Kylie & Robert Irwin on Feeding Dad's Crocodiles, Spicy DWTS Moments & Breastfeeding Biters | Ep. 49

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Speaker 2 Not going to lie, we just got some snow and it was a good covering for the first time in a couple years.

Speaker 2 Nothing gets me excited about some winter weather like the prospect of a little kid in a snowsuit.

Speaker 2 There is something so captivating about them trying to walk while also not being able to move.

Speaker 4 Why is it so cute?

Speaker 2 Let's get this podcast started.

Speaker 2 Welcome back to Not Gonna Lie A Wave Original, driven by the Hess Toy Truck.

Speaker 2 I'm your host, Kylie Kelsey, firm believer in not doing anything to try and summon a snow day because I'm afraid I'm gonna jinx it. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 I'm not wearing my PJs inside out, backwards, putting things under my pillow. It won't be me.
Just gotta let the universe do its thing. My husband made me record a Christmas duet one time.

Speaker 2 Don't look it up. Do not look it up.
It's a beautiful song written by a beautiful soul. Shout out to Beeve.

Speaker 4 Don't look it up.

Speaker 2 I'm so serious. Stop making that shit viral on TikTok.

Speaker 4 Cut it out.

Speaker 2 And I can't believe

Speaker 2 I'm currently recording our NGL season one finale.

Speaker 4 I beat you to it.

Speaker 2 I beat you to it. That's right.
It's our last one of season one. And for that reason, I'm definitely completely 100% on board with

Speaker 2 no.

Speaker 2 Queen Emma is rallying for a clean 75

Speaker 2 because it's the finale. Let me tell you how we got to a clean 73.
I feel like I've been beaten down. What Queen Emma did is she brought Editor Brad in,

Speaker 2 and I can't say no to him. I'm not proud of myself right now, and we're going to move on before I change my mind.
Season two starts in a few weeks, so don't worry, real ones.

Speaker 2 I'm not just going to ghost you guys and never show up again.

Speaker 2 Have you seen the Brittany Broski

Speaker 2 gif of her like, huh, woo,

Speaker 4 that.

Speaker 2 No, we're going to be back, guys. We already have some guests lined up.
I'm genuinely shocked.

Speaker 2 Anyone agrees to do the show, but we actually have people like

Speaker 2 on the other side of our break. That's crazy sauce.
Coming up on today's season one finale, I'm going to get honest, but not too honest, if you you catch my drift about Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 Then you guys know Spotified rapped. Well, we're doing an NGL rapt.

Speaker 2 And look at the wildest headlines that came out of season one. That's so good.
That's so good. Oh, I'm so glad we're raw dogging this episode.
After that, it's an NGL full circle moment.

Speaker 2 And my animal nerd self can't believe it. I'm going to be joined right here by yet again another person I have no business talking to, as if his sister wasn't enough.

Speaker 2 By wildlife conservationist, dancing with the stars, champion, and Bindy's brother. That's right, Robert Irwin.
And I'm going to geek out so hard on animal stuff because

Speaker 2 when we were done talking to Bindy

Speaker 2 for a week minimum,

Speaker 2 I thought to myself, I should have asked her about that.

Speaker 2 I should have asked her about that animal question. I should have talked to her about that animal thing.
Should have talked about her.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 just

Speaker 4 buckle up.

Speaker 2 But before we get into any of that, a truly absurd edition of Places Kylie has no business being. This week, I have absolutely no business, zero, none.

Speaker 2 Being on a billboard in Times Square.

Speaker 4 I'm sorry, what?

Speaker 4 What happened?

Speaker 2 You said what now? Guys, what?

Speaker 4 Huh?

Speaker 2 Was this for real?

Speaker 4 This is AI.

Speaker 2 Not gonna lie, was named one of Amazon Music's best new podcasts of the year, and they put us on a billboard in Times Square to celebrate. That's so dumb.
That's a dumb sentence.

Speaker 2 That's silly, a silly sentence to say out loud. I did not ever think I would be on a billboard.
Why the fuck would I be on a billboard, guys? That's a silly question.

Speaker 2 There's no reason for me to be on a billboard, including this list.

Speaker 2 What's important to recognize when you see lists like this is that this show would not go off without the incredible team that I have with Not Gonna Lie, although my face is on the billboard, which is silly because nobody wants to see that shit.

Speaker 2 It really is about the team that is with me and has helped me create what NGL has become. So

Speaker 2 thank you to the real ones for tuning in. Thank you for supporting the work that everyone on our team here at NGL is doing.

Speaker 2 If any New York-based real ones see this up there in real life, tag us at NGL with Kylie. We'd love to see you posting with NGL.

Speaker 2 And more importantly, my ugly mug on a billboard. How about that? Now that was Places Kylie has no business being, which leads us perfectly to my next segment, Places Kylie has some business being.

Speaker 2 This week, I had some business being at Arrowhead Stadium to watch my brother-in-law's game with my family. The girls had not yet seen Uncle Trav play in Arrowhead Stadium.

Speaker 2 I did have to explain this to Wyatt and Ellie: that they saw Uncle Trav win a Super Bowl. That was exciting.
After we came down from the sadness for dad, that was, you know, the catch-22.

Speaker 2 We were sad for dad, super happy for Uncle Trav.

Speaker 2 But we actually got to go and see him play at Arrowhead, which is his home stadium and has been for his entire NFL career. So that was a really cool moment.

Speaker 2 It was also super exciting to get to see friends and family that were there

Speaker 2 because the girls were so excited to get to watch a game with all of them. Um,

Speaker 2 they

Speaker 2 are not that interested in football, to be quite honest with you.

Speaker 2 They actually yell at us anytime we try and put football on the TV and only get on board after a little while of realizing that they can freely yell.

Speaker 2 Finny slept for like an hour and a half there, so she's a real one. She actually slept through all of the screaming and cheering, which is hilarious to me.

Speaker 2 There were a couple people who were like, oh, that's power to her for sleeping. And I'm like, have you met her three older sisters?

Speaker 2 Do you know that this is actually exactly what our house sounds like on any given day at any given time? So

Speaker 2 she feels very at home here. I did see something this morning that someone mentioned that I was wearing Eagles gear wrong.

Speaker 2 Incorrect. I was not.
I was wearing a new sweatshirt.

Speaker 2 So sorry.

Speaker 2 I blacked out for a second. I was not wearing Eagles gear, guys.

Speaker 2 I was wearing the other podcast sweatshirt, which a few of you noticed. For anyone who doesn't know, I cannot wear another team's logo, not in the NFL.
I won't do it.

Speaker 2 I probably wouldn't do it for any of our other sports either. You're not going to catch me trying to be cool and wearing a New York Yankees hat.
It's cool to wear your team.

Speaker 2 That does it for Places Kylie of Some Business Being. Moving on, let's get to Can I Be Honest? Brought to you by Amazon.
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Speaker 2 Since we're a week away from Christmas, I'm getting honest about Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 Not that honest, but I still recommend pausing if you're around tiny human ears.

Speaker 2 Did you kick them out? Are you hiding in the pantry? A closet?

Speaker 4 The bathroom? Okay.

Speaker 2 The girls are excited about Santa.

Speaker 2 They're very excited about Santa. They,

Speaker 2 um, I will say, White's getting a little, she's getting a little skeptical, I think.

Speaker 2 She is very much the type of child who

Speaker 2 puts enough thought into things, where very soon I fear we will be posed the question,

Speaker 2 how does he do it?

Speaker 2 Which my answer is always going to be magic,

Speaker 2 because that's the only feasible answer. Now,

Speaker 2 I have not taken them to meet Santa,

Speaker 2 mostly because, let's be honest, I'm a germaphobe.

Speaker 2 Not me letting you into my anxious thoughts. I do think that the girls might not cry

Speaker 2 about sitting on Santa's lap or sitting next to him in his little sleigh chair.

Speaker 2 I don't think they would like it.

Speaker 2 But I don't think they would cry. Finny would, for sure.
Finn would cry immediately. She doesn't care for other people.

Speaker 2 It's really great for me.

Speaker 2 Jason has not yet dressed up as Santa for the girls. And I think we're past that.
I think the minute Jason dresses up as Santa, why it's going to be like clocked. We can't risk it.

Speaker 2 Also, I'm not sure if anyone else does this, but this time of year, I will absolutely use Santa to my parenting advantage.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 2 This was so sad. Oh my God, this was so sad.

Speaker 2 I'll call Santa.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 2 Sometimes you got to get, you need a direct line. Okay.
I know Emmy Nemi's here and the song says Santa's always watching. Okay.
He knows when you're sleeping, knows when you're awake.

Speaker 2 A little creepy, but he's watching. Okay.

Speaker 2 Sometimes you got to get the direct line. Okay.
Sometimes you got to hotline that shit to Santa.

Speaker 2 In an effort to make it believable, because like I said, I have one that's a little skeptical.

Speaker 2 I

Speaker 2 searched to find a graphic of a phone calling Santa.

Speaker 2 In other words, if I were to be like, I'm really on the phone with him, it would be like a number and like clearly a hang up button to end a phone call. I'm in the thick of it.
Okay.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 we're actually, I think we're going to, I think we've successfully created a graphic that will allow you to tell the same lie because I did not feel as though there was sufficient graphics available on a quick search of the internet.

Speaker 2 So we're going to hand it to you. I want you to screenshot this and use it as like a, look, I'm actually on the phone with him.

Speaker 2 No, Santa, I don't know. We were just calling to check if they're on the naughty or nice list.

Speaker 2 When we did this to Benny,

Speaker 2 I felt very guilty. She cried, cried, cried, cried, cried while eating her pasta, cried, cried, cried.

Speaker 2 And then I had to get down on my knees in front of her and explain to her that I swear Santa said she was on the nice list.

Speaker 2 It was so sad. So don't make sure that it's a, I think you should do this in a positive way first.

Speaker 2 Which we weren't even like it wasn't even like a threatening situation. We were just like you got to eat your dinner You have to sit at the table at least.

Speaker 2 And when she kept trying to get up from the table, I was like, I think I'm going to have to call Santa.

Speaker 4 Wrong.

Speaker 2 I will tell you, though, he can't talk to kids. That's an important point.
You have to say that, like, you're a grown-up calling.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's just, oof, dicey. And last thing on Santa, I have it on very good authority that like us parents, Santa is also rushing around like crazy this time of year.

Speaker 2 But the good news is we all have help if we need it. And not just from the elves.
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Speaker 2 That does it for Can I Be Honest? Brought to you by Amazon. Next up, Doom Scroll of the Week, brought to you by CBS Health.
Okay, first up on Doom Scroll.

Speaker 2 If Mayor of East Town didn't already prove it, Kate Winslet is a real one. She was just on the Happy Place podcast and spoke about aging.
Queen Emma of the Clip.

Speaker 6 Having a face that moves, having all of the wrinkles that my 50 years hopefully show,

Speaker 6 that matters a great deal because I, again, I want to lead by example. It's important and it matters if we can be decent women

Speaker 6 in today's world and be kind to ourselves and to others.

Speaker 6 I think it's important.

Speaker 2 I love it so much. Please make sure that when I share my feelings on this, so you take it as my own personal opinion.
I'm not here to comment on what others are doing.

Speaker 2 Women can do whatever makes them happy because quite honestly, it's none of my fucking business and it's not my fucking body. Okay.
But what I will say is, I love this so much.

Speaker 2 I love this so much because I am very much in the camp of

Speaker 2 your face

Speaker 2 has been telling people

Speaker 2 how you feel.

Speaker 2 It has been experiencing your life, your body, your face.

Speaker 2 You getting one of the, I think one of the prettiest things

Speaker 2 is crow's feet because typically it is from smiling, smile lines. It is from feeling joy in your life, right?

Speaker 2 I also always like to keep in mind that regardless of my platform, which is,

Speaker 2 I feel grateful to have women who will DM me or approach me in person and say that they really appreciate the way I put myself forward. In other words, authentically,

Speaker 2 not trying to do something that I am not or do not have or anything like that. But

Speaker 2 I have four daughters.

Speaker 2 I have four daughters and I want them to know that they were made exactly the way they were intended to be made and that they should proceed as such.

Speaker 2 Okay, and I'm not talking about not dying your hair. Girl, these highlights, they were purchased.
Okay. That's not what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 What I'm talking about is when I raise my eyebrows because I'm interested in what my children are saying and I have lines in my forehead, it only furthers the expression.

Speaker 2 Okay, it's like an exclamation point on my expression.

Speaker 2 If I could not raise my eyebrows, I couldn't be shocked at the shit my kids are saying, and then they wouldn't know that I'm truly invested in the words that are coming out of my mouth.

Speaker 2 Do you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 And on top of that, when they get into their 30s, I want them to be like, you know what? Mom had wrinkles then too.

Speaker 2 Because I do.

Speaker 2 And I earned these suckers, okay?

Speaker 2 And I'm going to keep them.

Speaker 2 Because I like them. Not all the time.

Speaker 2 Because sometimes I'm like, oof, girl, you are not 24.

Speaker 2 But you're fucking right. Oh my God, am I admitting that I'm not 24? You're right.
I'm not 24. I'm 33 years old.
And this is how my my face looks.

Speaker 4 Okay?

Speaker 2 I'm, I'm, I, this is, this is how I look.

Speaker 2 And I hope that my daughters and other young women can say confidently that that is how they look.

Speaker 2 And if they want to plump their lips or freeze their forehead, power fucking to them.

Speaker 2 But I would like more women to know that it doesn't have to be the new status quo. So, Kate Winslet, you nailed that.
I love that.

Speaker 2 We should keep saying that.

Speaker 2 Next, I'm currently in the midst of weaning Finny.

Speaker 2 So, this TikTok really hit my feed at the right time.

Speaker 2 I swear to God, they know. It says, cutting your breastfed baby off, and she runs to her daddy to tattle on you.

Speaker 2 Doesn't cut it.

Speaker 2 Daddy, booby, is what she's saying, in case you were wondering.

Speaker 2 Mommy, booby. You may have chocolate milk.

Speaker 2 This is what I'm going to tell you. I sent this video to Queen Emma, and I said, comments.

Speaker 4 Okay?

Speaker 2 Because

Speaker 2 at first,

Speaker 2 I was sad, right?

Speaker 4 Sad.

Speaker 2 This baby's sad. But

Speaker 2 this is where it went. This is where it went a little sideways.
And I, like always, booked it to the comments.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 2 The first comment that I saw was: we all saw the straw.

Speaker 2 We're all on team mom.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 2 For my audio listeners, the straw is crimped like a fucking piranha went at it. Okay.

Speaker 2 Like someone was just like a like a hydraulic press. Okay.
Like someone hydraulic pressed the top of the straw, okay.

Speaker 2 That shit is banana, it looks like it was steamrolled like a fucking fresh concrete, okay.

Speaker 2 This thing is crimped so fucking hard,

Speaker 2 and you know what? For those of you that have not arrived at the destination,

Speaker 2 that could have been mom's nipple, okay?

Speaker 2 I would have cut her off too. Now, weaning is not going great

Speaker 2 because

Speaker 2 it's not going,

Speaker 2 but

Speaker 2 Finn's about to cut a tooth.

Speaker 4 Okay?

Speaker 2 And as selfish as this may sound,

Speaker 2 that's where I draw the line.

Speaker 2 Aggressively. That's aggressively where I draw the line.
That's where I've drawn the line for all of my other children. I've never breastfed a child past them getting teeth.

Speaker 2 Full disclosure, because I have,

Speaker 2 I think that this, again, is is something that people typically don't talk about because

Speaker 2 it can be a conscious choice.

Speaker 2 I typically have breastfed our girls anywhere from anywhere between seven and eight months. I think the longest that I've gone for any other child has been

Speaker 2 maybe a hair past eight months. Right now with Finny, I am, this is the longest I have done it

Speaker 2 because it will take me at least a couple weeks to fully wean her.

Speaker 2 And right now, we're right at the threshold of where I think I ended with Ellie.

Speaker 2 But just to be clear, this is my choice.

Speaker 2 And it might not be the choice that other people make.

Speaker 2 And I would like to say, because I think it's important to say this, I am very fortunate to have been able to breastfeed because I know that that's not always everyone's journey.

Speaker 2 Some people who want to cannot.

Speaker 2 So it's important to recognize that.

Speaker 2 My girls have switched to formula.

Speaker 2 And guess what? I have a six-year-old who is learning to read, who can write.

Speaker 2 It is, she's thriving.

Speaker 2 So.

Speaker 2 Anyone who has an opinion about

Speaker 2 how I choose to go about my breastfeeding journey

Speaker 2 and therefore

Speaker 2 my formula-fed journey,

Speaker 2 you can kindly get fucked. You knew it was coming.
And also,

Speaker 2 fed is best. Let me say it one more time for emphasis:

Speaker 2 fed,

Speaker 2 fed

Speaker 4 is best,

Speaker 2 best being the best that it can be. Like the SpongeBob.
Imagination.

Speaker 2 Ready? We'll do Fed is best

Speaker 2 and get fucked.

Speaker 2 Anyway, that's it for Doom Scroll of the Week. Brought to you by CBS Health.
Robert Irwin is coming up. But first, we have one more segment in honor of our finale we're calling NGL Wrapped.

Speaker 2 It's like Spotify wrapped, but NGL. Clever stuff, Queen Emma.

Speaker 2 Fuck it.

Speaker 2 Our first annual NGL Wrapped is brought to you by Liquid IV, Terra Poor, Live Morgue.

Speaker 2 We're going to reflect on our first season and check out some of the best highlights from our official NGL Rapt report that Queen Emma definitely didn't just completely make up herself.

Speaker 2 I mean, she did. Starting with the first slide, Queen Emma, what do we have? You said go birds 62,000 times this season.
5,000 times in an IFinder episode alone.

Speaker 2 That number actually feels wildly accurate. So yes, I will make it 6,207, apparently.
Go birds.

Speaker 2 Fuck it. Let's do eight.
Go birds. All right, next wrap slide here.
This season, your name appeared in 67,067 headlines. That makes sense.
It feels right.

Speaker 2 Oh, six, seven. I didn't even...
That's how you know I don't have kids in middle school.

Speaker 2 Here are the top five dumbest headlines that came out this year.

Speaker 2 Number one, Kylie Kelsey said she accidentally picked up a literal turd, that's a quote, literal turd, with her bare hands. Oh, another direct quote.
I raw dogged it. Someone wrote that as a headline.

Speaker 2 Are you fucking kidding me?

Speaker 2 Number two, Kylie Kelsey says she wears a sports bra every day after being named, quote, president of the, quote, itty bitty titty committee i said what the fuck i said guess what bra sports bra this is a sports bra look that was that was suspicious it's a sports bra

Speaker 2 um

Speaker 2 and the titties are still itty bitty even while i'm breastfeeding thank you

Speaker 2 number three michelle obama had kylie

Speaker 2 oh no

Speaker 2 Michelle Obama had Kylie Kelsey wiping her, quote, upper lip sweat multiple times. Why do they have to keep quoting me?

Speaker 2 Really, it feels personal. Feels personal when you quote me.

Speaker 2 I said it before, and I'll say it until the end of time. I was so sweaty,

Speaker 2 so sweaty,

Speaker 2 sweaty,

Speaker 2 interviewing Michelle Obama. I don't know that I've ever been sweatier and I've played field hockey on 100 plus degree turf.

Speaker 2 Number four, Kylie Kelsey blushes as Zookeeper jokes about playing Taylor Swift's woods song to get tigers in the mood. First of all, put some fucking respect on her name.

Speaker 2 Her name is Maggie, and she's a boss.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 2 Second,

Speaker 2 it was a great reference. I fucking loved it.
That was hilarious. Number five, Kylie Kelsey introduces new baby on podcast only two days after giving birth.
Yep, I did do that.

Speaker 2 Next slide. Congratulations, you came up with a new catchphrase.
Suck my ass.

Speaker 4 Oh, God, such a good catchphrase.

Speaker 2 It's so good. Here are five things you said could suck or kiss your ass this season.
Number one, skinny jeans. Yeah, they can kiss my ass.
Two, haunted hayrides. Yeah, those can kiss my ass.

Speaker 2 Three, Dallas.

Speaker 2 Suck my ass.

Speaker 2 Four, Gen Alpha. The fact that we have 21-year-olds

Speaker 2 that were born in the 2000s. There are people who can legally drink that were born in the 2000s.
And I'm not talking like just 21-year-olds. There are 20-somethings that were born in the 2000s.

Speaker 2 And that can get fucked. Number five, baby name critics.
Yeah, you guys can all get fucked.

Speaker 2 How about that? Keep it swiping, Queen Emma. What's next? Let's see.
You spoke to 45 people you have no business speaking to. That is correct.

Speaker 2 One person you're married to and one person who is your husband's mom. That's accurate.
By the way, one of those 45 people I had no business speaking to was Caleb Heron.

Speaker 2 And his podcast, So True, is now officially a Wave series.

Speaker 2 Yes. Welcome to Wave, Caleb.
Real ones, make sure you check out So True. And just so you know, stay tuned.
There might be more happening with NGL and Caleb.

Speaker 2 Did we tease it? Did we nail that? All right, Queen Emma. Do we have one more slide?

Speaker 4 Oh, you're an asshole.

Speaker 2 Hey, girl, you went over the 48-minute rule 18 times this season.

Speaker 2 Asshole.

Speaker 2 Wow, sounds like season two should have a cool 60 baseline, baseline, so that you can then work your way over 60 minutes on a regular basis. What do you think this is? The other podcast?

Speaker 2 Get the fuck out of here. Absolutely not.

Speaker 2 You set expectations low.

Speaker 2 Here's a trick to life, okay?

Speaker 4 Under promise, over deliver, okay?

Speaker 2 Under promise, it's 48 minutes, guys.

Speaker 2 And if you get some extra minutes, I'm sorry, it's Queen Emma's fault. The crazy part is, is you're in the same room, and if I want to launch a water bottle at your head,

Speaker 2 I won't do it because that's aggressive.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to see if there's anything that it does that will not injure you. Oh, yep, here we go.

Speaker 4 Thank you.

Speaker 2 It was a tweezer rocks. Eyelash curler rocks.
Yep. No problem.

Speaker 2 She said worth it. That's it for NGL Rap brought to you by Liquid IV.

Speaker 4 Coming up, Robert Irwin.

Speaker 2 For more than six decades, millions of families have shared the annual Hess holiday tradition. And guys, my family is one of those millions.

Speaker 2 I still remember going to my great aunt Dorothy's house and seeing all of the Hess trucks lined up, some of the coolest toy trucks that I've ever gotten to play with.

Speaker 2 Hess toy trucks are trusted by parents and grandparents for being one of the safest, most high-quality toys you can buy. I also love that Hess makes something different every year.

Speaker 2 It's always a brand new vehicle, a brand new moment. And this year, it's a pair of stock car racers.

Speaker 2 Are you kidding me? Look at this. Watch.

Speaker 2 Watch.

Speaker 2 Look at it lighting up. Watch.

Speaker 2 That's not even the most exciting part.

Speaker 4 Stop.

Speaker 2 What's inside? You guessed it, or maybe you didn't. Another toy car.
You put it back in its home. Look.

Speaker 2 It has a sound effect. I'm going to play with this first before I give it to my kids.
If you want to start a tradition your kids can look back on, you can get it. only at hesttoytruck.com.

Speaker 2 Free shipping, batteries already in it. Honestly, it's the easiest win of the holidays.

Speaker 2 Whether you've listened to all 49 episodes of our first season, or if this is the only episode you've ever heard, you just know it in your heart that I'm a last-minute gift type of person.

Speaker 2 Fortunately for me and all the other Type C parents out there, you can pretty much find everything for everyone on your list this year right on Amazon.

Speaker 2 Plus, they have all sorts of last-minute deals where you can save up to 40% on hats, home decor, and the most popular toys. I have approximately four things right now.
There's 10 days till Christmas.

Speaker 2 I have four things,

Speaker 2 and that's not even four things for each child. That's four things total.
We do a combination of writing letters to Santa and taking the Amazon catalog when the holiday season starts. And we circle.

Speaker 2 We go through and circle things.

Speaker 2 Luckily, for all parents and grandparents out there with tiny humans who constantly change their minds about gifts, you can pretty much find everything on Amazon and have it delivered right to your door.

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Speaker 2 He's a world-renowned wildlife conservationist, zookeeper at Australia Zoo, award-winning nature photographer, famous feeder of crocodiles, a wildlife warrior, and the newest Dancing with the Stars champion.

Speaker 2 He's also Bindy's brother, Terry and Steve's son, Grace's funkle. And now he's officially not going to lie, Robert Irwin, welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 This is like the best intro in history. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 We had to make sure you got your funkle credit in there.

Speaker 4 That's the most important thing.

Speaker 2 We love funkles out there.

Speaker 4 I am a funkle through and through and a proud one at that. Oh my gosh.
How are you? It's so good to talk to you.

Speaker 2 I am so excited. We had the chance to speak to Bindi earlier this year, which is

Speaker 2 was one of my favorite interviews. It just, it was a full circle moment having watched your dad and all of that for a long time.

Speaker 2 Thank you. And how excited I am also about animal conservation and making sure that everyone knows that your connection to the earth and animals is something that is truly beautiful and important.

Speaker 2 But speaking of Bindi,

Speaker 2 she actually sent me and my whole family our own custom Australia zoo shirt. So I'm actually going to

Speaker 2 ask me that if here it is we should that we should that we should always wear khaki and so so I'm just gonna I'm just

Speaker 4 gonna have this representative here.

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 4 no way.

Speaker 2 See I'm so ready to come to Australia.

Speaker 4 I feel bare without mine. I don't you you look more like an Irwin than I do at this point.
This is I will

Speaker 2 represent us. Here we go.
I love it.

Speaker 4 You can be an honorary Irwin family member anytime.

Speaker 4 And I'm sure Bindy told you. Are you kidding me? It's not just a color.
It's an attitude. It is.

Speaker 2 She did tell me that.

Speaker 4 And you are repping it very well.

Speaker 2 Bindy's not going to lie, was that she thought we should just get to wear khaki everywhere, that we shouldn't have to dress up, that khaki is dressed up enough. And I said, I'm in.

Speaker 2 Say less.

Speaker 4 I am so in. You know, it can be,

Speaker 4 you can make it chic, you can dress it down, you can dress it up. I mean, I open up my closet and it's literally khaki, khaki, or khaki.
So luckily, it's a very versatile color, you know.

Speaker 4 I always say if you've, you might have to catch a crocodile at six, but you've got a nice dinner at seven, you know, khaki, that's your color. You can do it all.

Speaker 4 That really, really suits you.

Speaker 2 Thank you so much. All right.
Well, we're going to talk more about animals and the I'll show you zoo, but first, you're fresh off your dancing with the stars win. So congratulations.

Speaker 4 Thank you so much. It still hasn't even really set in.
It just doesn't even feel real. It's crazy.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 I love so much that with everything that you're doing, that your messaging stays consistent

Speaker 2 and that you've taken the opportunity within your Dancing with the Stars opportunity and other opportunities that you've had to discuss animal conservation and make sure that people know that that is at the forefront of everything that you do.

Speaker 2 How have you been able to continue

Speaker 2 to discuss that, especially now that you're a Miraball trophy winner?

Speaker 4 First of all, thank you so much for saying that, you know, because I feel like no matter what I do, whether I'm in my khaki uniform like you are right now, or if I am in

Speaker 4 the sequence of Dancing with the Stars, my heart always beats khaki. You know, it always beats that Erwin spirit.

Speaker 4 And I never thought that I would be able to bring my message and what I stand for, which is wildlife conservation, to the world through a dancing show. But my sister was really the inspiration for me.

Speaker 4 I watched her, I still remember 11 years old, I was in the audience, in that ballroom, watching her just lighting it up. and sharing this beautiful sense of authentic passion.

Speaker 4 And I just went, wow, one day I want to follow in those footsteps and and to have that chance was everything to me I never in my wildest dreams thought I'd make it to the end no way like I was in absolute shock every week my bags were packed I was ready to go every week and I realized not only am I representing wildlife conservation but also

Speaker 4 I'm creating my own kind of legacy. My life has been about continuing the legacy of my mum and dad and my whole family.

Speaker 4 But through this, I got to really, I guess, tap into a more kind of vulnerable side and tell stories that were a little more challenging.

Speaker 4 But I hope I kind of got to put a little bit of positivity and passion into that ballroom.

Speaker 2 Now, was it like a cheat code to have Bindi there cheering you on and also having won it herself?

Speaker 4 Yeah, well, that's the thing because like she, her advice, oh, she's amazing. You've talked to her.
You know what she's like.

Speaker 4 She is so so sweet and so kind but then like she's got this old soul and this this real wisdom about her it's amazing so when i first decided to do this i you know dancing the stars went do you want to do you want to be on this season and i just was like yes let's go and then i kind of thought hang on a minute

Speaker 4 I might have been a little hasty. Like, I have no idea what to do.
Like, what the heck did I just sign up for?

Speaker 2 And I'm talking to Vinny.

Speaker 4 I'm like, what? I don't know how to dance. I don't know what.

Speaker 4 and she when we found out that I'd be partnered with Whitney she was like listen Whitney Carson is the greatest you don't have to worry about the dancing thing she'll be an amazing teacher you got this but the best advice that she gave to me was to just

Speaker 4 let go and lean in like that was it she said this experience will change your life and every time when rehearsals after 12 hours a day and you're sore and you're just giving it everything she just said remember remember why you're here.

Speaker 4 Remember what you represent. Remember that passion you have.
Remember everything that you're about. And remember that this experience is supposed to be hard.
It's supposed to be a challenge.

Speaker 4 And I just went, all right, I just got to let go and lean into this absolute hurricane.

Speaker 2 Now, there were so many emotional moments in the show.

Speaker 2 I saw them all over my TikTok feed, including the dance you dedicated. Yes,

Speaker 2 but including the dance you dedicated to your dad where Bindy joins at the end. I actually, I

Speaker 2 can't watch this one. We were going to queue it up for you, but I actually,

Speaker 2 I can't do it.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 I do, I, I know. I mean,

Speaker 2 it just hits you right in the fields.

Speaker 2 You, it's, you could feel the emotion and

Speaker 2 it was such a beautiful tribute.

Speaker 2 But I do want to ask, did you have a favorite dance that you did this season?

Speaker 4 Oh,

Speaker 4 that is so, that is such a hard question. And that one,

Speaker 4 it's like, it's like, they're all my little children. Like, I love them.

Speaker 4 Everyone, I love them all. And they're all like

Speaker 4 the culmination of so many months of all of this time and energy. But you know, I think there's that one that I dedicated to my dad and to my sister was beautiful.
And then I also did another dance.

Speaker 4 It's just the first one that springs to my mind because it felt so, there was like so much gravity and weight on this dance, which was a dedication that I did to my mum.

Speaker 4 It was dedication week and they said, who do you want to dedicate a dance to? And I dedicate it to my mum because I felt like she really is the guiding force behind everything that we do.

Speaker 4 And she's been the glue to hold us together through the most challenging times in our life,

Speaker 4 particularly when my dad passed.

Speaker 4 And we did a contemporary dance to You'll Be in My Heart by Phil Collins, you know, from the Tarzan soundtrack, which I cry at that song just listening to it at the best of times.

Speaker 2 Don't we all?

Speaker 4 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 But it felt like this moment to say thank you to not only my mum, but to

Speaker 4 all of the single parents of the world, all of the mums out there who I feel like don't always get that recognition and celebration that they deserve.

Speaker 4 Because I know my mum worked so hard behind the scenes to

Speaker 4 keep us together and everything that dad was about

Speaker 4 was my mum. I mean it was them together.
It was my mum and dad creating this legacy.

Speaker 4 And then when he passed, she was the one person to pick up all the broken pieces and to say, I'm going to make sure everything that he lived for continues on.

Speaker 4 And all the while she was just the best mum to us. And to have her in there and part of that dance and to have a dance that was for her, that was also made by a mum-you know, Whitney.

Speaker 4 She's an amazing and powerful mum in her own right.

Speaker 4 It just felt like this incredible celebration, and it was a turning point for me because I think it was like week four, and it was the first dance where I was so overcome with just so much emotion that I just kind of let go of the moves and just let my body just sort of do what it felt was right.

Speaker 4 That dance was just everything to me. Um, because yeah, my mum's um my hero, you know, she really is.

Speaker 2 I think that your mom and dad are like the perfect

Speaker 2 display of a partnership because of the way that she has continued on. The tribute to your mom was beautiful, and

Speaker 2 I'm sure she loved it. Did she give you feedback?

Speaker 4 She, oh my gosh,

Speaker 4 it was really cute because she came out at the very end of that dance. And, you know, my sister was part of a dance for a little, you know, a little eight count there.

Speaker 4 And And she knew what what it was about. She'd been on that floor so many times.
But my mom was so just adamant that she got it right. And she was, she practiced it.

Speaker 4 And it was really cute because she was like, I don't want to mess up this dance. I feel like I don't want to be the thing that messes it up.
And I'm like, mom, you can't mess it up. You've got this.

Speaker 4 And she came out and it was just this really beautiful moment. She did a little spin.
And after that, my mom and my sister and I were all in the trailer after that.

Speaker 4 And we were all just bawling, you know, because it just felt like

Speaker 4 someone knocked on our door. Actually, like a makeup artist or something came in and was like, oh, you're ready for, you know, the press line that we do after.

Speaker 4 And they opened the door of the trailer, and here we are, just all like crying. And she just like closes the door again and walks away.

Speaker 4 Never mind.

Speaker 2 Never mind.

Speaker 4 Because it is so, you know, you've poured your heart and soul into telling a story of, like, it really was a story of grief and the way my mum kind of pulled me out of a lot of a lot of challenging times and and i've always felt like i never really had an avenue to say thank you and to really express the gratitude for what she has meant to me in my life and it felt like it was this time to finally do that and it was actually one of the most healing moments in my entire life because i i addressed parts of my grief journey that I'd actually never really tapped into before.

Speaker 4 I get emotional just even thinking about it. Like I gotta, oof, I gotta lock in.

Speaker 2 I'll turn it to a little more of a light-hearted topic because Queen Emma told me I have to ask you about TikTok night salsa.

Speaker 4 Oh, oh, gosh. Oh.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 2 I saw that your family didn't know these moves were coming. They didn't.
Surprised me.

Speaker 4 There was a good reason for that because I was like, oh, every dance that I had done, I would like give my family a little preview. Like they would come to a rehearsal or I'd show them a video.

Speaker 4 But then this one, there's a point in the dance where like I remove my shirt and there's a lot of like, it's salsa.

Speaker 2 So it's, you know, it's a little bit spicy.

Speaker 4 And so.

Speaker 2 What a gentlemanly way of saying, I remove my shirt.

Speaker 4 And I was like, okay. I was like,

Speaker 4 I can't show my family. I don't know.
So I just went, you know what? I'm just going to go for it. And I said to them, So, this one's a little bit edgy.
And they're like, Oh, that's great. Go for it.

Speaker 4 But then afterwards, they were like, Whoa.

Speaker 4 But you know what? Life is short. You got to just embrace it.
There's nothing wrong with that. It was fun.
It was fun.

Speaker 2 And you know, and you know what it does?

Speaker 2 It drives traffic to the page where you are discussing passionately animal conservation. So you nailed it.

Speaker 4 I took my shirt off for wildlife wildlife conservation. 100%.

Speaker 4 Exactly. And, you know, it's so funny.
I am a big believer in like for myself. I don't take, I just, I don't take myself too seriously.
And I think

Speaker 4 it's, you got to just do that. You got to just kind of send it, let go, and just go for it.
And it was,

Speaker 4 it was so, that dance was the hardest one because Whitney, you know, my dance partner is like, okay, you have to be cool and you have to be like really edgy and like passionate.

Speaker 4 I'm like, I don't know how to do that. That's not my, that's not me.
So I got to find this new sort of side to myself, Cool Robert. I never knew he existed, but it was, it was really cool.

Speaker 4 But then I, now I'm back in my t-shirt or my car keys covered in mud again, and I feel much more natural.

Speaker 2 Now, as a mom of four little princess obsessed girls, my favorite TikTok you put out was the one of you with your niece, Grace.

Speaker 4 Yes, yes, yeah. The Cinderella.
This is,

Speaker 2 it's so good.

Speaker 4 Oh.

Speaker 2 Oh, what a great spin. How did

Speaker 2 the real star of the family, Grace, enjoy her time on Dancing with Stars?

Speaker 4 She loved it.

Speaker 4 You know what? That is the correct way to refer to Grace. She is, she is the one.
She is the

Speaker 4 star of the Irwin family, and she she is just the best. And I got to tell you that that day, it was Halloween and we were all going trick or treating and I knew that she had dressed up as Cinderella.

Speaker 4 And so I talked to the Dancing with the Stars wardrobe team because they just had Disney night, right? And I said to them, can you get me or make me a Prince Charming outfit? And they did.

Speaker 4 Credit to them. They did.
And I was like, yes. And so my sister talked it up to Grace.
She's like, you know, Prince Charming might come over.

Speaker 4 And I I remember I walked through the door in the full costume. There she is in her Cinderella costume.
And she, it's the first time ever I've seen her go all shy. She was just like completely shy.

Speaker 4 She was like, what? And she says to me, she's like, oh my gosh, Uncle Robert, you're, you're Prince Charming.

Speaker 2 She's had like, she was like, you've been Prince Charming this whole time.

Speaker 4 And I thought it was,

Speaker 4 it was the cutest thing. And she's like, wait, it's been you the whole time?

Speaker 2 That's crazy.

Speaker 4 And I'm like, yep. And we went, we went trick or treating.
And it was very cute because, you know, some of the houses were a little bit scary. Some of the decorations were a little scary.

Speaker 4 So she would send Prince Charming in first to knock on the door, make sure the coast is clear. And then Cinderella would come up and get her chocolates and candy and that.

Speaker 4 And, oh man, we had the best time. But

Speaker 4 it was crazy being in that Dancing with the Stars experience. And because she came to like pretty much every live show, she loved it.
And I would finish a dance.

Speaker 4 I'd look into the audience, and there she is, just wide-eyed, just looking, going, oh my gosh. And you just see her just light up in this room.
And I just thought, that was me.

Speaker 4 When I watched my sister do the show, I was a little kid.

Speaker 4 just in awe of this whole experience and then i got to take that experience and now i'm watching her doing the same thing and i'm like season 50 she's in there like she's gonna just gonna say like let's go three for three let's go three for three.

Speaker 4 We need another

Speaker 4 on the floor

Speaker 4 Right.

Speaker 2 Oh that would be so good not even as a as like a contestant.

Speaker 4 She'd be one of the pros. She's the best dancer in the family.
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 Yes, Grace. Go ahead.
Show them how it's done.

Speaker 4 She's an icon.

Speaker 2 Now when Bindy was on here, she and I bonded over

Speaker 2 you and my brother-in-law Travis being funkles.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 4 Go the funkal.

Speaker 2 Uncle Travis very much, he's on the same wavelength. He'll do anything to make them happy.
He wants to flip them, play with them, get on the floor, play Barbies.

Speaker 2 He'll dance until they tell him to stop. It's all of it.

Speaker 4 I love that.

Speaker 2 What do you and Grace get up to together at the Australia Zoo? Because Bindy did tell us that some days it's just like, Uncle Robert's here, and then Grace is out the door.

Speaker 2 She doesn't see her for a while.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 really run amok. Grace,

Speaker 4 she gets away with a lot with me. Like, she kind of, it's so funny because she'll come back and she'll be like, oh, can I have that chocolate? And, and Bindy will be like, oh, no, sweetheart.
Sorry.

Speaker 4 You've got to have your, you know, your vegetables first. And she's like, yeah, well, Uncle Robert would let me.
Like, she, she really wields it. Like, she gets away with everything.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 I'm like, oh, you want to go for it? Yeah, yeah, let's do this. Let's do that.
She, this is my thing: is we'll go around when the zoo shuts at 5 p.m. There's no one there.

Speaker 4 And Grace and I, I have this, like, this little scooter, and we'll go around on our scooter.

Speaker 4 And I'll like pick her up, and we'll jump in with like the tortoises or the koalas or the wombats and just run around and run amok. And it is just so much fun.

Speaker 4 Being a funkle is the greatest job on earth, honestly.

Speaker 2 I was just saying yesterday, aunts, uncles, and grandparents have privilege. There is a reason that Grace knows that she can have the chocolate with you.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. It's

Speaker 2 aunt, uncle, grandparent privilege.

Speaker 4 That is a real thing. And we wield it.
Like, I love it. It's, it's, it is so true.
It's okay.

Speaker 2 It's true.

Speaker 4 It's okay. It is.

Speaker 2 Our, our, uh, our third came over to me just yesterday with a cookie almost as big as her face.

Speaker 2 And I had to be like, Aunt Uncle, grandparent privilege. I'm not going to, I'm not going to take the cookie because aunt, uncle, grandparent privilege.

Speaker 4 Exactly. Exactly.
I love that. I love that.
That is so true. And it goes, it's funny.
It goes the same. Like in our

Speaker 4 world, it'll be different. It'll be like, oh, can I, can I please, please, please, please, you know, jump in with this.
Name an animal. Absolutely anything.

Speaker 4 And then I've got to be like, okay, well, you know, you can't play with that snake because it's venomous, but this one is really sweet and it's a python. So

Speaker 4 you can touch that one. That's okay.
So it's funny to see her like learn the rules of like what you can and can't do in the zoo. It's really, it's really funny to watch.
It's really cool.

Speaker 2 Now, how old does Grace have to be to start feeding the crocodiles with Uncle Robert?

Speaker 4 See, this is the problem.

Speaker 2 This is where the rules kick in.

Speaker 4 This is where the rules kick in. And I'm very much like, oh, she'll be fine.
I was like, I started when I was 10 years old. So let's just start her at 10, you know? And my sister's like, no,

Speaker 4 she's got to wait till. And I'm like, come on.
I started asking, when can I feed a crocodile when I was two years old?

Speaker 4 And I would watch my dad in there and I would literally every single day be like, mom, when can I feed a croc? Mom, mom, mom.

Speaker 4 And she, she, I wore her down, you know, because I kind of, I got the age bracket down to 10 years old. She was like, you have to be double digits before you can feed your first croc.

Speaker 4 And I was like, oh, fine.

Speaker 4 And I remember my 10th birthday, the crocodile was Monty, beautiful big, big saltwater crocodile that my dad had for a very long time and rescued him and I remember standing in front there watching him coming out of the water and I fed him and there was like a crowd of people and I just felt this sense of absolute

Speaker 4 it just felt like an honor it felt like wow I'm following in this these footsteps of my family and it just felt like this rite of passage feeding my first crocodile and so I'm excited for Grace to experience that but uh

Speaker 4 she may be a little older than I was you know she she might have to wait a few more years. Bindy's very, you know, she's very, she might be pretty good.
She might be 12.

Speaker 4 It'll probably be like a teenage thing. Once she's like 12, 13, then she can feed the crocodile.
But I'm ready. I'm ready.
You know, I'll start training her on little alligators.

Speaker 2 I do love that in our house, it's like, how old do you have to be to get your ears pierced? And in your world, it's how old do you have to be to feed your first crocodile?

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 4 Yep, that's the one.

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Speaker 2 Now, speaking of crocodiles, something you're known for at Australia Zoo is feeding the crocs at the Crocosium.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 4 Right. Okay.
Crocosseum. Let me give you some context, right? So my dad watched a film called The Gladiator, of course.
Yes. Russell Crowe.
And watched the Colosseum and went, oh my gosh, I need that.

Speaker 4 So he built that. So he, except he went, I need that.

Speaker 4 Except instead of it being like, you're fighting and it's all crazy, he was like, I want that, but I want this like huge showcase of the beauty of the natural world and how amazing crocodiles are.

Speaker 4 And my mum was like, well, okay, this is kind of wild, but all right. So he did, he built a 5,000-seat auditorium.

Speaker 4 And it's a place where his rescued crocodiles, the crocs that he, you know, rescued from the wild, they were going to be shot, you know, they were going to be killed.

Speaker 4 And he went and gave them a second chance at life. And there's these beautiful big lagoons out the back of our crocosum.

Speaker 4 And the crocs will swim through this canal into the main area and do exactly what a croc would be doing out in the wild. You can't convince a crocodile to do anything.

Speaker 4 So we had no idea if it would work. He built this whole thing and then just went, oh, I'm sure it'll work.
It did.

Speaker 4 The crocodiles will come out, they strike out of the water, they get their food, it's this amazing thing.

Speaker 4 And at the same time, we get to tell people and teach people about the beauty of these animals. And I do the same thing.

Speaker 4 You know, he fed the crocs in there and my family and I still feed the very same crocs that he did.

Speaker 4 And it's such a special thing for me because I love that it's these animals that were always kind of maligned and misunderstood and people thought they were just running around eating you.

Speaker 4 They're these big scary monsters.

Speaker 4 But I get to convince people and show people how lovable they are and how beautiful and powerful and intelligent these creatures are and to hopefully get people to fall in love with them.

Speaker 2 And that's exactly what he did.

Speaker 4 I feel the closest to my dad when I'm in there with his crocodiles and I'm feeding him. And it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 It's also the ultimate adrenaline rush like mate it is crazy hey you've got your car keys i reckon if you come to australia i reckon will you let me slap the water i reckon i'll get you to feed a croc mate

Speaker 4 i'll get i i i'll put you in there what do you reckon

Speaker 4 i'm so in you want to you want to feed oh my gosh i'm we'll keep some distance we'll keep some solid distance it'll be very safe But we've, you know, we've got a crocodile named Graham.

Speaker 4 He's a beautiful big boy. I reckon, Mate.

Speaker 2 So in on this.

Speaker 4 You should come feed a crocodile. I'm so in on this.

Speaker 4 So in on this. I like it.

Speaker 2 I can't even explain to you how in I am.

Speaker 4 I mean, you've got the uniform. Let's do it.

Speaker 2 I'm so in. Now, your mom also just posted a bunch of photos with you

Speaker 2 and another animal you love, Jenny, the Burmese python.

Speaker 4 Jenny. My girl.
My girl. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 How did you become best friends with Jenny?

Speaker 4 This is...

Speaker 4 So Jenny is one of these animals. I love that you know about Jenny.
This is great. Okay, so Jenny is one of these animals where I've like grown up with her.

Speaker 4 You know how, you know, we're talking about our dogs and how you grow up with the family pets. That was Jenny for me.
So we, as I got. Super casual.
Jenny got longer. So Jenny is a Burmese python.

Speaker 4 She's got a very interesting coloration, though. She's beautiful.
She's like this white color. It kind of looks like a Dalmatian.
She's got these black spots coming through.

Speaker 4 That species is usually a beautiful mottled brown and black all the way down, but she's got this really strange kind of color morph, just gorgeous.

Speaker 4 Anyway, there's a photo where I am like a few months old in Jenny's coils. She's like, just not constricting me, but she's just coiled up.

Speaker 4 And I was just kind of laying there with her, like a little soft little spot to be. And then we've got another photo.
I'm a toddler, and there she is a little bit longer, and I'm a little bit taller.

Speaker 4 And now she's that big that I can hardly hold her.

Speaker 4 She She is like this thick, she's huge, and she's still every time she sees me, she wraps around me and she gives me a little hug, just like she did when I was a baby. It's so cute.

Speaker 4 We love each other, perfect.

Speaker 2 Um, I will tell you, I recently got to hold a snake for the first time. Uh, did you?

Speaker 2 She was she was a Kenyan Samboa, and I will tell you, I called her a gateway snake because homegirl was like a stuffed animal,

Speaker 4 she was just chilling,

Speaker 2 she was jelly. Was she

Speaker 2 no,

Speaker 2 she was probably this big and she was jelly it felt like she was a like a like a weighted sand stuffy you know like that's and she was chilling and the only way you knew that she was kicking was in her little tongue yeah the little just like she was just smelling me she was like let me taste that just sussing out yep yep yeah

Speaker 4 that is The gateway snake. I love that.
That is so, because they are, that species is so chill. They're like the koalas of the snake world.
They're just like, yeah, whatever. She was,

Speaker 2 she was so cool.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I was mentally prepared for larger. So when I got her, I was like, this is great.
I love her.

Speaker 4 Oh, this is amazing.

Speaker 4 Don't they feel really cool? Like when you feel them move around and you feel how they're very like smooth and cool and people think they're sticky and slimy, but they're not.

Speaker 2 Cold. I know that sounds so silly.
I know that sounds so silly because,

Speaker 2 you know, cold-blooded. But here we are.

Speaker 2 My brain was like,

Speaker 2 that's so much colder than I thought she was going to be.

Speaker 4 And, you know, that means she would have really liked you holding her because the warmth from your hands is going to warm her up. And snakes naturally, they need to get their warmth from somewhere.

Speaker 4 Sometimes, you know, obviously that's the sun. They'll regulate their body temperature.

Speaker 4 But often if they're a little cold, when you hold them, they actually really like it because it's warming them up. And they actually seek that.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I love that.

Speaker 2 That's awesome. It was so good.
But, but I am ready. I am ready to hold a bigger snake.
So when I come to Australia, I'm saying when.

Speaker 4 Jenny.

Speaker 4 You and Jenny.

Speaker 2 In a heartbeat.

Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 2 I have to ask this question for my brother-in-law.

Speaker 2 Travis loves otters. What's the craziest fun fact about otters that I can hit him with next time we get together?

Speaker 4 Oh, my gosh. Okay.

Speaker 4 I don't know if I call this a fun fact, but it's more of like a

Speaker 4 personality trait. Otters, there are some species of otters that are absolute machines.
They are so

Speaker 4 incredible

Speaker 4 at hunting. You look at an otter and they just look super adorable, but they're one of the most in-tune hunters I have ever seen.
I

Speaker 4 was in Oregon and I was photographing otters on a river, right? On this like frozen lake, and they would be underneath the ice, and they'd catch a fish and flick it up onto the ice.

Speaker 4 It was like look like those orcas when they catch a seal, grabs this fish, chucks it up there, jumps up onto the ice, mid-air, catches it, and then just starts eating it tail first.

Speaker 4 And I'm just like, you are savage! Like, just

Speaker 4 straight in there. I've got these otters called Asian small-clawed otters, absolutely gorgeous, but they will chase you around their habitat.
And when they bite, oh mate, they bite so hard.

Speaker 4 They've actually got some of the best and sharpest teeth in the animal kingdom. So

Speaker 4 I love them and they are adorable, but I love that they also have this little edge to them. You don't mess with an otter, don't mess with an otter because, mate, they'll give you a good go.

Speaker 4 And that loves, that makes me love them even more, you know.

Speaker 2 They've got a little bit of what we like to call the fuck around and find out energy. I like it.

Speaker 4 Boom, right there.

Speaker 2 Switching gears a little bit, something else I talked to Bindy about about was her battle with endometriosis and the importance of speaking up and advocating for women's health.

Speaker 2 I just want to say, I think you have done such an incredible job, not only supporting Bindi, but also using your voice to bring awareness to women's health. So first of all, thank you.

Speaker 4 Thank you for saying that. I think it's, yeah, really important.
We talk about it a lot in our family. I feel like

Speaker 4 I think it's a responsibility for men and women to be talking about this. And I have found that I've learnt so much

Speaker 4 on Bindi's journey with this, where I feel a real responsibility to make sure that it becomes a more mainstream and widespread discussion because like I didn't realize the more that you really look into this field of women's health, it is so under researched and funded and discussed.

Speaker 4 And we still, as far as the medical system has come, we still have a long way to go. And that's going to that momentum can only happen if we're all talking about it.
So no, thank you.

Speaker 4 I appreciate you saying that.

Speaker 2 And supporting Bindi in her health journey was just one of many ways it's clear that you guys have an awesome bond. As a mom of four children, I'm hoping to raise my girls to be as close as possible.

Speaker 2 What do you guys think is the reason that you guys have such a great sibling relationship?

Speaker 4 Yeah,

Speaker 4 I think for us, you know, we, first of all, we have two amazing role models in our life.

Speaker 4 Our parents, our mom and dad, I think really exemplify what it it is to be great people who lead with a sense of authentic passion. And, you know,

Speaker 4 I think

Speaker 4 my sister and I went through, obviously,

Speaker 4 a very

Speaker 4 tough time and have navigated some really challenging things throughout our childhood with the loss of dad.

Speaker 4 And I feel like my mum

Speaker 4 showed us the power of

Speaker 4 unity. And when you lose someone very close to you, it really reveals the people around you.
It's very revealing.

Speaker 4 You very quickly understand who's who and what's what, you know, and some people react really well, some people not so much.

Speaker 4 And we just felt like our tight-knit little family, the three of us, my mum, my sister, and I, we just became this little bubble of love.

Speaker 4 And we just, I know for me, I don't know what I would do without my sister because every milestone that I've come to and also every milestone that I've had to reach in the public eye, which is challenging in itself, she's done it before.

Speaker 4 And she's just this one step ahead where she's always there to lend advice.

Speaker 4 And she is truly one of my greatest inspirations. But I think, yeah, it is my mum that's kept us so close.

Speaker 4 And I think through life's ups and downs, and particularly the downs, I feel like it's just brought us so incredibly close. But I think it's also, you got to have a really great sense of

Speaker 4 humor and fun. And like when we travel together, we genuinely enjoy it.
Like,

Speaker 4 I love traveling with my family. I love when we're together as a unit.
We're all working towards the same goal. I mean, our life is about this legacy and this message that is greater than ourselves.

Speaker 4 And that has always felt like such a privilege to do that. But

Speaker 4 I admire my sister too, because her message now is not just wildlife conservation but it's also

Speaker 4 an incredible advocate for women's health she is amazing what she went through with endo

Speaker 4 was

Speaker 4 very challenging and very confronting you know because we're so incredibly close and I watched her on this decline for so many years and the the worst part of it was the fact that she had no answers.

Speaker 4 Her body was declining and declining and declining. And every single time she would be trying so desperately to get help, it was just a brick wall.
You know, she was just hitting brick walls.

Speaker 4 And it was incredibly frustrating. But when she got that help,

Speaker 4 not only did she go through all of this to help herself, but she used that story to help other women.

Speaker 4 Whatever she's doing, whatever she goes through, I'm like right here to make sure I can back her up. And I know that it would be the same for me.
She's got my back. And it's just this sense of,

Speaker 4 hey, I'm in your corner and I've got you. And yeah, that's a powerful thing.
Having Bindy Irwin in your corner is like, you feel like she could just climb Mount Everest. Seriously.

Speaker 4 Like she is the goat. And

Speaker 4 I know after she had her chat with you, you've got her and you've got us in your corner always, mate. 100%.

Speaker 2 Oh, I very much appreciate that.

Speaker 4 You got us on your side.

Speaker 2 It is an absolute honor to speak to both of you. I will say my last question for you is something that I also asked Bindy.

Speaker 2 What is the easiest way for people at home to support wildlife conservation?

Speaker 4 I love this. And this, because people see wildlife conservation so often as this huge, insurmountable thing.
I mean, how do I save the world when I'm one person? The first thing I say is...

Speaker 4 which again, my sister says so eloquently, believe in your own strength to change the world. You know, you have to, first and foremost, you've got to unite.

Speaker 4 We all need to unite together and realize our own power to make a difference. And it starts very small.

Speaker 4 I think if you are an adult and you've got kids in your life, I think probably the most important thing is instilling a sense of passion and responsibility for the natural world within the young people in your life.

Speaker 4 Our next generation, they're going to be the ones that are going to save this world 100% and start volunteering. Volunteer, volunteer, volunteer.
Get out there and just start pursuing that passion.

Speaker 4 And slowly but surely, you'll inspire people and you'll snowball that. You know, so to make a short story long, there you go.
And do you notice what happened? See how my light just went off?

Speaker 4 I'm saving power by conserving my

Speaker 4 conserving power. I just turned my light off.
And that's another thing that you can do at home. Boom.

Speaker 4 Nailed it. Thank you.
Thank you. I meant for that to happen.

Speaker 2 I cannot thank you enough for chatting today.

Speaker 2 Congratulations on your recent win.

Speaker 2 You can check out Wildlife Warriors and all the incredible work Robert and the entire Irwin family is doing. You can also go to wildlifewarriors.org to donate.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 This has been incredible.

Speaker 4 Honestly, it's just been amazing.

Speaker 4 My sister just spoke so incredibly highly of you and thinks the world of you. So do I.

Speaker 4 We appreciate you so much. And honestly, it is 100% genuine.
When you come to Australia, we're feeding a croc, we're meeting a koala and a wombat. It's all happening.

Speaker 2 This is going to be too much.

Speaker 4 Mate, it's going to happen. You're the best.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 Thank you so much. I really, I cannot.
tell you how much I appreciate it. And I will tell you, my parents, after I got to talk to Bindy, were like, I'm so proud of you for not crying.

Speaker 4 Oh,

Speaker 4 that is really

Speaker 2 because they know kids used to come home from school and put on MTV, watch like TRL, countdown, all that stuff. I was in there.
It was channel 41.

Speaker 2 I was in there. It was me and Animal Planet.
I love that every single day.

Speaker 4 Oh, I love that.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 I feel very, very privileged to get to speak to you and Bindy. And I'm so grateful that you came on as our season finale because I feel like it was the perfect timing coming off of your big win.
And

Speaker 2 I'm so excited to continue the conversation of wildlife warriors and making sure that people know the mission

Speaker 2 and know how to support.

Speaker 4 Thank you so much. Thank you for being a wildlife warrior yourself.
Always. Thank you.

Speaker 2 Always.

Speaker 2 In my khaki. And that's a wrap on this episode and this first season of Not Gonna Lie.

Speaker 2 You can find even more clips from my longer conversation with Robert on my YouTube channel on More Shit Monday. I'll be back in just a few weeks with our season two premiere.

Speaker 2 In the meantime, make sure to follow Not Gonna Lie on all social media. We're gonna be putting out bloopers and never-before-seen clips there, and also right on our NGL YouTube channel.

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Speaker 2 Thanks to the real ones for tuning in until season two, happy fucking holidays, everybody.