Latest Men of a certain age Podcast Episodes
S E1: How Real Men Deal With the Stress of Quarantine
About Men Radio - April 06, 2020 18:54 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsYour two favorite Bronx philosophers are back and dispensing their unique brand of self-help tips to get you through "The Rona". Will there be cussing and potty humor? Of course! Now, buckle up and take a listen to the annual About Men Radio podcast -- coronavirus edition.
How Real Men Deal With the Stress of Quarantine
About Men Radio - April 06, 2020 18:54 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsYour two favorite Bronx philosophers are back and dispensing their unique brand of self-help tips to get you through "The Rona". Will there be cussing and potty humor? Of course! Now, buckle up and take a listen to the annual About Men Radio podcast -- coronavirus edition.
Father’s Day: The Afterthought Hallmark Holiday
About Men Radio - June 15, 2019 23:39 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratings... and we wouldn't have it any other way! Chris and Pedro are back with a new season of your favorite podcast (um...hosted by two knuckleheaded, middle-aged Bronx-guys, of course). On this episode we salute all the hardworking — and the lazy-ass — Dads out there. Our holiday doesn't g...
S E1: Father’s Day: The Afterthought Hallmark Holiday
About Men Radio - June 15, 2019 23:39 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratings... and we wouldn't have it any other way! Chris and Pedro are back with a new season of your favorite podcast (um...hosted by two knuckleheaded, middle-aged Bronx-guys, of course). On this episode we salute all the hardworking — and the lazy-ass — Dads out there. Our holiday doesn't g...
S E64: Talkin' Mother's Day
About Men Radio - May 12, 2018 09:34 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAh, Mother's Day. That day of the year that brings with it a mixture of guilt, apprehension, obligation and confusion. You know: The essential ingredients of any familial relationship. For Pedro and Chris, the relationships with their mothers are fraught with baggage -- some more than ...
Talkin' Mother's Day
About Men Radio - May 12, 2018 09:34 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAh, Mother's Day. That day of the year that brings with it a mixture of guilt, apprehension, obligation and confusion. You know: The essential ingredients of any familial relationship. For Pedro and Chris, the relationships with their mothers are fraught with baggage -- some more than ...
S E63: Facebook Does a Faceplant and We’re Paying the Price
About Men Radio - April 18, 2018 19:21 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsFarmville. Mafia Wars. Poking friends. Ah, Facebook. Not that many years ago it seemed so innocent and harmless. Taking online quizzes about which Harry Potter character I was? Checking in with the locations of places I visited? Sharing personal details of my day-to-day life? Of course! ...
Facebook Does a Faceplant and We’re Paying the Price
About Men Radio - April 18, 2018 19:21 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsFarmville. Mafia Wars. Poking friends. Ah, Facebook. Not that many years ago it seemed so innocent and harmless. Taking online quizzes about which Harry Potter character I was? Checking in with the locations of places I visited? Sharing personal details of my day-to-day life? Of course! ...
Retirement? Hahahahaha!
About Men Radio - March 19, 2018 02:04 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsThere is a kitchen magnet I have that boasts about drinking coffee: “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” Yeah, it’s a similar feeling I have about retirement. I’ll retire when I’m dead. When you are in your 20s, retirement, pensions, 401(k) and Social Security are a foreign language. Saving for w...
Putting Fitness Back on Our Menu
About Men Radio - January 08, 2018 08:43 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsLet’s be honest: Our attempt in 2016 to launch the About Men Radio Fitness Challenge — in which members of the posse pledged to improve our eating and exercise habits — collapsed quicker than a football handled by Tom Brady. But wait! Brady recently came up in a conversation between Chri...
This Is Not The Star Wars Movie You Were Looking For
About Men Radio - December 21, 2017 06:43 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsWARNING: This episode of About Men Radio contains spoilers for SW:TLJ!!! A small arthouse film by the name of Star Wars: The Last Jedi was quietly released in a few theaters across the known universe this past week. It’s getting good reviews from critics but decidedly mixed reviews from ...
Men, We Face Our Reckoning Post-Harvey Weinstein
About Men Radio - December 04, 2017 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsHow many times did Pedro and I *think* we were ready to record a show addressing the issue spawned by revelations of how movie mogul Harvey Weinstein treated women? Probably at least five times, I would say. And at every turn, when we would get our schedules lined up and prepare…Boom! Th...
Who’s a True New Yawker? We Put Ourselves to the Test
About Men Radio - November 20, 2017 11:11 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode of About Men Radio, Chris and Pedro debate the finer points of country vs. city living. The discussion is not exactly the opening credits of “Green Acres,” but let’s just say that Chris was more the Eddie Albert character in this talk and Pedro identified more strongly wi...
On a Haunted Hayride, A-Shrieking I Will Go
About Men Radio - October 30, 2017 05:32 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIf it’s Halloween time, it must mean it’s time for Chris to show the bravery of Sir Robin from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” You remember him, right? He was not exactly brave but pretended to be. Well, in the spirit of Sir Robin, Chris went on a haunted hayride at Woodloch Resort in...
A White Guy and a Puerto Rican Talk About Racism
About Men Radio - October 16, 2017 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode of About Men Radio, Pedro and I discuss the thorny intractable issue of racism and how we’ve experienced it. It’s a white dude (me) and a Puerto Rican (Pedro), who both grew up in the Bronx, talking about a topic that in many ways is the third rail of polite conversation....
Heavy on Coffee and Light on Sleep
About Men Radio - July 31, 2017 22:33 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsSleep but not nearly enough. Wake. Drink coffee. Drink more coffee. In fact, just pour the pot over your head to wake up. Rinse and repeat. If this sounds familiar, welcome to the crowd. Some of us might rise, but we won’t shine. As a society, we’re chronically not getting enough sleep a...
Does ‘Wonder Woman’ Signal a Culture Shift in Hollywood?
About Men Radio - June 26, 2017 19:18 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOne of the best movies this summer far and away has been “Wonder Woman.” The movie stars Gal Gadot, who is not just a pretty face. She’s got poise, comic sensibilities, acrobatic fight moves and a presence that really lights up a screen. And a special bonus: The movie is now the highest...
We Swear, Cussing Is a Way of Life
About Men Radio - June 06, 2017 19:11 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsThere is just something so primal about cussing and swearing that it’s difficult for us guys to suppress. Hey! Asshole! Are you paying attention to what I’m sayin’ here?! See what I mean? Whether used to vent (“I can’t fucking believe it!), to make an assertion (“That is fucked up”) or t...
The Meaning of Manliness
About Men Radio - May 16, 2017 03:13 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn ancient Greece, men were encouraged to let the tears flow. Dudes in the 17th century looked for a virile, masculine edge by slapping on a pair of high-heels, and it was perfectly masculine for a man to wear a pink silk suit with floral embroidery in the 18th century. As the cultural i...
Chris and Pedro Come Clean About Housework
About Men Radio - April 19, 2017 00:43 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsSo after three years of doing this podcast, Chris and Pedro decided to go where fools rush in and angels fear to tread and that is an honest man-to-man conversation about chores and housework. What is revealed is as about as pretty as balled-up sweaty socks turned inside out. I’m not sur...
BONUS EPISODE: We Really Are Getting Too Old For This
About Men Radio - April 19, 2017 00:40 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIt seemed like such a good idea at the time. Chris and Pedro were just planning on having a drink or two after work at a local dive bar. What could possibly go wrong? Listen in as two (very) hungover old friends are hit with the sudden realization that they may be too old to party like …...
Lost Podcast Is in the Wild!
About Men Radio - February 09, 2017 02:56 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe found it! Pedro and I recorded an episode a few weeks ago that fell somewhere into the couch cushions but fear not, we’ve dusted it off and it’s as good as new. Well, almost. We do discuss (belatedly for you dear listeners) our sense of loss at the death of our beloved Carrie Fisher, ...
“Manopause” and Having a Midlife Crisis
About Men Radio - December 19, 2016 02:11 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsA midlife crisis makes for good movie fodder: There is the wayward husband who suddenly wants to take up with a younger woman or the guy who believes that getting a bright shiny sports car will make him youthful. The truth is having a midlife crisis is not just the stuff of fiction. It i...
Locked and Loaded
About Men Radio - October 19, 2016 03:58 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsI busted Father John’s chops for not wanting to join the rest of us at the shooting range. He took it in stride — as he always has — and just casually lit up his cigarette with the air of a man who’s heard it all before. You see, John dislikes guns and he wasn’t going to … Continue readi...
Hey You Kids! Get Off My Lawn!
About Men Radio - September 08, 2016 03:11 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsI think I have reached the official “hey-kids-get-off-my-lawn” age. I do not think of myself as being a curmudgeon but I am starting to embrace being curmudgeonly. I revel in the things that annoy me and enjoy being self-righteous about it. So in the best spirit of the late Andy Rooney f...
No More Excuses, It’s Time to Get Healthy
About Men Radio - July 31, 2016 17:24 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsLongtime listeners of the podcast know that getting the entire AMR Posse to reach a consensus on anything is quite the achievement so this episode may come as a shock. Father John, Coach Silvio, SuperDad, Mele Mel along with yours truly, El Kaiser, have unanimously agreed that getting he...
Talking Men’s Health
About Men Radio - July 12, 2016 20:24 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this latest episode of About Men Radio shenanigans, Pedro and Chris talk about men’s health — no, not the magazine — but what it takes for men our age to be of sound bodies. (Forget about our minds, those are shot!) Partly the discussion was spurred on by recent medical procedures w...
Father’s Day Roundtable
About Men Radio - June 15, 2016 11:50 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAs fathers, we hardly lead the lives of television characters such as “Father Knows Best,” “Leave It to Beaver,” or “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.” Unlike television characters, our parenting efforts lack a script. We make it up as we go along, drawing on what experiences we recall fr...
We’ve Got About as Much Job Security as a “Game of Thrones” Character
About Men Radio - May 25, 2016 10:53 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis sure as heck is not your father’s economy or job market. Gone are the days when a person could expect to start, stay and retire from the same company after 30 or more years of service. You are likely to switch jobs any number of times as opportunities — and companies — ebb and … Con...
“Mansplaining?” Let Us ‘Splain It to You
About Men Radio - May 13, 2016 08:57 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsJust because Pedro and I are men does not mean we can explain everything about what our gender does. Take for instance “mansplaining,” the way men will insert themselves into a conversation and talk to a woman like she was a 4-year-old and the man was the Great Wizard of Oz. Or at least ...
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