Jam
Series | |
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The Other Side | |
Original Broadcast Date | |
10/17/1999 | |
Cast | |
David Cross, Larry Block, Joe Frank | |
Format | |
Absurd Monologue, 54 minutes | |
Preceded by: | Windows |
Followed by: | No Angel |
Purchase |
I would like to open with the following statement: That I have, for the past three and a half years, been conducting a sexual relationship with Melanie Lowenberg who came here to KCRW from the University of southern California and impressed by my radio work offered... well...
Jam is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on October 17, 1999.
Synopsis
'Papa don't take no mess' (James Brown)
Joe confesses to an affair with Melanie Loewenberg for the last 3½ years. She's 33 years younger than Joe.[1] Joe apologizes to everybody, invites all sorts of spiritual leaders to a prayer breakfast.
5:10: Joe talks to a preacher (David Cross) about faith.
5:50: Larry calls, had been thinking of Joe. He sounds drunk.
6:20: The preacher talks about his faith.
9:00: Larry talks to Joe about nature documentaries on TV, how weird the people are.
11:20: A guy leaves a long message on Joe's answering machine, wants to get together; he puts on funny voices, including a Peter Lorre impersonation.
14:00: Joe asks the preacher why good people suffer and bad people don't.
19:10: Joe asks the preacher how he knows when god is present. He says that god is always there, even when he leaves. The preacher finds a Canadian dollar.
21:10: Naomi calls. They schedule seeing Limbo[2] at the NuWilshire.[3] at 3:30.
21:40: Joe tells a mock fable about a child who grew to old age in 1 day, sucked on the offered breast of a beautiful young woman, which made him younger and her older; a unicorn and hippopotamus show up. It ends badly.
25:20: Joe and the preacher talk about an older preacher who has sex with young women in his congregation.
27:00: The preacher tells Joe about ORT, a gang of Jewish women, Israeli army soldiers, who corrupt Christians. They talk about Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, TV preachers whose infidelities were caught out.
28:30: Karen calls.
32:20: Larry tells Joe about his current role. He thinks he's doing great acting, and that no one cares.
35:50: Joe tells about Isabella, whose husband, a missionary, becomes corrupt on his mission, but writes about his great successes to Isabella. Their 2 children suffer from his sins. He refuses her entreaties to return. The children die.
39:20: 'I was a rambunctious rebellious devil child…' the preacher tells Joe about his misspent youth. Then he saw god on a Circle Line tour in NYC - he was the maintenance man on the boat.
42:30: Larry tells Joe about the baboon quarry at the Frankfurt Zoo in the late '60s, when he was in the Army.
44:00: Joe tells us how it is.
47:50: The preacher tells Joe about stealing penny-candy. Then they talk about death and the afterlife.
Music
- "Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part 1)" - James Brown (from Papa Don't Take No Mess, 1974) | YouTube [Intro]
- "The Murderer's Home" - Jimpson (from Prison Songs • Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48 • Volume One: Murderous Home, 1997) | YouTube [18:07]
- "Old Alabama" - South Carolina Chain Gang (from Prison Songs • Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48 • Volume One: Murderous Home, 1997) | YouTube [29:15]