Rachel Maddow and ULTRA
SNAFU with Ed Helms
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Happy Holidays from everyone on the SNAFU Team! While Ed and his elves prepare more stories for the new year, warm up with an oldie-but-goodie bonus episode you might have missed: It's Ed's conversation with Rachel Maddow about her podcast, ULTRA. Plus, if you're still in need of a last-minute holiday gift, there's still time to grab a copy of Ed's New York Times Bestseller, SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups, wherever you get your books, or at www.snafu-book.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, guys, Ed here. |
| 0:07.0 | This week, we're coming to you with a special episode from the archives. |
| 0:10.9 | It's my chat with the Emmy Award-winning political commentator Rachel Maddow. |
| 0:16.7 | Rachel is also the host of the hit show Ultra. |
| 0:20.0 | And back in 2023, she and I sat down to talk about our fascination with history, the eerily |
| 0:26.0 | prescient stories in our respective podcasts, and why we do the work we do. |
| 0:33.1 | It's probably one of my favorite chats I've ever had on this podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | And so I'm really excited to share it with you again today. |
| 0:40.3 | Keep listening, and we'll be back with a regularly scheduled episode next week. Enjoy. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome back, snafu listeners. We're back to discuss a dicey subject, a far-right coup, an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States of America. |
| 1:07.8 | Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. |
| 1:12.4 | You have to show strength and you have to be strong. |
| 1:18.9 | We have a breach to the Capitol. |
| 1:21.4 | Freight of the Capitol. |
| 1:22.9 | Nope, not that one. |
| 1:27.3 | In the United States District Court, Washington, D.C., Chief Justice Edward C. Iker, presides at the trial of 30 alleged seditionists. |
| 1:35.6 | There we go, that's the one. |
| 1:37.5 | That's right, my friends. |
| 1:38.5 | Back in 1944, the Nazis tried to overthrow the U.S. government, with the help of some U.S. congressmen, no less. |
| 1:47.2 | I'm talking about the great sedition trial of 1944, which is the subject of a history podcast |
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