Dan Taberski and the Great Molasses Flood

SNAFU with Ed Helms

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, History

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Dan Taberski isn't just a sweet guy, he's an award-winning podcaster. This week, Ed takes him up to Boston to trudge through one of the sweetest, stickiest, and deadliest disasters in American history. It's the great Molasses Flood! And don't miss out this holiday season, look for Ed's New York Times Bestseller, SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups, wherever you get your books, or go to: www.snafu-book.com

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.1	I already like you.
0:06.2	You don't have to burnish your image with me.
0:08.2	I'm not trying to burn your image.
0:09.7	I'm just trying to be honest and lovely.
0:14.4	God bless you for that.
0:16.2	You are lovely.
0:17.2	God damn it.
0:22.7	Welcome to Snapfu, the show about history's greatest screw-ups.
0:26.7	I'm your host, Ed Helms, and today I am joined by an incredible documentarian, producer,
0:32.0	director, and podcaster, extraordinaire, with some of the most incredible investigative skills in the biz.
0:40.2	A few of his most memorable hits include Missing Richard Simmons, 912, The Line, and most recently,
0:48.7	the Ambees and Apple Podcast of the year hysterical.
0:54.0	And way before all of that, he was also my former colleague
0:58.2	from The Daily Show. I am talking about the amazing, illustrious Dan Taberski. Welcome, Dan.
1:06.8	It's me. Hi. Hi. How are you? I'm awesome.
1:11.5	It's so good to see you.
1:12.4	Yeah, it's really good to see you, too.
1:14.1	We worked together a very long time ago, and you've done so many incredible things since then, and I am enormously proud of you and proud to know you.
1:23.0	Thank you.
1:23.6	I feel the same way about you.
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