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Speaker 4: only to keep the zoo going, but keep all of

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Speaker 4: this conservation work going because it's what Dad started and

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Speaker 4: it's what he loved, and I think for all of

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Speaker 4: it all all stayed afloat and it was thanks to

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Speaker 2: Oh Australians are great. I love this one Australian company said,

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Speaker 2: we deliver food to restaurants and they're basically all clothes.

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Speaker 5: Would you like some sweet potatoes?

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Speaker 2: Oh dude, everything eat sweet potatoes. That would be awesome.

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Speaker 2: We'd love something. So I'm thinking he's going to show

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Speaker 2: up with a box of sweet potatoes. No, no, he

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Speaker 5: We had very sad wombats.

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Speaker 3: It was great.

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Speaker 1: I follow you guys on social media and the extraordinary

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Speaker 1: work that you do in the hospital there. And it's

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Speaker 1: not just it's lovely to see the pictures of the

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Speaker 1: cute koalas, but we also see the snakes. We also

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Speaker 1: see the turtles, we also see the stuff. I love

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Speaker 1: that you embrace it all.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Like for me, my passion is reptiles, and

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Speaker 6: But you're weird. That's amazing. Yeah, it's so cool.

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Speaker 4: And living in a zoo and having a wildlife hospital

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Speaker 5: It's never been more important.

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Speaker 3: Love, you know.

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Speaker 2: We also are a king sorry, we're also a teaching

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Speaker 3: So now the research is continuing to the hospital.

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Speaker 2: There are certain types that will affect cane toads as well,

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Speaker 2: all amphibians in fact, so if we had salamanders and nutes,

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Speaker 3: But so far it's just really bothering the frogs.

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Speaker 2: And of course a fungus on your skin really messes

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Speaker 3: So they'll sit in the water and then they.

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Speaker 3: They're really unique animals, so we've got to protect them.

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Speaker 1: And I love how you're surrounded by all these extraordinary creatures,

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Speaker 1: and yet the one that's closest to your heart, Robert,

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Speaker 1: is Stella, the pug of all the of all the breeds.

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Speaker 1: I love that you've chosen a lapdog.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we've chosen the mighty majestic pug.

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Speaker 6: She is.

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Speaker 5: She's hilarious. Honestly, I just love her so much. And

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Speaker 4: Realized just how much personality come out of this tiny

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Speaker 5: I mean, she just looks like an oversized grubworm. She's

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Speaker 5: She's just she has a great life and just thinks

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Speaker 5: And you've got to really keep her on a tight lea.

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Speaker 7: But no, she's a lot and has the driving lessons

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Speaker 7: going that they're still going, Terry, You have you been

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Speaker 3: This is really a good driver.

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Speaker 2: He's very very defensive and very careful.

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Speaker 3: And no, I can't I can't fault him.

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Speaker 2: He's a great driver. I don't see him out there

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Speaker 2: road raging anytime soon. And he's driving his dad's old Ye.

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Speaker 6: That's how cool is that?

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Speaker 5: It's an amazing vehicle.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, once you kind of work out the the quirks,

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Speaker 6: Because what is it again? What's the youth again? What's

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Speaker 5: The it's it's an old Toyota. What year is it?

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Speaker 6: It's really old.

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Speaker 4: I first started driving. There's so many stories about this car.

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Speaker 4: But I mean one time we were actually one of

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Speaker 5: Another time they're driving.

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Speaker 4: On a road a really long trip and then all

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Speaker 4: But it's just it's awesome, you know, it's just that

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Speaker 2: Maybe we shouldn't be more worried about me than driving

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Speaker 2: putting it. And then we were overnight for that one

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Speaker 5: In the morning, we get the ute.

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Speaker 5: My god, this is driving little lexuses.

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Speaker 6: And larious, don't wreck my car. It's a collector's car.

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Speaker 6: Don't mention it that massive?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, she she's she's getting big. She's getting you know, ample,

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Speaker 1: As only a brother can say, of course.

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Speaker 5: Beautiful time.

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Speaker 6: She's glowing.

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Speaker 6: You know you don't say big glowing wait.

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Speaker 4: I'm so excited for this little baby. I just can't

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Speaker 6: You, tiny key.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it would be a great uncle, exciting times, Uncle.

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Speaker 6: Fun uncle and Terry, what will what will you go with? As?

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Speaker 6: Will you be grandma or granny or nana?

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Speaker 5: Bunny, bunny, bunny.

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Speaker 6: I love that.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: We had a neighbor where I grew up and her

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Speaker 2: wasn't actually her name grandmother mother actually, yeah, grandma bunny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it.

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Speaker 7: I think that's a good idea. Although the kid could

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Speaker 7: go with anything. You do know that.

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Speaker 6: Call you anything could go.

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Speaker 5: I'm just so exc great, beautiful.

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Speaker 6: Well, it's great to talk to you, guys.

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Speaker 7: Season three or Free of krikey, It's the Irwins return

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Speaker 7: Saturday's six point thirty on Animal Planet, available on Foxtail

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Speaker 7: and Fetch.

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Speaker 6: Terry and Robert thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Thanks very much, we can't wait to see you up

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Speaker 3: here again.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, look after that clutch, Robert, Yes

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda's SA