What’s your Olympic fantasy? Grazing the stratosphere with a javelin? Smoking Michael Phelps in the 400-meter Individual Medley? Plunging from the 10 meter platform with barely a splash? Our weekly newspanel dug into it this week. Here are the responses from our panelists.

Farris was on the show in June to talk about his traininig and his plans to lift around 480 pounds in London. “Take you time, baby,” Farris said his mother tells him during events. “It keeps me calm.”

For those of you looking forward to our scheduled show today with vocal producer/songwriter Kuk Harrell, we’re sorry to say, it’s off for now.

Tom pops up on the NewsHour

What’s your question for Bill McKibben on the Keystone Pipeline, fracking, global warming? We’ll talk to him tomorrow at On Point Live.

Tom writes the Car Talk guys a plea and lament…

Here at On Point, we keep an eye on the front pages. But we also look ahead, sometimes way ahead.

Our special guest is environmental hero Bill McKibben, from the thick of the Keystone Pipeline, fracking, climate change battlefield. We’ll also have musical guest Martin Sexton.

Tom gave the commencement speech at Niagara University on May 12, 2012. Hear the speech here.

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