Gray Matters Radio With Michael DeVine

What better way to celebrate the holiday where we are supposed to be thankful for what we have by leaving our own families, making employees leave their own families, to buy shit that we just don't need? I know, I am beating up on Thanksgiving but in reality what happened to it? Its like we go right from one holiday that makes money (Halloween) and skip over Thanksgiving to celebrate the mother of all money making holidays....Christmas. Where is the faith and family values crowd on this one? Anyone....Bueller....Bueller? That's what I thought, they comically are absent when money gets in the way.

So for this very special episode of Gray Matters Radio, we layout the road map to saving Thanksgiving and it begins with not shopping on Black Friday. Joining us in the studio is our amazing intern Holly and the Armchair QB himself Bill Reed.

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Another week brings another blistering WTF segment from America's Counselor. What is chaffing Mike's ass this week? The Thursday night football game last week where we saw Myles Garrett get suspended for helping Mason Rudolph up by his helmet and helping him put it back on. I mean wtf....seriously...wtf were you thinking?

Michael believes that obviously something was said to Myles Garrett that enraged him...which is par for the course with all of the violence we are seeing across the globe. Whether it be a fight at Popeye's, kids getting bullied at school, and now even a military officer being threatened and moved to a secure base. Americans have become a culture of becoming habitual line steppers and this is what happens.

To help dive into this topic, we invited our good friend Leon "The Inspector" Cradle to the show to help give insight into being a football player and whether what happened last week was that over the line. What do we discuss, you have to tune in to find out but one thing for sure...Michael and Leon somehow both agree Discovery Channel's Gold Rush is a place we need to look to understand why things are so messed up but also lays out what the solution is.

As always I am joined by my co-host, the Armchair QB Bill Reed to help keep me in line and firmly in the Gray. Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of the 6One4 Radio Network family of podcasts. Find this as well as all our episodes on every major podcasting platform

What is the proper way to celebrate Veteran's Day? It is a question that I think many of us have never really asked ourselves. On the surface we will give the answer of telling a soldier that we thank them for their service but is that really enough to honor their service and sacrifice?

That is why for this very special episode of Gray Matters we invited The Professor Richard DeVine back into the studio. Richard is a Vietnam veteran who lucky for us is not short on opinions and sharing them with the world. According to The Professor, Veteran's Day should be more than just saying thank you but rather acting in ways that show their sacrifice wasn't for nothing.

With American's fighting each other over the dumbest of things such as a Popeye's chicken sandwich, many Veterans are asking themselves whether people really appreciate the sacrifices they made. Their logic being if they really did, they wouldn't be fighting over trivial things and surely our politicians wouldn't be running our government and country into the ground for greater good of their political parties.

Where do we begin? According to The Professor we need to stop fantasizing about the heroism of war and instead talk about how awful war really is and the lasting legacy it has on our surviving Veterans. If we did that, maybe people wouldn't be so cavalier with the very country that our Veteran's gave their lives and innocence to build and protect.

As always I am joined by my co-host, the Armchair QB Bill Reed to help keep me in line and firmly in the Gray. Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of the 6One4 Radio Network family of podcasts. Find this as well as all our episodes on every major podcasting platform

What do you get when you put a Baby Boomer, Gen Z, & Millennial in the same room discussing the existential meaning of "OK Boomer"? You get an epic and insightful episode of Gray Matters Radio. Kicking off our brand new segment "WTF Is?" we invited our intern Holly back into the gray as well as the oldest correspondent on our network, Richard "The Professor" DeVine.

Join us as we dive into the "Ok Boomer" uproar from the unique perspective of a Baby Boomer, Millennial, and Generation X. What do we find out? For one we all have a lot more in common then we realize. Secondly and most importantly we discover that when we actually listen to each other we realize just how similar we really are and how we have to work together to fight the real enemy...The Man!

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We are under 100 days away from the first Democratic primary and we are starting to get a clear picture of who the legit candidates are going to be. So naturally we had to take a break from our weekly coverage of the Orange Mist to put the 2020 Democratic candidates on the couch.

Joining us in the studio is our good friend Jacque Nowak from The Voice of The Radical Center Podcast. What did we see? For one Mayor Pete brought some fire to the debate and the polls numbers show contrary to popular belief, America likes emotion from a candidate. Elizabeth Warren has a giant target on her back and doesn't seem to like. Amy Klobuchar is like the honey badger and is fierce and doesn't give a f7$k. Is Tom Steyer a character from a Maryanne Williamson novel? Catch the podcast to get our take on the Democratic race thus far and what we think the front runners need to do to not only win the nomination...but also beat Trump in the general election.

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Just imagine if we lived in a world where each successive generation committed suicide at rates higher than the previous generation until it was the #2 cause of death. Thank God we don't...oh shit that is actually reality. The CDC this week released a report indicating that suicide is the #2 cause of death for Generation Z. You read that right...the 2nd leading cause of death is suicide for people 24 years-old and younger. One would think that would get some media attention but you can take a guess as to why no one in the media talked about it.

Instead of making fun of Generation Z for being snowflakes and talking at them we did something different...we actually talked to them and allowed their voices to be heard. To accurately represent Generation Z we invited our very own Generation Z Ambassador...the new Gray Matters Intern Holly Frye into The Gray to give her unfiltered opinion on what is going on with Generation Z & more importantly help us understand what we need to do to reverse these troubling statistics.

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While watching The Joker this weekend, I couldn't help but notice the not so subtle message that director Todd Phillips was trying to send about the long term effects of runaway greed and wealth disparity in our country. Perhaps even more sobering is the recent economic data showing that the income gap between the wealthiest 1% and the poorest 50% has grown to its highest level ever.

So we have to ask ourselves, with our country more divided than ever, more militant than ever, and more toxic than ever, how much more can society take before something happens? Our own economic correspondent Richard "The Professor" DeVine joins us in the studio to help us understand the economic picture of wealth/income disparity and explains how similar circumstances were the catalyst for the French Revolution as well as the rise of communist regimes in Russia and Germany.

Should we be worried? Could a sociopath be the spark that starts a civil war between the wealthy and the poor? Who knows but it was enough to scare the crap out of me!

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So with conspiracy theories now becoming part of the mainstream discussion and interpretation of what is going on in our country, who better than America's Counselor to put them together to figure out what is delusional versus what is plausible. For this weeks episode we dive into the popular conspiracy theories being floated by Trump supporters about the 2016 election and who might be trying to bring down his presidency. Deep State, CIA, FBI, Clinton's, Obama, Soros....we got it all!

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Lost in the debate about whether or not Trump committed impeachable offenses is the question of what the fallout will be if Trump is successfully or unsuccessfully tried for impeachment. Will there be a civil war? Will impeachment be the new political tool of the minority party? Will we continue to have the "it's okay if our candidate did it but illegal if your candidate did it". The answer is all of the above and we should all ask ourselves whether this whole impeachment inquiry worth the negative consequences?

To help us answer this question we welcome back our Trump correspondent Stelzer to give us the unfiltered opinion of Trump supporters everywhere about this whole Ukraine Trump mess and some of his answers may surprise you.

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We made it to 50 episodes somehow! So what does America's counselor have in store for this special episode? We start out with an epic rant from Michael after getting accused of being a sexist on Facebook, holding no punches about what he feels about the accusation and gender in America. Then of course Trump, Biden, and Ukraine get the special 50th episode treatment where Michael and Bill look at the evidence available and try to understand what Trump did, was it illegal, and how contrary to popular belief, Biden and Trump can both be guilty at the same time.

As always I am joined by my co-host, the Armchair QB Bill Reed to help keep me in line and firmly in the Gray. Gray Matters Radio is a proud member of the 6One4 Radio Network family of podcasts. Find this as well as all our episodes on every major podcasting platform