Guys Of A Certain Age

Art went out for coffee instead of coming to the studio, leaving Robbie and Jay a choice: talk about Art?  or talk about coffee?  Perhaps there was a little of both.   One of Robbie’s entrepreneurial adventures won a major award this fall for the seasonal coffee drink everyone loves to have an opinion on: the Pumpkin Spice Latte.  That excitement led to a discussion about all things coffee.  Metho...

Steve Taylor, recording artist, filmmaker and producer, is back for part two of his interview covering his directing career and recent entry as a member to the PGA (Producers Guild of America). Jay and Robbie’s formative years were spent listening to Steve Taylor’s music.  Then Robbie grew up, became a video media guru, crossed paths with Steve in the film world, and that’s the focus of this episo...

Some creatives are really good at one thing and dabble in everything else.  Others, like Steve Taylor, seem to be really good at everything they touch. Or sing. Or produce. Or direct. All the things.   In this episode, part 1 of 2, Robbie interviews Steve, covering his music career as a singer and producer, with stories of the early days of contemporary Christian music.  Steve talks about the begi...

It’s Season Three of a Strange Old Guys podcast.  Or it’s a very long Season One.  It’s hard to tell.  But The Guys have all watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and have things to say.   Did it live up to the previous seasons?  Will they keep watching when Season Four comes along?  Should Anson Mount’s hair get a separate credit? These questions and more may or may not be answered.   In Geeks o...

There comes a time in a Guy’s life, especially at a certain age, when he begins to realize that things are not as important as experiences with the people he loves.  Or perhaps he’s just run out of room for things, and the people he thought loved him told him he couldn’t buy any more things.  (Thought we were getting philosophical there, didn’t you?)  Well, Jay has had an epiphany of sorts, and he...

Robbie is involved in the restaurant industry, Jay is involved in food media, and Art has a storied history in food marketing.  It’s a wonder that the episodes aren’t shorter so they can get to lunch faster.  And it’s no wonder that the subjects often trend towards food. This episode evolved out of both hunger and a listener request.  The Guys are based in an SEC college football town, and it’s th...

The instructions were clear.  The topic was to be TV series The Guys were enjoying currently that the others might not be watching.   Robbie understood the assignment (since he made the assignment) with Stick and The Sandman season two.  Art understood the assignment, mentioning the new season of Wednesday, with honorable mention for the reboot of King of the Hill. Jay did not understand the assig...

If an episode has ever gone completely off the rails of intended subject matter, this is the one.  The Guys had a topic, but before they even got to Geeks of the Week, the subject had changed and the original topic forgotten.   Those sorts of things happen when a body consumes all the flavors of Bartles and Jaymes wine coolers at once, or puts away a six pack of Zimas.  Or in this case, when The G...

It’s family reunion season, or so it seems.  Jay has been to one in the last month, missed another, and is heading to a third.  Robbie went north for the annual Coblentz-Con reuniting a baker’s dozen brothers.   Perhaps one day all three Guys will have a reunion and be able to record together 2 weeks in a row.  They can dream!  And apparently, reunion people can also eat.  Hanging out with family...

This week, the Guys take a long overdue return to the worlds of Dungeons and Dragons-not the recent movie or the old cartoon from the 80s, but the legendary role-playing game. With Jay out, Robbie and Art are joined by Art's older son, Will, to talk about the history and variants of the phenomenon that inspired the Satanic Panic. Will also shares how the role-playing aspect is something he'll be u...

There’s no way around this descriptor: this episode is Fantastic.  But be-Four The Guys get to The Thing they came to talk about, there are notable Geeks of the Week to mention.   Jay heard about a Hamilton cast member who’s been there from day one, and hopes the same will happen to him in this podcast.  Robbie geeks out over a potential Star Wars-Dr. Who crossover (well, sort of - with a cast mem...

It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here!  The first major film in the DCG (DC Gunn-iverse, for those not caught up on the latest lingo, like Jay) hit theaters and Superman is back.   The Guys had high expectations and some were met.  Others, maybe not so much.  But they agree that major steps  - especially in the casting - were made in the right direction for DC as the universe gets a reboot. As A...

Though we couldn't gather the entire podcast staff, Robbie and Art still managed to produce an episode that should strike a chord with music-loving listeners.   Following Robbie's recent visit to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the iconic FAME Recording Studios, the two Guys take note of the incredible amount of musical talent that has recorded there. Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Wilson Picket...

First, there were the Untouchables.  Then the Incredibles.  Later came the Expendables: 1, 2, 3 and 4.  (Apparently Stallone can’t be involved in something without multiple sequels.) Dare we say the GOCA-bles?  Probably not.   Let’s move on to the Regrettables and quit while we’re behind.  This week Robbie is lost somewhere in Indiana, leaving Art and Jay to their own devices.  Having none, they g...

It’s a race to the finish in today’s episode.   Only six more Regrettable Superheroes left in the book before Jay will have to create another segment, only a few more degrees before Mississippi weather hits 100 (that’s temperature AND humidity), and a challenge to see who’s seen the most auto racing movies.  Today’s redeemable regrettable is Phoenix the Protector, whose finish came not from the al...

It’s not the last of Them, but it is The Last of Us. The streaming series, that is. And the game. In fact, it may be a first: not only are all three Guys in the studio this week, they even brought in a fourth: Jonah Holland, certified by GOCA as an expert in all things The Last of Us. The Guest even brought a Geek of the Week, so he got paid double and extra bonus points because his Geek related t...

After a brief-ish primer on barbecue styles in North Carolina and beyond, Jay dives into even more food talk in his Geek of the Week, with another movie-focused restaurant that is actually reachable from GOCA headquarters.  Robbie talks about a remake of a childhood favorite TV show and the placement of cameras in the movie he's most looking forward to.  Movies are the theme in the second half, as...

The World waited in great anticipation for Season 2 of one of the greatest series in the Star Wars Universe. Andor finally came back.  Andor kicked Empire bottoms.  The World is abundantly satisfied, especially now that The Guys are finally together in trio form to share their thoughts, and/or their feelings, about this series.  And it hit all the right colorful buttons on the control panel of the...

It’s the mostly annual outdoor cooking episode, an early summer tradition that usually occurs when Art is absent from the studio (though not from the heart.)  This year, however, Jay and Robbie are joined by Chef Mark Coblentz, who happens to be Robbie’s actual offspring and is known throughout the local area as Jay’s TV son.   Jay grills Mark with questions about favorite back porch cooking metho...

With Jay Reed out, Robbie and Art launch another rant session.  Inspired by the latest Dr. Who season, especially the finale, the two Guys discuss series and movies that didn't seem to know or respect their audiences. No franchise is safe from their ire. (Except of course, their own podcast!)    This week's episode features a plethora of Geeks of the Week including Sebastian Stan's initial promise...

With Jay out enjoying his new role as grandfather, aka Baba, Robbie and Art take advantage of a brief window when they are both in the same time zone to quickly rant about a few things. Adobe is tightening the screws again, following the lead of streaming services by offering tiered services: a stripped-down version for the price customers were paying or the opportunity to pay more for the same th...

The Guys are well over 300 episodes into Season 1 of this podcast, which begs the question: at what point does it become, “Guys of a Certain Age, Born Again?”  The bigger question may be: is the world even ready for that?  (See show notes around episode 400 for details.)   This episode begins, as usual, with exciting news from the world of geekdom.  You heard it here second. Superman is ever close...

It’s another episode of Guys of a Certain Age*, soon to be known across the continents (or at least Antarctica) as The Old Offenders.  The studio could hardly contain all the excitement as The Void released Robbie, Art, and Jay long enough not just to go to the movie together, and not just talk about said movie together in a podcast episode, but to pay even less for said movie than the seasoned ci...

It’s another fully regrettable episode.  Wait, who writes this stuff??  It’s actually a full and complete episode made entirely of Jay’s Regrettable Segments, where he pulls a semi-obscure (depending on who’s listening) superhero from the archives of Jon Morris’s book, The League of Regrettable Superheroes, then tells the story after a brief “brought to you by” ad from Art the Announcer Guy.  Said...

The Guys are back!  And that means all three of them in the same room: the room where it happens, where they’re not gonna give away their shot, and where (hopefully) they won’t be shot in a duel of any kind.   That’s right, Robbie himself went to see the broadway musical Hamilton with Jay, Robbie, and all the GOCA wives, with very little arm-twisting.  And Art sings a couple of lines with royal gu...