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♪ but together we saw the end in sight i'm tired of fighting the good fight if you say the word then ♪ ♪ i'll say goodbye forever i see you and me forever i'll try for you and i no i never believed in ♪ ♪ their insight just another good reason to get it right forever we tried ♪ >> thank you, guys! i love you, jimbo! ♪ ♪ you know i'm bad at communication it's the hardest
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thing for me to do ♪ ♪ and it's said it's the most important part that relationships will go through ♪ ♪ and i'd give it all away just so i could say that i know i know i know i know ♪ ♪ that you're gonna be okay anyway ♪ ♪ you know there's no rhyme or reason for the way you turned out to be ♪ ♪ i didn't go and try to change my mind not intentionally ♪ ♪ i know it's hard to hear me say it but i can't bear to stay and i just know i know i know ♪ ♪ i know that you're gonna be okay anyway always keep your heart locked tight ♪ ♪ don't let your mind retire oh, but i just couldn't take it ♪ ♪ i tried hard not to fake it but i fumbled and when i came down to the wire ♪ ♪ it felt great it felt right, yeah but i fumbled him when i came down to the wire ♪ ♪
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♪ tonight on "nightline," the shark whisperer, we take you on undersea journey with the guy who treats sharks like pets. >> are you kidding me! >> are they blood thirsty predators or simply misunderstood? >> fresh off new year's rocking eve, mclemore and ryan lewis, open up in an interview. why the rapper is worried about relapsing into substance abuse. >> and the real story behind the surprise hit of 2013. ♪ if i was gay i would think hip-hop hates me ♪ >> hangover helper. still hurting from last night's party, meet the doctor who says he could have prevented it.
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>> i have at least 12 shots of
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hello, good evening. if your new year's resolution is to be more adventurous you are about to get in spir raespirati the shark whisperer, a guy who swims unprotected with the most feared animals on earth and treats them like pets. krit sick he was one of the most fascinating people we met in 2013, and abc's matt gutman filed this report. >> it may be the sum of all human fears, maybe just mine. >> on your left. on your left. >> reporter: coming face to jaws with a 14-foot tiger shark the
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size of a car. you think "jaws." the apex predators that can swallow you whole, the great whites, gnashing at shark cages and the surfer chomped by a shark in hawaii. check out the videos recently off a california beach. >> he's checking me out. >> reporter: that is great white. here as it nother. cruising beneath unsuspecting surfer. there were 80 unprovoked shark attacks reported on humans in 2012. ten years ago it was just 60 attacks. these must be aggressive, blood thirsty creatures, right? maybe not. we flew out to the shark mecca of the bahamas to find out for ourselves, motoring 30 miles out on the turquoise atlantic >> tiell me when you want it. for a rendezvous of shark conversationist, jim abernathy, a man who believes sharks can be
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friends not foes. minutes later that bait packed in crates is tossed overboard to entice his friend to begin to surface. >> so the sharks are already around us. you expect the tigers to come along once we're down there, right? i hope so. right? yeah! he's been diving with sharks for 35 years. one of the first to escape the steel cages and begin interacting with the animals directly. interaction that has turned into affection. he gained international notoriety and a host of critics with this kiss of a supposedly deadly tiger shark six years ago. eventually abernathy would develop a theory, about sharks they're docile and can be trained. he calls them his pets. but in particular, there is a 14-foot, wild tiger shark he named emma. >> do you think you have a
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relationship with emma? >> i think so. i don't expect other people to think that. most people would believe only what they see. >> for nine years, he has been lovingly saving them from hooks, parasites and occasionally, ropes. >> cut it! >> oh! >> all right. now. push her back. push her back. >> yeah! whoa! >> do you think sharks like affection? >> no. i know sharks like affection. because they come back for it like a dog. >> i mean i see it. i see you are not -- this has to be true. >> they come back to me over and over and over again. >> but abernathy isn't naive. before plunking in i get a tutorial and reality check about keeping an eye on the bigger sharks. >> is that because they're more dangerous? >> it's because if a small shark was to make a mistake and bite you, chances are we can probably handle it. if a big shark makes a mistake and bites you, chances are you
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are going to bled to death on the boat. >> big distinction. >> reporter: yes, yes. in 2008, one of his divers was mauled by a tiger shark, the tragic accident in open water, he died. a number of years ago there was a person on one of your tours who died as a result of a bite. what happened? >> i have been asked by the father not to talk about what happened on that day. because he doesn't want to relive the, the incident. but a series of mistakes were made. >> human or animal? >> human. >> human mistakes. >> yeah. >> reporter: he also blames human error on the shark that chewed into his arm two years ago. he admits there is risked. but it is the sharks under a far greater threat. humans kill an estimated 100 million sharks per year, just to kill the supposed monsters. the probability you could become shark bait yourself, about one in 264 million.
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statistically you are more likely to die from a falling coconut. the concept of man-eating sharks, total bunk. no such thing? >> no. excepten movies. >> abernathy says he led thousand of successful, safe expeditions that have advanced the cause of the much-maligned creatures. we suit up, aberntahy and i wearing dive masks that enable us to communicate underwater but wearing nothing thicker than ape wet suit as protection. >> you have to be fully in black, because sharks like color. >> right down to the platform. >> we ease into the water, following the bait crates. 40 feet down, it is a whirlwind of sharks. our very own sharknado. abernathy swims to the center with me in tow. >> turn around, man. turn around. >> wow. >> suddenly we are surrounded by giant tiger sharks.
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and there, as if on cue -- >> hello. >> emma, the big one there, spots an old friend. >> it easy incredible. he believes she even recognizes him. watch how slowly she approaches him. it's not just emma who seems to want attention. watch, something never before seen on camera. >> are you kidding me? are you kidding me? what are you doing? >> a full 30 seconds of cuddling? >> is that your pet dog? what is senate. >> i don't know if you saw that. swam right up, when i was watching the tiger. incredible. >> reporter: the others are also curious. in one case, gobbling the camera i am holding.
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the white color of the camera pole remind them of fish. so they try to taste. you notice how you don't realize there is a bunch of other sharks here now. >> i have. they keep trying to eat the camera. >> we head back to the boat for fresh air tanks, abernathy explains how unique this experience it the planet's apex predators is. >> you can't run in africa with the lions. but you can swim every day with large sharks. they do it all over the world. >> we head down below one last time. to a quiet world, lived at a shark's pace. soon enough, abernathy's super model walks the run way again. now it was my turn to show emma some love, i reach out my hand, and scratch as emma glides away, back towards abernathy. her favorite human pal. >> mesmerizing.
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emma almost has me convinced. almost. coming up next on "nightline" -- after an epic 2013 with "can't hold us" capped off by an appearance on "new year's rocking eve" why mclemore is worried right now about relapsing into the substance abuse that nearly killed him. ♪ ♪ [poof!] [beep] [clicks mouse] nice office. how you doing? good. automatic discounts the moment you sign up. [ male announcer ] wintcannot take a sick day. [ coughs ] [ male announcer ] so when he catches a cold, he's got to power through it.
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it was a fitting way to cap 2013 for macklemore and ryan lewis performing in front of tens of millions of people on new year's rocking eve. the two became the year's most improbable pop stars, rapping abut unusual, highly personal topics. true to form when i sat down with them recently they were bracingly candid. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: mcle more and ryan lewis had a wild run in 2013, their record sold more than a million copies. the videos for "can't hold us." ♪ like the ceiling can't hold us ♪ >> reporter: and "thrift shop" had 700 million views, nominate ford seven grammys, wrapped up a tour and last night they played "new year's rocking eve" here on abc. ♪ ♪ >> but right now as they transition away from the screaming crowds and back to normal life, is when macklemore,
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worries about relapsing into substance abuse that derailed him in the past. >> for me what is a temptation is coming home off the road. which is why this time period is interesting. >> right now is -- >> this is when it happened before. this is when i have fallen back before. >> reporter: at its worst drugs and alcohol landed him in the hospital and in 2008, in relab. >> i just never had an off switch from it. from the first time i ever drank alcohol, i got that warm feeling, i got that like losing in his bags feeli inhibition. after that i wondered what six was like. eight. eight is fun. what is ten like. >> how bad did it get for you? >> isolation. broke, depressed. no reason to really live. >> did it impact your working relationship? >> yeah, we didn't work for the first three years. >> i think that was at the
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centerpiece. >> reporter: when macklemore is healthy, his partnership with ryan lewis, he met on myspace eight years ago is productive. ♪ got $20 >> reporter: an unlikely success story. a hip-hop group that rails against materialism. racism, homophobia and raps about substance abuse and buddhist meditation and went mainstream on their own with no record label their working relagsship is more collaborative than many fans may realize. >> i'm critiquing lyrics for sure? >> critiquing the hell out of -- >> the first person to experience a new song. >> i come up. my hands are shaking. i've got something. and just like, this one. this one. this is horrible! >> does he have a red pen? >> might as well. we should get you a red pen. >> reporter: one song lewis
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weighed in heavily, same love, the band's owed to gay rights. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: same love is so far outside the range of the normal stuff we hear in a hip-hop song. what, what possess you'd to write it? >> i was sent ape sto story from about a gay kid that committed suicide, took his own life. and it started with me writing from the perspective of that kid. trying to take it on from his vantage point. and as usual i kind of liked what i wrote. brought it in to ryan. ryan was like you, know what, red marker. this isn't your story to tell. you have a story. you have a vantage point. but it's not this. >> good advice. probably the best advice ryan has ever given me about the
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song. ♪ if i was gay >> reporter: the soat song crea some backlash, but nothing compared to what happened when macklemore brought up trayvon martin on the music awards. >> dew i want to acknowledge trn martin and the hundreds and hundreds of kids each year that are dying due to racial profiling. >> the feedback from that, the hatred in the next 48 hours from that, surpassed all of the hatred in the last year from "same love." the racism that came back from that, via social media, blew me away. it was an eye-opening experience to see where half of our country still is in terms of race issues in america. >> reporter: how do you balance your desire to use your platform to advance causes you care about, and the risk of coming off as preachy? >> you scrutinize everything. because you don't want to come
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across as preachy. no one wants to be preached to. >> reporter: after hustling and scraping to make it for years, fame is some times trickier than they imagine. and it's not just about the response to their public pronouncements, it is also the lack of privacy, and the exhaustion of the road. macklemore says he some times has to check himself when he has a diva moment. >> be grateful. be happy. enjoy this. it's not promised. who knows where we are going to be in a year, two years, three years. we're at this position now. and i don't want to look back and be like, you had it all, and you weren't even present for tip. you weren't able to enjoy it. i want to be here. be now. be grateful. >> watch behind the music. check out mc hammer, and you'll see how quickly it can go. >> i'm wearing his jewelry. >> ha-ha.
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>> you had to say it. all right, thanks to ben and ryan, two great guys to interview. now the tour is over. the guys will get back to work pretty much right away on a new record. up next here on "nightline," a compelling question on this day after the biggest party night of the year -- has this doctor invented a sure-fire way to prevent a hangover. a bombshell is born. with 10 times more noticeable lashes. nothing gets attention like a bombshell. [ male announcer ] for big sexy bombshell lashes new bombshell volume from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. get it! flaunt it! [ male announcer ] try the whole bombshell collection. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision.
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>> off finally tonight if you are still queasy and headachy after new year's eve there is an industry peddling product to get you into fighting shape and a doctor who says he has come up with something that could have helped you avoid the hangover in the first place without cutting back on the booze. here is abc's linz lindsay dav. >> reporter: waking up to nausea, battling a blinding headache, hopefully nothing look what the guys in the hangover experienced. >> what the [ bleep ] happened last night. hey, bill, am i missing a tooth? >> reporter: while no one argues excessive drinking can be
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harmful, some think the only sure cure for a hangover is time. and, then there's dr. leonard grossman. >> once you have the hangover you are done. there is at least four hours of your life that is just lost. he says he created a way to prevent hangovers without vinegar, pickles or raw eggs. it's call he says the patch is like being attached to an iv, continuously infusing vitamins into the blood stream. >> alcohol itself is a diuretic. what happens the kidneys go into overdrive, and you are watching out everything water soluble. >> hangover remedies have been around, coffee, honey, greasy foods. hair of the dog. and, now there is blowfish, not the poisonous fish, an over the counter drug that promises to upright your hangover. not with fins, but with fizz.
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what makes blow fish more effective than aspirin and coffee. >> the thing that is special about it, it is effervescent. so for one thing, it forces, the sufferer to hydrate. >> bytox and blow fish, two of a growing list of anti-hangover product. tried and tested by researchers who turned themselves into lab rats. >> i had at least 12 shots of tequila. >> the typical scientific protocols for testing didn't exactly apply. >> surprised how great i felt. >> authors of a 2005 study in british medical journal found no convincing evidence that any conventional remedies can cure a hangover. dr. grossman doesn't dispute that. >> not a cure. a prevention. >> reporter: while the science is debatable, the novelty of selling a cure for a hangover is not. for "nightline," i'm lindsay

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