Podcast 020: A Teaching Opportunity




Uncommon Sense: the This is True Podcast show

Summary: In This Episode: A teacher gives sixth-graders an “inappropriate” quiz, and how that loops into an “inappropriate” military stunt from last week’s issue, and another segment of No Longer Weird.<br><br> <br> <a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=RT%20@ThisIsTrue:%20This%20week's%20podcast%20delves%20into%20an%20'inappropriate'%20quiz%20given%20by%20sixth-grade%20teacher.%20Listen%20directly%20from%20the%20Show%20Page:%20https://thisistrue.com/p20" target="new" title="Click to submit to Twitter - You do get the chance to edit before you submit it."></a><br> Jump To…<br> <br> * <a href="#notes">Show Notes</a><br> * <a href="#subscribe">How to Subscribe</a><br> * <a href="#feedback">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 “inappropriate” quiz, shown <a href="https://thisistrue.com/wp-content/uploads/family-quiz.jpg">here</a>, is — as of the publication of this episode — still available from <a href="https://en.islcollective.com/resources/printables/worksheets_doc_docx/quiz_-_family/questions-family-quiz/15071">iSLcollective.com</a>.<br> <br> <br> * The military story from last week isn’t online, but involved the U.S. Navy being left red-faced by the antics of a NAS Whidbey Island warplane pilot having a little too much fun with his …uh… joystick, as shown in the photo.<br> * No Longer Weird: People making movies or videos with toy guns, and of course the police show up thinking there’s a real robbery in progress. (<a href="http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/montgomery-county/police-mistake-actor-for-real-robbery-suspect-fire-shots-at-crawfordsville-bar">Example</a>)<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>, <a href="https://podfanatic.com/podcast/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast">Podfanatic</a>, <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/channels/4508232/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast//">ListenNotes</a>, <a href="https://overcast.fm/itunes1259380128/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast">Overcast</a>, <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=147364&amp;refid=stpr">Stitcher</a>, <a href="https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/gb57a-57601/">Podbean</a>, <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/channels/4508232/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast/">Listen Notes</a> — and more to come?<br><br> <a name="feedback"></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 Uncommon Sense, the Podcast companion to the ThisIsTrue.com newsletter with the mission to promote more thinking in the world. I’m Randy Cassingham…<br> Kit: And I’m Kit Cassingham.<br> Randy: This week we’re discussing a story from issue 1224 of the newsletter, which will be included on the show Page at thisistrue.com/podcast20.<br>