Fake Presidents

By: Buchman and Oren
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  • Summary

  • Remember when you could talk about politics without it being hazardous to your health? We think we’ve found a loophole. Each episode, Eric Buchman and Ben Oren take a deep dive into a fictional American president from film or TV, to see just how much fiction there really is. It’s a podcast sorta about politics and kinda about pop culture, hosted by two former politicos turned TV writer/producers who’d much rather talk about real movies and fake politics than fake movies and real politics.
    2023
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Art Political Science
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Episodes
  • Mail to the Chief (YEAR END MAILBAG!)

    Mail to the Chief (YEAR END MAILBAG!)
    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!

    Topics covered:

    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 radar, including Shondaland's THE RESIDENCE and Dan Fogelman's PARADISE.

    Is RED ONE secretly a Fake President movie?

    Did Eric include a fake potus in the new Audible audio series THE SIGNAL he created?

    And more!

    Got a question or comment you want to get to us directly? Email us at fakepresidents [at] gmail.com

    You can also find us on Threads, Instagram, and Bluesky.
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    40 mins
  • Banie Bros (THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, 2012)

    Banie Bros (THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, 2012)
    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!

    Find us on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky, or email us at fakepresidents [at] gmail.com to join the convo!
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    40 mins
  • Quid Pro Cho (The Presidents of THE TWILIGHT ZONE)

    Quid Pro Cho (The Presidents of THE TWILIGHT ZONE)
    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 stars as a hotshot campaign manager, Jacob Tremblay as the 11-year-old candidate for American president Cho takes under his wing, John Larroquette as "a" fake POTUS (but not "the" fake POTUS of the episode), Allison Tolman as the episode's sole voice of reason, and Jordan Peele as the narrator.

    We'll also be taking a look at some real American presidents portrayed fictiously in "classic" episodes of The Twilight Zone from the 60s and 80s, like an undead JFK and a very dead Lincoln.

    Find us on Threads and Instagram at Fake_President. Or email us at fakepresidents [at] gmail.com to join the conversation!

    00:00 - Intro

    02:22 - "The Passersby" (1961)

    06:12 - "Profile In Silver" (1986)

    10:41 - "The Wunderkind" (2019)

    48:55 - Closing

    49:58 - Post-Credits Bit
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    51 mins

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