Halfway Podcast

It might seem like voting is f*cked up now. And it is! But it always has been. Mark and Jay talk about some of the ways it was designed to work exactly as it does.

Part 3 of our 3 part series on the AIDS crisis in the US. The French find the virus that causes AIDS and the Americans try to take credit. As usual.

In the early 80's the government pretended there was no crisis because it was only affecting the gay community. This is Part 2 of the AIDS crisis in the US.

In the late 70s and early 80s a new disease swept across the US and the world. While other governments sprung into action, Ronald Reagan and his administration decided to do less than nothing because it was only affecting the gays.

Italian doctors during the holocaust created a fictitious disease to hide Jews in a Vatican-affiliated hospital.

Some douche bag sailed the ocean blue

the 1500s were wild

Once upon a time... a man with a blue beard CALLED Blue Beard killed 6 wives. His 7th... would also be his last.

On Memorial Day weekend in 1921, white racist assholes across the Frisco railroad tracks in south Tulsa decided to burn the town of Greenwood (known as Black Wall Street) to the ground, killing more than 300 people, and leaving 10,000 homeless. This is the story of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Massacre of 1921.

For more than two decades, a horrifying procedure was used to “treat” mental illness. In the procedure, most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex are severed. This is something we now view as medical barbarism and a trampling of patients’ rights. But for a while, it was not only all they had to try, it was popular. We're talking lobotomy.