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.  ✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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 Russia✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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 Movement✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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 Schism✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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 Army✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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!✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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 Orchestra. Recorded in 1951. Transferred and restored from the original RCA Victor mono LP LM-1131. Transfer by Bob Varney. ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ )✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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 )✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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 our website at www.HalfwitPodcasts.com! Reach out, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!

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.✨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, say hello, or suggest a topic at HalfwitPod@gmail.com, or on this form!