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SNAFU with Ed Helms

Introducing Season 3: Formula 6

05 Mar 2025

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Chapter 1: What story does Season 3 of SNAFU tell?

1.084 - 33.31 Jane Doe

Prohibition. It's an era synonymous with speakeasies, jazz, flappers, and failure. In fact, it's one of the biggest lawmaking snafus of all time. Well, within that snafu is another story, one you probably haven't heard, about how people started dying mysteriously and the unlikely duo who tried to save them. It's the 1910s. Meet New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris.

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Chapter 2: Who were the key figures in the story of Prohibition?

33.63 - 38.232 John F. Kennedy

He had a big, booming voice and a Yale football player's presence.

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38.612 - 40.873 Jane Doe

And his partner, Alexander Gettler.

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41.093 - 44.515 John F. Kennedy

Chomping on a cigar all the time, from what I understand.

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Chapter 3: What role did forensic toxicology play in solving the mystery?

Chapter 4: How did Prohibition lead to a wave of poisonings?

1.084 - 33.31 Jane Doe

Prohibition. It's an era synonymous with speakeasies, jazz, flappers, and failure. In fact, it's one of the biggest lawmaking snafus of all time. Well, within that snafu is another story, one you probably haven't heard, about how people started dying mysteriously and the unlikely duo who tried to save them. It's the 1910s. Meet New York City's first medical examiner, Charles Norris.

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33.63 - 38.232 John F. Kennedy

He had a big, booming voice and a Yale football player's presence.

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38.612 - 40.873 Jane Doe

And his partner, Alexander Gettler.

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41.093 - 44.515 John F. Kennedy

Chomping on a cigar all the time, from what I understand.

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44.975 - 54.359 Jane Doe

Every death in the city was their responsibility. As they cataloged the city's dead, they pioneered the new field of forensic toxicology.

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like a buddy cop movie of like these two scientists in the trenches together.

59.525 - 81.164 Jane Doe

And their work gave them a look into the sinister side of the speakeasy. Turns out something, or someone, was poisoning people. Through the 20s, the two of them rolled gurneys into the city morgue, pulled samples of deadly poisons from dead bodies, and connected the dots, unraveling a terrifying story.

81.877 - 84.858 John F. Kennedy

Did people die? They died daily.

85.838 - 101.921 Jane Doe

As the evidence mounted all across the country, all signs pointed to a big player behind the poisoned liquor that was killing Americans, the U.S. government. On the third season of Snafu, the story of Formula 6.

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