Welcome to Fiasco Season 1 Bush v. Gore
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Andrew Yang & Audacy
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🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country’s most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. Fiasco season 1 takes listeners to the contested 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush, and the extraordinary legal battle that unfolded in Florida. Fiasco is a Luminary original. To hear other seasons, go to luminarypodcasts.com.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a new podcast coming out that I'm giving you a preview of right now. |
| 0:04.4 | It's the Luminary Original Podcast Fiasco Season 1 Bush vs. Gore. |
| 0:09.6 | How timely is that? A contested election and extraordinary legal battle like |
| 0:14.5 | goes down to the wire. You might think I'm talking about this year but I'm |
| 0:18.4 | actually referring to Bush vs. Gore in 2000 when a 30-day stalemate led to a |
| 0:25.6 | high stakes political frenzy that ended with a 5-4 ruling by the US |
| 0:29.6 | Supreme Court that was on political lines. So what can we learn from that |
| 0:34.4 | experience? Host Leon Nayfok tells us the story in season one of his award-winning |
| 0:39.2 | Luminary Original Podcast Fiasco. What a great name. As you enjoy this preview of Fiasco |
| 0:44.9 | Season 1 Bush vs. Gore, be sure to subscribe to Fiasco on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen |
| 0:51.2 | to your favorite podcasts like this one. The morning after the 2000 election, |
| 1:07.6 | millions of Americans woke up to find out that the 2000 election was still going on. |
| 1:13.3 | We still do not know the outcome of yesterday's vote. |
| 1:16.8 | The presidential race was stuck in limbo. After hurtling towards a conclusion for more than a year, |
| 1:22.8 | it had come to an uneasy and bewildering stop. And for the 36 days that followed, |
| 1:28.4 | no one in America knew whether the next president would be Al Gore or George W. Bush, |
| 1:33.9 | or how the winner would even be determined. The vote count is not going to decide this. |
| 1:38.4 | We're going to go way beyond into the courtroom. The nation watched the ensuing battle |
| 1:42.4 | between the two candidates as if it were a sword fight taking place on a tightrope. |
| 1:46.5 | Except instead of swords, Gore and Bush were wielding obscure legal theories and allegations |
| 1:51.6 | of partisan bias. And instead of a tightrope, they were navigating the idiosyncrasies of Florida |
| 1:56.8 | politics. This was bureaucracy weaponized. This is hand-to-hand political combat of a sort that |
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