Presidential Deathmatch

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.