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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Poe

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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.  

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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