The Joe Frank Index

The Eighty Yard Run permalink
Air Date	1978
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:52
JF.com	ID 128 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The frightening fight between Luis Rodriguez and Hurricane Carter. The art of bullfighting explained. Joe’s grad student days at the University of Iowa during football fever. Joe enjoys an erotic experience with a stranger in a movie theater. A drunken football game leads to Joe’s 80 yard run into a herd of oncoming bulls.
Alt JF Desc	The frightening boxing triangle of Emile Griffith, Luis Rodriguez, and Hurricane Carter as observed by Joe and his friend, Peter. The art of bullfighting is discussed and Joe?s departs for the University of Iowa, ?the Athens of the Midwest? with its cornfields and football mania. Joe, standing at an overcrowded silent film festival, is accosted pleasantly by a woman who presses her breasts into his back. He passionately gropes her in the dark, but his inability to turn around and face her when the lights come up (and she disappears) leads him into a drunken football game and his 80 yard dash into a herd of oncoming bulls.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Eighty Yard Run, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Hydra Album: Feels So Good Artist: Grover Washington, Jr.

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Jewish Blues permalink
Air Date	1978
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:21
JF.com	ID 170 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe and friends take live phone calls on the air between midnight and 5:00 am. They discuss aggressive women, and a repeat caller assumes various guises. In another segment, Joe interviews an old Jewish blues singer who explains the origin of the Jewish blues, tries to get singing jobs at different clubs and coffee houses, visits his only son who announces his conversion to Christianity; and is finally confronted by cynical drunk Christians.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Timothy Jerome, Arthur Miller, Eric Sears & Joe Frank comment: just taking some calls. Never (re?)broadcast as a Joe Frank show, but available at joefrank.com
JF Wiki	Jewish Blues
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Arthur Miller, Eric Sears, Tim Jerome, Joe Frank

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Rare Early Joe Frank Stories permalink
Air Date	1979
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:25:53
JF.com	ID 8626
JF Desc	"Rare Early Joe Frank Stories" is the name of a program produced by Joe Frank as part of the series NPR Playhouse. It was originally broadcast in 1979, and was released as a monthly premium at joefrank.com in December 2004.
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama

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A Call in the Night permalink
Air Date	1979
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:58
JF.com	ID 600 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe recalls his childhood when he was confined to a wheelchair, his father was dying and his mother was training a new clown for their family-managed circus. We listen to a play in which a lonely, cultivated woman seduces a man fresh from the country amidst chaos and bubonic plague. Scenes from the play are critiqued by a panel of academics. In his closing monologue, Joe recalls an operation on his club feet which coincided with his father’s death.
Alt JF Desc	A young man and old woman meet in a plague ridden city.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Beth Dixon, Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Bernie Mantell, Irene Wagner & Joe Frank comment: a remix version was produced in 1997
JF Wiki	Call In The Night, A Call In The Night, A (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Beth Dixon, Eric Sears, Paul Mantell, Irene Wagner, Arthur Miller, and Joe Frank

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Arena permalink
Air Date	1979
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:24
JF.com	ID 91 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A novelist, writing the story of a love affair between a Spanish bullfighter and his American girlfriend, loses control of his characters. A panel discussion on the dangers of reading is followed by a marital argument about reading vs. TV.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Annalee Jefferies, Arthur Miller, Bernie Mantell, Rosemary Foley, Eric Sears, Joe & Tim Jerome comment: a remix version was produced in 1996
JF Wiki	Arena Arena (remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Annalee Jefferies, Paul Mantell, Rosemary Foley, Avery Hart, Matt Basford, Lester Nafzger, Eric Sears, and Joe Frank
Music	Miles Davis, "Solea" from " Sketches of Spain"
FP Music	Song: Solea Album: Sketches of Spain Artist: Miles Davis

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The Death of Trotsky permalink
Air Date	1979
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:18
JF.com	ID 119 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Assassin Jackson Mornard arrives in a sleepy town outside of Mexico City. His intention is to kill the Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, before Trotsky can finish writing his biography of Stalin. Mornard recalls visiting a grave outside of Barcelona in the rain and taking up with Sylvia, Trotsky’s secretary, thereby infiltrating the inner circle. We learn of Kierkegaard’s conundrum concerning free choice. The program concludes with Trotsky murder.
Alt JF Desc	Assassin Jackson Mornard arrives in a sleepy town outside of Mexico City. His intention is to kill the Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, while he works on Stalin?s biography and corresponds with a Korean schoolchild. Mornard recalls visiting a grave outside of Barcelona in the rain and takes up with Sylvia, Trotsky?s secretary, thereby infiltrating the inner circle. We learn of Kierkegaard?s conundrum and the problem of revisionist history. Everything leads to the murder of Trotsky.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Miles Davis, "Solea", from "Sketches of Spain" comment: the 'nada poem' can also be found in Ernest Hemingway's "Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
JF Wiki	Death Of Trotsky, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Solea Album: Sketches of Spain Artist: Miles Davis

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Til You're Gone permalink
Air Date	1979
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:45
JF.com	ID 270 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A man returns from the war and confronts his mother; a promiscuous athlete becomes ill; a married couple repeatedly bickers; a man falls desperately in love with a piano.
Alt JF Desc	A man returns from the war without hope or ambition. A promiscuous athlete becomes ill with a sexually transmitted disease. A married couple repeatedly bickers. A man falls desperately in love with a piano.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Arthur Miller, Robin Bartlette, Tim Jerome, Bernie Mantell, Irene Wagner, Eric Sears, Rosemary Foley, David St. James, Marcel Rosenblatt & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Til You're Gone
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Arthur Miller, Robin Bartlette, Tim Jerome, Bernie Mantell, Irene Wagner, Eric Sears, Rosemary Foley, David St. James, Marcel Rosenblatt, Joe Frank

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Summer Notes permalink
Air Date	1979
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:32
JF.com	ID 259 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe interviews a man at the beach who regularly brings a reflector sheet, a handgun, and an aerosol spray of ‘air shadow’ for blocking the sun’s harmful rays; disastrous adventures in the great outdoors by Diana and Dirk; a brief history of picnics and outdoor theatre; an ignored and desperate street preacher threatens to eat a child, leading to an ugly street confrontation.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Tim Jerome, Beth Dixon, Arthur Miller, Lester Nafzger, Rosemary Foley, Bernie Mantell, Fran Dorn, David St. James & Joe Frank comment: a remix version was produced in 1991
JF Wiki	Summer Notes Summer Notes (short film)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Beth Dixon, Arthur Miller, Lester Nafzger, Rosemary Foley, Paul Mantell, Fran Dorn, David St. James, and Joe Frank

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The Night Watchman & Caldwell permalink
Air Date	1979
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:13:28
JF.com	ID 8741 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The Night Watchman – A night watchman who rises through the ranks by inviting bosses to dinner and burying them in the back yard. Caldwell – Dies while climbing stairs in a blackout. Festive dinner party attended by dead family members. NPR Playhouse
FAQ Desc	"The Night Watchman" concluded NPR "All Things Considered" on Halloween 1979
JF Wiki	Lies
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Notes	"The Night Watchman" was included in the later show "Lies." "Caldwell" doesn't seem to have been included in any other shows (?).
Show Type	Drama

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Long Island Memories & Beautiful Woman on Elevator permalink
Air Date	1979
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:19:42
JF.com	ID 8753 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Long Island Memories – Joe's chjldhood in Long Island. Later as an adult he runs out of gas in the country. Beautiful Woman on Elevator – Falls in love with a stranger on an elevator. Hard Work playing in the background. NPR Playhouse
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue

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Joe Frank in Concert permalink
Air Date	1980
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	??:??:??
JF.com	ID 7500 (this item not on JoeFrank.com)
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour comment: live segments recorded at Bushido, a gallery in NYC.
JF Wiki	Joe Frank In Concert
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Notes	SEEKING AUDIO! This audio file never appeared on or disappeared from JoeFrank.com; contact us if you have it! parts of this show appear in "Five Part Dissonance"
Show Type	Monologue

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The Rare Recording permalink
Air Date	15 Oct 1980
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:28:33
JF.com	ID 8743 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A man’s telepathic powers are challenged. Joe Frank on smoke signals, heliography, semaphore, alpine horns, speaking tubes. Paul Mantell describes traveling in search of death. Panicked man begs a woman ‘don’t make me do it,’ accompanied by a bizarre moaning soundtrack. The rare recording of the ‘Orchestral Suite in A Minor for Alpine Horns and Violins’ by August Blenheim. (some excerpts from this show appear in Five Part Dissonance)
Alt JF Desc	A man's telepathic powers are challenged. Joe Frank on smoke signals, heliography, semaphore, alpine horns, speaking tubes. Paul Mantell describes traveling in search of death. Panicked man begs a woman 'don't make me do it,' accompanied by a bizarre moaning soundtrack. The rare recording of the 'Orchestral Suite in A Minor for Alpine Horns and Violins' by August Blenheim.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Bernie Mantell, Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Irene Wagner, F. Murray Abraham, Christina Moore & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Rare Recording, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Bernie Mantell, Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Irene Wagner, F. Murray Abraham, Christina Moore, Joe Frank
Exec Producer	Keith Talbot
Produced by	Joe Frank
Written by	Joe Frank and David Rapkin
Written by	Joe Frank and David Rapkin

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The Decline of Spengler permalink
Air Date	1982
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:01
JF.com	ID 120 info page audio page (FREE)
JF Desc	Old Jews in Florida, against the background of the Holocaust, seek eternal life through an advanced space program and the bending of reality.
Alt JF Desc	Old Jews in Florida with Holocaust memories, seek eternal life through an advanced space program and the bending of reality.
JF Wiki	Decline Of Spengler, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Barbara Sohmers, Joseph Palmieri, Lester Nafzger, Irene Wagner, Tim Jerome, Leslie Cass, David Rapkin, Rosemary Foley, Charles Potter, Arthur Miller, Brother Theodore, Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Music For Eighteen Musicians Artist: Steve Reich Song: I'd Have You Anytime Album: All Things Must Pass Artist: George Harrison

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Lies permalink
Air Date	1982
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:05
JF.com	ID 3 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The flirtatious and squalid encounter between a man and a woman artist in Greenwich. Off-beat stories of a man living in America in the 60s. A pair of radical feminists commit a crime and, while on the run, become lovers.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Mark Hammer, F. Murray Abraham, Barbara Sohmers, Christina Moore, Tim Jerome, Arthur Miller & Jane Hunt music: Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, "Ceres Motion"; Philip Glass, "Part One" from "Music In Twelve Parts"; Mantovani, "I Will Wait For You"; and Steve Reich, from "Music for Eighteen Musicians" comment: contains "The Night Watchman", which concluded All Things Considered on Halloween, 1979
JF Wiki	Lies
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Music For Eighteen Musicians Artist: Steve Reich Song: Part One Album: Music in Twelve Parts Artist: Phillip Glass Song: Ceres Motion Album: Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. Artist: Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. Song: I Will Wait For You Album: To Lovers Everywhere Artist: Mantovani

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Pilot :: The End permalink
Air Date	1983
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:41
JF.com	ID 8661 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	In ‘Pilot,’ a broken tooth in the Yucatan launches the career of Skylar, a mercenary pilot who fights for a decaying Colonial government. In ‘The End,’ Joe Frank’s dream of his own death finds him homeless, conducting a radio interview with a porn star couple, and riding a train to Hades.
Alt JF Desc	In "Pilot," a broken tooth in the Yucatan launches the career of Skylar, a mercenary pilot. In "The End," Joe Frank's dream of his own death finds him homeless, conducting a radio interview with a porn star couple, and then riding a train to hell.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Paul Mantell, Robin Goodman, Arthur Miller, Annalee Jefferies, Irene Wagner, Brother Theodore, Joe Frank & Tim Jerome
JF Wiki	Pilot :: The End
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Tim Jerome, Arthur Miller, Barbara Sohmers, Clark Gordon, Robin Goodman, Larry Block, Paul Mantell, Avery Hart, Annalee Jeffries, Joe Frank

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The Queen of Puerto Rico permalink
Air Date	1983
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:29:09
JF.com	ID 231 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	On vacation with his parents in the Caribbean, a teenage boy becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman who dresses only in pink. He follows her around the island, trying to summon the courage to speak to her. One night, drunk, the boy is raped by an older man, who claims the boy is really a homosexual. Their relationship continues after the boy’s family returns to the States.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour
JF Wiki	Queen of Puerto Rico, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Sales permalink
Air Date	1983
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:35:00
JF.com	ID 246 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A sheet music salesman falls in love on the phone with one of his long-distance clients. They speak for months before finally deciding to meet. She flies to Manhattan from St. Louis, where he picks her up at the airport. And then things get complicated.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour music: Steve Tibbetts, "Walking" from "Northern Song"
JF Wiki	Sales
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Walking Album: Northern Song Artist: Steve Tibbetts

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Warheads permalink
Air Date	1983
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:27:15
JF.com	ID 281 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Weapons dealers and a low level terrorist participate in a conference call. They discuss the latest weaponry: hair gas, electromagnetic and sterility warfare, boomerang missiles, uniforms that look like civilian clothing, psychological warfare by placing speakers under children’s pillows. This is followed by a description of a visit to Katmandu. Then Joe tells the story of being picked up by a hippie while hitchhiking across the country, and a disagreement with a burly truck driver that leads to a high speed chase.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Lester Nafzger, Paul Mantell, Arthur Miller, Mark Hammer, Irene Wagner & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Warheads
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Joe Frank

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Questions permalink
Air Date	1983
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:23:24
JF.com	ID 232 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Existential questions – freedom, determinism, responsibility, anguish, authenticity – are explored. Live radio telephone calls, WBAI, 1976. A discussion between an angry revolutionary and a representative of a despotic South American government.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Eric Sears, Irene Wagner & Joe Frank music: Pat Metheny, "Are You Going With Me?"
JF Wiki	Questions
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Mark Hammer, Tim Jerome, Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Are You Going With Me? Album: Offramp Artist: Pat Metheny Group

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A Tour of the City permalink
Air Date	1984
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:18:00
JF.com	ID 273 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A mysterious, troubled man, involved with two women, joins a strange cult called ‘Electricism.’ He is indoctrinated by its leader, Voltgen, arrested for sabotage and interrogated.
Alt JF Desc	Weird fiction; nervous mysterious man seeing two women becomes member of strange electricism cult. Various 'interviews' with other inhabitants of this strange city.
FAQ Desc	drama - part 1 one hour, part 2 half hour cast: Alan Hunter, Marilyn Casky, Barbara Sohmers, Arthur Miller, Richard Bower, Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Larry Block & Joe Frank music: Steve Reich, from "Six Marimbas"; Harold Budd, "Flowered Knife Shadows" from "Lovely Thunder"; Brian Eno, from "On Land"; Tangerine Dream, "Remote Viewing", from "Exit"; and Popol Vuh, "Brothers of Darkness - Sons of Light" from the soundtrack of Herzog's "Nosferatu"
JF Wiki	Tour Of The City, A (Part 1) Tour Of The City, A (Part 2)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Alan Hunter, Marilyn Casky, Barbara Sohmers, Arthur Miller, Brother Theodore, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Clark Gordon, Larry Block, Richard Bauer, Tim Jerome, and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Remote Viewing Album: Exit Artist: Tangerine Dream Song: Six Marimbas Album: Six Marimbas Artist: Steve Reich Song: Flowered Knife Shadows Album: Lovely Thunder Artist: Harold Budd Song: On Land Album: On Land Artist: Brian Eno Song: Brothers of Darkness - Songs of Light Album: Herzog's Nosferatu Soundtrack Artist: Popul Vuh

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Across the River permalink
Air Date	1984
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:25:44
JF.com	ID 85 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A lengthy, comic debate on nuclear power and other forms of energy. A comedian, backed up by band, takes forever to close his show. A man takes a bath against the background of bizarre sound effects.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Lester Nafzger, Avery Hart & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Across The River
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Arthur Miller, Lester Nafzger, Paul Mantell, Avery Hart

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Dreams of the River permalink
Air Date	1985
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:37
JF.com	ID 127 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A 40-year old unemployed man watches TV for hours, walks the streets in old, threadbare clothing, shoplifts, eats compulsively in fast-food restaurants, and gains so much weight he can barely fit through doorways.
Alt JF Desc	A 40-year old unemployed man watches TV for hours, walks the streets in old, threadbare clothing, shoplifts, eats compulsively in fast-food restaurants, and gains so much weight he can barely fit through the doorways.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Dreams Of The River
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Dear Annie permalink
Air Date	1985
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:22
JF.com	ID 117 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The troubled relationship between an older man and a younger woman is explored in this Monologue. The man discusses his ambivalence and composes a letter explaining why he must leave.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Dear Annie
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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A Pact with God permalink
Air Date	1985
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:58
JF.com	ID 218 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The story of Joe’s step-father’s illness takes place at The Fountains, a luxury, Spanish-style compound in which Joe’s parents live. Anecdotal stories concerning Freddy’s never-ending frugality and the suffering it causes Joe’s mother; Freddy’s gaffes, like eating a fortune cookie with the fortune still in it; the progressive brain shrinkage of Freddy’s admired friend, Conrad, which reduces him to incoherence; Joe runs a marathon for Freddy’s life, as Freddy checks into the hospital. Notes: Except for re-recorded voice and music tracks, the language in this program is virtually identical to the later re-mastered A Death in the Family (an improved rendition of the material in this one).
Alt JF Desc	A sketch of the luxurious Spanish-style compound in which Joe's mother and adoptive father, live. Anecdotal stories of Freddy's gaffes and frugality and the suffering they cause Joe's mother. The progressive brain shrinkage of Freddy's admired friend, Conrad, which leads to commitment in an asylum. Freddy's own illness, surgery and passing. (Note: This is the same show as ""A Death in the Family (r). The difference is the music mix.)
JF Wiki	Pact With God, A
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Pretender permalink
Air Date	1985
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:09
JF.com	ID 229 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The unsatisfying, tawdry love affairs of a high school history teacher are juxtaposed against the romantic love story of the Duke of Monmouth, the dashing and tragic hero of the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685.
Alt JF Desc	The unsatisfying, tawdry love affairs of a high school history teacher are juxtaposed against his lectures on the Duke of Monmouth, the dashing and romantic hero of the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685.
JF Wiki	Pretender
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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When She's Asleep She Looks Like an Angel permalink
Air Date	1985
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:51:34
JF.com	ID 284 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe’s alienated relationship with a black elevator operator in the building of his psychoanalyst is followed by the death of his analyst’s husband. The story of Pat, the good-humored elevator man, who stole from Joe’s family when Joe was a child. A Holocaust survivor tells of his ‘heroic’ escape from a death camp. Joe’s romantic involvement with a forensic examiner. Jesus in the mountains. The limits of human intelligence. A porn photographer father’s love for his daughter.
Alt JF Desc	Stories of alienation and betrayal are interwoven with expressions of love for a daughter.
JF Wiki	When She's Asleep, She Looks Like An Angel
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Photography permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:38
JF.com	ID 221 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The art of photography is explored by a panel of academicians and esteemed photographers. Callers have their pictures taken on the air.
Alt JF Desc	The art of photography is explored by Joe and a panel of academicians and great photographers. Callers have their pictures taken on the air.
JF Wiki	Photography
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Tim Jerome, Nick Ullett, Sandy Faison, David Rapkin, Lester Nafzger, Arthur Miller, Joe Frank

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Rain permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:29
JF.com	ID 233 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Three motorcycle-riding women engage in idle and frivolous conversation. Joe takes an on-air bath and receives a massage from Chantal, a French masseuse. Two whimsical fishermen reflect on the satisfactions of their craft.
Alt JF Desc	Three motorcycle-riding women engage in idle and frivolous conversation. During this live radio broadcast, a naked Joe Frank is bathed by a masseuse. Two whimsical fishermen reflect on the satisfactions of their craft.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Angel, Shawn, Dinah, Chantell, Lester Nafzger, Larry Massett, Scott Carrier & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Rain
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Angel, Shawn, Dinah, Chantal, Lester Nafzger, Larry Massett, Scott Carrier, and Joe Frank

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Talking About Love permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:52:27
JF.com	ID 263 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	In this humorous and moving program, five gay men reflect on love from childhood to the present.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Dennis, Doug, Danny, Bobby & Craig
JF Wiki	Talking About Love
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Documentary
Cast	Dennis, Doug, Danny, Bobby, and Craig

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Another Country - Part 1 permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:13
JF.com	ID 1 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The ever deepening relationship between an Arab woman from Yemen and a Jewish man from America.
Alt JF Desc	I'm not going to be maimed over Raiders of the Lost Ark
FAQ Desc	monolog - three hours music: Philip Glass, "Facades", from "Glassworks" and Eno/Byrne, "Qu'ran" from "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
JF Wiki	Another Country (Part 1) Another Country (Part 2) Another Country (Part 3)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Facades Album: Glassworks Artist: Phillip Glass Song: Qu'ran Album: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Artist: Brian Eno / David Byrne

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Another Country - Part 2 permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:56
JF.com	ID 87 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The fine line between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is discussed. Naim, the Arab woman, dedicates a dance to the Palestinians killed at Sabra and Shatilla and returns to Yemen. Later, the two travel together to the island of Jamaica. Naim returns home and he follows her to Yemen.
Alt JF Desc	Evil is power. The relationship continues. The fine line between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is discussed. Naim dedicates a dance to the Palestinians killed at Sabra and Shatila and returns to Yemen. Later, they travel together to the island of Jamaica. Naim returns home and he follows her to Yemen.
FAQ Desc	monolog - three hours music: Philip Glass, "Facades", from "Glassworks" and Eno/Byrne, "Qu'ran" from "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
JF Wiki	Another Country (Part 1) Another Country (Part 2) Another Country (Part 3)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Facades Album: Glassworks Artist: Phillip Glass Song: Qu'ran Album: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Artist: Brian Eno / David Byrne

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Another Country - Part 3 permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:49:58
JF.com	ID 613 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The Jewish man tours Yemen with Naim, where they have a chance encounter with an Arab nationalist. The relationship between the two lovers remains troubled. The American returns home, places a personal ad and meets many Jewish women, among them Michelle. He takes a vacation with Michelle to the island of St. Thomas, where he confronts the dark underbelly hidden beneath the hotel’s facade. We learn of Beauregard, a famous island dog. The personal growth system of Lifespring is discussed. A brief visit from Naim leads to a last ditch letter to Yemen.
Alt JF Desc	The perfect moment had been created for him with the wrong person. Touring Yemen with Naim. A chance encounter with Ali, an Arab nationalist. The relationship between the two lovers remains unsteady. The American returns home, places a personal ad and meets many women. Another trip to the island with Michelle and a look behind the hotel. The story of Beauregard, a famous island dog. Lifespring discussed. A brief visit from Naim. A last ditch letter to Yemen.
FAQ Desc	monolog - three hours music: Philip Glass, "Facades", from "Glassworks" and Eno/Byrne, "Qu'ran" from "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
JF Wiki	Another Country (Part 1) Another Country (Part 2) Another Country (Part 3)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Facades Album: Glassworks Artist: Phillip Glass Song: Qu'ran Album: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Artist: Brian Eno / David Byrne

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A Landing Strip in the Jungle permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:24
JF.com	ID 190 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe’s visit to Sri Lanka leads to an odd relationship with a beggar boy. A drug overdose culminates in the realization that ‘life is meaningless.’ Time spent in a tropical country under colonial domination. A dreamlike monologue montage. Joe presides over the ‘Survivor of the Year’ competition featuring individuals who have survived harrowing experiences. Life on the lower East Side of Manhattan.
Alt JF Desc	Joe presides over the ""Survivor of the Year"" competition featuring individuals who have come through harrowing experiences. After purchasing hashish from a boy beggar in Sri Lanka, Joe eats it all in the mistaken belief that it's been diluted and comes to the spiritual realization that ""life is meaningless.""
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank with Lester Nafzger, Fred Coffin and Arthur Miller music: Eno/Byrne, "Regiment" from "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
JF Wiki	Landing Strip In The Jungle, A
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Regiment Album: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Artist: Brian Eno / David Byrne

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No Show - Part 1 permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:43:50
JF.com	ID 8732 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	First part of the 90-minute live radio program: Joe Frank explains why he has failed to prepare a show for tonight. (Note: the original master was lost. This is created from an MP3.)
FAQ Desc	monolog - two hours comment: subsequently edited and broadcast as a one-hour version music: Gavin Bryars, from "Hommages"
JF Wiki	No Show No Show (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Hommages Artist: Gavin Bryars

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No Show - Part 2 permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:43:56
JF.com	ID 8734 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Second part of the 90-minute live radio program: Joe Frank explains why he has failed to prepare a show for tonight. (Note: the original master was lost. This is created from an MP3.)
FAQ Desc	monolog - two hours comment: subsequently edited and broadcast as a one-hour version music: Gavin Bryars, from "Hommages"
JF Wiki	No Show No Show (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Hommages Artist: Gavin Bryars

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No Show (remix) permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:49
JF.com	ID 212 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe explains the reasons why he has failed to prepare for tonight’s show. Among them: an exhausting, all night conversation with his engineer. A woman who calls, then comes to his apartment and remains for hours while attempting to seduce him; the arrival and set preparation below his window at dawn of a film crew. And having ‘no show,’ Joe turns on his portable radio and listens to other stations, urging his listeners to do the same. Then he calls a suicide hotline and discusses the meaninglessness of his life with a warm-hearted black woman.
Alt JF Desc	The remixed version of Joe's live on-air radio program. Joe explains why he has failed to prepare a show for tonight.
FAQ Desc	monolog - two hours comment: subsequently edited and broadcast as a one-hour version music: Gavin Bryars, from "Hommages"
JF Wiki	No Show No Show (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Hommages Artist: Gavin Bryars

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Let me not Dream permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:05
JF.com	ID 191 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The River Valley Camp, a sadistic children prison in the Amazon jungle, is described by its founder/director. College students argue with a street preacher in Sproul Plaza in Berkeley. Joe calls ex-girlfriends late at night to sing ‘Remember You.’
Alt JF Desc	French standup comic meets woman who advises him to tell jokes about life; Joe's conversation on suicide hot line; light versus darkness, what is missing?; people line up to commit suicide to the delight of onlookers; Joe calls ex-girlfriends and sings "I Remember You"; woman recalls meeting, falling in love with Joe.* (*This portion also appears in "Black Light")
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Brian Eno, from "Thursday Afternoon"
JF Wiki	Let Me Not Dream
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Thursday Afternoon (61 Minute Version) Album: Thursday Afternoon Artist: Brian Eno

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Case Studies permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:56
JF.com	ID 111 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Psychological case studies of obsessive-compulsives are recounted. A panel discussion follows on the nature of reality and the question of freedom vs. determinism.
Alt JF Desc	Psychological case studies of obsessive-compulsives are recounted. A panel discusses the nature of reality and the question of freedom vs. determinism.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Arthur Miller, Nick Aulette, Tim Jerome & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Case Studies
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Cocktails Before Dinner permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:36
JF.com	ID 114 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Space, time, human beings as ‘prosthetic gods,’ and the ephemeral nature of love are examined.
Alt JF Desc	Space, time, human beings as ""prophetic gods,"" and the ephemeral nature of love are examined.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Jon Hassell, "Power Spot" and "Wing Melodies" from "Power Spot"
JF Wiki	Cocktails Before Dinner
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Wing Melodies Album: Power Spot Artist: Jon Hassell Song: Power Spot Album: Power Spot Artist: Jon Hassell

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Dreamland permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:34
JF.com	ID 125 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Kidnapping theme. Included are descriptions of a tribe that captured and held inanimate objects, communities in California that worship and participate in kidnapping, and the trans-generational kidnapping and holding of blacks that was slavery. Also included is a description of a professional wrestler, Mr. Capital, and a description of a rock and roll recording studio disaster.
Alt JF Desc	Stories about professional wrestler and entrepreneur Mr. Capital; an exploration of the subject of kidnapping, including interviews with former hostages; a reminiscence of a rock and roll recording studio disaster.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Dreamland
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Avery Hart, Lester Nafzger

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Rose permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:29
JF.com	ID 244 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The lonely manager of a flower shop experiences romantic disappointments. Her affair with a man just released from prison ends badly. Finally, she falls in love with another woman.
Alt JF Desc	The story of the lonely manager of a nursery – a woman whose relationships with men always turn sour. Finally, she falls in love with a woman.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Ry Cooder, from the soundtrack of "Paris, Texas" comment: broadcast as "An American Flower" or "Rose"
JF Wiki	Rose
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Paris, Texas Artist: Ry Cooder

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Why I Don't Love You Anymore permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:11
JF.com	ID 287 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe expresses contempt for people who act like pigs, befouling the world around them. Drinking heavily, Mike and Joe pick up a dancer and bring her back to Joe’s apartment. ‘Road Kill’ Dave runs for mayor and promises more foam in bicycle seats. The dreamlike experiences of a lonely gas station attendant in the desert. Joe’s fantasy of forming a cadre to attack the ostentatious rich. The term ‘Quality of Life’ is examined.
Alt JF Desc	Befouled public toilets and other grievances. ""You know as far as their emissions are concerned, some people are illiterate. They're like animals masquerading as people."" Drinking heavily, Mike and Joe pick up a young dancer and rape is narrowly averted. The Road Kill Project and the $13 Gold Rush scam. Dave runs for mayor and promises more foam in bicycle seats. The bizarre dreamlike experiences of a gas station attendant. Joe's fantasy of a cadre that would attack the overly-ostentatious rich. The term ""Quality of Life"" is examined.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Popul Vuh, "Woe Be To Khorazin" from the soundtrack of "Fitzcarraldo"
JF Wiki	Why I Don't Love You Anymore
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Woe Be To Khorazin Album: Fitzcarraldo Soundtrack Artist: Popol Vuh Song: Unknown Album: The Sinking of the Titanic Artist: Gavin Bryars Song: Unknown Album: Pirates Artist: Rickie Lee Jones

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Tell Me What to Do permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:52:53
JF.com	ID 264 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A sick relationship between a woman who wants to be dominated and a profoundly needy and neurotic man.
Alt JF Desc	The story of a brief affair between a married man and the woman he meets at work. Abused as a child, she tries to recreate the relationship she had with her father. She leaves to marry another man, but the two lovers meet at a hotel one more time.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Tell Me What To Do
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Highways West permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:51
JF.com	ID 8727 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The life and painful love affairs of a woman florist. A great piano player who makes a living owning a pawn shop. Two low-life hustlers pull scams, gamble and sell drugs. Characters who work in a video warehousing company. NOTE: The only quality of the show available is 56kbps, because the original master recording was lost.
Alt JF Desc	The life and painful love affairs of a woman florist. A great piano player who makes a living owning a pawn shop. Two low-life hustlers pull scams, gamble and sell drugs. Characters who work in a video warehousing company.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Fred Simon, "Time and the River" from "Usually/Always" and Brian Eno, "Always Returning", from "Apollo"
JF Wiki	Highways West
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Time and the River Album: Usually / Always Artist: Fred Simon Song: Always Returning Album: Apollo Artist: Brian Eno

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Nightride permalink
Air Date	1986
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:01
JF.com	ID 210 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A dreamlike montage of police interrogations, encounters with a mad prophet and a foreign cab driver’s descriptions of a city. A psychologist advises a mental patient. A woman lists what she likes. Another woman, while eating a sandwich, speaks of her serenity without men.
Alt JF Desc	A dreamlike montage of police interrogations, encounters with a prophet, and other strange moments are all set to music.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Alan Hunter, Lester Nafzger, Annalee Jefferies, F. Murray Abraham, Arthur Miller & Joe Frank music: Steve Reich, from "Six Marimbas"; Gavin Bryars, from "The Sinking of the Titanic"; and Harold Budd, "Flowered Knife Shadows" from "Lovely Thunder" comment: continuation of A Tour of the City
JF Wiki	Nightride
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Alan Hunter, Lester Nafzger, Annalee Jefferies, F. Murray Abraham, Arthur Miller and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Sextet / Six Marimbas Artist: Steve Reich Song: Unknown Album: The Sinking of the Titanic Artist: Gavin Bryars Song: Flowered Knife Shadows Album: Lovely Thunder Artist: Harold Budd

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Rent-a-Family - Part 1 permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:03
JF.com	ID 4 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	This Peabody Award-winning series tells the story of Eleanor, a lonely divorced woman, who joins an agency that rents her and her children to bachelors. The children disappear and Eleanor repeatedly calls her ex-husband, Arthur, begging him to return to her. Remarried, he rejects her entreaties and denies they ever had children. The story is interspersed with mock-serious panel discussions concerning the viability and morality of renting women and their children to bachelors.
Alt JF Desc	This CPB Award-winning series tells the story of Eleanor, a divorced woman with two children, who joins an agency that makes her family available for rent. Eleanor's story is interspersed with mock-serious panel discussions concerning the viability and morality of renting women and their children to bachelors.
FAQ Desc	drama - three hours cast: Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Aulette, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Timo, Sharon, & Christa music: Harold Budd, "Gypsy Violin", from "Lovely Thunder" comment: remixed in 1997 into a one-hour Somewhere Out There show
JF Wiki	Rent A Family (Part 1) Rent A Family (Part 2) Rent A Family (Part 3) Rent A Family (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Ullett, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Tim, Sharon, and Christa
FP Music	Song: Gypsy Violin Album: Lovely Thunder Artist: Harold Budd Song: Brooks Was Here Album: Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack Artist: Thomas Newman

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Rent-a-Family - Part 2 permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:04
JF.com	ID 237 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Her children presumably kidnapped, Eleanor desperately and compulsively calls her ex-husband, Arthur. The panel discussions slowly devolve into bull sessions.
FAQ Desc	drama - three hours cast: Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Aulette, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Timo, Sharon, & Christa music: Harold Budd, "Gypsy Violin", from "Lovely Thunder" comment: remixed in 1997 into a one-hour Somewhere Out There show
JF Wiki	Rent A Family (Part 1) Rent A Family (Part 2) Rent A Family (Part 3) Rent A Family (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Ullett, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Tim, Sharon, and Christa
FP Music	Song: Gypsy Violin Album: Lovely Thunder Artist: Harold Budd Song: Brooks Was Here Album: Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack Artist: Thomas Newman

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Rent-a-Family - Part 3 permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:53
JF.com	ID 238 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Eleanor succeeds in breaking up Arthur's marriage while the panelists discuss their love affairs.
FAQ Desc	drama - three hours cast: Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Aulette, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Timo, Sharon, & Christa music: Harold Budd, "Gypsy Violin", from "Lovely Thunder" comment: remixed in 1997 into a one-hour Somewhere Out There show
JF Wiki	Rent A Family (Part 1) Rent A Family (Part 2) Rent A Family (Part 3) Rent A Family (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Ullett, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Tim, Sharon, and Christa
FP Music	Song: Gypsy Violin Album: Lovely Thunder Artist: Harold Budd Song: Brooks Was Here Album: Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack Artist: Thomas Newman

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In the Middle of Nowhere - Part 1 permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:42
JF.com	ID 162 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The strange relationships that develop between a French ambulance driver, a Bible salesman, a stripper, the bartender of a roadhouse, and a gay angel.
Alt JF Desc	An accident between an ambulance and a car driven by a Bible salesman sets the stage for this drama. What follows is the unfolding, strange and tangled relationships that develop between the French ambulance driver, the Bible salesman, a stripper, the bartender of a roadhouse and a gay angel.
FAQ Desc	drama - three hours cast: Tim Jerome, Larry Block, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman & Ryan Cutrona music: Andreas Vollenwieder, "The Stone" from "White Winds"
JF Wiki	In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 1) In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 2) In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 3)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Larry Block, Nick Ullett, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman, and Ryan Cutrona
FP Music	Song: The Stone Album: White Winds Artist: Andreas Vollenwieder Song: N/A Album: N/A Artist: Joe Frank Commisioned

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In the Middle of Nowhere - Part 2 permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:42
JF.com	ID 163 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Bud, the Bible salesman, strikes up a friendship with Charlayne, the stripper, and tells two conflicting stories about his father’s death; Ray, the bartender, hires a band and sings to Charlayne; Ray and Ryder, the ambulance driver, settle their differences at the bar’s pool table; Ryder attempts to seduce Charlayne in Bud’s presence during a night spent in a motel.
Alt JF Desc	Bud, the Bible salesman, strikes up a friendship with Charlayne, the stripper, and tells two conflicting stories about his father's death. Ray, the bartender, hires a band and cuts a record expressing his love for Charlayne. Then he and Ryder, the ambulance driver, settle their differences in a game of pool. Ryder attempts to seduce Charlayne at a motel in the rain.
FAQ Desc	drama - three hours cast: Tim Jerome, Larry Block, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman & Ryan Cutrona music: Andreas Vollenwieder, "The Stone" from "White Winds"
JF Wiki	In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 1) In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 2) In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 3)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Larry Block, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman, and Ryan Cutrona
FP Music	Song: The Stone Album: White Winds Artist: Andreas Vollenwieder Song: N/A Album: N/A Artist: Joe Frank Commisioned

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In the Middle of Nowhere - Part 3 permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:51
JF.com	ID 164 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	At the garbage dump, Ray reveals to Charlayne his dream of a life spent together. Bud accidentally kills Ryder and runs away. Ray, having lost Charlayne and in despair, rushes into the eye of a tornado.
Alt JF Desc	At the garbage dump, Ray reveals his dream of a life spent together with Charlayne. Bud and Ryder struggle at the edge of a precipice and Ray, in despair, runs into a tornado.
FAQ Desc	drama - three hours cast: Tim Jerome, Larry Block, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman & Ryan Cutrona music: Andreas Vollenwieder, "The Stone" from "White Winds"
JF Wiki	In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 1) In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 2) In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 3)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Larry Block, Nick Ullett, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman, and Ryan Cutrona
FP Music	Song: The Stone Album: White Winds Artist: Andreas Vollenwieder Song: N/A Album: N/A Artist: Joe Frank Commisioned

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The Policemen's Ball permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:01
JF.com	ID 224 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A man describes an encounter with his sadistic high school gym teacher. A city riot erupts during the Policemen’s Ball. A married couple, from their apartment window, shoot down looters. A panel discussions about various forms of crime.
Alt JF Desc	A city riot erupts during the Policemen's Ball while a panel of experts discusses crime and its prevention.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Tim Jerome, Arthur Miller, Nick Aulette, Larry Block, Barbara Sohmers, Steve Friedman, Denny Partridge & Joe Frank music: Rossini's "William Tell Overture" performed by the Portsmouth Sinfonia comment: a remix version was produced in 1996
JF Wiki	Policemen's Ball, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Arthur Miller, Nick Ullett, Larry Block, Barbara Sohmers, Steve Friedman, Denny Partridge, and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: William Tell Overture Album: Unknown Artist: The Portsmouth Sinfonia

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He Hesitated permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	NPR Playhouse and WBAI (1978-1984)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:23
JF.com	ID 150 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe Frank discusses entropy, his visit with his mother at a retirement community in Florida, the film ""the Incredible Shrinking Man,"" and the flawed concept of ?Progress.?
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Eno/Moebius/Roedelius, "Foreign Affairs", from "After The Heat" and Frank Sinatra, "All My Tomorrows", from the soundtrack of "A Hole in the Head"
JF Wiki	He Hesitated
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Foreign Affairs Album: After the Heat Artist: Eno / Moebius / Roedelius Song: A Hole in the Head Soundtrack Album: All My Tomorrows Artist: Frank Sinatra

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Thank You You're Beautiful permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:33
JF.com	ID 266 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A woman, on the telephone, tells her ex-lover the bitter truth about him and their former relationship. Joe engages in absurd, philosophical anecdotes and reflections.
Alt JF Desc	A woman on the telephone tells her ex-lover the bitter, painful truth about him and their former relationship; Joe addresses a rally and engages in absurd stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Laura Esterman & Joe Frank music: Popol Vuh, "Brothers of Darkness - Sons of Light" from the soundtrack of Herzog's "Nosferatu" and Harvey Sachs: "What the World Needs Now"
JF Wiki	Thank You, You're Beautiful
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Brothers of Darkness - Sons of Light Album: Herzog's Nosferatu Soundtrack Artist: Popul Vuh Song: What the World Needs Now Album: Unknown Artist: Harvey Sachs Song: Creatures Album: Curse of the Pheremones Artist: Startled Insects Song: N/A Album: N/A Artist: Joe Frank Comissioned

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Thank You You're Beautiful permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:05:48
JF.com	ID 839
JF Desc	This "Radio Art" video dramatizes the making of a Joe Frank episode, including shots in the studio and 1980s computers. Not sure about the exact air date.
JF Wiki	Thank You, You're Beautiful
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama

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To the Bar Life permalink
Air Date	1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:24
JF.com	ID 271 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The true story of a man who grew up in a well-to-do family during the Depression, went to war in Europe, joined Thomas Merton’s monastery in Gethsemani, and eventually became a homeless person in Venice, California.
Alt JF Desc	The true story of a man who grew up in a well-to-do family during the Depression, went to war in Europe, joined a Catholic monastery, and eventually became a homeless alcoholic in Venice, California.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block & Ryan Cutrona music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra, "Rosasolis" from "Signs Of Life"
JF Wiki	To The Bar Life
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Rosasolis Album: Signs of Life Artist: Penguin Cafe Orchestra

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Live on the Air: Oct 9 1987 permalink
Air Date	9 Oct 1987
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:09
JF.com	ID 8630 info page
JF Desc	Philosophical reflections in the form of questions, stories and absurd dreamlike experiences. Among them, the description of the 19th century Russian religious sect, ‘The Hole Worshipers,’ who worshiped the emptiness left by God’s absence.
FAQ Desc	also called "At the Border" an "At the Border (remix) version was produced in 2002 monolog - one hour music: Popol Vuh, "A Different World" from the soundtrack of "Cobra Verde"
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Harvey Sax, Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: A Different World Album: Cobra Verde Artist: Popol Vuh

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Emergency Room permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:18
JF.com	ID 132 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Authentic scenes from an emergency room, and a bizarre discussion on the latest medical technology. Enjoy this clip from the show:
Alt JF Desc	Stories of illness, authentic scenes from an emergency room, and bizarre discussions on the latest medical technology.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Larry Block, Paul Mantell, Lester Nafzger & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Emergency Room
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Show Type	Reality
Cast	Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Paul Mantell, Larry Block, Lester Nafzger, Joe Frank

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Stories for Nothing permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:51:35
JF.com	ID 255 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A travel journal with many stories. Among them: Life in a cave, dysentery in a hotel with one busy toilet, garbage dumped on a poor village, a health club trial, and many more.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Stories for Nothing
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Building a Church permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	??:??:??
JF.com	ID 7501 (this item not on JoeFrank.com)
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Tim Jerome, Tess, Arthur Miller, Richard Eisner & Joe Frank music: Bill Nelson, "West Deep" and "The Spirit Cannot Fail" from "Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights"
JF Wiki	This program seems to be identical to Bad, except that this program is missing the brief passage taken from Jewish Blues in which a son tells his Jewish father he's converting to Christianity. Building A Church
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Notes	SEEKING AUDIO! This audio file never appeared on or disappeared from JoeFrank.com; contact us if you have it!
Show Type	Drama
FP Music	Song: The Spirit Cannot Fail Album: Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights Artist: Bill Nelson Song: West Deep Album: Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights Artist: Bill Nelson

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The Street permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:42
JF.com	ID 256 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A documentary about life on the streets in downtown Los Angeles. We hear the stories and reflections of homeless drunks, prostitutes, drug addicts and barflies.
Alt JF Desc	Drunks, addicts and barflies in a music montage.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: vocalists unidentified (This program is so popular at KPFA they use dubs for premiums during the pledge drive.)
JF Wiki	Street, The
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Show Type	Documentary
Cast	Unnamed individuals

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Lines permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:58
JF.com	ID 193 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe has provocative phone conversations with women he’s never met in this dreamlike program.
Alt JF Desc	Telephone sex is explored in this off-beat, comic program.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour
JF Wiki	Lines
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Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Sally Rainer, Julie Renick and Joe Frank

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Words permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:34
JF.com	ID 291 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe describes a classical concert in a great recital hall. The pianist’s performance and audience are described. Joe is solely interested in the women and concocts plans to seduce them. He directs the performance of an actress appearing as his unhappy girlfriend, after which she leaves him. A rock star is kidnapped, raped by women, and becomes a misogynist. The origin of the term, ‘balance of payments,’ is explained. Dream of receding steps lead to extending fingers and Joe’s exploding mother. Joe dreams of being a condom. In Beirut, buying one-hour life insurance amidst chaos. In his lawyer’s office, Joe realizes he’s still married to his first wife. Series of absurd images.
Alt JF Desc	Presidential hopeful promises new era, A program about political power, obsessive womanizing, and a couple breaks up without either one of them leaving; how to meet women
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Evelyn, Henry Dennis and Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Words
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Show Type	Drama
Cast	Evelyn, Henry Dennis and Joe Frank

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Five Part Dissonance permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:57
JF.com	ID 141 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A man’s telepathic powers are challenged. Joe Frank on smoke signals, heliography, semaphore, alpine horns, speaking tubes. Paul Mantell describes traveling in search of death. Panicked man begs a woman ‘don’t make me do it,’ accompanied by a bizarre moaning soundtrack. A man moans and strains while a woman giggles. In front of a live audience, Joe talks about meeting a beautiful woman in an elevator with “Hard Work” music in background, and his favorite TV detective program: Immortality can only be found in the past. A man’s shoelaces are tied together and he’s abducted by aliens from a planet that plays mahjong and feed him opium. Distorted voice of an elevator operator.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Avery Hart, Paul Mantell, F. Murray Abraham, Annalee Jefferies & Joe Frank comment: contains excerpts from Joe Frank in Concert and The Rare Recording
JF Wiki	Five Part Dissonance
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Show Type	Drama
Cast	Paul Mantell, Joe Frank

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Emerald Isle permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:46
JF.com	ID 131 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	An Irish landlady, after rummaging through her young tenant’s belongings, declares her love for him. It turns out she is not a landlady at all, but a jazz vocalist in a nightclub. She sings her song of longing and later complains to her manager about the wretched tour he has arranged for her. Joe presents his ‘ode to woman,’ featuring a housewife, cheerleader, flight attendant, businesswoman and streetwalker, among others.
Alt JF Desc	An Irish landlady, rummaging through her young tenant?s belongings, declares her love for him. It turns out she is not a landlady at all, however, but a jazz vocalist in a nightclub introducing a ballad. She sings her song of longing and later complains to her manager about the wretched tour he has arranged for her. Joe presents his ?ode to woman,? featuring a housewife, cheerleader, flight attendant, businesswoman, streetwalker, among others.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Fionualla Flannigan, Larry Block & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Emerald Isle
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Fionnula Flanagan, Larry Block, Joe Frank

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Home permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:19
JF.com	ID 8730 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Actress Grace Zabriskie describes her father's bohemian lifestyle as a cafe owner in New Orleans during the 1940′s, his depression and death, and recalls life in the French Quarter during the '40s and '50s.
FAQ Desc	monolog by Grace Zabriskie - one hour
JF Wiki	Home
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Show Type	Reality
Cast	Grace Zabriskie

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Islands permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:51
JF.com	ID 167 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A father and son find themselves lost in a deserted city; a strange woman carries a mysterious box into Joe’s office and forces him to keep it; Joe dreams of revenge against his aggravating girlfriend, Ceil.
Alt JF Desc	A father and son find themselves lost in a deserted city; a mystery woman carries a mysterious box to a businessman's office and forces it on him; a man dreams of revenge against his aggravating girlfirend.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Islands
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Sleep permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:50:37
JF.com	ID 248 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A child in his night clothes attends an adult party where a murder is committed. He becomes the subject of an anatomical lecture. A confession of past sins and an appeal to God for leniency. An ode to the highway. The story of a man who calls an escort service and falls in love with the ugly, overweight, and stupid woman they send.
Alt JF Desc	A confession of past sins; an ode to the highway; the story of a man who calls an escort service and falls in love with the woman they send.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Sleep
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Angry Child permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:02:34
JF.com	ID 835
JF Desc	This short appears in its entirety at the end of "Sleep." Angry Child was released on JoeFrank.com some time after 2003.
JF Wiki	Angry Child
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Show Type	Monologue

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Band Rehearsal - Part 1 permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:09:00
JF.com	ID 587 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	After sketching out a musical composition for a live show, Joe went to work with these musicians and produced what we believe is some of the best signature Joe Frank music we've ever heard. Completely original, thoroughly Joe, these recordings definitely satisfy. Enjoy full, unedited tracks. Listen to Joe directing, the band jamming, and Joe delivering portions of monologues from past shows. ("Lies," "Either/Or" and "Just Hold Me.") We're very excited to bring you this rare sampling of Joe Frank. Part 1
JF Wiki	Joe Frank Band Rehearsal
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Show Type	Music
Cast	Musicians Mike Boito, David Brown, Smoky Hormel, Danny Frankel, Kenny Lyon, Dave Ralicke, and Joey Waronker

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Band Rehearsal - Part 2 permalink
Air Date	1988
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:33:00
JF.com	ID 588 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	After sketching out a musical composition for a live show, Joe went to work with these musicians and produced what we believe is some of the best signature Joe Frank music we've ever heard. Completely original, thoroughly Joe, these recordings definitely satisfy. Enjoy full, unedited tracks. Listen to Joe directing, the band jamming, and Joe delivering portions of monologues from past shows. ("Lies," "Either/Or" and "Just Hold Me.") We're very excited to bring you this rare sampling of Joe Frank. Part 2
JF Wiki	Joe Frank Band Rehearsal
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Show Type	Music
Cast	Musicians Mike Boito, David Brown, Smoky Hormel, Danny Frankel, Kenny Lyon, Dave Ralicke, and Joey Waronker

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Performer permalink
Air Date	1989
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:52:27
JF.com	ID 219 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Lester Nafzger’s account of his mother’s fierce opposition to hypnotism and his sixteen life-defining experiences. We listen to Lester’s avant-garde performances and hear of his job at a porn theatre.
Alt JF Desc	Performer Lester Nafzger's account of his mother's fierce opposition to hypnotism and his sixteen life-defining experiences. We listen to Lester's avant-garde performances and hear of his tedious job at a porn theatre.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Lester Nafzger, Julie Renick & Joe Frank music: Enya, "Watermark" and "River", from "Watermark"
JF Wiki	Performer
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Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Lester Nafzger, Julie Renick, and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: River Album: Watermark Artist: Enya Song: Watermark Album: Watermark Artist: Enya

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The More I Know You permalink
Air Date	1989
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:23
JF.com	ID 203 info page
JF Desc	Women talk about their loves: a 12-year-old boy-man with cracked glass marble eyes; a dashing Italian anesthesiologist who fell prey to road rage; a lover who lied and cheated. An ugly scene on the street between parting lovers. A mistletoe seductress. A commentary on improper tooth brushing.
Alt JF Desc	drama - one hour cast: A. Lorey, Antony Becker & Grace Zabriskie
JF Wiki	More I Know You, The
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Show Type	Reality
Cast	A. Lorey, Antony Becker, Grace Zabriskie

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Road to Hell permalink
Air Date	1989
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:26
JF.com	ID 243 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A hobo travels across the country during the winter. Memories of Christmas and New Year’s past; images of ‘the sweet life’ and mayhem strikes the office. Enjoy this clip from the show:
Alt JF Desc	The song of the riding-the-rails hobo; memories of Christmas and New Year's past; images of ""the sweet life""; mayhem strikes the office.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Country Joe McDonald, "Hold On, It's Coming" comment: a remix version was produced in 2001
JF Wiki	Road To Hell
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Hold On It's Coming Artist: Country Joe McDonald

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Nausea permalink
Air Date	1989
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:19
JF.com	ID 208 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe follows a beautiful hitchhiker to a hotel where she takes revenge on him and other harassing men by dynamiting them all in a hotel. A man leaves his wife after fifteen years of marriage and finds himself overcome by nausea. Joe dreams of becoming a world-famous race car driver.
Alt JF Desc	Ways of facing emptiness; a man follows a beautiful hitchhiker; a man leaves his wife after fifteen years of marriage and is overcome by nausea.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Yello, "The Race" from "Flag"
JF Wiki	Nausea
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: The Race Album: Flag Artist: Yello

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Bad permalink
Air Date	1989
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:19
JF.com	ID 97 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The history of church architecture. A son tells his Jewish father he’s converted to Christianity. A woman recounts the time her mother pretended she’d sold her and her sister to gypsies. A man mutilates himself in church. The recycling of churches as secular buildings for consumer goods.
Alt JF Desc	A history of religious architecture.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Tim Jerome, Tess Steincolk, Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Paul Mantell & Joe Frank comment: essentially the same program as Building A Church
JF Wiki	Bad
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Tim Jerome, Tess Steincolk, Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Paul Mantell, Joe Frank

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Great Lives permalink
Air Date	1989
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:52
JF.com	ID 146 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Anecdotes about Freud, Stalin, Hitler, Dietrich, Einstein, and Eleanor Roosevelt among other historical figures.
FAQ Desc	drama- one hour cast: Arthur Miller, Ryan Kitrona, Tim Jerome, Julie Renick & Joe Frank comment: broadcast as a Somewhere Out There in 1996; a remix version was produced in 2000
JF Wiki	Great Lives
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Show Type	Drama

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Night permalink
Air Date	1989
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:19
JF.com	ID 209 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Floods, fires, and crime rage through a California canyon. Kevin, a pool cleaner and short order cook, finds solace at The Circus of Love, where he meets Donna, an ex-stripper with a colorful past. Turner goes from being a pilot in Vietnam to serving time in prison for selling drugs and then moves into the wilderness.
Alt JF Desc	Floods, fires, and crime in a California canyon. Kevin, a part-time pool cleaner, confronts a crazed Caprice driver and his girlfriend. Kevin snorts coke at his night job at a bar, comes into possession of a gun, and cheats death by jumping out of a burning building. He finds solace at The Circus of Love, where he meets Donna, an ex-stripper with a colorful past. Turner's escapades from being a pilot in Vietnam to serving prison time to Walden-esque forays into the wilderness.
FAQ Desc	monolog - two hours music: Meredith Monk, "Turtle Dreams (Waltz)", from "Turtle Dreams"
JF Wiki	Night (Part 1) Night (Part 2)
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Turtle Dreams (Waltz) Album: Turtle Dreams Artist: Meridith Monk

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Joe Frank at MOCA, Los Angeles permalink
Air Date	1989
Series	Short Films (1989-2009)
Media Type	video
Play Time	01:22:04
JF.com	ID 8716 video page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe Frank's live performance at MOCA in Los Angeles. This is the only known recording of this solo performance. (It was digitized from a VHS tape; the audio has been improved as much as possible. The camera work is at times subpar. If you know of a better recording, please contact us at support[at]joefrank.com)
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Show Type	Short Films

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The Truth About Women - 1 permalink
Air Date	1990
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:19
JF.com	ID 275 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A woman describes three painfully humiliating love affairs with callow young men. A group of women in a park discuss their one-night stands and relationships with men. Another woman speaks directly (by recording) to the man who inexplicably broke her heart.
FAQ Desc	drama - two hours cast: ?
JF Wiki	Truth About Women, The (Part 1) Truth About Women, The (Part 2)
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Show Type	Reality
Cast	Two anonymous Women

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The Truth About Women - 2 permalink
Air Date	1990
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:59
JF.com	ID 276 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A woman describes her abusive relationship with her step-father. A young biker intercedes to protect her and she runs away from home to move in and marry him. Eventually, she leaves him and becomes a punk rocker and marries someone else. Another woman describes being abandoned by her compulsively submissive husband. A third woman recalls the joys of dating two older Jewish men.
FAQ Desc	drama - two hours cast: ?
JF Wiki	Truth About Women, The (Part 1) Truth About Women, The (Part 2)
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Show Type	Reality
Cast	Two anonymous women

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I'm not Crazy permalink
Air Date	1990
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:14
JF.com	ID 157 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A young woman dates war veterans from Vietnam going back to World War I. An ode celebrating war. Joe’s ‘cases’ working as a private investigator, his trial for misogyny, and stories of medical malpractice and madness.
Alt JF Desc	A young woman dates war veterans from Vietnam back to World War I. An ode in celebration of war is recited. Other subjects include private investigation, a trial for misogyny, medical malpractice and madness.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Andreas Vollenwieder, "Flight Feet & Root Hands" from "White Winds" comment: a remix version was produced in 1996
JF Wiki	I'm Not Crazy I'm Not Crazy (Remix)
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Flight Feet and Root Hands Album: White Winds Artist: Anreas Vollwnieinder

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Iceland - Part 1 permalink
Air Date	1990
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:15
JF.com	ID 155 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe’s annoying relationship with his unreliable and unfaithful girlfriend Lila. His adventures traveling around the world.
Alt JF Desc	A musician performing at a beachfront motel finds companionship in the proprietors daughter; an actor staying with friends in L.A. attempts to solicit work from actor Chevy Chase; an alcoholic woman relapses; a friend, Danny, returns from war, damaged; remembering Katie, and visiting mom at the nursing home; a woman vividly describes her fathers bohemian lifestyle as a cafe owner in New Orleans during the 1940s, and recalls life in the French Quarter during the 40s and 50s.
FAQ Desc	monolog - three hours music: Eno, Moebius & Roedelius, "Tzima N'arki" from "After The Heat"
JF Wiki	Iceland (Part 1) Iceland (Part 2) Iceland (part 3)
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Tzima N'arki Album: After the Heat Artist: Eno / Moebius / Roedelius

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Iceland - Part 2 permalink
Air Date	1990
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:43
JF.com	ID 156 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe learns of Lila’s affair with her beloved professor. Joe and Lila travel together to the professor’s funeral in Iceland. Entries from Joe’s travel journal.
Alt JF Desc	In a rage, Joe burns all his listener mail. He joins Lila on a trip to Iceland to attend Professor Vogel's funeral. The travel journal entries continue.
FAQ Desc	monolog - three hours music: Eno, Moebius & Roedelius, "Tzima N'arki" from "After The Heat"
JF Wiki	Iceland (Part 1) Iceland (Part 2) Iceland (part 3)
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Tzima N'arki Album: After the Heat Artist: Eno / Moebius / Roedelius

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Joe Frank: Storyteller permalink
Air Date	1990
Series	Short Films (1989-2009)
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:05:00
JF.com	ID 8637 video page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Award-winning Short Film produced for KCET in the early 1990s. (Note: This short was digitized from a third generation old VHS tape. We apologize for the degraded quality of the audio and visual.)
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Show Type	Short Films
Cast	Joe Frank

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Memories permalink
Air Date	1990
Series	Short Films (1989-2009)
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:10:05
JF.com	ID 8751 video page (subscription required)
JF Desc	This is one of the two short films Joe narrated as part of his live performances in 2003 and 2004. Directed by Paul Rachman Cast: Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Memories (short film)
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Show Type	Short Films

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Live at Market Street permalink
Air Date	22 Oct 1990
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:10
JF.com	ID 846
JF Desc	A hilarious recording of an early live performance at the 72 Market Street restaurant in Venice, CA on October 22, 1990. Even Joe Frank loses it.
JF Wiki	Live At Market Street
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Show Type	Monologue

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The Dictator - Part 1 permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:52:51
JF.com	ID 121 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The Great Drought and the havoc it induced on Joe’s primitive tribe. The sole survivor, Joe is taken in by a friendly tribe of farmers, who are eventually annihilated by cannibals. Again, Joe cheats death and finds his way to a circus, where he becomes enamored of Marta, the human pretzel. Flash forward to the war where, as the Dictator, Joe is reduced to a blubbering, anxiety-ridden neurotic with multiple gastrointestinal issues. Stories follow of the unfortunate Oil Seller, the Dirt Boy who sprouted his own vegetables and became a self-sufficient ecosystem. Morality as a relative value is discussed.
Alt JF Desc	Joe survives the Great Drought and finds his way to a circus, where he becomes enamored with Marta, the human pretzel. Flash forward to the war where Joe, as the country's Dictator, is reduced to a blubbering, anxiety ridden neurotic with multiple gastrointestinal issues. Stories follow of the unfortunate Oil Seller and Dirt Boy who sprouted his own vegetables and became a self-sufficient eco-system. Morality as a relative value is discussed.
FAQ Desc	monolog - three hours music: Enigma, "Principle of Lust", from "MCMXC" and David Van Tieghem,"They Drive By Night", from "Strange Cargo"
JF Wiki	Dictator, The (Part 2) Dictator, The (Part 1) Dictator, The (Part 3)
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: They Drive by Night Album: They Drive By Night Artist: David Van Tieghem Song: Principles of Lust Album: MXMXC Artist: Enigma

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The Dictator - Part 2 permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:03
JF.com	ID 122 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The dictator reflects on the despicable act of sending a nation’s most valuable resource, its young men, off to war, while worthless housewives, children, and old people are free to go freely about their lives. During a siege, cut off from the rest of civilization, the country creates six ‘themed cities’ to give a taste of the world as it used to be. Scholars attempt to interpret General Ibrahim’s prophetic dream when the city receives the gift of a Trojan Horse.
Alt JF Desc	The despicable act of sending to war a nation's most valuable resource, its young men, while worthless housewives, children, and old people go about their insipid lives. During a siege, cut off from the rest of civilization, the country creates six ""themed cities"" to give a taste of the world as it used to be.
FAQ Desc	monolog - three hours music: Enigma, "Principle of Lust", from "MCMXC" and David Van Tieghem,"They Drive By Night", from "Strange Cargo"
JF Wiki	Dictator, The (Part 2) Dictator, The (Part 1) Dictator, The (Part 3)
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: They Drive by Night Album: They Drive By Night Artist: David Van Tieghem Song: Principles of Lust Album: MXMXC Artist: Enigma

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The Dictator - Part 3 permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:48
JF.com	ID 123 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe describes his escape from the circus; this is followed by Joe’s delusional wish (as the Dictator) to become God and exist for all eternity. In a state of decline, and now delusional, Joe emcees his own fashion show.
Alt JF Desc	Joe tells of his escape from the circus and his wish, as the Dictator, to become God and exist through all eternity. In a state of decline and now delusional, Joe emcees his own fashion show where he raves about fawn colored battle fatigues and polarized Rayban aviator glasses.
FAQ Desc	monolog - three hours music: Enigma, "Principle of Lust", from "MCMXC" and David Van Tieghem,"They Drive By Night", from "Strange Cargo"
JF Wiki	Dictator, The (Part 2) Dictator, The (Part 1) Dictator, The (Part 3)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: They Drive by Night Album: They Drive By Night Artist: David Van Tieghem Song: Principles of Lust Album: MXMXC Artist: Enigma

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On the Edge permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:19
JF.com	ID 215 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A neighbor’s barking dog leads to a confrontation. Joe contemplates death as literally buying the farm, going fishing, and checking into The Hotel Paradise. Each phrase evokes a promising fantasy that ends in disaster.
Alt JF Desc	A neighbor's barking dog leads to a confrontation. Joe contemplates death as literally ""buying the farm,"" ""going fishing,"" and checking into ""The Hotel Paradise.""
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour comment: a remix version was produced in 1999
JF Wiki	On The Edge (Remix) On The Edge
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Summer Notes (remix) permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:35
JF.com	ID 260 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe interviews a man at the beach who regularly brings a reflector sheet, a handgun, and an aerosol spray of ‘air shadow’ for blocking the sun’s harmful rays; disastrous adventures in the great outdoors by Diana and Dirk; a brief history of picnics and outdoor theatre; an ignored and desperate street preacher threatens to eat a child, leading to an ugly street confrontation. Scenes presented in new order.
Alt JF Desc	Joe interviews a man at the beach who regularly brings a reflector sheet, a handgun, and an aerosol spray of ""air shadow"" for blocking the sun's harmful rays. We follow the disastrous adventures of Diana and Dirk. A brief history of picnics and outdoor theatre is provided. An ignored and desperate street preacher threatens to eat a child, leading to an ugly street confrontation.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Tim Jerome, Beth Dixon, Arthur Miller, Lester Nafzger, Rosemary Foley, Bernie Mantell, Fran Dorn, David St. James & Joe Frank comment: a remix version was produced in 1991
JF Wiki	Summer Notes Summer Notes (short film)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Beth Dixon, Arthur Miller, Lester Nafzger, Rosemary Foley, Paul Mantell, Fran Dorn, David St. James, and Joe Frank

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23 Tracks permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	About Joe (2003-2007)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:12:05
JF.com	ID 8720 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	In the early 1990s, at the request of his agent at ICM, Joe recorded a compilation of voices for animation. The agent rejected it outright.
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	About Joe

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Saturn radio spots permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Commercials
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:04:05
JF.com	ID 8721 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe voiceover work for Saturn commercials in the 1990s
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Commercials

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KCRW promo spots permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Commercials
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:01:02
JF.com	ID 8722 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	These are promos for Joe's series "Somewhere Out There" on KCRW, which aired in the 1990s. The featured performers both worked at KCRW. (Matt Basford was one. We do not know the name of the other.)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Commercials

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Jiffy Lube commercials permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Commercials
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:04:01
JF.com	ID 8723 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Four Jiffy Lube spots Joe narrated in the 1990s.
JF Wiki	Jiffy Lube Radio Spots
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Commercials

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Jiffy Lube Kansas Radio Spot permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Commercials
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:01:00
JF.com	ID 8636
JF Desc	Not sure about date. Sources so far just say "1990s."
JF Wiki	Jiffy Lube Radio Spots
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Commercials

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Jiffy Lube Aardvark Radio Spot permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Commercials
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:01:00
JF.com	ID 8628
JF Desc	Not sure about date. Sources so far just say "1990s."
JF Wiki	Jiffy Lube Radio Spots
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Commercials

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Jiffy Lube Corn Chips Radio Spot permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Commercials
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:01:00
JF.com	ID 8633
JF Desc	Not sure about date. Sources so far just say "1990s."
JF Wiki	Jiffy Lube Radio Spots
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Commercials

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Jiffy Lube Dentist Radio Spot permalink
Air Date	1991
Series	Commercials
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:01:00
JF.com	ID 8634
JF Desc	Not sure about date. Sources so far just say "1990s."
JF Wiki	Jiffy Lube Radio Spots
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Commercials

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Redneck Rounder permalink
Air Date	1992
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:44
JF.com	ID 236 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	In a bar, a biker tells stories about his amoral and violent life, involving fistfights, drugs, womanizing, burglary, prison.
Alt JF Desc	Stories told by an American motor-cycle riding outlaw rogue
FAQ Desc	monolog by J. B. Allison - one hour
JF Wiki	Redneck Rounder
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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El Cholo (The Beginning) permalink
Air Date	1992
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:53
JF.com	ID 130 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A Nicaraguan man talks about life in his home country and as an immigrant in America entering a world of crime and drugs.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour comment: vocalist unidentifed music: "Spanish Reggae" by The Durutti Column from "Obey The Time"
JF Wiki	El Cholo (In The Beginning)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Spanish Reggae Album: Obey the Time Artist: The Durutti Column

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The Best permalink
Air Date	1992
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:46
JF.com	ID 99 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	This program juxtaposes historical figures against one another to determine who is ‘The Best.’ Norman Rockwell as a visionary, plumbing the depths of our collective unconscious, is matched against Keane, the portrait painter of people with large saucer-like eyes. The work of Christo, the environmental artist, is compared to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Pol Pot is measured against Charles Manson. William Reich’s Orgone Box is compared to the songs of Barry Manilow, and Jimmy Swaggart is juxtaposed against Jim and Tammy Faye Baker.
Alt JF Desc	When love is gone, what good is candlelight?
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Best, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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In the Dark - Part 1 permalink
Air Date	1992
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:19
JF.com	ID 159 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A woman suffers from the inability to sleep, and takes a late night drive. A wealthy businessman’s car breaks down in a ghetto. Full of fear, he is picked up the woman, drugged, dressed as a woman, and handcuffed to a locked briefcase. Placed in a limo, he’s left in the woods by a lake where he drowns. Joe discusses the significance of the man’s story.
FAQ Desc	monolog - two hours comment: with Theo Mondell & Debbie Devine music: Thomas Newman, from the soundtrack of "The Player" and Dave Grusin, from the soundtrack of "The Bonfire of the Vanities" comment: a remix version was produced in 2000
JF Wiki	In the Dark (remix) In The Dark (Part 1) In The Dark (Part 2) In The Dark
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Theo Mondell, Debbie Devine
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: The Player Artist: Thomas Newman Song: Unknown Album: The Bonfire of the Vanities Soundtrack Artist: Dave Grusin

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In the Dark - Part 2 permalink
Air Date	1992
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:51:41
JF.com	ID 160 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A night watchman with a blind dog finds himself lost in an office building. He stumbles upon a pair of lovers and hides under the bed. Joe and Theo Mondle sing ‘Me and My Shadow,’ and go out for a beer. An escalator is filled with people who turn into animals. Joe coaches a fledgling actress.
FAQ Desc	monolog - two hours comment: with Theo Mondell & Debbie Devine music: Thomas Newman, from the soundtrack of "The Player" and Dave Grusin, from the soundtrack of "The Bonfire of the Vanities" comment: a remix version was produced in 2000
JF Wiki	In the Dark (remix) In The Dark (Part 1) In The Dark (Part 2) In The Dark
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: The Player Artist: Thomas Newman Song: Unknown Album: The Bonfire of the Vanities Soundtrack Artist: Dave Grusin

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Two Babes permalink
Air Date	1992
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:37
JF.com	ID 277 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Two northern California women talk about their lives. The roles an older woman is asked to play. A band named Squirrel Tooth Alice. Older people who only want care giving in a relationship. A relationship with a drunken cowboy. A daughter and her baby are abandoned twice by her boyfriend; a group of silent women stand behind her when she confronts him. One woman meets a yuppie-like addict in a bar and ends up staying with him for seven years.
FAQ Desc	drama - two hours cast: Nancy Condy & Mimi Calpestory
JF Wiki	Two Babes
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Nancy Condy and Mimi Calpestory

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Jilted Lover permalink
Air Date	1992
Series	Short Films (1989-2009)
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:08:12
JF.com	ID 8749 video page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe stalks his ex-girlfriend and her lover. Directed by Paul Rachman
JF Wiki	Jilted Lover
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Short Films
Cast	Joe Frank

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The Perfect Woman permalink
Air Date	1992
Series	Short Films (1989-2009)
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:14:02
JF.com	ID 8750 video page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe's search for the perfect woman backfires. Directed by Paul Rachman
JF Wiki	Perfect Woman, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Short Films

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The Hitchhiker permalink
Air Date	1992
Series	Short Films (1989-2009)
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:07:40
JF.com	ID 8752 video page (subscription required)
JF Desc	This is one of the two short films Joe narrated as part of his live performances in 2003 and 2004. Directed by Paul Rachman Cast: Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Hitchhiker, The (short film)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Short Films

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God permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:28:00
JF.com	ID 144 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe hires a prostitute who also provides secretarial services. After sex, Joe dictates (and she types) a letter to his ill uncle Murray. Murray dies and is praised at his funeral. A Bishop speaks of his loss of faith. Joe reflects on the nature of God.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Ryan Kitrona, Harvey Per & Helen Wilson
JF Wiki	God
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Joe Frank

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Problems permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:27:44
JF.com	ID 230 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe’s father works in a condom company, condom testing on animals and people. A testing lab made up like a hotel. His father escapes from an unhappy life in a dirigible, catches seagulls and fish. He meets the pope; we’re given a list of topics they discuss. His father returns, works in prosthetics, then disappears to avoid patient lawsuits. A man talks about his gun, uses it to shoot a barking dog. His wife is furious. Sound of thunder in the background. The man and wife fight over the weather, over a squash dish, her housework. Monologue: Joe delivers monologue praising an idealized mother in a poor, rural household. Excusing her drunken outbursts, attempts to run away, repeated hospitalization, setting the house on fire, affairs with a doctor. The fighting couple – he refuses to tell her where he’s been in order to prevent her from being captured and tortured for information.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Ryan Cutrona, Phil Procter & Alan Arbus
JF Wiki	Problems
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Joe Frank

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Pilgrim permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:39
JF.com	ID 222 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The misery of elaborate Thanksgiving dinners; an examination of American Pilgrims. The idea of religious pilgrimage leads to a car trip across America.
Alt JF Desc	The misery of Thanksgiving dinners and a look at American Pilgrims. The idea of religious pilgrimage leads to a car trip across America.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Arthur Miller, Grace Zabriskie, Helen Wilson, Florina Federescou & Douglas Johnson
JF Wiki	Pilgrim
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Joe Frank

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Smile permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:22:18
JF.com	ID 250 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A woman complains about managing doctor’s bills for a patient and quits. A rabbi talks about death and immortality through the impact we have on other people. Larry complains that Arthur’s material is being favored over his on the radio show. Joe’s ex-girlfriend complains about having been ignored by him. Keith knows Joe is professionally successful when he stops answering his calls. Cousin Bob talks about how approaching death makes every day more precious and more painful. Arthur disparages Larry and threatens to quit over money. Noemi talks about her loneliness and insomnia. The rabbi talks about feeling the presence of the dead. Cousin Bob’s joke. Joe offers a motivational talk backed by a groove loop. A man complains that Joe’s show leaves him feeling depressed.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Joe Frank, Farley Ziegler, Larry Block, Arthur Miller, Grace Zabriskie, Bob Gordon, Naomi Schwarz & Mike Mallone music: Mark Isham's "Sextet" from the soundtrack of "Little Man Tate"
JF Wiki	Smile
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Larry Block, Arthur Miller, Keith, Cousin Bob, Noemi, Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Little Man Tate Artist: Mark Isham

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Green Cadillac permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:27:51
JF.com	ID 147 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe’s encounter with a crippled Indian outside a liquor store. Working as a used car salesman, Joe buys a stolen car and ends up in a fistfight next to a highway. (This story also appears in ‘Zen.’)
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour
JF Wiki	Green Cadillac
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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When I'm Calling You permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:27:59
JF.com	ID 283 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The advantages of phone therapy when compared to conventional treatment. We listen to a group phone therapy session in which men and women talk about their difficulties finding love. This is followed by an individual therapy session.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour
JF Wiki	When I'm Calling You
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Arthur Miller, Grace Zabriskie, Keith Talbot, Larry Block, Joe Frank

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The Loved One permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:28:00
JF.com	ID 197 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe describes the difficulty of being irresistible to women. A series of desperate phone messages are by Joe’s ex-girlfriend. An elderly man talks about the love affair of friends and other matters. Joe’s girlfriend talks of how tired of him she’s become (from ‘Words.’). Joe meets with a primitive tribe in the Amazon and corrupts them and destroys their civilization with Western technology. Bessie, the angelic house maid, who’s fired and goes out on the road as a heroin addicted jazz singer. A rock star is raped by a group of women and becomes a misogynist. Joe appeals to a woman he met briefly at a movie theater, another he saw at a museum, a third he saw at a pet store.
Alt JF Desc	"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem." Joe complains about the annoying consequences of being so beautiful.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman, Lester Nafzger, Farley Ziegler, Heidi Nordberg & Harvey Per
JF Wiki	Loved One, The (remix) Loved One, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Coma permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:28:05
JF.com	ID 115 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe, in a coma and dying, imagines he’s climbing a mountain grasping a scrap of paper with a phone number. He thinks of his hospital visitors, remembers moments from his past, and is cared for by his wife who eventually makes love to his doctor in his room. Joe, delusional, speaks on the phone with his uncle Harry. On top of the mountain, Joe finally comes to a telephone booth and calls his own room where his wife moans with despair.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Patrick Buche & Larry Block music: Harold Budd/Brian Eno, "The Silver Bell" from "The Pearl"
JF Wiki	Coma
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Grace Zabriskie, Patrick Baucheau, Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: The Silver Bell Album: Music From the Pearl Artist: Harold Budd / Brian Eno

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Just a Closer Walk with Thee permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:24:01
JF.com	ID 174 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A list of the things we lose in life. All our efforts to better ourselves ultimately lead to decay. Joe visits an elderly woman in the hospital. Although she’s articulate, she shows signs of dementia. Joe talks about sex and death. After ending a relationship, Joe feels for his ex-girlfriend, who is distraught. Later, fascinated, he listens at her door to the sounds of her and her new boyfriend making love.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour
JF Wiki	Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Joe Frank

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A Special Family permalink
Air Date	1993
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:27:08
JF.com	ID 253 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The story of Ellen, the daughter of wealthy parents. Hospitalized for anorexia, she has plastic surgery, vacations in Europe and returns to date a working class football player. She becomes pregnant, elopes, and is disowned by her father. Her husband dies while protecting his retarded brother, who Ellen decides to marry. Their plans for their children go terribly awry. Ellen’s new husband’s retardation worsens. He leaves the family, and Ellen turns to drink.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour music: Brian Eno, "Thursday Afternoon"
JF Wiki	Special Family, A
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Thursday Afternoon (61 Minute Version) Album: Thursday Afternoon Artist: Brian Eno

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Tomorrow permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:27:18
JF.com	ID 272 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	When Joe’s mother leaves his father, he persuades Joe to plant a bug in her car in order to find the address of her new fiancee. A fight ensues between his father and the fiancee. Joe and his girlfriend attend a New Year’s party at the home of the drunk poet, Bolshovsky. Joe’s mother’s fiancee suddenly dies of a heart attack. Joe celebrates New Year’s alone in the radio studio, trying out an assortment of noise makers. Program ends with Macbeth’s ‘tomorrow’ soliloquy.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour
JF Wiki	Tomorrow
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Goye Kur Album: Source Artist: Ali Farka Toure

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The Cruise permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:24:28
JF.com	ID 116 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	On a cruise to Antarctica, Joe meets a sexually adventurous couple. The woman has a passionate and increasingly perverse affair with the ship’s captain. Both a crew member and a tourist develop appendicitis and one performs surgery on the other.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour
JF Wiki	Cruise, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Hit Man permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:25:59
JF.com	ID 152 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe describes his life as a professional hit man. He lives in a hotel where he meets a strange, sick woman who performs as a jazz singer. Joe’s friend, Raymond, wants to get out of the crime business. The fourth wall is broken as Joe directs his actor, Ryan Cutrona. Larry Block talks about his need for money and his job as an actor pretending to be a patient in a hospital, and then realizes to his chagrin that he’s being taped.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour
JF Wiki	Hit Man
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Grace Zabriskie, Ryan Cutrona, Larry Block, Joe Frank

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A Natural Disaster permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:25:33
JF.com	ID 206 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A program about natural catastrophes. A man trapped in his house after an earthquake, calmly telephones for help and describes the advantages of making love in the rubble. Joe takes vengeance on nature by stabbing the earth with a knife and imprisoning air in a balloon and passing it through a filthy vacuum cleaner. Joe reads a long list of historical earthquakes and their death tolls.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Joe Frank, Arthur Miller, Ryan Kitrona & Larry Block music: William Orbit, "Atom Dream" from "Strange Cargo 2"
JF Wiki	Natural Disaster, A
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Atom Dream Album: Strange Cargo 2 Artist: William Orbit Song: Atom Dream Album: Strange Cargo 2 Artist: William Orbit

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Joe Frank's America permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:25:28
JF.com	ID 172 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	oe calls men across the country named Joe Frank. He talks about no longer having interest in his radio show, contemplates leaving radio, and talks about a direction-less man who had once been a diplomat for a nation which no longer existed. Joe, on the beach, has an erotic fantasy about a distant woman who turns out to be a man. He meets a stranger looking for an Indian burial ground. Joe talks about his name ‘Joe Frank’ against the background of ‘Me and My Shadow.’
FAQ Desc	monologs - half hour cast: many Joe Franks
JF Wiki	Joe Frank's America
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: River of Bass Album: Dirty Epic Artist: Underworld

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That Night permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:26:58
JF.com	ID 267 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A week after retiring, Joe’s uncle drowns while fishing. Joe recounts bizarre events in his life. Watching television, he learns that many wild animals, driven into urban areas, have become criminals in order to survive. A reluctant voyeur, Joe complains to a beautiful woman who repeatedly stands naked in front of her window. He engages in sex with a nun in a limo. A marching band and homecoming parade of elderly people pass before him.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Ryan Kitrona, Harvey Per, Carol Katz, Helen Wilson, Donna Hardy, Mark Henning & Douglas Johnson
JF Wiki	That Night
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Ryan Cutrona, Grace Zabriskie, Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: Behind the Eye Vol. 1 Artist: Unknown

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Just Hold Me permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:24:04
JF.com	ID 176 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe, in a touring band, dates a waitress with a son. He picks up a woman in a bar whoonly wants to be held, and visits his crazy institutionalized friend, Danny, who came back from the war. Then his visits his mother in a nursing home.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour music: William Orbit, "Water From a Vine Leaf" from "Strange Cargo III"
JF Wiki	Just Hold Me
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Water From a Vine Leaf Album: Strange Cargo 3 Artist: William Orbit

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Hawaii permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:26:53
JF.com	ID 149 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A man in a life boat, accompanied by a ukulele player, tells stories of his exploits as a surgeon, a ski jumper, a heroin-addicted musician, a cab driver, an elephant hunter, and an airline pilot. Enjoy this clip from the show:
FAQ Desc	monolog by Tim Jerome - half hour comment: also broadcast as "A Trip to Hawaii"
JF Wiki	Hawaii
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Joe Frank

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Soul Mate permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:24:13
JF.com	ID 251 info page audio page (FREE)
JF Desc	A woman leaves bitter messages on the answering machine of her former lover. She misses the good times they shared in the past and expresses her anger at his life without her.
FAQ Desc	monolog by Laura Esterman - half hour comment: remixed in 1997 into a one-hour Somewhere Out There show
JF Wiki	Soul Mate (remix) Soul Mate
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Laura Estermannn

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Either / Or permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:51:51
JF.com	ID 129 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	In a hotel, a mime is interviewed about his art and career while a man and woman make passionate in the adjoining room.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Arthur Miller, Joe Frank & Maude Davis
JF Wiki	Either / Or Either Or (Part 2)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Into Dust Album: So Tonight That I Might See Artist: Mazzy Star

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Anthology of Love permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:59
JF.com	ID 89 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A Frenchman, Jean-Paul, takes his girlfriend to the Pauper’s Day Parade, in which the poor make floats and balloons celebrating their poverty. In a series of scenes, the woman sacrifices her well-being, and ultimately her life, for her French lover; During a walk in the woods, she lies down across a stream so that he can cross it without getting his shoes wet. Trapped in a lifeboat, she feeds him her own body. Jean-Paul reminisces about his relationships with other women and Oscar Ballwell offers reflections on love.
Alt JF Desc	Two part program about a woman sacrificing for her man; stories of the exhilaration and failure of love.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Part 1 - Tim Jerome & Beth Dixon, Part 2 - Tim Jerome & Arthur Miller
JF Wiki	Anthology Of Love (Part 1) Anthology Of Love (Part 2) Anthology Of Love (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Arthur Miller

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Jerry's World permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:18:04
JF.com	ID 169 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A docudrama: Jerry lives alone in an apartment in Queens, New York. So deeply depressed that he can’t summon the strength to go out into the world, he secretly records all his phone conversations over a period of years. Jerry’s story revolves around his relationship with his admiring younger brother, Manny, his former girlfriend, Meryl, his present girlfriend Theresa, and his disappointed and furious fathers. Jerry, Manny, and Meryl engage in nostalgic memories; Manny’s appeal for sympathy and financial help for Jerry from their father fails.Theresa demands that Jerry get a job and carry his own weight. The story concludes with Jerry’s decline and death.
Alt JF Desc	Jerry was a man who lived in New York City. He lived in an apartment, alone and was very depressed; and what he did was record his phone conversations with everybody, for years. and when people came over to visit at his apartment he'd record them, too. He became so depressed he couldn't leave his apartment. His brother Mannie (who you also hear in that show) would come to his place with food, to keep him alive; and ultimately he died, a relatively young man in his early forties, of a brain aneurysm. After he died, his brother had hundreds of tapes of these phone conversations and he knew that his brother Jerry had been a fan of my program and he thought 'Well, maybe Joe can use some of this material maybe he'll put it on the air.' So he sent me a excerpts … and I found this material very compelling and decided to make a radio series based on those recordings. So what you hear in 'Jerry's World' is Jerry, who is now dead, and his brother Mannie who very much admired him… and this girlfriend earlier of Jerry and then of Mannie and now she was going out on her own, her name was Meryl – these were all tapes of real conversations and real life being played out from various times in the life of a man who died rather tragically.
FAQ Desc	drama - 1.5 hours cast: Jerry Klein, Mannie Klein, Meryl edited down to 1 hour as "Brothers (remix)" during a KPFA fundraiser telephone interview Joe was aked who Jerry was, and what it was all about. His response was "Jerry was a man who lived in New York City. He lived in an apartment, alone and was very depressed; and what he did was record his phone conversations, with everybody, for years. and when people came over to visit at his apartment he'd record them, too. He bacame so depressed he couldn't leave his apartment. His brother Mannie (who you also hear in that show) would come to his place with food, to keep him alive; and ultimately he died, a relatively young man in his early forties, of a brain aneurysm. After he died, his brother had all these tapes, hundreds of tapes of these phone conversations and he knew that his brother Jerry had been a fan of my program and he thought 'Well, maybe Joe can use some of this material maybe he'll put it on the air.' So he sent me a excerpts ... and I found this material very compelling and decided to make a radio series based on those recordings. So what you hear in 'Jerry's World' is Jerry, who is now dead, and his brother Mannie who very much admired him... and this girlfriend earlier of Jerry and then of Mannie and now she was going out on her own, and her name was Meryl, and there was another woman involved, but these were all tapes of real conversations and real life being played out from various times in the life of a man who died rather tragically."
JF Wiki	Jerry's World (Part 1) Jerry's World (Part 2) Jerry's World (Part 3)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Jerry Klein, Mannie Klein, Meryl

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Loner permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:28:00
JF.com	ID 838 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A male nurse talks about his futile search for his motel after a night of drinking. He worries that strangers consider him gay. Introduced to a transvestite in a Paris bar, he wakes up the following morning having been robbed and without any memories of the preceding night. He blacks out on a bus and wakes up under a truck in an olive field. He takes drugs and engages in gambling.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour vocalists unidentified
JF Wiki	Loner
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Joe Frank

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The Last Run permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	??:??:??
JF.com	ID 7502 (this item not on JoeFrank.com)
FAQ Desc	This became half of "The O.J. Chronicles" later drama - half hour cast: David Cross, Ryan Cutrona & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Last Run, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Notes	SEEKING AUDIO! This audio file never appeared on or disappeared from JoeFrank.com; contact us if you have it!
Show Type	Comedy

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Prayer (30 Minutes) permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:27:15
JF.com	ID 227 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A prank telephone minister places manipulative phone calls to unsuspecting victims. We hear a series of religious Dial-a-Prayers. A woman talks about God and bliss.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Grace Zabriskie & some unidentified voices comment: contains material first heard in A Natural Disaster
JF Wiki	Prayer
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Grace Zabriskie, Joe Frank

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Haiti permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:26:13
JF.com	ID 148 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Swanberg, the mad Jewish dictator of Haiti, talks about his medical problems in an address to the nation. Joe interviews a combat photographer, a hotelier and the Minister of Information in an attempt to learn more about Swanberg.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Rick Overton, Paul & Sonya Verdiya, Tucker Smallwood, Irving Gelman, David Rapkin & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Haiti
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Paul Verdier, Joe Frank

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A Hearing permalink
Air Date	1994
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	??:??:??
JF.com	ID 7503 (this item not on JoeFrank.com)
FAQ Desc	This became half of "The O.J. Chronicles" later drama - half hour cast: David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Marty Castor & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Hearing, A
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Notes	SEEKING AUDIO! This audio file never appeared on or disappeared from JoeFrank.com; contact us if you have it!
Show Type	Comedy

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Third World Country & Raymond permalink
Air Date	1995
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:55
JF.com	ID 268 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A homeless man sets up quarters behind Joe’s house. Arthur invites a homeless couple into his house. Descriptions of the squalor of Bombay (Mumbai), India.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Insomnia permalink
Air Date	1995
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:27:44
JF.com	ID 166
JF Desc	monolog by Dana Gould - half hour unrelated to "The Other Side" 57 minute program from 2001 called "Insomnia"
JF Wiki	Insomnia
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Notes	Dana Gould spoke about this show in his Joe Frank Tribute in 2018 (2:04:30-2:09:30). The Joe Frank show is a short version of Dana Gould's autobiographical 1-man show.
Show Type	Monologue

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Hot Line permalink
Air Date	1995
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:28:02
JF.com	ID 2 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A telephone psychic and tarot card reader speaks with a woman who experiences delusional relationship with strange men: Among them, a man who repeatedly calls her on the phone, but never says a word; a state trooper who sneaks into her house and re-arranges objects in symbolic ways which please her, a stranger who repeatedly drives past her house. A man talks about missing his dead father. His father, who was mad, once commandeered a street sweeper and drove into a cemetery, then stripped his apartment before dying. The man talks about waking up next to a stranger ‘It’ and discovering that he is its it. Enjoy this clip from the show:
Alt JF Desc	He went back there and he went to sleep and he never woke up.
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Davis Black
JF Wiki	Hot Line
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Joe Frank

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In A Lonely Place permalink
Air Date	1995
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	??:??:??
JF.com	ID 7504 (this item not on JoeFrank.com)
FAQ Desc	monolog by Julia Sweeney - half hour
JF Wiki	Julia Sweeney at Un-Cabaret jokes about cancer, setting the car on fire, the atrophy of sex interest, parents divorcing while visiting. In A Lonely Place
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Notes	SEEKING AUDIO! This audio file never appeared on or disappeared from JoeFrank.com; contact us if you have it!
Show Type	Comedy

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Lila & the Professor permalink
Air Date	1995
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:27:42
JF.com	ID 192 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe describes his relationship with his girlfriend Lila, who, in addition to tormenting him with her exasperating behavior, has betrayed him with her mentor, Professor Vogel. Upon Vogel’s death, the couple goes to Iceland to attend the funeral.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour comment: excerpts from Iceland
JF Wiki	Lila And The Professor
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Streetwise permalink
Air Date	1995
Series	In the Dark (1993-1995)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:24:36
JF.com	ID 257 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A crazy but highly intelligent homeless man philosophizes about time, music, Los Angeles as a giant tick, and recalls being sexually assaulted by his mother. Another troubled man talks about his infinite uniqueness theory, the ‘Einstein syndrom,’ vampire wealth, being raised from birth in a tiny room and trained to launch a nuclear war.
FAQ Desc	monolog - half hour cast: William Reinart & J. P. Fenyo
JF Wiki	Streetwise
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Unnamed individuals

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Zima Commercial permalink
Air Date	1995
Series	Commercials
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:00:31
JF.com	ID 840
JF Desc	1995 Zima commercial
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Commercials

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Prayer permalink
Air Date	1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:04
JF.com	ID 226 info page audio page (FREE)
JF Desc	Joe hires a prostitute. They engage in a tawdry encounter, after which we listen to her dream, which reveals her spiritual longing. Joe attends the funeral of his Uncle Murray. Murray receives a grandiose eulogy, while Joe remembers the real, flawed man. Joe considers the whereabouts and nature of God and questions His compassion and care. A self-proclaimed minister offers to bring back the dead to a frightened woman on the phone. Later, he prays with another man before requiring him to repeat absurd declarations of love. We hear Dial-a-Prayers from pastors around the country. A woman describes her rare, moving experience of bliss.
Alt JF Desc	Joe is approached by a woman on the street who asks, ""Would you like to come up to my apartment for a drink and some sex? I'm not very expensive, and I'm an excellent typist."" They engage in a tawdry encounter, after which we listen to her dream which reveals her spiritual longing. Then Joe dictates a letter to her before attending the funeral of his Uncle Murray. Murray receives a grandiose eulogy accompanied by Joe's recollection of the real, flawed man. Joe asks where is God and questions His compassion and care. A self-proclaimed mystic offers to bring back the dead to a woman who declines (""spirits is the Devil's work""). Later, he prays together with another man before requiring him to repeat absurd declarations of love. We hear Dial-a-Prayers from pastors around the country. A woman describes her rare experience of bliss.
FAQ Desc	drama - This is the 54 minute extended Somewhere Out There version of the 30 Minute In the Dark show called Prayer. cast: Grace Zabriskie & some unidentified voices comment: contains material first heard in A Natural Disaster
JF Wiki	Prayer
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank and Grace Zabriskie

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Five Part Dissonance (remix) permalink
Air Date	1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:56
JF.com	ID 142 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A man’s telepathic powers are challenged. Joe Frank on smoke signals, heliography, semaphore, alpine horns, speaking tubes. Paul Mantell describes traveling in search of death. Panicked man begs a woman ‘don’t make me do it,’ accompanied by a bizarre moaning soundtrack. A man moans and strains while a woman giggles. In front of a live audience, Joe talks about meeting a beautiful woman in an elevator, and his favorite TV detective program: Immortality can only be found in the past. A man’s shoelaces are tied together and he’s abducted by aliens from a planet that plays mahjong and feed him opium. Distorted voice of an elevator operator.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Avery Hart, Paul Mantell, F. Murray Abraham, Annalee Jefferies & Joe Frank comment: contains excerpts from Joe Frank in Concert and The Rare Recording
JF Wiki	Five Part Dissonance
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Paul Mantell, Joe Frank

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The Loved One (remix) permalink
Air Date	1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:01
JF.com	ID 198 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe complains about the annoying consequences of being so handsome and irresistible to women. Joe’s radio entreaty for reconnecting with a woman stranger he briefly met in a movie theatre; a traveling salesman talks about his failed marriage and infidelities.
Alt JF Desc	"""Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."" Joe complains about the annoying consequences of being so beautiful."
FAQ Desc	drama - half hour cast: Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Arthur Miller, Laura Esterman, Lester Nafzger, Farley Ziegler, Heidi Nordberg & Harvey Per
JF Wiki	Loved One, The (remix) Loved One, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Eye in the Sky permalink
Air Date	7 Jan 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:52
JF.com	ID 138 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A traffic helicopter reporter describes increasing mayhem on the freeways of Los Angeles. Shot down by a missile, he philosophizes about life.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Eye In The Sky
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Tortise Album: Freefloater Artist: Higher Intellegence Agency Song: Ai Du Album: Talking Timbuktu Artist: Ry Cooder / Ali Toure Farka

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The Policemen's Ball (remix) permalink
Air Date	10 Jan 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:01
JF.com	ID 225 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A man describes an encounter with his sadistic high school gym teacher. A city riot erupts during the Policemen’s Ball, during which a married couple, from their apartment window, shoot down looters, a comic backed by a band performs patter, and a woman lists the things she likes against the sound of battle and percussive music – interspersed with discussions of various forms of crime.
Alt JF Desc	A city riot erupts during the Policemen's Ball while a panel of experts discusses crime and its prevention.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Tim Jerome, Arthur Miller, Nick Aulette, Larry Block, Barbara Sohmers, Steve Friedman, Denny Partridge & Joe Frank music: Rossini's "William Tell Overture" performed by the Portsmouth Sinfonia
JF Wiki	Policemen's Ball, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Arthur Miller, Nick Ullett, Larry Block, Barbara Sohmers, Steve Friedman, Denny Partridge, and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Red Beans & Rice Album: Home Artist: Spearhead

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Three Shingles permalink
Air Date	14 Jan 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:02
JF.com	ID 269 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A conversation takes place in a bar between a woman dressed as Christ and a man who intends to kill her. A description of the search for the sacred.
Alt JF Desc	A conversation in a bar between a woman masquerading as Jesus Christ and a man who intends to kill her, is interspersed with a description of the search for the sacred.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: "Isa Lei" by Ry Cooder and V. M. Bhatt from "A Meeting By The River"
JF Wiki	Three Shingles
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Kristine McKenna, Arthur Miller, David Rapkin, Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: A Meeting by the River Album: A Meething by the River Artist: Ry Cooder / V.M. Bhatt Song: Isa Lei Album: A Meething by the River Artist: Ry Cooder / V.M. Bhatt

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Obsessions permalink
Air Date	21 Jan 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:56
JF.com	ID 214 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe becomes obsessed with different women he meets at a party, in an elevator, at a diner. Joe, as a rock star, gives a speech to a college graduating class. Joe uses technological gizmos to astound a primitive tribe on the Amazon, who sell off their land and mineral rights and wind up bankrupt and miserable. A woman in a strip club tells Joe about her disturbing dream, which is really a proposition. Joe describes an underwater hotel during a monsoon, a brothel where patrons are offered medical records of the prostitutes, a woman who smears cake batter on her breasts and plays the piano and another who uses a Nordic-track in front of a TV showing winter snow scenes.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Obsessions
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Bible Salesman permalink
Air Date	11 Feb 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:52:06
JF.com	ID 100 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe travels around the country selling corrupted Bibles to support his mother in a nursing home. He recalls his mother’s anti-religious fervor and his father’s failed suicide attempt. Joe pimps nuns in Montana to help save their convent from bankruptcy. Then he searches for peace through the catacombs of Rome and the shipyards of Rio. Finally, he finds success as an actor playing Jesus.
Alt JF Desc	And now I just wander the country. I don't sell anything, I don't ask for anything, I don't expect anything, and I no longer see life as a series of events in some linear progress leading somewhere, nor do I see it as chaotic and random and meaningless. I just live in the present, in the moment. If something nice happens, I'm grateful. If something not so nice happens, I assume it won't last forever.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Bible Salesman
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: One More Night Album: Anthology Artist: Can

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The Sacred permalink
Air Date	25 Feb 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:58
JF.com	ID 245 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Ants scurrying on a pave stone are likened to humans. Whether or not to purchase a teddy bear becomes a psychologically critical decision. A celebration of the positive side of insomnia. A rainy afternoon spent with two paraplegics who have different perspectives on their illness. Can one find the sacred by leading an exemplary life? A woman’s rehab after a stroke. Jogging on a golf course in Florida leads to a prayer.
Alt JF Desc	A journal: Ants on a pave stone are likened to humans. The purchase of a teddy bear becomes a critical decision. A celebration of insomnia. A rainy afternoon with two paraplegics. Does one find the sacred by leading an exemplary life? A woman's rehab after a stroke. Jogging on a golf course in Florida.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Sacred, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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The Road to Calvary permalink
Air Date	3 Mar 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:00:01
JF.com	ID 242 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe works at a slaughterhouse and a nuclear power plant before becoming the subject of a bizarre NIH drug study. Hopes for a spiritual breakthrough with an Indian in the desert end in failure. The story of Jesus’ spiritual struggle on the road to Calvary.
Alt JF Desc	Joe works at a bloody slaughterhouse and a chaotic nuclear power plant before becoming the subject of a bizarre NIH study. Hopes for a spiritual breakthrough with an Indian in the desert fail. The story of Jesus' spiritual struggle on the road to Calvary.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Road To Calvary, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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God Only Knows permalink
Air Date	10 Mar 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:05
JF.com	ID 145 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Two stories from the Bible retold: Adam and Eve and Joseph and Jesus. Joe’s mother recalls her marriage and honeymoon to a rich man more than twice her age.
Alt JF Desc	Two stories from the Bible retold: Joseph and Jesus, Adam and Eve. Joe Frank's mother recalls her honeymoon when she was 18 and her rich husband was 42.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour
JF Wiki	God Only Knows
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe and Fritzi Frank
FP Music	Song: Sex Album: Sex Artist: The Necks

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Just Get me Out of Here permalink
Air Date	17 Mar 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:53
JF.com	ID 175 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe serves on a mental hospital ship that considers itself an independent nation and declares war on New Zealand. He attends a scientific conference on aphrodisiacs, which have the side effect of enhancing memory. Then he goes on an archeological dig in Peru with a beautiful woman, stirring his desire and leading to a painful recollection. These comic stories are juxtaposed against a true account of the longing and loneliness of a woman growing up and finding an impossibly painful love.
Alt JF Desc	Joe serves on a mental hospital ship that declares itself an independent nation and declares war on New Zealand. He attends a scientific conference on aphrodisiacs which have the side effect of enhancing memory. Then he goes on an archeological dig in Peru with a beautiful woman, stirring his desire and leading to a painful recollection. These comic stories are juxtaposed against a true account of the longing and loneliness of a woman growing up and finding an impossibly painful love. With vocalist Judith Owen.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: "The Lower We Fly" by Outside from "The Rough And The Smooth"
JF Wiki	Just Get Me Out Of Here
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: The Lower We Fly Album: The Rough and the Smooth Artist: Outside

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The River permalink
Air Date	31 Mar 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:21
JF.com	ID 241 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe, on a passenger ship, travels down the Nile with a married couple, a Sumo wrestler, two priests, an Egyptian trade minister and an Indian doctor. When the wife, who is attached to her ill-behaved schnauzer, has an affair with the Sumo wrestler, the husband, who has just learned of his own impending death, takes revenge by throwing the dog overboard. Later, on safari, Joe meets the despotic leader of a primitive tribe, who turns out to be a former Nazi.
Alt JF Desc	A journey on the Nile leads to sexual betrayal, the destruction of a marriage, and the death of a small, annoying dog. An African safari arrives at the kingdom of a Nazi war criminal.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: "The Veldt" by Combustible Edison from "I, Swinger"
JF Wiki	River, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank. With vocalist Judith Owen
FP Music	Song: The Veldt Album: I, Swinger Artist: Combustible Edison

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Justine permalink
Air Date	7 Apr 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:51
JF.com	ID 177 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Trying to come to terms with a devastating breakup, Joe finds himself sneaking into his ex-girlfriend’s house late at night. The subject of love is explored, accompanied by memories of Justine.
Alt JF Desc	Trying to come to terms with a devastating breakup, Joe finds himself sneaking into his ex-girlfriend's house late at night. The subject of love is explored with memories of Justine
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Justine
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: G-Stoned Album: Definition Artist: Kruder and Dorfmeister Song: Ponderosa Album: Maxinquaye Artist: Tricky

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White Moon permalink
Air Date	13 Apr 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:08
JF.com	ID 286 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	An invisible bank teller loses his job. A Vietnam memory leads to emotional collapse in an outdoor restaurant. A brilliant surgeon, infatuated with death, makes love to cadavers and brings the dead back to life.
Alt JF Desc	An invisible bank teller loses his job. Memories of Vietnam lead to emotional collapse. A brilliant surgeon, infatuated with death, makes love to cadavers bringing them back to life.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: "Freestyle Linguistique" by The Mighty Bop from "La Vague Sensorielle"
JF Wiki	White Moon
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Infrarouge Album: The Mighty Bop Artist: La Vague Sensorielle Song: Freestyle Linguistique Album: La Vague Sensorielle Artist: The Mighty Bop

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Red Sea permalink
Air Date	28 Apr 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:18
JF.com	ID 234 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A successful televangelist loses his faith, abandons his ministry and experiences an epiphany in the desert. A man cursed with eternal life lives through world history. Parable of the rich man’s daughter, whose murder drove her impoverished lover mad. The story of the rabbi’s faithless wife and the eunuch and the hermaphrodite are told.
Alt JF Desc	A successful televangelist loses his faith, abandons his ministry and experiences an epiphany in the desert. A man cursed with eternal life lives through world history. Parables of the rich man's daughter, whose murder drove her impoverished lover mad, and the rabbi's faithless wife and the eunuch and the hermaphrodite.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: "Go Faster" by the Propellerheads from the "Dive" EP
JF Wiki	Red Sea
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Go Faster Album: Dive E.P. Artist: Propellerheads

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An Enterprising Man permalink
Air Date	26 May 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:27
JF.com	ID 135 info page audio page (FREE)
JF Desc	Grandiose business failures are celebrated: a ski resort built in the Sahara, an encyclopedic computer chip implanted in the brain; a teleportation booth to solve the problem of rush hour commuting; the dispersion of aphrodisiacs in war to distract the enemy.
Alt JF Desc	Joe celebrates a history of grandiose business failures: a ski resort built in the Sahara, an encyclopedic knowledge computer chip implanted in the brain; a teleportation booth to solve the problem of rush hour commuting; the dispersion of aphrodisiacs in was to harmlessly distract the enemy.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Enterprising Man, An
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Lost Soul permalink
Air Date	1 Jun 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:36
JF.com	ID 194 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A young priest’s faith is challenged by the suffering of the people to whom he ministers. He seeks counsel from another, older priest who has sunk into materialism and atheism. Finally, all is lost when he falls in love. Enjoy this clip from the show:
Alt JF Desc	A young priest's faith is challenged by the suffering of the people to whom he ministers. Finally, all is lost when he falls in love.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Lost Soul
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Weather Storm Album: Protection Artist: Massive Attack Song: Eurochild Album: Protection Artist: Massive Attack

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Mountain Rain permalink
Air Date	9 Jun 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:41
JF.com	ID 204 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe’s father’s passing is followed by the death of his mother while attending the funeral. More chaos and death mount up on the way to the cemetery. The program concludes with the account of Joe’s bizarre ascent of K2.
Alt JF Desc	Joe's father's passing is followed by the death of his mother while attending the funeral. More chaos and death on the way to the cemetery. The program concludes with the account of a bizarre ascent of K2. With vocalist Judith Owen.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Mountain Rain
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Valencia Album: Olé Olé Artist: Rachid Taha Song: Buried At Sea Album: One Step Ahead of the Spider Artist: MC 900 Ft Jesus

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Escape from Paradise permalink
Air Date	30 Jun 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:49
JF.com	ID 136 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	At a liberal arts lock-up, Jones, the huge, black king of the penitentiary manipulates his white slave warden, Farrington. Eventually, an escape to Mexico leads to the spiritual anointing of Jones.
Alt JF Desc	The trucking of illegal immigrants into the U.S. leads to imprisonment at a liberal arts lock-up. We meet Jones, the huge, black king of the penitentiary and his white slave warden, Farrington. Eventually, an escape to Mexico leads to the spiritual anointing of Jones.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Escape from Paradise
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Reprise (remix) permalink
Air Date	28 Jul 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:12
JF.com	ID 240 info page
JF Desc	Joe interviews the finalists of the ‘Survivor of the Year’ competition and a sadistic summer camp director. A street preacher debates radical college students. Joe makes a spectacle of himself in church and is offered a job in show business. A psychiatrist addresses his patient’s mental illness.
FAQ Desc	actual show is called "Reprise;" audio file on JoeFrank.com published on or before 2006 and labeled as "Reprise (remix)" with an unknown date one hour comment: a selection of old material
JF Wiki	Reprise
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Joe Frank

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The O.J. Chronicles permalink
Air Date	6 Oct 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:50:39
JF.com	ID 213 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe, sitting in the back seat of a white Ford Bronco, holding a Glock 9 to his head, recreates O.J. Simpson’s slow speed chase in Los Angeles. He interviews O.J.’s valet and Keith Richards for their views on the double murder. Enjoy this clip from the show:
Alt JF Desc	Joe, sitting in the back seat of a white Ford Bronco holding a Glock 9 to his head, re-creates O.J's slow speed chase in Los Angeles; then he interviews O.J.'s valet and Keith Richards for more insight.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Marty Castor & Joe Frank comment: just The Last Run followed by A Hearing
JF Wiki	O.J. Chronicles, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Ryan Cutrona, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Marnie Castor, and Joe Frank

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I'm not Crazy (remix) permalink
Air Date	3 Nov 1996
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:52
JF.com	ID 158 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A great drought decimates a village and is followed by flood. Scenes from a train: a compartment with a peasant woman, a beautiful lady, and chickens, being sick and discovering subtle profundity in mistaking the restroom for the dining car. Archaeologists digging in Egypt discover a dinner party beneath a sarcophagus. Joe sings in a club, is disappointed with the experience and begins criticizing the audience in his songs. What is death; what if the expression “bought the farm” were literally true? Joe talks about his name against a background of children singing “Me and My Shadow.” Mad ramblings: dentures, panicked exclamations, a distressing orthodontist, money and toilet paper, “and if you’d only accept my transplant, then you’d have two livers”, “I hate circus clowns because they’re indifferent to national emergencies.” Death as hotel paradise. Death is….
Alt JF Desc	A woman dates war veterans going back to World War I. An ode to the glory of war. A private investigator works on a case revealing his own adultery. A misogynist is placed on trial. Cases of medical malpractice and madness. A man recalls his tribe's suffering from drought and their vain appeals to the gods for rain.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: Andreas Vollenwieder, "Flight Feet & Root Hands" from "White Winds"
JF Wiki	I'm Not Crazy I'm Not Crazy (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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A Call in the Night (remix) permalink
Air Date	1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:52
JF.com	ID 110 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe recalls his childhood during a period when he was confined to a wheelchair, his father declining in health, his mother training a new clown for their family managed circus. We listen to a play in which a lonely, cultivated woman seduces a man fresh in from the country amidst bubonic plague and increasing chaos. Scenes from the play are critiqued by a panel of academics. In his closing Monologue, Joe recalls an operation for his club feet which coincided with his father's death and a trip to Boston sixteen years later.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Beth Dixon, Eric Sears, Arthur Miller, Bernie Mantell, Irene Wagner & Joe Frank
JF Wiki	Call In The Night, A Call In The Night, A (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Beth Dixon, Eric Sears, Paul Mantell, Irene Wagner, Arthur Miller, and Joe Frank

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JF Live - Women Police Officers permalink
Air Date	1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:00:12
JF.com	ID 171 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A live call-in show on the wisdom of hiring women police officers. Callers, both pro and con, are set up by Joe for other subversive lines of questioning. Some of Joe’s friends try to get in on the act and undermine the credibility of the show.
Alt JF Desc	A live call-in show. The subject: the viability and wisdom of hiring women police officers. Callers, both pro and con, are set up for other subversive lines of questioning. Some of Joe?s friends try to get in on the act and undermine the credibility of the show.
FAQ Desc	one hour cast: Joe Frank; Shannon, Hillary, Carol, Lester, Lisa, Yasinia, Larry, Diane, and Gustavo Estoran
JF Wiki	Joe Frank Live - Women Police Officers
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Joe Frank – no cast, live callers

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Phone Therapy permalink
Air Date	1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:55
JF.com	ID 220 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A description of the benefits of phone therapy is followed by a phone group therapy session. Joe serves as a telephone therapist. A delusional woman asks a telephone psychic and card reader if she has a future with someone she saw on an escalator. A state trooper visits her house and touches objects to bring her pleasure. A gay man calls the psychic hot line with relationship trouble. A saleswoman calls the psychic accidentally and gets drawn into an unwanted conversation.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: contains material from at least one In the Dark show (Hotline)
JF Wiki	Phone Therapy
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Laura Estermann, Arthur Miller, Keith Talbot, Larry Block, Elliot Wilder, Joe Frank

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Joe Frank in "The Game" permalink
Air Date	1997
Series	Short Films (1989-2009)
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:01:03
JF.com	ID 841 video page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Here is Joe as CRS Data Collating Technician in the thriller, ""The Game,"" starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. Joe didn't have much of a part in this movie, but we're streaming every bit of it here for those who have requested it. Enjoy!
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Short Films
Cast	Joe Frank

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Pledge Drive Summer 1997 permalink
Air Date	1997
Series	Pledge Drives
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:48
JF.com	ID 574
JF Wiki	Pledge Drive Summer 1997
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Pledge Drives

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Blues Singer permalink
Air Date	12 Jan 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:41
JF.com	ID 105 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A touring blues singer speaks about his life on the road, including burning down a gas station and creating havoc in a hotel room. Turned minister, his church services thwarted by local ordinances, he murders the town’s mayor.
Alt JF Desc	Stories from the life of a violent Blues singer. A life on the road revealed.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Blues Singer
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank, and vocalist Judith Owen
FP Music	Song: Blues Singer Album: Dummy Artist: Portishead

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Pathology permalink
Air Date	12 Jan 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	??:??:??
JF.com	ID 7505 (this item not on JoeFrank.com)
FAQ Desc	date is estimate monologs - one hour. First segment by Tim Jerome?, then the 'invisible man' sequence from the beginning of White Moon followed by the 'K2 climb' from Mountain Rain.
JF Wiki	Pathology
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Notes	SEEKING AUDIO! This audio file never appeared on or disappeared from JoeFrank.com; contact us if you have it!
Show Type	Monologue

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Philosophy permalink
Air Date	19 Jan 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:11
JF.com	ID 590 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Philosophical and anecdotal material gathered from ‘At The Border’ and ‘Case Studies.’
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour comment: contains retellings of material from At The Border and Case Studies
JF Wiki	Philosophy
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: N/A Album: N/A Artist: Joe Frank Commisioned

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Journal permalink
Air Date	1 Mar 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:52
JF.com	ID 173 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Defying his audience, Joe refuses to air his private journal, replacing it with a crude and tasteless promo; Joe discusses his volatile reaction to a pious license plate; he remembers how, as a young boy, he entertained fantasies about being forced to make awful, hideous decisions determining the fates of others; he recalls teaching at a Manhattan private school where he was challenged by a highly intelligent and malicious student and spent a humiliating evening with a beautiful co-worker.
Alt JF Desc	Defying his audience, Joe refuses to air the journal he'd promised, replacing it with repeated airings of an ""offensive"" rejected promo and inviting callers to express their opinions on it. Also: Joe's volatile reaction to a pious license plate; while going to sleep as a young boy, he used to entertain ""fantasies about being forced to make awful, hideous decisions"" imposed by sadistic Nazis; Joe remembers teaching at a Manhattan private school where he was undermined by an intimidating student and went on a deeply embarrassing date with a beautiful co-worker; reflections on our relative insignificance in the universe. ""We are the stars of our own life stories and merely bit players in the lives of others. And there's no one at the center — there is no center, only millions of films of the same event seen from different angles, from different perspectives. How can anyone pretend to see the truth?""
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour comment: new stuff plus retelling of private school teaching & Kim memories, first covered in Pretender
JF Wiki	Journal
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: A Mother (For Your Mind) Album: Blow Your Headphones Artist: Herbalizer Song: Remix of the Beast Album: Journey into Ambient Groove 3 Artist: Palmskin Productions

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The Other Side permalink
Air Date	16 Mar 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:00:00
JF.com	ID 217 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A discussion of the latest weapons technology, terrorist actions against one's own children, hostage fashion and the hazards of nuclear energy.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: contains stuff from Work In Progress: Warheads, Across the River, Lines, etc.
JF Wiki	The Other Side Other Side, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Lester Nafzger, Paul Mantell, and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Chili Hot Album: Get Shorty Soundtrack Artist: Johnathan Lurie

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Rent-a-Family (remix) permalink
Air Date	23 Mar 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:01:00
JF.com	ID 239 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Rent-a-Family Remix is condensed into one hour, focusing on scenes between Eleanor and Arthur. The panel discussions are edited out.
Alt JF Desc	The repeated and desperate phone calls of an ex-wife lead to the disintegration of her former husband's new marriage. This is a distillation of Rent-a-Family Parts 1, 2 and 3.
FAQ Desc	cast: Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Aulette, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Timo, Sharon, & Christa music: Harold Budd, "Gypsy Violin", from "Lovely Thunder"
JF Wiki	Rent A Family (Part 1) Rent A Family (Part 2) Rent A Family (Part 3) Rent A Family (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Barbara Sohmers, Mark Hammer, Arthur Miller, Tim Jerome, Nick Ullett, Carolyn Swift, Larry Block, Lynn, Sarah, Carmen, Thomas, Tim, Sharon, and Christa
FP Music	Song: Gypsy Violin Album: Lovely Thunder Artist: Harold Budd Song: Brooks Was Here Album: Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack Artist: Thomas Newman

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Arena (remix) permalink
Air Date	6 Apr 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:24
JF.com	ID 92 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A novelist, writing the story of a love affair between a Spanish bullfighter and his American girlfriend, loses control of his characters. A panel discussion on the importance of consciousness lowering and the dangers of reading is followed by a marital argument about reading vs. TV. The program concludes with The Fastest Piano Player in the World competition.
Alt JF Desc	A novelist, writing about a love affair between a Spanish bullfighter and his American girlfriend, loses control of his characters. The fastest piano player in the world is challenged.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Annalee Jefferies, Arthur Miller, Bernie Mantell, Rosemary Foley, Eric Sears, Joe & Tim Jerome
JF Wiki	Arena Arena (remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Tim Jerome, Annalee Jefferies, Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Rosemary Foley, Eric Sears, and Joe Frank

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Black Light permalink
Air Date	20 Apr 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:00:03
JF.com	ID 104 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A woman urges a French stand-up comic to stop telling jokes and speak about his real life. In despair, Joe calls a real suicide hot line for emotional support. People enthusiastically line up to throw themselves off a bridge. Joe calls ex-girlfriends to whom he sings ‘I Remember You.’ A woman recalls meeting and falling in love with Joe.
Alt JF Desc	A woman urges a French stand-up comic to stop telling jokes and speak about real life. In despair, Joe Frank calls a suicide hot line for emotional support. People enthusiastically line up to throw themselves off a bridge. Joe calls ex-girlfriends to whom he sings ""I Remember You."" A woman recalls meeting and falling in love with Joe.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: contains portions of A Tour of the City, Photography, The Truth About Women, and the phone calls from No Show and Let Me Not Dream
JF Wiki	Black Light
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Tim Jerome, Brother Theodore, Arthur Miller, Barbara Sohmers, Patty Hardee
FP Music	Song: Stoned (Manali Cream Mix) Album: Rockers To Rockers Artist: Rockers Hi-Fi Song: More and More (The Hidden Persuader) Album: Rockers To Rockers Artist: Rockers Hi-Fi

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A Death in the Family (remix) permalink
Air Date	11 May 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:00:02
JF.com	ID 118 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A sketch of the luxurious Spanish-style compound in which Joe’s mother and adoptive father live. Anecdotal stories of his step-father’s gaffes and frugality, and the suffering they cause Joe’s mother. The progressive brain shrinkage of an admired friend, Conrad, which leads to his commitment in an asylum, is recounted, as well as Joe’s adopted father’s own illness, surgery and passing. (This is a remix of the show A Pact with God. Joe selected different music and re-recorded his voice tract for this show).
Alt JF Desc	A sketch of the luxurious Spanish-style compound in which Joe's mother and adoptive father, live. Anecdotal stories of Freddy's gaffes and frugality and the suffering they cause Joe's mother. The progressive brain shrinkage of Freddy's admired friend, Conrad, which leads to commitment in an asylum. Freddy's own illness, surgery and passing.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour retelling of A Pact With God
JF Wiki	Death In The Family, A (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Fila Brazilia Remix of Six Underground Album: Fila Brazilia Artist: Sneaker Pimps

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Soul Mate (remix) permalink
Air Date	17 May 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:15
JF.com	ID 252 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A former lover leaves desperate and bitter phone messages. An Irish landlady expresses her desire for her young tenant and mysteriously transforms into a disgruntled touring jazz singer.
Alt JF Desc	A former lover leaves desperate and bitter phone messages. An Irish landlady expresses desire for her young tenant and mysteriously transforms into a disgruntled touring jazz singer.
FAQ Desc	monolog by Laura Esterman - one hour
JF Wiki	Soul Mate (remix) Soul Mate
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Laura Estermann, Fiunulla Flanagan, Larry Block, and Joe Frank

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Fat Man Down (remix) permalink
Air Date	24 May 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:05
JF.com	ID 139 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Very similar but more fully developed version of Dreams of the River with Joe’s re-recorded voice track and new music. A 40-year old unemployed man watches TV for hours, walks the streets in old, threadbare clothing, shoplifts, eats compulsively in fast-food restaurants, and gains so much weight he can barely fit through doorways. He finds the death of his mother emotionally confusing and attempts to exploit it for his own enhancement.
Alt JF Desc	A look into the life of a depressed Fat Man with memories of better times.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: retelling of a Dreams Of The River
JF Wiki	Fat Man Down
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Kontakte Album: Liberation Artist: Les Rythmes Digitales Song: Alone Again So Album: Journey into Ambient Groove 4 Artist: Kid Loco

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Talk to Me permalink
Air Date	7 Jun 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:14
JF.com	ID 262 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A world famous mime discusses his life and art. The interview is interrupted by a couple making love in the adjoining room. Women plead for someone to talk to them.
Alt JF Desc	A world famous mime discusses his life and art. The interview is interspersed with a montage of women pleading for verbal and emotional contact.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: contains material from Either/Or
JF Wiki	Talk to Me
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Arthur Miller, Joe Frank and Marnie Castor, Frederique Jolie, and Andrea Ferraz

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Bible Stories permalink
Air Date	20 Jul 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:13
JF.com	ID 101 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A faux evangelist mocks unsuspecting people on the phone. The story of Adam and Eve is recounted. Joe, tied to a stake on a raft, drifts down a river in a surrealist jungle. An elderly woman is beaten like a pinata, spilling out gifts for children. A wedding party ends in bloodshed. Jesus is seen on water skis. A description of the search for enlightenment. A group of dial-a-prayer preachers speak.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: contains the "Joseph's POV" sequence from God Only Knows as well as that 'phone-preacher' business from In The Dark programs A Natural Disaster and Prayer: "Louder brother I can barely hear you"
JF Wiki	Bible Stories
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Last Show permalink
Air Date	20 Jul 1997
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	??:??:??
JF.com	ID 7506 (this item not on JoeFrank.com)
FAQ Desc	date is estimate one hour comment: retrospective, narrated by Joe
JF Wiki	Joe announces that it's his last show on KCRW (He returned a few years later). Last Show
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Notes	SEEKING AUDIO! This audio file never appeared on or disappeared from JoeFrank.com; contact us if you have it!
Show Type	Monologue

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At the Dark End of the Bar - 90 min permalink
Air Date	1998
Series	Somewhere Out There (1996-1997)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:28:05
JF.com	ID 95 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	In the course of one day, a teenager on vacation with his family in the Caribbean, has a series of erotic encounters: with a girl his age, an island prostitute, the mother of his best friend, and a businessman old enough to be his father. Ministers intone inspirational messages in Dial-a-Prayers. Joe’s surreal ramblings lead to a musical celebration of New Year’s Eve.
Alt JF Desc	During New Year's Eve, a series of seductions culminate in rape. Ministers intone inspirational messages in Dial-a-Prayers. Joe's surreal ramblings lead to a musical celebration of New Year's Eve. Original music performed by the Joe Frank band.
FAQ Desc	monolog/drama - two versions: 90 minute original, 1 hr remix cast: Joe Frank comment: subjective retelling of The Queen of Puerto Rico
JF Wiki	At The Dark End Of The Bar (Remix) At The Dark End Of The Bar
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	James Harrah: Guitar. Mike Boito: Keyboard. Kenny Lyon: Bass. Danny Frankel: Percussion.

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Dirt permalink
Air Date	1998
Series	Short Films (1989-2009)
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:04:00
JF.com	ID 850 video page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Darkly humorous, "Dirt" is an ecological parable for the 21st century. A man's obsession with dirt starts as a childhood game, but eventually manifests itself on a most surreal level. The film's dark, expressionistic images create a one-of-a-kind allegory for individuality and self-sufficiency. "Dirt" marries Chel White's filmmaking with the satirical writing of Joe Frank. Cast: Evan Knapp – principal character. Adapted from ""The Dictator – Part 1″" written and narrated by Joe Frank. Credits: Produced and Directed by Chel White. Director of Photography – Mark Eifert; Editor – Michael Corrigan; Art Director – Malia Jensen; Sound Design – Drew Canulette; Noise – Daniel Menche
JF Wiki	Dirt
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Short Films

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Home (remix) permalink
Air Date	1999
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:44
JF.com	ID 630 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A musician performing at a beachfront motel finds companionship in the proprietor’s daughter; an actor staying with friends in L.A. attempts to solicit work from actor Chevy Chase; an alcoholic woman relapses; a friend, Danny, returns from war, damaged; remembering Katie, and visiting mom at the nursing home; a woman vividly describes her father’s bohemian lifestyle as a café owner in New Orleans during the 1940’s, and recalls life in the French Quarter during the ‘40s and ‘50s.
Alt JF Desc	A musician performing at a beachfront motel finds companionship in the proprietor's daughter; an actor staying with friends in L.A. attempts to solicit work from actor Chevy Chase; an alcoholic woman relapses; a friend, Danny, returns from war, damaged; remembering Katie, and visiting mom at the nursing home; a woman vividly describes her father's bohemian lifestyle as a cafe owner in New Orleans during the 1940′s, and recalls life in the French Quarter during the '40s and '50s.
FAQ Desc	monolog by Grace Zabriskie - one hour
JF Wiki	Home
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie

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Love Is permalink
Air Date	3 Oct 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:29
JF.com	ID 195 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	At an airport, a man has a strange encounter with an old woman who insults him and then passes out and dies in front of him. He sees what he thinks is his wife waiting in an arrival lounge to meet another man. Told that he has terminal cancer, he’s offered a highly unorthodox, experimental treatment that involves meeting a surgeon dressed as Santa Claus. Viewing a photograph that reveals his contempt for his son, he feels he deserves nothing less than death. The rest of the program is composed of a montage of short pieces. A man and woman talk in a crowded bar. Joe imagines a lifetime with a cellist who passes on the street. Joe and a woman sing playful ad-libbing songs in English and French at the piano.
JF Wiki	Love Is
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Windows permalink
Air Date	10 Oct 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:56
JF.com	ID 288 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A man falls in love with a woman he sees from his window across a courtyard, but he can never gather the courage to approach her. When she becomes involved with another man, he attempts to flee the city. In her loneliness, she contemplates suicide on a bridge.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Windows
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Brooks Was Here Album: Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack Artist: Thomas Newman Song: Dusk You and Me Album: Vertigo Artist: Groove Armada Song: Compass and Guns (Film Version) Album: Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack Artist: Thomas Newman

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Jam permalink
Air Date	17 Oct 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:32
JF.com	ID 168 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	In a Clinton-esque speech, Joe apologizes for his marital infidelities and urges voter support for his wife, who is running for mayor of Santa Monica. Joe interviews a Baptist minister about faith. Having just watched a National Geographic television program, Larry expresses his contempt for primitive peoples and baboons at the Frankfurt Zoo. Joe tells the story of a child who grew to old age in one day. Larry, on stage in the midst of a play, imagines owning a sports car and living in a beachfront cottage in Malibu. Enjoy this clip from the show:
Alt JF Desc	In a Clinton-esque speech, Joe apologizes for his marital infidelities and urges voter support for his wife, running for mayor of Santa Monica. Joe interviews a Baptist minister about his faith. Having just watched a National Geographic television program, Larry expresses his contempt for primitive peoples and baboons at the Frankfurt Zoo. Joe tells the story of a child who grew to old age in one day. Larry, on stage in the midst of a play, imagines owning a sports car and living in a beachfront cottage in Malibu.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Jam
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	David Cross, Larry Block, and Joe Frank

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No Angel permalink
Air Date	24 Oct 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:58
JF.com	ID 211 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The story of Arthur’s brother, while on tour in Bolivia who makes love to a woman until she dies. Joe’s fascination with time leads him to collect ancient objects. Rosalie, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, seeks reconciliation with the children of German SS officers. Joe works with an amoral film crew in Africa.
Alt JF Desc	The story of Arthur's brother in Bolivia who f_'d a woman to death. Joe's fascination with time leads him to collect ancient objects. Rosalie, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, seeks reconciliation with the children of S.S. officers. Joe travels with an amoral film crew in Africa.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, ?
JF Wiki	No Angel
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Durian Album: Motion Artist: Cinematic Orchestra

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Prison Songs permalink
Air Date	31 Oct 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:00:53
JF.com	ID 573 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Stories Interspersed with black prison songs. A mother and son go to the beach and she avoids a ticket for littering by having sex with a police officer. A Jewish Russian immigrant, tempted by a rabbi’s gift, still refuses circumcision. A young man describes his encounter with a predatory priest.
Alt JF Desc	A mother and son go to the beach where she avoids a ticket for littering by having sex with a police officer. A Jewish Russian immigrant refuses circumcision. A young man describes his encounter with a predatory priest.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Prison Songs
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Angel Dust Album: Substances Artist: DJ Cam

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The Box permalink
Air Date	7 Nov 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:56
JF.com	ID 106 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Larry tries to persuade Marilyn to let him drive to see her in Santa Barbara; Debi calls Joe from Manhattan and talks about her seduction of her girlfriend, then describes her relationship with Scott, who suddenly appears in her apartment during their conversation. Debi tells of Scott’s vile misuse of the bathtub. Joe tells a story of how, upon the death of his father, he took over the family business and late one night was confronted by a woman holding a mysterious box.
Alt JF Desc	Larry tries to persuade Marilyn to let him drive to Santa Barbara; Debi calls Joe from Manhattan and talks about how she seduced her girlfriend; Debi describes her relationship with Scott who appears in apartment during conversation; story of Scott?s misuse of the bathtub; upon death of his father Joe takes over family business and late one night is confronted by mysterious woman.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour comment: stories first heard in Nausea and Islands
JF Wiki	Box, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, Debi Mae West, and Joe Frank

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Holy Land permalink
Air Date	14 Nov 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:17
JF.com	ID 153 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Eve’s ‘awakening’ in the Garden of Eden is prompted by the serpent. Joseph is humiliated when God impregnates his wife, Mary, with Jesus. This betrayal leads Joseph into alcoholism and hatred for his ‘son.’ A woman complains of the difficulty of trying to sort out a patient’s mounting medical bills. Arthur Miller and Larry Block face off. Several prayers are recited.
Alt JF Desc	'And let me tell you something' I really don't respect the abject submission with which you deal with God. It's so low the way you talk to him. You're his dog, his lackey.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank and ? comment: contains Prayer material once again: "Louder Brother I can barely hear you" (like Bible Stories, only different)
JF Wiki	Holy Land
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Arthur Miller, Arthur Miller, Larry Block, Farley Ziegler, David Franks, and Joe Frank

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Higher Learning permalink
Air Date	14 Nov 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:13
JF.com	ID 592 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	How humans make up for their physical inferiority to animals through technology. A child imagines being forced to make hideous decisions affecting the lives of others. Joe’s humiliating experience with a beautiful schoolteacher and his attempts to fend off students’ intellectual attacks. The insignificance of humans in the universe. Joe’s mother talks about her sick husband in the hospital.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: some new material, with retellings of stuff from Pretender and A Tour of the City
JF Wiki	Higher Learning
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama
Cast	Joe Frank

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On the Edge (remix) permalink
Air Date	28 Nov 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:33
JF.com	ID 216 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The story of a woman who dates war veterans going back to World War I ends with Joe’s ‘Ode to War.’ Larry Massett talks about covering May Day peace demonstrations as a journalist. Joe is picked up by a hippie wearing bells while hitchhiking across the country. The man argues with a truck driver and they get into a homicidal car chase. Joe contemplates death as literally buying the farm, going fishing, and checking into The Hotel Paradise. Each phrase evokes a promising fantasy that ends in disaster. Joe reads positive, self-help books in a desperate, shouting voice and discusses daily annoyances: messes in public bathrooms, litter in movie theaters, pan-handlers.
Alt JF Desc	A neighbor's barking dog leads to a confrontation. Joe contemplates death as literally ""buying the farm,"" ""going fishing,"" and checking into ""The Hotel Paradise.""
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	On The Edge (Remix) On The Edge
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Predator permalink
Air Date	5 Dec 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:14
JF.com	ID 228 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	On the street, a tawdry Hollywood director makes an offer to Larry’s daughter. Larry researches, pursues and confronts the filmmaker. Joe philosophizes about the pleasures and misuses of power. Enjoy this clip from the show:
Alt JF Desc	On the street, a tawdry Hollywood director makes an offer to a friend of Larry's daughter. Larry researches, pursues and confronts the filmmaker. Joe philosophizes about the pleasures and misuses of power.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block
JF Wiki	Predator
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, and Joe Frank

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Clement at Christmas permalink
Air Date	12 Dec 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:11
JF.com	ID 113 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The adventures of a religious, churchgoing sex-addict during Christmas. He recounts his first memorable experience with an older woman and other erotic adventures.
Alt JF Desc	The adventures of a religious, churchgoing sex-addict during Christmas.
FAQ Desc	one hour comment: Interesting new monologs by an unidentified British actor and Joe Frank, plus the tiresome old "Thank You You're Beautiful"/"Soulmate" whining by Laura Esterman.
JF Wiki	Clement At Christmas
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Laura Esterman, and Joe Frank

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Lover Man permalink
Air Date	19 Dec 1999
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:09
JF.com	ID 199 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe complains about the annoying consequences of being so handsome and irresistible to women. Joe uses technological gizmos to astound a primitive tribe on the Amazon, who sell off their land and mineral rights and wind up bankrupt and miserable. The story of Bessie, a black angelic housekeepers who becomes a blues singer. A black rock musician talks about being pursued by women fans. Kidnapped by a group of women and rescued by the police, he becomes an anti-woman activist. Joe appeals for reconnection to a woman who returned his umbrella at a Lars Von Trier film. He also appeals to a woman he saw in a museum, another he observed at a pet store.
Alt JF Desc	Joe complains about the annoying consequences of being so beautiful. ""Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."" Joe's entreaty to lady he observes in movie theatre, asks her to call him. Traveling salesman talks about his failed marriage and infidelities. Man and woman discuss their decision to break up with each other.
FAQ Desc	one hour Joe Frank, ? comment: Some new stuff, later, older repeats; including that dialog with the lowered-frequency voices from Words
JF Wiki	Lover Man
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Great Lives (Remix) permalink
Air Date	2000
Series	Work in Progress (1986-1992)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:52
JF.com	ID 8681 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A slight variation on Great Lives. The lives of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Sigmund Freud, Marlene Dietrich, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe and others are examined in this comic drama. A surreal conversation apparently takes place under water.
Alt JF Desc	Anecdotes about Freud, Stalin, Hitler, Dietrich, Einstein, and Eleanor Roosevelt among other historical figures.
FAQ Desc	drama- one hour cast: Arthur Miller, Ryan Kitrona, Tim Jerome, Julie Renick & Joe Frank comment: broadcast as a Somewhere Out There in 1996; a remix version was produced in 2000
JF Wiki	Great Lives
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	Arthur Miller, Ryan Cutrona, Tim Jerome, Nick Ullett, Julie Renick, Joe Frank

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Soulmate permalink
Air Date	2000
Series	Short Films (1989-2009)
Media Type	video
Play Time	00:14:00
JF.com	ID 8677 video page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A complex study of alienation and sexual obsession. Soulmate explores longing and objectification through the story of a landlady and her younger male tenant. Produced and Directed by Chel White Written and narrated by Joe Frank. Based on the radio play "Soulmate" by Joe Frank.
JF Wiki	Soul Mate (remix) Soul Mate
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Short Films
Cast	Vana O'Brien and Randy Russell.

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Pledge Drive Summer 2000 1st Weekend permalink
Air Date	2000
Series	Pledge Drives
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:60:43
JF.com	ID 575
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Pledge Drives

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Mercy permalink
Air Date	16 Jan 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:52
JF.com	ID 202 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	An unfaithful and depressed man takes his wife to Big Sur on New Year’s. On their vacation, he hallucinates (or does he?) meeting a beautiful girl on the beach.
Alt JF Desc	An unfaithful and depressed man takes his wife to Big Sur. On their vacation, he hallucinates (or does he?) a beautiful girl on the beach.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Mercy
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Illicity Part One Album: Om Lounge Two Artist: Extended Spirit

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At Last permalink
Air Date	23 Jan 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:34
JF.com	ID 93 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Larry’s son Zachary gets busted at school for smoking pot. A wrong number leads to a meeting with a woman stalker. Joe dreams of his mother’s madness at a military base. Debi spends an evening with her drunk girlfriend who wants to have one last fling before getting married.
Alt JF Desc	Larry's son Zachary gets busted for smoking pot. A wrong number leads to a meeting with a woman stalker. Joe dreams of his mother's madness at a military base. Debi spends an evening with her drunk girlfriend who wants to have one last fling before getting married.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Larry Block, Joe Frank and Debi Mae West comment: pre-Karma, Larry describes troubles with Zachery
JF Wiki	At Last
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, Debi Mae West, and Joe Frank

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Two Women (remix) permalink
Air Date	1 Mar 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:01
JF.com	ID 278 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A woman describes three humiliating love affairs with callow young men. A second woman recalls the joys of dating two older Jewish men.
Alt JF Desc	A woman describes three humiliating love affairs with callow young men. A second woman recalls the joys of dating two considerably older men, Harold and Bela, both Jewish New Yorkers. Harold held court at the Russian Tearoom on Fridays and Bela repaired sewing machines and sipped scotch to keep heart attacks at bay.
FAQ Desc	one hour comment: first segment is the first part of The Truth About Women
JF Wiki	Two Women (Remix)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Two anonymous women

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Zen permalink
Air Date	12 Mar 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:46
JF.com	ID 292 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	An old man returns to gamble in Las Vegas in lieu of continuing his psychoanalysis. Unable to pay his debts, he ends up owing the Mafia money. A phone therapy session (also appears in ‘When I’m Calling You’ and ‘Waiting for the Bell’). Joe works as a used car salesman, buys a stolen car and finds himself in a fistfight next to a highway. A Russian immigrant tells of a drinking, drug-taking Russian friend. When the friend’s mother dies, he gets the protagonist to bury his mother with unfortunate results. Parables from Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield.
Alt JF Desc	An old man visits Las Vegas in lieu of seeing a therapist. Joe works as a used car salesman, buys a stolen car and ends up in a street fight. A Russian immigrant is forced to bury his friend's mother. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Milton Schindler, Milio Brodski, Tamar Braut, Laura Esterman, Arthur Miller, Grace Zabriskie, Larry Block, Kiei Talbot, Helen Wilson, Buddhist Teacher Jack Kornfield of Spirit Rock, and Joe Frank.
JF Wiki	Zen
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Joe Frank

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The Wire permalink
Air Date	26 Mar 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:35
JF.com	ID 289 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Larry performs off-Broadway in ‘God of Vengeance.’ Stories of youth are recalled: the mystery of the dead chinchilla, the crazy grandfather who pushes a piano off a roof, the young girlfriend who vomits at the sight of meat carving, a teenage boy picked up and seduced by an older woman. Larry attends a piano recital by an old friend that stirs memories.
Alt JF Desc	Larry performs off-Broadway in ""God of Vengeance."" Stories of youth are recalled: the mystery of the dead chinchilla, the crazy grandfather who pushed a piano off the roof, the young girlfriend who vomited at the sight of a meat carving, the teenaged boy seduced by an older woman. Larry attends a piano recital by an old friend.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, and Jack Kornfield comment: pre-Karma, Joe flashes back, Larry describes the play he's doing
JF Wiki	Wire, The
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Stereo MC's Mix Album: Love Like a Fountain Remixes Artist: Ian Brown

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Karma - Part 1 permalink
Air Date	16 Apr 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:54
JF.com	ID 178 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe details his girlfriend Kate’s history, her physical beauty, and sets the stage for future problems to emerge in their relationship; the story of Joe’s passion for the bathtub girl; Joe foolishly tapes and transcribes his flirtatious phone conversations with Liza, only to have Kate find out; Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield’s stories and reflections.
Alt JF Desc	Joe details his girlfriend Kate's history, her physical beauty, and sets the stage for future problems in their relationship. Joe's passion for the bathtub girl. Joe foolishly tapes and transcribes his flirtatious phone conversations with Liza. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - seven hours cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield; Zachery Block (parts 3 & 4), Kristine McKenna (parts 5 & 7), Debi Mae West (part 7)
JF Wiki	Karma (Part 6) Karma (Part 1) Karma (Part 2) Karma (Part 3) Karma (Part 4) Karma (Part 5) Karma (Part 7)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""
FP Music	Song: Rearrange Album: Remixes Artist: Cinematic Orchestra Song: Brazil Album: Stone Flower Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Karma - Part 2 permalink
Air Date	23 Apr 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:59
JF.com	ID 179 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Larry talks about binge drinking and eating horribly processed foods; Joe has a ‘precognitive’ dream about Kate dancing alone in an empty bar. Kate dreams of Joe as a fish who ends up with a manipulative Jewish woman. Joe lies to Larry about pushing a fisherman off the pier at Venice Beach. Larry and Rosalie talk about collaborating on a writing project in the Berkshires; Larry tells the story of Svengali. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield.
Alt JF Desc	Larry talks about binge drinking and eating horribly processed foods. Joe has a ""precognitive"" dream about Kate dancing in an empty bar. Kate dreams of Joe turning into a fish who ends up with a manipulative Jewish woman. Joe lies to Larry about pushing a fisherman off the pier at Venice Beach. Larry and Rosalie discuss collaborating on a writing project in the Berkshires. Larry tells the story of Svengali. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - seven hours cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield; Zachery Block (parts 3 & 4), Kristine McKenna (parts 5 & 7), Debi Mae West (part 7)
JF Wiki	Karma (Part 6) Karma (Part 1) Karma (Part 2) Karma (Part 3) Karma (Part 4) Karma (Part 5) Karma (Part 7)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""
FP Music	Song: Rearrange Album: Remixes Artist: Cinematic Orchestra Song: Brazil Album: Stone Flower Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Karma - Part 3 permalink
Air Date	30 Apr 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:03
JF.com	ID 180 info page audio page (FREE)
JF Desc	Larry and Zack (father and son), argue about the value of Nature. Larry, in despair about their difficult relationship, drinks on the eve of a theatre performance. Joe and Kate go to counseling where their love is defined as a baby who needs nurturing. Kate and Joe host a bizarre, drunken dinner with a black a poet, Angel, culminating in a fight and Kate’s smashing Joe’s kitchen. Buddhist teacher, Jack Kornfield.
Alt JF Desc	Larry and Zack argue about the value of Nature and Larry, in despair, drinks on the eve of a performance. Joe and Kate go to counseling where their love is defined as a baby. They host an unpleasant, drunken dinner with black poet Angel, culminating in Kate's smashing Joe's kitchen. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - seven hours cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield; Zachery Block (parts 3 & 4), Kristine McKenna (parts 5 & 7), Debi Mae West (part 7)
JF Wiki	Karma (Part 6) Karma (Part 1) Karma (Part 2) Karma (Part 3) Karma (Part 4) Karma (Part 5) Karma (Part 7)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, Zachary Block, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""
FP Music	Song: Rearrange Album: Remixes Artist: Cinematic Orchestra Song: Brazil Album: Stone Flower Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Karma - Part 4 permalink
Air Date	14 May 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:00
JF.com	ID 181 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe and Kate visit a new-age therapist who kneels before them imploring them to love one another. Larry’s affair with a neighbor is revealed and he is kicked out of the master bedroom. Eric Butterworth and the Science of Mind Church are discussed. Kate attacks Joe with her fists.
Alt JF Desc	Joe and Kate visit their new-age therapist, who kneels before them imploring their love. Larry's affair with a neighbor is revealed and he is kicked out of the master bedroom. Eric Butterworth and the Science of Mind Church are discussed. Kate attacks Joe with her fists. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - seven hours cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield; Zachery Block (parts 3 & 4), Kristine McKenna (parts 5 & 7), Debi Mae West (part 7)
JF Wiki	Karma (Part 6) Karma (Part 1) Karma (Part 2) Karma (Part 3) Karma (Part 4) Karma (Part 5) Karma (Part 7)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""
FP Music	Song: Rearrange Album: Remixes Artist: Cinematic Orchestra Song: Brazil Album: Stone Flower Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Karma - Part 5 permalink
Air Date	21 May 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:56
JF.com	ID 182 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Kristine on the unsustainability of the first idyllic days of love; Joe obsesses over Kate’s potential future lovers and worries about losing his inheritance to Bruce, his mother’s gay hairdresser; Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield.
Alt JF Desc	Kristine discusses the un-sustainability of the first idyllic days of love. Joe obsesses over Kate's potential future lovers and worries about losing his inheritance to Bruce, his mother's gay hairdresser. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - seven hours cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield; Zachery Block (parts 3 & 4), Kristine McKenna (parts 5 & 7), Debi Mae West (part 7)
JF Wiki	Karma (Part 6) Karma (Part 1) Karma (Part 2) Karma (Part 3) Karma (Part 4) Karma (Part 5) Karma (Part 7)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Kristine McKenna, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""
FP Music	Song: Rearrange Album: Remixes Artist: Cinematic Orchestra Song: Brazil Album: Stone Flower Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Karma - Part 6 permalink
Air Date	28 May 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:05
JF.com	ID 183 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Kate calls Joe from Rome and they reconcile. Joe remembers his mother’s flirtatious ways when he was a young boy. Now, in her 80s, she becomes aroused watching love scenes on television. Larry tells of a Central Park summer fling; Kristine remembers the boy who walked her to school everyday and how she almost lost him to a more popular coed; Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield.
Alt JF Desc	Kate calls Joe from Rome and they reconcile. Joe remembers his mother's flirtatious ways when he was a young boy. Now, in her 80s, she becomes aroused while watching Ally McBeal. Larry tells the story of a Central Park summer fling. Kristine remembers the boy who walked her to school everyday and how she almost lost him to a more popular rival. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - seven hours cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield; Zachery Block (parts 3 & 4), Kristine McKenna (parts 5 & 7), Debi Mae West (part 7)
JF Wiki	Karma (Part 6) Karma (Part 1) Karma (Part 2) Karma (Part 3) Karma (Part 4) Karma (Part 5) Karma (Part 7)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, Kristine McKenna, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""
FP Music	Song: Rearrange Album: Remixes Artist: Cinematic Orchestra Song: Brazil Album: Stone Flower Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Karma - Part 7 permalink
Air Date	18 Jun 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:37
JF.com	ID 184 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe babysits his neighbors’ daughter and recalls the 1965 blackout in NYC – the night of his uncle’s death. Joe imagines marrying Elena, his cleaning lady from Ecuador; Joe’s drunken Saturday afternoon flirtation with a sexy French station volunteer; the bizarre behavior of film writer, Norman Wexler. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield.
Alt JF Desc	Joe baby-sits his neighbors' daughter and recalls the 1965 blackout in NYC, the night of his uncle's death. Joe imagines marrying Elena, his cleaning lady from Ecuador. Joe's drunken Saturday afternoon flirtation with a hot French radio station volunteer. The bizarre behavior of film writer, Norman Wexler recounted. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - seven hours cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield; Zachery Block (parts 3 & 4), Kristine McKenna (parts 5 & 7), Debi Mae West (part 7)
JF Wiki	Karma (Part 6) Karma (Part 1) Karma (Part 2) Karma (Part 3) Karma (Part 4) Karma (Part 5) Karma (Part 7)
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""
FP Music	Song: Rearrange Album: Remixes Artist: Cinematic Orchestra Song: Brazil Album: Stone Flower Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Bad Karma permalink
Air Date	9 Jul 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:56
JF.com	ID 98 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe attends a dinner party with famous mass murderers; a patient, about to undergo heart surgery, is cruelly interviewed by Joe; Larry, Kristine and Joe reflect on the morality of the interview; Ruth Seymour calls Joe while she’s exercising on a treadmill to warn him about his use of unacceptable language; Joe dreams of a conversation with God, an evening at a Euro-trash nightclub, and a chance meeting with his parents when they were young. With Buddhist teacher, Jack Kornfield.
Alt JF Desc	Joe attends a dinner party with famous mass murderers. A patient, about to undergo heart surgery, is cruelly interviewed by Joe. Larry, Kristine and Joe reflect on this interview. Ruth Seymour, the station manager, calls Joe while she's exercising on a treadmill. Joe dreams of a conversation with God, an evening at a Euro-trash nightclub, and a chance meeting with his parents when they were young. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Jack Kornfield, and Joe Frank in phone dialog with Larry Block and others including Ruth Seymour and the guy having heart surgery
JF Wiki	Bad Karma
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, Kristine McKenna, Ruth Seymour, and Joe Frank.

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Evening Sky permalink
Air Date	16 Jul 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:05
JF.com	ID 137 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Larry Block fights with a fellow actor after a particularly good performance. Larry and Joe discuss a collaborative car crash suicide; Gregory Poe interviews an aging fashion designer and Bette Davis. Joe and Larry discuss planting a flag on a newly constructed building in Manhattan. Meditations on the beauty of the sky. David describes a spiritual trip across Asia. Jack Kornfield on Buddhism.
Alt JF Desc	Jack tells a joke about a castaway and a sheep. Larry replaces Nathan Lane on Broadway and aggravates all the cast members. Larry and Joe imagine driving toward each other from opposite coasts, culminating in a head-on collision. Gregory interviews Bette Davis. Henry and David experience visions of Christ. From his balcony, Larry expresses amazement at the beauty of the evening sky while violently cursing the bad phone connection.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Gregory Poe, David Rapkin and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield
JF Wiki	Evening Sky
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Jack Cheesborough, Larry Block, Gregory Poe, Henry Dennis, David Rapkin and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Romantic Love Album: Mad Blunted Jazz Artist: DJ Cam

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Karma for Dollars permalink
Air Date	23 Jul 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:41
JF.com	ID 187 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Larry, irritated by a noisy couple on an airplane, befriends them when they turn out to be fans; Larry leaves his one-man show in Amherst to rehearse a new play in Seattle; Joe and Larry argue about money. Larry’s tennis match with a woman psychologist turns ugly. Larry and the members of a theatre group visit a factory of seamstresses.
Alt JF Desc	Larry, irritated by a noisy couple on an airplane, happily befriends them when they turn out to be fans. Larry leaves his one-man show in Amherst to rehearse a new play in Seattle. Joe and Larry argue about money. Larry's tennis match with a woman psychologist turns ugly. Larry and the members of his theatre group visit a factory of seamstresses.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour aka "Karma 4 Dollars" cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block and Jack Kornfield
JF Wiki	Karma for Dollars
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""

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Karma Don't Deny Me permalink
Air Date	30 Jul 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:29
JF.com	ID 186 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	At Christmas, Larry is enraged at a new-age woman’s stupidity; an Indian sage tells Mike’s fortune, offers a magic potion, and screams ‘Don’t Deny Me,’ when Mike doesn’t offer enough money for his services; Joe’s faux pas with a well-endowed colleague.
Alt JF Desc	At Christmas, Larry is enraged by a new-age woman's stupidity. An Indian sage tells Mike's fortune and offers a magic potion. Joe discusses the relative size of human beings. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield, Kristine McKenna, Debi Mae West, Mike Malone comment: contains retelling of Pretender material, and some other segments from Work in Progress
JF Wiki	Karma Don't Deny Me
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, Mike Meloan, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""

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Pledge Drive Rough Cuts permalink
Air Date	1 Aug 2000
Series	Pledge Drives
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:32:26
JF.com	ID 223
JF Wiki	Pledge Drive Rough Cuts
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Pledge Drives

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First Cut Tracks for Pledge Drive Rough Cuts permalink
Air Date	1 Aug 2000
Series	Pledge Drives
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:32:26
JF.com	ID 578
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Pledge Drives

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Pledge Drive - The Other Side (August 6, 2000) permalink
Air Date	6 Aug 2000
Series	Pledge Drives
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:00:12
JF.com	ID 8745 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe was notorious for transforming a banal fundraising pitch for the radio station into an entertaining show as only he could. Often, Joe would deliver the stories live on air.
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Pledge Drives
Cast	Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield

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Pledge Drive - The Other Side (August 13, 2000) permalink
Air Date	13 Aug 2000
Series	Pledge Drives
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:00:43
JF.com	ID 8747 audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Using a variety of strategies, Joe attempts to persuade listeners to contribute to KCRW and his show. Joe was notorious for transforming a banal fundraising pitch for the radio station into an entertaining show as only he could. Often, Joe would deliver the stories live on air. This is one from The Other Side.
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Pledge Drives
Cast	Joe Frank, Manny Klein, Ryan Cutrona, Grace Zabriskie, Larry Block

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Karma Redux permalink
Air Date	1 Oct 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:45
JF.com	ID 189 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe can’t work. Debi, naked and upset, waits for love. Joe spends his birthday alone at home until Kate, crying and vomiting, calls to accuse him of infidelity. A dark comedy of errors follows. An old friend urges Joe to break off the relationship. Joe recalls when, as a 7 year old, he angrily decided to leave his parents, packed his bag, and realized he had nowhere to go. Memories of trying to break off with an Asian ex-girlfriend whom Joe loved. But what is the meaning of the word ‘love’ Joe wonders. Joe urges Larry to deliberately fail because this is the only way he can absolutely control his fate. An ex-girlfriend shows up with an appeal for money.
Alt JF Desc	Joe can't summon the strength to work and Debi waits for love to enter her life. Joe spends his birthday at home alone and Kate calls to accuse him of infidelity. A dark comedy of errors follows. An old friend urges Joe to break off the relationship and Joe remembers when he angrily decided to leave home at the age of 7, packed his bag, and realized he had nowhere to go. Joe also recalls the pain of attempting to break off with his Asian ex-girlfriend and reflects on the meaning of the word ""love."" He urges Larry to deliberately attempt to fail because this is the only way Larry can absolutely control his fate. An ex-girlfriend shows up with an appeal for money. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield, Kristine McKenna, Debi Mae West
JF Wiki	Karma Redux
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Debi Mae West, Larry Block, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""

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Small World Karma permalink
Air Date	8 Oct 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:13
JF.com	ID 249 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	The film, ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’ is revisited and analyzed. Larry and Joe discuss God’s dubious role in the outcomes of competitive sports. Larry apologizes for being Jewish. Joe’s childhood illness and aborted visit to his dying uncle during the 1960s NYC blackout. Debi’s female sacred dance circle; Debi euthanizes her father and later experiences his presence in her life; Debi’s cat kills a hummingbird.
Alt JF Desc	The film ""The Incredible Shrinking Man"" is revisited and analyzed. Larry and Joe discuss God's dubious role in the outcomes of competitive sports. Larry apologizes for being Jewish. Joe's childhood illness and aborted visit to his dying uncle during the 1965 NYC blackout are recalled. Debi describes her female sacred dance circle. She euthanizes her father and later experiences his presence in her life. Then, she is horrified when her cat kills a hummingbird. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	one hour comment: contains a retelling of the He Hesitated "Incredible Shrinking Man" story
JF Wiki	Small World Karma
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, Debi Mae West, and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Fear Album: Remixes Artist: Cinematic Orchestra

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Waiting for Karma permalink
Air Date	15 Oct 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:33
JF.com	ID 279 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Larry recalls his motorcycle and drug days in Los Angeles. He talks about the miracle drug, Progeny, and Larry recalls his motorcycle and drug days in Los Angeles. He talks about the miracle drug, Progeny, and listens with admiration to his son’s avant-garde music. Kristine discusses people’s interior and exterior landscapes, and Joe and Kristine debate their perspectives on God and nature. Larry recounts his rejection by an elite group at summer camp.
Alt JF Desc	Larry recalls his motorcycle and drug days in Los Angeles. He talks about the miracle drug, Progeny, and listens with admiration to his son's avant-garde music. Kristine discusses people's interior landscapes, and Joe and Kristine debate their perspectives on God and Nature. Larry recounts his failure to be admitted to an elite group at summer camp. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block (offstage), Jack Kornfield, Zachery Block (offstage), Debi Mae West
JF Wiki	Waiting For Karma
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, Kristine McKenna, and Joe Frank

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Karma Memories permalink
Air Date	22 Oct 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:12
JF.com	ID 188 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe visits with his parents in Florida and reflects on his step-father’s drinking. Larry offers a quotations from literature that defines his failed life. Kristine speaks of the wreckage in every life and says the dead continue to live in those who survive them. Larry wonders about his own obituary and David provides a mocking eulogy; Larry’s builds a fire at his analyst’s office.
Alt JF Desc	Joe visits with his parents in Florida and reflects on his step-father's drinking. Larry provides quotations from literature that define his failed life. Kristine speaks of the wreckage in every person's life and says the dead continue to live in those who survive them. Larry wonders about his own obituary and David provides a mocking eulogy. Larry's builds a fire at his analyst's office. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	one hour comment: the story of Freddie covers A Pact With God territory
JF Wiki	Karma Memories
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Kristine McKenna, Larry Block, David Rapkin, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""

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Dreamland: Compilation permalink
Air Date	24 Oct 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:51
JF.com	ID 126 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A paranoid homeless man, a bizarre telephone preacher, and a lonely male nurse share the stage of this surreal non-fiction program.
Alt JF Desc	A paranoid homeless man, a bizarre telephone preacher, and a lonely male nurse share the stage of this surreal program. Excerpts from Prayer, Hotline and Loner.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour
JF Wiki	Dreamland
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Comedy
Cast	David Franks, William Reinert, Grace Zabriskie, Stanley, and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Rock Hammer Album: Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack Artist: Thomas Newman

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Karma Crash permalink
Air Date	5 Nov 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:55:55
JF.com	ID 185 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe and Kate reconnect and take a dreamlike walk in the neighborhood. Joe and Kate’s last, violent night together when Joe tries to escape from her apartment. Larry remembers his long-ago relationship with Rosalie.
Alt JF Desc	Joe and Kate reconnect and take a walk in the neighborhood. Joe and Kate's last, violent night together leads to dark memories of disintegration. Larry remembers Rosalie. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, and buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield
JF Wiki	Karma Crash
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, and Joe Frank
Music	Antonio Carlos Jobim ""Brazil""

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Silent Sea permalink
Air Date	12 Nov 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:54:33
JF.com	ID 247 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe dreams of reuniting with Kate; T.S. Eliot reads from his work; Debi celebrates Halloween in New York and meets an Italian man who gives her the best kiss of her life; she takes a radio phone call in the nude; David’s insane speech.
Alt JF Desc	Joe dreams of reuniting with Kate. T.S. Eliot reads from his work. Debi celebrates Halloween in New York and meets an Italian at a dance club who gives her the best kiss of her life. She takes a radio phone call in the nude. David's insane speech.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Debi Mae West, Larry Block, David Rapkin, and Joe Frank. Poetry by T.S. Elliot (more Karma)
JF Wiki	Silent Sea
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Debi Mae West, David Rapkin, and Joe Frank

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Mystery permalink
Air Date	19 Nov 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:54
JF.com	ID 205 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Excerpts from a hateful racist speech by Kallid Muhammed. A Jewish soldier's story of anti-semitism in Vietnam. Joe discusses the difficulties of maintaining one's faith with rabbi Niles Goldstein.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Roy Eisenstein, rabi Niles Goldstien, Jack Kornfield and Joe Frank with excerpts from a speech by Kolid Mohammed
JF Wiki	Mystery
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Roy Eisenstein, Rabbi Niles Goldstein, Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield and Joe Frank. With excerpts from a speech by Kallid Muhammed

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Brothers (remix) permalink
Air Date	26 Nov 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:00:12
JF.com	ID 107 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	This tragicomedy explores the disintegration of two brothers, Jerry and Manny, and their girlfriends Meryl and Theresa. (A distillation of the 90 minute original show: Jerry’s World).
Alt JF Desc	This tragicomedy explores the disintegration of two brothers, Jerry and Manny, and their girlfriends Meryl and Theresa. This program is a distillation of Jerry's World, Parts 1, 2, and 3.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: Jerry's World edited down to an hour
JF Wiki	Brothers
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Documentary
Cast	Jerry Klein, Mannie Klein, Harvey Perr and Meryl and Theresa

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Bitter Pill permalink
Air Date	3 Dec 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:53:00
JF.com	ID 102 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Larry’s gives his mother the birthday gift of a family photograph with her husband air-brushed out. Joe’s tells the story of a child prodigy friend whose promise was never fulfilled. Larry and Joe debate the merits of their respective neighborhood country clubs. Maude tells the story of her wild youth. At his mother’s birthday, Larry recites ‘The Runaway Bunny.’ Joe speaks of his mother’s ‘imperial’ cat, Prince, and describes events leading to his execution.
Alt JF Desc	Larry's gives his mother the birthday gift of a family photograph with her husband air-brushed out. Joe's tells the story of a child prodigy friend. Larry and Joe debate the merits of their respective neighborhood country clubs. Maude tells the story of her wild youth. At her birthday, Larry recites ""The Runaway Bunny"" to his mother. Joe speaks of his mother's ""imperial"" cat, Prince, and describes events leading to his execution.
FAQ Desc	one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Gaines
JF Wiki	Bitter Pill
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, and Joe Frank

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Sunday Morning Service permalink
Air Date	10 Dec 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:51:55
JF.com	ID 261 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Maude tells of her infatuation with a French journalist. The woman who lives upstairs expresses her contempt for Larry as both father and husband. Joe tries to charm a beautiful woman by arriving at her apartment in a policeman’s uniform. Joe’s gorgeous ex-girlfriend Kelly talks with amusement about the hearts she’s broken.
Alt JF Desc	Maude tells of her infatuation with a French journalist. The woman who lives upstairs expresses her contempt for Larry as father and husband. Joe tries to charm a beautiful woman by arriving at her apartment in a policeman's uniform. Joe's gorgeous ex-girlfriend Kelly talks with amusement about the hearts she's broken.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Debi Mae West, Larry Block, Officer Joe, Maude Gains, Kelley Kidnigh
JF Wiki	Sunday Morning Service
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Maude Gaines, Larry Block, Kelly Kidneigh, and Joe Frank

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Caged Heart permalink
Air Date	17 Dec 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:01
JF.com	ID 108 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	On a bike ride in Seattle, where Larry is performing in a play, he imagines abandoning the theater to work as a railroad laborer. We hear the voices of Joe Franks across America. Larry becomes increasingly alienated from his female lead in the play. An old man recites a Psalm and discusses his faith. Larry visits a church and Debi speaks of her loneliness.
Alt JF Desc	On a bike ride in Seattle, Larry imagines working as a railroad laborer. We hear the voices of Joe Franks across America. Larry becomes increasingly alienated from his female lead. An old man recites a Psalm and discusses his faith. Larry visits a church and Debi speaks of her loneliness.
FAQ Desc	one hour music: "The Virgin Suicides" (soundtrack) by Air cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Debi Mae West, Milton Schindler, and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield comment: punctuated with the multiple Joes from Joe Frank's America
JF Wiki	Caged Heart
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Reality
Cast	Larry Block, Debi Mae West, and Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Unknown Album: The Virgin Suicides Artist: Air

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At the Dark End of the Bar (remix) permalink
Air Date	31 Dec 2000
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:58
JF.com	ID 96 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Same as original with no extended musical break and a few short vignettes edited.
Alt JF Desc	During New Year's Eve, a series of seductions culminate in rape. Ministers intone inspirational messages in Dial-a-Prayers. Joe's surreal ramblings lead to a musical celebration of New Year's Eve. Original music performed by the Joe Frank band.
FAQ Desc	monolog/drama - two versions: 90 minute original, 1 hr remix cast: Joe Frank comment: subjective retelling of The Queen of Puerto Rico
JF Wiki	At The Dark End Of The Bar (Remix) At The Dark End Of The Bar
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	James Harrah: Guitar. Mike Boito: Keyboard. Kenny Lyon: Bass. Danny Frankel: Percussion.

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Plerophory of Pain permalink
Air Date	2001
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:47:18
JF.com	ID 7507 (this item not on JoeFrank.com)
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Larry Block, Zachery Block and Joe Frank comment: too 'profane' for broadcast in 2003 it was for sale on JoeFrank.com but it is no longer there
JF Wiki	This show, featuring Joe, Larry, and Zach Block, never aired. According to WFMU it was "too 'profane' for broadcast." Plerophory Of Pain
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Drama

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Pledge Drive Winter 2001 permalink
Air Date	2001
Series	Pledge Drives
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:54
JF.com	ID 577
JF Desc	Record-breaking KCRW Fund Drive show
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Pledge Drives

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Cave Dreamer (remix) permalink
Air Date	6 Jan 2001
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	01:02:17
JF.com	ID 112 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	his one-hour show is remixed from the three-part series: Dictator. A dictator reflects on his situation in the face of a futile war. As the enemy approaches, he shifts between irrational dreams of victory, and his wish to escape to another, more peaceful life.
Alt JF Desc	Monologue. A dictator reflects on his situation in the face of a futile war. As the enemy approaches, he shifts between irrational dreams of victory and the wish to escape to another, more peaceful life. This program is a distillation of The Dictator, Parts 1, 2 and 3.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour comment: excerpts from The Dictator
JF Wiki	Cave Dreamer
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Insomnia permalink
Air Date	14 Jan 2001
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:01
JF.com	ID 165 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Joe’s mind is too active at night when he tries to sleep. He obsesses over a former sound engineer who borrowed and then stiffed Joe for $1000. Larry discusses an article on Robert Redford’s penthouse apartment. Joe imagines killing his mother’s abusive cat, Prince, who twice urinated on her face when she was asleep. He considers shooting himself at a firing range or live on the air. Joe compares his own work to the more successful Ira Glass and This American Life. Joe experiences problems with cramps and gas at a party and recalls accidentally flooding an airport men’s room while on the toilet.
Alt JF Desc	Joe's mind is too active when he tries to sleep at night. Among other things, he obsesses over a former sound engineer who borrowed and then stiffed him for $1,000. Larry discusses an article on Robert Redford's penthouse apartment. Joe imagines killing his mother's abusive cat, Prince, who peed on her face while she slept. Joe considers shooting himself at a firing range or during a live radio broadcast. He experiences problems with stomach cramps and gas at a Hollywood party and recalls accidentally flooding an airport men's room.
FAQ Desc	unrelated to "In the Dark" 30 minute program from 1994 called "Insomnia"
JF Wiki	Insomnia
Discussion	joe-frank-list r/joefrank Google
Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank
FP Music	Song: Loose Ends Album: No Mermaid Artist: Sinéad Lohan

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Always permalink
Air Date	21 Jan 2001
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:57:31
JF.com	ID 86 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	People who have been wronged, take revenge.
Alt JF Desc	Intriguing stories of angry people taking revenge.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank & the dog guy, Larry and Zachery Block (more Karma)
JF Wiki	Always
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Show Type	Reality
Cast	Jerry Liebowitz, Larry Block, Zachary Block, Jack Cheeseborough, Moses Stone, and Joe Frank

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Red Sea : Compilation permalink
Air Date	28 Jan 2001
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:59:18
JF.com	ID 235 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	A bank teller wakes up one morning to find that he has become invisible. A mental hospital ship plans an attack on New Zealand. A drug has the side effect of bringing back suppressed memories. The story of the rabbi’s unfaithful wife and the eunuch and hermaphrodite. Description of the crowded Red Sea.
Alt JF Desc	A collection of Monologues: A bank teller becomes invisible, loses his job and seeks after God; a patient escapes from a mental-hospital ship which has declared itself an independent nation; a rabbi discovers that his wife has been unfaithful with almost every man in his community.
FAQ Desc	monolog - one hour music: "Go Faster" by the Propellerheads from the "Dive" EP
JF Wiki	Red Sea
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Show Type	Monologue
Cast	Joe Frank

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Where will it End? permalink
Air Date	18 Feb 2001
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:58:45
JF.com	ID 285 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Debi, in an act of self-affirmation, marries herself; then, she meets and falls in love with Malcolm at a dance club. Larry describes his disgust while observing a play in which old people fall in love; Jamaican Everton Sylvester expresses contempt for the bourgeoisie.
Alt JF Desc	Debi, in an act of self-affirmation, marries herself. Then she falls in love with Malcolm. Larry describes his disgust while watching a play in which old people fall in love. Jamaican Everton Sylvester expresses contempt for the bourgeoisie.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Joe Frank, Larry Block, Jack Kornfield, Debi Mae West, Everton Sylvester comment - more Karma
JF Wiki	Where Will It End?
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Show Type	Reality
Cast	Debi Mae West, Larry Block, Everton Sylvester, and Joe Frank

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Fire and Ice permalink
Air Date	4 Mar 2001
Series	The Other Side (1999-2002)
Media Type	audio
Play Time	00:56:42
JF.com	ID 140 info page audio page (subscription required)
JF Desc	Debi and her boyfriend Malcolm draw the admiration of strangers in their beautiful designer bubble. Larry, while driving under the influence, clips a police car. Larry and Joe discuss trauma and long-term therapy. After a painful break up, Kristine sneaks into her former boyfriend's apartment. Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's stories and reflections.
FAQ Desc	drama - one hour cast: Debi Mae West, Joe Frank, Larry Block and Kristine McKenna
JF Wiki	Fire And Ice
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The Eighty Yard Run

Jewish Blues

Rare Early Joe Frank Stories

A Call in the Night

Arena

The Death of Trotsky

Til You're Gone

Summer Notes

The Night Watchman & Caldwell

Long Island Memories & Beautiful Woman on Elevator

Joe Frank in Concert

The Rare Recording

The Decline of Spengler

Lies

Pilot :: The End

The Queen of Puerto Rico

Sales

Warheads

Questions

A Tour of the City

Across the River

Dreams of the River

Dear Annie

A Pact with God

Pretender

When She's Asleep She Looks Like an Angel

Photography

Rain

Talking About Love

Another Country - Part 1

Another Country - Part 2

Another Country - Part 3

A Landing Strip in the Jungle

No Show - Part 1

No Show - Part 2

No Show (remix)

Let me not Dream

Case Studies

Cocktails Before Dinner

Dreamland

Rose

Why I Don't Love You Anymore

Tell Me What to Do

Highways West

Nightride

Rent-a-Family - Part 1

Rent-a-Family - Part 2

Rent-a-Family - Part 3

In the Middle of Nowhere - Part 1

In the Middle of Nowhere - Part 2

In the Middle of Nowhere - Part 3

The Policemen's Ball

He Hesitated

Thank You You're Beautiful

Thank You You're Beautiful

To the Bar Life

Live on the Air: Oct 9 1987

Emergency Room

Stories for Nothing

Building a Church

The Street

Lines

Words

Five Part Dissonance

Emerald Isle

Home

Islands

Sleep

Angry Child

Band Rehearsal - Part 1

Band Rehearsal - Part 2

Performer

The More I Know You