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SNAFU with Ed Helms
SNAFU with Ed Helms, America’s favorite podcast about history’s greatest screwups, returns for Season 4 with even more SNAFUs - one per episode, to be precise. And this time around, Ed ropes in a cavalcade of smart, hilarious guests to help unpack what these blunders, fiascos and f...
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Introducing: CrimeLess
Trailer Description: What’s the best way to rob a bank? How do you fake your own death? Can you deploy a swarm of bees to get rid of the cops? And if...
Jad Abumrad and the Charles Francis Hall Whodunnit
Jad Abumrad is the definition of inquisitive. As the creator of hit shows RadioLab and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, Jad has the innate ability to calculate...
From Business History: How E.T. The Extra-Terresterial Destroyed Atari
I’m taking a break to share an episode of another podcast I think you’ll enjoy, Business History. Former Planet Money hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert...
Bob Crawford and Lord Dunmore's Folly
Bob Crawford is a musician with a historian's heart. Bassist and founding member of The Avett Brothers, his expertise on the Founding Fathers of the U...
Live at LA Talks with Tig Notaro
Today is another SNAFU treat from the book tour archives! Tig Notaro joins Ed live on stage at Live Talks Los Angeles, where they break down Ed's book...
S4E24: Rory Scovel and Arbitrage on Wall Street
Rory Scovel is a man of opulence. But he won't let greed go to his head like the subject of today's SNAFU. Ed and Rory discuss a modern Wall Street le...
S4E23: Chelsea Handler and The Hindenburg
Chelsea Handler is a world traveler. Ed and Chelsea discover whether they're cut out for luxury Air Travel of the 1930's; the catch being it's aboard...
S4E22: Adam Scott and Air Transat Flight 236
Adam Scott is fearless. Ed and Adam explore a high-flying SNAFU that showcased just how valiant pilots must be when the engines run dry...literally. T...
S4E21: Chris Winterbauer & Lizzie Bassett - Starfish Prime
Lizzie Bassett and Chris Winterbauer are film afficianados. This week, they help Ed uncover cinematic treasures that just may be synonomous with a ver...
S4E20: Jake Johnson and the Metric Pirates
Jake Johnson is an off-the-cuff kinda guy, form-fit for this week's SNAFU when Ed and Jake meet a man who loved taking off his cuffs...and tunic, and...
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
Welcome to another Bonus Episode of SNAFU! Today, sit back and enjoy Ed's conversation with a real, genuine former KGB Spy! Jack Barsky was a Soviet o...
S4E18: Adam Grant and The OG Ponzi Scheme
Adam Grant is a thinker. The kind of thinking that makes you think twice. Which is precisely what the victims of a certain financial fraud deployment...
S4E17: Kelly Corrigan and Operation Cottage
Kelly Corrigan is all class. As an award-winning journalist, podcaster, and author, her insights are a breath of fresh air. Today, Ed and Kelly cover...
S4E16: Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway and the Palmer Raids
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway are two titans of podcasting. Their ever-prescient analyses of today's political, technological, and cultural worlds h...
S4E15: Jenny Slate and the Flight to Varennes
Jenny Slate is a connoisseur of finer things. Ed invites her to revisit an epic failure on the part of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt...
S4E14: Sarah Spain and Napoleon's Russian Blunder
Sarah Spain knows a thing or two about winning. But sadly for ol' Napoleon Bonaparte, he managed to do anything but win this war. Ed and Sarah trudge...
S4E13: Jon Lovett and the Donner Party
Jon Lovett is a prominent podcaster and political commentator -- and, a survivor. (Get it?). Today, Ed brings Jon along to help commentate on the ill-...
Rachel Maddow and ULTRA
Happy Holidays from everyone on the SNAFU Team! While Ed and his elves prepare more stories for the new year, warm up with an oldie-but-goodie bonus e...
S4E11: Sophia Bush and the Mona Lisa Heist
Sophia Bush is a history nerd. Ed and Sophia geek out with an oddly prescient historic whodunnit when they uncover the Heist of the Mona Lisa in 1911....
S4E10: Dan Taberski and the Great Molasses Flood
Dan Taberski isn't just a sweet guy, he's an award-winning podcaster. This week, Ed takes him up to Boston to trudge through one of the sweetest, stic...
Introducing Earsay hosted by Ed Helms and Kal Penn
Earsay: The Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club is the ultimate book club for audiobook lovers.
This week on Earsay, we're turning it up to 11 wi...
From Here We Go Again With Kal Penn: Another Economic Crash with Michael Lewis
Hey SNAFU fans! We wanted to share another episode from a show that we think you'll enjoy: Here We Go Again with Kal Penn.
Each week, Kal Penn...
S4E9: Jake Tapper and the Sinking of the Lusitania
Jake Tapper is tapped in to the pulse of current events. Ed takes him out to sea to assess the historic disaster that was the sinking of the Lusitania...
S4E8: Live at 92NY with Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee is as lively as ever. And on this special episode of SNAFU, Sam helped take Ed's book tour to the big apple, LIVE at the 92NY in New York...
S4E7: Kal Penn and the Republic of Rough and Ready
Kal Penn has worked everywhere from Hollywood to the White House. In this joint episode of SNAFU and Kal's new podcast, HERE WE GO AGAIN, Ed tells Kal...
S4E6: Mike Schur and Tammany Hall
Mike Schur knows how to run a show or two - but could he handle Tammany Hall?? Ed takes Mike on a journey to visit with old Boss Tweed, one of the mos...
S4E5: Desi Lydic and the 1977 NYC Blackout
Desi Lydic thrives in the chaos of New York City. Ed invites her back to one of the city's darkest times, quite literally. It's the 1977 NYC Blackout,...
S4E4: Paul Scheer and the Johnstown Flood
Paul Scheer is an OG podcaster about movies. Ed tells him the story of the snooty country club project that ends up inciting the Johnstown Flood -- an...
Introducing Here We Go Again with Kal Penn
Hey SNAFU fans! We wanted to share a new show that we think you'll enjoy: Here We Go Again with Kal Penn.
Each week, Kal Penn takes today’s tre...
S4E3: Jordan Klepper and Teapot Dome
Jordan Klepper gives a shit about politics. Ed takes him through Teapot Dome, one of the most sensational political scandals of early American history...
Nick Kroll and Shackleton's Failed Expedition
Nick Kroll is not so great in a crisis, especially a family fishing trip. So naturally, Ed wanted to bring NIck back to the sea for the harrowing stor...
S4E1: Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, and the Lost Nuke
Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey really miss shooting The Office. So, Ed tells them the story of a lost nuke off the coast of Japan, which ends up eeri...
Introducing Season 4 of SNAFU!
Your favorite history podcast is back with even more SNAFUs -- one per episode, to be precise. With guests like Nick Kroll, Jenna Fisher and Angela Ki...
Introducing Fiasco: Benghazi — The Dictator
Here’s a preview from a podcast we think you’ll enjoy, Fiasco. Slow Burn co-creator Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the reality of America’s mo...
Project Azorian's Sunken Sub
A special father’s day treat for you! This week, Ed shares one of his favorite chapters from his NYT Bestselling book SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to H...
BONUS: Culture Wars, Then & Now with Josh Graham Lynn
Josh Lynn of RepresentUS joins Ed to explore political pitfalls from the 1920s that still threaten our politics today. Together they ask: how can we c...
BONUS: Recreating the 1920s with Terence Winter
Ed is joined by writer, producer, and showrunner Terence Winter who shares stories about his New York upbringing and journey into Hollywood, and descr...
S3E8: National Hangover
Prohibition, and all that Mabel has worked to build, comes crashing down, thanks in part to a sly tell-all by none other than George Cassiday. And in...
Behind the SNAFU Book – plus, your chance to meet Ed on tour (or virtually)!
As you might have heard, the SNAFU book comes out next week (April 29, 2025)! If you want to meet Ed, either on book tour or virtually, buy your copy...
S3E7: Judgement Day
Mabel Walker Willebrandt and the Dries have their backs against the wall. The Treasury Department has made their poisoning program public, but will an...