The Crocodile Hunter with Brianna Bowman
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Who was Steve Irwin, and why did The Crocodile Hunter become a childhood icon?
I think we really missed out by not being marsupials. Okay, I'm going to start us off. I'm going to have a sip of tea, and then here's what we're going to do. I want to, at 12, check in about how we're doing in terms of pacing.
You know me.
It's like we worked together before.
It's like I have, you know, unexpectedly dropped a three-part series on
you before. And we needed a three-part series, but Steve Irwin is a human-sized man, and so it must be shorter.
Yeah, I mean, I think I could, well, maybe not three parts. I probably could make it two parts, but I'm not going to. I promised you. You could, but you shan't. Yeah, I made a promise. We're going
to leave all this in so people see what I have to deal with. Do
you see? You're basically Pete from 30 Rock. This is
like, you know what this is? This is karma because I used to freelance, as you know, when we were in our 20s. And I had editors being like, OK, I need this many words. And I was like, I can make it really long. And they're like, no. And now I'm the person who has to keep saying, no, it must be shorter. And I never thought that would happen to me. It's like parenthood, but editorially. Yeah. Okay. Well, anyway, Brianna. Sarah. You are our ocean correspondent. And
yet today
we are going on land. We are. It's a little confusing. We're going to put on our khakis. We're going to return to perhaps our childhoods. absolutely and we are going to talk about something i think people have been asking for for a long time and that is the crocodile hunter steve irwin
steve irwin the man the myth the legend yeah i don't know if he's really a myth but he certainly is a legend to many people
you know yeah what's the difference i don't know but definitely the legend yeah And you talked to us at the start of this year about Keiko. And here we are, I guess, for another biography of someone who a lot of us bonded with in our childhoods, I want to say. And I'm talking about millennials here. Yeah, exactly. Brianna, first of all, two questions in brief. Who are you? And I know that's a big one. And you can answer it however you want, truly. And B, for someone who, for example, says I was born in October of 2006, who is Steve Irwin?
Right. So I'm Brianna Bowman. I am currently a part-time host and reporter for my local NPR member station, KLCC, based
in Eugene. You have the rom-com job of my dreams, and you are also, I will point out, much like Adrienne Barbeau in The Fog, a coastal radio gal. Yeah. What is that like generally to be talking about sort of a facet of the science world, which famously is having kind of a rough time with regards to people being proud to believe that science does not govern them in kind of a pretty worrying way that has gotten more political traction than it used to have? I think it's fair to say. And also like the difficult thing of communicating fairly specialized knowledge to people when you only have like so much time to do it.
What is that like for you? I do find myself struggling. I'm learning, you know, like I was primarily trained as a scientist and now I am learning on the fly on the job how to be a journalist.
And scientists do not tend to be rewarded for brevity, I would say. No. And scientists would say journalism frequently miscommunicates or right over dramatizes or like click baits or like simplifies an idea or like makes little sound bites out of a complex interview in a way that like compromises the average person's ability to even try to understand
what's
going on, to which I would say, yeah, that is absolutely true.
Yes. I also kind of struggle with this idea of how much do we need to simplify all the time? I think the interesting part are the details. And I get it. It's a news outlet. It's a news organization. And we need to be able to engage with the most people possible in terms of our audience and our listeners and our readers of our web articles. But yeah, sometimes I've kind of struggled with the idea of like... having to simplify things because I am like, well, yeah, maybe for some people that would be too much.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who was Steve Irwin, and why did The Crocodile Hunter become a childhood icon?
0:00–14:52
2
How did Steve Irwin’s wildlife-loving childhood shape his career?
14:52–21:15
3
Why did Steve Irwin capture and relocate problem crocodiles?
21:15–30:22
4
How did Terri Irwin and The Crocodile Hunter help Steve become a TV star?
30:22–1:09:47
5
How did Terri Irwin build a wildlife rescue career before meeting Steve?
1:09:47–1:15:44
6
How did Steve Irwin and Terri meet at the Queensland Reptile Park?
1:15:44–1:26:04
7
How did Steve and Terri turn a crocodile rescue into The Crocodile Hunter?
1:26:04–2:02:03
8
How did Steve Irwin die in a rare stingray accident, and what is his conservation legacy?
2:02:03–2:18:46