After Roben Farzard read Greg Franklin’s posts, in late 2020, he decided to do something unusual.

Farzad had met Greg Franklin the year before, when they sat next to each other on a bench watching their kids’ basketball game at the local JCC. Less than a year later, Farzad was reading Franklin’s account of his wife’s COVID, her seizures, her intubation.

To care for his wife and two kids, Franklin had had to leave his job at a real estate asset management company, initially under the Family and Medical Leave Act and then for good in August 2020. By the time Farzad got involved, Franklin’s wife was home and stable, and Franklin was finally able to consider starting his job search.

Farzad offered to host a live Zoom show, to “leverage” the “hive mind” of the audience of his radio show, Fu

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