Dennis is back and he's Dennisier than ever! We're taking things a little easy this week and bringing you a few short profiles on lesser known Presidential Candidates through history.
In which we discover exactly how little Aaron brings to the table.
Dennis is still on his honeymoon which means it’s time to plot his eventual removal from the program and which failed candidate would best replace him. After a longwinded retractions segment Aaron tucks in for a discussion of Dennis’ childhood with Al and Nancy Budde, then Aaron takes the time to lay out a little bit more than we conventionally do for his chosen candidate.
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My grandma always used to say "When there's a Dennis sized hole in your heart, only a Jacob Godbey can fill it," and never is that more true than today's very special episode.
While Dennis is away on his honeymoon the only debates that matter continue as Jacob and Aaron ponder who would lead better during the Robocalypse: the last of the Whigs Winfield Scott, or noted tank-fancier Michael Dukakis.
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We bring in some big guns because Aaron has lost his voice: Jessica and Carolyn rejoin the program to talk about wedding planning and whether it's better to lead with the stick or the carrot as we muse on whether the charismatic militant Aaron Burr or the aloof, but organized Thomas Dewey would serve better in that role.
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We ran out of time and bachelorhood this week, so you're in for a short profile of the most obscure man to run for president: Alton Parker.
This holiday we're giving thanks for disillusionment!
Ideally we'd celebrate people for updating their beliefs and opinons based on new information, but our human biases often get in the way. This goes doubly for politicians who can be seen as spurning the voters who got them into office or not being team players.
Julia Galef's book The Scout Mindset offers a compelling argument for why we'd not only be healthier, but also happier if we make truth-finding our central goal instead of view-defending. Aaron and Dennis discuss this as well go deeper (too deep) on the Scopes Monkey Trial and Presidential Musicals.
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It’s a battle of the hat trick losers as Henry “The American” Clay takes on William “The Silver Bullet” Bryan in the most sedate debate yet!
Aubrey Langston joins us to talk about card collecting and why you sometimes get a rooster in your baseball cards.
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Andrew Stout is in studio (his apartment) to regale us with stories of his power trips in high school. We talk scolds, arts, crafts, behrs, bayers, and Bexars in this strangely careening episode of Presidential Death Match!
In the spookiest month (November) Dennis and Aaron gather round a bubbling cauldron to talk which candidate's face you'd want to affix to your own. The fellows punt on Hawaii, talk about ruining their friend's business, and the many dualties of John Kerry.
We're back for season 3! Aaron and Dennis start things off the way you love: by lamenting that they're no longer funny, talking Hawaii, diving into historical minutia.
Riley Smith is on this week so, you know, there's a lot of swearing.
We begin our exploration of failed presidential candidates by asking who of the hundreds of people who failed to get the office really should have had a shot: newspaper magnate Horace Greeley or suffragette Belva Ann Lockwood?
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We haven't been gone a long time, you have. Who's even talking about intermissions? What do you mean our podcast has been listed as "cancelled due to inactivity," I don't even know you anymore!
Dennis and Aaron are back in another delaying tactic for season three of Presidential Death-Match! This week they talk about the presidential antics they got up to over the summer including: a decidely un-Coolidge-esque 5k, the pumpkin eating tendancies of the eternally mortal Pierce family, and skimming alternate histories of Hamilton becoming presidents.
Enjoying easing back into the historical pool with this episode of Presidential Death Match!
We're back with more interregnum material (we really should just start this darn thing.)
CSPAN released their fourth survey of historians to rate our presidents: Dennis and Aaron comb through it to find where Trump debuted, where Obama is settling in, and who is the best at having administrative skills.
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Presidential Deathmatch is back with another season two interstitial! In celebration of Dennis’ birthday and Aaron’s wedding anniversary New York city decided to have its mayoral primary today! Thank you New York for moving it up by several weeks to give us this wonderful gift.
Aaron and Dennis discuss the current state of the mayoral race, nerdy voting practices, and two mayors of New York City’s past: the long-forgotten Fiorello LaGuardia, and the man whom every politician is compared to Richard Varick.
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If you like your presidential history with a little more acting behind it stay tuned!
While season three continues to bake Aaron and Dennis pop in for a special episode of historical notes on the upcoming Pronoia production of God Kings III: Four Presidents Walk Into a War!
An original play of sketches covering the four presidents precedeing the civil war Four Presidents Walk into a War is the kind of humor you've come to expect from Presidential Death Match, but now there are more people besides Dennis and Aaron saying it!
You can watch it at Pronoiatheater.com on June 10th at 8 P.M. CDT.
We end season two by taking a look at the president who wasn’t here when we started: Joe Biden. What’s he like, how would we use him in a debate, and what’s the deal with Scranton anyway? We also take a brief look at why people care about the first one hundred days and find out where our vice presidents come from (obscurity.)
We’re taking May off but we’ll be back in June with more stories of America Past!
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Dennis and Aaron get a little punchy in the morning as they discuss isloation in the presidency, the gilded cage of the White House, and the unwisely named Salary Grab act!
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Politics encourages a level of skullduggery and short-term thinking, and politicians are incentivized to sort people into camps that argue about emblems instead of trying to solve problems. In his new board game, Shasn, designer Zain Memon tries to encourage political conversation by using the player's political opinion as the main resource generator in the game. He joins us today to discuss the origins of Shasn, the characters of politics, and the film the game was inspired from, An Insignificant Man.
Dennis and Aaron make jokes.
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You can watch An Insignificant Man here.
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From a young age Jake White knew he wanted to poke the eye of God and sought higher and higher places to stand. This eventually led him to window washing the famous(?) Austin skyline, and he talks to Dennis and Aaron about falling from his line, suction cupping around the building, and whether people would recognize Lincoln without his hat.
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It's a battle of the one-termers this week as Jacob and Alex from the Ginger on Ginger podcast join us to talk Montanans, being from Montana, how cold Montana is, and whether North Dakot is just Montana acting out. Sadly a ten minute conversation about Ninja Turtles was cut for time. We hope you understand.
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We thought last week’s episodes foray into modern politics was contentious, but then we started slinging opinions about dogs! Dog trainer Nicholas Mandrell-Anderson joins us for discussion of training techniques, over-rated dogs, and the various animals named Pete in the White House. In the grand tradition of major parties everywhere Dennis poaches a third party candidate and hopes no one notices. It’s a grand old time this week on Presidential Death-Match!
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