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''"I just, just turned eighteen in November."''

'''Higher Learning''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on November 14, [[:Category:1999|1999]].<ref>Two shows share this air date on joefrank.com: this and [[Holy Land]]. According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20000408145253/http://www.kcrw.org:80/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=jf&tmplt_type=Program KCRW], Holy Land was broadcast on November 7.</ref>

== Synopsis ==
This show is 100% re-used:

Joe's mother ([[Friederike Frank]]) tells the story of her
marriage.<ref>originally in [[God Only Knows]]</ref><ref>Joe's mother was born Friederike Passweg, 1910 December 7.  1929 January 2 she married Meier Langermann.  On their naturalization papers they changed the spelling of their names: Friederike to Frederica, Langermann to Langerman, Meier to Meyer.</ref>

17:40: A beautiful woman invites Joe to a performance of a
play in which she has a role.  Concerned that she watches him, Joe is
self-conscious, puts so much effort into his role that he pays no
attention to the play.  He thinks about the roles we play, the
performances we put on, in life.<ref name=Cocktails>originally in [[Cocktails Before Dinner]]</ref>

21:00: Humans compensate for their inferiority to animals with
tools: clothes, cars, makeup &hellip;<ref name=Cocktails />

25:50: When he was a boy, falling asleep, Joe tortured himself
with fantasies of making awful decisions.<ref>originally in [[When She's Asleep, She Looks Like An Angel]]</ref>

28:30: Joe tells of his job teaching at a private school in NYC,<ref>Joe taught at Dalton school</ref> including Kim and their unfortunate date.<ref>adapted from [[Pretender]], in which it was interspersed with Monmouth's story</ref>

48:10: 'The Earth is 1 of 9 planets that revolve around the
sun &hellip;' - Joe describes the vastness of space.<ref
name=Cocktails />

49:30: Joe observes how small things look from an airplane,
contrasts that perspective with how the city appears at ground level,
comments on the ephemerality of life.<ref>originally in [[He Hesitated]]</ref> 

52:40: Joe's mother laments the poor health of her
husband.<ref>originally in [[The Road To Calvary]].</ref>

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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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*His mom tells of her early adulthood, her marriage to an older man.
*Straining to appear likeable, the audience at a play as performers.
*Humans making up for our physical inferiority
*A child falling asleep imagines being offered hideous decisions: torture of himself or others.
*Joe Frank the schoolteacher, dating coworker Kim with capped teeth, premature ejaculation
*Defending against students' intellectual attacks
*The insignificance of humans in the universe.  A city viewed from an airplane.
*Joe's mother talks about her sick husband, hospitals, nurse revenge.
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== Music ==
{{Sex (The Necks)}} [Intro]
{{A Mother (For Your Mind) (The Herbaliser)}} [17:21]
{{Close Your Eyes (Faze Action mix) (Bebel Gilberto)}} {{Added music}}<!--presumptive but unconfirmed--> [25:45]
{{The Beast (Autechre Mix) (Palmskin Productions)}} [28:07]

== Shared material ==
* [[Pretender]] (life as a schoolteacher)
* [[Cocktails Before Dinner]]
* [[God Only Knows]]
* [[The Road To Calvary]]

== Footnotes ==
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[[Category:Absurd Monologue]]
[[Category:Friederike Frank]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:1999]]
[[Category:The Other Side]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19991114]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1999-11-14}}
{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=[[Friederike Frank]], Joe Frank}}