IDSG bonus episodes are a regular extra just for Patreon backers of myself or Daniel.

Here's a preview of the new one.

Wanted.

Ambitious individual for leadership position.

Be prepared for difficult application process and stressful work environment.

Challenges, many. Rewards, numerous. Failure.

Your employer, the American people. The few chosen have been the presidents.

Okay, and welcome back everybody to the IDSG bonus episode series on movies about presidents.

And yeah, there's no reason to stop.

I mean, there's no reason to be, you know, like, existentially terrified whenever anybody mentions the concept of the President of the United States or anything like that.

I mean, you can just carry on talking about this.

So, yeah, another episode in that series, movies about presidents, and the movie that we are talking about in this bonus episode is absolute power.

And you should, you should probably get used to me saying it that way, because every time I say the, the title of this movie in this episode, I'm liable to say it, absolute power.

Daniel, I know nothing about this. I've just realized I've completely failed to do the normal basic baseline minimum bloody research that I should

normally do before coming into a recording.

I don't know what year this was released.

You've probably been looking at this stuff instead, you know, when I haven't, tell the,

tell the listening several, all about absolute power.

Sure.

So this was released in 1997.

It was based on David Beldachi's first book, which it was optioned even before it was published.

This was like a kind of a hot property moving around Hollywood for a little bit.

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