Just Get Me Out Of Here

Just Get Me Out Of Here[1]

Series
Somewhere Out There
Original Broadcast Date
3/17/1996
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, 1 hour
Preceded by:	God Only Knows
Followed by:	The River

There was a period in my life when I had a breakdown and I was committed to a mental hospital on a ship.

Just Get Me Out Of Here is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Somewhere Out There. It was originally broadcast on March 17, 1996.

Synopsis

Joe is a mental patient and navigator on a hospital ship with a man who claims he can predict the weather. A mad chief psychologist who holds meetings in bathrooms declares the ship an independent state and decides to invade New Zealand. Joe drives a taxi in the Sahara. A woman was a withdrawn child, falls in love with impossible matches, describes childhood relationships. Her mother was depressed and angry, tried to kill herself at Christmas. She talks about visiting a lover on a business trip in Mexico. Everyone she's ever loved, she still loves. Not being bitter about experiences. Pyrobenzamine, siders, and the doctor who kills his male lover assistant at a medical conference, goes to prison, and tries to escape by mailing himself. Flying into the Lima airport in a plane which lost an engine. Joe falls for a woman at an anthropological dig, remembers his childhood.

Music

• "The Lower We Fly" - Outside (from The Rough and the Smooth, 1995) | YouTube

Shared material

• Red Sea (A Compilation)

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