Pledge Drive Rough Cuts

Pledge Drive Rough Cuts[1]

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
8/01/2000
Cast
Kristine McKenna, Larry Block, David Rapkin, Joe Frank
Format
Pledge Drive, 1 hour
Preceded by:	Karma Don't Deny Me
Followed by:	Karma Redux

Pledge Drive Rough Cuts is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on August 1, 2000.

Synopsis

• A quick segment in which Joe and Larry discuss viagra.
• Kristine begins reading an endorsement, Joe stops her and asks questions instead, she praises Kornfield, reads a poem.
• Kornfield: an old man plants an olive tree, "don't know mind."
• Joe and a woman discuss a recent trip he made to the emergency room suffering from internal bleeding; human kindness, connecting emotionally with people; leaving the hospital and immediately returning to old habits and the drive for sex and combat. *Kornfield: what matters at the end, ulcer poetry.
• Larry and Joe: Larry is fancy free, interacting with Chassids in central park while shirtless and wearing farmer pants, realizing one's arm is a man's arm. Sex while wearing phyllacteries, on the torah.
• Kornfield: sacred community.
• Larry and Joe: dignified suicide, driving into a stanchion at high speed, a coordinated cross country suicide game of chicken after having taking out life insurance policies. Another man suggests a suicide in which they both drive across the country while talking on mobil phones and crash in the middle.

Music

• "Spiritual Healing" - Toots Hibbert (from Spiritual Healing, 1983) | YouTube

• "Sex" - The Necks (from Sex, 1989) | YouTube
• "Epominomous, Where Are You?" - Mike Richmond (from Basic Tendencies, 1996) | Soundhound

Shared Material

• Four Part Dissonance
• Evening Sky (Cross-country suicide pact)