Karma (Part 7): Difference between revisions

From The Joe Frank Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (Text replacement - "== Commentary == {{commentary}}" to "")
m (Text replacement - "2000" to "2000")
Line 11: Line 11:
|label11 = Followed by:  
|label11 = Followed by:  
|data8 = [[:Category:Karma Style|Karma Style]], 1 hour
|data8 = [[:Category:Karma Style|Karma Style]], 1 hour
|data4  = 6/18/[[2000]]
|data4  = 6/18/[[:Category:2000|2000]]
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/karma-(part-7) Karma (Part 7)][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Karma%20(Part%207)]
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/karma-(part-7) Karma (Part 7)][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Karma%20(Part%207)]
|data6  = [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Jack Kornfield]], [[Debi Mae West]], Joe Frank
|data6  = [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Jack Kornfield]], [[Debi Mae West]], Joe Frank
Line 22: Line 22:
''My next door neighbors are a married couple.''
''My next door neighbors are a married couple.''


'''Karma (Part 7)''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on June 18, [[2000]].
'''Karma (Part 7)''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on June 18, [[:Category:2000|2000]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==

Revision as of 13:00, 30 March 2021

Karma (Part 7)[1]
Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
6/18/2000
Cast
Larry Block, Kristine McKenna, Jack Kornfield, Debi Mae West, Joe Frank
Format
Karma Style, 1 hour
Preceded by: Karma (Part 6)
Followed by: Bad Karma

My next door neighbors are a married couple.

Karma (Part 7) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on June 18, 2000.

Synopsis

  • Joe: He contemplates his successful neighbors, being alone. He babysits for them; mentions his experience with cancer; talks about going to visit a dying uncle during a blackout and turning away out of fear that he would be blamed for the man's death.
  • Jack Kornfield: imagine being told a cancer diagnosis is a mistake.
  • Joe: He pays a medical bill for his maid's child; imagines marrying the woman.
  • Larry Block and Joe: A discussion of French toast, high end maple syrup, expensive vodka, medical drugs, hip psychiatrists.
  • Kornfield: A TS Eliot poem; caring and not caring
  • Joe: a dream of Kate wearing braces
  • Larry and Joe: avoiding Kate when she returns from Rome. Larry discusses people who are too self confidant.
  • Kristine McKenna: pride and jealousy; Joe's theme of being replaced by another man.
  • Joe: trying to fill a Saturday without Kate.
  • Debi Mae West: A messy relationship with a boss at the office.
  • Kornfield: a monk is dissatisfied with a series of monasteries. A master faces death. No one expects to die.
  • Joe: Kristine is bitten by her fighting cats, ends up in the hospital. A woman dies in the ER.
  • Kristine: a man on the ward screams and seems to be dying. Growing spiritually just in time for the body to die.
  • Joe: A birthday party. A comedy writer who has an assistant carry around a briefcase with his entire advance for a film and two tape recorders, one recording the present, one playing what happened twenty four hours previously. He is rude in a cafe, then buys the place piece by piece. He squats and shits in the airport terminal.
  • Kornfield: the scale of the universe, microscopic and cosmological empty space.
  • Debi: she wants tantric sex.

Music