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

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Bonus - Japan Trip!

Sep 25th, 2023 1h 13m

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, a

109 - Ethel Barrymore

Sep 4th, 2023 30m 43s

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 i

108 - The Whiskey Rebellion

Aug 1st, 2023 35m 31s

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 ma

107 - The Deer Island Disaster

Jul 17th, 2023 32m 46s

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 futur

106 - Pirate William Kidd

Jul 3rd, 2023 38m 15s

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

105 - Disney's The Rescuers

Jun 19th, 2023 36m 32s

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 u

104 - Homer Adolph Plessy

Jun 5th, 2023 47m 18s

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

103 - Casper Hauser

May 22nd, 2023 27m 52s

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.Supp

102 - The Diamond Sutra

May 8th, 2023 43m 13s

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.Support the show✨New: Subscr

101 - Is Paul McCartney Dead?

Apr 24th, 2023 41m 46s

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

100 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Apr 10th, 2023 31m 2s

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 PoeSupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus

99 - The Stone of Scone

Dec 19th, 2022 37m 28s

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 al

98 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia

Dec 5th, 2022 38m 59s

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 RussiaS

97 - D. B. Cooper

Nov 21st, 2022 35m 34s

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.Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help u

96 - The Disappearance of the Earl of Lucan

Nov 8th, 2022 55m 25s

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.

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

Oct 24th, 2022 40m 22s

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 MovementSu

94 - The Knights Templar

Oct 10th, 2022 36m 10s

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

93 - Antipope Benedict XIII

Sep 26th, 2022 33m 49s

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 SchismSupport the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us make the show, and future bonus content ri

92 - The Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst

Sep 12th, 2022 55m 38s

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 Symbi

91 - Judge Joseph Force Crater

Aug 29th, 2022 25m 40s

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.Support the sho

90 - The Mona Lisa

Aug 15th, 2022 28m 54s

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!Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to help us ma

89 - The Brinks Robbery

Jan 17th, 2022 38m 16s

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.Support the show✨New: Subscribe on Buzzsprout to hel

88 - Alfred Dreyfus

Jan 12th, 2022 29m 24s

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 Drey

87 - Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Dec 15th, 2021 34m 40s

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.Suppo