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
31 - Canonized Currency
This week Kiley has done her waiting, 100 years of it, in France! Meanwhile, Jonathan has trust issues when it comes to how few pounds of cotton he'll have when the government collapses…
30 - We Wish You a Merry Fishmas
This week Kiley goes sings a carol from the trenches, and Jonathan goes fishing for living fossils.
We also got new recording equipment! While also being more clear, this episode (and fu…
29 - Founding Felons & Frightful Fairytales
This week Kiley talks about some spooky German librarians, and Jonathan meets a federal official desperately trying to profit from their title...wait...that's most of them...
Topics: The…
28 - Blue Eyes Golden Butt
This week Kiley starts keeping ten dimes in her pocket in case Jonathan ever gets kidnapped, and oops Jonathan gets kidnapped while peacefully sailing on a South American treasure ship!
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27 - Eureka, We're Lost!
This week Kiley digs into a one sided war, and Jonathan walks the plank of a ghost ship!
Topics: The Eureka Rebellion, The Ghost Ship Mary Celeste.
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26 - Butterflies in the Atmosphere
This week Kiley is thankful for some rebellious sisters, and Jonathan is thankful that he's not being dragged to the underworld. Happy Thanksgiving!
Topics: The Mirabel Butterfly Sisters…
25 - Hypnotic Hanukkah
This week Kiley burns the midnight oil for an unexpectedly long time, and Jonathan takes a walk with the living goddess of Yusmalos.
Topics: The First Hanukkah, The Geat White Brotherhoo…
24 - Secrets of Tomorrow
This week Kiley dawns a cap and cloak to uncover secrets of American colleges, and Jonathan sets his sights on the world of tomorrow.
Topics: The Flat Hat Club The First Collegiate Secre…
23 - Curse of the Zen Master
This week Kiley trips on some stairs and falls into the tomb of a boy king, and Jonathan tries to illuminate the universe with dried dung.
Topics: This Discovery of King Tuts Tomb, Wumen…
22 - Defying Ancestry
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 t…
21 - Blood Priests of Murder Inc
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, …
20 - Yo-Ho Yo-Ho a Killer's Life for Kiley
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 crea…
19 - The Emperor Has No Prose
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…
18 - HeLa Big Dynamite
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 …
17 - Gambling Saints
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.
16 - H*O*B*B*I*T
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 tal…
15 - You Meddling Nords!
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 v…
14 - The Nefarious Nodule!
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 Ow…
13 - First Time for Everything
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 Americ…
12 - Mountains & Monsters
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 Mo…