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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

325 - Raam Seyed-Emami

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Raam's father was a prominent Iranian environmentalist who was arrested and interrogated for supposedly being a foreign spy. After he mysteriously died in prison, Raam and his brother decided to pressure the Iranian government for answers. Telling his story here is part of that pressure.



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0:00.0

All the Chris this is Elma from Ireland and I'm currently walking the Camino on my

0:07.8

way to Los Arcos and it is absolutely sad to say and I said sure enough give Chris a

0:16.6

show see what the crack is I'm having a great time loving the podcast keep me

0:23.7

entertained and good talk to you again bye

0:30.0

Chaingooo

0:32.2

Thank you for that beautiful message from the Camino Santiago

1:01.8

And Spain, yeah if you don't know about that it's an old pilgrimage trail that Pilgrims

1:09.7

tried for centuries all across France, Northern Spain.

1:16.3

It's on the way to Santiago de Compostela, I believe is the sort of final destination.

1:22.6

I have a buddy who wrote a bike from Amsterdam along the Camino, so Pilgrims came from Northern

1:29.8

Europe as well.

1:31.2

It reminded me I found an old journal that I kept when I was traveling back in the, I think

1:38.6

I started in the early 80s, yeah I'm looking here in 1990.

1:43.8

About the time I got to Barcelona, in any case when I was listening to Elma thinking

1:49.5

about Spain, I was reminded of a book I think it was Journey to Islán by Carlos Castaneda

1:57.5

that I had read around that time.

1:59.0

When I pulled out this journal and I found some lines that I wrote down, all paths are

2:03.4

the same, they lead nowhere.

2:07.4

Think about that, yeah we all die right?

2:09.6

So whatever path you're on, it's going to the same place as Carcy Blanton tells us every

2:15.3

damn time we listen to that song.

2:18.8

Both paths lead nowhere, but one has a heart, the other doesn't.

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