Halfwit History

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley takes us on a flight to Reno!  But why did she pack parachutes? Topic: The only unsolved sky heist, D. B. Cooper's one way trip with Northwest Airlines, $200,000, and a bomb. 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...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley could have had had it all, wealth, fame, fortune, but instead she developed a gambling addiction and became weirdly focused on ruining my life. Wait no that's our subject for today, Richard John Bingham. Though he did disappear.... I should sleep with one eye open... Topic: Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, Murderer and Figurative. Support the show ✨ S...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley hits the battlefield with a fancy new emblem that protects her from the wrath of the enemy... as long as the many kingdoms decide to recognize it. Topic: The Founding of the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent Movement Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.c...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley joins (yet another) secret organization and swears that there's nothing conspiracy about it. Jonathan is not so sure and looks to Papal Bull: Attorney at Law for more concrete answers. Topic: The Arrest of the Grand Master of The Knights Templar on charges of Idolatry and Corruption. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pin...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley decides that she wants to be Pope. I mean why not? All the cool Popes did it! Topic: Antipope Benedict XIII and the Western Schism 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...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley joins a guerilla movement for anti-racism, feminism, and overall equality... and it turns out to be a very bad choice. The Hydra Flag maybe should have been a dead give away. Topic: The Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https:...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley cracks open a cold case to track down the disappeared justice with the coolest name the legal system has even known. Topic: The still unexplained disappearance of New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/sup...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley takes a tour of an art museum and steals some nobody's unfinished painting. No one will miss it, right? Topic: The Theft of the Mona Lisa and its unexpected rise to fame! 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 Kiley cut a car into tiny pieces after the Crime of the Century in our old stomping grounds of Boston!  Topic: Anthony "Fats" Pino and the multi million dollar Brinks Robbery of 1950. 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 is witness to a "secret" treason committee hearing that takes place in a public courtyard, creating a controversy that wouldn't be truly resolved for one hundred years. Topic: The False Treason of Alfred Dreyfus known as the Dreyfus Affair. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( h...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan gets arrested for diving into a pile of garbage to teach Kiley about the history of one of his family's favorite thanksgiving traditions. Topic: The (Mostly) True History of "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" by Arlo Guthrie. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www....

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley takes on our first listener suggested topic! Thanks Hanna for bringing us on a wild underdog story with some good tunes to kick off this holiday season! Topic: Hector Berlioz and his Symphonie Fantastique, one of the most innovative symphonies of the 19th century. "Dream & Passions"... "A Ball"... "Scenes in the Country"... "M...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley is seeing double as another halfwit takes up the hot seat and whisks us both on a thrilling adventure through the life of the greatest pirate in history! Topic: Pirate Queen Zheng Yi Sao, Commander of the Guangdong Pirate Confederation. You can support our guest halfwit Matt by visiting their writing website at ( https://vocal.media/authors/matt-spaziani ) Support...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan plugs in to some old games and learns about the humble but tumultuous beginnings of at home console gaming. Topic: The Atari Video Computer System 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 . C...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley takes up arms in the Ragamuffin War with Brazilian revolutionary and frequent rebel Anita Garibaldi. Topic: Anita Garibaldi, the Spirit of The Age of Romanticism and Revolutionary Liberalism. 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: &q...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley plays some poker in an old saloon and gets caught with the dead mans hand as she navigates shoot outs between Wild Bill and a guy who cant seem to stop flaunting fabrications. Topic: The first murder of Wild Bill Hickok. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/3080...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley buys a ticket to the original "Greatest Show" and is reminded of a horrifying night as a girl scout camping in a museum. And that's probably the least horrific part of the episode. Topic: The life of P.T. Barnum and his many opportunistic endeavors. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your R...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan throws on some fuzzy leg warmers and pops his headphones into a funny blue and metal brick that lets him jam out to his own beat  on the way to aerobics classes. Topic: The Sony Walkman and the revolution of personal music. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.co...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley has the worst day ever because the potatoes won't grow! So she sets sail to America just to find out the American Dream is built on the backs of labor violations. Topic: The Molly Maguires, coal miner unions, and vigilante injustices. 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 Jonathan visits his own backyard and is held prisoner of war by Indigenous Nations people and it turns out its not that bad. The New England Confederacy however, very bad. Topic: Metacomet's War, aka King Phillip's War, aka the deadliest war in American History. Also Massasoit is a title, Ousamequin was the man's name, just another failing in American educ...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley throws on a crown, a bit of an accent, and downs some vodka before swaggering up to a Czarina and proclaiming herself ruler of Russia. Topic: The Emperor of Russia, how he stole the throne, and how others assumed his fake identity afterwards. Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.ha...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan delves into the surprising life of Jack Kevorkian and everything that comes with the topic. Going to be honest, I was not expecting to find exactly what I did or how serious the subject is regardless of your side on the very controversial issue. Content Warning: Suicide. Please skip this episode if that's something you struggle with. Topic: Jack Kevorkian a...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley tricks kids into bringing farm animals to school, but the prank backfires and creates a classic nursery rhyme. Topic: Sarah Josepha Hale's nursery rhyme Mary's Lamb ( or Mary Had a Little Lamb ). 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 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:...