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The Conversation

The Restaurant Guys are thrilled to host Lance Geiger, The History Guy. He has a prolific YouTube channel as well as a podcast where he presents history in bite-sized chunks. Lance tells stories about mustard, the banana trade and even poisonings. Listen to Lance! He could save your life. 

The Inside Track

The Guys have watched many of The History Guy episodes on numerous topics. They talk with Lance about his motivation for his varied channel.

“Part of it is because to really understand the present, we need to understand the past and try to remember accurately rather than this kind of constant process of rewriting the past to match our present.

But part of it is just because it's a good story. It's fun. It's a channel that's intended to entertain you because I think history sometimes tells better stories than Hollywood does,” Lance Geiger, The History Guy on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2025

Bio

Lance Geiger earned a college degree in history while working summers at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota and Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Pennsylvania. Then he attended graduate school for speech communication and began teaching at Northern Arizona University.

He started The History Guy channel in 2017 after being laid off from his job in insurance. By 2018 it had exploded amassing millions of views and thousands of followers. The channel currently has over a thousand videos and 1.5 million subscribers.

Info

The History Guy on YouTube

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