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listening. Terms apply. 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 examined 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.

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The following episode contains descriptions of violent torture.

Parental discretion is advised.

Music advised.

The boy watched through a narrow slit window from his vantage point high in the castle as the prisoners walked by below.

They'd been made to walk through the streets of Siggy Swara,

a small town in the Tanava Mare Valley of Transylvania.

They looked fearful, defeated, hanging their heads as if all hope had deserted them.

They were condemned prisoners on their way to the great tower in the innermost keep of the castle to be hanged. The boy gazed out at the

hapless criminals with morbid interest as the prisoners trudged on, knowing only that these would be their last moments on earth.

The boy had been born in the town in 1431, one of three sons of Vlad II,

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