The History Guy

By Lance and Josh Geiger

If you love history, this is the podcast for you! Stories of forgotten history, presented by Josh Geiger with Lance Geiger, The History Guy, from the hit YouTube channel The History Guy: History Deser... more

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The podcast currently has 120 episodes available.

The History Guy episodes:

November 18, 2025 Counterfactuals: What if the Chicken Didn't Cross the Road?
Today we talk about the most numerous bird on the planet - the chicken - and how the world might be different if we never domesticated it.
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1h 10min
October 21, 2025 Counterfactuals: USS Boston and the New Navy
On today’s episode, we talk about some of the first steel-hulled ships the United States ever built, and how those first few ships might have set the tone for the entire 20th century.
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1h 4min
October 07, 2025 Counterfactuals: The Three Kingdoms - or not?
On today’s episode, we venture to Asia to talk about a battle that determined the course of Chinese history, and that has become such an integral part of Chinese historical mythology that it is sometimes difficult to sort fact from fiction. What might have changed if the battle went a different way?
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1h 6min
September 24, 2025 Counterfactuals: Just How Foundational IS Concrete?
On today’s episode we talk about one of the most ubiquitous human creations in the modern world: Concrete. What would the modern world look like without this grey material we all take for granted?
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1h 3min
September 09, 2025 Counterfactuals: Roosevelt and Churchill at Christmas, 1941
On today’s episode, we talk about a little-remembered presidential visit in the wake of Pearl Harbor - Christmas, 1941, when Winston Churchill risked the U-boats of the Atlantic to visit his new allies in the White House.
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1h 1min
August 26, 2025 Counterfacutals: WWI and The Battle of the Gulf of Riga
Today we talk about a little remembered battle that could have been a turning point in the First World War - a battle between the German High Seas fleet and the Russian Baltic fleet in the Gulf of Riga.
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1h 7min
August 12, 2025 Counterfactuals: Confederate Espionage
On today’s episode we talk about the little remembered espionage side of the civil war, particularly the CSA’s more outlandish ideas to take the war to the Union. And of course, we talk about what the world might look like if it all happened differently.
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1h 6min
July 29, 2025 Counterfactuals: The Passenger Pigeon's World
On today’s episode we talk about a bird that was once so numerous that Americans thought it would be impossible to kill them all. Until, suddenly, they did. What might the world look like if the passenger pigeon hadn’t gone extinct?
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1h 5min
July 15, 2025 Counterfactuals: Did Ketchup Save the World?
On today’s episode we talk about the incredible popularity and influence of an odd product: Ketchup. What would the world be like without it?
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1h 5min
July 01, 2025 Counterfactuals: 1983, The World's Most Dangerous Year
On today’s podcast we talk about the year 1983 - called by some “the most dangerous year” in modern history. In the fall of that year, Western and Communist powers may have nearly stumbled into the one thing that neither side wanted - all-out nuclear war. How might the world be different if that close call went another way?
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1h 7min

FAQs about The History Guy:

How many episodes does The History Guy have?

The podcast currently has 120 episodes available.

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