Welcome to The Point Being, the Star's opinion page podcast.

Each week, the editorial team — editor Sarah Garrecht Gassen, cartoonist David Fitzsimmons and editorial writer Edward Celaya — talk about politics, the news of the week and letters to the editor, as well as interview letter writers, guest columnists and other interesting people.

Below you will find links to past shows. Thanks for listening!

Season Two

Episode 5: The Point Being

Episode 4: The Point Being

Episode 3: The Point Being

Episode 2: The Point Being

Episode 1: The Point Being

Season One

Episode 41: TPD Chief Chris Magnus

Episode 40: Carving up the rich

Episode 39: What’s Russian for treason?

Episode 38: Famous journalists and other oxymorons

Episode 37: We’ll settle for normal

Episode 36: A fool for bonds

Episode 35: On news and opinion

Episode 34: You say you want an evolution

Episode 33: The end is the beginning

Episode 32:  Fitz Unchained!

Episode 31: An apple for teachers

Episode 30: Disgusting villainy

Episode 29: Athletes and social movements

Episode 28: Everyone's for gun safety

Episode 27: Lick the page

Episode 26: Cloudy with a chance of despondency

Episode 25: A jukebox full of rants

Episode 24:  Outwardly pervy

Episode 23: Education brodown

Episode 22: Salty racism

Episode 21:  The jerk files

Episode 20: RichRod madness

Episode 19: End of year nerd alert 

Episode 18: Reform means making it better

Episode 17: Little Pink Houses

Episode 16: Desperate Living

Episode 15: More turkey, less politics

Episode 14: The Franken-Moore Scale

Episode 13: The Madden curse

Episode 12: No room for Flake

Episode 11: All about endorsements

Episode 10: Set phasers to gun control

Episode 9: A delightful fantasy

Episode 8: Quotation marks are like hugs

Episode 7: Sharp to the point

Episode 6: DACA Jedi

Episode 5: The magical fruit

Episode 4: Antifa!

Episode 3: Repent or resign

Episode 2: Rainbow potholes

Episode 1: Working out the kinks


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