Who Killed Charles Francis Hall? The Polaris Expedition's Arctic Whodunnit (with Jad Abumrad)
SNAFU with Ed Helms
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jad Abumrad is the definition of inquisitive. As the creator of hit shows RadioLab and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, Jad has the innate ability to calculate idionsyncrasies, question the peculiar, and posit grand deductions. Perfect for this week's Murder Mystery of a SNAFU. Ed leads Jad on a tangled journey to the Arctic, where late 19th Century explorer Charles Francis Hall fell fatally ill. Was it the unforgiving tundra, or was there something more sinister afoot? Don your detective deerstalker alongside Jad as he tries to unravel this week's SNAFU WHODUNNIT!
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| 0:00.0 | He's got like a, he's seen you in your underwear or something. |
| 0:03.9 | He's got a piercing gaze. |
| 0:05.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:06.1 | I don't know what I was saying. |
| 0:07.4 | But, okay, this is obviously him pre-murder. |
| 0:10.7 | Yes, this is not a picture of his corpse. |
| 0:14.8 | This is Charles Francis Hall pre-murter. |
| 0:17.0 | I should have said that. |
| 0:18.0 | I was just, I'm just, I was just, uh, he just, I was just time stamping, you know. |
| 0:22.4 | No, of course. |
| 0:24.2 | You know. |
| 0:30.9 | This is an I-heart podcast. |
| 0:35.1 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:37.0 | No gloss, no filter. |
| 0:39.9 | Just stories. |
| 0:41.6 | Spoken without fear. |
| 0:43.4 | Person who is not generous can not be an artist. |
| 0:46.2 | The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. |
| 0:50.9 | Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Bhats show on the and the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.0 | Come for the honesty. |
| 1:01.7 | Stay for the fire. |
| 1:06.9 | Welcome to Snafu, the podcast about history's most epic failures, faceplants, and fiascos, |
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