Dead Presidents Podcast

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.

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February 17, 2025 259 mins

Franklin D. Roosevelt was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and, after his fifth cousin became president, his famous last name opened the door to a political career. FDR's life became difficult when he was stricken with polio at age 39, and he developed a fierce determination to succeed in the face of any obstacle. As the Great Depression deepened, he rose from New York's governor to president of the United States. Du...

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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, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison & William McKinley vs. John Tyler, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J.E.B. Stuart & John Mosby

Handicap match: Zachary Taylor & Winfield S...

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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 flag football, we consider one category in which the lowly James Buchanan trounces Theodore Roosevelt, and we face the horrifying prospect of either Billy Carter or Malik Obama becomi...

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July 31, 2023 19 mins

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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July 17, 2023 114 mins

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 First World War, he led a massive effort to relieve the suffering population of occupied Belgium, earning international acclaim and putting his name under consideration for the presidency. Dur...

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July 3, 2023 60 mins

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 Truman
  • Tag Team Championship: TR & Taft vs. Gerald Ford & Ronald Reagan
  • Transcontinental Championship: Franklin Pierce vs. Ulysses S. Grant ("Brawl in the Stall" match in a pigpen)
  • PWF Championship: FDR vs. Dwight Eisenhower (strap match) 
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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 win in a fistfight between Andrew Jackson and Ulysses Grant, would we rather have TR or Jimmy Carter dating our daughter, and whether FDR could ever be considered a better president than Lin...

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June 19, 2023 50 mins

We count down the Top 5 First Ladies in American history!

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June 12, 2023 148 mins

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 local and state political offices. As governor, his firm and unflinching response to the 1919 Boston police strike garnered him national headlines and inspired some enthusiastic delegates a...

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June 5, 2023 45 mins

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 get a shot at the Tag Team Championship)
  • Millard Fillmore vs. Chester Arthur (bareknuckle boxing grudge match--must win by knockout)
  • 8-Man Battle Royal for the vacant Transcontinental Championship: Tho...
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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 Madison's accomplishments, Frances Cleveland's good looks, and how Abraham Lincoln might have fared if he had served as Attorney General.

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May 22, 2023 25 mins

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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May 15, 2023 150 mins

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 opponent with a campaign promising a "Return to Normalcy." He inherited a terrible economy, high taxes, exploding debt, and a nation still wracked with tension from the First World War and s...

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May 8, 2023 67 mins

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. Sons Match: John Adams & George H.W. Bush vs. John Quincy Adams & George W. Bush
  • Tag Team Championship Match: James Madison & James Monroe vs. Theodore Roosevelt & William Howard Taft
  • Tran...
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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 against murder charges? And an epic clash of titans: Would George Washington or Abraham Lincoln make the better Secretary of State?

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April 24, 2023 20 mins

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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April 17, 2023 193 mins

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 returned to Princeton, where he quickly became its most popular lecturer and was eventually named its president. His ambitious tenure garnered him national attention, and some Democratic party kingm...

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April 10, 2023 78 mins

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 Adams
  • Theodore Roosevelt & William McKinley vs. William Howard Taft & Warren Harding
  • Woodrow Wilson vs. Barack Obama (Transcontinental Title Match)
  • George Washington, Thomas Jefferson & Abraham Lincoln vs. Donald Trump, Jefferso...
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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 chance in hell against George W. Bush in the category of Biggest Partier, and much more!

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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 in American history.   

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