I'm Jeremiah Mongold from West Virginia, and I did 11 years in West Virginia State Penitentiary

for a crime that I did not commit and had a long struggle, a long fight, and I'm happy to be where I'm at today.

Hi, I'm Brooke, and you're listening to Actual Innocence, a podcast bringing awareness to wrongful conviction and problems within the justice system.

I'm here to Marco. It's been two weeks since our last episode, but I feel like a lot has happened since then. What do you think?

A lot has happened since then.

So I didn't make it to Oklahoma, but I did see on Facebook live your speech.

And I thought it was excellent.

How did it feel?

To be honest with you, just because it's the Oklahoma, it's the state capital.

So I was kind of nervous.

I was intimidated. This is the Oklahoma State Capitol. Yes. So I'm

intimidated. And then there's people everywhere. So I get up there and I was nervous up there.

People said I looked confident and I looked like, you know, I was relaxed, but I was, that was so far from what was going on.

But I'm happy everything worked out.

It was pretty exciting.

And just, just to be up there, you know, I feel like, you know, it helped me.

You know, it was a confidence builder.

You know, you're speaking at the Oklahoma State Capitol and these people up here, they're loving me. You know, it was a confidence builder. You know, you're speaking at the Oklahoma State Capitol and these people up here that are loving me and at the end, you know, everyone told me how much of an amazing job I did.

So, you know, I feel good about it.

I think you did great.

And last weekend we got to hang out together. Yeah, that was cool. And I'm glad things worked out because I almost didn't make it. But, you know, things worked out. And I had so much fun.

I'm glad it worked out too. Did you know that there were ducks in the hotel before you went? I did not know there was going to be a duck parade

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