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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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They arose up from the ashes like the Phoenix, the Alabama football team, because of a quarterback change.

A flipping of the script in the second half after Georgia, not that they were necessarily in control because it was a painful first half of Collegian football.

It was a 13-0-0 score at halftime.

But in the end, Georgia did little in the second half,

and Alabama did a whole lot in the second half.

And so Kirby Smart goes down to Nick Sabin.

But the story here is the freshman quarterback.

Jalen Hertz gets bench.

Get out of here.

You are gone at halftime in a national championship game, which was not over.

I know Alabama hadn't scored in all that, but it wasn't over at halftime. It was a two-score game.

But then Tua Tungo Vailoa comes in and looks like

a legit college football quarterback. Things that, you know, Jalen Hertz had, let's be honest,

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