The "Is It Dear Ali or Dear Ayatollah or Dear Mullah?" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
John Dickerson, David Plotz, and special guest Betsy Woodruff discuss the Republican letter to Iran's leaders, the Clinton nonexplanation of her private email account, and a University of Oklahoma fraternity's racist chant. This week's episode is sponsored by “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” the new documentary series airing Sundays at 8, only on HBO. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus.
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| 0:00.0 | This late political gab fest is sponsored by HBO and the documentary series The Jinks, |
| 0:05.2 | The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, four decades, three murders, and one very rich man who refused to speak until now. |
| 0:12.3 | The Jinks airs Sunday at 8, only on HBO. |
| 0:14.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:25.5 | Music contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to this late political gap fest from March 12th, 2015, the Is It Dear Ali or Dear |
| 0:32.1 | Ayatollah or Dear Mullah edition. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm here in Washington, D.C. We're all together, but not all of us are the same people. So next to me is John Dickerson of Slate and CBS News. Hello, John. Hello, David. And making her Gab Fest debut, since Emily Bazelon is on vacation, is Slate's own Betsy Woodruff, who what's your title? |
| 0:55.9 | Your political writer, staff writer. |
| 0:57.5 | Welcome. |
| 0:58.4 | Welcome to the Gab Fest. |
| 0:59.1 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm delighted. |
| 1:02.6 | So you probably should answer some questions. |
| 1:04.2 | What questions do we have for Betsy? |
| 1:05.2 | What's your favorite dessert? |
| 1:10.4 | I would say chocolate cheesecake with raspberries on it. |
| 1:10.8 | Hmm. |
| 1:12.1 | That is not. That's kind of my go-shadow. |
| 1:12.7 | Is that cheesecake covered by chocolate or cheesecake native chocolate? No, I wouldn't like the ingredient. I wouldn't like you cut it in half and it's chocolate. Okay. Ugh. That would not be, that is not. I don't want to come to dessert. That's ridiculous. It's wrong. It's so good. All right, who, what politician would you least like to sit next to on a cross-country flight? |
| 1:29.9 | That's hard. |
| 1:31.3 | Probably. It's wrong. It's so good. What politician would you least like to sit next to on a cross-country flight? |
| 1:29.8 | That's hard. |
| 1:31.3 | Probably Alan Grayson. |
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