How they set up the chaos of the world, for good and for unhealthy.
- Prologue: Ira interviews David Wallechinsky, who wrote a wildly standard ebook within the Seventies referred to as The Ebook of Lists, stuffed with trivia and analysis, gathered into lists like “18 Brains” and “What They Weighed.” The ebook bought hundreds of thousands of copies and had 4 sequels and a quick spin-off TV present. The listing books had been just like the web, earlier than the web. (12 minutes)
- Act One: John Fecile talks to his brother, Pat, a couple of listing their different brother made earlier than he died. They every have totally different concepts about what the listing means and the way they really feel about it. (14 minutes)
- Act 2: A quick go to with Bobby, who retains a listing in his telephone of all of the canine in his neighborhood and their names to avoid wasting him from the awkwardness of not figuring out the identify of somebody’s canine – as a result of folks get upset in the event you don’t bear in mind their canine’s identify. (3 minutes)
- Act Two: Reporter M Gessen talks to Russians dwelling in America and elsewhere in regards to the lists the Russian authorities has put them on in the previous few years. M Gessen can also be on considered one of these lists. Every listing has its personal advanced guidelines and potential penalties for the folks on the lists and for his or her relations who stay in Russia. (28 minutes)
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