Podcast 005: Politics, Religion, Oh! And…




Uncommon Sense: the This is True Podcast show

Summary: In This Episode: Politics and religion can’t be talked about in polite society? Randy in Washington says no, there are three taboo topics: don’t forget sex (eek!) So yeah, let’s go there.<br><br> <br> Jump To…<br> <a href="https://thisistrue.com/wp-content/uploads/week-1207.png"></a><br> <br> * <a href="#notes">Show Notes</a><br> * <a href="#subscribe">How to Subscribe</a><br> * <a href="#comment">How to Comment</a><br> * <a href="#transcript">Episode Transcript</a><br> * <a href="https://thisistrue.com/category/podcasts/">List of All Episodes</a><br> <br> <a name="notes"></a><br> Show Notes<br> <br> * The story of my 2008 visit to the Moonlight Bunny Ranch is still almost always among the <a href="https://thisistrue.com/moonlite_bunny_ranch/">most-popular posts in this blog</a>.<br> * No Longer Weird: burning your house down while trying to kill insects. The straw that broke the camel’s back came from Michigan’s <a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/07/man_tries_to_use_fireworks_to.html">Flint Journal</a>.<br> * If you want to be on the podcast-specific email list mentioned, see the bottom of this page.<br> <br> <a name="subscribe"></a><br> How to Subscribe<br> Search for Uncommon Sense in your podcast app or on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast/id1259380128">iTunes</a>, or manually enter this feed URL into your app: https://thisistrue.com/feed/podcast<br> Also available via <a href="https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&amp;isi=691797987&amp;ius=googleplaymusic&amp;link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ixj6haluiswf4e5wiw4qksmlzni?t%3DUncommon_Sense:_the_This_is_True_Podcast%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16">Google Play</a>, <a href="https://player.fm/series/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast-1496500">PlayerFM</a>, <a href="https://beta.tunein.com/radio/Uncommon-Sense-the-This-is-True-Podcast-p1015540/">TuneIn</a>, and more to come.<br> <a name="comments"></a><br> Comments and Questions?<br> Your comments on this episode are welcome below. Questions can be added there, sent via this site’s <a href="https://thisistrue.com/contact/">Contact Page</a>, or tweeted to <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsTrue">@ThisIsTrue</a>.<br> <a name="transcript"></a><br> Transcript<br> Randy: Welcome to the Uncommon Sense podcast. I’m Randy Cassingham.<br> Clare: And I’m Clare Angelica.<br> Randy: So last week the concept was “You’re not supposed to talk about politics or religion in polite company,” and you said…<br> Clare: We are not polite company.<br> Randy: Right. So we talked about religion, since we had talked about politics before. On podcast four’s show page we have a comment from Randy in Washington State, who says, “Long ago, I think it was Emily Post, a mannerist, claimed there are three things that are not discussed in polite company: sex, politics, and religion, but what are the most important things in human experience? Sex, politics, and religion. I don’t think I like polite society very much.”<br> So Randy was right, we needed to look for a good sex story to feature. And just by weird coincidence…<br> Clare: Utter coincidence!<br> Randy: Yeah, it’s just the way things happen in the news biz: we have a story that I’ve made the story of the week for this week, about Deborah Thomes, who was arrested in Fort Pierce, Florida. Can you believe this happened in Florida?<br> Clare: Astounding!<br> Randy: You know, it’s like Florida is in the news once in a while, or in This Is True once in a while. So undercover cops in Fort Pierce, Florida, were doing an undercover sting operation looking for hookers. And guess what? Deborah Thomes apparently, or allegedly I guess we should say, stepped into one of the undercover police cars,