Best Ode To Evolution Podcasts (2024)

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life 1:20:13

1M ago1:20:13

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The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called "live human signposts" — human beings who embody ways of seeing and becoming and who point the way forward to the world we want to inhabit. And adrienne maree brown, who has inspired worlds of social creativity with her notions of "pleasure activism" …

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“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón 1:43

2M ago1:43

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An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's reading of her piece, “The End of Poetry” — and hear her read more of her work in the On Being episode, “To Be Made Whole.” Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six book…

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Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning 1:02:48

2M ago1:02:48

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We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality itself. In this century, western medicine has gradually moved away from its understanding of death as a failure — where care stops with a terminal diagnosis. Hospice has moved, from something rare to something ex…

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“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander 1:17

2M ago1:17

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Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her poem “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” with you — and hear Elizabeth read more of her poetry in the On Being episode, “Words That Shimmer.” Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, author, and educator. Since 2018, she has ser…

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Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other 59:10

2M ago59:10

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We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exuberant, wise, and refreshing companion into the deep meaning and the problem of borders — what they are really about, what we do with them, and what they do to us. The Mexican-American border was as cl…

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We are All Entrepreneurs – How We Cultivate Steering Our Life 15:28

3M ago15:28

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Do you too have the impression that nowadays thereis an immeasurable amount of new entrepreneurs out there? Whether this is just a social media phenomenon or whether people truly aspire to achieve that type of career - I say that there’s an entrepreneur in all of us! In this episode we will explore what we can do to ignite the power behind that, in…

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Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy 59:05

2M ago59:05

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In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent rallying cries in almost every life-giving conversation that Krista has had across recent months and years, even and especially with people on the front lines of humanity's struggles. Ross Gay helps illuminate…

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Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity 1:16:20

2M ago1:16:20

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In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner Azita Ardakani Walton. Together they trace precise guidance and applied wisdom from the natural world for the civilizational callings before us now. What does nature have to teach us about healing fro…

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Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan 11:16

2M ago11:16

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In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of our nervous systems. As part of On Being’s 2021 Midwinter Gathering, she offered this brief, practical, gently guided practice as an invitation to befriend your beleaguered body, to “blanket it with a little bit…

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Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems 1:01:11

2M ago1:01:11

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The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing it. This conversation with Christine Runyan, which took place in the dark middle of those years, helps make sense of our present of still-unfolding epidemic distress — as individuals, as communities, …

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“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham 14:26

3M ago14:26

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We are overjoyed to share this heart-stirring performance with you, which transpired when we invited the ornithologist/poet/former On Being guest J. Drew Lanham to offer some poetry at a live On Being event in January 2024. We could not have imagined the lightning in a bottle that unfolded — a live adaptation of the title poem that appears in Drew'…

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Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt) 1:15:26

3M ago1:15:26

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Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and journalist Hannah Arendt: "Loneliness is the bully that coerces us into giving up on democracy." This conversation is a kind of guide to generative shared deliberations we might be having with each other and ou…

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New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition 11:09

3M ago11:09

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A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound — bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very present matter of conflict in our world. In this first offering, Pádraig introduces the intriguing idea of poems as teachers and ponders Wisława Szymborska’s “A Word on Statistics," translated by Joanna Trzeciak.…

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Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To 1:02:38

3M ago1:02:38

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There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, Colette Pichon Battle is a singular model of brilliance and graciousness of mind and spirit and action. And to be with her is to open to the way the stories we tell have blunted us to the courage we’re call…

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Kate DiCamillo — On Nurturing Capacious Hearts 54:16

4M ago54:16

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In her writing, it is Kate DiCamillo's gift to make bearable the fact that joy and sorrow live so close, side by side, in life as it is (if not as we wish it to be). In this conversation, along with good measures of raucous laughter and a few tears, Kate summons us to hearts "capacious enough to contain the complexities and mysteries of ourselves a…

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Wisdom, Solace, and Courage for 2024 2:58

4M ago2:58

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A special two-month season of On Being starts May 9. Freshly curated conversations from across the On Being archive. Big new conversations and extra offerings. To be present to the suffering and sorrow of this world from a place of love. To accompany each other in this — and accompany the young. To honor the fragility of being human. To keep our ca…

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Each day is a new life - How We Cultivate Revivals 10:30

4M ago10:30

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After a long (and very needed!) break, Iam back in my listeners’ ears – yet again full of joy for recording and sharingkind and gentle impulses in the context of self-cultivation. In this episode I am inviting you to lookinto your thoughts and habits once again. How did you spend the last 10 monthssince the last episode was published? What small an…

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Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence 1:03:59

9M ago1:03:59

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Here are some experiences to which Nick Cave gives voice and song: the "universal condition" of yearning, and of loss; a "spirituality of rigor"; and the transcendent and moral dimensions of what music is about. This Australian musician, writer, and actor first made a name in the wild world of ’80s post-punk and later with Nick Cave and the Bad See…

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A Word from Krista 2:22

9M ago2:22

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A little musing on this season, the spectacular finale headed your way — and ways to stay connected in the time ahead. Subscribe to the The Pause Find our Starting Points Peruse our Libraries And on YouTube, grab a Poem to Carry in Your PocketBy On Being Studios

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Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World 1:01:26

9M ago1:01:26

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Our built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better or worse — and always, always changing. This is a fact so ordinary — and yet not something most of us routinely pause to know and to ponder and work with. But Sara Hendren has made it her passion, br…

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Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution 1:19:41

9M ago1:19:41

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The ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal — intimately close to each of us in the places we love and inhabit, and unfolding at a species level. And as much as anyone alive on the planet now, Christiana Figueres has felt the overwhelm of this and stepped into service. She gives voice so eloquently to the gri…

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Clint Smith — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones" 1:04:22

10M ago1:04:22

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This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the science to understand it. Clint Smith is best known fo…

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“Dance Party” by Clint Smith 2:25

10M ago2:25

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Clint Smith reads his poem, “Dance Party.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversation with Krista, “What We Know in the ‘Marrow of Our Bones.’” Find more of his poems, along with our full collection of poetry films and readings from two decades of the show, at Experience Poetry. Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. His narrati…

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“Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith 1:55

10M ago1:55

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Clint Smith reads his poem, “Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversation with Krista, “What We Know in the ‘Marrow of Our Bones.’” Find more of his poems, along with our full collection of poetry films and readings from two decades of the show, at Experience Poetry. C…

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[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett 1:48:38

10M ago1:48:38

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This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lodge in us physically. Words and phrases have carried this truth forward in time long before we had the science to understand it. Clint Smith is best known fo…

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Three Skills for Staying Calm, Sane, and Open in a Chaotic World | Krista interviewed by Dan Harris for Ten Percent Happier 1:05:34

10M ago1:05:34

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From Krista: I loved being interviewed by Dan Harris as much as I've ever enjoyed being on the other side of the microphone (as the saying goes). He drew things out of me I didn't know I had to say. And I'm so impressed with him as a human being, and what he's created with Ten Percent Happier. I hope you might enjoy this! Listen to Ten Percent Happ…

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Latanya Sweeney — On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose 1:01:21

10M ago1:01:21

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You may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all the algorithms by which we increasingly navigate our …

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[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett 1:24:48

10M ago1:24:48

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You may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding of how far from anonymous you and I are in almost any database we inhabit, and how far from neutral all the algorithms by which we increasingly navigate our …

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Matthew Sanford – The Body's Grace 57:19

10M ago57:19

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A wondrous, buried treasure from the 20-year On Being archive, with renowned yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. Be prepared, as you listen to what follows, to take in subtleties and gracefulness you've never before pondered — or tried to feel in yourself — in the interplay between your mind and your body. Matthew has an immensely energetic physical pres…

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Baratunde Thurston — How to Be a Social Creative 1:09:36

10M ago1:09:36

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Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, writer, and media entrepreneur. He has eyes open to the contradictions, strangeness, and beauty of being human. He looks for learning happening even amidst our hardest cultural tangles. And he intertwines all of this, innovatively and searchingly, with his lifelong joy in the natural world. The kaleidoscopic view o…

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419: Arsenal beat Man City, Hazard retires, ode to Beckham 39:50

10M ago39:50

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On this episode of the OneFootball Podcast, Dan Burke is joined by Lewis Ambrose and Alex Mott. Arsenal overcame Manchester City on Sunday in what felt like the first big Premier League title tussle of the season. What does win mean for Arsenal's chances? Are City still the title favourites? And is Erling Haaland's form becoming a problem for the c…

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Reid Hoffman — AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human 1:23:20

11M ago1:23:20

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In this season of On Being and those to come, we are going to train the core human questions on the emerging “generative AI.” Beyond the hype and the doom, what is this new technology calling us to as human beings? What is our agency to shape it to human purpose, and how might it bring us — literally — to our senses? This inaugural conversation wit…

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418: VAR madness, UCL brilliance, Arsenal v Man City preview 35:35

11M ago35:35

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On this episode of the OneFootball Podcast, Dan Burke is joined by Lewis Ambrose and Alex Mott. As much as we're sick of talking about VAR, it's simply unavoidable this week after Luis Díaz's wrongly disallowed goal in Tottenham's win over Liverpool sent PGMOL into meltdown. What should we do about VAR? Is there any way to fix it? And if Jürgen Klo…

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Kerry Washington — Acting as a Devotional Practice 1:05:17

11M ago1:05:17

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“Becoming other people” for a living, as Kerry Washington likes to describe her craft, turns out to be a revelatory lens on the high drama that is the human condition. As a “learning actor,” a kind of actor/anthropologist, she has brought elegance and moral rigor to all kinds of roles: as the uber-glamorous, tough-as-nails Olivia Pope on Scandal; a…

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Kate Bowler — On Being in a Body 1:00:22

11M ago1:00:22

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We love the theologian Kate Bowler's allergy to every platitude and her wisdom and wit about the strange and messy fullness of what it means to be in a human body. She's best known for her 2018 book Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) — a poetic and powerful reflection on learning at age 35 that she had Stage IV colon cancer…

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Kate Bowler — A Blessing for the Life You Didn't Choose 1:55

11M ago1:55

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This blessing is featured in Kate’s conversation with Krista, “On Being in a Body.” It's published in her book The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days. Kate Bowler's beloved books include Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) and most recently, The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days. …

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417: Man Utd's woes, UCL returns, favourite goalkeeper goals 45:21

12M ago45:21

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On this episode of the OneFootball Podcast, Dan Burke is joined by Lewis Ambrose, Pádraig Whelan and Joel Sanderson-Murray. Manchester United have made their worst ever start to a Premier League season and it's time for another Old Trafford inquest. How much can we blame the Glazers? Is the squad good enough? And is the clock ticking for Erik ten H…

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A New Season of On Being Is Coming 1:39

12M ago1:39

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A big conversation to live by starting NEXT WEEK — every Thursday — from September 21. Loss — and love. AI — and the intelligence that lives in our bodies. Kerry Washington, Kate Bowler, Reid Hoffman, Latanya Sweeney, Nick Cave, Baratunde Thurston … and more. Subscribe, tell your friends, and buckle your (metaphorical) seatbelts.…

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416: Best shithousery, worst chants and how to fix football 47:15

11M ago47:15

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It's the international break and we have also taken a break from normal service on the OneFootball Podcast this week. Joel Sanderson-Murray is in the host's chair and he's joined by Dan Burke, Lewis Ambrose and Pádraig Whelan to discuss the following philosophical questions ... What is the best act of shithousery in football? What one change could …

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415: Knee-jerk reactions on every Premier League team 1:14:25

12M ago1:14:25

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The Premier League season is only four matches old but that hasn't stopped us from jumping to all kinds of conclusions on the OneFootball Podcast. For the first time since before the 2020 pandemic, Dan Burke is joined live and in the flesh for a very special episode by Lewis Ambrose, Joel Sanderson-Murray and Pádraig Whelan. The gang rate every Pre…

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414: Deadline day approaches, Darwin's evolution, Brits invade Bavaria 56:16

1y ago56:16

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On this episode of the OneFootball Podcast, Dan Burke is joined by Alex Mott and Helge Wohltmann. In the first part of the show, Alex joins to talk all things Premier League and EFL, including Cole Palmer's surprise switch from Manchester City to Chelsea, Ansu Fati's surprise move to Brighton, and all the big talking points from the weekend's actio…

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413: Bellingham brilliance, Gunners gunning, WWC wrap, Serie A returns 1:01:51

1y ago1:01:51

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On this episode of the OneFootball Podcast, Dan Burke is joined by Lewis Ambrose in the co-pilot's chair. Alejandro Diago is the first guest of the day, and he joins to discuss Spain's glory at the Women's World Cup, all the fallout involving coach Jorge Vilda and Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales, and what this triumph means for the future of Spa…

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412: The OneFootball Podcast is back for the 2023/24 season! 53:13

12M ago53:13

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On the first episode of the OneFootball Podcast of 2023/24, Dan Burke is joined by a host of excellent guests. First up to discuss all things Premier League is Joel Sanderson-Murray. Which DM's DMs have Liverpool slid into now? Are Arsenal too emotional to win the Premier League? How high is Newcastle's ceiling? And more! Next up, Daniel Cadena-Jor…

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