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 124 episodes available.

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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
June 17, 2025 Counterfactuals: Rome and Hannibal
On today’s episode, we talk about one of the most famous battle in Roman history, when 50,000 Romans were killed in a single day. How would the world be different if that battle went differently?
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55min
June 03, 2025 Counterfactuals: Task Force 34 and Leyte Gulf
On today’s episode, we talk about one of the largest naval battles in history, Leyte Gulf, and the task group that was never created: Task Force 34. A series of decisions often called mistakes led to one of the most famous underdog fights when the small force called Taffy 3 faced down Japanese battleships in the Battle off Samar. If any of those decisions had gone differently, the world might have taken a different path.
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1h 9min
May 20, 2025 Counterfactuals: The Great Lisbon Earthquake
Today we discuss one of the most powerful earthquakes to strike Europe in recorded history, an earthquake which knocked down Lisbon in a single, violent day in 1755. The aftershocks would be felt throughout history, however, as a shocked Europe came to terms with the power of nature. What might have happened if it went a little differently?
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1h 4min
May 06, 2025 Counterfactuals: The Axumite Empire
On today’s episode, we tackle a forgotten empire that once ruled the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, and that once ranked with the likes of Persia, China, and Rome. The mighty Aksum declined before 1000 AD - but what might have happened if it all went a bit differently?
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1h 6min
April 22, 2025 Counterfactuals: The Battle of Tsushima and the 20th Century
On today’s episode we talk about one of the most important naval events in modern history: the pivotal battle of Tsushima, fought during the Russo-Japanese war. The battle was crucial in the rise of Japan as a military and imperial power, setting the stage for huge parts of the 20th century. But what might have happened if it all went different?
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1h 1min
April 08, 2025 Counterfactuals: What if We Used a Different Calendar?
On today’s episode, we talk about Calendars - specificall the Gregorian Calendar, and how and why it became the calendar we all use today. What does the calendar mean to us, and what might it mean if we used a different one?
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1h 2min

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