S4E1: Jenna Fisher, Angela Kinsey, and the Lost Nuke
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey really miss shooting The Office. So, Ed tell them the story of a lost...
Introducing Season 4 of SNAFU!
01 Oct 2025
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Your favorite history podcast is back with even more SNAFUs -- one per episode, to be precise. With ...
Introducing Fiasco: Benghazi — The Dictator
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a preview from a podcast we think you’ll enjoy, Fiasco. Slow Burn co-creator Leon...
Introducing: American History Hotline
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi, SNAFU listeners! We're excited to share with you a sneak peek at iHeartPodcasts' latest rel...
Introducing: United States of Kennedy
Wed, 02 Jul
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Hello, SNAFU Fans! We want to share a new show you might like, United States of Kennedy. About...
Project Azorian's Sunken Sub
Mon, 09 Jun
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A special father’s day treat for you! This week, Ed shares one of his favorite chapters from h...
BONUS: Culture Wars, Then & Now with Josh Graham Lynn
Wed, 14 May
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Josh Lynn of RepresentUS joins Ed to explore political pitfalls from the 1920s that still threaten o...
BONUS: Recreating the 1920s with Terence Winter
Wed, 07 May
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Ed is joined by writer, producer, and showrunner Terence Winter who shares stories about his New Yor...
S3E8: National Hangover
Wed, 30 Apr
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Prohibition, and all that Mabel has worked to build, comes crashing down, thanks in part to a sly te...
Behind the SNAFU Book – plus, your chance to meet Ed on tour (or virtually)!
Fri, 25 Apr
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As you might have heard, the SNAFU book comes out next week (April 29, 2025)! If you want to meet Ed...
S3E7: Judgement Day
Wed, 23 Apr
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Mabel Walker Willebrandt and the Dries have their backs against the wall. The Treasury Department ha...
S3E6: Signature Cocktail
Wed, 16 Apr
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The battle of scientific wits comes to a head, as government chemists continue to up the ante on the...
S3E5: Double Barrel
Wed, 09 Apr
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Out west, Prohibition agents take the gunslingers' path to enforcement. When their methods backfire,...
S3E4: Trust Issues
Wed, 02 Apr
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Prohibition... wasn't going so well. Mabel Walker Willebrandt cooks up a new approach to prosecuting...
S3E3: Battle Lines
Wed, 26 Mar
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The bootleggers' perspective comes into sharp focus as we meet a survivor of the Great War, George C...
S3E2: Ready, Willing, and Mabel
Wed, 19 Mar
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How did alcohol come to be illegal and why, of all the agencies, was the IRS tapped to enforce it? O...
S3E1: Satan's Last Stronghold
Wed, 12 Mar
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Organized crime, speakeasy gin, and jazz impresarios stole headlines in the 1920s, but behind the sc...
Introducing Season 3: Formula 6
Wed, 05 Mar
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This is the story of Prohibition you haven't heard. Sure, Prohibition was a gigantic SNAFU to begin ...
Introducing GREATEST ESCAPES with Arturo Castro
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
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While we're hard at work on season 3 of SNAFU, we’re excited to revisit a pivotal moment from ...
Announcing the SNAFU Book!
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:01:12 +0000
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Exciting news from SNAFU headquarters: our first book is coming out April 29, 2025. It's called SNAF...
Introducing Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News
Wed, 06 Nov
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While the SNAFU Team is hard at work on our next season, we are excited to share the first episode o...
BONUS: The FBI and Indigenous Movements with Nick Estes
Wed, 04 Sep
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COINTELPRO was shut down in 1971, and J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972. But the agency's dirty tricks co...
BONUS: Surveillance Now & Then with Loch Johnson
Wed, 28 Aug
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Former Church Committee Staffer Loch Johnson helps us dig deeper into the Church Committee Hearings ...
S2E8: Statute of Limitations
Wed, 21 Aug
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The FBI tries to clean up its act, but will all those lessons learned later be… forgotten? Plus, t...
S2E7: The 'Do Not File' File
Wed, 14 Aug
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Journalist Carl Stern stumbles upon a single, curious codeword in the burglarized documents: COINTEL...
S2E6: Tin, Rubber, and Oil
Wed, 07 Aug
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A mole, a raid, and a war on trial. The Camden 28 make national headlines. But will their trial jeop...
S2E5: G-Men Are Coming to Town
Wed, 31 Jul
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The FBI hunts the burglars, who suddenly have a window into J. Edgar Hoover's most twisted and sinis...
S2E4: The Heist of the Century
Wed, 24 Jul
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As Ali and Frazier go head-to-head in The Fight of the Century, Bill Davidon and his team aim to pul...
S2E3: The Girl from Hartford
Wed, 17 Jul
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With the team assembled, the burglars begin staking out a small FBI satellite office in Media Pennsy...
S2E2: Want to Come to a Party?
Wed, 10 Jul
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It’s 1970 when John and Bonnie Raines get a call from their friend and fellow activist, Bill David...
S2E1: The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI
Wed, 10 Jul
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In March 1971, Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger receives a mysterious envelope full of classif...
Introducing Season 2: MEDBURG
Wed, 26 Jun
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In 1971, a courageous group of activists broke into an FBI office and stole files containing J. Edga...
Introducing: Broomgate
Mon, 13 May
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From Executive Producer Ed Helms comes a new podcast, Broomgate: A Curling Scandal. Over the course ...
BONUS: Forgotten History with Rachel Maddow
Tue, 25 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0000
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Back in World War II, a group of Nazis tried to overthrow American democracy, with the help of some ...
BONUS: Inside the KGB with Jack Barsky
Wed, 07 Dec
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Bonus Episode – Ed speaks with former sleeper agent for the KGB, Jack Barsky. Together, they recou...
BONUS: WarGaming with Matthew Broderick & John Badham
Wed, 30 Nov
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Bonus Episode – Ed speaks with actor Matthew Broderick, and director John Badham about their time ...
S1E8: World Gone M.A.D.
Wed, 23 Nov
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The Finale of Snafu: Season One! The holy grail of classified Able Archer documents is finally revea...
S1E7: Where the Mind Starts to Melt
Wed, 16 Nov
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Sheer terror about the near disaster recedes over time, and intrigue sets in. Competing theories eme...
S1E6: Redacted
Wed, 09 Nov
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Lt. General Leonard Perroots faces down the single most critical decision of his career: to escalate...
S1E5: A Script for Nuclear War
Wed, 02 Nov
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It’s Opening day for Able Archer 83. The Soviets have front row seats to NATO’s autumn military ...
S1E4: Dancing on a Razor’s Edge
Wed, 26 Oct
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The situation is getting dire. Mind games and twitchy nerves lead to tragedy in Russian airspace. Fi...
S1E3: Two Spies Living Lies
Wed, 19 Oct
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Tension mounts as Reagan's aggression deepens Andropov's paranoia. Surely, an attack from the West i...
S1E2: Will the Real Evil Empire Please Stand Up?
Wed, 12 Oct
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A former Hollywood actor and a former Chairman of the KGB walk into a bar and... blow the whole thin...
S1E1: Not All Fun and WarGames
Wed, 05 Oct
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By the 1980s, tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union was a fact of everyday life. Early '80s Amer...
Introducing: SNAFU with Ed Helms
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:58:08 +0000
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