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Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Emmanuel Dzotsi chats with journalist Jason Rezaian about his new show, 544 Days, which explores Jason's imprisonment by the Iranian government and the struggle to free him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Emmanuel here.
0:02.1	We're hard at work on a really fun episode for you guys.
0:04.8	It's going to be out in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime, we have something a little
0:08.2	special for you.
0:09.2	It's a story about a high stakes negotiation.
0:12.3	The kind you hear about every once in a while between the United States and another country,
0:16.1	usually over weapons of some kind, in which real people, like hostages, are used as bargaining
0:22.0	chips.
0:23.0	The story we're going to play you gets inside one of those negotiations in the most personal,
0:27.0	intimate way possible.
0:28.0	It's about the negotiations to free an American journalist, Jason Rezion, who is being
0:32.3	hell hostage in Iran.
0:34.0	And this story is personal because it's told by him.
0:37.6	Years after his release, Jason went and talked to all these people who haggled over his
0:41.4	life.
0:42.4	He looked into every weird and improbable event and I got him home and he made a podcast
0:46.3	about it.
0:47.3	And that series is called 544 Days.
0:50.7	I've got Jason here to talk about it today.
0:52.9	Hi Jason.
0:53.9	Hey Emmanuel, how are you?
0:54.9	I'm good.
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