Introducing Here We Go Again With Kal Penn
SNAFU with Ed Helms
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Hey SNAFU fans! We wanted to share a new show that we think you'll enjoy: Here We Go Again with Kal Penn.
Each week, Kal Penn takes today’s trends and headlines and asks: Why does history keep repeating itself? From the new space race and plane delays to fad drugs and movie remakes, our guest's answers will make you feel better about everything.
In this first episode, Kal sits down with legendary science educator and TV presenter Bill Nye the Science Guy. From the Cold War to today, space has always been about flexing power. So, why do we keep turning space into a race? What does that say about the future of space exploration -- and about humanity?
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go again. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, I'm Cal Penn. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to my new show. |
| 0:14.0 | Here we go again. So you may know me as an actor from Haroldin Kumar, House, or designated survivor. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm also a former White House staffer, a NASCAR enthusiast, an eager karaoke participant, |
| 0:37.4 | and I guess as of like five seconds ago, |
| 0:39.3 | a podcast host, how am I doing so far? |
| 0:42.3 | I'm hosting this podcast because there's one particular question that I find myself asking a lot |
| 0:47.8 | these days. |
| 0:49.1 | Why does the same shit keep happening? |
| 0:51.9 | War, labor strikes, getting ghosted by a hookup. No one wants to be stuck |
| 0:56.8 | in a vicious cycle of patterns repeating. So every week, we're going to take a topic from the |
| 1:02.5 | present, see how it played out in the past, and try to figure out what it means for our future. |
| 1:08.4 | Each episode, I'll chat with an expert who can help me answer a different burning question. |
| 1:13.4 | Like, why is my plane always delayed? |
| 1:16.0 | Are we headed towards another economic crash? |
| 1:18.7 | Is this rash what I think it is? |
| 1:20.5 | Oh, wait, ignore that last one. |
| 1:23.1 | We're asking all the right questions to all the right people to make you feel at least like 9% better about, well, everything, except maybe the rash. |
| 1:36.0 | So now that I got my little introduction out of the way, I wasn't sure how I wanted to kick off the first episode, but then I kept looking down at my tattoos. |
| 1:45.1 | Some people have tattoos of bald eagles. A lot of people have tattoos of X's. Most of my |
| 1:52.4 | tattoos have something to do with astronomy. That's what you see if you look at my sleeve. |
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