Halfwit History
Hosts Jonathan & Kiley talk about the history of the upcoming week, but a long time ago (and sometimes not so long ago). Occasionally, they even know what they are talking about! Join them in exploring topics like Space Monkeys, Teleportation, Viking Battles, Death Poems, and more!
(Produced by Halfwit Podcasts)
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 112
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2024
91 - Judge Joseph Force Crater
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 Yor…
90 - The Mona Lisa
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!
89 - The Brinks Robbery
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 o…
88 - Alfred Dreyfus
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.
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87 - Alice's Restaurant Massacree
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 Hist…
86 - Symphonie Fantastique
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 Ber…
85 - Zheng Yi Sao (ft. Matt Spaziani)
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 Qu…
84 - Atari Video Computer System
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
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83 - Anita Garibaldi
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 Revo…
82 - Wild Bill Hickok
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 fabrica…
81- P.T. Barnum
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 t…
80 - The Sony Walkman
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…
79 - The Molly Maguires
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: …
78 - King Phillip's War
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.
Topi…
77 - The False Dmitry
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 h…
76 - Jack Kevorkian
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 …
75 - Mary's Lamb
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 …
74 - The Antikythera Mechanism
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 …
73 - Belle daCosta Greene
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 Libraria…
72 - The Jenny Jones Show Murder
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, righ…