The History Guy
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 Deserves to be Remembered. Visit the channel here: www.youtube.com/TheHistoryGuyChannel We believe that history does not have to be boring. At its heart, history is storytelling, and we believe that it should be told with passion and genuine love for the material. History might be tragic, it might be comic, but it is the story of who we are, and we should not be afraid to enjoy that story and be moved by it.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 116
- Years Active
- 2021 - 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 alli…
01:00:22 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
Counterfacutals: WWI and The Battle of the Gulf of Riga
Today we talk about a little remember 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…
01:06:36 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Counterfactuals: Confederate Espionage
On today’s episode we talk about the little remembered espionage side of teh civil war, particualrly the CSA’s more outlandish ideas to take the war to the Union. And of course, we talk abotu what th…
01:05:22 |
Tue 12 Aug 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 pass…
01:04:22 |
Tue 29 Jul 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?
01:04:43 |
Tue 15 Jul 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 o…
01:06:25 |
Tue 01 Jul 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?
00:54:57 |
Tue 17 Jun 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…
01:08:52 |
Tue 03 Jun 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 thr…
01:03:46 |
Tue 20 May 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 1…
01:05:26 |
Tue 06 May 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 …
01:00:59 |
Tue 22 Apr 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…
01:01:16 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
Counterfactuals: The White Ship and the Anarchy
On today’s episode, we visit one of the most significant maritime accidents of the middle ages, when William Adelin, grandson of William the Conqueror and the only legitimate male heir to the throne …
01:03:03 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Counterfactuals: The Forgotten WWII Battle of Thala
On today’s episode, we travel to 1943, and one of the earliest battles American soldiers fought with Nazi Germany, in the mountainous regions of Tunisia. There, the fortuitous arrival of artillery st…
01:02:54 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
Counterfactuals: A World Without Potatoes
On today’s episode of the History Guy Podcast, we talk about one of the most important parts of the Columbian exchange, and possibly the reason that Europe was able to colonize and dominate much of t…
01:04:02 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
Counterfactuals: Viking North America
On today’s episode we tackle the counterfactuals of some of the most popular peoples in history: The Vikings. In the tenth century norse colonists began settling in Greenland, where they found surpri…
01:12:48 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
Counterfactuals: Westward Expansion and Ashley's 100
On this special, 100th episode of The History Guy Podcast, we head back to the 1800s and the beginning of America’s expansion into the Rocky Mountains by taking a look at Ashley’s 100, a group of tra…
01:07:03 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Counterfactuals: What if there were no Transistors?
On today’s episode, we talk about the development of one of some of teh most important communication technologies in history, from the telegraph to the transistor, and what the world might be like if…
01:11:41 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Counterfactuals: The Dmitriads
Ivan the Terrible transformed Russia during his rule, but in a fit of insanity, he seems to have killed his eldest son and heir, leaving the future of the realm uncertain. His youngest, Dmitry, died …
01:16:00 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
Counterfactuals: 732 - The End of Christian Europe?
On today’s episode, we talk about one of the most talked about battles in European History: The 732 battle of Tours. Variously called one of the most important battles in European history or a minor …
01:05:14 |
Tue 17 Dec 2024
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