Halfwit History

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan arms himself with a canvas diving suit, some seas sponges, and untold riches. Time flies when you have to rediscover clocks every few hundred years. Topic: The worlds first computer, The Antikythera Mechanism.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supp...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley gets to live out some fantasies through the life of legendary librarian in a story of archiving, intrigue, and (most importantly) sugar daddies. Topic: Legendary Librarian Belle daCosta Greene. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/new ) Music:...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley sits down to talk about a cautionary tale of telling a crush you like them... in front of a live studio audience. Worst that can happen is they don't like you back, right? Topic: The Jenny Jones Show Murder Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/suppor...

Send us Fan Mail Surprise! You get a brief appearance from us even though we are on a quick break because silly me forgot we had this episode in the bank! Now I'm doubly embarrassed we didn't do this a few days ago for April Fools... Anyways, enjoy the show and we'll resume regularly scheduled episodes in May! This week Kiley takes a tour of the middle east with an extremely influen...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley gets involved with the most tried and true aspects of politics. Bribery, oil, and a sprinkle of cabinet wide corruption. Almost sounds like we aren't back in history for this one. Topic: Henry Sinclair,  Edward Doheny, and one of the most scandalous presidents, Warren G. Harding's involvement in the Teapot Dome Oil Reserve Scandal.  Support the show ✨ Su...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley puts on her oil rigging gear to drill where no oil rigger has ever rigged oil before, a common water well. And even then she wasn't drilling for water but... children? Topic: Baby Jessica, The Nations Baby who Fell in a Well.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-histo...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley goes to to Paris to see a magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan, bedazzlement, a sensual ravishment, a spectacular spectacular, of a show!  Topic: The Real History of the Moulin Rouge!  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/ne...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley dusts of her skirt of bananas, joins the French Resistance, and punches some Nazis.  All in a day's work, at least it was for Josephine Baker. Topic: The Black Venus of the Jazz Age, Josephine Baker.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/n...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan goes under the dome to try surviving with the last remaining humans on earth! But boy is everyone hangry... Topic: Biosphere 2 and Spaceship Earth.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/new ) Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman ....

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley visits World War II to tell us a story of the man who helped expose Auschwitz, by volunteering to enter it.  Topic: Witold Pelicki, Polish Resistance Fighter and Infiltrator of Auschwitz.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/new ) Music: &quot...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan treks through the stars with the first woman of color to go to space, as she looks at some frogs, grows some crystals, and plans the future of space travel.  Topic: Mission Specialist Dr. Mae Jemison, STS-47, and 100 Year Star Ship.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley becomes a citizen of a fake island that loves to wedge themselves into fringe records to solidify their claim as a nation.  Topic: The Principality of Sealand, the Rogue Nation Built on an Anti-Aircraft Platform.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supp...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan discovers the fairly scientific origin of the college dorm staple, Instant Ramen.   Topic: Momofuku Ando's Invention of Chikin Ramen and Cup Noodle.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/new ) Music: "Another Day" by The Fishe...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley gets mixed up with some bad baguettes and shipped off to a French prison island filled with murders, thieves, but mostly people who spoke out against the government. You know, the real heinous crimes.  Topic: The Penal Colony of French Guiana, commonly known as Devil's Island.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint Hist...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan puts his ear, a Very Large Array of ears, and a Big Ear to the stars and gets a message from 122 million light years away. WOW! Topic: The WOW! Signal and Radio Astronomy.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/new ) Music: "Another Day&...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan gets a little... colorful? Off-color? Blue? Join us as we dive into the film career of the man who brought us the Campbell's Soup Cans.  Topic: Andy Warhol's Blue Movie and the Arrest of the Staff of the Garrick Theater.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-hi...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley joins the CIA and observes some of the most dangerous office pranks of them all. Or does she? We can't remember. There is no war in CIA. Topics: The Top Secret Central Intelligence Agency Mind Control Program, MKUltra.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley robs some miners of their gold, their horses, and their lives! Topic: Joaquin Murrieta, The Robin Hood of El Dorado, and Possible Inspiration for Zorro.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/new ) Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan talks about one of Kiley's favorite critters, the house cat, and how one man changed their perception from ferocious hunter to lavish lap animal. Topic: Harrison Weir and the first competitive cat show at Crystal Palace in London.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfw...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley joins a secret society in order to push out invading colonizing forces of Spain. Topic: The Philippine Revolutionary Secret Society of the Supreme and Venerable Association of the Children of the Nation.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/ne...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan goes on a hunt for one of the most well documented cryptids, but what he finds hundreds of years earlier is much scarier than any monster. Topic: The Many Legends and Truths of the Leeds Monster, the Devil of Leads, the Jersey Devil.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley is lured to a far away place by a musician in fancy clothing. To her credit, he could have been a pirate. Topic: The True Story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin Germany.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/new ) Music: "Another Day" by T...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan discusses the oldest celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery, and reads literature from W.E.B. Du Bois. Topics: Juneteenth, The Emancipation Proclamation, The Souls of Black Folk "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson - Public Domain. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-P...

Send us Fan Mail Anti-Racism Resources . End chant audio from r/BlackLivesMatter .  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/new ) Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman . Cover Art by Lezulla Visit our website at www. HalfwitPodcasts.com ! Reach out, say hello, or sugges...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley and Jonathan look back at the history of the show as we celebrate both our 50th episode and first full year of recording! Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporters/new ) Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman . Cover Art by Lezulla Visit ou...