Win Debates Like Mehdi Hasan

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Mehdi Hasan’s debates tend to go viral, like those against John Bolton, Erik Prince, or a Saudi ambassador. Hasan wipes the floor during debates and interviews. But it’s not an easy process; as Hasan says, it requires a lot of preparation. In “Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking,” Hasan outlines the best ways to win debates against all sorts of opponents. This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim is joined by Hasan, where they discuss some of his greatest viral debate clips, along with helpful tips to win debates.

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0:37.0	I'm Ryan Graham and this is deconstructed, but if you've been listening to it for more than
0:40.8	the last couple years, you know this wasn't originally my podcast.
0:44.7	Matt Tidal belongs to Medi Hassan, who has since moved on to his own
0:48.1	cable show on MSNBC called The Medi Hassan Show.
0:51.2	He's now out with a new book called Win Every Argument,
0:54.4	The Art of Debating, Persuading and Public Speaking, which is in many ways the book he was born to write.
1:00.2	Medi, welcome back to your show.
1:03.2	Thank you, Ryan, and it's funny you should say that because a fair few people have said that
1:07.1	not always in the positive way.
1:09.6	Well, they're probably still a little bit sore from the last time you out, out argued them.
1:13.5	I try, I try.
1:14.7	So you and I first met back when you were interviewing to join Huffpost UK,
1:19.4	and it was the most quintessential area on a Huffington moment ever.
1:24.0	The interview has happened in a show-ford car on the way to the airport with a random extra dude
1:28.8	along for the ride, which in this case was me.
1:31.4	Did you have any warning that that's how this interview was going to go down?
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