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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Mr. Gorbachev, Jr. tear down that tent. It's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty. One more thing.

I get it. It's Ronald Reagan related.

Being decisive. That's right. We featured on the radio show about a minute and change worth

of Ronald Reagan as Governor California in the 60s talking about

the protests that were tearing apart the campuses of California. So, Katie, you're super young.

So Ronald Reagan is to you like Calvin Coolidge is to me. Just an historical figure.

One that somehow I miss, even though I wasn't around.

There you go.

Yeah, yeah.

So, again, we featured some of this audio on the show, but we thought we'd just let's spin the whole thing and dig it along with us.

Ronald, freaking Reagan, if you need him.

Those people told you for days in advance that if the university sought to go ahead with that

construction, they were going to physically destroy the university.

Why did you negotiate many times?

Negotiate, what is to negotiate?

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