A Fork In Time

A Fork In Time: The Alternate History Podcast

History EN ↓ 322 episodes

Explore the realm of alternate histories as we explore the "what ifs" that can flow from history's most pivotal moments. Each episode will focus on a specific moment in time--the fork--where history could have taken a different path. A Fork In Time encourages contributions and participation by our community of listeners who have become an integral and vital part of the show. This feed is also the home of our companion show, The Room Where It Happened, featuring the team looking at significant historical events without the alternative prespective.

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Episodes

Ep 299- Taxation with Some Representation 10.07.2026 1:08:05

Send a Message to the Team In the second instalment of 'Murica Month, we look at the possible outcome of the colonies being granted representation in Parliament. Panel: Evan and Chris We are working on the following topics for the rest of 'Murica Month (release order TBD)- What if the patriot forces hadn't won at the Battle of Saratoga? What if George Washington and the rest of the...

Ep 298- Eggs Benedict Arnold 03.07.2026 1:14:10

Send a Message to the Team In the first instalment of 'Murica Month, the team examines what would have happened if Benedict Arnold did not try to sell West Point to the British. Panel: Evan and Chris We are working on the following topics for the rest of 'Murica Month (release order TBD)- What if the patriot forces hadn't won at the Battle of Saratoga? What if the colonies were offe...

Ep 297- Four More for Fillmore 26.06.2026 1:15:27

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, we examine a scenario where Millard Fillmore comes out of retirement to run for president again, actually makes a mark in history, and forces our team to come up with a new password for their online gaming. Panel: Evan and Kai You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.faceboo...

Ep 296- Lumumba's Longevity 19.06.2026 1:04:21

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the team looks at a different outcome of the 1960 Congo Crisis. Panel: Evan and Chris. You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want to support it financially, you can help by: Su...

Ep 295- Napoleon's Hemorrhoids No 1-Leech Wedding 12.06.2026 58:14

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, we look what could have happened if Napoleon's doctors would have remembered to pack their leeches. Panel: Dylan and Chris. You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want to s...

Ep 294- The One With Werwolfs, Vampires, and Vat 69 05.06.2026 1:05:18

Send a Message to the Team In this entry, the team looks at what might have happened if Eisenhower didn't trust the weather predictions and called of D-Day. Panel: Dylan and Chris. You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast...

Ep 293- He Chose Poorly 29.05.2026 1:00:38

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the team examines different political choices of a young Romanian peasant, Nicolae Ceaușescu. Panel: Chris and Dylan This episode was inspired by an episode of Behind the Bastards- Part 1 is linked below : https://open.spotify.com/episode/1NoXdLA3oLIfKOosIZtGcl You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEm...

Ep 292- Sonic's Chipset Reset 22.05.2026 1:13:48

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, we look at what might have happened if Sonic Xtreme had been able to use the best available 3D rendering available to SEGA. Panel: Evan and Kai. You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podca...

Ep 291- The Commonwealth Cretan Caper 15.05.2026 1:03:57

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, team returns Reuben James fork, exploring the US and UK not fighting in the Pacific War. Panel: Dylan, Evan, and Chris. Previous Episode in this Arc- Ep 289- The Reuben James Reverberation You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodca...

Ep 290- The Suez Switch 08.05.2026 57:33

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, we look at what would happen if the World Bank decided to fund the Aswan High Dam project. Panel: Dylan, Evan and Chris. You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want to support...

Ep 289- The Reuben James Reverberation 01.05.2026 1:07:04

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the team examines the result of Japan attacking just the Dutch East Indies in December, 1941. Panel: Dylan, Evan and Chris. You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want to suppo...

Ep 288-Butler's Bonus Battalion 24.04.2026 1:10:24

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, team returns the Nicaragua Canal arc..to Nicaragua, or at least the Western Hemisphere. Panel: Evan and Chris. Previous Episode in this Arc- Ep 282- WW- Friends of the Pod You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Ch...

Ep 287- The Marilyn Distraction 17.04.2026 59:48

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the team examines the late 1960's turned on their head by LBJ loosing a primary election 20 years before. Panel: Dylan and Chris Previous Episode in this Arc- Ep 285- The Johnson City Windmill You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @...

Ep 286- The Beer Hall KaPutsch 10.04.2026 1:13:21

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the team examines a Weimar Republic without the Austrian Painter. Panel: Dyaln and Evan You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want to support it financially, you can help by:...

Ep 285- The Johnson City Windmill 03.04.2026 1:02:10

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, we look at Kennedy presidency without LBJ. Panel: Dyaln and Chris Previous Episode in this Arc- Ep 283- The Magical, Mystery Box 13 You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want...

Ep 284- The Progressive Permutations 27.03.2026 1:05:54

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the team looks at several different outcomes of a successful assassination attempt on William Howard Taft. Panel: Evan, Kai, and Chris Previous Episode in this Arc- Ep 278- 24 KM's on the Nicaragua Canal You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime...

Ep 283- The Magical, Mystery Box 13 20.03.2026 57:39

Send a Message to the Team The team looks at a different outcome of one precinct in one county in the entire state of Texas in the 1948 democratic senate primary. Panel: Dylan and Chris You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast...

Ep 282- WW- Friends of the Pod 13.03.2026 1:10:32

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the team continues the Nicaragua Canal series looking at the possible effects on WW1. Panel: Dylan, Chris, and Evan Previous Episode in this Arc- Ep 278- 24 KM's on the Nicaragua Canal You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodc...

Ep 281- Seward with a Vengence 06.03.2026 1:11:56

Send a Message to the Team The Team finishes(?) the story arch of William Seward winning the Republican nomination in 1860. Panel: Dylan, Chris, and Evan You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want to support it financia...

Ep 280- The George With the Dragon Tattoo 27.02.2026 1:09:25

Send a Message to the Team The Team looks a different outcome in Northwest Asia that prevents the Russo-Japanese War. Panel: Dylan, Chris, Evan, and Kai Note- I (Chris) know the episode art is Czar Nicholas, but it is pretty amazing I could find even that. I also very much confused the tour guide at Canada's parliament on a family trip when I asked why they had a portrait of a Russian Czar (...

Ep 279- For Better or Worst-ershire 20.02.2026 1:03:37

Send a Message to the Team The Team looks at a world without Worchestershire (sauce). Panel: Dylan and Chris You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want to support it financially, you can help by: Supporting us monthly v...

Ep 278- 24 KM's on the Nicaragua Canal 13.02.2026 1:09:58

Send a Message to the Team The Team examines a scenario where US filibusters take over Nicaragua pre US Civil War, and what that means for the future of a canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Panel: Dylan, Chris, and Evan You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcas...

Ep 277- Seward's Swap 06.02.2026 1:12:00

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the team Continues to look at the implications of William Seward winning the Republican nomination in 1860, and eventually the presidency. Panel: Dylan, Kai, and Evan You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel...

Ep 276- Timur The Not So Lame 30.01.2026 59:22

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the team examines a different succession of Tamerlane. Panel: Dylan, Kai, and Evan You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want to support it financially, you can help by: Suppo...

Ep 275- The Wigwam Withdrawl 23.01.2026 1:07:03

Send a Message to the Team In this episode, the podcast looks at a different outcome of the 1860 Republican National Convention. Panel: Dylan, Chris, and Evan You can follow and interact with A Fork In Time on…. Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xhZEmZMKFS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aforkintime Twitter: @AFITPodcast Our YouTube Channel If you enjoy the podcast and want to support it fin...