Presidential Deathmatch

Serious Debates for Serious Times

Presidential Deathmatch

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

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 119: Pop Quiz!: Dennis v Trivia

    April 12th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  40 mins 17 secs
    history, presidents, quiz

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 114: Thought Shapers: Clinton v MacArthur

    March 8th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 4 mins
    macarthur, public thought, wwii

  • 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!

  • 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.