Pledge Drive Rough Cuts
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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.
| Series | |
|---|---|
| The Other Side | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 8/01/2000 | |
| Cast | |
| Kristine McKenna, Larry Block, David Rapkin, Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Pledge Drive, Real People, Karma Style, 32 minutes | |
| Preceded by: | Karma Don't Deny Me |
| Followed by: | Pledge Drive, 2000-08-06 |
Synopsis
- A quick segment in which Joe and Larry Block discuss Viagra
- Kristine McKenna 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 Kristine 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 phylacteries, on the Torah.
- Kornfield: the Minyan; 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. David Rapkin suggests a suicide in which they both drive across the country while talking on mobile phones and crash in the middle.
Music
- "Spiritual Healing" - Toots Hibbert (from Spiritual Healing, 1983) | YouTube [Intro]
- "Sex" - The Necks (from Sex, 1989) | YouTube [6:27]
- "Epominomous, Where Are You?" - Mike Richmond (from Basic Tendencies, 1996) | Soundhound [28:17]
- Four Part Dissonance
- Evening Sky (Cross-country suicide pact)
