This week Kiley has the worst day ever because the potatoes won&apos;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. Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  Please Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!    Get $15 off Amphy (a live learning service) when you use the link www.amphy.com/gift/halfwit Post Roll Promo Swap with Early Stuart England!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

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79 - The Molly Maguires

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.Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  Please Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!    Get $15 off Amphy (a live learning service) when you use the link www.amphy.com/gift/halfwit Post Roll Promo Swap with Sofa Spuds History!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

77 - The False Dmitry

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&apos;s something you struggle with.Topic: Jack Kevorkian and his efforts to bring about change related to physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, and the right to die.Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  Please Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!      Post Roll Promo Swap with A (Not So Brief) History of Disney World!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

76 - Jack Kevorkian

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&apos;s nursery rhyme Mary&apos;s Lamb ( or Mary Had a Little Lamb)Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  Please Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!     Post Roll Promo Swap with Let's Break History!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

75 - Mary's Lamb

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. Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  Please Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!    Post Roll Promo Swap with Lunatics Radio Hour!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

74 - The Antikythera Mechanism

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 Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  Please Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!   Post Roll Promo Swap with The Reluctant Historian!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

73 - Belle daCosta Greene

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&apos;t like you back, right?Topic: The Jenny Jones Show MurderMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  Please Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!  Post Roll Promo Swap with The Reluctant Historian!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

72 - The Jenny Jones Show Murder

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&apos;m doubly embarrassed we didn&apos;t do this a few days ago for April Fools... Anyways, enjoy the show and we&apos;ll resume regularly scheduled episodes in May!This week Kiley takes a tour of the middle east with an extremely influential policy maker, archeologist, and explorer.Topic: Gertrude BellMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  Please Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form! Post Roll Promo Swap with The Reluctant Historian!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

71 - Gertrude Bell

The stress of, well, the whole last year got to us and we didn't want to admit it. So now we are. BUT that doesn't mean this is goodbye, and it doesn't mean we aren't working on the show! We decided to stop forcing ourselves to try to catch up and instead we are already working on and getting ready to record episodes for May. With this change of tactic Jonathan will be able to come back to doing topics as well instead of just producing, and we will forever have a few months in the bag in case any other worldwide catastrophes occur!We are excited to come back better than ever, and thanks for being great listeners. See you in May!Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com    Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

Announcement - We'll Be Back

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&apos;t back in history for this one.Topic: Henry Sinclair,  Edward Doheny, and one of the most scandalous presidents, Warren G. Harding&apos;s involvement in the Teapot Dome Oil Reserve Scandal.Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com    Post Roll Promo Swap with The Reluctant Historian!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

70 - The Teapot Dome Scandal

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&apos;t drilling for water but... children?Topic: Baby Jessica, The Nations Baby who Fell in a Well.Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com   Post Roll Promo Swap with The Reluctant Historian!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

69 - Baby Jessica

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 Real History of the Moulin Rouge! Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com  Post Roll Promo Swap with The Reluctant Historian!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

68 - Moulin Rouge

This week Kiley dusts of her skirt of bananas, joins the French Resistance, and punches some Nazis.  All in a day&apos;s work, at least it was for Josephine Baker.Topic: The Black Venus of the Jazz Age, Josephine Baker.Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com Post Roll Promo Swap with The Reluctant Historian!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

67 - Josephine Baker

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 EarthMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com   Post Roll Promo Swap with The Reluctant Historian!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

66 - Biosphere 2

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 Infiltrator of Auschwitz.  Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.  You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.halfwit-history.com!  Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com  Post Roll Promo Swap with The Reluctant Historian!Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwithistory)

65 - Witold Pilecki

Hosts Jonathan & Kiley talk about 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 and their mostly silent co-host Bilbo in exploring topics like Space Monkeys, Teleportation, Viking Battles, Death Poems, and more!

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