Episodios

  • Counterfactuals: Confederate Espionage

    Counterfactuals: Confederate Espionage
    Aug 12 2025
    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 the world might look like if it all happened differently.
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    1 h y 5 m
  • Counterfactuals: The Passenger Pigeon's World

    Counterfactuals: The Passenger Pigeon's World
    Jul 29 2025
    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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    1 h y 4 m
  • Counterfactuals: Did Ketchup Save the World?

    Counterfactuals: Did Ketchup Save the World?
    Jul 15 2025
    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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    1 h y 5 m
  • Counterfactuals: 1983, The World's Most Dangerous Year

    Counterfactuals: 1983, The World's Most Dangerous Year
    Jul 1 2025
    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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    1 h y 6 m
  • Counterfactuals: Rome and Hannibal

    Counterfactuals: Rome and Hannibal
    Jun 17 2025
    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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    55 m
  • Counterfactuals: Task Force 34 and Leyte Gulf

    Counterfactuals: Task Force 34 and Leyte Gulf
    Jun 3 2025
    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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    1 h y 9 m
  • Counterfactuals: The Great Lisbon Earthquake

    Counterfactuals: The Great Lisbon Earthquake
    May 20 2025
    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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    1 h y 4 m
  • Counterfactuals: The Axumite Empire

    Counterfactuals: The Axumite Empire
    May 6 2025
    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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    1 h y 5 m