Paul Scheer and the Johnstown Flood

SNAFU with Ed Helms

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, History

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Paul Scheer is an OG podcaster about movies. Ed tells him the story of the snooty country club project that ends up inciting the Johnstown Flood -- and becomes fodder for an epic silent film on its own.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.4	No one talks about that.
0:06.8	No one talks about how the fishing and that club went down now.
0:09.4	You know what?
0:09.9	There's a reason for that, Paul.
0:12.0	I'm just going to be honest.
0:12.9	That's kind of a shitty take.
0:15.3	I mean, I'm paying top dollar to be in this hunting fishing club.
0:19.3	It's got a lot of hunting.
0:20.1	Got bad fishing. How good was that fishing?
0:22.8	Really good.
0:23.9	Really good.
0:24.4	All right, damn it.
0:30.2	Hey, I'm Ed Helms, and welcome back to Snafu,
0:34.6	a show about history's greatest screw-ups.
0:40.1	More specifically, a show in which I walk my wonderful guests through distinctly unwonderful moments from the past. Today, we'll be
0:47.6	covering the infamous Johnstown Flood of 1889, and our guest, well, he's truly one of the best in the biz. And I mean that in
0:57.1	both the general sense in that he's just an awesome dude, but also he is someone who is just
1:03.8	constantly crushing it across like every platform in the whole business. You might know him
1:09.7	from TV shows like The League or Black Monday or his Uber popular podcasts.
1:16.2	How Did This Get Made and Unspooled?
1:19.2	Please welcome my very dear old friend, the great Paul Shear.
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