THE PRESIDENTIAL FIGHT CLUB
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Did you ever wonder how some of our US Presidents would do if they were paired up in a boxing ring? 1001 heroes interviews Scott Rank, the host of History Unplugged Podcast and The Presidential Fight Club podcast, and we get some unique insight on the capabilities of some of our past presidents. The match-ups: Andrew Jackson vs James Buchanan; John F Kennedy vs. Chester Arthur; George Washington vs, Thomas Jefferson; Barack Obama vs. Howard Taft; Lyndon B. Johnson vs. Ronald Reagan; Teddy Roosevelt vs. Abe Lincoln.
Join us at ringside for this unusual but definitely interesting American history lesson!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by ITVX. |
| 0:03.0 | Whatever is you're looking for from hard-hitting drama to side-splitting comedy, |
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| 0:27.7 | freshest streaming service. And the Oh, We're here today with Scott Rank, the host of History Unplugged Podcast, and Scott happens to be an expert on US Presidents. |
| 1:04.0 | How do I set this one up? |
| 1:06.0 | It's such a great idea. |
| 1:08.0 | Now, is Presidential Fight Club a current series of viewers |
| 1:12.0 | was the one you did in the past? |
| 1:14.0 | It's one I did in the past. This was an offshoot of my main podcast, History Unplugged. |
| 1:20.0 | So this was a 44 episode series, but now it's been spun off into its own podcast and it's all |
| 1:26.1 | wrapped up the fight is complete so if you just look for presidential fight club on |
| 1:30.7 | iTunes or wherever then you can find it. |
| 1:33.0 | And what he does is he matches up different U.S. Presidents |
| 1:37.0 | and he's going to set up the ground rules for us. |
| 1:39.0 | And we're going to get in the ring with some of these presidents |
| 1:42.0 | with some unusual matchups and see who's still standing at the end. |
| 1:46.1 | I hope you listeners enjoy this one. This should prove to be very entertaining. |
| 1:51.7 | Scott, where did you get the idea for this? Yeah, so I am good friends with another |
| 1:56.8 | historian named James Early. James is an instructor at San Hasinto College in Texas and I teach as an adjunct at the University of Kansas and we |
| 2:07.5 | bandy around a lot of different ideas with history and this is something we've come |
| 2:11.4 | back to a lot where it's always fun to match up US presidents on different criteria and every few years |
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