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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...