Fake Presidents

Just a little note on our upcoming schedule. Are Ben and Eric taking a spring hiatus? Yes! Will they be back this summer? HECK YEAH! Should you unsubscribe? HELL NO!

Take a listen to find out what the first two movies will be when we return this summer. (Hint: One's a spy comedy based on a classic TV series, the other's a celebrated entry in a long-running comic book franchise.)

And if there's a particular fake president you want us to add to our list to cover when we get back, let us know! You can find us on Twitter: @Fake_Presidents, @ericbuchman, and @TheRealBenOren.

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See y'all in a few weeks!

In honor of the upcoming Presidents' Day holiday, Ben and Eric veto their usual format to elect some fake presidents into movies that don't have one.

Which movies without a fake president deperately needed one? Who would we have cast as the faux POTUS? FIND OUT ALL THIS AND MORE

(Okay, not that much more, we pretty much mostly just talk about that)

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Happy Presidents' Day!!!

Meryl Streep is a fake president that's all "Lady Biz." Jonah Hill is hanging around as the president's son/chief-of-staff!

Oh, and Timothée Chalamet is in it, too, but he's not in any political scenes, so we don't talk about him. Maybe in the sequel!

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Before Wolfgang Peterson directed AIR FORCE ONE (where the Secret Service completely craps the bed), he directed IN THE LINE OF FIRE (where the Secret Service almost craps the bed!)

Clint Eastwood plays a heroic but haunted secret service agent while a pre-famous John Malkovich plays the assassin Eastwood has to stop.

Also in this movie: Rene Russo plays Eastwood's much younger love interest, Dylan McDermott plays Eastwood's much younger partner, and Clint Eastwood plays the piano!

As for who plays the president, does it even matter in a movie as awesome as this? (No, it does not!)

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We take one last look back at the fake presidencies of 2021 before looking ahead to 2022. Topics include:

- Our favorite fictional presidents of the last 12 months

- Succession

- Diary of a Future President

- Presidential impersonator changes at Saturday Night Live

- Competing novels featuring fictional presidents written by Bill and Hillary that came out within weeks of each other

- And so much more! (Okay, not THAT much more...but still more!)

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Tony Stark has PTSD, Don Cheadle has a new superhero name, and the President of the United States is going to need a new plane. That's right, it's Christmastime in the MCU, which means it's time for a story of the redemption and rebirth for Marvel's favorite son...sorta?

Writer/Director Shane Black gets to board the Marvel train for his one and only entry in the MCU. Jon Favreau gets to spend more time in his trailer. Gwyneth Paltrow gets a new fitness regime. And this podcast gets to talk about the politics of being the president of a superpower when there are people with, you know, actual superpowers.

Oh, and 2013's IRON MAN 3 also has a trio of villains (Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, and Ben Kingsley) that we should probably mention because they're pretty cool, too.

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After introducing the world to one of the greatest fake presidents in INDEPENDENCE DAY, director Roland Emmerich is back with not one, but TWO fake presidents in 2004's climate-themed disaster movie THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.

Also in this movie's oval office -- a really weird (and distracting) choice of houseplants.

(See a photo of this movie's oval office here)

Can Dennis Quaid save Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum? (Yep!) Can he also save the world from an ice age? (Nope!) Does this movie have the most depressing ending for a massive summer blockbuster until that AVENGERS movie where half the universe dies? (Probably!)

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Just in time for Halloween it's a SCARY MOVIE. The third one! The one that introduced Leslie-freakin'-Nielsen as an American president!

What happens when uber-republican director David Zucker (of AIRPLANE fame) teams up with uber-democratic producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein (of getting arrested fame) to make a movie with a fake president? Let's find out...

Also along for the ride: Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Regina Hall, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Hart, Jeremy Piven, Simon Rex, Pamela Anderson, and Jenny McCarthy in case one of those names will encourage you to download this, our most spooky episode yet!

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Who knew there was a fake president in this 80s mermaid rom-com?

Directed by Ron Howard, SPLASH made, um, waves at the box office. It also made Tom Hanks a movie star, Howard an A-list director, and Roger Ebert very angry.

Does this movie have actual politics for us to discuss? (Surprisingly, yes!) Does this movie have a surprise in the end credits? (Sorta!) Does this podcast episode have a surprise in our end credits? (Only if you want to know whether or not it's kosher to eat a mermaid!)

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When an assassin targets the SCOTUS, it's up to Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts to expose a POTUS.

Robert Culp is the nameless (but not blameless) President in this 1993 adaptation of John Grisham's most political thriller. Future fake president Tony Goldwyn is the person who really runs the White House. Stanley Tucci is the mysterious international assassin. And...nobody is the actual bad guy of the movie?

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