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Speaker 2: The Elvis Duran After Party.

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Speaker 1: It's the after Party Podcast. Best Nay Yeah, Yes, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the After Party Podcast. Gandhi is here and there's Scary.

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Speaker 1: I'm Danielle straight in eight Scotti Bee. Hey there you

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Speaker 1: do so my really good friend Vienna. He lives down

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Speaker 1: in Tanzania in Africa, and he is a safari operator.

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Speaker 1: He's a tour guide and he's doing so well with

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Speaker 1: his business down there. He's been on our show many times.

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Speaker 1: We love Vienna, yep. And he talks about what it's

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Speaker 1: like to go on safari, which Alex and I have

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Speaker 1: done many times. We love it and everyone should do

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Speaker 1: it and everyone can can do it. It's not like

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Speaker 1: this multi ka billion dollar thing to pay for and

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Speaker 1: go do. We find ways to make it happen for you,

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Speaker 1: and Vienna is great at doing that. So anyway, our

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Speaker 1: listener Karen from Ohio is on. Hi, Karen, how are

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Speaker 1: you doing today?

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Speaker 3: Good morning? I'm great. How are you?

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Speaker 1: We're doing so fine? So fine. So you got to

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Speaker 1: meet my good friend Vienna and you went on on

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Speaker 1: safari in Tanzania.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we did eight days and we just got back Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Oh eight days. That's that is good and juicy. So

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Speaker 1: did you did you do it? Intent? Did you? Were

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Speaker 1: you on the migration trail or explain what you were doing?

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Speaker 3: We did. We started off in Arusha, stayed in the

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Speaker 3: hotel there, which was like five stars and absolutely beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Next day we went to a different migration camp for

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Speaker 3: Trenier National Park, and then to a new one the

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Speaker 3: following day for Nigura gro Crater, and then we went

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Speaker 3: to the Serengetti and then we spent four nights at

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Speaker 3: the migration camp.

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Speaker 1: Wow, look at you. Yes, the and Girl crater is

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Speaker 1: very interesting. Uh, it's very controlled because whence they say,

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Speaker 1: Asle four. I mean five thousand trucks run to it. Wow,

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Speaker 1: and it's good. It's beautiful, right, But once you go

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Speaker 1: out into the Sengetti you are in wide open spaces, right, Karen,

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Speaker 1: I prefer the Serena absolutely crater. How about you?

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Speaker 3: We went early to the crater. We left to get

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Speaker 3: we managed to like hit the Big five in a day. Wow,

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Speaker 1: Was this your first time on the Serengetti or on safari?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yes? And I only went because of the time

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Speaker 3: you had Vienna on and said, you know, if you

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Speaker 3: think this is not possible to do, please look into

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Speaker 3: it because there's different levels of travel and you you

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Speaker 3: And I would have never looked into it if it

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Speaker 3: wasn't for you guys. And so we went, me and

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Speaker 3: my kids they're eleven and fourteen.

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Speaker 3: And I one day I heard's interview, I knew I

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Speaker 3: And he he glows when he tells your story about

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Speaker 1: Well, to be able to take your kids on safari

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Speaker 1: He's the most beautiful human being. Were what we were

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Speaker 1: anticipation your anticipation thoughts going in? What were you expecting

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Speaker 1: Like how many shots did you have to get? Were

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Speaker 4: Like, well, when you go to the bathroom at night, right,

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Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, But when we did get taken to dinner,

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Speaker 1: You know, there was one night, Karen, we were sitting

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Speaker 1: But that's just what you're doing. You're you're on their territory.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the one morning we didn't have water going to

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Speaker 3: but that's really what happened. So they were right behind us.

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Speaker 1: Well, that happens here in Manhattan all the time.

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Speaker 1: Were there certain colors they told you not to wear?

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Speaker 3: They did, but most people apparently don't go by that.

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Speaker 3: I did. I bought us all like kind of khaki

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Speaker 3: and olive colors, and I guess white and black are

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Speaker 3: more attractive to the mosquitoes. But I don't know. If

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Speaker 3: Gray seems to be okay. Other people were wearing pink

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Speaker 3: the list. He sent us a packing list. We only

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna wear red.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't dress like an Impala or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: Did you see the always elusive dick?

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Speaker 3: We did, We did, We talked. We saw two small.

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Speaker 3: And my kids just thought that was absolutely hilarious.

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Speaker 1: I'm an old kids.

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Speaker 1: But Carrie, you know a lot of people thinking I'm

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Speaker 1: never going to do that ever, because those lions are tires,

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Speaker 1: diggers and bears will kill me. Well there's no there's

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Speaker 1: no bears. There don't there's tigers either anyway. But it

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Speaker 1: really is an amazing thing. Stay on the truck and

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Speaker 3: That truck, I never felt unsafe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, once you get off the truck, your lunch. And

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Speaker 1: so in Vienna. How amazing of a sweetheart is he.

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Speaker 3: Really absolutely incredible, his integrity and his standards, like just

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Speaker 3: and he managed to get me one in a day.

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Speaker 3: So he makes things happenless, you know, it's incredible. And

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Speaker 1: Really optional Saren, he will be your friend for life

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Speaker 1: and you will go back to see him. I think

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Speaker 1: we're going to go back soon too. And everyone, anyone,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get in touch with my friend VNA, dropping

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Speaker 1: him a d M at what is his.

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Speaker 2: Instagram's Untamed Adventures Expedition Expedition.

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Speaker 1: There you go, and Karen, thank you for coming on

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Speaker 1: with us. I'm so glad you made it home safe

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Speaker 1: and sound with that because you weren't eaten by Dick.

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Speaker 3: I was not.

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Speaker 1: I'll see you on the Serenghetta. You have a beautiful day.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: To the Elvis Duran after party