web02.fireside.fm Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:28:27 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Presidential Deathmatch - Episodes Tagged with “Wwii” https://pdm.fireside.fm/tags/wwii Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0600 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. af episodic Serious Debates for Serious Times Pronoia Theater 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. no history, comedy, presidents Pronoia Theater garrett.aaron@gmail.com 114: Thought Shapers: Clinton v MacArthur https://pdm.fireside.fm/114 693b236c-9b87-42db-85f3-72696aa4d4c1 Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0600 Pronoia Theater full 3 Pronoia Theater 1:04:43 no It's a heady episode this week as we examine the success and failures of two real presidents (Wilson and FDR) in shaping public perception of wars that defined their administrations and compare the exploits of two non-presidents (DeWitt Clinton and Douglas MacArthur) and how they attempted to shape reality around them. Special thanks to Jason Jonathan Rivas who graciously let his thesis, _Scripting Memory: Hollywood, The Federal Government and Public Memory in WWII, be the foundation of this episode. Send retractions to contact@pronoiatheater.com Support the show at paypal.me/pronoiatheater or venmo: @pronoia Douglas MacArthur, DeWitt Clinton, History, Comedy, America It's a heady episode this week as we examine the success and failures of two real presidents (Wilson and FDR) in shaping public perception of wars that defined their administrations and compare the exploits of two non-presidents (DeWitt Clinton and Douglas MacArthur) and how they attempted to shape reality around them.

Special thanks to Jason Jonathan Rivas who graciously let his thesis, _Scripting Memory: Hollywood, The Federal Government and Public Memory in WWII, be the foundation of this episode.

Send retractions to contact@pronoiatheater.com

Support the show at paypal.me/pronoiatheater or venmo: @pronoia

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Special thanks to Jason Jonathan Rivas who graciously let his thesis, _Scripting Memory: Hollywood, The Federal Government and Public Memory in WWII, be the foundation of this episode.

Send retractions to contact@pronoiatheater.com

Support the show at paypal.me/pronoiatheater or venmo: @pronoia

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