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Double Date with Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue

George Stephanopoulos & Ali Wentworth

Double Date with Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue

Pushkin Industries

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When they were getting fixed up by a friend, Ali was ho-hum about the prospect. Good thing she went anyway. This odd couple of proper-news-achor-meets-salty-adorable-comedienne is open to sharing how much they still enjoy sex — and why they believe it’s the root of their lasting bond.

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0:00.0

A series of strange and violent deaths rocked Osage County, Oklahoma a century ago.

0:14.9

Sisters Rita, Mini, Anna and their mother Lizzie all left behind lucrative rights to the

0:19.9

oil beneath Osage land, while law man Tom White was horrified by the chilling plot he

0:25.4

uncovered.

0:26.4

Join me, Tim Harford, host of the Corscht Metales Podcast, for my new two-parter on the

0:31.3

Osage Killings, the story behind the book and film Killers of the Flower Moon.

0:36.0

Both episodes are available now wherever you get your podcasts.

0:56.4

On paper, the marriage of George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth would not have been a sure

1:06.0

thing.

1:07.0

He's a serious straight-laced news anchor, and here she is, this lively and mischievous

1:12.2

comedian and author who will go to any length to get a laugh out of you.

1:16.6

But the secret is, George is the abbot to Ali's Castella.

1:21.3

And she's the Lucy to his Ricky.

1:23.7

So when we got a chance to visit with them and they're stylish in a homey apartment

1:27.5

on Manhattan's East Side, we knew it was going to be fun and revealing.

1:32.3

We settled into their living room to chat, and Marlow asked Ali to tell us how it all began

1:37.7

20 years ago.

1:39.0

I was talking to another single woman, and I had just had a torrid love affair with

1:46.0

this British actor, and I was ready to be serious.

1:50.5

And she said, oh me too.

1:52.3

And I said, I'm going to introduce you to my brother.

1:54.8

And she said, I can introduce you to my old friend, George Stephanopoulos.

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