Guys Of A Certain Age

One might say that The Guys are a skeleton crew of sorts: Robbie does the editing, Jay writes the episode descriptions, and Art does the impressions.  But do they perform these essential functions in space?  While being chased by pirates?  Light years from home on a spaceship run by a banged up droid with memory issues?   Unfortunately, the answer is D: none of the above.  Instead, they live vicar...

Join Robbie and Jay on this episode as they sail away on the official Guys of a Certain Age yacht, along with Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, and Toto.  And friends of that certain age, of course: Steely Dan and the guy from the Pina Colada song.  But not Art: apparently he gets seasick.   It’s the Yacht Rock episode, where Robbie and Jay sing their favorite hits of the era (no...

It’s a snow day at the GOCA Studio, which means Art and Jay are phoning it in, and Robbie is the only one who lives close enough to actually walk to the studio - and he had to walk uphill both ways.  (He didn’t share what ways he was walking, but The Ministry of Funny Walks should issue a report soon.)   Luckily, Jay and Art were only needed for Geeks of the Week, with rumors of Wolverine perhaps...

The Guys are well into 2025, but they’re still close enough to 2024 to reminisce about what Santa brought them.   From legit light sabers to graphic novels, fine glassware to cross-country trips, concert tickets to Doritos socks - all the geek gamuts are covered.  Apparently Santa understands who he’s dealing with.   And in Geeks of the Week, there’s a little going and lot of coming back.  RDJ isn...

Between the hours that go into researching, rehearsing, and recording this podcast, and the hours spent watching TV series and movies (also apart of researching the podcast), it’s a wonder The Guys have time to go to real jobs every day.  They manage, but it’s a struggle.   But all that time is worth it because of this episode, the more-or-less-annual recap of The Guys’ favorite shows and movies o...

After years of cajoling, inviting, hinting, and other synonyms, The Guys finally sit back and let The Wives have their say.  Two of them, at least.   It took a pre-recording dinner and let’s be honest - a surprise unveiling of a portable studio at the podcast Christmas party - but that seemed to be the magic combination to get Jay’s wife, Melissa, and Art’s wife, Becky, on the air.  Secrets are re...

You want geeks?  The Guys got geeks.  (The Guys ARE geeks.)  This episode is full of it.  Er…full of them.   Art quizzes Jay and Robbie about continually running comics and they guessed 75% of them correctly, leaving 25 % as jughead status.  And speaking of comics, Dollar Tree (also known as $1.25 Tree) made a big announcement on a similar subject.  Jay went to Europe, Los Angeles, and outer space...

Nope, this episode is not about Boston.  It’s a different Wicked.  This is the Wicked that is a Broadway musical hit, and somehow Robbie ended up in the theater watching it.  A musical.  Are we in an alternate universe?  And will Art and Jay sing a few tunes along the way?  You’ll have to follow the yellow brick headphones to find out.   Meanwhile, in other worlds, another prequel is coming for th...

It’s dark in Gotham City, and that’s just the sort of vibe that fits the Penguin’s plan to take over the city and make his mother proud.  The actors, the story, the makeup, and the very lack of Batman make The Penguin one of the best superhero-adjacent streaming series in a long time.   \Not a fan of the Batman?  That’s okay, as long as you like the Sopranos and appreciate a good makeup artist.  A...

Buckle up!  This episode could be a bumpy ride - but not to worry, Jay brings a playlist of airline safety videos that you might actually watch.  Art shares the passing of an iconic horror flick actor while anticipating the passing of Superman and Lois.  Tomb Robbie announces the announcement of the actress who will sit on the next Lara Croft throne.   Then things get…regrettable.  Due to time con...

In today’s episode, The Guys invite the legendary Samuel L. Jackson into the studio…at least honorarily.  If they’d truly had him on mic, they’re not sure an explicit rating could have been avoided.  But he was there in spirit with what may be the highest Geek Index of all time, and he’s still going!   Listen as The Guys rack up his score, avoid quoting him, and debate about what movies are truly...

This week the Guys discuss the October surprise that just occurred. No, we're not getting political. We're talking about three new product updates Apple announced at the end of October. Robbie and Art share their "Apple Intelligence" to let you know which products get their vote and which ones shouldn't have been on the ballot.   In Geeks of the Week, we mark the passing of beloved actress, Teri G...

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...