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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Part 2: Karun: Misadventures On Iran's Longest River with Leon McCarron

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Leon joins to talk more in depth about his experiences filming Karun: Misadventures on Iran's Longest River. Today we talk about cost, preparation, and how filming can change the trip.

Transcript

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The Extra Pack of Peacahuts Travel Podcast, Episode 200.

0:08.0

Britain is the only country in the world which doesn't have its name on its postage stamps. And it's also illegal to put a British stamp upside down.

0:17.0

Today's show is sponsored by our good friends over at Tortuga Backpacks and whether you are heading to Iran or you're heading anywhere else in the world you need a good travel backpack and the Tortuga Backpack is the one that I always take with me.

0:33.4

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0:36.9

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because that would get you 10% off your entire order. 3. Would you feel your Dublin heart is burning?

1:05.0

Yeah, well you don't have to worry because we're going there soon.

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Because we're going there soon.

1:13.0

They don't not so worry because we're going there soon.

1:20.0

Hello, Travelers. Hello travel nerds and welcome to the Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast, the show that

1:28.8

teaches you how to travel more while spending less. I'm your host Travis Cherry and today's episode is part

1:35.1

two of my interview with Leon McCarran British adventurer and filmmaker and if you're

1:40.3

just tuning in you missed part one of this interview, you're going to want to go over and check that out.

1:45.6

Because in part one, Leon talks about what he's been up to in the last year and a half and 150 episodes since we last talked and it is a lot of

1:55.1

cool stuff that he's been doing he also talks about how we managed to make adventurer

2:00.4

a job title his two biggest adventures traveling through Patagonia and Iran and also the

2:05.8

difference between his perception and the reality of Iran so you want to check that out part

2:11.0

one of my interview you can get that at extra pack of peanuts.com slash pods.

2:15.8

You can also get that on iTunes, on Stitcher,

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and on Gybercast.

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