Halfwit History

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley spends "one short day" talking about her favorite musical, and Jonathan tries to find the origin of his fellow Halfwits. Topics: Wicked the Musical, The Taung Child and the discovery of Australopithecus.  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 recounts the life of a "mattress salesman", and Jonathan finds out there's more than one way to "donate" blood and save lives. Topics: Albert "The Mad Hatter" Anastasia, The Catonsville Nine.  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 ventures the high seas, and Jonathan continues the spooky streak with not one but six deaths. Topics: Ronald Dafeo Jr. and The Amityville Horror, Calico Jack Rackham creator of the Jolly Roger.  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 talks about our glorious emperor of the United States, and Jonathan hears the knell of a bell for another famous death. Topics: Joshua Abraham Norton First Emperor of the United States, Death of Edgar Allan Poe.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/suppo...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley takes union busting to the extreme, and Jonathan discovers a tobacco farmer who changed the world. Topics: The Immortal Genes of Henrietta Lacks, The Dynamite Bombing of the LA Times Building by Union Workers.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/support...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley finds a carol which has real life origins filled with politics and murder, and Jonathan gets involved in a flower fight. Topics: Good King Wenceslas, Hanafuda Cards.  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...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley does not visit a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, but a comfortable one, and Jonathan finds out that he doesn't actually like talking about war. Topics: MASH TV Show, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.  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 Kiley hops in the Mystery Machine with a group of cool teens and their dog, while Jonathan makes a decidedly worse choice hopping aboard the Ormen Lange with some very angry vikings. Topics: Scooby Doo!, The Battle of Svolder.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley & Jonathan find some history that makes them leave Earth?! Join us for a zany trip around the stars to save some planets from definite destruction! Topics: Choose Your Own Adventure Books, War with the Evil Power Master (actual play).   "It's a New Day" by Skaraj .  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint Hi...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley searches for the lost text of the first American play, and Jonathan just couldn't get enough fun facts so he dug into the original fun fact book! Topics: The First American Play "Bear and Cub" at Fowkes' Tavern, The Guinness Book of World Records.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in yo...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley creeps to the edge of the water to catch a cryptid, and Jonathan takes a trip to Italy where a festival is ruined by the force of 100,000 bombs.  Topics: The Loch Ness Monster, Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the Destruction of Pompeii.  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 learns that some witches just couldn't be bothered by being hunted, while Jonathan hunts down a ship that just won't stay put. Heads up, our audio is great for the first bit, then we lost everything and had to record twice. It's almost 3am while I'm typing this. Pray for my sanity. Topics: The Philadelphia Experiment Conspiracy Theory, The Trial...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley discovers the ...strange... history of a cereal empire, and Jonathan finds a way to talk about hundreds of nudes without landing himself in hot water (yet). Topics: John Kellog's Sanatorium, The Helga Paintings by Andrew Wyeth.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-his...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley takes on the historical accuracy of a children's jump rope song, and Jonathan discovers doomsday has already come and gone. Topics: Lizzie Borden Murders, King William the Conqueror's Domesday Book.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your RSS! ✨( https://www.halfwit-history.com/308030/supporte...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley takes a look at the life of a femme fatale, and Jonathan gets put under a fatal trance. Topics: The First Zombie Movie - White Zombie (1932), The Spy Mata Hari.  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 F...

Send us Fan Mail This week Jonathan takes a break in Comfortless Cove, Kiley still wants to do a crime, and Bilbo went to bed early so we talk about a different Beagle. Topics: The First Terraforming Project on Ascension Island, The Largest Kidnapping in the United States in Chowchilla California.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in your...

Send us Fan Mail Kiley decides to blind Jonathan with science, Jonathan celebrates the life of a carpenter turned hero, and Bilbo gets very curious about our surprise 4th silent host. Topics: Watch Mr. Wizards World, Super Mario Bros.  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...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley decides she also wants to rob some trains, Jonathan's segments are heading for disaster, and Bilbo decides to be jingly because we forgot to take his collar off. Topics: The Creation of the SOS Maritime Distress Signal, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Airplane! The Movie.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint Histo...

Send us Fan Mail This week Kiley comes down with Dancing Fever. Jonathan goes Down Under. Well, tries to, and is deeply sorry for what he tries to call an Aussie accent.  Topics: The Dancing Plague of 1518, Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly's Last Stand.  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 Kiley takes a deep dive into the mysteries of Scotland while Jonathan tackles the paranormal with a Werewolf sighting! Bilbo takes his first step into a career as a foley artist... Topics: The Exorcism of Bill Ramsey the Werewolf of Southend By Sea, The Battle of Bannockburn in the First War of Scottish Independence.  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episod...

Send us Fan Mail This week we cover a surprising amount of death! Jonathan says far to many Japanese names, and Kiley takes her maiden voyage into space terminology. Needless to say we are continuing our streak of not being able to pronounce anything... Topics: The First Monkey In Space - Albert, Yamaoka Tesshu Tetsutaro and Itto Shoden Muto-ryu school of swordsmanship.  Support the show ✨ Subscr...

Send us Fan Mail This week we cover globes, game shows, and Broadway, oh my! And neither of us seem to be capable of pronouncing... anything... Topics: Maine's Eartha - The Worlds Largest Rotating Globe, The $64,000 Question, The Pulitzer Prize, The Newsies.  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 Hosts Jonathan & Kiley talk about the upcoming week, but a long time ago (and sometimes not so long ago). Join us in exploring topics like Adventure Games, Molasses, Teleportation, Cartoons, Immortal Cells, Musicals, and more! Music: Cheery Monday Kevin MacLeod ( incompetech.com )  Support the show ✨ Subscribe on Buzzsprout to get bonus episodes of Half-Pint History right in...