203: Diesel Fumes And Nazi Sweat

The Shallow End

John Elliott and Lindsay Schnebly

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.9 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Because even chaos takes a holiday… It’s a Shallow End classic. Due to Easter weekend, we’re cracking open the vault and re-releasing one of our all-time favorite episodes—and trust us, it’s worth resurrecting. JG dives headfirst (as one does) into the spectacularly ridiculous sinking of a World War II Nazi U-Boat—because sometimes history isn’t just tragic… It’s unintentionally hilarious. Meanwhile, Lindsay asks an important question that absolutely no one should be qualified to answer: Can you coach a Little League team all the way to the World Series… and still find time to rob 13 banks? (Spoiler: apparently, yes.) It’s incompetence, ambition, bad decisions, and baffling life choices—all wrapped up in one beautifully broken episode. If any defects in this episode are discovered, do not attempt to repair them yourself. Please return to an authorized Shallow End service center… or just laugh and let it happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to True Spies.
0:02.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:08.0	Suddenly out of the dark that's appeared in Laubman.
0:10.0	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:13.0	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:16.0	And what would you do in their position?
0:18.0	Vengeance felt good.
0:20.0	Seeing these people pay for what they'd done felt righteous.
0:24.6	True spies from Spyscape Studios, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.5	It began long ago.
0:34.0	Two young boys in an American town riding their bikes to school and Little League practice.
0:39.3	Over the years, the boys became fast friends, united in their love for stories where things would go horribly wrong.
0:48.3	Pour yourself a strong beverage and buckle up.
0:52.3	You're in the shallow end with Schnebly and Toff.
0:55.3	Well, if you're like me, and I know you are, then you'd probably agree that there are very
1:00.5	fewer subjects that are funnier than ones that involve Nazis and malfunctioning toilets.
1:07.4	I know.
1:08.8	I know what you're saying to yourself right now. Oh, sure, J.G. There's nothing
1:13.0	funnier than a story about a Nazi and a malfunctioning toilet, but I'm going to elevate this.
1:18.4	I'm going to take this to the next level. Of course you are, because this is how you roll.
1:22.8	I'm going to add to that scenario, something that makes it even funnier. This is a story involving
1:29.8	a Nazi, a malfunctioning toilet, but the malfunctioning toilet is in an underwater World War II
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