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.

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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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This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

What is up?

Straight Fire, fam.

It's me, Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Monday.

December 2nd, welcome to the month of December.

It was ushered in in the snow last night.

On Sunday night football, the bills roll over the Niners. Not that interesting of a game, but we'll get to Christian McCaffrey in a little bit.

Hope everybody had a phenomenal Thanksgiving break. Rob G is back in the saddle coming off a huge, huge couple weeks off for good news. He'll reveal that a

little later on. And my Thanksgiving was excellent. We went out to the desert, hung out with some

friends. We went to a zoo and I got some dogs to nearly attack us. It was phenomenal, the living

desert in Palm Springs. And, you know,

they had the Christmas lights up at night. And it was kind of, it's like a scene at night there.

And me and, you know, the kids, I'm like a kid. I act like a kid sometimes in public. We're

goofing off. We see these rabid dogs, you know, in their little exhibit. And I'm like making

noises. And the dogs, three of them sprint over. And we were all like, whoa, you know, in their little exhibit. And I'm like making noises and the dogs, three of them sprint over.

And we were all like, whoa, you know, holy cowl.

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