Fake Presidents

Ben and Eric will take another dip into the Fake President's mailbag to answer questions about...

- Who are their favorite fake first ladies?

- What is the beef between Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman?

- Why does James Patterson REALLY want to work with Bill Clinton?

- What is Eric's favorite presidential fact he's learned making this podcast?

- After the US, what country downloads this podcast the most?!?

All that, including an email from...a screenwriter of one of the movies we've covered? Really? OKAY!

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Today we take a look at a fake president played by Morgan Freeman. No, not that fake president. The OTHER fake president played by Morgan Freeman, in 2019's ANGEL HAS FALLEN, the second sequel to OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN. Gerard Butler is back as the ultimate secret service agent, Freeman gets a nice promotion into the oval, and...well, that's about all the characters returning from the first two movies.

This time Jada Pinkett Smith, Tim Blake Nelson, Danny Huston, and Nick Nolte join Butler and Freeman as America finds itself, once again, facing an existential crisis that only one person can halt.

Why did we skip LONDON HAS FALLEN? (Same POTUS as the first movie that we already covered!) Why does no one in this movie remember the heroic deeds of Gerard Butler in the first two movies? (Because then the plot wouldn't work!) How does the Secret Service keep refilling its ranks so quickly after ALL of them keep getting killed? (ZipRecruiter?)

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You know what they say, "it's always Shark Week somewhere." This episode we take a look at President Marcus Robbins from the third entry of Syfy's SHARKNADO series, played by Mark Cuban. The movie is kind of a mash-up of WHITE HOUSE DOWN and JURASSIC WORLD with a little bit of DUE DATE and ARMAGEDDON thrown in for good measure. On SHARK TANK, Cuban always sits on the left, but where does this fake president sit politically in this schlockfest of a film?

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Bill Pullman stars alongside Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum in 1996's White House-exploding, #1 blockbuster: INDEPENDENCE DAY.

You know the president. You know the speech. But do you know his political party? We think we do! And we think we've figured out so much more...

Happy Fourth of July!

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Writer/director (not to mention producer/editor/composer) Robert Rodriguez is back on our radar with another fake president, this time taking the form of an actor credited only as "Carlos Estevez." But who is Carlos Estevez really? (Charlie Sheen!) Are the hard R-rated MACHETE movies really just spin-offs of the PG-rated SPY KIDS franchise? (Danny Trejo thinks so!) In a film full of celebrity cameos, which cameo was the weirdest? (Elon Musk's!)

Envisioned as a 70s-influenced, "Mexploitation," action trilogy the MACHETE movies stopped at two (2010's MACHETE and 2013's MACHETE KILLS), but it wasn't for a lack of effort. Trejo, "Carlos Estevez," Jessica Alba, Lady Gaga, Sofia Vergara, Antonio Banderas, Walton Goggins, Amber Heard, Michelle Rodriguez, Vanessa Hudgens, Cuba Gooding Jr., William Sadler, and Demian Bichir all give this intentionally over-the-top schlock-fest everything they've got...and then some.

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Rob Reiner and Aaron Sorkin leave little to the political imagination in their 1995 romantic comedy, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT. Michael Douglas, as the widower POTUS Andrew Shepherd, is without a doubt a pre-Tea Party, far right Republi--- Nope... Not at all... He's clearly a centrist Democrat. So instead of just talking about Shepherd's judicial courtships, we also dive into his domestic courtship of Sydney Ellen Wade of Virginia. And to help us out, we've got a very special guest -- relationship expert Damona Hoffman, the host of the Dates & Mates podcast!!!

How should a single president go about procuring a date to a state dinner? (More delicately than Shepherd does.) How adorable is it when Michael J. Fox says the F-word? (Very!) Will Shepherd ultimately beat Bob Rumson? (You probably won't like our answer...)

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William Hurt is the Fake President in this 2008 political thriller in the vein of Rashomon. Sigourney Weaver is in yet another movie with a presidential body double, Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox are secret service agents, only one of whom is good at their job, and Forest Whitaker did such a bang-up job directing our last movie (First Daughter), he got cast as "guy who holds a camera" in this one.

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Michael Keaton is the empty nester fake president in 2004's FIRST DAUGHTER, starring Katie Holmes as a first family member who is definitely not Chelsea Clinton going to a college that is definitely not Stanford.

Is this fake POTUS legitimately funny, or is he just portrayed by a great comic actor? (Little bit of both.) How did this movie go from an idea in actor Jerry O'Connell's head to a theatrical release directed by Oscar winner Forrest Whitaker? (Lot of re-writes.) Which Bush daughter had a real-life conversation with her dad that could've been a scene in this movie? (Jenna!)

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Gerard Butler is back to save a Fake President. Or Not. Maybe the POTUS is a bad guy in this movie?

GEOSTORM is a 2017 action movie about weather controlling satellites and the politicians who love them. Gerard Butler plays the world's most brilliant scientist. Andy Garcia is the President. Ed Harris (his third FP appearance!) is a nefarious Secretary of State. Jim Sturgess is Ed's undersecretary and Butler's brother. Abbie Cornish is Jim's girlfriend and a secret service agent. THIS MOVIE HAS EVERYTHING. Except for a director (Dean Devlin) who approves of the final product. #ReleaseTheDevlinCut!

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The writer/director/producer of SIN CITY (Robert Rodriguez) casts the villain of HAPPY GILMORE (Christopher McDonald) as a very fake president in a very family-friendly movie.

What really went through George W. Bush's head while he read that book to those elementary school students? What movie franchise has made 6 films with only 3 plots? How is Robert Rodriguez like Ralph Nader? Do we have the answers? YES WE DO.

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