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| == Synopsis == | | == Synopsis == |
| | The story of Kevin. He works as a pool cleaner. A couple don't know or care how anything works, and the surfer wonders how they would survive a catastrophe. Earthquakes, storms, floods, and mudslides occur in the city. Kevin gets into car accidents. Kevin works at a bar and restaurant full of antiques, takes drugs, someone gets shot. He dreams of being a criminal, a pilot, the president. The bar burns down and he gets a job working in an airport, crashes the airport truck, explores the plane of a cult leader named Matthew. Description of strip clubs. The story of Donna, a masseur. She grew up in a poor rural house with an abusive father. She becomes pregnant, marries someone, gets an office job. Her mother dies in a car wreck. She runs away with a stripper and becomes a stripper. |
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| Kevin cleans and maintains pools with Dave, the boss, who listens to
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| weather radio and surf reports while Kevin works.
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| 3:40: Joe says that cataclysm isn't remote, describes
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| the danger of earthquakes, fires, floods, storms from the sea.
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| 5:00: Joe tells of the aftermath of the flooding of Marble
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| Creek.<ref>It sounds like Malibu to me, but I don't know of a Marble
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| Creek there.</ref>
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| 5:50: Joe tells of burglaries in the neighborhood, that they seem to
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| be done by neighbors, possibly because people are living beyond their
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| 7:40: Kevin drives a Toyota Landcruiser with a rollbar. He's a fast
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| driver, has driven drunk and stoned, rolled a previous truck.
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| 10: Kevin works at the Marble Inn on the weekends. He plays darts in
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| the back for money after hours. He snorts cocaine when it shows up.
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| One night a man is shot in the parking lot. Kevin encounters the man
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| who shot him, drives him off. The guy drops his gun while running
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| away. Kevin picks it up, notes that a gun not registered or connected
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| to him could be useful some day.<ref>Apparently the man who dropped it
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| was Anton Chekhov.</ref>
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| 13:10: Saturday morning Kevin grinds meat for burgers, prepares
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| the other ingredients.
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| 14: One night after work he sees sheriff's deputies chase a speeder in
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| a Jaguar. The Jaguar crashes into a bench. The deputies shoot him a
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| dozen times.
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| 15:50: One night the Inn catches on fire from the fat in the burger
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| meat, burns to the ground.
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| 16:20: Kevin's father, a pilot with Pacific Airlines<ref>fictional -
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| the airline of this name is Vietnamese, started in 1991</ref>, gets
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| him a job as a line technician at the airport <ref>apparently
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| Hollywood Burbank airport; its name has changed over the years.</ref>.
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| Kevin likes the job, the action that happens, including the C-5 and
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| SR-71.<ref>I think this is a mistake: the SR-71 flies out of
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| Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton; I don't think the runway at Burbank is
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| long enough for it, and the security certainly isn't high enough.
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| Lockheed built it and they're based in Burbank, and used to operate
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| the airport, but that's all coincidental. A C-5 could land and take
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| off on Burbank's longest runway, but I don't know why it would. The
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| cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena own the airport. It's
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| mostly commercial traffic. The private traffic Joe describes sounds
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| like Van Nuys airport, but it's even less likely to have military
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| planes. It would have that little Beechcraft Joe says NASA has there.
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| I think Joe conflated the 2 for dramatic purposes.</ref>
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| 20:20: Kevin crashes the airport's station wagon, keeps his job anyway.
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| 22:20: Kevin explores a DC-3 with luxurious appointments, including a
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| waterbed; it had a collection of porn videos.
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| 23:20: A nearby strip club, the Fabian, has a pictures night, popular
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| with horny old men. Kevin attends, but doesn't take pictures. The
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| club also has peep shows.
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| 25:10: Joe describes a brothel, the Circus of Love, on La Cienega.
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| Kevin gets a sauna and a massage, passes on the sex. He sees the same
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| woman week after week; eventually, they talk. Her name is Donna.
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| 26:30: Donna was born in Springfield, Ohio. She was a sickly child.
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| Her father owned a bookstore. Her sister was 9 years older. Her
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| father is cruel. Racing down a hill on the back of a bicycle, her sister
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| tells her to stick her foot in the wheel; she does, breaks it; her
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| father does nothing for her. The man who lent her father the money to
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| open the bookstore takes Donna to a physician.<ref>Joe mentions the
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| Maryland Hotel in Chicago on Rush Street, which is real.</ref>
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| She gets pregnant, marries Jim. Jim beats her late in the pregnancy,
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| damaging the baby, which dies after a few weeks. She divorces Jim,
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| works at a mobile home manufacturer. She takes a job emceeing a drag
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| show. She learns how to be a woman from them. Her boss at the
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| manufacturer attacks her on a business trip; she files a complaint,
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| but they do nothing, so she quits and takes a job at a TV factory.
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| Donna's father passes out while driving; the accident kills
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| her mother.
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| 36:20: A famous stripper, Pearl, comes to the club, takes a shine to
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| Donna, hires her as her assistant. Their first gig is at the Silver
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| Slipper in Washington.<ref>I don't remember it, can't find a reference
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| to it.</ref> They become lovers. The next club is lacking one of its
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| dancers, so Donna fills in. The crowd boos her for her small breasts;
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| she sasses them back, which impresses the owner. A group of old men
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| form a fan club for her.
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| 40: Pearl gives Donna a silicone treatment to enlarge her breasts for
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| her birthday. A few years later they go bad; it turns out to have
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| been industrial silicone; she gets a mastectomy. She leaves Pearl,
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| creates a fresh act. Porn films drive down the prices strippers can
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| get; the clubs are dirty and roach-filled.
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| 43;10: A guy gets shot next to her at the bar of a club she's working. The
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| bartender drags the body behind the bar, tells the cops he knows
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| nothing, then throws the body in the alley after they leave.
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| 46: Turner joins the Army as a buck private, rises to become a pilot,
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| is a captain when he goes to Vietnam. He flies Birddogs<ref>Cessna
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| O-1, a small single-engine prop plane
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_O-1_Bird_Dog</ref> to spot the
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| enemy, particularly to help artillery aim at them.
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| 49:20: After discharge, Turner visits an Army buddy in Red Bank, New
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| Jersey, who deals drugs. Turner sells a pound of marijuana for him;
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| they get busted. Turner gets 2 months in county jail. He has to
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| fight with a would-be rapist, Hinckins (sp?).
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| 52:40: Turner gets out in March, drives to Sonora, California, where
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| his widowed mother lives. He moves to the Stanislaus river, lives in
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| a tent, shops in town every 2 weeks. He walks around the forest,
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| swims, gets to know the animals. After 6 months he rents a cabin and
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| enrolls in Columbia junior college<ref>now Columbia community college</ref>,
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| takes jobs as a bartender and
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| dealing cards. He sees all the players as losers. One, Hardy, sings
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| 'Jesus blood never failed me yet'<ref>Gavin Bryars, whose music Joe
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| used in a few shows, captured this from an actual homeless person.
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| It's an interesting story.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus%27_Blood_Never_Failed_Me_Yet
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| The story of Kevin. He works as a pool cleaner. A couple don't know or care how anything works, and the surfer wonders how they would survive a catastrophe. Earthquakes, storms, floods, and mudslides occur in the city. Kevin gets into car accidents. Kevin works at a bar and restaurant full of antiques, takes drugs, someone gets shot. He dreams of being a criminal, a pilot, the president. The bar burns down and he gets a job working in an airport, crashes the airport truck, explores the plane of a cult leader named Matthew. Description of strip clubs. The story of Donna, a masseur. She grew up in a poor rural house with an abusive father. She becomes pregnant, marries someone, gets an office job. Her mother dies in a car wreck. She runs away with a stripper and becomes a stripper.
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| == Music == | | == Music == |
| {{Little Dream In Turqouise (Erik Wøllo)}} [3:47] | | {{Little Dream In Turqouise (Erik Wøllo)}} [3:47] |
| {{Ho Renomo (Cluster - Eno)}} [19:12] | | {{Ho Renomo (Cluster - Eno)}} [19:12] |
| {{Sehnsucht Ich Will Dich Lassen (To Be Free Of Yearning) - (Hans-Joachim Roedelius)}} [37:36] | | {{Sehnsucht Ich Will Dich Lassen (To Be Free Of Yearning) - (Hans-Joachim Roedelius)}} [37:36] |
| "Jesus's Blood Never Failed Me Yet" - (Gavin Bryars) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkC_leNM7M [56:09]
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| == Additional credits == | | == Additional credits == |
| The original broadcast credits state: "[W]ritten and narrated by Joe Frank." | | The original broadcast credits state: "[W]ritten and narrated by Joe Frank." |
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| == Miscellanea == | | == Miscellanea == |
| * This program is available at [http://joefrank.com/shop/night joefrank.com] as 'Night'. | | * This program is not available at [http://joefrank.com joefrank.com]. |
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| == Footnotes ==
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| [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] |
| [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] |
