Antihero: Benson v. Davis (w/ Riley Smith)
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 Has she been replaced by a doppelganger or merely sold out for commercial success?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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Wikihow: Parker v. Cox
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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Pirates!: Frémont v. Blaine
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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Irrelevance Then Decline: The American Prohibition Party
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 The party lived to see their main goal be enacted into law, then rescinded as its unintended consequences wrecked the law, order, and stability the party ostensibly fought for, and it did this all without ever gaining major electoral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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New Years Poppers (Presidential Profiles)
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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