Guys Of A Certain Age

It’s time to talk Severance.  Wait, what?  Is Robbie offering a severance package for Art and Jay?  Oh right - it’s the AppleTV+ show, Severance, that Jay finally got around to watching.  Whew.   The Guys dissect this AppleTV+ original series about life-work balance (they really need some), or more accurately: life-work separation.  But don’t worry, they’re not severing from the podcast…or are the...

Lots and lots of money was spent advertising during the 2023 Super Bowl.  Thousands, at least.  (Prepare for the price increase of your morning donut:  Benifer is expensive.)   And all that just to audition for a spot during the break on Guys of a Certain Age?  Who’d a thunk? The game that was played between commercials was pretty tight, as was the race for best ad.  The world awaits the decision,...

Apparently it’s time for a restructuring.  Unlike Disney, which can afford to lay of thousands of workers, The Guys need at least 2 to show up, so the GOCA shuffle has been postponed.  But Toy Story 5 has not, it seems.  And an old friendship is soon to be restored when Loki returns to the small screen: Short Round is back, and we’re not talking about Jay’s appearance when he was 12.   Believe it...

The Big Announcement is finally here.  Or it was finally there a few weeks ago when it was announced - but now, valued listener, you get to hear The Guys talk about it.   Yep, it’s the DCU, Chapter One, Gods and Monsters, announced by the young Gunn, James.  At last the wait is over, and DC fans can look forward to a fresh take on Superman, Batman, Swamp Thing and a host of other heroes, antiheroe...

It’s award show season, and this time The Guys are ahead of the game!   Oscar nominations are out, and the RAJ Collective (that’s Robbie Art Jay for those playing at home) are almost as excited as when they found out the Golden Globes had already happened.  As a matter of fact, most of the same movies showed up on the lists - except now there are more lists.  Catch all the comments as they share o...

The Guys of the Certain Age Studio is a little short of Shirleys on this episode, leaving Jay and Robbie to talk about their second favorite activity: eating. And it’s a great time to talk about it (and to eat) because the Super Bowl is coming up soon, and that means super snacks. But does it mean snacking with a crowd?  At their home or someone else’s?  Or is it just as fun to nosh on a chip and...

The Golden Globes are so “last year,” except it’s been a year, and now they’re back.   Art actually watched a little bit of the show, and that plus a quick online review of the winners and nominees was fodder enough for The Guys to talk about what they didn’t watch.  Unfortunately, Art and Robbie seemed to think Jay had some words of wisdom about the 2022 awardees, but it turned out he’d only seen...

This week, Robbie and Art talk about shows and movies they'd like to see brought back as reboots, remakes, or continuations. If all this sounds familiar, it's not because they've talked about it before and forgotten, it's because they've talked about it before, forgotten, and decided to spin it as a reboot! Or recycling. Geeks of the Week include news of an Oceans 11 remake (which sounds oddly fam...

It’s not Groundhog Day just yet, but The Guys are back to repeating themselves.  For the second week in a row, there is a guest in the studio talking about fave movies and tv of 2022, with an expectant look towards 2023.   One might say The Guys are getting rusty, having to bring in consecutive guests to liven up the conversation, but in this case it’s literal: they got Rusty, aka Jay’s brother an...

Special guest Bill Triplett joins Robbie and Art for a look back at the year that was 2022. What were our favorite series and movies from the past year, and what are we most looking forward to seeing in 2023? Some answers may surprise. Geeks of the week include celebrating what would have been Stan Lee's 100th birthday and citing our favorite cameos, a look at James Cameron's Avatar 2 success, and...

It’s that time of year, the time when decisions are made: will I make New Year’s Resolutions?  Should I even bother?  Do they turn into life-changing habits or are they broken the first time we drive by the Golden Arches on the way to the soon-to-be uncrowded gym?   These are the deep questions pondered by The Guys as they embark on Year Five of the podcast.  Particularly, will Robbie and Art be n...

It was a Trivia Takeover - no, The Guys didn’t take over as guest posters on a social media site…they can barely maintain their own.  Nope, they were actually invited to host trivia night at a local tavern recently, the same tavern where they recorded their 200th episode live and in person, still the only episode that can be watched (see aforementioned barely-maintained Facebook page.)   And that...

It’s a very special episode - roll The Guys Broadcasting System Special Presentation clip now!   This week, The Guys play Start One, Bench One, Cut One with three Christmas classic sweets: egg nog, fruitcake, and candy canes.  Answers may be controversial, but nobody goes home hungry.  And it’s a good thing this is a positive segment, because there are two obits in Geeks of the Week: from Sesame S...

This week's episode is a bit trippy, with Robbie returning from Vegas and Jay calling in from the road.   Geeks of the Week include a return to old-school Daleks, a DC actor who may return to the screen as a new character, another who may not return at all, and a long-time airport resident who returned to the terminal before making a final departure.   After Jay pulls a disappearing act, Robbie an...

"It’s the Holiday Season (echo), and whoop-de-do, and Dippin’ Dots, and boy, The Guys have seen so many turns of the clock."  Isn’t that how the song goes?  And how’s that for an ear worm?  But as happens so many times with The Guys - this episode being no exception, and perhaps the greatest example ever - we digress.   With the holiday season come holiday specials, and at long last the Guardians...

The post-Thanksgiving, tardy, late episode is ready to tickle your ivories. Two of the Guys return to Middle-earth to take a look at Amazon's Rings of Power. Was it worth all the money Jeff spent? Robbie and Art weigh in on this series that takes place long before the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy but still features some familiar names.  Our Geeks this week include a look at the latest...

Sometimes The Guys have to really reach to come up with Geeks of the Week (see Jay reaching back to 1990’s Popular Science issues or announcing new movies advertised on ancient Netflix DVD’s).  Other times, there’s so many to choose from it’s hard to pick just one.  This week’s episode is all geeks, and we’re not just talking about The Guys.  The ever-popular-in-Bavaria Geeks of the Week segment t...

The event hung in the balance for weeks, uncertainty abounding, Art and Jay wondering if Robbie would go with them to a non-Batman DC movie (in the theater, no less), and they finally got their answer: he would see Black Adam with.   Only Jay came in full cosplay, muscles rippling (or were those love handles of a certain age?), but they all saw the movie together, except for those few minutes when...

Current Hulk-tor Mark Ruffalo recently referred to the role as “our generation’s Hamlet…everyone’s going to get a shot at it.”  And in this episode, The Guys celebrate (spoiler alert: they like it) the most recent member of the club: She-Hulk, with Tatiana Maslany.  Fun cameos, future tie-ins, fan service, fourth wall, funny dialogue, and a few fights for good measure - this Marvel limited series...

Jay's out attending what seems to be a ComicCon for Food, so Robbie and Art take a look at DC Film's new idea in spoilers, INTENTIONALLY leaking them. Is it a marketing ploy? Is it laziness? Is it just easier to concede? Are Tom Holland and Mark Ruffalo encouraging Marvel to do the same? Tune in and hear Robbie and Art (SPOILER) voice their opinions on the topic. In Geeks of the Week, the Guys tal...

It’s official!  Sort of.  Rolling Stone magazine gathered an elite committee of opinionated people in the TV industry for the purpose of naming and ranking the Top 100 TV shows of all time.   The Guys were not invited.   But that doesn’t mean The Committee was right about everything, and it certainly doesn’t mean The Guys don’t have valuable opinions on such matters.  And WHAT they really want to...

It’s February 1, 2019.  Three Guys of a Certain Age release Episode One of a podcast dreamed up over a meat and three lunch a few weeks before.  They had no audience, no sponsors, no idea how long it would last.   Fast forward to October, 2022.  That’s over three and a half years, and The Guys can’t believe it either.  Still no sponsor…but this time there was an audience to celebrate the recording...

This episode is full of deep questions.  The Guys are the ones answering said questions, however, so deep answers may be in short supply.   The issue before them?  When it comes to the genres most discussed on this podcast - superheroes, Star fill-in-the-blank, perhaps a Middle Earth adventure - do they shine more brightly on the movie screen or the CRT (or whatever small screen one might currentl...

This is the one For All Guy-Kind.  It began with a recommendation from Robbie - “Are y’all watching For All Mankind on AppleTV+?”  Art soon started watching, and finally Jay embraced his NASA roots and began the binging.  Just think (spoiler ahead): if Jay’s dad had stayed at NASA, maybe Jay’s wedding would have been on Mars. Maybe not, but For All Mankind definitely stirred the imagination and ea...

Robbie is missing in action this week, but never fear, Art and Jay are here!  And it’s a big week, indeed.  D23 2022 is in the books, and lots of announcements were made, leaving The Guys to ruminate over some of the shows they’re looking forward to, and perhaps a few that bring a little less enthusiasm.  But in the words of Art, “At least it’s not another deathwatch…”  Since most of the announced...