Ed Helms (Re-release)

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Anna Faris

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Ed Helms [The Hangover, The Office, The Daily Show] tells Anna the story of Able Archer 83 from his podcast SNAFU which, in Ed’s words, focuses on history’s greatest screw-ups. We also hear about Ed’s high school experience, early relationships, alternate career paths, the benefits of therapy, Bob Dylan’s authenticity, and a lot more. Today’s caller Amanda returns to the show after having called in 2 years prior. Now divorced, Amanda faces a new challenge… co-parenting.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, you know the guest of today's flashback episode from the
0:04.4	Hangover trilogy, the office, and the Daily Show. Here's Ed Helms.
0:11.1	Ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to unqualified with your host
0:16.6	Honor Ferris. Let's get right into snafu, which I've been listening to. It is awesome. Thanks. It makes me wonder about you and also the fragility of, you know, our world.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:41.0	I want to ask you about the origins.
0:42.8	Will you tell us about Snafu and your involvement?
0:47.0	Yeah, well, thanks for asking.
0:48.9	Thanks for listening to it.
0:50.3	I love it.
0:51.2	So this is my sort of foray into the podcast space, but it is a history
0:56.7	podcast, a true history podcast, but we just tell this story with a little bit of
1:01.6	kind of snark and audio collage style a la
1:05.8	radio lab or something so snafu is the podcast this season tells the story of
1:11.2	Abel Archer 83 and that is this crazy event during the Cold War.
1:17.3	So the premise of Snafu as a podcast is we just talk about history's greatest screw-ups.
1:22.1	I enjoyed the Snafu reference. Would you mind explaining
1:26.2	that? Oh yeah. Snafu is a military acronym that I think dates back to World War I.
1:33.7	It just means situation normal all fucked up.
1:37.5	It's kind of the best.
1:38.9	Yeah, it just means like, hey,
1:41.0	this is a shitty situation, but isn't it always? Like, this is a shitty situation but isn't it always like this is normal and
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