WEBVTT - Trailer: Bush v. Gore

0:00:16.271 --> 0:00:27.831
<v Speaker 1>Pushkin. Good morning. Hope everybody got sleep last night. Thank

0:00:27.871 --> 0:00:33.911
<v Speaker 1>you for coming. This morning brings news from Florida. The

0:00:33.991 --> 0:00:37.671
<v Speaker 1>morning after the two thousand election, millions of Americans woke

0:00:37.751 --> 0:00:40.551
<v Speaker 1>up to find out that the two thousand election was

0:00:40.631 --> 0:00:44.271
<v Speaker 1>still going on. We still do not know the outcome

0:00:44.311 --> 0:00:47.911
<v Speaker 1>of yesterday's vote. The presidential race was stuck in limbo.

0:00:48.510 --> 0:00:51.071
<v Speaker 1>After hurtling towards a conclusion for more than a year,

0:00:51.751 --> 0:00:55.151
<v Speaker 1>it had come to an uneasy and bewildering stop. And

0:00:55.231 --> 0:00:57.831
<v Speaker 1>for the thirty six days that followed, no one in

0:00:57.871 --> 0:01:00.591
<v Speaker 1>America knew whether the next president would be Al Gore

0:01:00.951 --> 0:01:04.271
<v Speaker 1>or George W. Bush, or how the winner would even

0:01:04.311 --> 0:01:07.231
<v Speaker 1>be determined. The vote count is not going to decide this.

0:01:07.311 --> 0:01:10.351
<v Speaker 1>We're going to go way beyond into the courtroom. Watched

0:01:10.391 --> 0:01:12.551
<v Speaker 1>the ensuing battle between the two candidates as if it

0:01:12.551 --> 0:01:15.711
<v Speaker 1>were a sword fight taking place on a tightrope, except

0:01:15.711 --> 0:01:18.911
<v Speaker 1>instead of swords, Gore and Bush were wielding obscure legal

0:01:18.951 --> 0:01:23.191
<v Speaker 1>theories and allegations of partisan bias, and instead of a tightrope,

0:01:23.311 --> 0:01:27.791
<v Speaker 1>they were navigating the idiosyncrasies of Florida politics. This was

0:01:27.871 --> 0:01:32.591
<v Speaker 1>bureaucracy weaponized. This is hand to hand political combat. Of

0:01:32.631 --> 0:01:35.751
<v Speaker 1>a sort that probably we've never seen before, not a

0:01:35.791 --> 0:01:38.511
<v Speaker 1>TV series. This is about the constitution, not about a campaign.

0:01:38.791 --> 0:01:43.991
<v Speaker 1>Where is this going to go? I'm Leon Napok, the

0:01:44.031 --> 0:01:48.431
<v Speaker 1>host of the new podcast in Fiasco. Nineteen thousand people

0:01:48.711 --> 0:01:52.111
<v Speaker 1>tried to participate in a democratic election and warrant allowed

0:01:52.151 --> 0:01:56.271
<v Speaker 1>to This like quiet municipal building turned into a loud,

0:01:56.711 --> 0:02:00.191
<v Speaker 1>violent protest. With the death threats and with the media surge,

0:02:00.511 --> 0:02:03.551
<v Speaker 1>we felt like we were in the trenches. The first

0:02:03.591 --> 0:02:06.951
<v Speaker 1>season of Fiasco will take you across Florida, from Palm

0:02:06.951 --> 0:02:11.431
<v Speaker 1>Beach County to the Everglades, to Miami, to Sarasota to Tallahassee.

0:02:11.911 --> 0:02:14.311
<v Speaker 1>Over the course of six episodes, we will lift up

0:02:14.351 --> 0:02:17.351
<v Speaker 1>the hood on a strange, dysfunctional machine that was assembled

0:02:17.391 --> 0:02:20.031
<v Speaker 1>on the fly in the fall of two thousand and

0:02:20.191 --> 0:02:23.351
<v Speaker 1>was used just this once to resolve a singular and

0:02:23.591 --> 0:02:27.831
<v Speaker 1>unprecedented stalemate. It's basically impossible to look back at this

0:02:27.951 --> 0:02:31.351
<v Speaker 1>story without turning into a Monday morning quarterback. It is

0:02:31.431 --> 0:02:36.391
<v Speaker 1>amazing the consequences of what seems at first like a

0:02:36.431 --> 0:02:40.751
<v Speaker 1>fairly small study. There was a sense that we were

0:02:40.751 --> 0:02:45.791
<v Speaker 1>faced with an attempted soft coupe. What was Fiasco esque

0:02:46.111 --> 0:02:53.191
<v Speaker 1>was the way the media handled it. Fiasco Bush v.

0:02:53.391 --> 0:02:53.631
<v Speaker 1>Gore