Chappaquiddick & The Real Reason Ted Kennedy Never Became President (with Pete Holmes)
SNAFU with Ed Helms
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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Pete Holmes is Weird. In a good way! He's also a New England native, and perfectly attuned to today's Martha's Vineyard-set SNAFU involving the youngest Kennedy brother, Ted. What happened on the small island of Chappaquiddick, and why did it potentially sink his chances at a future Presidency run?
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| 0:00.0 | What's funny is I have all these quotes on my mirror, things that I try to hold in my heart. |
| 0:04.8 | But every once in a while, I'll also write like a joke idea. |
| 0:08.6 | Oh, cool. |
| 0:09.1 | So right now, my mirror says, like, what's wrong with right now if you don't think about it? |
| 0:14.1 | And then, like, right beneath it, it says, plan B pill, but for food. |
| 0:21.4 | They have that. |
| 0:22.6 | It's called X-Lax. |
| 0:25.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:39.4 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 0:45.7 | Welcome to Snafu, the podcast about history's greatest. |
| 0:46.3 | Screw-ups. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm your host, Ed Helms. |
| 0:52.7 | Each episode, I'm joined by a guest, and we dive into a wacky story from history, |
| 0:56.5 | and along the way, we shoot the shit and wonder why humanity keeps fucking up so badly. |
| 1:01.1 | My guest today is stand-up comedian, podcast host, and voiceover artist, cartoonist. |
| 1:05.5 | You might know him from his fabulous HBO show crashing. |
| 1:09.9 | His New Yorker cartoons, his podcast, you made it weird, |
| 1:14.5 | his book, Comedy Sex God, or the Pete Holmes show, which I just spoiled who it is. |
| 1:23.1 | It's the wonderful and the fabulous. |
| 1:25.8 | Dear old friend of mine, Pete Holmes, welcome Pete. Happy to be here. And I don't think you broke the rules of an intro. You can do that. You can say from the Pete Holmes show without being like, whoops, I blew it. I can't. I think you can't. Because what you're touching on is performers, like if you do a gig, which I'm sure you do from time to time, NBC calls in for a favor. |
| 1:48.3 | They want Ed to give a golden chocolate key to PETA, and you have to be there. |
| 1:54.3 | The intro is typically awful, and they'll be like, Ed Helms is our esteemed speaker. And it's like, there's nowhere to go from there. |
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