Presidential Deathmatch - Episodes Tagged with “Presidents”

127: Afterparty: Results vs Reality

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0500

It's over! After 196 (or 197, who's counting) Presidential losers the genie curse has been lifted and Aaron and Dennis can talk about whatever they want again. Which is presidential losers, as it turns out.

Before leaving them behind forever Aaron and Dennis consider a list of Also-ran historical rankings and make their own, before re-answering the natural question of who they would have wanted for president anyway.

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Ideologies: Left v Right

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 24 May 2023 05:00:00 -0500

The boys manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory! Editing is taking a little long this week so Aaron talks about Hyrum and Verlan Lewis' book The Myth of Left and Right which asserts that Left and Right are not only unhelpful labels for political ideas, but are instead post hoc creations to justify a disparate set of beliefs! It's a hoot.

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124: Perennial Candidates: .1% v .10000001%

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 17 May 2023 07:00:00 -0500

In what must be a first for Presidential Death-Match Dennis and Aaron fall into two substantive discussions over the course of the episode. Luckily there's plenty of silliness inbetween as they look at the remains of third parties since the year 2000.

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123: Sophomore Album: Historians v Records

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 10 May 2023 08:00:00 -0500

Aaron and Dennis are back from their respective travails to finish their discussion on failed independent candidates (and successful racists) of the late 1900s!

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Dixiecrats: Hosts v Absence

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 03 May 2023 07:00:00 -0500

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

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:00:00 -0500

We know that no third party or independent has ever successfully become president- but not for lack of trying! Aaron and Dennis begin to take a look at the 1950s and beyond during a time of fringe candidates fighting for the restoration of segregation (and other melancholy times)!

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119: Pop Quiz!: Dennis v Trivia

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:00:00 -0500

Due to a big rock getting rolled away Dennis and Aaron are momentarily reflecting on the last season's episodes and checking in to see how much Dennis retained.

Did Ulysses Grant's horse get any electoral vote? Who wanted a third term? And who was Orval Fauvus? All these questions and little else are answered on this edition of Presidential Death Match!

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118: Party Crashers: Big Ideas v Middle Class

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 06:00:00 -0500

After a rousing bout with Vicky Blood last week Aaron and Dennis return to the business of dressing down some people who history chose to forgot. Did you know the inventor of Jell-O ran for president, and that he is the oldest person to do so? Or that the corrupting influence of politics turned a labor reformer into a white supremicist? It's all inside this episode of Presidential Death Match!

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Yet More Losers: Establishment v Disruption

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:00:00 -0500

Aaron and Dennis jump so quickly into it you'd swear they were already recording!

In-between sloppy jokes and in-depth analysis of early American party politics they talk about the rest of the failed Presidential aspirants from 1824-1852, and in case you were wondering, yes we do talk about Governor John Floyd of the Nullifer party.

So many years people have been crying "when are you going to talk about Governor John Floyd of the Nullifer party?!" "If you don't talk about Governor John Floyd of the Nullifer party I'm cancelling my subscription!" "Give me Governor John Floyd of the Nullifer party or give me death!" Well, we've listened and today, you get to hear our thoughts on the man. I hope the wait was worth it.

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113: Fundraising: Tilden v Barker

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 04:00:00 -0600

In this 23rd year of our new Willenium we look at two nineteenth-century titans of the only industries that matter in America: banking and cannabis medicine, and how they'd do at fundraising for their various causes.

Can Samuel Tilden finally notch a win in our topsy-turvey system or will our current model of small-dollar donations leave him as cold as he was all his life?

Also, we had fedualism in America! Who knew?

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112: De Leonism: Socialists v "Socialists"

Pronoia Theater — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -0600

Another deep dive into a dying political party!

The Socialist Labor Party is America's first socialist party, and it enjoyed (qualified) success in its early years. A series of schisms over proper application of theory drove the membership down and today it is a dessicated corpse of what it once was. How did Socialism express itself in the late 1800s, what did it want, what did it get, and how are they connected to a late 19th century novel about the abolition of prostitution? Find out!

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