Summary: In This Episode: While the stories in This is True usually point out the pitfalls of not thinking (or “obliviots doing stupid things”), the Honorary Unsubscribe holds up the best of humanity. This episode not only features a interesting example, but adds some extra details and commentary.<br><br> <br> Jump To…<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> * Jones’s Honorary Unsubscribe writeup in the <a href="http://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/judith_jones.html">Honorary Unsubscribe Archive</a>.<br> * Anne Frank’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553296981/thiistru-20">The Diary of a Young Girl</a> on Amazon (both for Kindle and in Paperback).<br> * Julia Child’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375413405/thiistru-20">Mastering the Art of French Cooking</a> on Amazon (both for Kindle and in Paperback).<br> * Miep Gies’s Honorary Unsubscribe writeup in the <a href="http://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/miep_gies.html">Honorary Unsubscribe Archive</a> will be there until the fifth book is published (soon!) — and then it will be in that book.<br> * Randy Cassingham’s book True Stella Awards is still available as an <a href="https://www.secure.thisistrue.com/product/stella-hardcover/">author-signed First Edition</a> or on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0525949135/thiistru-20">Amazon’s Kindle</a>.<br> * Details on the Honorary Unsubscribe<a href="http://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/#books"> book collections</a> (there are currently four volumes).<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&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&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> — and, presumably, more to come.<br> <a name="about"></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 where we get a little deeper into the stories from the ThisIsTrue.com email newsletter. I’m Randy Cassingham, and I’m alone this week, so I’m going to try something a little bit different. I’ll still be digging deeper into a story, but this week, I want to talk about one of TRUE’s sub-features.<br> Some readers actually like the Honorary Unsubscribe more than the stories. While the stories point out the pitfalls of not thinking, or as I sometimes stay, are about obliviots doing stupid things, the Honorary Unsubscribe holds up the best of humanity: it’s an obituary of someone who died, usually sometime in the previous week to ten days before the ...
