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SNAFU with Ed Helms

Hosted by Ed Helms, SNAFU is a podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. This is Season 2: MEDBURG

Episodes

Total: 61

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A special father’s day treat for you! This week, Ed shares one of his favorite chapters from h

Josh Lynn of RepresentUS joins Ed to explore political pitfalls from the 1920s that still threaten o

Ed is joined by writer, producer, and showrunner Terence Winter who shares stories about his New Yor

S3E8: National Hangover

2025/4/30

Prohibition, and all that Mabel has worked to build, comes crashing down, thanks in part to a sly te

As you might have heard, the SNAFU book comes out next week (April 29, 2025)! If you want to meet Ed

S3E7: Judgement Day

2025/4/23

Mabel Walker Willebrandt and the Dries have their backs against the wall. The Treasury Department ha

S3E6: Signature Cocktail

2025/4/16

The battle of scientific wits comes to a head, as government chemists continue to up the ante on the

S3E5: Double Barrel

2025/4/9

Out west, Prohibition agents take the gunslingers' path to enforcement. When their methods backfire,

S3E4: Trust Issues

2025/4/2

Prohibition... wasn't going so well. Mabel Walker Willebrandt cooks up a new approach to prosecuting

S3E3: Battle Lines

2025/3/26

The bootleggers' perspective comes into sharp focus as we meet a survivor of the Great War, George C

How did alcohol come to be illegal and why, of all the agencies, was the IRS tapped to enforce it? O

Organized crime, speakeasy gin, and jazz impresarios stole headlines in the 1920s, but behind the sc

Organized crime, speakeasy gin, and jazz impresarios stole headlines in the 1920s, but behind the sc

This is the story of Prohibition you haven't heard. Sure, Prohibition was a gigantic SNAFU to begin

While we're hard at work on season 3 of SNAFU, we’re excited to revisit a pivotal moment from

Exciting news from SNAFU headquarters: our first book is coming out April 29, 2025. It's called SNAF

While the SNAFU Team is hard at work on our next season, we are excited to share the first episode o

Robert sits down with the great Ed Helms to discuss Curtis Yarvin, the American philosopher of dicta

COINTELPRO was shut down in 1971, and J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972. But the agency's dirty tricks co