Presidential Deathmatch
Serious Debates for Serious Times
About the show
History can seem disconnected from your everyday concerns. When was the last time you cared about settling the 49th parallel, deciding whether it was legal to print paper money, or how Hawaii was stolen? Probably never, but that's why you have good friends like Dennis Budde and Aaron Garrett to bring history into the 22nd century and relate the thoroughly insane stories of the United States and the people we foolishly entrust to lead it.
Episodes
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127: Afterparty: Results vs Reality
June 7th, 2023 | Season 3 | 57 mins 43 secs
history, presidents
Before swearing them off entirely the fellas remember the presidential losers one last time to consider what it all means.
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126: Socialist Death Match: Worker's Party v Party of Workers
May 31st, 2023 | Season 3 | 45 mins 43 secs
The fellas wrap up discussion of failed presidential candidates with some of the boldest to ever fail!
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Ideologies: Left v Right
May 24th, 2023 | Season 3 | 16 mins 8 secs
history, presidents, socialism
Aaron takes a pause to talk about whether the "left" and the "right" really exist.
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124: Perennial Candidates: .1% v .10000001%
May 17th, 2023 | Season 3 | 1 hr 16 mins
history, presidents
Aaron and Dennis look at the modern third-party candidates of the United States.
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123: Sophomore Album: Historians v Records
May 10th, 2023 | Season 3 | 34 mins 47 secs
history, politics, presidents, racism, segregation, socialism
The fellas continue to look at independent failures of the late 1900s.
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Dixiecrats: Hosts v Absence
May 3rd, 2023 | Season 3 | 15 mins 43 secs
dixiecrats, history, presidents
Jessica Kelly Garrett guest hosts an episode all about those lovable huggable segregationists: the Dixiecrats!
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121: Indies: Populists v the West
April 26th, 2023 | Season 3 | 45 mins 43 secs
history, presidents
Aaron and Dennis take a look at some American Independents who threw their hat in the ring during the latter half of the 20th century.
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120: Doubles: Wallace v Anderson
April 19th, 2023 | Season 3 | 33 mins 50 secs
Aaron and Dennis are separated by time, space, and fate. Still, they persevere and tell you the life and times of George Wallace and John B. Anderson.
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119: Pop Quiz!: Dennis v Trivia
April 12th, 2023 | Season 3 | 40 mins 17 secs
history, presidents, quiz
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118: Party Crashers: Big Ideas v Middle Class
April 5th, 2023 | Season 3 | 39 mins 46 secs
history, presidents
After the civil war a number of third parties jumped into the scene promising economic reform, agrarian revolution, and urban renewal. Meet the men who killed all that.
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117: Vicky Blood: Ideals v Popularity
March 29th, 2023 | Season 3 | 40 mins 49 secs
An unintentional dive into America's first serious(?) female presidential candidate.
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Yet More Losers: Establishment v Disruption
March 22nd, 2023 | Season 3 | 44 mins 57 secs
history, presidents
More Presidential losers from America's first fifty years!
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Old Losers: Federalists v Popularity
March 15th, 2023 | Season 3 | 33 mins 26 secs
history, rufus king
Dennis and Aaron breakdown some of the oldest losers to the presidency including the scurrilous Charles Pinckney and the avuncular Rufus King: collect them all!
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114: Thought Shapers: Clinton v MacArthur
March 8th, 2023 | Season 3 | 1 hr 4 mins
macarthur, public thought, wwii
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113: Fundraising: Tilden v Barker
March 1st, 2023 | Season 3 | 1 hr 1 min
fundraising, presidents, socialism
We tackle the hottest topics in politics: fundraising, the populists, and the nascent Willennium. Learn more about Samuel Tilden and Wharton Barker, two men who are inconsequential to your life!
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112: De Leonism: Socialists v "Socialists"
February 22nd, 2023 | Season 3 | 49 mins 43 secs
presidents, socialism
Aaron stumbles through the history of America's first Socialist party: The Socialist Labor Party, and along the way has trouble reconciling the goals of socialism versus the fans it attracts.