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00:00-00:07 – A book my history teacher recommended
00:08-00:38 – The author of the book that fell on my head
00:39-00:58 – Who's older – me or Grisha
00:58 – 01:22 – Maybe manuscripts do burn after all?
01:23-01:45 – Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat: Book and TV Versions
01:46-02:09 – Who commissioned "Three Men in a Boat"?
02:10-04:02 – Digression: Travel agencies in Italy, France, and the US hire an unknown writer to write books to attract tourists – The Rise of Dan Brown
04:09-05:12 – Sequel to Jerome K. Jerome's legendary book: Is it possible to put the dog down?
05:13-04:22 – Paradise for a Helpless Idiot, or what country are we talking about?
04:24-06:51 - Of lovers, the best, of husbands, the worst, or has political correctness reached the bookcases?
06:52-07:35 - What is written in the phrasebook for foreigners visiting your country?
07:36-11:15 - Chapters of the story as interpreted by Jeyhun Atayev, or which country is it about?
• How to determine that your guardian angel is a competent and conscientious spirit
• What do they do better abroad than at home?
• What is the most disadvantageous situation virtue can find itself in?
• How to escape from your wife
• Why take a piano on a yacht?
• Are gluttonous alcoholics the highlight of any election campaign?
• What is the best time of day to die?
• Can shaving suggest a cowardly suicide attempt? • Why are there no spinsters in Scotland and why are there so many bald men in Iceland
• How many words does the average woman speak in a day
• What most surprises tourists in a big city
• What method of execution do the British prefer
• Why are porcelain dogs preferable to live ones
• Why are uniformed officers forbidden from riding trams
• What is the favorite pastime of Christians
• Which country is the citadel of female decency
• Can tourists prevent wars
• Where do righteous shopkeepers go after death
• Where can you hear more languages than were spoken at the Tower of Babel
• Why do Scots dislike traveling
• How to insult a horse
• Why human capabilities lag behind intentions
• Why is it necessary to artificially breed a mermaid
• What does a Scotsman say after trying whiskey for the first time in his life say
11:15-11:34 – Did Macallan pay us for advertising? 11:35-12:06 – "Three on Four Wheels" – a book that could have prevented two world wars
12:06-16:48 – Advice from a history teacher, or a great Englishman discussing the Germans who started both world wars
16:48-17:39 – What can change the German character?
17:40-17:59 – Predictions and warnings from Jerome K. Jerome
18:00-21:48 – Quotes:
• There is nothing more contagious than laughter.
• For some reason, women love to caress the knife that wounded them. • Everything in this world has its downside, as one man said when his mother-in-law died and he had to fork out for the funeral.
• About politicians: they willingly take on the heaviest burden and meekly place it on the shoulders of others.
• For experience, as the saying goes, no matter how much you pay, you can't overpay.
• Nature should behave well, and not set a bad example for children.
• In Germany, a love of order is absorbed with mother's milk; in Germany, babies tickle the clock with rattles.
• A kind woman's arms wrapped around a man's neck are a life preserver thrown to him by fate from heaven.
• Honesty is the best policy, unless, of course, you are gifted with the talent of convincing lies.
21:49-22:12 - Laughter and a sigh, a kiss and farewell - that's our whole life.