Sarah Spain and Napoleon's Russian Blunder

SNAFU with Ed Helms

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, History

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Spain knows a thing or two about winning. But sadly for ol' Napoleon Bonaparte, he managed to do anything but win this war. Ed and Sarah trudge into the tundra to follow Napoleon's epic screwup in his campaign to conquer Russia.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.1	Hold on, Ed.
0:06.1	What you're trying to tell me is they made a bunch of men share responsibility for power and it didn't work out.
0:12.3	They couldn't all just get along and, you know, best idea wins.
0:15.7	Believe it or not.
0:16.9	I mean, this is like the one time a bunch of dudes like didn't get it right.
0:20.9	How do you say penis measuring contest in French?
0:23.7	Do you know?
0:25.6	The contest measure a l' echelon.
0:34.1	Welcome to Snafu, the show about history's greatest screw-ups.
0:39.1	I'm Ed Helms, and today I am joined by the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist, host of the I-Heart podcast Good Game, all around sports fanatic.
0:52.5	And also, she's someone who I recently met and just happened to adore.
0:56.2	It is the one and only Sarah Spain.
0:58.6	Thanks so much for having me and saying that.
1:00.6	That's so nice.
1:01.5	Well, right on.
1:02.5	We hit it off.
1:04.0	We did.
1:04.6	Yeah, we were both in Austin at South by Southwest for some Iheart podcast fun.
1:12.7	And, yeah, it was just fun to connect.
1:15.2	Did you have a good time down there?
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