Presidential Deathmatch
Serious Debates for Serious Times
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.