Tales of people that strive easy thoughts video games on others, after which discover themselves manner in over their heads.
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- Prologue: Host Ira Glass interviews Lori Gottlieb in regards to the time she despatched a letter to a author in {a magazine}, a letter filled with white lies. (5 minutes)
- Act One: Lori Gottlieb’s story continues. One complication led to a different, and earlier than lengthy, the author gave the impression to be mendacity to her. Or possibly he wasn’t. It was exhausting to inform. Years later, she nonetheless is not certain what occurred. (8 minutes)
- Act Two: A bunch referred to as Improv In every single place decides that an unknown band, Ghosts of Pasha, enjoying their first ever tour in New York, should suppose they are a smash hit. In order that they research the band’s music after which crowd the efficiency, pretending to be hard-core followers. Improv In every single place simply desires to make the band comfortable—to present them one of the best day of their lives. However the band does not see it that manner. Nor does one other topic of certainly one of Improv In every single place’s “missions.” (31 minutes)
- Act Three: Scott Provider and his household reside in the identical Salt Lake Metropolis neighborhood as Elizabeth Good, the fourteen-year-old whose 2002 kidnapping made worldwide information. Although Good’s image was plastered in all places all through Salt Lake Metropolis and 1000’s of volunteers looked for her, her captors openly introduced her again to the very neighborhood from which she’d been taken. They walked freely by way of the streets together with her in broad daylight, but nobody acknowledged her. Scott talks along with his neighbors and his son Milo—who had attended grade college with Good—about what was going by way of their minds that prevented them from seeing what was proper there in plain sight. (12 minutes)
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