It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics,

the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore.

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Well, tis the season to make lists. It is the season, isn't it?

Where everyone asks, you have a list, do you have a Christmas list?

I remember my parents used to ask me all the time when I was kid.

Hey, do you have a wish list for Christmas?

Now, I should prepare you now because we're about to talk about our wish list for the GOP for

2025.

Very similar to my house.

If I came up with a list of five things I wanted for Christmas as a child, I'm going to

get one, maybe two. It's a good year. My parents are

certainly not going to look at my list of things and say, yeah, let's just buy all those. That's

not how it works. And so before we go into my wish list, the guest's wish list, we have great

guests, great night for you here. Let's talk about what is realistic really quickly, briefly, here.

We are dealing with a monumental task at hand.

The task at hand is we have this humongous government.

It has taken decades and decades and decades for the government to get this big and this corrupt

through decades of neglect by the American people. Remember, this is all our fault.

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