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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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Hey, it's Ben.

I hope you had a wonderful day or night or whenever you download the podcast. But we are back at it with a fresh piping hot out of the audio oven edition

of the Ben Mallor radio show.

So coming up on today's program, now I wanted to do all four hours on just the Astros

being cheating bums, but I decided not to do that.

No, no, none.

Because we had a championship game in college football.

So we will look back at LSU beating Clemson in a game that lasted about 12 hours.

We will celebrate Coach O and Joe Burrow.

We will also look in the losing locker room where Trevor Lawrence was not only a quarterback,

he was terrible, and what the heck happened to the prodigy of the Clemson Tigers?

But most of this show is going to be dedicated to the cheating Astros, the asterisk of Major

League Baseball.

Did they get the punishment right?

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