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What Are Point
by What Are Point
An in-depth look at if there are, in fact, point.
Episodes
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What Are Point Weekly: Elysha's Paradise
This week we welcome debut author Elysha Chang to discuss her novel A Quitter's Paradise. Buy your copy here! https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-quitter-s-paradise-elysha-chang/18639110
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What Are Point Weekly: Summer Comeback
This week we discuss the Trump indictment, early 2024 contenders, Ukraine updates, aliens, Orca attacks, Jokic brilliance, and Messi practicality.
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What Are Point Weekly: Balloons, Trains, and Super Bowls
This week we discuss balloon confusion, train derailments, the state of the union, the super bowl, and the start of F1.
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What Are Point Weekly: Secret Documents
This week we discuss revelations about Biden's secret documents, the debt ceiling, tanks in Ukraine, and the NFL playoffs.
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What Are Point Weekly: House Cleaning
This week we discuss disarray in the House of Representatives.
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What Are Point Weekly: Year in Review
This year we recap a whirlwind year.
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What Are Point Weekly: World Cup Final
This week we preview the World Cup final.
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What Are Point Weekly: Griner Freed, World Cup In Full Swing
This week we discuss the return of Brittney Griner, ChatGPT, Liver King, and a simmering World Cup.
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What Are Point Weekly: World Cup Preview
This week we finish the autopsy of the midterms and preview the World Cup in Qatar.
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What Are Point: Blue Levees Hold
This week we discuss the (current) results of the midterms.
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What Are Point: Midterm Time
This week we discuss the midterm knife edge and Taylor Swift's new album.
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What Are Point Weekly: Halloween!
This week we discuss Elon Musk finally buying Twitter, Rishi Sunak's election to prime minister, the state of the midterms, and Biden's chip ban.
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What Are Point: UK Implosion
This week we discuss the resignation if Liz Truss.
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What Are Point Weekly: Fall Returns
This week we discuss the state of the war in Ukraine, the midterms, sports, and get some big announcements.
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What Are Point Weekly: The Queen's Time
The week we discuss Queen Elizabeth II's passing, the worsening European energy crisis, and the firing of Thomas Tuchel.
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What Are Point Weekly: Fairness in Artificial Intelligence
This week statman Walter joins us to discuss defining fairness with machine learning, Arsenal's perfect start, and dancing.
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What Are Point Weekly: Our Nautical Past
This week we go off the deep end and dredge up some nautical history.
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What Are Point Weekly: DJT Gets Raided
This week we discuss the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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What Are Point Weekly: Pelosi Lands in Taiwan
This week we discuss the inflation-climate change compromise in the Senate, Pelosi's ballsy trip to Taiwan, the start of the Premier League, and Richard Nixon's legacy.
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What Are Point Weekly: Pelosi Heads for Taiwan
This week Nick returns from training to talk about tangled US foreign policy.
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What Are Point Weekly: Crypto Winter
This week Dan breaks down recent crypto struggles.
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What Are Point Weekly: €=$
This week Remy joins us to talk about the euro/dollar parity and Top Gun.
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What Are Point Weekly: BoJo Resgins and BA.5
This week we discuss Boris Johnson's quick exit and new variant.
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What Are Point Weekly: Roe v. Wade Overturned
This week we discuss a spate of depressing Supreme Court rulings.
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What Are Point Weekly: Bear Market
This week Dan breaks down a tumultuous financial picture.
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What Are Point Weekly: Primary Season
This week Dan and Nick lay out the Republican primary landscape.
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What Are Point Weekly: Amber Heard and Johnny Depp Verdict
This week we discuss the Heard-Depp trial and the Celtics taking the advantage in the NBA Finals.
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What Are Point Weekly: Uvalde Shooting
This week we discuss the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
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What Are Point Weekly: Buffalo Shooting
This week we discuss the massacre in Buffalo and the possibility of new NATO members.
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What Are Point Weekly: Battle for Roe
This week we discuss the leaked Supreme Court opinion on overturning Roe v Wade, Korean Age, and the NBA (duh).
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What Are Point Weekly: Siege of Mariupol
This week special guest Trever joins to discuss the shifting of Ukrainian battles lines and American military aims. Real Madrid’s epic comeback, the tightening NBA playoffs, and more F1 porpoising close out the episode.
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What Are Point Weekly: Elon Buys Twitter
This week Dan breaks down the Twitter sale, midterm election prospects, and the rocky NBA playoffs. Special guest Martine also wonders about the dollar's place as the world's reserve currency.
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What Are Point Weekly: New Cold War
This week we discuss the battle lines in Ukraine and the heating up NBA playoffs.
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What Are Point Weekly: Recession Fears
This week we discuss growing fears of a recession and Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter.
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What Are Point Weekly: Emilia Grab Bag
This week Emilia joins the show to talk about favorite colors, Will Smith’s slap, her mixed sentiments on Russian aggression, her aversion to Donald Trump, and love of New York City.
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What Are Point Weekly: Brown Jackson Hearing
This week we groggily discuss the Senate hearing of Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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What Are Point Weekly: Zelenskyy Pleads to Legislatures
This week we focus on developments in Ukraine, including Zelenskyy's continuing calls for help, partial no fly zones, drones, and defaulting Russian bonds.
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What Are Point Weekly: Zelenskyy Calls for Closed Skies
This week Nick updates us on military developments in Ukraine.
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What Are Point Weekly: Stalemate in Ukraine
This week we discuss the dire situation in Ukraine, the growing pressure on Russia, and what might come next.
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What Are Point Weekly: Invasion of Ukraine
This week Remy joins us to discuss Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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What Are Point Weekly: Super Bowl
This week we discuss the Super Bowl and the continuing tensions in Ukraine.
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What Are Point Weekly: NBA Trades and Trucker Shutdown
This week we discuss the Harden/Simmons trade, an NYC rat variant, trucker shutdowns, and inflation.
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What Are Point Weekly: Partisanship
This week we discuss the nature of patrisanship, gerrymandering, and Brian Flores v the NFL.
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What Are Point Weekly: Jad Grab Bag
This week Jad joins us for a grab bag on the military escalation in Ukraine, NFL playoffs, human archetypes, the future of viral engineering, and CRISPR.
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What Are Point Weekly: Ukraine...
This week we discuss NATO?
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What Are Point Weekly: Covid and Statistics
This week statistician Walter Dempsey joins to talk about distortions in tracking Covid rates.
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What Are Point Weekly: Australian Double Fault
This week we discuss Novak Djokovic’s denial, the NFL’s concussion problem, and foreign conflicts of interest.
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What Are Point Weekly: 2021 Round-Up
This week we do a pretty cursory glance over a pretty meh year.
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What Are Point Weekly: Omnicron Takes Over
This week we discuss how the new variant took over, including early findings on mutations and conjecture on where this might be going. We also look forward to our year-end episode.
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What Are Point Weekly: Verstappen Wins!
This week we discuss Lewis Hamilton’s crushing F1 loss and the congressional hearings on crypto.
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