Dead Presidents Podcast
Presidential history buffs James J. Hamilton and Stephen Lincoln-Douglas take you on an epic journey through the lives of our nation's chief executives.
Episodes
114 episodes
PWF #15 - PWF vs. CCW
Live from the field at Bull Run, Virginia, the Presidential Wrestling Federation's long-running feud with Confederate Championship Wrestling reaches an epic climax! Featuring:Four-man elimination tag team match: Rutherford B. Hayes, Jam...
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1:04:15
Presidential War #26 - In the Palm of Lincoln's Rough-Hewn Rail-Splitting Hand
On this installment of Presidential War, we discuss whether there's any president we'd rather have defending us against murder charges than renowned prairie lawyer Abraham Lincoln. Also: we decide which of the two Bushes gets picked first in fl...
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1:07:01
Top 5 Presidential Musicians
Many presidents have been musically-inclined and some even considered it a possible career path. On this episode we rock out to the Top 5 Presidential Musicians!
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31 Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was orphaned as a child, but his tireless work ethic and masterful administrative talents brought him success as a mining engineer, a career in which he crisscrossed the globe and became a millionaire in the process. During the F...
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Episode 31
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1:54:53
PWF #14 - At Your Home
Live from a privately-owned farm in South Carolina, PWF's At Your Home pay-per-view has all the belts on the line!PWF Women's Championship: Eleanor Roosevelt vs. Bess TrumanTag Team Championship: TR & Taft vs. Gerald Fo...
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1:00:31
Presidential War #25 - Other Things You Can Do With Cigars (with Elliott Burns)
Special guest (and returning champion) Elliott Burns joins us for another exciting installment of Presidential War and attempts to extend the undefeated streak of guests prevailing over the podcast co-hosts. Discussion topics include: who would...
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30 Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge's hardscrabble Vermont farm upbringing imbued him with the old-school New England values of hard work and thriftiness, which served him well as he embarked on a career as a lawyer in Massachusetts and began a steady climb of loc...
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Episode 30
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2:28:35
PWF #13 - Underground
The Presidential Wrestling Federation is live from the basement of a bar in an undisclosed location with another electrifying slate of matches:Ronald Reagan & Gerald Ford vs. Rutherford B. Hayes & Benjamin Harrison (winners ...
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Presidential War #24 - Suckling at the Presidential Teat
This Presidential War episode settles the burning question that is on everyone's mind—who would have made a better president: George Washington's brother Lawrence Washington or James A. Garfield's son James R. Garfield? We also discuss Dolley M...
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1:22:07
Top 5 Presidential Golfers
Golf is the unofficial presidential pastime and some presidential practitioners have been particularly passionate about hitting the links. Some have even been good at it, and we count down the best on this Top 5. (Fore!)
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29 Warren G. Harding
From publisher of the Marion Star newspaper to U.S. Senator from Ohio, Warren G. Harding's meteoric rise culminated in 1920 when he became the compromise candidate of a deadlocked Republican convention and trounced his Democratic oppon...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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2:30:11
PWF #12 - After School Special
The PWF has fallen on hard times and its latest event is being held in a high school gymnasium, but the quality of the presidential wrestling action on display is as high as ever in this slate of electrifying matches:Fathers vs. Son...
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1:07:45
Presidential War #23 - Eviscerated by Cholera
This game of Presidential War comes down to the wire! The scintillating discussion topics include: Would we rather have William McKinley or George H.W. Bush dating our daughter? Would we rather have John Adams or Andrew Jackson defending us aga...
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1:08:50
Top 5 Troubled Presidential Sons
While some presidents' sons have achieved great things (two even becoming president themselves), others have lived tragic lives characterized by depression, scandal, substance abuse, and early death.
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28 Woodrow Wilson
Born to Scots-Irish immigrants and raised in the Confederate South, Woodrow Wilson came into his own as a student at Princeton University. Armed with a Ph.D, he launched his career a historian and professor of political science and soon returne...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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3:13:03
PWF #11 - War at the Shore
War at the Shore features a card full of electrifying matches, including a main event in which the PWF is challenged by an unholy alliance between the CCW and the TWO:John Adams vs. John Quincy AdamsTheodore Roosevelt &...
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1:18:50
Presidential War #22 - All The Peanuts You Can Eat
On this episode, we discuss whether we'd rather have Jimmy Carter or Andrew Jackson dating our daughter, whether Woodrow Wilson or Millard Fillmore would make the better Supreme Court Justice, whether George Washington stands a snowball's chanc...
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1:01:39
Top 5 Crazy Succession Scenarios That Almost Happened
The U.S. has never been forced to call upon presidential line of succession beyond the vice president, but it has been close many times. This episode delves into some of the craziest near-miss scenarios and considers some the wildest What Ifs i...
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27 William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft is perhaps best known as the fattest president who allegedly got stuck in a bathtub, but this episode will show that he was much, much more than that. Taft followed in his eminent father's footsteps to become a Yale graduate...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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2:56:12
PWF #10 - Reconstruction
Anything can happen in the Presidential Wrestling Federation--especially when all of the belts are on the line! The Reconstruction pay-per-view has an electrifying card of intense title matches:Tag Team Championships: James Madison ...
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Season 3
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1:16:36
Presidential War #21 - George W. Bush Are Learning
Presidential War enters Season 3 with the addition of exciting new categories! When it comes to the nation's premier presidential educational card game, no one ever needs to ask: "is our children learning?" They certainly is. On this episode, w...
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1:21:34
Top 5 Monroe Doctrine Invocations
2023 is the bicentennial of the Monroe Doctrine, announced by President James Monroe in his 1823 State of the Union address. To celebrate, we've put together a Top 5 that functions as a comprehensive history of this cornerstone of American fore...
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26 Theodore Roosevelt
In one of American history’s most epic life stories, Theodore Roosevelt began as a sickly child debilitated by asthma and went on to become a Harvard graduate, author, historian, NY state legislator, cattle rancher, big game hunter, conservatio...
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Season 3
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Episode 26
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4:47:23