Dead Presidents Podcast

We count down the most humiliating non-political bloopers in presidential history on our Top 5 Embarrassing Personal Moments. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us at deadpresidentspodcast@gmail.com   Please rate & review,  subscribe & share. Thanks for listening!

Our Top 5 Embarrassing Presidential Brothers counts down the biggest fraternal headaches and details the various ways in which they tried to cash in on their big bro's presidency. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us at deadpresidentspodcast@gmail.com   Please rate & review,  subscribe & share. Thanks for listening!

Being president is tough, but being his wife is no cakewalk either. Our countdown of the Top 5 Troubled First Ladies features lots of dead children, dead husbands, and influential astrologers. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us at deadpresidentspodcast@gmail.com   Please rate & review,  subscribe & share. Thanks for listening!

Join us as we regale a live studio audience with humor from our Top 5 Funniest Presidents.  Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us at deadpresidentspodcast@gmail.com   Please rate & review,  subscribe & share. Thanks for listening!

Forgiveness is in the air as we count down the Top 5 Pardons in presidential history.  Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us at deadpresidentspodcast@gmail.com   Please rate & review,  subscribe & share. Thanks for listening!

Many presidents have had cats and dogs, but some have shared the executive mansion with much more exotic furry friends. Learn about the zoological marvels that have called the White House home as we count down the Top 5 Presidential Pets. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us at deadpresidentspodcast@gmail.com   Please rate & review,  subscribe & share. Thanks for listen...

The fat and slow or frail and sickly presidents can stay on the bench this week. This athletic Top 5 features the presidents we'd like to pick first in gym class. These future chief executives competed at high levels, exhibiting character and toughness and learning valuable lessons about leadership and adversity. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us at deadpresidentspodcas...

Dying presidents spout wisdom on the brink of the grave in this morbid Top 5. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us at deadpresidentspodcast@gmail.com   Please rate & review,  subscribe & share. Thanks for listening!

Four presidents have been successfully gunned down, but many more have survived attempts on their lives by inept would-be assassins. How did the best-laid plans of these desperate nutjobs go so awry? Find out on an episode sure to win Jodie Foster's admiration. (Note: this Top 5 was originally released as part of Episode 4 - James Madison & Top 5 Failed Assassins). Follow us on Facebook ,...

Many presidents have found love in the arms of younger women. We've got five who took that concept to extremes. Which president's adult children refused to attend his wedding to his second wife? Which president took advantage of a deadly naval disaster to snare a hot young bride? Which president met his future wife when she was an infant in a literal cradle? Find out on this scintillatin...

In this X-Rated episode, we count down the Top 5 most brazen philanderers in the presidential pantheon. We've got graphic grand jury testimony, love letters so dirty you'll have to take a shower, and a president who got around so much he often suffered a burning sensation when he peed.  One thing's for sure: our nation's First Ladies deserve better than this. (Note: this Top 5...

In this special bonus episode, the harrowing true crime tale of John Lechler is recounted in the form of real newspaper ads from 1821-22, including the publication of a condemned man's confession to double murder. (Note: these advertisements originally appeared in Episode 5 - James Monroe & Top 5 Presidential Last Words). Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us at deadpre...

James J. Hamilton and Stephen Lincoln-Douglas count down the Top 5 Drunkest Presidents. Who embarrassed himself publicly? Who could hold his liquor and who couldn't? Who got sober and who kept drinking to the bitter end? Find out on this booze-soaked episode. (Note: this Top 5 was originally released as part of Episode 1 - George Washington & Top 5 Drunkest Presidents). Follow us on Faceb...

Cock of the Rock, the official stud horse of the Dead Presidents podcast, bought ads on the show for five consecutive episodes and might be our favorite sponsor. We had him in the studio for a live interview and even collaborated on a song with him. Collected here for your listening pleasure, his ads are twenty-three minutes of pure unadulterated Cock. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagr...

The first 16 songs by The Constitutionalists, the official house band of the Dead Presidents Podcast, are compiled here in the form of an album entitled Article II, Section 1.  1.     George Washington (0:00) 2.     John Adams (1:48) 3.     Thomas Jefferson (3:43) 4.     James Madison (5:39) 5.     James Monroe (7:54) 6.     John Quincy Adams (9:41) 7.     Andrew Jackson (12:05) 8.     Martin Van...

In an epic Season 1 finale, we follow the life of Abraham Lincoln from his humble beginnings to his days as a homespun prairie lawyer, and trace his rise to national prominence as an intellectual leader of the political movement against slavery's expansion. When his 1860 election sparks a secession crisis, one of our least-experienced presidents is thrust into the most difficult situation any...

In the special season finale of Presidential War, forty-four presidents will enter the squared circle and only one will be left standing. There'll be clotheslines, piledrivers, finishing moves, low blows, cheap shots, and blood on the mat before this thing is over. Get ready for the most electrifying event in presidential entertainment! Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram Email us...

James Buchanan had the experience: lawyer, party leader, Representative, Senator, ambassador to Russia and Britain, and Secretary of State. So how did he fail so badly as president? His long camaraderie with southern leaders, his myopic views on slavery, and his desire to be an imperialist abroad while things were coming apart at home didn't help. By the end of this episode, the antebellum se...

We shake up the rules of Presidential War and spark enlightening discussion on a variety of topics: John Adams's effect on the presidency, Thomas Jefferson's consequential writings, George Washington's relationship with the people, and Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the media. Also: Taylor confronts Fillmore on constitutional fidelity, movie star Nancy Reagan faces a formi...

Franklin Pierce was a Democratic congressman, party leader, Mexican-American war hero, and #1 on our list of Top 5 Drunkest Presidents. He was nominated as a compromise candidate in 1852 and, taking office in the wake of a terrible family tragedy, promised not to let slavery re-emerge as a national issue after the sectional crisis of 1850. But when Senator Stephen Douglas came calling with a plan...

Guest Jeremy Lese joins us for another game of Presidential War, in which discussion topics include George W. Bush's popularity, FDR's effect on the presidency, George Washington's partying habits, JFK's legendary good looks, and Frances Cleveland's accomplishments as our youngest First Lady. Also: James K. Polk battles his Secretary of State James Buchanan to avoid gettin...

Millard Fillmore was a compromise vice presidential nominee who backed into the White House upon Zachary Taylor's sudden death. The nation was in the middle of a sectional crisis and a bitterly-divided Congress was about to send Fillmore some legislation cobbled together in a desperate bid to avert civil war.  His signing of the controversial Fugitive Slave Act may have helped resolve the cri...

Presidential aficionado Dave Ranallo joins us for an epic game of Presidential War. Topics include Andrew Jackson's popularity with the people, Dolley Madison's exceptional First Lady tenure, and Ronald Reagan's relationship with a Democrat-controlled Congress. Also: We decide whether we'd prefer a mustache ride from Grover Cleveland or Chester Arthur, and whether a drunken Fra...

Zachary Taylor was a career army officer elevated to the presidency by his heroic generalship in the Mexican-American War. He had no political experience and had never even voted before. How would he approach the sectional crisis over the question of slavery's expansion into the vast territory acquired from Mexico? His stance would come as a surprise to his fellow slaveowners. Also: Our Top 5...

Our first-ever guest Elliott Burns joins us for another exciting game of Presidential War. Discussion topics include James Madison's relationship with Congress, James Monroe's military accomplishments, and Grover Cleveland's partying habits. Also: JFK tries to survive fisticuffs with heavyweight William Howard Taft and two modern Democratic feminists are objectified in the First Lad...