The rebrand is (mostly) complete, so let me be the first to welcome you to Gray Areas.

We’ve been thinking about a new name for a while now. It’s tough, because on one hand we have seven years worth of episodes as Team Objection/Objection Network. But on the other hand, that name doesn’t really reflect us anymore, and this is a concept we’ve talked about since the start of the show back in 2011.

We started as At the Buzzer in 2011. Kinda catchy, really, but it was a struggle in usernames (say @atthebuzzer aloud in your head) and FOX Sports started their own brand with that name in 2014. All of our segments had Buzz in the name somewhere, even when it stopped making sense. So eventually we tapped into our love of Phoenix Wright and went in the Objection Network direction in 2017.

But the identity of our show has always been weaving between extremes. There are podcast episodes from 13 years ago where we talked about the dangers of polarized opinions, and trying to find middle ground on complicated topics. (Ironically, in 2024, there are a few issues that you shouldn’t do that with anymore — but that’s a topic for another time.) And that philosophy continued through any version of our shows, whether it was the podcast, the YouTube channel, blogs, etc.

What does this mean? Not a ton, really. New logos, new branding, new URLs, but the website look will stay the same (I liked what I settled on seven years ago, with big, pretty photos). The best way to interact with us is on YouTube, where we’re live every Tuesday night and spotlight chat comments — hell, you can even join in when we do stuff like trivia nights and tier lists. YouTube also hosts our video game playthroughs and other projects. Blog posts and Facebook/Twitter are a thing of the past, but they’re still around if you’d like to read them.

One final added bonus: our name is the same across all four platforms. Objection Network didn’t fit as a Twitter handle (one character too many), but grayareaslive is consistent on the website, on FB/X, and YouTube. grayareas.live and @grayareaslive. Come join us.

ATB and Objection Network are dead, but their spirit lives on in Gray Areas.