Summary: In This Episode: While the stories in This is True usually point out the pitfalls of not thinking, the Honorary Unsubscribe holds up the best of humanity, which often means someone who exhibited Uncommon Sense on a regular basis. This episode not only features a interesting example, but adds some extra details and commentary.<br> <br> <a class="twitter-share-button" href="https://twitter.com/share?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Tweet</a><br> <a href="#transcript">Jump to Transcript</a><br> <a href="https://thisistrue.com/category/podcasts/">How to Subscribe and List of All Episodes</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> * My True Stella Awards book 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="transcript"></a><br> Transcript<br> While the stories in This is True usually point out the pitfalls of not thinking (or “obliviots doing stupid things”), the publication’s nearly weekly side feature, the Honorary Unsubscribe, holds up the best of humanity. This episode not only features an interesting example, but adds some extra details and commentary.<br> I’m Randy Cassingham, and welcome to Uncommon Sense.<br> Some readers actually like the Honorary Unsubscribe more than the meat of every issue: 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, as a sort of antidote to the stories. The Honorary Unsubscribe is an obituary of someone who died, usually sometime in the previous week to ten days before the week’s stories were written, and is typically about someone who was incredibly cool. Or, as I put it on the Honorary Unsubscribe web site, “the people you will wish you had known.”<br> I think society lionizes the wrong people: famous actors or athletes who, sure, do a great job of entertaining us — and collecting massive salaries before going to prison for being caught thinking they can do anything they want. But I think there are better heroes to look up to, and that’s what the Honorary Unsubscribe is about. I write about one such person pretty much every week. The Honorary Unsubscribe is the upturn, if you will, at the end of the newsletter.<br> So I’m actually going to read you an installment to show how you might benefit from being in the right place at the right time, but that’s still not enough: you also have to have the guts to stand up for what you believe in, or maybe exhibit some Uncommon Sense — because if you do, you can utterly change the world.<br>
