Presidential Deathmatch

We end up only talking about Victoria Woodhull today! It's a good time.

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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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An episode so chockablock with failures and aspirants they had to break it into two!

In this first part Dennis and Aaron talk about the rest of the people who didn't quite make it to the presidency from our first election to 1820! When life gets you down remember that no matter how much you fail you'll never fail as big as them. Try not to remember that you probably won't ever accomplish as much as they did to get to that failure either.

Samuel Huntington, Charles Pinckney, Rufus King, and so many more people you've never heard of are covered in this week's salute to Old Losers!

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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.

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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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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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Boy howdy is Aaron off his game for this episode, luckily we've got Andrew Stout to carry on the conversation.

Dennis, Aaron, and Andrew talk about the Superbowl Halftime show and what it might look like if socialists of America's yesterday ran it instead. We've got everything from a dancing Jimmy Hoffa to a man drowning in a river (there's no not sad way to introduce that fact.)

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In a breathtaking epsiode (mostly because Aaron is having trouble,) Aaron takes a closer look at the five remaining Libertarian and Prohibition Party candidates as he tries to speed this season along to its natural conclusion. 

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You didn't think we'd let this Speaker drama pass without a trip down ridiculous American history lane? Aaron pokes his head up from the break to talk about a definite villain, possible hero of the 1800's, Benjamin Butler. 

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Tragically Aaron-less once more, Dennis welcomes barbecue savant and environmental engineer Cameron McKay to discuss the merits of Texas brisket and its lesser BBQ brethren. Unemployment insurance changemaker Jake Coxey Sr. does his best to weather the undeniably apropos return of Ross Perot for the battle of the best pitmaster. Smokin'!!

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