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Very happy to have you. Those of you down in Jacksonville, I'll be with you starting tomorrow through Monday as I'm down there for the Players Championship, meeting listeners and advertisers down there, hanging out with some friends of mine. I mentioned the fantastic Fudge Shop in Ferdinina, and it turns out the owner's a listener. I've been going there since I was in law school.

It's the greatest fudge shop on planet Earth, and I will be there at some point. I don't know when, however. But I got to go by there. I mean, it was on the list anyway, and now that I know the guy's listener, I really got to go by there. That fudge is fantastic. Now, before I pivot to the SAVE Act, I don't want to keep Samir on the phone forever while waiting for me to get back to Iran. I want to go on and get this. Samir, welcome to the show. How are you? Hey, how are you doing, Eric, Erickson? Great. I have a question. Like in 1945, I'm on the exact sure about Germany, but they split the Germany in half because of what happened during the World War II. I was just wondering if that's a possibility to happen to Iran with other countries of Arabic nations, pretty much, taking control of the half of the country or quarter of the country, they divide it for each country to control that section.

So they wouldn't, one, we don't have a large enough allied platform to be able to do that.

But two, the nation of Iran, which up until I guess the 1950s was called, or in 1940s or 30s was called Persia,

is a continuously existing landmass that

goes back more than 2,000 years as a comprehensive geographic region.

There are certainly portions of Iran where there are tribal, different tribes and even

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