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The History Guy

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 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.

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S2 · E142
September 22 · 1 hr 2 min
Counterfactuals: Stainless Steel
Welcome to the History Guy Podcast: Counterfactuals. What is a counterfactual? At it’s most basic, it is a ‘what if’. It’s a way of understanding history as it is by discussing what it could have been. Today we talk about an incredible material that...
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S2 · E141
September 8 · 1 hr 3 min
Counterfactuals: The Great Library
Welcome to the History Guy Podcast: Counterfactuals. What is a counterfactual? At it’s most basic, it is a ‘what if’. It’s a way of understanding history as it is by discussing what it could have been. On today’s episode, we talk about one of the...
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S2 · E140
August 25 · 1 hr 8 min
Counterfactuals: The Russian Civil War and the Polar Bears
Welcome to the History Guy Podcast: Counterfactuals. What is a counterfactual? At it’s most basic, it is a ‘what if’. It’s a way of understanding history as it is by discussing what it could have been. On today’s episode, we talk about a little...
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S2 · E139
August 12 · 1 hr 5 min
Counterfactuals: Smith v. Allwright and Civil Rights
Welcome to the History Guy Podcast: Counterfactuals. What is a counterfactual? At it’s most basic, it is a ‘what if’. It’s a way of understanding history as it is by discussing what it could have been. Today we talk about a 1944 supreme court...
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S2 · E138
July 28 · 1 hr 2 min
Counterfactuals: The 1844 Princeton Explosion
Welcome to the History Guy Podcast: Counterfactuals. What is a counterfactual? At it’s most basic, it is a ‘what if’. It’s a way of understanding history as it is by discussing what it could have been. On today’s episode we talk about the deadliest...
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S2 · E137
July 14 · 1 hr 6 min
Counterfactuals: 1527 Sack of Rome
On today’s episode, we talk about an event often thought to have ended the “High Renaissance” period: the sack of Rome by a mutinous contingent of German and Spanish mercenaries in May, 1527. Often forgotten, it had a profound impact on history.
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S2 · E136
June 30 · 1 hr
Counterfactuals: Rabies
Welcome to the History Guy Podcast: Counterfactuals. What is a counterfactual? At it’s most basic, it is a ‘what if’. It’s a way of understanding history as it is by discussing what it could have been. Today, we talk about one of the deadliest...
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S2 · E135
June 16 · 1 hr 3 min
Counterfactuals: Going Up? - Elevators
On today’s episode we talk about an unsung hero of the modern age: the elevator. Without them, the world wouldn’t be the same.
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S2 · E134
June 2 · 1 hr 3 min
Counterfactuals: John Hay and the 20th Century
On today’s episode we talk about a man whose influence on the trajectory of American history is undeniable and pervasive, but whose name you may never have heard of: John Hay, a secretary to President Lincoln and Secretary of State under Mckinley and...
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S2 · E133
May 19 · 58 min
Counterfactuals: Paardeberg - Canada's Most Important Battle?
On today’s episode we talk about a pivotal battle in a poorly remembered war: The battle of Paardeberg in the Second Anglo-Boer War. The war would consolidate all of South Africa under British Colonial rule, and radically transform the Canadian...
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S2 · E132
May 5 · 1 hr 5 min
Counterfactuals - Battle of Westport
On today’s episode, we talk about a little remembered campaign of the Civil War fought west of the Mississippi, when a former Missouri governor attempted to shake things up as hope for the south dwindled. Ultimately it all went wrong - but what if it...
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S2 · E131
April 21 · 1 hr 2 min
Counterfactuals - War, Mosquitoes, and Human History
On today’s episode, we talk about an incredibly deadly creature, which has determined the course of nearly all human history just by existing: The Mosquito. How has the mosquito determined the course of war, and what wars might have gone differently...
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S2 · E130
April 7 · 1 hr 3 min
Counterfactuals: Sticky History of Duct Tape
On today’s episode, we talk about something that has held together history, literally. Even though there’s probably a roll in just about every household in America, we often overlook the utility and ubiquity of duct tape. But what would we do without it?
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S2 · E129
March 24 · 1 hr
Counterfactuals: Japan's Turning Point at Shimonoseki Straits
On today’s episode, we talk about the USS Wyoming and the 1863 battle of the Shiminoseki Straits - a seemingly minor event overshadowed by the American Civil War. But this battle might have altered the course of history.
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S2 · E128
March 10 · 1 hr
Counterfactuals: The Plastic Revolution
On today’s episode we talk about the first commercially successful ‘plastic’, the beginning of the plastic revolution that has so altered human society. But what if it happened differently?
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S2 · E127
February 24 · 1 hr 2 min
Counterfactuals: Nuclear Disaster Aboard K-219
On today’s episode, we talk about a soviet submarine disaster in the Atlantic, which averted potentially disastrous outcomes only by the heroism of its crew. But what might have happened if it went differently?
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S2 · E126
February 10 · 55 min
Counterfactuals: Samoan Crisis of 1889
On today’s episode, we talk about the beautiful islands of Samoa, which were the background to a clash between the relatively nascent empires of the United States and Germany in the 1880s. As the crisis came to a head, however, nature put a dramatic...
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S2 · E125
January 27 · 59 min
Counterfactuals: Wine Extinction
On today's episode, we discuss the Blight that nearly wiped out wine, and how wine and indeed the world might be different if it had unfolded differently.
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S2 · E124
January 13 · 1 hr 1 min
Counterfactuals: The Sensational 1876 Election
On today’s episode we talk about one of the most fraught elections in American history, where violence, initmidation and outright fraud precipitated a constitutional crisis - the 1876 election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden.
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S2 · E123
Dec 30, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
Counterfactuals: The Mutiny That Almost Lost the Revolution
On today’s episode, we talk about the mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line on New Years Day, 1781, and how it might have altered the trajectory of the American Revolution, and everything after.
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