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Hey there we have a special thing that we are doing today on the podcast and I think

you'll really enjoy this it's such a good story I enjoyed it and there's so much

honesty there Nogme Panahi, I think it's how you say her last name,

is somebody who's been a long time friend,

and she's been through a lot,

and she wrote a book about it. I was really happy about that.

She was on the national scene for a while trying to get her husband freed from an Iranian prison and we were part of that. I was a big

champion of hers and theirs because they had listened to the show and so when I heard that she called me and said my

husband is and I don't know if you heard about this I'm like yeah I have I didn't know you guys

listen to the show. And so, yeah, I was trying to get it, like,

trending on Twitter. Yeah, I remember all of that. We were there for a lot of that journey.

She eventually wound up in the White House,

met Barack Obama, and got his support,

and like Franklin Graham was a big champion of hers for a while like it was this big thing and

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