Introducing Season 2: MEDBURG

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Hi Ridiculous History Fans! Take a listen to the trailer of season two of SNAFU: MEDBURG with Ed Helms.

About the show: Hosted by Ed Helms, SNAFU is a podcast about history’s greatest screw-ups. In Season 1, Ed digs into a story he can't stop thinking about: Able Archer 83, a 1983 NATO military exercise meant to prepare us for nuclear war that almost mistakenly started one. This story has a colorful cast of characters: from Ronald Reagan, to two treasonous spies, to a dauntless sleuth determined to get to the bottom of what really happened and why nobody knows about it. Ultimately, SNAFU is about nuclear paranoia and political mind games – and how fear and misunderstanding can propel us into disastrous circumstances.

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0:00.0	Ah, 1971! It was a simpler time, a groovy time.
0:06.0	Soul Train had just started chugging along.
0:08.0	Everyone had a lava lamp for some reason.
0:11.0	Weebl started to wobble, but as we all know, they don't fall down.
0:14.7	It's really something.
0:17.1	But it wasn't all weebles and bell bottoms.
0:21.1	There was also the Vietnam War and a growing nationwide movement protesting it.
0:26.0	Look behind you!
0:28.0	See the thousands of parties today.
0:31.0	Across the country, people were speaking up up and the more they did
0:35.0	We know they have our pictures we know they were looking for us we know they wanted
0:39.0	the more they learned about the hidden underbelly of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the
0:45.5	land.
0:49.5	One group set out to find the truth, even if it meant doing the unthinkable.
0:55.0	Would you dare break into an FBI office?
1:00.0	I'm Ed Helms, host of Snafu, season two, Medburg, the story of a daring
1:06.2	heist that exposed J. Edgar Hoover's epic FBI Snafu.
1:11.9	The Burglars were amateurs. I remember thinking I'm not breathing. But the break-in was
1:19.0	flawless. It's always puzzled me why criminals don't learn lockpicking because it's really not hard and what they uncovered
1:26.2	Oh, it was all horrifying was horrifying was never meant to see the light of day
1:33.2	Every document was telling a story about FBI power
1:37.4	that was unknown to anyone outside the FBI.
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