SNAFU with Ed Helms

Ed Helms -- yes, Andy Bernard from The Office -- hosts a podcast about history's greatest screw-ups, and it's more fun than it has any right to be. SNAFU (Situation Normal, All... you know the rest) takes colossal blunders from American and world history and examines them with a mix of genuine curiosity and the comedic timing you'd expect from a professional funny person. Lost nuclear weapons. The Great Molasses Flood. The Teapot Dome scandal. The Mona Lisa heist. These are real things that actually happened. Now in its fourth season with 65 episodes and a 4.6-star rating from over 1,600 listeners, SNAFU has evolved over time. The earlier seasons featured deeper narrative storytelling with heavy research and production, while Season 4 has shifted toward a more conversational format with celebrity guests. Opinions are split on which approach works better -- longtime fans tend to prefer the original deep dives, but the guest episodes have their own charm. Helms brings a specific energy that makes the show work: he's genuinely fascinated by how badly things can go wrong and isn't afraid to sit with the absurdity of it all. The show is part history lesson, part group therapy for the human race. The iHeartPodcasts production backing keeps everything sounding professional, and Helms is a good enough interviewer to pull interesting observations out of his guests. It's lighter than most history podcasts, and that's a feature, not a bug.