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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 29, 2020

Sure, Gal Godot and Chris Pine are back in the 1984-set WONDER WOMAN sequel along with newcomers Kristen Wiig and The Mandalorian himself, Pedro Pascal, but you know what got Ben and Eric really excited this week? Finding out there's a fake president in the movie, too! What would the 80s be like without Ronald Reagan...


Dec 21, 2020

So many firsts this week!

 

We cover our first fake TV president with 1600 PENN's "Dale Gilchrist."

 

We have our first guest with 1600 PENN writer, Dan Hernandez (POKÉMAN DETECTIVE PIKACHU, THE TICK, ONE DAY AT A TIME) to shed some light on what it's actually like to write for a fake president.

 

And we have our first...


Dec 9, 2020

Not since Macaulay Culkin in HOME ALONE 2 has someone so evil gotten lost in New York. 

 

Kurt Russell stars in John Carpenter's classic 1981 action/thriller about a fake president that gets trapped in the worst place on Earth...at least until the sequel.

 

Donald Pleasence (Dr. Loomis from HALLOWEEN) plays...


Nov 27, 2020

Has this quintessential British rom-com gone from classic to problematic? Sure! But who cares!?! We’re here to talk about the US President, quintessentially named "US President," played by Billy Bob Thornton, and the fact that Hugh Grant's British Prime Minister seems willing to go to war with him because of,...


Nov 19, 2020

Gene Hackman is back for his second time out as a fake president...in his last movie role ever? (Yep.) Why did he never act again after this movie? (Beats us.) Was it something Ray Romano said? (Probably.)

 

Also in this episode, we'll discuss the crappiest part of being a secret service agent, the best part of being a...