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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stupid, those were good times. It's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

You know, I was going to go with a famous explorer has died.

Oh, that's pretty good.

Yeah, I liked yours, too.

And then you're going to say,

Ponce de Leon has met an untimely death.

Actually, most famous explorers have died come to think of it.

Yeah.

Is Elon Musk going to be, will he be considered a famous explorer if he gets us to Mars?

Does he get credit for that?

Or does the person who steps foot on Mars get the credit for it?

It's interesting.

We always talk about, you know, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. But it's the people that figured out how to get there that really should get more of the credit as being the explorer, right?

It's not the first person that stepped off the ship, having crossed the Atlantic and discovered a, you know, America.

Well, right, to the point that, and this is the most famous example, I guess,

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