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