Summary: In This Episode: A complaint about last week’s featured story, which leads to why prices online end in “77” (vs “.99” offline), another segment of No Longer Weird, and how to be so stupid you can get busted for possession of marijuana in Colorado — where pot is legal! Plus: why Uncommon Sense doesn’t have “sponsors”.<br><br> <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> * A complaint about the story featured in <a href="https://thisistrue.com/podcast014-act-charity/">last week’s episode</a>.<br> * <a href="https://thisistrue.com/no-longer-weird/">No Longer Weird</a>: faking your own kidnaping to either get away from your wife for a bit, or to get money for drugs. (<a href="http://www.startribune.com/police-husband-s-kidnapping-ransom-was-a-ploy-to-take-a-break-from-wife/442505553/">Example</a>)<br> * The Washington Post article on how legalized pot in Colorado is leading to a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/16/legal-marijuana-is-saving-lives-in-colorado-study-finds/">reduction in opioid overdoses</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&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>, <a href="https://overcast.fm/itunes1259380128/uncommon-sense-the-this-is-true-podcast">Overcast</a>, <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=147364&refid=stpr">Stitcher</a> — and, presumably, 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> Clare: And I’m Clare Angelica.<br> Randy: This week we’ll be discussing a story from issue 1218 of the newsletter, which will be included on the Show Page at thisistrue.com/podcast15.<br> But first, I got an amusing complaint about the story featured in last week’s Podcast — or, more specifically, its slug, or title: “56 Varieties”. You can see the story on Podcast 14’s Show Page, which I’ll link to.<br> John in Texas wanted me to know that the Heinz food company offers 57 varieties, not 56 — and attached numerous pictures of “57 Sauce” and such to prove it. John was the only one to not get it — or at least to not get it and also write me about it. Anyway my reply to John is, if Heinz advertises they have “57 Varieties”,
