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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From the Department of Making the Rest of the Country, just like California, it's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

There may be no state,

eh, maybe New York, that has such a screwed up labor situation as California,

because the unions, the public employee unions and the SEIU,

they own the state government.

And so all sorts of stuff gets passed.

That's absolutely abhorrent to the free market.

Here are the players in these tapes are about to play.

People tell me, stop seeing tapes.

Nobody uses tape anymore.

It's audio.

Eh, who cares.

This audio, we're going to play it.

It's Kevin Kiley, who's a congressman from California, Northern California, conservative.

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