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.

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Armstrong and Getty. One more thing. Before we get to that, I don't know when you'll listen to this podcast.

We were recording this on April the 7th, 1996.

But there's a rumor going around flying around the internet that Jimmy Carter has died, and he has not.

One U.S. Senator, Mike Lee, put it out on his site, so that helped spread it.

Obviously, if you saw it on a senator's site, you'd think it had to be true, but it's not.

Yeah, yeah.

Anyway.

So, if you were listening last week when we were in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention, we were in Milwaukee, which is about halfway up the state.

I am from southwest Wisconsin, or at least that's one of my many, many home states.

I lived down there during my grade school years and hadn't been to see the family home where I lived as a kid for half a century.

Wow.

Not quite half a century, but dang near.

And so I rented a car one day, like Wednesday when I was just so sick of the convention

and I didn't need to see another speech.

And I'm not a big city guy anyway, so I want to get out of town.

I ran in a car and I drove down to Little Cuba City, Wisconsin, where I lived from second through eighth grade.

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