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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Eric watched a movie Ben didn't watch. Ben watched one Eric didn't watch. And together they watched a TV series that they both thought had a fake president in it, but didn't. Or did it?

In this Thanksiving potluck of an episode where each host is bringing something to feast on, we've got Stephen Colbert as "The President" in Dreamworks' 2009 animated movie MONSTERS VS. ALIENS. We've got another round of Idris Elba, this time as "The President" in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix original HOUSE OF DYNAMITE. And we also talk a little about what Apple TV's new Vince Gilligan sci-fi series PLURIBUS may or may not have to say about presidential politics.

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00:00 Intro
02:23 Monsters Vs. Aliens
20:00 Pluribus
28:42 House of Dynamite
45:00 Closing
45:57 Post-Credits Bit

Ice Cube and his two adult-ish children are Earth's last line of defense in the latest incarnation of H.G. Wells seminal, sci-fi classic WAR OF THE WORLDS. Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, and Andrea Savage are in it, too, as is voice artist hall-of-famer Jim Meskimon as the "POTUS."

It's a "movie" that is:

- 60% Reaction shots of Ice Cube, staring at a screen
- 39% Reycled stock footage where the makers had to blur the faces of people who wouldn't want to be in this movie
- 1% anything resembling an actual movie

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