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🗓️ 31 January 2022
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Unfortunately, it remains illegal to grab that carcass off the side of the road for the purpose of making tonight's dinner? But why you ask?
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0:00.0 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
0:04.7 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. |
0:08.5 | In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, |
0:14.0 | the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. |
0:21.4 | So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. |
0:25.9 | Listen on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
0:31.0 | You'll get my cold dead raccoon when you pry it out of my cold dead hand. |
0:36.7 | Wait a minute. One more thing. |
0:39.2 | Armstrong and Getty. One more thing. |
0:47.8 | So, during the radio show today, I was entertaining myself during commercial breaks by continuing to read the coverage of the, |
0:58.3 | I guess you'd say, the non-implementation of California's go-ahead and eat roadkill program. |
1:06.0 | So who knew the state had to give you permission to eat dead animals alongside the road, but in 2019, |
1:13.3 | Gavin Newsom signed it into law and it was supposed to go into effect first of this year, |
1:19.4 | but didn't? |
1:20.6 | Well, right. |
1:21.2 | Yeah. |
1:21.6 | According to the Sacramento Bee, which used to be a newspaper worthy of reading, and now is merely a parrot cage liner. |
1:31.0 | Woo! |
1:32.6 | In 2019, news outlets around the country had headlines proclaiming that California drivers would soon be allowed to eat roadkill, thanks to a new state law. |
1:41.4 | More than two years later, it remains very much illegal to pick up a wild |
1:45.6 | animal carcass along the side of the road in California. I swear to gad people, every sentence, |
1:52.3 | or at least every paragraph of this article, has something worth discussing. Yeah, already, yeah, |
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