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''"My name is Joe Frank, and I live in Burlington Vermont."'' | ''"My name is Joe Frank, and I live in Burlington Vermont."'' | ||
'''Joe Frank's America''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1994]]. | '''Joe Frank's America''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1994|1994]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe calls other Joes Franks around the country. | |||
0:20: The one in Burlington, VT, the lawyer with 2 daughters in | |||
college. | |||
1:10: The one in Birmingham, Alabama, the supermarket buyer with a | |||
wife and child. | |||
1:40: The one in Rochester, New York who drives a milk truck. His | |||
wife bore their younger child while she was in Rome singing for the | |||
Pope. | |||
2:40: The one in Chicago, a new attorney. At the bar exam he sat next | |||
to another Joe Frank. | |||
3:30: The one retired in his seventies, worked on airplane engines. | |||
3:50: Wife tells about her Joe Frank, 83 and infirm, can't come to the | |||
phone. Wife says they've been married over 50 years, both worked in | |||
dry-cleaning, have a daughter who's a college professor. | |||
6:30: Joe says his heart's not into calling other Joe Franks, he wants | |||
to quit and leave town, but remembers the diplomat he knew whose | |||
country was absorbed, how he couldn't adjust to this loss of identity. | |||
Joe fears the same may happen to him. | |||
10:40: The one in New Orleans, works at a hotel. | |||
11:00: The one in Boulder, Colorado: married, a software engineer, | |||
treats life as a hobby. | |||
12:20: The one in Rockaway Park, Queens, New York City: born August | |||
1914, worked at a bank for 46 years, widower, gambler, knows | |||
another Joe Frank in Rockaway. | |||
14:10: The one in South Euclid, Ohio: 58, retired school counselor, 4 | |||
children. | |||
15:50: The one in Cleveland, 32, married, staying home with the baby. | |||
16:30: Joe tells of being on a beach, finding a young woman | |||
attractive. After a while, she walks in his direction. He sees it's | |||
a man, flees, shaken, back to his cottage. A man pulls up, wants to | |||
know the way to the Indian burial grounds, asks Joe if he isn't the | |||
piano player at the Pelican Inn.<ref>Joe re-uses this story in | |||
[[Mercy]].</ref> | |||
19:00: Joe tells of singing in the Pelican lounge, goes through his | |||
pockets, finds: 'a hotel key, a harmonica, a pine cone, a field guide | |||
for identifying shrubbery, an expanding cuff for a blood pressure | |||
meter, a tranquilizing suppository, brown rice, an egg containing a | |||
religious diorama of Calvary, a canister of mace, a wind sock.' | |||
20:30: Someone<ref>It doesn't sound like Joe to me</ref> declaims, | |||
loudly, the pride he takes in the name Joe Frank - then gives up. | |||
22:30: The one in Miami: 30, construction worker. | |||
22:40: The one in Baltimore, son is Joe Frank the third, a business | |||
executive selling medical publishing books. | |||
23:10: The one in New York State, 50, works for the New York | |||
Department of Corrections | |||
23:20: The one retired from Kodak: two boys, 9 siblings. | |||
23:40: Farley Ziegler calls a woman, has a short conversation with | |||
her. Her husband, Joe Frank, is dead; he was in the labor movement, | |||
served in WW2, raised 5 children, lived in Cleveland, had cancer of | |||
the sciatic nerve. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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Joe calls a long list of men named Joe Frank. Joe talks about having no interest in the show, contemplates leaving radio, and talks about a direction-less man who had been a diplomat for a nation which no longer exists. Joe is on the beach and fantasizes over a man he mistakes for a woman, then he meets a stranger looking for Indian burial grounds. Joe talks about his name against a background of children singing "Me and My Shadow." [Yeah, I know it's not really a call in show; but creating a new category for a call out show seemed excessive.] | Joe calls a long list of men named Joe Frank. Joe talks about having no interest in the show, contemplates leaving radio, and talks about a direction-less man who had been a diplomat for a nation which no longer exists. Joe is on the beach and fantasizes over a man he mistakes for a woman, then he meets a stranger looking for Indian burial grounds. Joe talks about his name against a background of children singing "Me and My Shadow." [Yeah, I know it's not really a call in show; but creating a new category for a call out show seemed excessive.] | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{River of Bass (Underworld)}} | {{River of Bass (Underworld)}} [Intro] | ||
{{Me and My Shadow (karaoke)}} | {{Me and My Shadow (karaoke)}} [18:53] | ||
== Additional credits == | == Additional credits == | ||
The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with [[Arthur Miller]] and [[David Rapkin]]. The story editor was [[Farley Ziegler]]. Audio editing by Jerry Summers and Theo Mondle. Recorded and mixed by Theo Mondle. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro." | The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with [[Arthur Miller]] and [[David Rapkin]]. The story editor was [[Farley Ziegler]]. Audio editing by Jerry Summers and [[Theo Mondle]]. Recorded and mixed by Theo Mondle. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro." | ||
== | == Footnotes == | ||
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:Telephone]] | [[Category:Telephone]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Real People]] | ||
[[Category:Absurd Lists]] | [[Category:Absurd Lists]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Singing]] | ||
[[Category:Sound Effects]] | [[Category:Sound Effects]] | ||
[[Category:David Rapkin]] | [[Category:David Rapkin]] | ||
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[[Category:Unknown air date]] | [[Category:Unknown air date]] | ||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19940005]] {{Airdate|airdate=1994}} | [[Category:Show_by_date|19940005]] {{Airdate|airdate=1994}} | ||
{{Series|series=In The Dark}}{{Cast|cast=Many Joe Franks}} | |||
