Jake Tapper and the Sinking of the Lusitania
SNAFU with Ed Helms
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Jake Tapper is tapped in to the pulse of current events. Ed takes him out to sea to assess the historic disaster that was the sinking of the Lusitania: a chaotic, cataclysmic act of treachery that ignited wartime efforts faster than you can say "U-Boat."
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| 0:00.0 | Are you familiar with the, I believe it's the upside down pineapple? |
| 0:04.9 | No, what's that? |
| 0:05.7 | If you put this, like, sticker or symbol on your door, it means, like, you're a swinger. |
| 0:10.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:11.4 | Or you're open to swinging with other upside-down pineapples. |
| 0:15.5 | As opposed to a regular pineapple? |
| 0:17.2 | Well, then you're just a dork. |
| 0:18.8 | You're just like, no one wants to swing with you. |
| 0:36.6 | This is an I-Heart podcast, Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, I'm Ed Helms, host of Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw-ups, |
| 0:48.7 | or more specifically the show where I ask brilliant guests to help me unpack some of the least brilliant moments in history. |
| 0:57.8 | And in the process, perhaps understand ourselves a little bit better. |
| 1:02.6 | This week, I am talking with one of the legendary TV journalists of our time. |
| 1:08.6 | He's an anchor and chief Washington correspondent at CNN, host of |
| 1:13.2 | the lead with Jake Tapper and State of the Union. He's also someone with a shockingly, |
| 1:18.9 | dare I say, offensively expansive grasp of politics, history, pop culture, world affairs, |
| 1:25.2 | and so much more. He is a delightful conversationalist, an Emmy winner, a prolific author. |
| 1:32.6 | And he has a brand new book out, Race Against Terror, chasing an Al-Qaeda killer at the dawn of the forever war. |
| 1:41.1 | It's out now. |
| 1:42.3 | He is smart, thoughtful, funny, and a lot of people say we look like brothers. |
| 1:47.2 | Please welcome Jake Tapper. Thank you so much. It's great to be here. We do, we do. There's a lot of |
| 1:51.9 | forehead going on right now on this podcast. It's eight head. We went. Yeah, we had a ten head, |
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