Welcome to a new year of An Oscar For Arnold! With prediction markets in the news these days, we thought it might be interesting if Sonny and Tom try to predict what will happen this year. We're talking about everything from Best Picture winner at the 2026 Academy Awards to the next celebrity couple, the next big trends, and whether Sonny and Tom will find love in the calendar year. So listen now and then follow our picks over the course of 2026 to see how much we nailed it. Will Timothée Chalamet win Best Actor? Will James Marsden experience a career renaissance? Will Helen Mirren be exposed as the leader of a celebrity drug ring? Only time will tell.

But time will quickly tell if the boys like today's opening segment, in which they imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger taking over Fredric March's role in "The Best Years of Our Lives." A movie that Sonny wants to see, so he forbids Tom from spoiling it and actually discussing the plot. Which might've been for the best, since it gave your hosts time to dive in to Fredric March's ridiculous character assassination in recent years, in which a club he was a member of with an unfortunate name caused his own name to be removed from a building for no good reason. Sonny and Tom get legitimately upset about this, as a man who was actually an outspoken civil rights advocate for his time is being unfairly labeled as a racist and nobody seems to care enough to do anything about it. Maybe this podcast will do something about it. That would require people actually listening to it, however.

Be sure to tune in next year when we check how our predictions went!

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Bantober may be on life support, but it ain't dead yet! For all of you who enjoyed the absurd amount of banter that we've brought you over the past month, you'll be happy to hear that there's a little bit more left over. Today we bring you the final bits of banter that weren't quite good enough to make the regular Bantober episode or the banter episode from earlier in Bantober. God, it's been a long Bantober.

First the boys discuss former SNL cast members and the advertisements they choose to do, including our favorite former member Beck Bennett. Have times gotten tough for all these actors, or is SNL no longer the career launching pad it once was? And can the BMO ad agency please hire Sonny to write some advertisements that are actually enjoyable? After that, we bring you two parts of a larger discussion about the new Tron movie, which stars Jared Leto and former political talk show host Hasan Minhaj for some reason. First the fellas talk about political pundits like Minhaj and the difficulty of having a career beyond political comedy, and then they discuss Jared Leto and the difficulty of having a career beyond being extremely creepy and weird. Why is Hollywood still casting this guy, especially to lead a blockbuster? Are we unaware of thousands of Leto fans who loyally show up to all of his movies? Who knows. At this point the description of this episode is probably longer than the regular Bantober episode, so I'll wrap things up.

A happy Bantober to you and yours!

#Bantober #SpiritOfBantober #BantoberBlitzkrieg #BantoberBonusBites

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Happy Bantober!

We promised you more banter this month and we weren't lying. We may have even given you too much banter! But you're going to take this banter and live with it. Because that is the #SpiritOfBantober

There's so much banter, I'm just going to lay out the topics for you:

Halloween comfort movies (14:13)

When to release scary movies/MLK Day (20:46)

Alec Baldwin car crash (28:06)

Checking in on Justin Herbert (32:36)

When Ralph Fiennes joined the Mile High Club (35:12)

Bantober Bites - Minecraft/Sonic Merger, James Van Der Beek, and Discover credit cards (45:57)

Then there's the opening segment, where we imagine a world where Arnold Schwarzenegger played David Niven's character in the film Separate Tables, an adaptation of two one-act plays. And yeah, that's as boring as it sounds.

And we ain't done yet! Stay tuned for some Bonus Bantober!

#Bantober #SpiritOfBantober #BantoberBites #BantoberBlitzkrieg

Hosted by Sonny de Nocker (@swankysonny) and Tom Price (@thomas_price22).
Theme by Josh Britt (jbrittmusic.com)
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