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''That sigalert continues out in Chino Hills on the Corona expressway.''

'''Eye In The Sky''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on January 7, [[:Category:1996|1996]]. A longer version was broadcast as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]].<ref>[http://list.jfwiki.org/pipermail/joe-frank-email-list-jfwiki.org/2023-September/000144.html  Bill Milosz of the email list writes that the original version has no Jack Kornfield.]</ref>

== Synopsis ==
0:00: 'Tortoise' - Higher Intelligence Agency

1:10: Joe reports the traffic problems in LA's freeways from the
traffic helicopter: biohazard spill, explosion, overpass collapse,
overturned school bus on fire, airplane crashed, striking hospital
workers, looters, mad shooter...  (lots of buses overturned)<ref>Most of the
street geography is accurate, but one helicopter couldn't have covered
as much area as Joe does on one trip.  Joe says an RV fell
into Crystal Lake on the Golden State near Glendale Crystal Lake is near
the 39 north of Glendora.   The 210 doesn't go through Vernon.  Slauson
doesn't run between the San Bernardino and Pomona Freeways.</ref>

11:40: A surface-to-air missile hits Joe's helicopter.  He thinks he's
going to die in the crash.  He tells us, 'I have a message that I've
been saving for the last moment of my life a piece of wisdom that was
passed on to me by a very, very wise and holy man...'  Instead of telling 
us the message he gives a long preface.  We hear the sound of a crash.

15:50: 'Eyes On You (4 Hero Dollis Hill Blues Remix)' - Santessa<ref name=Year2000>Added in 2000</ref>

16:00: Joe describes checking into a motel.

17:00: When he enters his room he hears a neighbor talking to someone
on the phone.  He's rude to the callee.

18:20: Joe lists all the things he has to get done when he gets home,
'I have to clean out the storage bin next to the garage, dust the
Coulomb vanes in the power conversion unit.  I have to reschedule my
rumba lessons in order to re-point the surface of my company's cloud
chamber with Teflon because it is both economically and tragicomically
graded...'

The next two sections were added to the later version:

20:20: 'True prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer
becomes impossible and your heart has turned to stone.'  Jack
Kornfield expatiates on learning when things seem impossible.<ref name=Year2000 />

22:50: Kornfield tells of driving into the city, his daughter Caroline
paying the bridge toll for the car behind them, as an example of
making life beautiful in small ways.<ref name=Year2000 />

24:40: 'Ai Du' - Ry Cooder and Ali Farka Toure

25:10: Joe lands his helicopter safely, at least for him - a
convent burned down with a few fatalities.  He wonders if we've
reached the end times.

29:30: 'I must maintain my sense of humor, my sense of irony, my sense
of the absurd...'  He says there's always something good to balance
something bad.

34:40: Joe's back to giving the freeway traffic report, sees a
carjacking in high-speed pursuit.  The hijacker is firing at the
police and others.  Joe calls it a welcome break for the international
audience.  Some encourage the hijacker.  He has a book deal, is
negotiating TV rights, endorsement deals.  Joe says it shows how
people can succeed in America.  When he runs out of gas, Johnny
Cochran is there to defend him; CNN covers it live, lets the hijacker
speak.

39:50: Joe describes a luxurious yacht.  An explosion sinks it.  The
evacuation is disorganized.

43:00: Joe reflects on the turn of events of the yacht's passengers,
that disasters make everything that seemed important before
meaningless.

47:40: 'We seem to be going round and round the same particular set of
phrases aren't you getting bored?'  Joe asks his interlocutor to see
him in person, talk it out.

50:10: Joe's giving the freeway traffic report again.  The freeways
are empty, perfect for a trip.  The fire that consumed half the city has subsided.
There's a cyanide spill on the Pasadena Freeway.  Everyone is relaxing:  'People seem to have reclined
wherever the mood is overtaking them.  They're lying on their backs
crowded around fountains, in the parks, just relaxing on sidewalks,
stretched out at the entrances to buildings.'

52:10: Joe describes an epic traffic jam that covers the whole of Los
Angeles county into the neighboring counties.<ref>The geography in this segment starts off completely wrong.  I haven't parsed the whole thing.  Don't use it for directions when you visit.</ref>

54:50: 'Tortoise' - Higher Intelligence Agency

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:95%; overflow:auto;">
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">

Joe is a helicopter traffic man reporting on bizarre disaster scenes in Los Angeles. Checking into a hotel and overhearing phone conversations. A list of chores that spirals into pseudo-technical nonsense.  Kornfield: life force, paying the toll for the car behind you.  Joe survives a helicopter crash and has only one eye.  Preparing for the end of the world.  Joe reports on a police chase.  Watching a ship sink.  Empty roads after a chemical spill.  A traffic report that degenerates into an endless stream of Los Angeles streets.
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== Music ==
{{Tortoise (Higher Intelligence Agency)}} [Intro]
{{Eyes On You (4 Hero Dollis Hill Blues Remix) (Santessa)}} {{Added music}} [15:51]
{{Ai Du (Ry Cooder / Ali Farka Toure)}} [24:37]

== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits (read by Joe) state: "Edited and mixed by [[Theo Mondle]], with music production by [[Bob Carlson]]. Created in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro."

The later (The Other Side) broadcast version credits state: "Created in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. With Joe Frank and Buddhist teacher [[Jack Kornfield]]. Mixed by JC Swiatek. Production assistance: Esmé Gregson."

==Miscellanea==
* The version of this program currently available on [https://www.joefrank.com Joefrank.com] is the later The Other Side version, despite being labeled Somewhere Out There.
* The original version has an additional ~1m20s of outro music with credits.

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== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RyHef8AAzs Eye In The Sky] (YouTube)
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== Commentary ==

Can the half of the phone conversation at 47:40 be the other half of the phone conversation at 17:00?[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 04:04, 5 September 2023 (PDT)
== Footnotes ==

[[Category:Absurd Monologue]]
[[Category:Narrative_Monologue]]
[[Category:David Rapkin]] 
[[Category:Jack Kornfield]]
[[Category:1996]]
[[Category:Somewhere Out There]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19960107]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1996-01-07}}
{{Series|series=Somewhere Out There}}{{Cast|cast=[[Jack Kornfield]], Joe Frank}}