G'day guys. How's it going today?
I have a little surprise for you
And we're gonna listen to a few excerpts from a an interview between Rove McManus and Steve
Irwin okay, so Rove McManus used to have a TV show called Rove live and Steve Irwin was the
famous
conservationist and zoo owner from the Northeast up TV shows and tragically died in the early 2000s
But this is a great great chance for you guys to practice your listening comprehension and understanding of Australian accents
So Rove has an accent. That's probably closer to mine
It's the general Australian accent and Steve Irwin definitely has a more
broad
Australian accent as you'll see he uses heaps of slang lots of different expressions, but yeah
I hope you guys enjoy this episode, and we'll see how it goes
Yeah, you are excitable. I mean my time on fire
Just got tossed Jennifer knew it behind the stage, they're like what?
Okay
She's gorgeous
that cannot say tis a pleasure to meet you because you're one of the
Few remaining guests that I have yet to have on the show if you chat to so it's actually really great to have you here
Thanks Mike good for you
Now is an exciting for you with all with the movie coming out
You've been doing probably a lot of interviews and everything like that is actually great to be back home
Made it's like it's like you know coming home is easily the best thing I was in America
We did like five weeks 1200 interviews
You know from one end of the country to the other and I was very very daunting and to come home is a cry, thank
Oh absolutely
First thing get off the plane might didn't go I'm booked
Straight into the bush free me swag out camped under the stars, and I was healed up
Thanks great. Yeah. How big are you in the states they love you six foot and around our ninety seven kilos
Oh hit my tits gone ballistic
It's going off. It's like um you know I've gotta have bodyguards minders police escorts
You know the the limousine convoys and you know secret agent doors
Not camouflage in disguise and stuff mate. It is absolutely. It's weird if it's me
That's not where you come from I mean. I'm just a bloke from the bush. You know good. I Steve hey
Y'all make type thing go over there, and she's just like everyone's um having a go
It's it's you know what it is
Good for they rave is where conservationists make through-and-through like we live for conservation our message is so strong
Really, we're saving the world which is good
Look haven't got what's happening right you know?
What is dark cloud of terrorism you know September 11th?
And all that kind of stuff and here's this bloke from the bush up in beer Walker, Queensland
Having a go and bringing goodness into the world you know wildlife wilderness conservation greening up the earth yeah
And teaching people to pick up snakes. Yeah, yeah
I've got a couple saved up for a psalm a bin Laden action
When you're in the States quietly do you turn it on up a little just turn the ARCA factor up a little bit more
Cuz ninety-two we kicked off doing the dark eyes
And it was all you know go on ahead great rate or not
And then I you know I looked at the camera a bit different
You know I started to change you know I'm here's to watch um you know David Attenborough
And I thought I he'll stiffen up a bit and do the right thing here
Oh, I'll sag and Mike going down the toilet real quick so Johnny
Me producer director and good my teas out the back. They're keeping me out the back can't even on cameras too ugly and up
Look here's where you're going wrong. You're trying to change
You're trying to change for the camera. You're trying to be someone you're not and it's not working mate
We're not going to go one step further if you do that and he's dead right and so we like we did this movie
No script, no plot. No story not the money
The biggest crock you can find nearly died and everything will be great
Do you have to explain what Crocky means to people with you yet?
Yeah, that's one of the most commonly asked questions as what is crikey mean well
It's all about being Australian of World War two really my grandfather, and my father were big crikey users
You know so as a young boy when they hit their you know thumb with the hammer they go
cry
Yes, they whoop. Yeah, so it covers a lot of woods. You know like gee gee whiz well
Yeah
It's a good one. It's a good one. I got a new one the next movie. I'm going to trial this new one true
Do you drink coffee no no heck no my top he hit it blow up
Years ago I haven't recovered yet, yeah
So explain the movie collision course. Yeah, because you do just you same
There's no script. So you just went in there and literally lose it yes
There's scenes where you're jumping on crocks, and oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah well
Here's what happened Mike was like well coming back from there. Maybe yeah, right gangrene in me handy alright
You know fell off a cliff and got gangrene nearly died anyway, whatever
I'm talking yeah, I mean John were on the same plane you know South African Airlines coming back and all busted up
Hey guys. What do you want to do about this movie Steve?
I said I well I've got to catch these crocodiles in September of 2000. He's gone. That's it
That's the nucleus of the movie so rather than filming it with video cameras
He's shot with movie cams a lot of because you can't get the old croc to go. I'll take one croc
You know they won't read scripts either
We got the nucleus of me jumping on 12 foot Crocs mate was bit like wild stuff got busted up
You know had to have a cartlidge operation in between film and got me lip splitting off. Got me head caved in
Yeah chest torn apart had to cry see you all that down because too much blood for the movie
You know we wanted to maintain a feel of course right I said now. We've got we've got the nucleus
We've got the croc stuff. Then we talked to Bruce Willis in our 2001 gone you guys
Want to get on the big screen you know if you've got a message taken to the big screen Bruce is a very clever
Operator and he's right take it to the big screen
That's where a conservation message is really gonna be heard so he hooked up with MGM and Cheyenne films principals
And I we started filming in
October of 2001
finished it like March this year and
There it is don't deal
With you
Do you think you could show me skill and white boy from the burbs how to jump on a croc?
Why is it something you can teach people is it something yet to learn now I can teach you mate
But you gotta have you gotta have guts you know you gotta you got to be prepared to commit you go in on a croc
Like that mate you to be fair dinkum
Show you this you've got to go in and you've got to go in half
Okay, can I go in hard on like say a pretend crocodile?
I'll take you be Terry mate. I'll walk you through it. Okay. It's all about picking them up in the spotlight getting close enough
I'll take the head in but for me to stay alive
You'll have to hit hard on the tail and my daughter bite die come out the back
We've got a special Rove live crocodile area set up by out this way righto mate
So when did you first learn how to wrestle a croc when I was 9 nice knowing years old mate your dad
Yeah, dad out the front of the boat. He's gone you get this one son
Couldn't believe me. You are okay, so here. It is now don't get too scared
If you think you can handle it
So let's say you. There's a croc there. It is in the
We should if you're gonna get in it's only a six Porter might this shouldn't be too old
So take me through watch what you're gonna do
We're just gonna get to Steve's equipment on so he doesn't electrocute himself
It's all about reality mate ladies first thing you do is you pick up their eye shine yeah?
And then when I've located their eye shine, then I'll put my spotlight there
And you'll have to keep yours on to the last point to live in a radio but some
Sneak around here make you don't want to get him in the side
Slit right so what I'm gonna. Do is I get close enough right? I'm gonna grab
It around the neck and then you're gonna have to secure the tile, otherwise I'm gonna get killed right
What I like about night
Like you what a beauty?
So, thanks for watching this episode guys
I'm I posted in the group and we can sort of come up with a plan for how to best use these episodes
I'm thinking that you guys could work together to transcribe the episodes using YouTube in order to practice your listening comprehension
We could talk about the vocab the slang that's used break it down the basic idea here is to help you get used to
Australian accents, okay, so you're not just listening to me all the time
anyway guys
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