Guys Of A Certain Age

With a little help from the interweb, The Guys roll with a new credit this week: Casting Directors.  Reliable speculation indicates that the Timothy Zahn novel Heir to the Empire may be the Avengers: Endgame crossover equivlanet for the Star Wars universe.  (Or is it just the galaxy?)  Of course, this show is far, far away, which gives The Guys plenty of time to save up all those advertising dolla...

No matter how much Marvel The Guys ingest, or how much of the Force is with them (and even then, is it dark or light?), the conversation inevitably turns to Batman.  Or Dr. Who.  Or both.    In this episode, The Guys are at least consistent.  Rumors are swirling on the interweb about all things Batman.  Is Michael Keaton returning as some sort of Bat-visor for young wanna-Bats?  Is Christopher Nol...

In case listeners haven’t already picked up on this, Jay really loves it when all the people come back.  And this episode is jam packed with “back”.  (BTW, spoilers ahead!)   The Mandalorian, Season 2, is over and boy did someone come back for that one.  Return of the Jedi, indeed. The Guys talk about everything from  the significance of Luke’s grand re-entrance to the quality of the de-aging tech...

The end of 2019 would have been a good time for The Guys to do an episode about the best movies of the 2010’s, right?  (Who knows, maybe they did do one and just forgot.)  Either way, that’s how they decided to drown the sorrows of 2020: pick their favorite movies of the past decade as Father Time trades his Depends for a Pampers and starts fresh in 2021.  As they discover, it was a pretty good de...

It’s the end of the decade as we know it, and The Guys feel fine.  Even if last year was the real end of the decade, it’s been declared fair to ignore 2020 altogether.  With that in mind, The Guys decide to tackle a decade’s worth of television.  Jay and Art each share their top show with a couple of honorable mentions.  Robbie has three faves and twenty alternates.  Buckle up and get your pen-pen...

You’ve heard The Guys talk incessantly about movies.  About TV.  About streaming services.  About DVD’s and even eight track tapes.  You get it.  They sit in front of screens a lot.  But where are they sitting?  And is that important?  (Since when did importance become a requirement for subject matter?)  In this episode, Art reveals his plans to convert a room into a legit home theater, while Robb...

This week the guys go Co-Mando (Ed. note- Jay wrote that). That means they talk together about the current season of The Mandalorian. (What did you think that meant?) No, the season isn’t over but they decided too many cool things were happening in that universe to wait.  New characters show up, names of little green people are revealed... it’s kind of a big deal. In other news, Jay is one YouTube...

"You heard it here first!” ... said all the people on Twitter and everything web-related, when the news from Disney’s Investor Call began dropping today.   But maybe, just maybe, this is the first podcast you’ll hear about it, thanks to Robbie’s…uh…dedication to getting the listeners all the news they need to choose which streaming service to keep in the lineup.  And clearly, that is Disney+.    ...

There are certain TV shows that are almost as famous for their intros as they are for the stories or even the actors.   Iconic intros aren’t just backdrops for catchy tunes and a list of executive producers; the best ones stand alone. This week The Guys talk about their favorite intros, from Bart Simpson to the Prince of Bel-Air, from Mad Men to the Wonder Years - and that’s just in their introduc...

This is the 100th episode of Guys of a Certain Age.  Yeah, The Guys can hardly believe it either.   For almost two years they have rambled and ranted about all these geeky and nerdy and somehow, someway, they keep finding things to talk about.  (At a certain age you forget what you’ve talked about eventually, so that helps.)   To celebrate this gravestone - er, milestone - they take listener quest...

This episode is a little spacey.  But is it space opera, space fantasy, space western, or just space between the ears of The Guys where intelligent life should be?  Is it science fiction, science fantasy, or some subgenre of a subgenre?  It’s yet another ed-Jay-cation opportunity where Robbie and Art shed some light (or throw some shade?) on the differences between all the novels and movies and TV...

Connery.  Sean Connery.  Hands down, The Guys’ favorite James Bond actor.   The world is shaken (not stirred) at Connery’s passing.  But as true fans know, he also made a great king, Robin Hood, astronaut, sub captain, explorer, writer, and overall hero.  Not a bad career for a former coffin-polisher.   Before The Guys get to serious Sean business, they geek out on Oreo security, the cool things y...

It’s that time of year - time for the War of the Worlds.  The real one, we mean - not the one waged on Jay’s jokes every week.   Well, real might not be the right word.  The Guys are marking the anniversary of Orson Welles’ broadcast of the H.G. Wells story with a look to the history of the event, the movies that came later, and Art’s involvement in a current iteration.   In the Geeks of the Week...

Do you want to play a game?  Or would you be just as happy watching other people play games on TV?  Game shows have been around since long before The Guys were of any age, much less a certain one.  And some of them keep coming back.  (Jay loves it when the dead game shows come back.)   From Match Game to the Wheel of Fortune, these shows are entertainment and education and let’s face it - we’re ad...

This week it’s Art’s turn to play hooky, and in his absence, Jake Jones - co-host of Chortlecast over at chortlegames.com - takes over the mic with a gaming update in our extended Geeks of the Week segment.   Don’t know which new system to buy?  Jake knows all.  Jake tells all. Then the Guys turn to Halloween.  Jay thinks it’s really just another chance to celebrate all things Reese’s, and tells t...

In this episode, the Guys have an especially scary treat in store for you. And no, it's not that Jay is once again MIA. Geeks of the Week include news about Spiderman 3, Wonder Woman 84, Lord of the Rings, The Expanse, and of course, Captain Janeway. And then...get ready. Robbie and Art are here to chew bubble gum and .... talk scary movies, and they're all out of bubble gum. The Guys are joined b...

The Jayster takes over the studio and dives into one of his passions- food.  Specifically how to prepare and cook it. Jay’s geek-dom when it comes to all things food is fully manifested in an interview with T.J. Manna, a local baker-cook-pastry chef: in other words, a full-on food nerd.   They talk baking of all sorts, with a special focus on how many days it takes to make a croissant.  A real one...

Back in the 80’s, when Guys (and Gals) of a Certain Age were being molded and shaped for the future (i.e., NOW), did you ever watch a movie and think, “This is just like my life.”   You know, movies like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Mystic Pizza, or War Games?  Maybe not.  Maybe we just wished they were.  Meanwhile, we aged, the actors aged, and now we are left to...

Once again the Guys are without Jay for this podcast. Rumor has it, he's auditioning for a podcast musical. Robbie and Art soldier on without him, dispensing Geeks of the Week knowledge on the new WandaVision trailer, a possible Spinal Tap sequel, and an old CRT television set that wipes out WiFi in Wales — or at least a small village there. The second half finds the Guys going back to a time befo...

If the Guys ever showed their full geek status, it's in this episode all about science fairs.  Art converts wine to wind, Jay gets back to nature with a side of gas, but Robbie - Robbie took science fairs seriously. He may not have been cool, but his project definitely was. He started in third grade and truth be told, is probably still working on it.  Geeks of the Week range from Pod-Way musicals,...

In a world where Guys of a Certain age are free to record podcasts on any topic they choose, 2 out of 3 guys choose to talk...movie trailers. The non-stop action begins with a Geek of the Week segment that finds Art and Robbie remembering the late Diana Riggs of the Avengers (the other ones) and looking forward to the upcoming Disney series, Kenobi. The roller coaster thrill ride continues with a...

Believe it or don’t, The Guys get serious this week.  Mostly.  These days there are serious things happening in all our universes, be they parallel or inverse, and The Guys are serious about them.  Seriously.  The world appears to be opening up as the curve shows signs of flattening (hello, flat earth fans and listeners!), but is the world we are opening up to the same one we had when it closed? ...

The guys venture into the DC Multiverse and talk all things DC, which does cover much more than Art's beloved DC Universe.  The geeks' geeks include an ode to the father of Scooby Doo, a documentary about a decade's old fan film (on VHS!), and the direction of Jay-fav Quibi after he dumped them unceremoniously a few eps back. No guys were harmed in this recording.  But we wouldn't remember if they...

The Guys got the band back together this week (i.e., they let Jay back into the studio), and they even have a Plus One!   The subject is breakfast cereal, and the guest is Art’s lifelong friend, George Abide. George is in the food biz, and has an insider’s philosophy of cereal. Yep, that’s right.  It’s finally time to talk about what we all loved (maybe still love?) to eat while watching those Sat...

This week the Guys have an Epic conversation about a certain game that is challenging Apple's app store business model. Things get started with an update on DC Universe and the recent layoffs that are affecting all of DC including their comics line.   The Geeks of the Week segment has Art discussing the series finale of Marvel's Agents of Shield. Robbie keeps it Disney by announcing the upcoming S...