Project Azorian's Sunken Sub
SNAFU with Ed Helms
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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A special father’s day treat for you! This week, Ed shares one of his favorite chapters from his NYT Bestselling book SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History’s Greatest Screw-ups (available at SNAFU-BOOK.com or wherever you get your books.) Selected from the Audiobook rendition, Ed weaves a wild tale of a CIA covert operation to develop a bona fide claw machine aboard a seafaring vessel strong enough to haul up the remnants of a sunken Soviet submarine which held Cold War era nuclear secrets. This one is chock-full of spies, subterfuge, and even Howard Hughes! Enjoy this free sampling of the book and order yours today!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, all you snafu fans or snafu heads, snap, snap, snap, snap, snap oops, snafu, snafuties. |
| 0:12.7 | I don't know, what are we going to call you? We'll figure that out. |
| 0:15.5 | Today, I have a very fun treat for you. |
| 0:17.9 | A little glimpse into my New York Times bestselling book, Snafoo, the |
| 0:22.6 | definitive guide to history's greatest screw-ups. Yes, you heard that right. It is a New York |
| 0:28.6 | Times bestseller, baby. I'm so proud of this thing. Oh my gosh. All right. Well, listen up. |
| 0:35.6 | Here's the deal. Father's Day is fast approaching, and we all know what that means. You're scrambling to find a gift for all the great dads in your life. And let's be honest, neckties, golf balls. That's so 20th century, folks. But never fear. I'm here to help make it stress-free for you this year. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah, I think you know where I'm going with this. |
| 0:57.1 | Grab a copy of my compendium of history's greatest screw-ups. |
| 1:02.2 | It's dad reviewed and dad approved, and yours is going to love it. |
| 1:07.8 | Trust me, I know. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm a dad. |
| 1:10.3 | The book is full of 30 plus different |
| 1:14.5 | snafus. Each chapter is its own contained short story. This is the perfect gift. It is |
| 1:20.6 | great for beach reading, bedside reading. I'm going to say it. You can even read it in the bathroom. |
| 1:26.7 | I mean, go for it. I'm not going to judge. Anywhere you read is a good place to read. Okay, so just to give you a little snapshot or a little glimpse into the book this week, I have pulled an exclusive chapter from the snafu audiobook narrated in its entirety by yours truly, Project Azorian, a tale stranger than fiction involving Cold War, chaos, a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine, a giant claw machine built to withstand treacherous ocean depths, and everyone's favorite mid-century madcap billionaire Howard Hughes. |
| 2:01.8 | Yes, even the legendary Howard Hughes is tied up in this one. |
| 2:05.6 | So don't forget, the book is available in bookstores everywhere or online at Amazon. |
| 2:10.9 | Or, of course, our own website, snafu-book.com. |
| 2:16.7 | That is snafu-book.com. And now, please enjoy the rip-roaring adventure |
| 2:22.9 | of the CIA's Project Azorian. |
| 2:31.8 | Project Azorian, a sub-above. How the CIA tried to win the world's most expensive and difficult |
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