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
71 - Gertrude Bell
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 …
70 - The Teapot Dome Scandal
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…
69 - Baby Jessica
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?
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68 - Moulin Rouge
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 …
67 - Josephine Baker
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 t…
66 - Biosphere 2
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.
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65 - Witold Pilecki
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 Infiltra…
64 - Dr. Mae Jemison
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: Mi…
63 - The Principality of Sealand
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 …
62 - Instant Noodles
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.
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61 - Devil's Island
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…
60 - The WOW! Signal
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 Astron…
58 - Blue Movie
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 Movi…
59 - MKUltra
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 In…
57 - The Robin Hood of El Dorado
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.
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56 - Crystal Palace Cat Show
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 …
55 - Katipunan
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 Associati…
54 - The Jersey Devil
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 …
53 - The Pied Piper
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.
52 - Juneteenth
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 S…