Hey everybody, I listened to Wenda Change when it came out.

I loved it.

And we've got a new series that we think anyone who liked this show will love too.

It's called 544 Days, and it's MY story.

I'm Jason Rezion and 544 Days is how long I spent in an Iranian prison.

I was a hostage, used this leverage in a tug-of-war between the US and Iran.

It took a lot of people from my mom to Anthony Bourdain to President Obama to free me, and

it took me a lot of struggle and a heavy dose of humor to survive.

Here's episode 1.

If you like it, you can hear the rest of the story for free, only on Spotify.

Before this show begins, you should know a couple things.

First, it includes some pretty unpleasant descriptions of my and my wife's experiences in a Iranian

prison.

Second, there's a lot of cussing.

Solitary confinement wasn't something I was ever going to get used to.

I knew that immediately.

The room I was in was tiny, long enough to lie down in, but too narrow to stretch out

my arms.

The walls were foam-arble, and they were always cold.

There were sounds that seemed designed to never let me sleep.

The noisy grinding of a fan, a sink with a faucet that dripped, and dripped, and dripped

constantly, lights that never turned off.

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