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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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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

It is just marvelous.

I needed a good scandal.

What a perfect way to begin 2018.

I don't even know if I believe most of this.

And I haven't even read the whole thing, but this is the story everyone would be yapping about.

And everyone's going to have diarrhea of the mouth talking about this Patriot drama, which popped up on the interweb.

And the story was supposed to come out in the morning on Friday.

I guess technically it is in the morning, but it was supposed to come out early a few hours from now,

but the story got leaked.

And we know the Patriots last I checked aren, aren't playing on Wild Card Weekend.

They don't typically play on Wild Card Weekend.

But they are the focus of much of the chatter in the echo chamber of sports conversation here.

Now, if you have not been up on this, and maybe you've been doing some other stuff, I don't know. You actually have a life, you have a job, things like that, but

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