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|data4  = 3/17/[[1996]]
|data4  = 3/17/[[:Category:1996|1996]]
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''There was a period in my life when I had a breakdown and I was committed to a mental hospital on a ship.''
''There was a period in my life when I had a breakdown and I was committed to a mental hospital on a ship.''


'''Just Get Me Out Of Here''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on March 17, [[1996]].
'''Just Get Me Out Of Here''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on March 17, [[:Category:1996|1996]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Joe is a mental patient and navigator on a hospital ship with a man who claims he can predict the weather.  A mad chief psychologist who holds meetings in bathrooms declares the ship an independent state and decides to invade New ZealandJoe drives a taxi in the Sahara.  A woman was a withdrawn child, falls in love with impossible matches, describes childhood relationships. Her mother was depressed and angry, tried to kill herself at Christmas.  She talks about visiting a lover on a business trip in MexicoEveryone she's ever loved, she still loves. Not being bitter about experiences. Pyrobenzamine, siders, and the doctor who kills his male lover assistant at a medical conference, goes to prison, and tries to escape by mailing himselfFlying into the Lima airport in a plane which lost an engine.  Joe falls for a woman at an anthropological dig, remembers his childhood.
Joe recalls when he had a breakdown, was committed to a hospital on a
ship.  One fellow collected weather data, claimed he could predict it,
also called himself a fraud.  'The chief psychologist was completely
mad.' feared going to the bathroom aloneHe declared the ship an
autonomous nation, tried to annex New Zealand.  Joe was the navigator.


== Music ==  
6:20: Joe ends up a cabbie in the Sahara, driving in circles
{{The Lower We Fly (Outside)}}  
looking for a fare, wonders if he's gone insane.
 
9:30: Joe relays a woman's story.  She was a troubled in school, shy.
She tells Joe about boys she liked in school.<ref>She mentions Harmony
Park, says it was in Santa Ana.  I found a [http://wikimapia.org/4275105/Harmony-Park-Ballroom-site likely one in nearby Anaheim].</ref>
Their relationships turned out badly.
 
15:30: She tells Joe about her mother, who was intensely depressed.
Her father had left when she was young.  She re-married.  He cheated
on her.  They got an annulment.  The mother got more lonely and
depressed, took Valium.
 
18:40: Christmas 1986 she goes to her mother's house, finds she's slit
her wrists.
 
19:30: When she was a child she'd hide in the closet.
 
21:20: She ate out of the dog's dish when she was a baby.  She became
anorexic later, got down to 99 pounds.
 
26:10: She talks about her relationship with Harold, her husband, an
architect.  She flies to Monterey, Mexico, to meet him for a week.
She got tarted-up and drunk, attracted the attention of men.  Harold
isn't as excited to see her as she is to see him.
 
34:30: She wonders why people are so lonely.  She talks about the
nature of love and her relationship with Harold.
 
39:00: Joe talks about the relationship between erectile tissue and
pollen, a conference in Prague, the use of pyribenzamine<ref>a
legitimate [[Wikipedia:Tripelennamine|antihistamine]]</ref> as an aphrodisiac;
it also has the side-effect of promoting memory.  A physician and his
assistant, lovers, come dressed as a nose and a swab, get into a
fight; the physician kills the assistant.  He continues his research
in jail.
 
45:00: Joe recounts a troubled flight to Lima for an expedition to dig
in Mayan ruins<ref>Mayans didn't live in Peru.</ref> Celia Brown, a
beautiful young woman on the expedition, comes to his room at night,
is obsessed with him; she speaks to him in German.  He takes
pyribenzamine, which reminds him of seeing his mother with a lover as
a child, gets sick, faints.
 
52:20: Sweet nothings in German.
 
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
Joe is a mental patient and navigator on a hospital ship with a man who claims he can predict the weather.  A mad chief psychologist who holds meetings in bathrooms declares the ship an independent state and decides to invade New Zealand.  Joe drives a taxi in the Sahara.  A woman was a withdrawn child, falls in love with impossible matches, describes childhood relationships. Her mother was depressed and angry, tried to kill herself at Christmas.  She talks about visiting a lover on a business trip in Mexico.  Everyone she's ever loved, she still loves.  Not being bitter about experiences. Pyrobenzamine, side effects, and the doctor who kills his male lover assistant at a medical conference, goes to prison, and tries to escape by mailing himself.  Flying into the Lima airport in a plane which lost an engine.  Joe falls for a woman at an anthropological dig, remembers his childhood.
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== Music ==
* [[Judith Owen]] vocalizes over "The Lower We Fly"
{{The Lower We Fly (Outside)}} [Intro]


== Shared material ==
== Shared material ==
*[[Red Sea (A Compilation)]]
*[[Red Sea (A Compilation)]] - Joe reuses the first and last three segments of this program


== Additional credits ==
== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "Created in collaboration with [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Arthur Miller]], and [[David Rapkin]]. The music is from the group Outside. The vocalist was Judith Owen. This program was recorded, edited, and mixed by Theo Mondle. Music looping by [[Bob Carlson]]. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro, Carly Eiseman, Esmé Gregson, and Bridget Cool."
The original broadcast credits state: "Created in collaboration with [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Arthur Miller]], and [[David Rapkin]]. The music is from the group Outside. The vocalist was [[Judith Owen]]. This program was recorded, edited, and mixed by Theo Mondle. Music looping by [[Bob Carlson]]. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro, Carly Eiseman, Esmé Gregson, and Bridget Kuehl."


== Commentary ==
== Footnotes ==
{{commentary}}


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