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March 30, 2023 17 mins

Our favorite tour guide Vianney is here telling us stories about his experience on Safari. Plus, Andrew had virtual court this morning!

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your arm? On your podcasts?
Fifteen Morning Show, Goteen Minute Morning Show podcast. Lots to
cover today. In the room, we've got Scary what up.
In the other room, we've got Scottie b Hi, Here's Gandhi,

(00:26):
Andrew the Menace is here, and there's there's Garrett, and
here's Scary straight Ate is here? Do that again? And
here's Scary Hi. You're so weird. And our friend Vienna
from Tanzania, Africa is joining us in just a few minutes.
Can't we start with Andrew? Please? So you got a

(00:46):
ticket for doing what? Okay? So this happened in twenty
twenty one. My car was towed after the iHeartRadio Music
Festival twenty twenty one. There was a street festival that
I did not know about. My car was towed. I've
got to pick up my car from the toeyard traumatic experience,
and there is a blank ticket on my windshield. So
I've kept this ticket ever since because I'm like, there's
nothing on this ticket. How do I know what I

(01:07):
was charged with? So fast forward to two court dates
later over zoom and I fought it today. Yes, so
you have justice. A court date on zoom. Yeah, I've
never done a zoom court date for tickets, but then again,
i've never headed ticket pin a rose on your now's
your drive anyway? So how was the experience? And terrible?

(01:30):
What do you mean so it's not fun? Zoom court
is not fun. I've done zoom jury duty. This is
now zoom court for me. It's it's really it wasn't great.
And I did it over here because I thought I
could just be audio and then they were like you
have to turn the camera on. And then it just
so happened that you were walking by at the same
time and the judge is I went to turn around
and be like, I'm on court, and the judge screaming

(01:52):
in my airpod's going this is a court of law,
and I'm like, I'm so sorry. You shouldn't I'm talking
to a Corn. I'm thinking Corn, the group, you know
Corn with the k Yeah, we have a meeting there.
So the jogo is mad because I'm walking by. Yes,
he's like, are you not in a place where oh
that George, that judge can suck my ass. Yes, he's terrible.

(02:15):
I'm not contempt. I'm not in a stupid contempt you're
gonna get Andrew triple fined by your words. Now it's
already done. Who who is it? Who's in the court?
M So here was the thing. The ticket was blank.
And I said this several times to him, and he
was trying to test me, like, well, would you rather
this be in person? Then I'm like, yeah, it should
be a person because I have the blank ticket because

(02:36):
I've saved it for two years. And he's like, well,
the cop would not write a ticket and then submit
it if it was blank. And I'm like, well, I
had the evidence that says otherwise. And so I got
a tend. He reduced the fine all the way. I
think it was two fifty to ten dollars, and I
played guilty. Oh what a nice ten dollars. I don't
like this judge points, you get points on the license.

(02:57):
All right, well let's move on. You don't want any
stunt any actually i've ever had with a judge. They
lured over their authority like they're always judging right. It's frightening.
It is. I wish to be one someday. Oh you're
you're you're our version of having a judge. Well, anyway,
so you're all dying but rude, so rude, and zoo

(03:19):
court is not fun. I want to go in person
because I would have held my ticket up and said,
your honor, I submit this. I was ready for that
moment and I didn't have it, or maybe try to
follow the rules of parking. Well, I didn't know there
was a street festival in the middle of September. What
are we celebrating. Oh, you can appeal, I know, but
it's only a Well here's the problem, by the way,

(03:42):
and now we welcome Vienna, Vienna, our attorney from Tanzania.
The thing is, you don't want to appeal because it's
only ten dollars in no points to just pay their
ten dollars and move. Yeah, I'll keep moving. Yeah, Vienna
would appeal. It's it's a which if I'm not happy
with the outcome, you know, I'm definitely a pill. Good

(04:02):
for you fight the power? Can you go back? Can
you put Vienna in your zoom room? Let him be
your attorney. Yes, I'm glad. I'm glad you got away
with moment. It was great, but judge, bitch, we welcome
Vienna all the way from Tanzania. This is his fourth
time in New York City. I think he loves New

(04:24):
York because we get him trashed. He meets a lot
of people. So Vienna, let's talk about let's talk about
going on safari, Let's talk about whatever you want to
talk about. Go, well, who want Oh I thought you
I thought he was going to kick this off? All right?
Has anybody on one of your tours or another tour
ever been injured doing something stupid while on safari? Yes?

(04:46):
So recently, like you know, just before COVID. Uh So,
there are people that went to South Africa and the
authern Safari on the evening drinks and so they went
to take a picture with the rhino, like who hastad
on Satriday. So they came out of the vehicle and

(05:06):
they went and approached this white rhino. Oh no, they
started like taking pictures and the rhino charged and injured,
you know, with a horn Like go, I mean, isn't
the rhino one of those dangerous animals in the world?
A man a man because they they're they're very aggressive.

(05:27):
So you know, these people provoked the rhinos. So the
rhino didn't really had an option because you know, animals
they always defend. Animals are like human beings. It's just
the white rhino extinct. Uh, the black rhino is endangered.
The white rhino is also endangered. But with the rhinos,
they are subspecies of them. So the white northern rhino

(05:54):
women women to mother and daughter. Yeah, so the men died,
so he couldn't breed with them because they're all his daughters.
So that part of it, it's almost disappearing now, Vietnam scary. Okay,
First of all, what's the difference between extinct and endangered.

(06:15):
Extinct means they're in the past, there's no living species
of that right, and endangered means they're on a path
should be in extinct exactly. So I didn't realize that.
I thought that since there's two women left and no
guys to impregnate the women, then there's not gonna be females.
There's not gonna be any more white rhinos pretty soon.

(06:38):
So your theory is correct, because so we called that
even though they had two left, but they won't breed,
so we called them as extincted already because you know,
theoretically there won't be any more of the white rhinos
in the world, northern race of the white rhinos, So
whose fault is that you. Yeah, if we can bring

(07:02):
back a wooly mammoth, which they're trying to do, why
can't we bring back the white rhino? That seems more important.
So they're they're they're looking into that option. They're looking
to do some biological thing in the lab and see
if they can bring some of them rhinos, but it
won't really be wild so they're looking at the options.

(07:26):
How has climate changed effect what you do? How has
the warming of the planet changed. I don't know migrations
or the water that's available for the animals, how has
that changed. It has changed a lot, and you can
see the impact even as today. So I'll talk us

(07:46):
for the wilderbist migration. So the wildebist migration follows green
posts and grasses and water. So we have had shortage
of rain for the last few years, so the psych
of them migration has really not been you know, as
it used to be like for the last ten fifteen years.

(08:08):
So they were supposed to be up in the down
southern side where they give birth. So they were there
in December and there was no rain. It just started
raining like late late December for like a few days.
It stopped and then January there was no rain, so
they were waiting for FABRW like end January early FABRW

(08:31):
so that they can start dropping their babies. There's no rain,
so that means these babies cannot really survive. Luckily, the
wilderbeest can synchronize their bath. When I say that, I
mean they can hold their babies in their stomach for
up to two months. So they had to do that.
But some of them had to drop because you know,

(08:52):
it's it's you have to do it for you to
be able to move on. So some of the baby survived.
Some of the babies didn't survive. So the rain has
been a big, big problem. You go up north where
they're crossing the Mara River. Last year when I was
there for the first two three months, the river did
not have enough water. So the wilder beasts are going easily,

(09:16):
but the crocodiles that depends on the water to hunt.
They couldn't do lots of huntings because there's not enough
water for them to be able to do that. So
that made the crocodiles not to be able to eat.
They can feed on fish and other small things, but
if they get a meal like a wilder beast, that
keeps them going for up to a year six months

(09:37):
to a year without eating because you know crocodiles they
have very slow heartbit that is one hatbit up to
shoot sometimes even four minutes, so they haben it very well.
So if they don't have enough water for them to
be able to hunt, they will go for smaller things
and then they won't go for a bigger things. So
that also somehow gives them a bit of a of

(09:59):
a problem because they've been fitting for years as they've
been doing that. Yeah, that's so sad. It is incredible.
And by the way, is that the same river you
just mentioned? Is that the river that we were what
we did that. It's a fascinating thing. And you see
a lot of people who run safari waiting on the
banks for all the wildebeest to jump off the cliffs
and get the courage to come over to keep the

(10:21):
migration going. The problem is they're waiting for like one
to start it. So they're all on the bank going,
you do it, can you do it? You go you
go first, you go first, and then it could take days, right,
I mean they or they can just go over. It
just depends on like how brave they are, but when
they go into the water they know that there could
be crocodiles or alligators. Which one is it crocodiles in

(10:43):
the water or whatever it's it's it's a weird thing
to watch. We waited for a long time. But once
they start coming over, and you can look up videos
of this will tell you. You have videos and my
Instagram page. I mean, there's thousands of them coming over
the over the cliffs into the water to start the
migration again. It's fascinating, it's incredible. I watched the whole

(11:03):
documentary about that specific moment. I think it's called It's
either like Death on the River Mara or River Mara
Death something, and it's all about exactly what you guys
are talking about, which is this giant migration and how
the crocodiles just wait and it's chaos. It was amazing.
It's one of my favorite things to watching in the bush.
Like almost all of my safaris, if they come between

(11:26):
July and October, allots take them to say that it's
it's very nice towards It can take time as you wait,
but once it happens, you have thousands of them going,
so it's really really something that I always wish people
to see. So it is. It is fascinating. There's so
many things to see and look. And keep in mind
sometimes while you're on safari, are you okay? When you're

(11:55):
on sa faris, there's a lot of waiting. You sometimes
you have to wait to be patient. You can go
out to this really huge grassy field and just wait
for that line to find something to tackle. And it's
a lot of waiting, right, But patient and waiting. That's
that's when we test people the level of waiting. Like

(12:16):
you know, we I always say we have visitors. So
these animals they decide to welcome us. Oh, they say,
like go on, I want to rest. So there's nothing
much you can do. You just wait for the animal
to do the action, and if you're patient enough, you

(12:36):
always get everyone at the end. I was reading a story, Puberty.
I was reading a story the other day, Vina, that
some animal numbers are actually increasing, like elephants. Are you
seeing that in the bush? Are you seeing there there's
more animals or is there fewer? Yeah, so there are
species that their numbers are really going high, like elephants.

(12:59):
In some areas our national parks authorities and the government
have taken lots of measures to empower the rangers to
be able to work easily to fight the poaches. For example,
a park called Tarangi National Park. Back like late eighties,

(13:23):
they had very few elephants, probably maybe around three thousand
even less. But as we speak, that park has got
about seven thousand elephants, so the population of the elephant
in that particular park has gone very very high. And
this is the funny thing poaches. So we have a
big tree called Albab tree. Albab tree can be like

(13:46):
half of this room, like massive. We have some that
even a hundred people have to go around to be
able to hold hands, and they live for about three
hundred years. So poaches discover that these trees are inside.
So what poachers used to do they cut the back
of the tree and they go inside of that tree

(14:07):
and they live there in the tree, in the tree,
just waiting for things for their duck to come and
they come out and they go and hunt. So the
pack was able to know that, so they started tracking
them using trees as well. So if you go to
Tarange National Park you will see some of the some

(14:29):
of the barbab trees that poachers actually cutted them down,
like to have that entrance into the tree to be
able to hide in the such a himbler elves of poachers.
So is poaching less more? Are still the same problem
as it was ten twenty years ago? It's less more
because now technology is advancing. People are now donating lots

(14:53):
of funds to try and keep the animals alive. You know,
now they use choppers, they use planes to do trolls,
foot patrols, They have the camping gears that they can
go for days out in the in the bush and
you know patrol. So now the poaching is getting less
into other animals, but it's getting more into rhinos. So

(15:16):
rhinos are now really endangered because of you know, poaches.
People really poaching them because they believe with aphrodisiac it
helps mane so they the value of it has really
really gone high into the market. Have you ever came

(15:41):
to poacher? Yes, I have. I have a few times,
like back in two thousand and fourteen, two thousand and
twelve and somewhere around two thousand and sixteen seventeen. There,
how does that work out? Just let them be? Oh yeah,

(16:03):
you report them, You report them to the rangers. I
give them the location, and most of the ones that
have I saw, they're actually caught. Yeah, because I report them,
reported them. I gave out their location, and the pack
came in and they track them and they got them.
But because you're having people in your vehicle, you don

(16:25):
want to provoke them, right, So what you do just
let them, you know, be and you go on. You
pretend like you didn't see them, you're not having any
hues with them, and then as soon as you're far away,
you call the rangers. They always have their numbers out
that you can reach the Antipoching unit and then they
will come. It's so much fun to go on safari,

(16:48):
especially VNA, and everyone can do it. It's it's not
something everyone else can do and you can't. Everyone can
go on safari and it does change your life. If
you check out Elvis Duran's show on Instagram, all of
Vienna's information is they're waiting for you. You can see
not only how you can contact Vienna and talk about
the possibility of going on Safari, but also all of

(17:10):
his photography. He's become quite the photographer and so his
wildlife photography is second to none Vienna. We love you,
thanks for being, Thank you so much. The fifteen Minute
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