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Dick Cheney shoots friend in the face. What a sentence. It's our pick from this day in esoteric

political history, which comes out three times a week

like clockwork, giving us a swift but thorough dissection of notable events from years past.

What I love about this episode is, as Jody, Nikki, and Kelly explain at the top, they've been

wanting to do this episode for a long time, but could never quite get the

calendar to work in their favor until this year.

And you can tell, even though they have recorded over 700 episodes over the past four

and three quarters years, they were positively gleeful that they finally got around to Dick Cheney's

unfortunate mishap. Kind of like their Charlie Bucket in this Dick Cheney story is the chocolate

bar. Special shout out to our colleague Maggie Corville, Radiotopia's marketing manager,

and devoted fan of this day.

She's the one who suggested this episode.

Thanks, Maggie.

And without further ado, Dick Cheney shoots Friend in the Face.

Enjoy.

Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric Political History from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, February 20th, 2006, and let me just say to you, listeners, if you heard a few episodes ago, I bemoaned the fact that we had once again missed the date on which Vice President Dick Cheney

shot a business associate in the face while hunting and we said, God, we got to find a way to do

that story.

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