Podcast 025: The Rants Get Serious




Uncommon Sense: the This is True Podcast show

Summary: In This Episode: You want to know what TRUE is really about? Then listen to this one — don’t read the transcript. You’ll hear the true passion of one of my rants, because it’s in my voice. Seriously: if you don’t have a podcast player, stream it from the Show Page.<br><br> <br> <a title="Click to submit to Twitter - You do get the chance to edit before you submit it." href="http://twitter.com/home?status=RT%20@ThisIsTrue:%20You%20want%20to%20know%20what%20This%20is%20True%20is%20'about'?%20Then%20listen%20to%20this%20podcast!%20It's%20the%20heart%20of%20it.%20You%20can%20stream%20right%20from%20the%20show%20page:%20https://thisistrue.com/d-p26" target="new"></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 Austin Powers text rant and letters, as originally presented in 1999, <a href="https://thisistrue.com/rant-n-rave/">is here</a>. See the doll below.<br> * Wikipedia has a nice article about Las Vegas’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Palms">Paradise Palms</a> development, but unfortunately not many photos. My photo of a representative house is below.<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> Welcome to Uncommon Sense, the Podcast companion to the ThisIsTrue.com newsletter with the mission to promote more thinking in the world.<br> I’m Randy Cassingham, and this week I’m recording in Las Vegas, where I’ll be attending a conference. Since I spend as little time as possible in hotel casinos, I’m staying with friends in the first planned community in the county, called Paradise Palms. I recognize the 1950s-1960s architecture from growing up in California: a really distinctive style that attracted a lot of stars who needed homes here when they did shows at the casinos. People who lived in the neighborhood included Johnny Carson, Rip Taylor, Bobby Darin, Phyllis Diller, and many more. I popped out and took a photo of one of the houses in the neighborhood that caught my eye,