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The Last Archive

Leon Neyfakh on the Bush v. Gore Fiasco

The Last Archive

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show, Leon Neyfakh, co-creator of the hit podcasts Slow Burn and Fiasco, discusses his season on the aftermath of the 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush.

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0:00.0

When 60 Minutes premiered in September 1968, there was nothing like it.

0:15.4

This is 60 Minutes.

0:16.9

It's a kind of a magazine for television.

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Very few have been given access to the treasures in our archives.

0:24.6

But that's all about to change.

0:27.2

Like none of this stuff gets looked at.

0:28.8

That's what's incredible.

0:30.4

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0:33.0

Listen to 60 minutes, a second look,

0:36.1

wherever you get your podcasts.

0:38.5

Hey, last archive listeners.

0:44.0

In the year 2000, Al Gore and George W Bush faced off in a presidential election that was too close to call.

0:52.0

Eventually, it became a Supreme Court case, which granted a victory to Bush.

0:57.0

Today I'm talking to Leon Neyfak, co-creator of the hit podcast's fiasco and Sloburn, about a series he did on the dramatic

1:05.9

month-long battle that ensued after Election Day 2000.

1:10.1

He made it a few years ago, but Pushkin is now re-releasing that series.

1:14.8

In it, you'll hear fly-on-the-wall minute-by-minute accounts of one of the most gripping and

1:19.3

consequential legal battles in American history, and on the eve of another U.S. presidential election

1:25.0

that is likely to be tight, it all feels eerily prescient.

1:29.6

You can listen to fiasco's whole series on Bush v Gore over on the fiasco feed. Here's our conversation.

1:38.0

We're here to talk about your season on the 2000 election, Bush v Gore Gore and I'm curious to know how did the idea to do a

1:46.5

season on that election come about? So the honest answer is we had produced these two shows at Slate one on Watergate and one on the Clinton impeachment

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