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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/bible-salesman Bible Salesman][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Bible%20Salesman] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/bible-salesman Bible Salesman][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Bible%20Salesman] | ||
|data6 = Joe Frank | |data6 = Joe Frank | ||
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|data2 = [[Somewhere Out There]] | |data2 = [[Somewhere Out There]] | ||
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''A lot of people refer to other people as 'larger than life'.'' | |||
'' | '''Bible Salesman''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on February 11, [[:Category:1996|1996]]. | ||
''' | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe's annoyed when people are referred to as 'larger than life', | |||
imagines how he can be larger than life, slangs some famous people who | |||
were characterized as larger than life. | |||
4:00: Joe tells of when he was a bible salesman. His bibles were | |||
defective - the manufacturer substituted random content for the | |||
missing parts, including porn. | |||
9:30: Staying in a motel at night, Joe reflects on his relationship | |||
with god. | |||
11:30: Joe tells of his mother's illness, that he had to put her in a | |||
convalescent home, that he sold bibles to pay for her care. He | |||
remembers that his mother was a Communist who objected to religion. | |||
When Joe took an interest in Christianity when he was a boy, she | |||
punished him. Joe's father, trying to avoid appearing before the | |||
House unamerican activities committee (HUAC) shot himself in the head. | |||
He survived and named all sorts of people as Communists to HUAC, many | |||
of them innocent. His mother moved out, taking Joe. | |||
16:50: Joe tells of his encounters with women on the road. | |||
18:10: Joe comes upon a convent in Montana. Because it had run out of | |||
money the nuns prostitute themselves to keep it running. Joe pimps | |||
for them, maims and kills Johns who didn't pay. | |||
20:10: Joe also deals drugs. His partner, Johnny, snorted an ounce of | |||
cocaine he was supposed to sell, didn't have the money to pay off | |||
Ramon, their supplier. Joe has him dig his own grave then kills him.<ref>Johnny mentions that they can sell cocaine at the [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602370_pf.html Childe Harold], | |||
which was a famous tavern in DC. In [[Why I Don't Love You Anymore]] Joe tells the story of | |||
[[Mike Fremuth]] and him picking up a girl at the Childe Harold. Mike | |||
Fremuth eulogized his friend Jim in [[Goodbye]].</ref> | |||
27:40: Joe and the nuns made enough money not only to save the convent | |||
but to expand services. | |||
28:00: Now Joe wanders the country, not selling anything. | |||
29:10: 'I was on a raft, tied to a stake, drifting down the river...' | |||
Joe gives an account of surreal trip down the river; he sees hippos | |||
both in the river and sunning themselves on the shore, cutting a | |||
birthday cake made of tires. He sees kids hitting a piñata | |||
that looks like an old woman. He sees a newlywed couple coming out of | |||
a church; their car drives onto the sidewalk, running people over. A | |||
crowd stops the car, beats them, hangs them from lampposts. Then they | |||
all laugh about it, bury the people they killed. He sees Jesus on | |||
waterskis, pulled by a fat man in a rowboat. Joe says he told this | |||
dream to his analyst. Joe walks into her closet, finds stairs that | |||
take him to the catacombs beneath Rome. He sees Jesus, still on his | |||
waterskis. | |||
37:40: Joe must find peace, speculates on odd places where he could | |||
find it. | |||
44:00: 'Is it better not to have happiness and to be in a state of | |||
desperately wanting happiness or to be in a state of not-caring that | |||
you're not happy...' - Joe discusses. | |||
45:30: 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' - Joe discusses the | |||
author of this claim (wrongly). | |||
47:30: Joe tells of when he was an actor, played Jesus in <i>tableaux | |||
vivantes</i> of the crucifixion. Although popular, he walked away | |||
from it, went to a local brothel, hired 2 girls, played board games, | |||
etc. The girls reminded of the nuns at the convent. | |||
== | <div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | ||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
Being larger than life. Selling adulterated bibles door to door. Hiding religion from an atheist, Marxist mother and a father who cooperates with HUAC. Pimping for nuns. Dealing with an altar boy who stiffed Joe on a drug sale. Wondering the countryside living in the moment. Being tied to a stake on a raft drifting down a river in a surrealist jungle. An elderly woman as a pinata, a wedding party that ends in bloodshed. Unquenchable crying in a therapist's office. Finding the Roman catacombs and meeting Jesus in water skis. The search for enlightenment. Beginning the journey to the sacred in a restaurant where a waitress is distracted by Micheal Bolton. Is it better to be resent being unhappy or to not care. Does nature abhor a vacuum. The unexamined life. Playing Christ in a tableau vivant production. | |||
</div> </div> | |||
== Music == | |||
{{One More Night (Can)}} [3:30] | |||
{{Give the Drummer Some (Can)}} [28:44] | |||
== | == Additional credits == | ||
The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with [[Arthur Miller]] and [[David Rapkin]]. This program was edited and mixed by Theo Mondle; music production by [[Bob Carlson]]; special thanks to Jennifer Ferro and Esmé Gregson." | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:Narrative_Monologue]] | [[Category:Narrative_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:1996]] | [[Category:1996]] | ||
[[Category: Somewhere Out There]][[Category:Show]][[Category:Show_by_date|19960211]] {{Airdate|airdate=1996-02-11}} | |||
{{Series|series=Somewhere Out There}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} |