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.Check us out at www.halfwaynetwork.com and @halfwaynetwork on instagram.

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.For more shows like this visit www.halfwaynetwork.com

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.For more shows like this visit www.halfwaynetwork.com

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.For more shows like this visit www.halfwaynetwork.com

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.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

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.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

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.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

On September 7th, 1997, hunters in Piegan National Forest in North Carolina found human bones, clothes, and other items scattered in the woods near a campground. The remains were mostly centered around a shallow grave and belonged to a woman between 40-55 years old with a seriously arthritic knee. Here is the disappearance and death of Judy Smith.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

The true story of Pocahantas and her dealing with John Smith and Jamestown.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

On October 26, 1440 Joan of Arc's friend, knight and lord Gilles de Rais was hanged and then thrown into a fire. This was a super popular thing to do in Europe at the time. We know this happened to millions of women accused of witchcraft. But Gilles had a more insidious crime than that: kidnapping, raping, and killing kids.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

Part 2 of our 2-part series.On the afternoon of Friday, March 21, 1980, 32-year-old Howard Witkins sat in his private office in California composing a brief letter to his three kids. Marie, 13; Danny, 10; and 2-year-old Nathan. He had no idea this would be the last day of his short life. This is the story of Howard Witkins, Bob Singer, and Judi Barnett.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

On the afternoon of Friday, March 21, 1980, 32-year-old Howard Witkins sat in his private office in California composing a brief letter to his three kids. Marie, 13; Danny, 10; and 2-year-old Nathan. He had no idea this would be the last day of his short life. This is the story of Howard Witkins, Bob Singer, and Judi Barnett.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

Mark talks about a Slovic folklore witch and the stories around herMusic: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

an unlikely event happened in Roswell, New Mexico during the late 1940'sMusic: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

During World War I a pandemic infected about one-third of the entire earth's population. In just 2 years 3% of the entire world's population would be dead.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

Mark and Jay talk about the history, beliefs and debunk some of the myths around VoodooMusic: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

A tragedy in Northern Idaho. In 1992 the Weaver family, headed by Randy and Vicky Weaver, had gotten themselves mixed up with Nazis. Then they pissed off the federal government.NOTE: This is an irreverent take on a tragic story, the moral of which is: don't hang out with Nazis. There's a great documentary on Netflix if you want a more stoic/serious take on events as-they-happened.Episode 1 of Halfway Podcast. this episode was originally recorded as a cross episode for halfway to thunder town and Helpdesk Nightmares.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

In the early 1900s, a shirtwaist factory caught on fire. After just a few minutes, over 100 young women would be dead. And it was all completely avoidable.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

Post-WWII German, a family of 5 and their maid are brutally bludgeoned and hacked to death in their farmhouse an hour outside of Munich. To this day, no one knows why exactly that happened, or who did it.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

In 1932, a group of right-wing bankers thought they could convince President Franklin Roosevelt to relinquish power to basically a fascist, military-type government.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast

President Abraham Lincoln wasn’t the only casualty of the assassination carried out by the now infamous John Wilkes Booth in 1865. Henry Rathbone in the aftermath went a little “The Shining” on his family and slowly deteriorated.Music: Jay @Halfway NetworkVisit us at www.halfwaynetwork.comInstagram: @halfway.podcast