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Samantha Williams

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
82 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

Like, these are down women to adventure.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

They're like, yeah, let's go whitewater rafting.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

And I'm like, hey, I can't swim, and I really need to make this flight because I have work tomorrow, so I don't think we should go whitewater rafting.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

Imagine this going on for about two hours, and then imagine it ending with us in a van on our way to Victoria Falls for the whitewater rafting, reading the release waiver in the van.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

And learning that the Zambezi River is a class five or stage five river.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

There are no stage six rivers for whitewater rafting.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

That's it.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

It is a stage five river.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

And amateurs and people who can't swim are not supposed to be on that river whitewater rafting.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

Fast forward an hour later, I'm shaking and basically crying.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

Everyone else is super pumped.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

We're all ladled up in our vests.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

And the guides are like, a 97-year-old woman did this yesterday.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

You're fine.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

I'm like, she sounds hardcore.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

I'm not.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

I can't swim.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

He then shows me how safe it's going to be by throwing Lorraine into the river at like a calm part, and of course her vest boobies her straight up, and he's like, see, you're going to be just fine.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

You'll float up just like that too.

The Moth
Still Existing and Bucket Listing: The Moth Radio Hour

And in my head I'm like, maybe, yeah, like maybe I'll live through this.