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 quotin…

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…

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 misse…

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. …

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…

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…

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 ca…

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…

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 i…

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…

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, …

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 …

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 multipl…

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. …

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 bigges…

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 differ…

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 ti…

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…

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 geekd…

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 hol…

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, gre…

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, …

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…

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 lif…

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 …

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 ra…

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 …

I want my MTV! And by “my”, The Guys find themselves reminiscing about the good old days of the iconic music video network that is not so much about music anymore. These memories were invoked by the podcast “Who Killed the Video Star?” which traces the history and evolution of MTV. They talk favorite videos, favorite shows that came after the video…

The Guys did not approach this episode tentatively - rather, it was Tennant-ively. David Tennant, that is. Robbie takes this opportunity to introduce the GGI, the GOCA Geek Index, which heretofore will be used to gauge the geek factor of major screen stars, and it appears that Mr. Tennant scores well. Though he may be primarily known as the tenth (…

The Guys watched a lot of movies in the 80’s and 90’s, and a lot of them exist thanks to writer/producer/director/collaborator/uncredited actor John Hughes. Without Hughes, would we have the Brat Pack? Would the pop culture references we know and love be absent from our vocabulary? Would anyone who survived their teenage years during those two deca…

It’s time for an Art history lesson, podcast family and FOG’s (Friends of the Guys, of course.) But it’s not the kind you sleep through trying to get that one easy credit to graduate, it’s the kind where you learn all about our co-host, Art Shirley. Jay puts on his interrogator hat - er, it should be interviewer - and extricates all the details of …

With Jay out, Robbie and Art take a deep dive into the latest trends in producing digital and print content with software alternatives to challenge the tech behemoths currently monopolizing the industry. Do you really need to pay a high annual subscription to produce a professional-looking flyer or video? The Guys also remember an Oscar-winning act…

Do you Sci-Fi? The Guys Sci-Fi. And in this episode they talk about the sci-fi books that influenced them - and more or less the world - in all kinds of crazy ways. Art talks ERB and his Mars series, Robbie extols the virtues of Dune and more, and Jay riffs on the book he read sometime in 1982 that actually took place 2 years later. Heroic quests, …

Robbie took out his Han Solo blaster and said, “We’ll be talking toys today.” Or he would have, if he still had one. That and many other toys that got away and are now virtual college funds on eBay are the subject of this episode’s discussion of regret. (And it’s not even Jay’s regrettable segment, which is invisible this week, so to speak.) Robbie…

There are three members of the Ghost Patrol, the feature of this week’s Jay’s Regrettable Segment, but only 2 Guys in the studio today. Jay and Robbie were ghosted by Art. But they mustered up the courage and the words to talk about Oscar and all his little statuettes. Geekdom did fairly well this year- at least in the nominee category - with India…

It’s the first of a series if The Guys remember to finish: it’s time to “Get to Know the Guys.” Art is out this week taking care of his executive producer, so Jay takes a few minutes to interview Robbie. To figure out where he came from, how he got all his irons into all his fires, what makes him the vibrant media personality all listeners know and…

It’s finally here, the year 10,091, and with it the science fiction movie of the moment - and probably little ol’ 2024: Dune Part 2. obbie gets to see the movie, Jay gets the sandworm popcorn bucket (or he would, if his little ol’ hometown had an AMC theater.) Art’s interest to be named later. But apparently Robbie thought highly enough of the epic…

The Guys are definitely a certain age, thought not quite a gilded age. But that didn’t stop them from going a little bit off-genre in this week’s episode as they discuss both seasons of The Gilded Age streaming series on Max. Jokes were attempted about whether or not Art actually knew any of the characters portrayed, but even he is a youngster comp…

It’s that time of year, when the best (or at least the most expensive) commercials are gathered for a showing, while some pretty good football players run around a grassy spot in Vegas to keep viewers occupied between commercials. It’s the Super Bowl, and yet again, The Guys did not sponsor a commercial, as they were about $6,999,975 short of what …

There are movie franchises out in the ether that go a thousand different directions: some good, some less good. Sometimes it’s the perspective of the fandom. The Guys talk about this a lot when it comes to cinematic universes that involve space or superheroes. This time it’s Alien, set for another reboot of sorts that may or may not ignore the orig…

It’s the outer space saga that might have been, and another season has come to a close on Mars. Nope, it’s not John Carter, it’s Ed Baldwin and the rest of the crew working hard For All Mankind. In this season, Ed gets his free Guys of a Certain Age tote bag, in the form of gray hair, a slight stoop and an ornery disposition, but still has the ener…

Art takes a breather this week from the rigorous podcasting schedule - or maybe he’s still recovering from the 5th birthday party of the podcast. Either way, he’s out today but Robbie and Jay are in…are in …are in. That should be a clue…a clue…a clue… to the subject of this episode: Disney+/Marvel Spotlight’s five-episode streaming series, Echo. Th…

The Guys may be a certain age, but the Guys of a Certain Age podcast just turned 5 years old. (That’s 50 in podcast years). Who could believe it? Happy Podcastiversary! And to celebrate, they bring back a guest, this time live and in the studio: Scott Tracy Griffin, aka Hollywod’s “Tarzan Expert on Call.” But as the tales are told on this episode, …

Guys-zilla is back! That’s right, from Apple TV+, Legacy of Monsters Season One has come to an end; but Season One of Guys of a Certain Age enters its sixth year. Thankfully, The Guys are still around to talk about all things Monarch. And despite suspicions, they have this conversation in a genuine podcast studio, not in a retirement home with free…

Blue Beetle, a long-awaited addition to the DC superhero movie archive, finally made it to the big screen last year. And once it made it to MAX for streaming, two of The Guys did get around to watching it. In this episode, Art and Jay chat about the ups and downs of this lesser-known hero’s theater debut: did it live up to the budget? did Susan and…

As The Guys headed into 2024, they got wind of a few major world (or perhaps galaxy-wide) events due to take place this year that any true Trekkie would already be expecting. True or not, that got them to wondering what other films, tv shows or books released decades ago but set in the “future” of current times may have accidentally made some accur…

Just like The Guys carefully plan out each episode, they also like to plan out the video content they hope to watch over the next year. Or it could be just a random binge-fest. Or maybe on a whim, they’ll get together on discount night at their local theater and go see a three-hour flick about sand. Or is it spice? Either way, in this episode they …

If The Guys version of the yearly movie awards are the GOSCARS, does that make the TV awards the GEMMYS? Sounds more like a condition young children have when they want something that doesn’t belong to them, but that’s another podcast for another day. This episode focuses on what The Guys thought made for the best binging in 2023. And let’s just no…

Welcome to the 2023 GOSCARS! It’s the most informal awards show on the interwebs, when The Guys try to remember everything they’ve seen this year on big screens and small that can be called a movie. And that’s no small feat, given the fact that remembering is hard. But thanks to the aforementioned interwebs, memories are recalled, and the top movie…

In this episode, Robbie and Art pay tribute to Norman Lear, the legendary producer who created All in the Family, Good Times, the Jeffersons, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and many other shows that changed television forever. Geeks of the week include Kurt Russell possibly and fearlessly filling Brando's shoes as Jor-El in the upcoming Superman: Lega…