Tulip Mania: The World's First Financial Bubble (with Bowen Yang)
SNAFU with Ed Helms
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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Bowen Yang is an unwitting student of Dutch Economics. This week, Bowen joins Ed on a journey to 17th century Netherlands, where they help burst one of history's first ever economic bubbles, known today as Tulip-Mania. You thought NFT's were crazy, but did you know one Tulip bulb in 1637 could purchase an entire HOUSE? Find out what wilted this mad tulip fever, and don't forget to subscribe to the SNAFU YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@SNAFUPod
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| 0:00.0 | But when I'm worried that, like, right off camera, there's, like, towering stuff, |
| 0:06.8 | like everything that you've bought off of infomercials and, like, loboos, |
| 0:11.4 | and that one false move, and it's going to collapse, |
| 0:14.8 | and we're going to have to, like, call an ambulance to get you out. |
| 0:17.2 | This is my audition for hoarders, and this is... |
| 0:20.2 | That's my gifting closet. |
| 0:22.4 | Everyone has some structural thing where it's just a bunch of crap and you're like, I'm |
| 0:27.6 | going to give, I'm going to like a hand this off to like the next person who comes to my |
| 0:31.2 | house and like I feel like should leave with something. |
| 0:34.5 | Amen. |
| 0:35.5 | I wish I had a gifting closet. I take one thing from this. It's that, |
| 0:39.5 | I need a gifting closet. |
| 0:54.4 | Welcome to Snafu, guaranteed human. |
| 1:09.2 | Welcome to Snafu, your favorite podcast about history's greatest screw-ups or more precisely what those spectacular faceplants reveal about us, the idiotic humans who just keep making them. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm your host at Helms, and my guest today is a prolific actor, comedian, writer, and podcast host. |
| 1:21.5 | You may know him as Fanny in the sensation that is wicked. You may not. |
| 1:23.3 | Or you may not. |
| 1:24.6 | Or perhaps you know him as the co-host of one of the most popular podcasts that has ever existed, Las Colteristas. |
| 1:32.5 | Or maybe you've seen him as the adorable Moodyang on S&L, among many other beloved characters. |
| 1:38.6 | Welcome to Snafu, Bowen Yang. |
| 1:40.8 | Hi, Ed. |
| 1:41.4 | I'm sorry that I had to cut in because I feel like I'm one of the few characters in the |
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