Welcome to this edition of Time Suck Short Sucks. I'm Dan Cummins and today I will be sharing the insane story of John List.

A sad, pathetic troubled man who really lost his way in 1971.

John prided himself on providing for his family.

He felt his primary role in the family was to provide,

both wealth and moral guidance.

But then his wife started to refuse to accompany him to church.

His daughter began to rebel against his moral guidance as well and he was fired from

the big-money corporate job that paid his family's many expensive bills.

Keeping the loss of his job a secret and about to go bankrupt,

John was faced with a choice.

Should he alert his family to their current very precarious financial state and deal with whatever backlash came from that.

Should he abandon his family and hope that they would just never track him down?

Or should he do something much more drastic, something that would ensure he would never have to face his disappointed family and hear them cry and blame him for their fall from grace, something that would ensure he would never have to see them become destitute

or to send further into what he perceived as moral decay, something that would

set him free. Let's find out.

Words and ideas can change the world.

I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

I have a dream.

I'll plead not guilty right now.

Your only chance is to leave with us.

John Emil List was born in Bay City, Michigan, September 17th, 1925.

The only child of German-American parents John Frederick List, shop owner, and Alma Barbara Florence

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