Podcast
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: 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?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Nuclear Disaster Aboard K-219
Feb 2401:02:26Tap to summarizeOn 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?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Samoan Crisis of 1889
Feb 1000:55:39Tap to summarizeOn 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 end to human ambition. But what if it had gone differently?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: Wine Extinction
Jan 2700:59:46Tap to summarizeOn 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.
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: The Sensational 1876 Election
Jan 1301:01:14Tap to summarizeOn 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.
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: The Mutiny That Almost Lost the Revolution
Dec 3001:04:49Tap to summarizeOn 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.
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: The Battle of the Bulge at Elsenborn Ridge
Dec 1601:07:07Tap to summarizeOn today's episode, we talk about a forgotten part of the Battle of the Bulge - Elsenborn Ridge, where outnumbered allied units held against veteran German divisions, and what the chances were that the Reich could have turned the tide in 1944.
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: The Last Invasion of Britain
Dec 201:01:10Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode we talk about what is often called the last invasion of mainland Britain - a disastrous and almost farcical series of blunders that ended in abject disaster. But what if it didn’t?
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: What if the Chicken Didn't Cross the Road?
Nov 1801:09:53Tap to summarizeToday we talk about the most numerous bird on the planet - the chicken - and how the world might be different if we never domesticated it.
Transcribe →Counterfactuals: USS Boston and the New Navy
Oct 2101:03:41Tap to summarizeOn 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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