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SNAFU with Ed Helms

Mike Schur and Tammany Hall

SNAFU with Ed Helms

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, History

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mike Schur knows how to run a show or two - but could he handle Tammany Hall?? Ed takes Mike on a journey to visit with old Boss Tweed, one of the most divisive - and dare we say cartoonish? - political figures of 19th century New York City.

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0:00.0

It's great to know that even back then, when the criminal needs to flee somewhere, where do you go? Florida.

0:09.0

Florida, you're so incorrigible.

0:11.1

It has this kind of like mischievous pirate thing going that I kind of like.

0:16.1

Oh, Florida, you've gone and done it again.

0:34.4

This is an I-heart podcast. Welcome to Snafu,art podcast.

0:43.7

Welcome to Snafu, the podcast about history's greatest screw-ups.

0:49.6

I am your host, Ed Helms, and each episode I drag a brilliant guest through one of these disasters,

0:54.6

and we ask ourselves, what the hell does this tell us about us as human beings?

0:58.7

Today, my guest is one of my oldest and dearest comedy pals.

1:06.4

He's a writing legend, S&L, The Office, co-created Parks and Rec, Brooklyn Nine, the Good Place, Rutherford Falls.

1:07.6

And by the way, he directed tons of all those episodes as well. And,

1:14.4

oh, don't let me forget, out of all of us who worked on the office, he was also the best actor.

1:20.8

Yeah. He's the one who brought the legendary Moes Shrewd into all of our hearts and nightmares,

1:26.9

of course.

1:33.4

He just got a very well-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and at this point,

1:37.2

I'm pretty sure NASA might be trying to name a planet after him.

1:40.1

Please welcome Mike Shore.

1:41.0

Hello, Mike.

1:42.5

What a wonderful introduction.

1:43.3

Thank you.

1:46.1

I mean, thank you, first of all, for highlighting my acting.

1:52.9

Because I think, you know, that's the legacy that I hope to leave this earth with more than anything else.

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