An Oscar For Arnold

Ahh, the bonus episodes. Where all laws are thrown out the window and we bring you a collection of strewn-together bits from last week's banter episode. The last Bonus Banter episode ended up being more popular than the episode it spawned from, so we'll find out if that's the case again this time. In these isolated conversations, Sonny and Tom discuss the best one-hit wonder acting...

The fellas are kicking off 2024 with a fresh episode of nothing but banter. Today, Sonny and Tom discuss the controversies behind the recent Oscar nominations, including their thoughts on who was robbed and who was wrongfully nominated. Then they discuss Arnold's recent legal trouble, which saw him detained in a German airport. But there's more serious legal trouble in the air today, as...

The fellas are doing another game episode to close out the year! After previously bringing you Which Celebrity is Taller, Which Celebrity is Older, Which Movie Made More Money, and Which Movie has a Higher Rotten Tomatoes Score, they finish off the quintet by delivering Which Movie Had a Bigger Budget, arguably the hardest of the games they've played. Will Tom continue his winning streak? Or...

The boys sit down to ponder a simple question in different forms: What if Martin Scorsese directed Forrest Gump? What if Greta Gerwig directed Scarface? What if Quentin Tarantino directed Toy Story? What if corporate greed hadn't gotten in the way of making the final Divergent movie? All these questions and more will be answered as Sonny and Tom do an episode that's basically banter with...

After recording Episode 23, the boys realized they had gone on a few too many tangents. So they took out the worst bits to shorten the episode into something more manageable. Today, they present these worst bits to you in a bonus episode,  tied together with some additional transitions that Sonny and Tom recorded to help make the sudden change from one bit to another less awkward. So if you though...

The boys take it easy today and stop worrying about those pesky themes and structured conversations to just have a chat. They discuss a number of things, which I will now spoil in this description so the episode is more likely to get noticed from online searches. First the boys discuss the fan vote for their CGI Character Bracket, which was completed on Instagram after Episode 22's release. T...

After the apparent popularity of the last bracket episode (who would've guessed?), Sonny and Tom decided to do another one instead of thinking of something original. Today, the boys decide to hash out a bracket of the 16 best CGI characters in live action movies to determine which character reigns supreme. Will it be Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, Caesar from The Planet of the Apes, or an...

After everyone seemed to enjoy last year's episode "Indiana Jones and the Hurricane of Katrina," Sonny and Tom decided to continue their hobby of outlining modern-day Indiana Jones movies. And what excellent timing, with the new "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" coming out in just a couple weeks. And with how tepid the reviews for that currently seem, Sonny and Tom a...

It's time for another game episode! After the boys delivered such hits as "Which Celebrity Is Taller?," "Which Celebrity is Older?," and "Which Movie Made More Money?" they decided to bring you an even more arbitrary guessing game with "Which Movie has a Higher Rotten Tomatoes Score?" With Sonny having won all three of the previous game episodes, Tom is...

That's right, the episode that nobody requested is finally here! To celebrate International Women's Day, your two favorite male podcast hosts decided to do an episode that's for the girlies. Long overdue, right? Now, you may be wondering how a podcast about Austrian bodybuilder, actor, and governor Arnold Schwarzenegger could possibly do an episode dedicated to women. Trust us, we s...

The boys are back with another banger banter episode! There's no single designated topic on this episode, just good vibes and good conversation. Pull up a chair and join your old pals Sonny and Tom to hear them shoot the shit about vaguely film-related things. If you're still not enticed, here's a little rundown of the topics they cover. First, the boys discuss the fan results of th...

With all the recent uproar around nepotism babies in Hollywood, Sonny and Tom decided to throw their hats into the ring. Not by providing any meaningful commentary on the validity of nepotism babies' success, but by putting them head-to-head in a bracket to determine who the most talented one is. The boys have selected sixteen of the most successful nepotism babies in Hollywood and placed the...

Folks, we want to go ahead and take a moment to apologize for this one. We're not gonna lie to you, this seemed like a great idea going in. The concept was that we would read the synopsis and the beginning of the plot description for a few movies and try our best to guess how they might end. What resulted was one of the most dull and disjointed episodes we've ever made. And for that, we&...

It's another game episode! After having played "Which Celebrity is Taller?" and "Which Celebrity is Older?," the boys decided to try a new game: "Which Movie Made More Money?" Sonny and Tom each prepared five matchups of two movies for the other man to guess which one had more success in the worldwide box office (not adjusted for inflation). Like the previous gam...

Back quicker than ever before, Sonny and Tom decide to do some genre-swapping. In other words, they pick a movie, change the genre, then discuss how the new movie would work. It's not exactly the pinnacle of podcast topics, but we don't hear you coming up with anything better. Some of the genre swaps the boys explore include "Se7en" as a musical, "Silence of the Lambs&quot...

Today's episode has no main segment. Sonny and Tom decided to throw caution to the wind and shoot the shit for half an hour instead of focusing on one thing. They discuss the creepy promotion for the movie "Smile," putting Muppets in serious films, Lizzo playing James Madison's 200-year-old flute, and Bruce Willis allegedly selling the rights to his likeness. We promise this is...

Witness the birth of a new movie experience: The John F. Kennedy Cinematic Universe. Sonny and Tom sit down to discuss how they could turn historical events into movies. They'll discuss different events and what the plot of their respective movies would be, while also casting the movies with notable actors such as James Marsden and Luis Guzman. Join the boys as they make movies out of events...

On today's episode, Sonny and Tom sit down to rank the decades of Arnold Schwarzenegger's life from best to worst. But don't let that stop you from listening, it's more fun than it sounds. For some reason, the boys decide not to rank Arnold's life by his personal ten year spans, but by the decades he existed in. Which means the three years he existed in the 40s are in the...

Sonny and Tom are back and better than ever as An Oscar For Arnold now has better microphones, a fantastic new intro, and two social media accounts (give us a follow)! The boys celebrate together by playing a game of "Which Celebrity is Older?" The rules are similar to Episode 6's "Which Celebrity is Taller?" which means each of them have prepared five pairs of celebrities...

Using a random generator, the boys sit down to combine two movies into one hopefully logical plot. The results of this are mixed to say the least. Some of the movies they come up with are truly atrocious, but there are a few Oscar-winners buried within the ten mash-ups Sonny and Tom create. Give the episode a listen to hear the boys attempt to combine a wide variety of films including The Dark Kni...

In today's special bonus episode of An Oscar For Arnold, Sonny and Tom sit down to discuss Arnold Schwarzenegger's advertisement at the Big Game, a football game that we can't name because we might get sued. If you were watching this Big Game on Sunday, you might have noticed Arnold appear as Zeus in a humorous and poignant advertisement for BMW. Alongside him was the great Salma Ha...

After the previous episode in which Sonny and Tom discussed which fictional characters would do best against which real-life catastrophes, the boys decided to expand on one idea in particular: Indiana Jones searching for an artifact in the midst of Hurricane Katrina. To accomplish this, Sonny and Tom look at the structure of a typical Indiana Jones movie to form a basic skeleton for what an Indian...

The podcast hosts whom you've come to love are back to make sure you stop loving them with this particularly offensive episode of "An Oscar for Arnold". Sonny and Tom have created a list of action heroes and have decided, for no real reason, to determine what the largest real-life tragedy each action hero could prevent is. The boys study the movies of each action hero and try to pai...

Sonny and Tom are back much quicker than usual as they sit down to try out a game of their own creation. Each of them have paired up celebrities, challenging the other host to guess which of each celebrity pair is taller. The boys have no idea what the other person is going to bring to the table, putting their knowledge of celebrity heights to the test. They have each prepared five rounds, and in...

Sonny and Tom are back and angrier than ever as they sit down to discuss the worst movies they've ever seen. To keep things simple, each of them has selected one movie that they've seen the entirety of and absolutely hated. The boys go through the plot of their selected films and critique them as thoroughly as possible, pondering how these movies got made and why they were both shockingl...