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The History Guy
Hosted by Lance and Josh Geiger · EN
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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Counterfactuals: 1527 Sack of Rome
2d ago01:06:09Tap to summarizeOn 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.
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Rabies
2w ago01:00:20Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 diseases in human history, and one we often don’t think about at all today: Rabies. How has it changed the world, and what might be different without it?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Going Up? - Elevators
Jun 1601:03:06Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode we talk about an unsung hero of the modern age: the elevator. Without them, the world wouldn’t be the same.
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: John Hay and the 20th Century
Jun 201:03:44Tap to summarizeOn 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 Teddy Roosevelt. What might the world be like without him?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Paardeberg - Canada's Most Important Battle?
May 1900:58:46Tap to summarizeOn 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 military. But what if it didn’t?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals - Battle of Westport
May 501:05:37Tap to summarizeOn 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 didn’t?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals - War, Mosquitoes, and Human History
Apr 2101:02:24Tap to summarizeOn 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 if it didn’t exist?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Sticky History of Duct Tape
Apr 701:03:35Tap to summarizeOn 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?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Japan's Turning Point at Shimonoseki Straits
Mar 2401:00:47Tap to summarizeOn 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.
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: The Plastic Revolution
Mar 1001:00:03Tap to summarizeOn 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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