Presidential Deathmatch

The news is contentious! Was it contentious in the past? It was. Aaron takes a trip back to the 70’s to look at two fringe candidates on either side of Roe v Wade to explore how we got to where we are. It’s sure to not be controversial! Honestly it’s just two short biographies of two presidential candidates who happened to have strong views on abortion. It’s a great time.

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It's Dennis' birthday! He's gone, but Aaron explores the deeper meaning of Dennis and the presidential candidate from his current location. It's a short episode full of rough people- just the way Dennis would like it. 

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We weren't gonna let the 50th anniversary of Watergate pass without comment! Why would you suspect such a thing? 

Today on the program Dennis is roaming the Earth so Aaron does a solo show on George McGovern the man destined for overwhelming defeat that Nixon still thought he had to spy on. 

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Dennis and Aaron spent the last few weeks losing the classic board game Diplomacy! They invite on fellow players Andrew Stout and Ty Budde to discuss how the game mirrors real life Diplomacy, and the opportunties squandered by past Presidential candidates.

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It's Aaron's birthday! We celebrate in tradtionally somber PDM fashion by exploring the life of the ecological Paul Revere, Barry Commoner. A successful man who preached ecological totalism, America broadly didn't listen to him then, and aren't showing signs of doing it now. 

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We're not all better but we all are back! A still raspy Aaron and still magnificent Dennis bumble their way through the crazy story of Henry Wallace the Democrat's once (and future?) standard bearer. 

They dive into the life of a person who couldn't wait for politics or soviets and ended up losing his political power because of it. This is one of the more interesting vice presidents (not saying much,) so we hope you enjoy it! 

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Oh these lonely days and nights with nary a Budde to hold close. When desondant such as I am I like to think back to the story of ol' John Palmer, party crasher extradionaire. 

Oh these lonely days and nights with nary a Budde to hold close. When despondent such as I am I like to think back to the story of ol' John Palmer, party crasher extraordinaire.

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For the first time Aaron can't find anything about a candidate! Who was Robert Colvin Macauley? The world may never know, but what we do know is what he stood for, and that's something Aaron accidentally knew about before he started an impromptu recording! 

We also throw Howard Phillips of the US Taxpayer (now Constitution) Party in there for good measure. 

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Still in the midst of our not-quite-a-break comes the story of what may be the greatest political comeback in American history. The story of Charles Evans Hughes as inspired by Sarah Palin's decision to jump into the open Alaskan house seat race.

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Aaron wishes he had a team of friends like the Supreme Court as he flies solo again this week. Taking inspiration from the recent Court Vacancy he talks about the guy who started it all: Oliver Ellsworth, the founding father behind the scenes doing the difficult work of actually writing the laws that formed the judicary of these United States. 

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This episode has it all- except Dennis, so it basically has nothing. 

We revisit the Prohibition Party for a look at death theft, historically black colleges, and too much violence against women. It's not a particularly cheery episode this time around, but it is terribly interesting (and I do mean terribly.) 

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This episode gets a little punchy, but what else would you expect when discussing a cut-up like Walter Mondale? 

The fellows talk about being a journalist, the value of being disliked, and whether Alabama or Ohio is more hostile to anti-slavery rhetoric. Also everyone in America sounds like a Dickensian lord for inscrutable reasons. It's very much what you've come to expect. 

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Dennis and Aaron are both in the midst of looking for new occupations and so they convene to discuss which presidential candidate they think would handle the rigors of selling themselves the best. Will it be the man who would later reincarnate into Bernie Sanders Eugene V. Debs or the marzipan-smooth lovable gadfly Mitt Romney? 

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Presidential Death Match is going to skulk around the edges for a few weeks as we take a strategic pause on fully produced episodes. Still, we hope to bring you a few shorter stories from history like today's about John Walker a man so unknown that there is no confirmed picture of him I could find. 

John Walker was the second presidential nominee of the rebirth of the Anti-masonic party and through him we question changing values and the human desire to pin blame on the secretive other! 

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In an episode that's coming to you live from whenever and whereever you listen to it we decide to talk about a distinctly Texan culinary treat: the kolache. Along the way learn about silent film stars, The Libertarian party of 2004, and one of the many Bells that make up American life. 

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Riley Smith manages to make it through an episode without swearing! Has she been replaced by a doppelganger or merely sold out for commercial success? Either way we're happy to have her. 

The merry trio nominally discuss antiheroes while also miring themselves in apologizing, loony tunes, and a scofflaws. "A Feast for the Senses"! A person could say of it, probably. 

Riley's written a book! Cadinal (book 1/20 of the Citadel series) available now at Amazon, share and enjoy.

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After a quick topic refocus Aaron and Dennis dive into discussing the useful and not-useful aspects of the charm of politicians. Why do we like it, where is it necessary, and who would we pick to lead us if we focused on principles and heurestics instead of the personal touch? 

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If Congress is the Spanish Armada of American politics: too large to be nimble and mostly irrelevant today, then the presidency is certainly the pirates of American politics: we like them even though they're riddled with scurvy.

Dennis and Aaron compare the romantic western explorer John Frémont and the luxoriating, big spender James G. Blaine in which failed Republican candidate would be the most likely to plunder booty should they be given the chance. 

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The Prohibition Party is America’s oldest non-major party fielding a candidate every year without fail since 1876. The party lived to see their main goal be enacted into law, then rescinded as its unintended consequences wrecked the law, order, and stability the party ostensibly fought for, and it did this all without ever gaining major electoral success.

Dennis and Aaron dive into the history of the Prohibition Party and a number of its presidential candidates through 2020.

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We had so many mediocre presidential candidates they had to spill over into the new year! 

As we take a bit of time off from research please enjoy the lifes and travails of Pat Paulsen, James Iredell, and Henry Krajeski, truly the three amigos of people who ran for president faceitiously and weren't ever in the same room together.

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