All There Is with Anderson Cooper
Mar 9, 2026 · 28 min · 14 segments
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks with Anderson about growing up the child of divorced parents whose pasts were rarely talked about. Newsom witnessed his mom's death by doctor-assisted suicide…
Gavin NewsomGuest
Anderson CooperHost
Robert IrwinGuest
His dad, Steve Irwin, who was a conservationist and TV star best known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed when Robert was just two years old.
Steve was shooting a documentary underwater when he was killed by a stingray.
I'm a very sentimental person, and my dad was like, he was kinda like Indiana Jones, right? When you walked into his office, it was like a museum.
I mean, he's got like Masai spears on the wall, and he's got like swords from bl- like, he, like, he's, was like proper-
And I remember I would often, you know, just walk in and everything was left pristine, exactly the same, right? Nothing was touched.
And sometimes I would just walk in and I felt like I was in like, I don't know, like sacred ground.
And I would kinda just look, just, just on my own to just sort of get, I don't know, feel him again.
And then one day I went, "You know what? I don't think he's gonna mind." So I started taking stuff.
I went in, and there's all of his shirts on a rack that he used to wear, all his khaki shirts.
I looked at that and I went, "I wonder if that fits me." So I popped it in the wash, I put it on and I'm like, "Yep, that fits." And I'm like, "Great, I'm gonna start wearing his shirts." He had a watch on the, on the table that was sitting there, always told the same time.
And I went, "I'm gonna get that thing working again," and got it working and started wearing it.
It's like, almost like that was, that was like this stepping off point to be like he's this almost like untouchable part of my life that is like held stale in time.
His dad, Steve Irwin, who was a conservationist and TV star best known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed when Robert was just two years old.
Steve was shooting a documentary underwater when he was killed by a stingray.
I'm a very sentimental person, and my dad was like, he was kinda like Indiana Jones, right? When you walked into his office, it was like a museum.
I mean, he's got like Masai spears on the wall, and he's got like swords from bl- like, he, like, he's, was like proper-
And I remember I would often, you know, just walk in and everything was left pristine, exactly the same, right? Nothing was touched.
And sometimes I would just walk in and I felt like I was in like, I don't know, like sacred ground.
And I would kinda just look, just, just on my own to just sort of get, I don't know, feel him again.
And then one day I went, "You know what? I don't think he's gonna mind." So I started taking stuff.
I went in, and there's all of his shirts on a rack that he used to wear, all his khaki shirts.
I looked at that and I went, "I wonder if that fits me." So I popped it in the wash, I put it on and I'm like, "Yep, that fits." And I'm like, "Great, I'm gonna start wearing his shirts." He had a watch on the, on the table that was sitting there, always told the same time.
And I went, "I'm gonna get that thing working again," and got it working and started wearing it.
It's like, almost like that was, that was like this stepping off point to be like he's this almost like untouchable part of my life that is like held stale in time.
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