Halfwit History

Halfwit History

Halfwit Podcasts

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)

Presenting: This Machine Belongs To

Presenting: This Machine Belongs To

Listen Here! ( https://thismachinebelongsto.buzzsprout.com/share ) Hi everybody its Kiley popping in to share the new project that we’ve been working on called "This Machine Belongs To", a psychological horror story told in short 10 minute or less episodes. So while the trailer is family friendly, this show is explicit, meaning it contains more adult language and themes than our normal content. Listener Discretion is advised. We hope you enjoy!  === Credits ===Produced by Halfwit Podcasts ( htt

Apr 1, 2024 • 1:45

Bonus - Japan Trip!

Bonus - Japan Trip!

This week Kiley and Jonathan take you along on their big trip to Japan! Full of fun facts and a few bigger topics like Japanese Bathing Culture and the history of Arcades!Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.H

Sep 25, 2023 • 1:13:53

109 - Ethel Barrymore

109 - Ethel Barrymore

This week Kiley dons the glitz and glam and rubs elbows with some original Hollywood royalty!Topic: The Duchess of Theater, Ethel Barrymore.Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.HalfwitPodcasts.com! Reach out,

Sep 4, 2023 • 30:43

108 - The Whiskey Rebellion

108 - The Whiskey Rebellion

This week Kiley gets a little tipsy and throws a tantrum at taxes! Topic: The 7,000 persons strong protests at Braddock's Field in western Philadelphia as part of the Whiskey Rebellion.Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our we

Aug 1, 2023 • 35:31

107 - The Deer Island Disaster

107 - The Deer Island Disaster

This week Kiley takes a long walk down a stinky tunnel to fix yet another Boston infrastructure disaster.Topic: The Deer Island Sewer Project and Deadly Disaster. Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit our website at www.HalfwitPo

Jul 17, 2023 • 32:46

106 - Pirate William Kidd

106 - Pirate William Kidd

This week Kiley returns to the open seas to collect some booty and show some booty to taunt the navy as part of the crew of the Antigua.Topic: The Pirate to Privateer to Pirate roller coaster of William Kidd. Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, T

Jul 3, 2023 • 38:15

105 - Disney's The Rescuers

105 - Disney's The Rescuers

This week Kiley joins the Rescue Aid Society, hops on an Albatross, and catches a kidnapper and diamond thief!Topic: The critically acclaimed 1977 American animated adventure, The Rescuers!Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit ou

Jun 19, 2023 • 36:32

104 - Homer Adolph Plessy

104 - Homer Adolph Plessy

This week Kiley takes a train ride that challenged the meaning of equal rights.Topic: Plessy v Ferguson***Correction to the episode, there were in fact 9 justices on the supreme court, one was recused from the case due to family illness.Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate & Review us on Podchaser!Yo

Jun 5, 2023 • 47:18

103 - Casper Hauser

103 - Casper Hauser

This week Kiley finds the coolest gravestone quote in existence "Casper Hauser: A Riddle of His Time" and Jonathan gets to writing that request into his will.Topic: Casper Hauser, the German Feral Child who was believed to be a lost Prince.Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate &amp

May 22, 2023 • 27:52

102 - The Diamond Sutra

102 - The Diamond Sutra

This week Kiley takes us waaaay back to the origins of history so we can get an enlightened look at the origins of communication and preservation of that knowledge.Topic: The Diamond Sutra, the earliest printed book.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzs

May 8, 2023 • 44:00

101 - Is Paul McCartney Dead?

101 - Is Paul McCartney Dead?

This week Kiley throws some records on reverse as we talk about the cover up to prevent the lonely hearts of music fans everywhere.Topic: Is Paul McCartney Dead? The Conspiracy that the Beatles replaced Paul after a grizzly crash to boost Abbey Road record sales.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus

Apr 24, 2023 • 42:33

100 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue

100 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue

This week Kiley doffs a deerstalker to unravel the mystery of the first detective fiction narratives!Topic: The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan PoeCasting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The F

Apr 10, 2023 • 31:49

99 - The Stone of Scone

99 - The Stone of Scone

This week Kiley learns not about boulders or rocks, but stones and the miles they've traveled.  Topic: The Christmas Caper of the Coronation Stone of Scone! P.S. - We'll be back soon but are taking a break. Happy Holidays & Happy New Year to all our Halfwit and Historians!   Editor's Note: It's cruel and unusual that Kiley decided to talk about traveling stones when she knew good and well Jonathan's kidney stones have not budged in over a week.  Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the

Dec 19, 2022 • 38:15

98 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia

98 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia

This week Kiley steals the throne from a baby so she can have gender swap galas and repair our broken roadway infrastructure. If only this were a "not so long ago" episode...Topic: Elizabeth Petrovna's Imperial Coup to become Empress of RussiaCasting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in yo

Dec 5, 2022 • 39:46

97 - D. B. Cooper

97 - D. B. Cooper

This week Kiley takes us on a flight to Reno!  But why did she pack parachutes?Topic: The only unsolved sky heist, D. B. Cooper's one way trip with Northwest Airlines, $200,000, and a bomb.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters

Nov 21, 2022 • 36:21

96 - The Disappearance of the Earl of Lucan

96 - The Disappearance of the Earl of Lucan

This week Kiley could have had had it all, wealth, fame, fortune, but instead she developed a gambling addiction and became weirdly focused on ruining my life. Wait no that's our subject for today, Richard John Bingham. Though he did disappear.... I should sleep with one eye open...Topic: Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, Murderer and Figurative.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spo

Nov 8, 2022 • 56:12

95 - The Founding of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

95 - The Founding of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

This week Kiley hits the battlefield with a fancy new emblem that protects her from the wrath of the enemy... as long as the many kingdoms decide to recognize it.Topic: The Founding of the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent MovementCasting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in you

Oct 24, 2022 • 41:08

94 - The Knights Templar

94 - The Knights Templar

This week Kiley joins (yet another) secret organization and swears that there's nothing conspiracy about it. Jonathan is not so sure and looks to Papal Bull: Attorney at Law for more concrete answers.Topic: The Arrest of the Grand Master of The Knights Templar on charges of Idolatry and Corruption.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to hel

Oct 10, 2022 • 36:56

93 - Antipope Benedict XIII

93 - Antipope Benedict XIII

This week Kiley decides that she wants to be Pope. I mean why not? All the cool Popes did it!Topic: Antipope Benedict XIII and the Western SchismCasting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Co

Sep 26, 2022 • 34:36

92 - The Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst

92 - The Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst

This week Kiley joins a guerilla movement for anti-racism, feminism, and overall equality... and it turns out to be a very bad choice. The Hydra Flag maybe should have been a dead give away.Topic: The Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation ArmyCasting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bon

Sep 12, 2022 • 56:25

91 - Judge Joseph Force Crater

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 York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ http

Aug 29, 2022 • 26:27

90 - The Mona Lisa

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!Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/new

Aug 15, 2022 • 29:41

89 - The Brinks Robbery

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 of 1950.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/support

Jan 17, 2022 • 39:03

88 - Alfred Dreyfus

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.Topic: The False Treason of Alfred Dreyfus known as the Dreyfus Affair.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content

Jan 12, 2022 • 30:11

87 - Alice's Restaurant Massacree

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 History of "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" by Arlo Guthrie.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your R

Dec 15, 2021 • 35:27

86 - Symphonie Fantastique

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 Berlioz and his Symphonie Fantastique, one of the most innovative symphonies of the 19th century. "Dream & Passions"..."A Ball"..."Scenes in the Country"..."March to the Scaffold"...and "Dream of the Witches' Sabbath"......by Hector Berlioz and as performed by  Pierre Monteux conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orc

Dec 7, 2021 • 42:55

85 - Zheng Yi Sao (ft. Matt Spaziani)

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 Queen Zheng Yi Sao, Commander of the Guangdong Pirate Confederation. You can support our guest halfwit Matt by visiting their writing website at ( https://vocal.media/authors/matt-spaziani )Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Ap

Nov 15, 2021 • 1:27:39

84 - Atari Video Computer System

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 SystemCasting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day"

Oct 11, 2021 • 24:36

83 - Anita Garibaldi

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 Revolutionary Liberalism.✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and visit o

Sep 20, 2021 • 19:46

82 - Wild Bill Hickok

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 fabrications.Topic: The first murder of Wild Bill Hickok.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS!

Jul 19, 2021 • 41:35

81- P.T. Barnum

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 the episode.Topic: The life of P.T. Barnum and his many opportunistic endeavors.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonu

Jul 5, 2021 • 49:55

80 - The Sony Walkman

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: The Sony Walkman and the revolution of personal music.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your

Jun 28, 2021 • 32:28

79 - The Molly Maguires

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: The Molly Maguires, coal miner unions, and vigilante injustices.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right

Jun 21, 2021 • 40:25

78 - King Phillip's War

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.Topic: Metacomet's War, aka King Phillip's War, aka the deadliest war in American History. Also Massasoit is a title, Ousamequin was the man's name, just another failing in American education.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Ap

Jun 14, 2021 • 46:07

77 - The False Dmitry

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 he stole the throne, and how others assumed his fake identity afterwards.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus conte

Jun 7, 2021 • 39:04

76 - Jack Kevorkian

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 serious the subject is regardless of your side on the very controversial issue.Content Warning: Suicide. Please skip this episode if that'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.✨New: Subscribe

Jun 2, 2021 • 40:51

75 - Mary's Lamb

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 Mary Had a Little Lamb ).Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.

May 24, 2021 • 36:38

74 - The Antikythera Mechanism

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 first computer, The Antikythera Mechanism. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https

May 17, 2021 • 28:18

73 - Belle daCosta Greene

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 Librarian Belle daCosta Greene.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.co

May 10, 2021 • 36:13

72 - The Jenny Jones Show Murder

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, right?Topic: The Jenny Jones Show MurderCasting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.

May 3, 2021 • 41:52

71 - Gertrude Bell

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 few days ago for April Fools... Anyways, enjoy the show and we'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 Bell. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of anci

Apr 4, 2021 • 34:44

Announcement - We'll Be Back

Announcement - We'll Be Back

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 an

Mar 2, 2021 • 5:17

70 - The Teapot Dome Scandal

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 this one.Topic: Henry Sinclair,  Edward Doheny, and one of the most scandalous presidents, Warren G. Harding's involvement in the Teapot Dome Oil Reserve Scandal. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySu

Feb 1, 2021 • 43:42

69 - Baby Jessica

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?Topic: Baby Jessica, The Nations Baby who Fell in a Well. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your

Jan 18, 2021 • 24:59

68 - Moulin Rouge

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 Real History of the Moulin Rouge! Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.bu

Jan 4, 2021 • 36:02

67 - Josephine Baker

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 the Jazz Age, Josephine Baker. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsp

Nov 16, 2020 • 34:37

66 - Biosphere 2

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day

Nov 12, 2020 • 47:41

65 - Witold Pilecki

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 Infiltrator of Auschwitz. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308

Oct 12, 2020 • 38:29

64 - Dr. Mae Jemison

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: Mission Specialist Dr. Mae Jemison, STS-47, and 100 Year Star Ship. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content rig

Oct 11, 2020 • 28:26

63 - The Principality of Sealand

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 Nation Built on an Anti-Aircraft Platform. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https

Sep 16, 2020 • 32:39

62 - Instant Noodles

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Da

Sep 14, 2020 • 35:12

61 - Devil's Island

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 know, the real heinous crimes. Topic: The Penal Colony of French Guiana, commonly known as Devil's Island. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us m

Sep 5, 2020 • 38:13

60 - The WOW! Signal

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 Astronomy. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporter

Sep 2, 2020 • 36:07

59 - MKUltra

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 Intelligence Agency Mind Control Program, MKUltra. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨

Aug 10, 2020 • 52:42

58 - Blue Movie

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 Movie and the Arrest of the Staff of the Garrick Theater. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your R

Aug 10, 2020 • 29:48

57 - The Robin Hood of El Dorado

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another D

Jul 23, 2020 • 34:24

56 - Crystal Palace Cat Show

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 and the first competitive cat show at Crystal Palace in London. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right

Jul 19, 2020 • 37:28

55 - Katipunan

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 Association of the Children of the Nation. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.bu

Jul 9, 2020 • 35:25

54 - The Jersey Devil

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 Truths of the Leeds Monster, the Devil of Leads, the Jersey Devil. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content ri

Jul 9, 2020 • 32:03

53 - The Pied Piper

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic

Jun 22, 2020 • 30:57

52 - Juneteenth

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 Souls of Black Folk"Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson - Public Domain.Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us

Jun 19, 2020 • 56:43

51 - Bloody Tuesday

51 - Bloody Tuesday

Anti-Racism Resources. End chant audio from r/BlackLivesMatter. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate & Review us on Podchaser!You can find us on Faceboo

Jun 8, 2020 • 24:51

50 - Our First Year

50 - Our First Year

This week Kiley and Jonathan look back at the history of the show as we celebrate both our 50th episode and first full year of recording!Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art

Jun 8, 2020 • 57:35

49 - Axis Sally

49 - Axis Sally

Kiley takes a look at a time when women used radio for evil, in a rare trip for us back to WWII.Topic: Mildred Gillars and Rita Zucca's alias Axis Sally, the women who spread Nazi propaganda and fear over the airwaves of World War II. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS!

May 31, 2020 • 28:58

48 - Captain Midnight

48 - Captain Midnight

This week Jonathan teams up with a video terrorist to take down HBO, sort of...Topic: Captain Midnight, aka John R. MacDougall, hijacks HBO's broadcast satellite. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" b

May 31, 2020 • 31:19

47 - Marseillaise-duck

47 - Marseillaise-duck

This week Kiley flexes her history muscles with some bread, a guillotine, and a song in her heart. At least that's all Jonathan understands.Topic: Creation of the French National Anthem, The MarseillaiseLocal Forecast - Elevator Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus

May 20, 2020 • 44:01

46 - Sun's Nemesis

46 - Sun's Nemesis

This week Jonathan travels far, far away, in search of the death star that kills dinosaurs every 26 million years, and will some day come for us!Topic: The Theory of the Dwarf Star Nemesis. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporter

May 19, 2020 • 29:42

45 - Princes in the Tower

45 - Princes in the Tower

This week Kiley takes a twisty trip up the Tower of London as she tries to uncover the mystery of two disappeared princes in a murder most royal.Topic: The Death of King Edward IV, and the disappearance of his sons. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzs

May 13, 2020 • 53:13

44 - Crocodile Hero

44 - Crocodile Hero

This week Jonathan takes the reigns and makes a much needed return trip Down Under, this time sans bad accent, and with more animals. Which is obviously the superior combo in every way.Topic: The Crocodile Hunter. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzspr

May 12, 2020 • 44:35

43 - The Rock Rebound

43 - The Rock Rebound

This week Kiley learns a bit more about where we live when she discovers a forefather of women's bodily autonomy just down the road!Topic: John Rock and the Birth Control Pill. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "

May 2, 2020 • 27:03

42 - Cups & Cults

42 - Cups & Cults

This week Kiley misses the apocalypse and is invited to a sketchy after party, and Jonathan gets baptized in a punch bowl for his first delve into sports.Topics: The Stanley Cup, The Movement for the Restoration for the Ten Commandments of God Cult Mass Murder. Podcast Spotlight: The History Cache. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to he

Apr 20, 2020 • 48:36

41 - Barbarian Barbie

41 - Barbarian Barbie

This week Kiley articulates an innovative toy turned role model, and Jonathan goes to a banquet with some barbarians... what can go wrong?Topics: Odoacer the First Barbarian King of Italy, The History of the Barbie DollPodcast Spotlight: That Was Genius. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content

Apr 9, 2020 • 39:33

40 - Braille Fish

40 - Braille Fish

This week Kiley raises up old letters about the founding of an important school, while Jonathan raises his thumb, much unlike a pile of bricks.Topics: The Founding of Perkins School for the Blind, The 42nd Anniversary of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.  Podcast Spotlight: Ransack History. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzspr

Mar 2, 2020 • 42:10

39 - Dord of the Unown

39 - Dord of the Unown

This week Kiley brings a special dictionary to scrabble night so she can use fake words, and Jonathan visits Dr. Bug, creator of the highest grossing entertainment franchise of all time.Topics: The Accidental Word Dord, Pokemon Day & Twitch Plays Pokemon. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus conten

Feb 27, 2020 • 49:41

38 - Phantom Queen

38 - Phantom Queen

This week Kiley tells the wisest riddles in history that were created by someone who likely didn't exist, while Jonathan gives instant tattoos to some pirates with a good old fashion BIFF! BAM!! KAPOW!!!Topics: The Queen of Sheba, The Phantom! Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in y

Feb 18, 2020 • 48:44

37 - I, Mainer

37 - I, Mainer

This week Kiley spills the beans on what really happens in Maine, while Jonathan discovers that people can be less human than the things we create.Topics: The Pork and Beans War, Rossum's Universal Robots. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/

Feb 14, 2020 • 1:16:30

36 - Oops! All Imposters!

36 - Oops! All Imposters!

This week Kiley hears a rumor in St. Petersburg, while Jonathan bankrupts some corporate shills!Topics: Anna "Anastasia" Anderson, Monopoly / Anti-Monopoly / The Landlords Game. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic:

Feb 5, 2020 • 1:04:56

35 - Aloha Alaska

35 - Aloha Alaska

This week Kiley takes some dogs on a long cold run, and Jonathan does exactly the opposite and strolls through the dynasty of a very tropical monarchy.Topics: The Serum Run with Balto and Togo, Queen Regent Lili'uokalani of the Hawiian Kingdom. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in

Jan 28, 2020 • 1:07:05

34 - Games with Ghosts

34 - Games with Ghosts

This week Kiley loses her head over a ghost who appears at court, and Jonathan rolls a natural one trying to contain his excitement for his topic, and our new project!Topics: The Greenbrier Ghost, Dungeons & Dragons, Halfwits & Failed CritsHalfwits & Failed Crits Theme: Crunk Knight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on

Jan 20, 2020 • 41:28

33 - Water, Earth, Fire, Molasses

33 - Water, Earth, Fire, Molasses

This week Kiley tries to survive a wicked sticky mess, and Jonathan gets told he can't multiply.Topics: The Boston Molasses Flood, The Act Against Multipliers. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by T

Jan 20, 2020 • 42:59

32 - Frozen Empress

32 - Frozen Empress

This week Kiley takes over the Byzantine Empire, by popular vote? Jonathan crawls into a chilly chamber and hopefully smart future people can reanimate him!Topics: Theodora III Queen of the Byzantine Empire, Dr. James Bedford First Cryonaut. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in you

Jan 20, 2020 • 46:34

31 - Canonized Currency

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.Topics: Joan of Arc, Bitcoin. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzs

Jan 13, 2020 • 1:02:32

30 - We Wish You a Merry Fishmas

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 future episodes) will be louder to reflect the industry standard. Sorry if you don't read this before adjusting your volume!Topics: The Origins and History of Silent Night, The Discovery of the Coelacanth. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with

Jan 6, 2020 • 52:41

29 - Founding Felons & Frightful Fairytales

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 First Impeachment of a US Senator, The Brothers Grimm. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your

Jan 5, 2020 • 1:04:54

28 - Blue Eyes Golden Butt

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!Topics: Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe, The Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show,

Jan 5, 2020 • 48:40

27 - Eureka, We're Lost!

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.

Dec 19, 2019 • 1:01:16

26 - Butterflies in the Atmosphere

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 of the Dominican Republic, The First Exoplanet HD 209458 b Osiris the Dying Planet. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and futur

Nov 28, 2019 • 37:15

25 - Hypnotic Hanukkah

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 Brotherhood. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/

Nov 19, 2019 • 43:56

24 - Secrets of Tomorrow

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 Secret Society in the United States, The History of the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow - EPCOT. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make

Nov 11, 2019 • 54:21

23 - Curse of the Zen Master

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 Huikai and The Gateless Barrier. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.bu

Nov 4, 2019 • 1:07:10

22 - Defying Ancestry

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 the discovery of Australopithecus. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.bu

Nov 4, 2019 • 54:41

21 - Blood Priests of Murder Inc

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, The Catonsville Nine. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com

Oct 23, 2019 • 49:41

20 - Yo-Ho Yo-Ho a Killer's Life for Kiley

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 creator of the Jolly Roger. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.c

Oct 17, 2019 • 40:02

19 - The Emperor Has No Prose

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 United States, Death of Edgar Allan Poe. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https:

Oct 7, 2019 • 50:21

18 - HeLa Big Dynamite

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 the LA Times Building by Union Workers. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://

Sep 30, 2019 • 49:45

17 - Gambling Saints

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusi

Sep 24, 2019 • 50:43

16 - H*O*B*B*I*T

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 talking about war.Topics: MASH TV Show, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content ri

Sep 16, 2019 • 53:43

15 - You Meddling Nords!

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 vikings.Topics: Scooby Doo!, The Battle of Svolder. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS!

Sep 9, 2019 • 49:52

14 - The Nefarious Nodule!

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 Own Adventure Books, War with the Evil Power Master (actual play). "It's a New Day" by Skaraj. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, a

Sep 2, 2019 • 1:10:47

13 - First Time for Everything

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 American Play "Bear and Cub" at Fowkes' Tavern, The Guinness Book of World Records. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus

Aug 26, 2019 • 47:43

12 - Mountains & Monsters

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 Monster, Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and the Destruction of Pompeii. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right

Aug 20, 2019 • 51:50

11 - Eldritch Witches

11 - Eldritch Witches

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 of the Pendle Witches. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...L

Aug 12, 2019 • 1:04:02

10 - Prudes & Nudes

10 - Prudes & Nudes

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in yo

Aug 5, 2019 • 46:23

9 - Axes & Taxes

9 - Axes & Taxes

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzspr

Jul 29, 2019 • 50:21

8 - Tinker, Tailor, Zombie, Spy

8 - Tinker, Tailor, Zombie, Spy

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "A

Jul 22, 2019 • 1:00:20

7 - Kidnapping Plants

7 - Kidnapping Plants

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show

Jul 15, 2019 • 1:06:40

6 - Super Wizard World

6 - Super Wizard World

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzz

Jul 8, 2019 • 51:11

5 - Save Outlaw Shirley

5 - Save Outlaw Shirley

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us ma

Jul 1, 2019 • 1:00:50

4 - Dance with the Devil

4 - Dance with the Devil

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS!

Jun 24, 2019 • 45:06

3 - Great Scotts!

3 - Great Scotts!

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe o

Jun 17, 2019 • 56:45

2 - Death Poems & Dead Monkeys

2 - Death Poems & Dead Monkeys

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spo

Jun 10, 2019 • 46:13

1 - Stuperstars

1 - Stuperstars

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. Casting Through Ancient GreeceA podcast about the history of ancient Greece for people new to and familiar with...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your

Jun 3, 2019 • 59:21

Halfwit History (Trailer)

Halfwit History (Trailer)

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) ✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content right in your RSS! ✨ https://www.buzzsprout.com/308030/supporters/newMusic: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.Cover Art by LezullaPlease Rate

Jun 2, 2019 • 0:37

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