Waypoints 25: The Triple Double

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🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

What do a women's college basketball star, the prison abolition movement, and The Occupation all have in common? Uhhhhh... it's Thursday, and they're all topics on Waypoints! First, Danielle was both fascinated and repelled by this profile of Oregon basketball star Sabrina Ionescu, whose sheer willpower, toughness, and intelligence have made her an all-time great in college basketball. But in focusing on Ionescu's drive and compulsion to greatness, do we also end up celebrating bad stereotypes about the nature of achievement and excellence? Next, Patrick has been listening to the second season of the Justice in America podcast, and in its finale is struck by the radical ways we can, and should, reimagine our systems of criminal justice. Finally, the gang are taking a closer look at White Paper Games' The Occupation, and trying to figure out if it has a political perspective, or if its mixed metaphors only give it the appearance of political meaning.

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0:00.0	Oh hello, it's Thursday and it's time to welcome you to Waypoints where the Waypoint staff
0:24.0	and friends take a break to nerd out and deep dive on the culture, art and their
0:27.5	entertainment that's been inspiring and provoking us lately.
0:29.9	Gav it around the table this Thursday we've got Patrick Lepic.
0:33.4	Hello hello and Danielle Rando.
0:36.2	Who is right at first and basketball?
0:39.1	I am always ready to be more basketball.
0:41.9	That's not really true.
0:42.9	I'm always ready for more football.
0:43.9	There's going to be less football than there was a few weeks ago.
0:46.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:47.4	Apparently already followed.
0:48.4	Up to hit on a previous Waypoint.
0:52.5	The AF has been shut down three-fourths through its first season.
1:01.1	It's gone.
1:02.1	My Apollo's who did well, I don't know what their final record was.
1:05.8	They were one of the better teams in the league but they didn't even make it to the championship.
1:09.3	Well, there is no championship.
1:11.3	No.
1:12.3	So yeah, what could be a more American than a league that launches with not enough money
1:18.1	to pay its employees for a complete first season and closes down when management's expectations
1:24.6	and hopes are not met because there was no reason to suspect they would be.
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