S3E8: National Hangover
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
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 2025
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 2025
Mabel Walker Willebrandt and the Dries have their backs against the wall. The Treasury Department ha...
S3E6: Signature Cocktail
Wed, 16 Apr 2025
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 2025
Out west, Prohibition agents take the gunslingers' path to enforcement. When their methods backfire,...
S3E4: Trust Issues
Wed, 02 Apr 2025
Prohibition... wasn't going so well. Mabel Walker Willebrandt cooks up a new approach to prosecuting...
S3E3: Battle Lines
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
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 2025
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 2025
Organized crime, speakeasy gin, and jazz impresarios stole headlines in the 1920s, but behind the sc...
Introducing Season 3: Formula 6
Wed, 05 Mar 2025
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
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
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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
Former Church Committee Staffer Loch Johnson helps us dig deeper into the Church Committee Hearings ...
S2E8: Statute of Limitations
Wed, 21 Aug 2024
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 2024
Journalist Carl Stern stumbles upon a single, curious codeword in the burglarized documents: COINTEL...
S2E6: Tin, Rubber, and Oil
Wed, 07 Aug 2024
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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
In March 1971, Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger receives a mysterious envelope full of classif...
Introducing Season 2: MEDBURG
Wed, 26 Jun 2024
In 1971, a courageous group of activists broke into an FBI office and stole files containing J. Edga...
Introducing: Broomgate
Mon, 13 May 2024
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
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 2022
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 2022
Bonus Episode – Ed speaks with actor Matthew Broderick, and director John Badham about their time ...
S1E8: World Gone M.A.D.
Wed, 23 Nov 2022
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 2022
Sheer terror about the near disaster recedes over time, and intrigue sets in. Competing theories eme...
S1E6: Redacted
Wed, 09 Nov 2022
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 2022
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 2022
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 2022
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 2022
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 2022
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
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