The Navy eventually realized they'd spent half the night shelling phantom radar echoes

and gave the whole debacle a name worthy of this absurdity, the Battle of the Pips.

Oh, no.

Yeah, not to be confused with Gladys Knight and the Pips.

No, never.

Who were Atlanta, Georgia icons.

And delightful. And delightful.

Hello and welcome. Hello and welcome. This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human.

Hello and welcome to Snafu.

I'm Ed Helms, your host, and this is Snafu.

My podcast about history's greatest screw-ups, or more specifically the show where I ask brilliant guests to help me unpack some of the least brilliant moments in history.

And in the process, maybe understand ourselves a little bit better.

Today, I am joined by a four-time New York Times best-selling author, host of Tell Me More on PBS,

and The Brilliant Mind Behind Kelly Corrigan wonders.

She's even written a children's book called Hello World.

She's wise, hilarious, kind of endlessly curious, and just a delightful human being who I adore.

She is, of course, Kelly Corrigan.

Kelly, welcome to Snafu.

Hello, Ed Helms. So glad to have you here today. I'm delighted to be here. I'm really flattered. Thank you. Oh, amen. We met a few years back. And I have to say, as soon as I met you, I was like, oh, this is a friend. Like, I've met a friend. That's what I said. When I called my husband,

I said, you know, I spend a lot of time with today? Ed Helms. And he's like, Ed Helms, like, from the office, from the hangover, Ed Helms. I'm like, yeah. And I said, I got to tell you, like, I have a feeling I'm going to know him for a long time. I don't know where, I don't know what note we started on, but there was something about the very first conversation we had that was

much... long time. Oh, that's very sweet. I don't know what note we started on, but there was something about the very first

conversation we had that was much deeper and better than most first, first interactions.

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