Show Times
Not Currently Scheduled.About the Show
Jump to:
Playlists
Join host Ry the Y as he battles with his Gen Z co-hosts, Zakris and Ezekiel. The three friends, alongside guests from the community, grapple with generational divides — both the silly and the seemingly irreconcilable. Each week they guide each other through the impenetrable maze of online culture, spitball creative policy solutions to the great issues of our age, and take turns badgering each other and teaming up against boomers, all while asking:
Are we any different? Can we afford not to be?
Show Playlists
Jump to:
About
Ry the Y and the Twin-Z’s say goodbye to Generational Warfare. The three come together to reminisce on some of their favorite topics while honing in on frustrations with realizing generational change, particularly the persistent addiction to social media, to cars, and to designer dogs. […]
Ry and E are joined by Range Media founder Luke Baumgarten to examine the state of local news and how Range is aligning the interests of journalists and the communities they serve. […]
Ry and E are joined by Inlander senior investigative reporter Daniel Walters to discuss the use of social media by local elected officials. Politicians put themselves in the public eye — perfect targets for inflammatory, insincere, digressive and cruel attacks from critics and harassers. SPD Chief Meidl got chided by city for Facebook comments defending […] […]
Ry and E are joined by Valerie Osier from Range Media and friend of the show Zach to chronicle the long road to Spokane’s landlord-tenant ordinance. […]
Ry and E are joined by Inlander reporter Nate Sanford and friend of the show Celia to discuss Nate’s recent reporting on the true-crimification of the Moscow homicides. […]
Fellow Millenial Sarah York joined Ry the Y to lend some expertise with America’s tax system. They started with a discussion of the politics of Game of Thrones, then moved to an exploration of how online content creators are navigating the deductibility of their business expenses, and closed with a bit of indignation about some […] […]
Ry the Y welcomes back the newly Whitworth-graduated twin-Z’s, inaugurating a fresh summer of Generational Warfare. After arguing about the Obi-Wan Kenobi show a bit too long, they transitioned to discussions of the Uvalde shooting, red flag laws, guns surpassing cars as the leading killer of children, and D.C.’s move to raise vehicle registration fees […] […]
Ryan, Zakris, and Ezekiel dig into a some remarkable reporting on a new social network called BeReal, using it as a springboard to explore a range of other now-defunct social networks. They also spend some time raging against Ginny and Clarence Thomas. […]
Ryan, Ezekiel, and Zakris identify a quintessential Generational Warfare topic, a practice that has been commonplace throughout human history, yet seems plainly unnecessary anymore and astonishingly cruel: dog breeding. They also discuss some wonderful old voice acting work by President Zelensky, and mourn the disastrous design of American cities. […]
Ryan, Ezekiel, and Zakris respond to Gen-X frustrations with not getting credit for the stars of the Super Bowl half time show. Then they duke it out over gas taxes, and consider the generational divides over cars and driving. […]