Guys Of A Certain Age

It's just Jay and Robbie in the studio today - Art either went to lunch without them, or is lost somewhere in the galaxy.  But there's hope he'll be found!  45 years after it was published, Jay has finally read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - or rather, he listened to a nice English man read the book to him.  He couldn't believe what he'd missed all these years, and didn't even need a fish...

Jay may be on the road this week, but Art decides to have Robbie act as his guide/advisor for an upcoming trip to Vegas to see Eagles at Sphere. Fortunately, "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" doesn't apply to Robbie's suggestions. Though we've talked about Sin City before, this one gives the lowdown on the amazing tech marvel that is Sphere. Geeks of the Week includes more travel tidbits, wi...

Is it Wolfs or Wolves?  Mrs. Reed and the grammar police would use the “v” but AppleTv+ begs to differ in the title to its Clooney-PItt buddy movie, Wolfs.  Robbie and Art give it two howls while Jay makes it reluctantly unanimous.  Perhaps Jay should have just watched the movie without reading all the plot descriptions first.   But as a whole, The Guys agree that it’s fun, it shows the classic ta...

Welcome to Guys of a Certain Age’s audio children’s book: Jay and Robbie go to the Emmy Awards.  And like everything else the Guys talk about on this podcast, this trip was only in their imagination.  In fact, the bar began pretty low: they didn’t expect to have watched many of the shows that won awards, thus the extreme lack of hurry in getting this episode onto the interwebs.  But as it turned o...

On this week's Guys of a Certain Age, Robbie and Art look at 10 sci-fi movies that just have to be viewed on the big screen.  In Geeks of the Week, we remember three legends who are no longer with us. We share "Good Times" and other memories of a beloved actor, and cover the bases with a "should-be" Hall of Famer. We also look back at the magical career of one of our favorite Dames.   Make sure to...

Once in a while, The Guys will talk about Emmy and Oscar winners, but it’s not often they get to interview one.   This episode is no exception: Donna Cutting hasn’t won either of those awards, but she at least has attended the ceremonies, which is a lot closer than any of The Guys have been.  Donna has also been an extra in a major motion picture, and in a scene that wasn’t cut, to boot!  She’s an...

They say that boys never grow up, they just get bigger toys.  They also say that guys of a certain age never grow up and may or may not still have lots of the old toys they played with before they grew older. At the very least, they remember them fondly.   And that’s the subject of today’s episode: the Toy Hall of Fame inductees at the Strong Museum in Rochester, NY.  The nominees and past inducte...

Imagine this line in the deepest voice possible: This…is Guys of a Certain Age. (GNN sounds better but Guys, Nerds and Nitwits doesn’t quite hold up.)  If only the Guys could have had James Earl Jones voice the intro, surely the ad revenue would have moved into double digits.  Alas, the voice of Darth Vader and one of the most memorable actors of our day has passed, and the first half of the episo...

Just because this episode is about “last things” doesn’t mean it’s the last episode.  In fact, it could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship - or of 100 more episodes.  And just like Casablanca, Guys of a Certain Age is destined to be a classic.   In this episode, Jay quizzes Art and Robbie to test their knowledge on famous last lines of movies, stretching back to near 100 years of movie mak...

The Guys have hit the big time.  It’s Episode #300!   Who would have thought they would go from a meat-and-three lunch to a meat-and-three-hundred conversations about … well, almost everything?  Who knew that a “certain age” would be 300? And who guessed that the people at Comic Code (aka Mrs. Reed) would let them keep rambling for that long?  Probably nobody.   But with episode 301 already in the...

Are there any movie remakes better than the originals?  Are there any podcast episodes better than this one?  Let’s stick to the first question and plead the fifth on the second, shall we?   The Guys look at a legion of movies that, to some degree or another, are remakes of movies made anywhere from 10 to many years before, and some were remade multiple times.  Some got a definite nod (hello, Dune...

It’s the podcast that’s rated SM-R (Sorry, Mrs. Reed) but has still managed to avoid that pesky explicit rating - It’s Guys of a Certain Age!   Also the podcast that’s made approximately $27.50 in advertising over almost 300 episodes - they have a ways to catch up to Deadpool and Wolverine, which is shattering box office records one after the other.  And that doesn’t even include the 116 F-bombs a...

It’s not a rom-com, but it has both rom and com with an extra-large side of Twister fries. Twisters, the movie, is the surprise hit of the summer, and also of note: The Guys all saw it in the theater, with their wives, and within a few days of being in the theater for another film.  But this one didn’t star Ryan Reynolds.  In fact, perhaps the biggest name in this tornado-flick-sans-sharks was an...

Hello, and welcome to Hall G at the first annual GOCA-CON!  We can pipe dream, can’t we?  In the meantime, The Guys will live vicariously through those who were privileged to attend the 2024 version of what used to be a comic book convention, now the site of every major reveal in geek media.   The announcements were plenty: RDJr reappears with a different metal mask, Harrison Ford enters the MCU a...

At long last, The Guys talk about the biggest movie characters of all time.  Not box office dollars big, not IMDB page credits big, we’re talking literally big - titanic, even: Godzilla, Kong, and all their frenemies.   With the recent release of Godzilla Minus One on Netflix (the dubbed version) and Godzilla X Kong on Max, it seemed like a perfect time to talk about Mothra.  Or Monarch.  Or both....

The Brats are back! And if you’re keeping score, The Guys are not officially part of the Brat Pack.  But who is, really?  Andrew McCarthy’s fascinating documentary on Hulu attempts to answer that question through interesting camera work and a series of interviews with his old friends, a handful of writers, and a few Brat-Adjacents.  The Guys reminisce with them, with Jay telling a bit too much abo...

Too many cliche’s to choose from, so … let the games begin!  it’s all fun and games until The Guys show up in your earholes, but this time it’s different.   In this episode, it’s all about games - board games, to be specific - and it’s even more fun because one of the sons-of-the-podcast, Jacob Reed, came to the studio to share his knowledge and geekdom concerning all things board gaming.  Jacob n...

The “Get to Know The Guys” series comes to a spine-tingling conclusion in this episode.  And not just because of Robbie’s hard-hitting questions for Jay - spines just start tingling when you get to be a certain age.   But before they got to the details of “Jay Reed, this is your life,” there were Geeks of the Week.  It’s only a few months until the holidays commence, and in November, Red One hits...

At long last, Jay and Art - aka “The Dune Dudes” - abided at their respective houses in front of the telly long enough to watch Dune Part Two.  It had been harkonneng for a long time.  And in a strange twist, they didn’t just arrive at different opinions, they flipped from their opinions of part one.  But both agreed there was enough great action, great actors, and great sand-skiing scenes to keep...

Once a year, or whenever they get hungry for things with grill marks and smoky aromas, The Guys emerge from the basement and venture into the great backyard with grill-master and friend of the podcast Wes Shelton.  In fact, Wes is one of the rare repeat guests and may be the first ever to bring along his own Geek of the Week.   Keeping it on subject, Wes talks about the debunking of a common grill...

This week's episode takes a different turn as Robbie and Art welcome special guest Paige Hunt to talk about her favorite movie, Steel Magnolias. In an attempt to broaden the Guys' horizons, Paige explains why this movie is not only the best movie to come out in 1989 (an amazing year for movies) but of ALL time, despite there being nary a lightsaber nor blaster in sight. Paige also shares a list of...

In this exciting conclusion to Robbie’s interview with Jim Biddle, a genuine contestant on MTV’s early game show, Remote Control, the question is answered: did he win?  Well, of course … he answers the question.   And The Guys build that anticipation by answering the question: what are the geeks of the week?  This time Jay shares the celebration of life for one of Disney’s most prolific songwriter...

Somebody said, “I want my MTV!” so Robbie went out and got it, in the form of a two part interview with Jim Biddle, a bona fide contestant on MTV’s first game show, Remote Control.  In this first part (of two), follow the Hero's journey from the fields of Indiana to the sacred Halls of Syracuse to the Gotham battlefield of MTV's Remote Control. But before that excitement ensues, Jay and Art jump i...

What do Eudora Welty and Dan Fogelberg have in common?  They both got their start at WZZQ in Jackson, MS, of course.  Well, sort of.   Watch WZZQ The Movie on PBS, just like The Guys did, and get all the deets, man.  Though none of The Guys lived in the broadcast range of WZZQ, they still found their own personal connections to this iconic album rock radio station, a first of its kind in the state...

Once a year, on a late spring day when Art usually has something better to do, Jay and Robbie talk about their summer plans.  Welcome to summer.   Movie releases abound, but will they go to the theater or wait till the streaming begins and perhaps watch on Robbie’s new deck?  Will Jay get the hang of his fancy device that takes a lot of the stress out of smoking meats, and will his back porch be r...