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'''Thief''' is a radio show produced by Joe Frank which aired on KCRW's series [[UnFictional]]. It was originally broadcast September 25, [[:Category:2012|2012]] | '''Thief''' is a radio show produced by Joe Frank which aired on KCRW's series [[UnFictional]]. It was originally broadcast September 25, [[:Category:2012|2012]] | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
:00: When he was eight, Joe began stealing stuff from his parents. | |||
When they were out he'd go into their room, rummage around, take stuff | |||
he liked. | |||
3:40: One afternoon he found photographs of himself as an infant with | |||
people he did not recognize. He wanted to ask his parents about them | |||
but didn't want to reveal he was a thief. | |||
5:10: His own stuff started disappearing. The house became bare. | |||
7:50: The parents put up surveillance cameras, hired a guard. Joe | |||
barricaded his door. | |||
8:30: Joe cracked, asked about the pictures. His parents didn't know | |||
who those people were either. | |||
10:50: They made up. | |||
11:50: His parents took in a Romanian exchange student, Angelisa | |||
(sp?). Joe fell in love with her. | |||
13:40 While rummaging in her room Joe found a love letter from his | |||
father to Angelisa. He put it in his mother's purse. He ran away | |||
from home for a day, met a clown whose trick flower squirted water in | |||
his eye. | |||
16:30: The next evening, when his father returned from work, he found | |||
the house empty of everything except his clothes, their photo albums | |||
in ashes in the fireplace. | |||
17:40: He walked into town the next day, found the bank account | |||
cleaned out, their house foreclosed. When he walked back home the | |||
house had disappeared, homeless people were living on the lot. | |||
18:50: Joe returned. He and his father went out to the highway, | |||
hitchhiked. A truck, trying to stop for them, jack-knifed, killing | |||
his father. Joe found the driver unconscious, dragged him out of the | |||
cab, drove off with the truck.<ref>Notice the similarity of this story | |||
with McKenzie's in [[Duplicity]].</ref> | |||
19:40: Joe describes the lavish party Alberto Muñoz threw for | |||
his birthday last week, 'beautiful young showgirls, overweight | |||
powerful businessmen, and children with gift bags of sweets and toys. | |||
At the front gate, footmen in liveried uniforms parked cars while | |||
Nubian slave girls, holding high silver and gold inlaid trays of hors | |||
d'oeuvres and champagne, circulated through the festive crowd.' | |||
20:50: Muñoz gives Joe 'a small lake in which model ships | |||
engaged in battles firing miniature cannons to replicate the famous | |||
naval campaigns in history.' | |||
21:40: Muñoz leads a drug cartel; all his opponents die violently. | |||
22:50: The police arrest Joe and other members of the cartel, put them | |||
in 'a palatial prison with huge bedrooms and marble bathrooms, an | |||
Olympic-sized heated swimming pool, a brothel featuring the most | |||
gorgeous schoolgirls.' They escape with the warden's help, go into | |||
exile on Mexico's Caribbean coast. | |||
24:30: Superman is Joe's hero when he's six. He asks questions about | |||
him of his parents, who treat them as frivolous, which miffs Joe. | |||
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | |||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
Multiple thefts lead to paranoia in a suburban family, love dies and the crime rate goes up. | Multiple thefts lead to paranoia in a suburban family, love dies and the crime rate goes up. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Down and Out (Boozoo Bajou)}} [Intro] | {{Down and Out (Boozoo Bajou)}} [Intro] | ||
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* [https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-thief Thief streaming audio at KCRW] | * [https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-thief Thief streaming audio at KCRW] | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:2012]] | [[Category:2012]] | ||
[[Category:UnFictional]] | [[Category:UnFictional]] |