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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.

So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore.

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This will require rumination. It's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

You who have lived and worked among cattle Probably know what ruminating actually is literally

That's right, ruminants chew their good

Yeah, yeah

It's kind of chewing things over the long term

Really getting it good and mushy

You So a couple of things here

that uh fit together a little bit first of all this quote i came across in a book i'm reading

our man in havana by graham green have you heard it it's a classic i have heard of that and uh one of

my intellectual heroes christopher hitchins used to talk about it a lot classic i have heard of that and uh one of my intellectual heroes christopher

hitchins used to talk about it a lot so i thought i read it and it's really really good really

well written anyway buddy comedy right it's like uh fear and loathing in los vegas but in hovain

sort of it's a communism and uh spies and that sort of stuff but anyway one of the characters

um they're talking about life and stuff like that,

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