Introducing: American History Hotline
16 Jul 2025
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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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