❤️ Former ABC Reporter Iain Finlay Dies At 89

Jonesy & Amanda pay tribute to the legendary man.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
News in your world.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Yes, I was really sad to hear of the passing
of Ian Finlay. Ian Finlay passed away at the age
of eighty nine, a former ABC journalist. This is a
man who did everything, but the man he was to
me was one of my colleagues at Beyond two thousand.
When I first joined Beyond two thousand in the early
I guess the mid eighties, I was terrified that show
had been going already for a number of years with

(00:26):
the most respected journalists you can imagine. So when Simon
Reeve and I started, we were such junior Burghers that
Ian Finlay was one of the nicest people I have
ever met. That show itself was quite extraordinary when you
look back at it as you talk off in Jonesy
about the silly stories and the things we missed and
the walking on the water shoes and all of that.

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But have listened to Ian here in nineteen eighty eight
talking about climate change.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hummans have walked this earth for close to three million years.
Our industrial world has existed for a mere two hundred years.
So if you think about that a slightly different way
and try and imagine humans being around for only twenty
four hours. Then the Industrial Age would have started just
five seconds ago. And we're only now realizing that in
those five seconds we've caused major changes to our planet's

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atmosphere and ultimately will change its climate. Now there's been
a lot of talk in the world's media about these
possible changes, but much of it, let's face it has
been full of hot air.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
In nineteen eighty eight, it was around the time that
they got rid of chlorofluoricarbons, and that made a big difference.
It actually closed the hole in the ozone layer. Ian
and his wife Trish were so great to me, and
they were such an inspirational couple. They traveled while widely,
they were interested in all kinds of things. They wore
their hearts on their sleeves in terms of causes. Even

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recently they're doing some work in Laos. They are incredible,
incredible humans. And Ian had a disorder, a rare disorder
called amy ludosis, which were a protein bill up in
the organs and can lead to their failure. So he
chose in the last few days voluntary assisted dying. So
this is the decision the family came to and as

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Ian said, and what makes me emotional? What a great speech,
he said. I've always been interested in the unanswerable questions life, death,
and the whole darn thing I look on. Birth and
death has been the two great adventures of life.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Oh what a guy.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Condolence, Oh, absolute condolences to Ian and Trish, their kids
and all of those who are in their orbit. An
extraordinary man, and he'll be very much mess.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Ahead of his time.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Absolutely curious about that. That particular story about climate change
from nineteen eighty eight. You're on that very same episode
talking about meat meat meat, Well, if a portion size
is anything to go by, this should taste like Noville cuisine.
Smells okay, he goes little dry, quite tasty though it's

(02:59):
actually not a salty I thought it would be. It's
not your eye fill it and it could probably do
with a bit of mustard, but that's not bad for
meat that's eighteen months old. While Ian was talking about that,
you were winging about dry on meat. Well, I hope
that's not what they play for me when I pass away. Well,
how inspirational I was. I'll play you getting salty on
TikTok taker.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yes, that's right. Rest in peace, absolutely,