The Angina Dialogues

The Angina Dialogues[1]

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
3/11/2001
Cast
Larry Block, Jack Kornfield, Joe Frank
Format
Karma Style, 57 minutes
Preceded by:	Fire And Ice
Followed by:	Love Prisoner

"I was walking past a church, off of Central Park West, you know."

The Angina Dialogues is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on March 11, 2001.

Synopsis

• Larry Block and Joe: Having compassion for God. Larry gets married by a young, hip rabbi. Where was Superman during the Holocaust. "God wept at the gates of Auschwitz." A slick Rabbi only does parties.
• Jack Kornfield: Happiness doesn't depend on external circumstances.
• Larry and Joe: The story of a great Rabbi who comforts a catholic woman after she confesses to anal sex. Nihilism and King Lear. Violence in Shakespeare and resolving conflicts through Chess tournaments. The giraffe as a school mascot. The road less traveled.
• Kornfield: Our interests limit what we see.
• Larry and Joe: Writing a book about a psychiatrist who recommends suicide. Being prescribed anti-depressants. Zak is in the bathroom smoking pot. Addiction, mixing liquor and drugs. A painter arrives.
• Kornfield: Men or their children walking toward a church.
• Larry and Joe: An unfinished story that gets repeated over and over again: a neighbor who seems a nice guy has screaming fights with his Aunt in Greece. After he disappears for a few weeks and returns, Larry shares that he had hoped the man had been left some property and come into a better life. The man responds with a bizarre ethnic insult.
• Larry and Joe: a psychiatrist suggests Larry is responsible for the problems in his life.
• Kornfield: self knowledge and surrender, instant gratification.

Music

• "Sex" - The Necks (from Sex, 1989) | YouTube [Intro]