Introducing SNAFU with Ed Helms
Slow Burn
Slate Audio
4.6 • 25.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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While the Slow Burn team is hard at work on our next season, we are excited to share the first episode of the second season from our friends at SNAFU with Ed Helms: MEDBURG.
In March 1971, Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger receives a mysterious envelope full of classified documents. Soon, what's inside will change the way America sees the FBI.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Josh Levine, and this week I wanted to share an episode from a podcast I think |
| 0:05.1 | you'll really like. Snapu is a show about history's greatest screw-ups, hosted by actor, comedian, |
| 0:11.3 | writer, and bona fide history nerd Ed Helms. Season two, Medberg, is a riveting heist story. |
| 0:18.6 | It begins in 1971, when a group of citizen activists decide to break |
| 0:23.1 | into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and steal every classified document in sight. They |
| 0:29.4 | hoped to prove that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI were up to no good, surveilling, disrupting, |
| 0:34.8 | and even plotting to assassinate political opponents. |
| 0:42.4 | I hope you heard my conversation with Ed about his time of The Daily Show for one of our slow-burn bonus episodes this season. And if you want to hear more from him, then Snafu is a great choice, |
| 0:48.4 | because the story he tells the season is incredibly timely today. Plus, Snafu Season 3 will be releasing in just a few months, |
| 0:56.3 | so you'll want to catch up before it's available. |
| 0:59.0 | Now, keep listening for Episode 1 of Snafu Season 2, Medberg, |
| 1:03.7 | and then listen to the entire season, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 1:10.5 | It's March 8, 1971, and just about every human being on planet Earth is completely consumed by one single event. |
| 1:19.2 | Heavyweight boxer is Joe Frazier and Mohammed Ali meet in New York's Madison Square. |
| 1:23.8 | The richest fight of all time. |
| 1:25.4 | At least 25 foreign countries will show the fight on TV. |
| 1:29.3 | Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frazier, better known as the fight of the century. |
| 1:34.3 | Listen to the roar of this crowd. |
| 1:37.3 | I want to tell you this is going to be a spectacular evening. |
| 1:40.3 | The tension and the excitement here is monumental. |
| 1:43.3 | A lucky 20,000 have scored tickets to watch the fight at Madison Square Garden. evening, the tension and the excitement here is monumental. |
| 1:47.9 | A lucky 20,000 have scored tickets to watch the fight at Madison Square Garden. |
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