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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Bonus: Fiasco, from Leon Neyfakh

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

CNN

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this debut episode of Fiasco: how the largely forgotten race between Al Gore and George W. Bush roiled Florida long before anyone had ever heard of a hanging chad.   For more from "Fiasco", go to LuminaryPodcasts.com. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey David Axelrod here reminding you that new episodes of the Axe Files are now on

0:04.9

Luminary and I also want to tell you about some of the other great premium shows you can

0:09.2

only hear on Luminary.

0:11.1

This is the first episode of a new show from Leon Nefak, the co-creator of Slow Burn.

0:16.3

His new show Fiasco takes us back to the Wild Bush vs. Gore 2000 presidential election

0:22.6

recount.

0:23.6

You may think you know the story but there's so much more to tell.

0:27.2

So I hope you enjoy it and afterwards go to luminarypodcast.com to learn more.

0:33.3

On Thanksgiving morning, 1999, a Florida man from outside Fort Lauderdale named Donato

0:38.6

Dal Rimble went on an impulse fishing trip with his cousin.

0:42.2

The water was choppy as they took their motorboat out into the Atlantic Ocean in search

0:45.8

of Mahimahi.

0:47.4

My cousin, he said look for seaweed in debris, anything floating on the ocean and I point

0:53.8

out with my finger and I said like that inner tube that's there he goes yeah let's go

0:58.7

around that inner tube.

1:01.0

Dal Rimble was 39 years old and he wasn't much of a fisherman.

1:04.8

He owned a house cleaning business which he still does.

1:08.0

Out on the water he followed his cousin's lead as they scouted for a good place to throw

1:11.4

out their lines.

1:13.4

Then Dal Rimble saw something.

1:16.8

We were about 25 yards from the inner tube, never that close to it and I told my cousin

1:22.6

I said there looks like there's somebody on there but they looked like they're dead.

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