I don't want to drink with my politicians. I don't want to have fun politicians.

Welcome to You Wrong About. The show where we talk about the stories that we're confusing

all of the grown-ups back when you were a kid. I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffing Your Post.

My name is Sarah Marshall and I am a writer and resident of the Black Mountain Institute. Although

when this episode comes out I will be doing a semi-professional dog sitting gig in Nova Scotia because that is

my other profession. Double dipping. I'm a triple threat. I'm a podcaster, a lyric essayist, and a dog

sitter. And today we're talking about the 2000 election and the protracted aftermath. Are we going

to call this recount 2000 because I think that we should call it something 2000 because remember how

in the year 2000 everything was called something 2000. 2000 was like the late 90s version of

a go-go in the 60s I think. And in the 60s it would have been recounted go-go because it just went on

forever. I was 12 years old when this happened and it was the first election that I was really cognizant

of. We lived in Honolulu at the time my family and there was a guy in our neighborhood.

He had a wall around his house and he had spray painted on it. Gore conceived already and I was like

this is weird. This is like grown ups are tagging their own walls with political

not hate messages but like things are getting a little bit escaped from New York because what I

remember feeling about all that. That's what I remember too just how it felt very banana republic.

Okay here's what I remember. It was election night. Al Gore thought he had won and I remember

watching the returns coming in. It came down to Florida in some way and I remember that they

were recounting the votes by hand and that there were a ton of jokes about chads. All I want to

talk about was chads and hanging chads and the different kinds of chads because they were like the

quirks of this election. You can have like a charm quirk and a up-down charm strange top bottom.

Yeah and I remember specifically Gore at some point did the gentlemanly thing when he really

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