January 16, 2026 • 25 mins
Conservationist Terri Irwin is back to hear a story from listener Rebecca that is so embarrassing… you’ll need a new pair of pants.
Plus, Terri shares her prom experience and how she ended up at the dance, without a date, and not on the dance floor.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
That's that's okay because knowing here is.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Terry.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I asked you to come equipped with an embarrassing or
a funny or a touching story from your youth, something
that's a good representation of you, even if maybe now
it makes you laugh or cringe to think about it now.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah, well, I I think the most the most embarrassing
thing was prom night. That was the most embarrassing, taking
invite as a prom and then go and take tickets.
But I think that as a kid growing up, the
thing I feel so passionate about, which isn't terribly embarrassing,
(01:06):
but I feel so passionate about everyone looking at what
made them inspired and excited and believing in something when
they were young, and where did that go? You know? So,
for example, I was the dorky kid who loved accounts.
(01:29):
I was the one who when it was eleven eleven
in the morning, I'd make a wish. I was the
one who played with my dad's adding machine which had
a handle, and I loved accounts. So that's not very
exciting to everyone, but I loved it and it has
integrated into my ability to run a business. This morning,
(01:54):
I had a P and L meeting from with everyone
back home to have the courage to open a lodge
and fine dining restaurant. I didn't know anything about that.
But when you look back at your childhood, whether you
wanted to be a firefighter or work with people, or
you love your church, or you love wildlife or puppies,
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or what was the thing that made you get out
of bed in the morning that you loved. So my
challenge is to circle back to that in some capacity.
So if you are an accountant and you always wished
you were a firefighter, you need to make inroads into
what you can do to reignite with a firefire joke there,
(02:39):
to reignite your passion. That's so important, So please embarrassing
as a kid, I nailed it. But for us to
be able to have that passion throughout our lives instead
of just ticking through time, that's the important thing. It
really is.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It's so interesting because you're right, like you really took
account like your math brain, your accounting side, your business
acumen that you've had since you were a kid, and
then your love of wildlife, and you you're like, I'll
just combine these two. I'll have multiple businesses that cater
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to rescuing and taking care of wildlife, so you really
you merged your two interests. And when I think about
myself as a kid, one of my mom's favorite stories
to tell about me is, I had my little kind
of like my lovey.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
His name was Ba.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He was a bunny and I called him Ba, and
I've had him since the day I was born. And
I was taking him with me to the mall and
my we were with my aunt and my uncle and
my cousins, and my mom said, okay, let me get
a picture of you guys in front of the fountain.
And I took my Ba, and I looked at my
uncle and I said, here, hold my Bu, so I
(03:53):
can pose. And I had I was only three years
I was only three years old. I hand over Bah
and I laid down on the side of the fountain,
and like, you know, no one in my family was
a performer, no one. They all just looked at me, like,
where did this come from? Where did this? And yet
(04:15):
you know, I just I And so it's not it
was surprising to none of them that I grew up
to be a person who, you know, was a performer.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So it's funny that.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You agree and a whole nother subject matter. But I'm
sure you were here before. Oh you might be right,
I think.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So we have asked our listeners to send in their
own stories and hopes that we can all just finally
admit we all were and mostly still are very awkward.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Humans are just awkward.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And there is this very fluiddale from Rebecca in New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Hi, Danielle.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
When I was sixteen, I had an opportunity to go
to Europe with a group called Ambassadors of Music. They
took a band, a choir in an orchestra, and you
went to seven countries in sixteen days. So that was
a very cool experience. But I was traveling without my parents,
and my dad had advised me to put a complete
change of clothes in my carry on in case something
(05:28):
were to happen to my checked luggage made it over
just fine. At some point during that trip, stupid sixteen
year old me decided I wanted to wear that outfit
that was in my carry on, and I didn't replace it.
On the way back home, we got stuck in Newark,
New Jersey due to weather. I think it was raining,
(05:49):
I don't remember, but we had to spend the night
in the Newark, New Jersey Airport. I slept on the
floor underneath a row of seats, and I was so
dead to hired from all the travel and now from
this situation, that when I woke up in the morning,
I had peed my pants. No recollection of needing to
(06:12):
go to the bathroom or any kind of stir of
waking up, just flat out dead to the world, peed
my pants. Went to the bathroom so embarrassed. Thankfully I
had on black sweatpants, thin ones, though, but I don't
think anybody could see. And thankfully I hadn't used the
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underwear that was in my carry on, so I at
least was able to change my underwear. But I was
stuck in my peed sweatpants at sixteen years old. And
we'll never forget the advice of my father from now
on to put a complete change of clothes in my
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carry on. We ended up being stuck in New York
for another night, but they got us a hotel and
I also had my carry on one of those little
laundry packs, so I was able to wash my pants
in my hotel room sink, which was a whole other thing.
I like to think nobody knew. I don't tell this
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story very embarrassing. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks bye.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Oh my gosh, Whins, that is pretty darn good. I
who first of all, shout out to parents giving good
advice like that is such good advice to have a
complete change of clothes in your carry on, because you
never know when that's gonna happen, that your luggage is
just lost, and then it's nice to have a change
(07:43):
of clothes. I'm a little confused by Rebecca putting on
her clean pair of underwear even though she had to
still live in her pea pants. I'm not sure how
the clean underwear helps when you're still in wet pants.
But really smart that she had a laundry pack in
her suitcase could wash it in the sink. I once
(08:03):
this is also a very embarrassing story for me that
I once at a at a golf tournament at Sherwood
Country Club in California.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Had been watching the golf. It was so good, Tiger
Woods was playing. It was an incredible tournament, and I
had to go to the bathroom so bad, and they
only had a little They were very nice outhouses, but
they only had outhouses so often. And I had been
holding it because I didn't want to leave the golf tournament.
And at the very end, I am like, finally I
can go to the bathroom, and I have to run
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to this outhouse. It was such a fancy outhouse that
the toilet actually had a lid on it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I've never even experienced.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
At this point, I had never even seen an outhouse
that had a toilet with a lid on it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And because I had never.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Seen that, I didn't think to check is the lid
open or closed? So I just ran in and was
already unbuttoning my pants, pulled my pants down, squatted, didn't
sit all the way, but just squatted and started going
to the bathroom. And when I hear the sound of
liquid hitting something plastic, and I think, oh, that's just
(09:14):
an odd sound. Well, because the lid was closed, the
pe just went right down like this into my pants.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
No, you were the most creative wetting your pants.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I win the award for most creative way to actually
wet your pants.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And it was I didn't realize what.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Had happened until, of course I pulled my pants up
and I was like, what on earth is this? And
then I turned around and I see that the lid
is down, and I'm like, this is mortifying. Thankfully, Similarly
to Rebecca, there was a little bit of a saving
grace that I was wearing a sweatshirt, like a crew
(09:59):
neck sweatshirt over a T shirt, and so I was
able to take off my crew neck and tie it
around my waist. Yes, and then I had to immediately
leave the premises.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
We're walking very quickly to the car.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Because probably as you left you discovered Tiger Woods is
waiting to use the restroom.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Correct exactly, or Hey, would you like to say hello
to some of the golfers.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No, I would not, thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Oh my gosh, that is so bizarre. So now you
must like take a head torch and two other lights
to check everything before you use the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I've never once walked into a rat, even if I've
had to go very bad I walk in, I'm like,
make sure the It's so funny that that moment that's
now twenty years ago has truly crossed my mind every
time I've ever even been near an outhouse, I thought,
because it's mortifying.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, and it just it all happens at
the least convenient moments. So we we in traveling when
Robert was a tiny baby. I'm breastfeeding on the plane
and we're taking off to fly Eugene to Portland, Portland
to San fran to LA to Sydney to Brisbane. Because
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when Robert was a baby, there were no direct flights
or anything like them. So I'm flying like all these
different flights to get home right ash way easier. Now
it's like straight shot from LA. So it's great. But
I'm breastfeeding him, and because he's drinking breast milk, everything
that happens in his diaper is very liquid. Yes, yes,
(11:40):
it kind of looks like egg yoke. So he managed
to find an air gap and egg yoke my pink
sweatpants that I was wearing as we're taking off on
my first flight. So what do I have for clothes?
Robert clothes and bindie clothes, no terry clothes. So yeah,
you're absolutely right. I didn't act actually do that to myself,
(12:01):
but I got to live with it for many, many hours.
So yeah, those are fun things.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's funny also hearing you talk about breastfeeding on a plane.
That was another thing that then when I had my
kids and I was I think when I took my
first trip away from Adler and so I was pumping
while I was gone and having to pump on a plane,
and I don't even want first of all the pumps,
(12:39):
they there's there's you know, they're pretty small, but they
look a little suspicious if you're not super familiar with
what it is. It's got a clock, it counts down,
it's got a blinking light, and I'm trying to do
it discreetly because it's not a comfortable situation. You also
can't take up the restroom on a plane for fifteen
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to twenty minutes while you pump, so it's not like
you can go excuse yourself to the bathroom, so you
have to do it in your seat. I'm sitting next
to a gentleman I don't know from Adam. I don't
know who he is, and I think, to myself, do
I say excuse me? I just want you to know
I'm gonna pump or is that I'm like, he doesn't
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need to know that. But if I don't say anything,
and then he's like looking, you know, he sees me
with this round thing with a clock counting down on it,
and I'm like trying to connect it to a breast
over here under a towel. And I did at one
time have a flight attendant walk by and say, I'm sorry,
I do have to inquire about what that machine is.
And it was like, I'm sorry, it's a breast pump,
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and he was like, I'm Then he felt bad that
he even asked.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He said, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I just I see behaving weirdly under a blanket with
a machine.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
That has a clock on it. Yeah, and I have
to ask what is that?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, it's probably an ACME breast pump and it's gonna
explode at any moment.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's not exactly exactly it's a Looney Tunes.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
But and I know you mentioned that you with both kids,
you were breastfeeding both kids while you were traveling. That
you must have you must have had to breastfeed or
do some uncomfortable things in many, many different environments.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh gosh, yes, But I think that's what made me
very understanding. And it's fun at Australia Zoo because we've
been breastfeeding accredited for years, so we have great private
areas for both guests and staff, and we very much
make it a not awkward situation for people, whether you're
pumping at work, or whether you live nearby and someone's
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trying to bring the baby in, or whatever's going on,
it's trying to find ways to make it easier and
better and more comfortable for women instead of feeling like
you're robbing a bank when you're just trying to feed
or pump or whatever's going on. I think I breastfed
because I'm basically lazy, So the thought of having to
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make bottles in a tent in the middle of nowhere,
I'm like, heck to the no. So thankfully I was
able to Because as we all know, fed is best.
So if you can't breastfeed, you didn't lose the game.
It's not a deal. Just feed them. But for me
being lazy and being able to breastfeed, it was really
(15:28):
a blessing that wherever I was I could just discreetly,
exactly got that kid and feed him. Yeah, because I
was able to take them with me. Again, Lucky, I
know what a blessing.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Lovely, I don't think there's anyone who could describe you
as lazy, but I do understand what you mean. My
first child, I had to exclusively pump because he had
he actually breast.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Milk made his lungs fill up with fluid.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
He was born with something called kyla thorax, but they
wanted him to have the benefits of breast milk, but
we had to monitor how much he could have at
a time. Then he'd go get an X ray. If
his lungs were clear, they'd say, now you can bump
it up. If his lungs filled up with fluid, then
they'd say, now you need to tone it down. So
I was constantly measuring exactly how much breast milk he
had so that we could do the x rays. But
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then with my second he was exclusively breastfeed, and it
was like, this is so much easier because, like you said,
so so fortunate that I was able to breastfeed and
then not having to you know, measure and deal with
formula and make bottles. It was I felt very much
the same way. Yeah, you mentioned that the Australia Zoo
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is breastfeeding.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
What did you call it?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
A crediting accredited so you go through a process where
you can demonstrate what you've done for people. But I
love that, like in this day and age of our
awareness of women's medical needs, whether it's endometriosis or things
that women are going through. One of the things that's
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a real kicker is when you go to a restroom,
you don't expect to pay for toilet paper, so why
do you pay for feminine hygiene? So we have free
feminine hygiene at Australia Zoo. So when you come in
and you go, I wasn't expecting this today, there's your
little machine and it meters them out. There's you know,
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you get your whatever you need and then it takes
five minutes before it resupplies. So nobody's abusing the system
and you've got a free thing. So you know, whatever
it is. When you go through life and you learn something,
you should apply it. So I learned. Another example is
I learned people who are adults who need assistance in
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the restroom and they may need to be changed, are
having to do that on the floor. So we've got
a disability restroom that's just for that. It is beautiful.
You go in and there's an adult change area that's
very respectful and there's assistance things throughout the bathroom and
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privacy screens and everything you'd need in there. And I'm
so proud of that. So kind of you know, as
someone who doesn't deal with that, I had to be
told because I don't have that awareness, you know, I
don't go gee. I wonder how adults who need to
be changed deal with that. And then when I found out,
I went, oh my god, we have to fix that.
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And I'm so passionate about it because people write in
and they go, we could come to Australia Zoo for
two or three hours and we had to go home.
Now we can stay all day, thank you, And I
just think, how can everybody not know this and fix it? So,
whether it's making breastfeeding better or feminine hygiene more available,
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or you know, the disability access more fair. I love it.
I can't tell you how much I love it. I
just love, love, love. Oh. I'm so excited. We've We've
got this really cool thing at the lodge with our
infinity pool so if you are in a wheelchair, it
gets you into the pool and out again and you
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can use the balls. I love it. It's just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
What is something else we can look forward to it
for Australia Zoo. Why don't you talk to us a
little bit about what's going on there? And I know
you are away from it, you've been away for quite
a while. When yeah, what is something you're very excited about.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I'm very excited about. The next step with our fine
dining is to try to get what's called a hat
in Australia. Oh, they don't call it a Michelin Star
in Australia. I do not know why the Michelin Star
shuns Australia.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Need to change that.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, and Red Panda is pregnant with twins. Do any day.
I'm so excited we have five Koala. Joey's our kind
of good news bad news. Thing with our Wildlife Hospital
is it's trauma season right now, which means animals are
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looking for mates, Babies are leaving the nest or their parents,
and they're coming into strife, so they're encountering roads, windows,
dogs and they end up in our Wildlife Hospital and
it is busier than it's ever been since it opened
in two thousand and four. But I'm so proud of
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our team and the work that they're doing through our charity,
Wildlife Warriors is incredible and we're treating over ten thousand
animals a year now. We've treated just over twelve thousand
koalas alone over one hundred and sixty thousand animals all up.
And whether it's fires or floods or conflict with you know,
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development or whatever's going on on, if we can help
fix things and get get things a little bit back
to normal. I mean I miss it. I miss being
in the thick of it. Yeah, and I miss just
the smell of a koala when you're holding it. I
miss feeding our kangaroos and the giant tortoises coming over
at top speed to see you.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, exactly, they're on their way their way, but.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
No, I feel incredibly blessed, very very close.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Will will you guys post pictures of the beautiful red
panda babies when.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
They're born, Yes, and people who visit Australias will get
to see them. So the mom is very calm and
her habitat is where everyone can see her. So when
she has her babies, she'll keep them in her little
den and then she'll start bringing them out. And they
are impossibly beautiful. They look like little Disney animation plush toys.
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They're so beautiful, and they're endangered. So being able to
see them and feeling compelled to do something by you know,
just visiting Australia Zoo. Part of those funds go back
to help the animals you've met. So it's really really
wonderful to be able to share that because that's what
inspires people, when they see the animals, when they smell
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the eucalyptus smell of a koala, when they meet DJ
the rhino and you can feel how rough and bumpy
his skin is and what an amazing dinosaur he is,
that is what is what inspires me. I just love
watching people and a lot of people end up very
emotional when they meet an animal because they're like, oh
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my gosh, I never thought i'd get to You'll be
glad to know we don't have any arachnids on display
at Australia Zoo nose spiders, so you will be safe.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I'm safe there, I'm safe there. Well.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I can't thank you enough for spending your time with us.
I think you are just an absolute joy and there's
no one who could there's no one who could disagree,
So thank you again for being with us. Thank you
to Rebecca for sharing your story and as always, lovely
to talk to you. I, like I said, I am
going to take you up on your offer. I would
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love nothing more than to visit Australia Zoo myself, but
also for my boys.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
My boys are going.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
To love every second of it, so we will make
a family trip of it.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I would love that, genuinely. We would have a blast.
We'll do all the fun things.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Okay, great, Well we'll align our schedules because your sched
you have such a thriving, in active life. Robert has
such a thriving and active life. And then so we
will align schedules. I'll be in touch and we can
we can make it happen because this is this would
be a very special, once in a lifetime, you know,
experience for my family.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
That'd be great. Thank you so much. This has been
really fun, and I like the diverse thing we've talked about.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
We've talked about all kinds of things, and I think
there's so much conversations like this, like you said about
even just the awareness around women's issues.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
The more we talk about.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
The things that and especially the way we were as children,
and we recognize that we're actually so much more alike
than we think we are. We all have similar stories
in our life where we can pinpoint the moments we
found our stride or where we felt like maybe we
didn't take good advice that had been given to us,
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and it really makes you feel I just in general
think hearing people's stories makes you more empathetic to people.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I agree, and I think I love the embarrassing stories
that were shared because it makes us all feel like
we're all human and it's okay. And I think, you know,
I really believe the meaning of life is unconditional love.
And I think just you know, we do that with
our kids, So if we can do that with wildlife
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and people that we meet and have that, you know,
it's not transactional, it's yeah, just loving someone. I think
that's what's gonna really change things for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Thank you so much and I will thank you for
this WiFi has been wonderful. Thank you for joining us
while you're still in the middle of such a hectic
work schedule. I don't want to take up any more
of your time. Thank you so much truly for being here, no.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Worries, all the best, and we'll see you down Undertone.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Terry.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I asked you to come equipped with an embarrassing or
a funny or a touching story from your youth, something
that's a good representation of you, even if maybe now
it makes you laugh or cringe to think about it now.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah, well, I I think the most the most embarrassing
thing was prom night. That was the most embarrassing, taking
invite as a prom and then go and take tickets.
But I think that as a kid growing up, the
thing I feel so passionate about, which isn't terribly embarrassing,
(01:06):
but I feel so passionate about everyone looking at what
made them inspired and excited and believing in something when
they were young, and where did that go? You know? So,
for example, I was the dorky kid who loved accounts.
(01:29):
I was the one who when it was eleven eleven
in the morning, I'd make a wish. I was the
one who played with my dad's adding machine which had
a handle, and I loved accounts. So that's not very
exciting to everyone, but I loved it and it has
integrated into my ability to run a business. This morning,
(01:54):
I had a P and L meeting from with everyone
back home to have the courage to open a lodge
and fine dining restaurant. I didn't know anything about that.
But when you look back at your childhood, whether you
wanted to be a firefighter or work with people, or
you love your church, or you love wildlife or puppies,
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or what was the thing that made you get out
of bed in the morning that you loved. So my
challenge is to circle back to that in some capacity.
So if you are an accountant and you always wished
you were a firefighter, you need to make inroads into
what you can do to reignite with a firefire joke there,
(02:39):
to reignite your passion. That's so important, So please embarrassing
as a kid, I nailed it. But for us to
be able to have that passion throughout our lives instead
of just ticking through time, that's the important thing. It
really is.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It's so interesting because you're right, like you really took
account like your math brain, your accounting side, your business
acumen that you've had since you were a kid, and
then your love of wildlife, and you you're like, I'll
just combine these two. I'll have multiple businesses that cater
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to rescuing and taking care of wildlife, so you really
you merged your two interests. And when I think about
myself as a kid, one of my mom's favorite stories
to tell about me is, I had my little kind
of like my lovey.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
His name was Ba.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
He was a bunny and I called him Ba, and
I've had him since the day I was born. And
I was taking him with me to the mall and
my we were with my aunt and my uncle and
my cousins, and my mom said, okay, let me get
a picture of you guys in front of the fountain.
And I took my Ba, and I looked at my
uncle and I said, here, hold my Bu, so I
(03:53):
can pose. And I had I was only three years
I was only three years old. I hand over Bah
and I laid down on the side of the fountain,
and like, you know, no one in my family was
a performer, no one. They all just looked at me, like,
where did this come from? Where did this? And yet
(04:15):
you know, I just I And so it's not it
was surprising to none of them that I grew up
to be a person who, you know, was a performer.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
So it's funny that.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You agree and a whole nother subject matter. But I'm
sure you were here before. Oh you might be right,
I think.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So we have asked our listeners to send in their
own stories and hopes that we can all just finally
admit we all were and mostly still are very awkward.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Humans are just awkward.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And there is this very fluiddale from Rebecca in New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Hi, Danielle.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
When I was sixteen, I had an opportunity to go
to Europe with a group called Ambassadors of Music. They
took a band, a choir in an orchestra, and you
went to seven countries in sixteen days. So that was
a very cool experience. But I was traveling without my parents,
and my dad had advised me to put a complete
change of clothes in my carry on in case something
(05:28):
were to happen to my checked luggage made it over
just fine. At some point during that trip, stupid sixteen
year old me decided I wanted to wear that outfit
that was in my carry on, and I didn't replace it.
On the way back home, we got stuck in Newark,
New Jersey due to weather. I think it was raining,
(05:49):
I don't remember, but we had to spend the night
in the Newark, New Jersey Airport. I slept on the
floor underneath a row of seats, and I was so
dead to hired from all the travel and now from
this situation, that when I woke up in the morning,
I had peed my pants. No recollection of needing to
(06:12):
go to the bathroom or any kind of stir of
waking up, just flat out dead to the world, peed
my pants. Went to the bathroom so embarrassed. Thankfully I
had on black sweatpants, thin ones, though, but I don't
think anybody could see. And thankfully I hadn't used the
(06:36):
underwear that was in my carry on, so I at
least was able to change my underwear. But I was
stuck in my peed sweatpants at sixteen years old. And
we'll never forget the advice of my father from now
on to put a complete change of clothes in my
(06:57):
carry on. We ended up being stuck in New York
for another night, but they got us a hotel and
I also had my carry on one of those little
laundry packs, so I was able to wash my pants
in my hotel room sink, which was a whole other thing.
I like to think nobody knew. I don't tell this
(07:18):
story very embarrassing. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks bye.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Oh my gosh, Whins, that is pretty darn good. I
who first of all, shout out to parents giving good
advice like that is such good advice to have a
complete change of clothes in your carry on, because you
never know when that's gonna happen, that your luggage is
just lost, and then it's nice to have a change
(07:43):
of clothes. I'm a little confused by Rebecca putting on
her clean pair of underwear even though she had to
still live in her pea pants. I'm not sure how
the clean underwear helps when you're still in wet pants.
But really smart that she had a laundry pack in
her suitcase could wash it in the sink. I once
(08:03):
this is also a very embarrassing story for me that
I once at a at a golf tournament at Sherwood
Country Club in California.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Had been watching the golf. It was so good, Tiger
Woods was playing. It was an incredible tournament, and I
had to go to the bathroom so bad, and they
only had a little They were very nice outhouses, but
they only had outhouses so often. And I had been
holding it because I didn't want to leave the golf tournament.
And at the very end, I am like, finally I
can go to the bathroom, and I have to run
(08:37):
to this outhouse. It was such a fancy outhouse that
the toilet actually had a lid on it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I've never even experienced.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
At this point, I had never even seen an outhouse
that had a toilet with a lid on it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And because I had never.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Seen that, I didn't think to check is the lid
open or closed? So I just ran in and was
already unbuttoning my pants, pulled my pants down, squatted, didn't
sit all the way, but just squatted and started going
to the bathroom. And when I hear the sound of
liquid hitting something plastic, and I think, oh, that's just
(09:14):
an odd sound. Well, because the lid was closed, the
pe just went right down like this into my pants.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
No, you were the most creative wetting your pants.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I win the award for most creative way to actually
wet your pants.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
And it was I didn't realize what.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Had happened until, of course I pulled my pants up
and I was like, what on earth is this? And
then I turned around and I see that the lid
is down, and I'm like, this is mortifying. Thankfully, Similarly
to Rebecca, there was a little bit of a saving
grace that I was wearing a sweatshirt, like a crew
(09:59):
neck sweatshirt over a T shirt, and so I was
able to take off my crew neck and tie it
around my waist. Yes, and then I had to immediately
leave the premises.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
We're walking very quickly to the car.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Because probably as you left you discovered Tiger Woods is
waiting to use the restroom.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Correct exactly, or Hey, would you like to say hello
to some of the golfers.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No, I would not, thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Oh my gosh, that is so bizarre. So now you
must like take a head torch and two other lights
to check everything before you use the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I've never once walked into a rat, even if I've
had to go very bad I walk in, I'm like,
make sure the It's so funny that that moment that's
now twenty years ago has truly crossed my mind every
time I've ever even been near an outhouse, I thought,
because it's mortifying.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, and it just it all happens at
the least convenient moments. So we we in traveling when
Robert was a tiny baby. I'm breastfeeding on the plane
and we're taking off to fly Eugene to Portland, Portland
to San fran to LA to Sydney to Brisbane. Because
(11:18):
when Robert was a baby, there were no direct flights
or anything like them. So I'm flying like all these
different flights to get home right ash way easier. Now
it's like straight shot from LA. So it's great. But
I'm breastfeeding him, and because he's drinking breast milk, everything
that happens in his diaper is very liquid. Yes, yes,
(11:40):
it kind of looks like egg yoke. So he managed
to find an air gap and egg yoke my pink
sweatpants that I was wearing as we're taking off on
my first flight. So what do I have for clothes?
Robert clothes and bindie clothes, no terry clothes. So yeah,
you're absolutely right. I didn't act actually do that to myself,
(12:01):
but I got to live with it for many, many hours.
So yeah, those are fun things.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It's funny also hearing you talk about breastfeeding on a plane.
That was another thing that then when I had my
kids and I was I think when I took my
first trip away from Adler and so I was pumping
while I was gone and having to pump on a plane,
and I don't even want first of all the pumps,
(12:39):
they there's there's you know, they're pretty small, but they
look a little suspicious if you're not super familiar with
what it is. It's got a clock, it counts down,
it's got a blinking light, and I'm trying to do
it discreetly because it's not a comfortable situation. You also
can't take up the restroom on a plane for fifteen
(13:00):
to twenty minutes while you pump, so it's not like
you can go excuse yourself to the bathroom, so you
have to do it in your seat. I'm sitting next
to a gentleman I don't know from Adam. I don't
know who he is, and I think, to myself, do
I say excuse me? I just want you to know
I'm gonna pump or is that I'm like, he doesn't
(13:21):
need to know that. But if I don't say anything,
and then he's like looking, you know, he sees me
with this round thing with a clock counting down on it,
and I'm like trying to connect it to a breast
over here under a towel. And I did at one
time have a flight attendant walk by and say, I'm sorry,
I do have to inquire about what that machine is.
And it was like, I'm sorry, it's a breast pump,
(13:43):
and he was like, I'm Then he felt bad that
he even asked.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
He said, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I just I see behaving weirdly under a blanket with
a machine.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
That has a clock on it. Yeah, and I have
to ask what is that?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Yeah, it's probably an ACME breast pump and it's gonna
explode at any moment.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
It's not exactly exactly it's a Looney Tunes.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
But and I know you mentioned that you with both kids,
you were breastfeeding both kids while you were traveling. That
you must have you must have had to breastfeed or
do some uncomfortable things in many, many different environments.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Oh gosh, yes, But I think that's what made me
very understanding. And it's fun at Australia Zoo because we've
been breastfeeding accredited for years, so we have great private
areas for both guests and staff, and we very much
make it a not awkward situation for people, whether you're
pumping at work, or whether you live nearby and someone's
(14:44):
trying to bring the baby in, or whatever's going on,
it's trying to find ways to make it easier and
better and more comfortable for women instead of feeling like
you're robbing a bank when you're just trying to feed
or pump or whatever's going on. I think I breastfed
because I'm basically lazy, So the thought of having to
(15:06):
make bottles in a tent in the middle of nowhere,
I'm like, heck to the no. So thankfully I was
able to Because as we all know, fed is best.
So if you can't breastfeed, you didn't lose the game.
It's not a deal. Just feed them. But for me
being lazy and being able to breastfeed, it was really
(15:28):
a blessing that wherever I was I could just discreetly,
exactly got that kid and feed him. Yeah, because I
was able to take them with me. Again, Lucky, I
know what a blessing.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Lovely, I don't think there's anyone who could describe you
as lazy, but I do understand what you mean. My
first child, I had to exclusively pump because he had
he actually breast.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Milk made his lungs fill up with fluid.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
He was born with something called kyla thorax, but they
wanted him to have the benefits of breast milk, but
we had to monitor how much he could have at
a time. Then he'd go get an X ray. If
his lungs were clear, they'd say, now you can bump
it up. If his lungs filled up with fluid, then
they'd say, now you need to tone it down. So
I was constantly measuring exactly how much breast milk he
had so that we could do the x rays. But
(16:16):
then with my second he was exclusively breastfeed, and it
was like, this is so much easier because, like you said,
so so fortunate that I was able to breastfeed and
then not having to you know, measure and deal with
formula and make bottles. It was I felt very much
the same way. Yeah, you mentioned that the Australia Zoo
(16:37):
is breastfeeding.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
What did you call it?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
A crediting accredited so you go through a process where
you can demonstrate what you've done for people. But I
love that, like in this day and age of our
awareness of women's medical needs, whether it's endometriosis or things
that women are going through. One of the things that's
(17:01):
a real kicker is when you go to a restroom,
you don't expect to pay for toilet paper, so why
do you pay for feminine hygiene? So we have free
feminine hygiene at Australia Zoo. So when you come in
and you go, I wasn't expecting this today, there's your
little machine and it meters them out. There's you know,
(17:22):
you get your whatever you need and then it takes
five minutes before it resupplies. So nobody's abusing the system
and you've got a free thing. So you know, whatever
it is. When you go through life and you learn something,
you should apply it. So I learned. Another example is
I learned people who are adults who need assistance in
(17:48):
the restroom and they may need to be changed, are
having to do that on the floor. So we've got
a disability restroom that's just for that. It is beautiful.
You go in and there's an adult change area that's
very respectful and there's assistance things throughout the bathroom and
(18:11):
privacy screens and everything you'd need in there. And I'm
so proud of that. So kind of you know, as
someone who doesn't deal with that, I had to be
told because I don't have that awareness, you know, I
don't go gee. I wonder how adults who need to
be changed deal with that. And then when I found out,
I went, oh my god, we have to fix that.
(18:33):
And I'm so passionate about it because people write in
and they go, we could come to Australia Zoo for
two or three hours and we had to go home.
Now we can stay all day, thank you, And I
just think, how can everybody not know this and fix it? So,
whether it's making breastfeeding better or feminine hygiene more available,
(18:57):
or you know, the disability access more fair. I love it.
I can't tell you how much I love it. I
just love, love, love. Oh. I'm so excited. We've We've
got this really cool thing at the lodge with our
infinity pool so if you are in a wheelchair, it
gets you into the pool and out again and you
(19:18):
can use the balls. I love it. It's just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
What is something else we can look forward to it
for Australia Zoo. Why don't you talk to us a
little bit about what's going on there? And I know
you are away from it, you've been away for quite
a while. When yeah, what is something you're very excited about.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I'm very excited about. The next step with our fine
dining is to try to get what's called a hat
in Australia. Oh, they don't call it a Michelin Star
in Australia. I do not know why the Michelin Star
shuns Australia.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Need to change that.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Yeah, and Red Panda is pregnant with twins. Do any day.
I'm so excited we have five Koala. Joey's our kind
of good news bad news. Thing with our Wildlife Hospital
is it's trauma season right now, which means animals are
(20:15):
looking for mates, Babies are leaving the nest or their parents,
and they're coming into strife, so they're encountering roads, windows,
dogs and they end up in our Wildlife Hospital and
it is busier than it's ever been since it opened
in two thousand and four. But I'm so proud of
(20:35):
our team and the work that they're doing through our charity,
Wildlife Warriors is incredible and we're treating over ten thousand
animals a year now. We've treated just over twelve thousand
koalas alone over one hundred and sixty thousand animals all up.
And whether it's fires or floods or conflict with you know,
(20:58):
development or whatever's going on on, if we can help
fix things and get get things a little bit back
to normal. I mean I miss it. I miss being
in the thick of it. Yeah, and I miss just
the smell of a koala when you're holding it. I
miss feeding our kangaroos and the giant tortoises coming over
at top speed to see you.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, exactly, they're on their way their way, but.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
No, I feel incredibly blessed, very very close.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Will will you guys post pictures of the beautiful red
panda babies when.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
They're born, Yes, and people who visit Australias will get
to see them. So the mom is very calm and
her habitat is where everyone can see her. So when
she has her babies, she'll keep them in her little
den and then she'll start bringing them out. And they
are impossibly beautiful. They look like little Disney animation plush toys.
(21:55):
They're so beautiful, and they're endangered. So being able to
see them and feeling compelled to do something by you know,
just visiting Australia Zoo. Part of those funds go back
to help the animals you've met. So it's really really
wonderful to be able to share that because that's what
inspires people, when they see the animals, when they smell
(22:19):
the eucalyptus smell of a koala, when they meet DJ
the rhino and you can feel how rough and bumpy
his skin is and what an amazing dinosaur he is,
that is what is what inspires me. I just love
watching people and a lot of people end up very
emotional when they meet an animal because they're like, oh
(22:41):
my gosh, I never thought i'd get to You'll be
glad to know we don't have any arachnids on display
at Australia Zoo nose spiders, so you will be safe.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I'm safe there, I'm safe there. Well.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I can't thank you enough for spending your time with us.
I think you are just an absolute joy and there's
no one who could there's no one who could disagree,
So thank you again for being with us. Thank you
to Rebecca for sharing your story and as always, lovely
to talk to you. I, like I said, I am
going to take you up on your offer. I would
(23:18):
love nothing more than to visit Australia Zoo myself, but
also for my boys.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
My boys are going.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
To love every second of it, so we will make
a family trip of it.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I would love that, genuinely. We would have a blast.
We'll do all the fun things.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Okay, great, Well we'll align our schedules because your sched
you have such a thriving, in active life. Robert has
such a thriving and active life. And then so we
will align schedules. I'll be in touch and we can
we can make it happen because this is this would
be a very special, once in a lifetime, you know,
experience for my family.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
That'd be great. Thank you so much. This has been
really fun, and I like the diverse thing we've talked about.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
We've talked about all kinds of things, and I think
there's so much conversations like this, like you said about
even just the awareness around women's issues.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
The more we talk about.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
The things that and especially the way we were as children,
and we recognize that we're actually so much more alike
than we think we are. We all have similar stories
in our life where we can pinpoint the moments we
found our stride or where we felt like maybe we
didn't take good advice that had been given to us,
(24:34):
and it really makes you feel I just in general
think hearing people's stories makes you more empathetic to people.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I agree, and I think I love the embarrassing stories
that were shared because it makes us all feel like
we're all human and it's okay. And I think, you know,
I really believe the meaning of life is unconditional love.
And I think just you know, we do that with
our kids, So if we can do that with wildlife
(25:01):
and people that we meet and have that, you know,
it's not transactional, it's yeah, just loving someone. I think
that's what's gonna really change things for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Thank you so much and I will thank you for
this WiFi has been wonderful. Thank you for joining us
while you're still in the middle of such a hectic
work schedule. I don't want to take up any more
of your time. Thank you so much truly for being here, no.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Worries, all the best, and we'll see you down Undertone.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
We'll see you down under Buckey.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
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