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The Gist

The Sweet Smell of Survival

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Gist, RAND Corp. political scientist Jonah Blank puts Obama's visit to Myanmar in context. Then, the harrowing prison story that inspired Jon Stewart's directorial debut, Rosewater. The film is based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by our guest journalist Maziar Bahari. For the Spiel, the Gruber gaffe. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I haven't seen you since Starbucks after that festival. Oh, yeah, we need to hang out with the weather's good

0:06.2

This weekend shopping Saturday Sunday meals then lunch with Oscar next weekend

0:12.0

Thursday night with tops in Emma next Friday in the most about thing another one

0:17.4

How about right now perfect Starbucks the new chocolate waffle cone for Appetitino

0:24.2

You read my mind summer hits different with Starbucks subject to availability whilst stocks last

0:30.0

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0:37.3

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0:40.0

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0:49.1

It's Thursday November 13th

0:51.5

2014 from slate. It's the gist. I might pass up

0:54.5

So there's some topics that you don't even have to fill in the details some proper downs

0:58.7

Then when paired with a phenomenon might not even warrant a story you just know they're right like here we go

1:05.0

Palin family braw that would be an example or

1:08.9

Jennifer Aniston wronged

1:11.6

Canadians reasonable right here's another one dominating the news today FIFA corrupt

1:17.4

So maybe you saw the story today a big report as issued by FIFA came out and they cleared FIFA

1:23.3

FIFA cleared FIFA of any wrongdoing in how they awarded the world cups that went to Russia and Qatar

1:30.0

Never mind that the British House of Commons had hearings that documented bribery and never mind the BBC doc that they put together

1:37.2

Where they showed all the history of FIFA corruption and the Sunday Times getting guys on the record talking about bribes and the fact that a guy that

1:44.4

FIFA itself said

1:46.2

Accepted bribes got a 1.5 million dollar payment 10 days after the Qatar and Russia bids were announced never mind

1:53.2

I never mind that there's a US former prosecutor who actually wrote the report who hates that the report is not being fully released

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