How well do movies with fake presidents do at the Academy Awards? Let's find out...

1996's FIRST KID stars Sinbad as a secret service agent assigned to protect a bratty kid. The movie features one actor who is currently VERY searchable in the Epstein files, and another actor who is currently under arrest in the State of New Mexico. But that's not why we picked it. In fact, we picked it before we knew just how timely this movie would wind up being this very month.

Oh, and it was directed David Mickey Evans, creator of THE SANDLOT, which is one of Ben's favorite movies.

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What does 2017's KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (aka Kingsman 2) have to do with New Year's Eve, the holiday season, or even anything in the month of December? NOTHING! But our original choice wasn't streaming on any services this month, so we decided to finally circle around back to one of our fav fake presidential actors, the legendary Bruce Greenwood, last seen (by us) as the potus in NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS (aka National Treasure 2).

This time out Bruce is the unnamed "President of the United States" in an R-rated, edgy, action comedy from a true British Knight, director and co-writer Matthew Vaughn, surrounded by a impressive cast including Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Julianne Moore, Channing Tatum, Pedro Pascal, Emily Mortimer, and introducing the one and only Sir Elton John, in maybe his most outlandish performance ever in front of a camera.

00:00 Intro
04:30 Background
09:11 The Plot
15:53 Meet The President
26:06 Dissecting the POTUS
34:18 What does this movie say about 2017?
39:04 Legacy and Approval Ratings
43:36 Closing
45:27 Post-Credits Bit (Ben got something BIG in the mail)

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