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Welcome to FAKE PRESIDENTS, a real podcast about, well...you know. Each week we'll take a deep dive into a fictional American president from movies and TV to see just how much fiction there really is.

Dec 22, 2024

Let's close out the year by digging into some messages from listeners, and then look ahead at the year to come in fake White Houses!

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Who do we think should play a president that hasn't?

A listener suggests our next movie to cover... should we do it?!

Our preview of upcoming movies and shows on our...


Nov 26, 2024

What? You don't remember there being a POTUS in 2012's Christopher Nolan-directed, Christian Bale-starring THE DARK KNIGHT RISES? Neither did we!  But there is one, and he's got a whole monologue and everything!  

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Oct 30, 2024

This Halloween, let's take a spookily ironic look at every president ever portrayed in any episode of any version of THE TWILIGHT ZONE! (It's not that many)

Believe it or not, it wasn't until Jordan Peele's 2019 reboot of The Twilight Zone that we got the series' first truly fake president. In "The Wunderkind," John Cho...


Sep 30, 2024

Did you know there's a fake president in Jason Statham's pulpy, hit actioner THE BEEKEEPER? We didn't! Not until a listener gave us the heads up.  British thespian Jemma Redgrave plays the American president. Josh Hutcherson is her not-quite-failson. Jeremy Irons is back in Alfred-mode. And Minnie Driver...


Jun 30, 2024

It's the last cinematic voyage of the original Enterprise crew, but the first (and only) for the new Federation President, played by The 70s Show's Kurtwood Smith.  Kurtwood joins William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, as well as Star Trek newcomers...