Guys Of A Certain Age

Hooray!  The Robbie and Art Guys let the Jay Guy come back to the studio!  Why?  Because you can’t have a superhero team without a sidekick.  (Or is it a side to kick?) Anyway,  on this exciting episode, teams are actually the topic.  One might say, The Guys are the Team Titans.  With the Avengers and Justice League off the proverbial table - because they get plenty of press already - this time th...

What would happen if the Axis powers had won World War II? Or if the Confederacy had won the Civil War? Or if there were only 2 Guys of a Certain Age on this podcast? These things and more are discussed as Robbie and Art look at Alternate History science fiction; stories that imagine how things would have developed if some moment in time had gone differently.  The Geeks of the Week segment feature...

After months of chatter and anticipation, the Snyder Cut of DC’s Justice League movie finally debuted on HBO Max in all its glory, angst, and extended scenes.  Really extended scenes.  Not to worry, though - this podcast episode is a little shorter than the movie. The Guys talk differences between the Whedon and Snyder versions, easter eggs, and the secret life of Lois Lane.   Meanwhile, in the Ge...

It’s not The Guys’ fault that the world’s screenshape is continually changing, thus requiring yet another discussion about cord-cutting.  This time, though, even Jay might be bringing out his scissors - not to cut up his DVD’s like a bad credit card, but to spend those monthly dineros on something else equally watchable.   Meanwhile, Robbie seems to have finally come to the point of disconnecting...

So. Many. Questions.  The Guys can’t wait for WandaVision to launch!  Wait, what?  It’s over?  Already? It’s true, and while they are happy it happened, like many, they are also sad to see it go. WandaVision was a show unlike any other in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and as it honored television shows of a certain age, The Guys were right there reminiscing.   And those questions?  Well, now ther...

This week it's Robbie and Art going Jay-less with an episode inspired by Marvel's Scarlet Witch. With Jay spending time with friends who are nicer to him, the other two Guys took the opportunity to delve into a scary topic, Which is our Winning Witch, in which we list our favorite enchantresses from TV and movies. Are ours the same as yours? (Probably. It's a much smaller group than we thought.) ...

This week The Guys are going to drive you crazy.  Oh, they already did that?  Well, it’s about to get more specific.   In this episode, they move from talking ad nauseam about superheroes, Star Wars characters, Oscar contenders and the actors that represent them, and focus on how those actors get from place to place on screen.  That’s right, they’re talking trains, planes and automobiles - sans th...

This week The Guys get “Clued” in to some exciting geek news, with a new series or two being signaled from the DCU and a favorite composer getting a shot at more Marvel-ous fame.   Meanwhile, back in Westview, Wanda is up to more shenanigans and The Guys catch up just a wee bit faster than Vision himself.  And in recent days the broadcast world lost an iconic personality and voice.  Love him or ha...

The Super Bowl may be over, but the commercials will live on forever.   At least that’s what those companies are hoping, the ones that dished out millions of dollars to the network and the celebrity spokespeople to get their message out to the masses.   The Guys did watch the game, but this time the pauses and skips were through the action, and the real attention was paid to the commercials in bet...

Believe it or not, The Guys have jobs that actually pay money and don’t involve Geeks of the Week, except for the occasional look in the mirror.  And they’ve been working for a long time.  In this episode, they share memories of their first jobs, back when they were just wee lads pushing machines that spin blades fast enough to cut off a limb (botanical or bodily, as it happens), waving flags at s...

In this episode, The Guys get Sirius.  Siriusly, they are sharing their satellite radio presets, and they’re getting specific.  Kind of an “XM marks the spot” situation.   And despite the differences in musical taste, there is some surprising overlap (if you don’t count the buttons Jay has been too lazy to change from the previous owner of his truck.)  Is terrestrial radio dead as was predicted wi...

Row, row, row your time, gently down the streams.  Merrily, merrily, merrily binge, I used to have a dream.   This week The Guys jump on a couple of geek headlines, the breaking news regarding shifts (and giggles) in the rapidly evolving world of streaming, both video and audio.  The rumor mill leaked the possibility that Apple may be considering a paid podcasting subscription service.  How would...

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...