THE SECOND ACCOUNT
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THE SECOND ACCOUNT Book 1
4 parts · 13 h 26 min
The United States, 2006 to 2026. Blake Mycoskie returns from Argentina with a canvas shoe and a rule: for every pair sold, a pair given to a child who has none. Seven years later David Heath and Randy Goldberg apply the same arithmetic to socks, the item homeless shelters request most.
THE SECOND ACCOUNT Book 2
4 parts · 17 h 11 min
Burlington, Vermont, 1978. Two friends from a Long Island junior high school open an ice cream parlor in a disused gas station because they cannot think of anything else to do.
THE SECOND ACCOUNT Book 3
4 parts · 14 h 34 min
New Hampshire, New York and Mexico City, 1983 to 2025. Gary Hirshberg and Samuel Kaymen start a yogurt company with seven cows to pay for a failing farming school, and spend two decades arguing that a premium paid for milk does more than a check written afterward.
THE SECOND ACCOUNT Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 26 min
San Francisco, Dallas and Salt Lake City, 2010 to 2026. Michael Preysman starts a clothing company that prints what each garment cost to make and asks the customer to notice the difference between that number and the price on the tag.
THE SECOND ACCOUNT Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 27 min
Los Angeles and Little Rock, 1984 to 2026. A Jesuit priest given the poorest parish in his city watches its young men bury each other, decides the missing thing is not counseling but a job, and, when no employer will hire them, builds a bakery, then a payroll, then businesses that exist so the payroll can exist.
THE SECOND ACCOUNT Book 6
4 parts · 16 h 15 min
Vermont, Copenhagen, Paris and Atlanta, 1988 to 2026. Two men in Burlington sell household goods out of a mail-order catalog on the premise that what a house throws away is the product.