4.6 • 25.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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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 you'll really like. |
0:06.6 | Snafu is a show about history's greatest screw-ups, hosted by actor, comedian, writer, and bona fide history nerd Ed Helms. |
0:14.9 | Season two, Medberg, is a riveting heist story. |
0:18.5 | It begins in 1971, when a group of citizen activists decide to break |
0:23.0 | into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and steal every classified document in sight. They |
0:29.4 | hope 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 |
0:47.9 | because the story he tells the season is incredibly timely today. Plus, Snafu Season 3 will be releasing in just a few months, |
0:56.2 | so you'll want to catch up before it's available. Now, keep listening for episode one of |
1:01.3 | Snaphu Season 2, Medburg, 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 Muhammad Ali meet in New York's Madison Square. |
1:23.7 | The richest fight of all time. |
1:25.3 | At least 25 foreign countries will show the fight on TV. |
1:29.7 | Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frazier, better known as the fight of the century. |
1:34.7 | Listen to the roar of this crowd. |
1:37.3 | I want to tell you, this is going to be a spectacular evening. |
1:40.8 | 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. |
1:49.7 | Anyone who's anyone is there. |
1:55.6 | The VIPs include a couple of Kennedys, foreign dignitaries, astronauts who just returned from the moon. |
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