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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/karma | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/karma-7) Karma (Part 7)][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Karma%20(Part%207)] | ||
|data6 = [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Jack Kornfield | |data6 = [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Jack Kornfield]],Joe Frank | ||
|data10 = [[Karma (Part 6)]] | |data10 = [[Karma (Part 6)]] | ||
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''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 == | ||
Joe tells of his wonderful next-door neighbors: he's executive | |||
producer of a sitcom on ABC, she's a medical student at USC (and | |||
pregnant) - 'wonderful, warm, and very smart', and a 1-year-old. Joe | |||
contrasts his life with theirs, in their favor. | |||
3:10: While sitting their baby one evening, Joe misses Kate. He | |||
didn't go to meet her in Rome<ref>as imagined in [[Karma (Part 6)]]</ref> | |||
Joe worries the baby will die on him. | |||
4:10: Joe remembers the 1965 Blackout,<ref>November 9/10</ref> when | |||
his Uncle Ben was in the hospital. Joe went to the hospital to visit | |||
him that evening but turned back at the door to his room. | |||
5:40: '2 years before, I had had a particularly-virulent form of | |||
testicular cancer.'<ref>Joe was born in 1938, so he was 24/25 in 1963. | |||
In [[Too Close To Home]] he says he had testicular cancer when he was | |||
23.</ref> Because of this Joe felt he carried death with, worried that | |||
Ben would get it from him, that his wife would blame Joe for his | |||
death. Ben died that night. | |||
8:00: Jack Kornfield asks how many people would be grateful | |||
for the life they have, conjectures the story of the person, diagnosed | |||
with cancer, finds out it was a mistake: how much happier s/he is with | |||
him/herself, despite the sameness of his/her life to before the | |||
diagnosis. He says the purpose of meditation is just to be. | |||
11:20: Joe tells the story of his maid, Elena, an Ecuadorean. | |||
Her daughter is ill; she can't afford her medical bills. Joe adds the | |||
cost of the bills to that week's payment. Joe imagines marrying her, | |||
how it wouldn't work out. | |||
15:10: Larry asks Joe what he had for breakfast. Joe says French | |||
toast. Joe uses the most expensive maple syrup ('First Drip', flown | |||
in from Vermont), throws the rest away. They talk about what Joe | |||
drinks. They talk about anti-depressants, Larry's hip psychiatrist, | |||
orthopedic psychiatrists.<ref name=nature>originally aired in | |||
[[The Nature Of Things]]</ref> | |||
19:40: Kornfield quotes T. S. Eliot's 'Ash Wednesday': | |||
<blockquote> | |||
Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,<br> | |||
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood<br> | |||
Teach us to care and not to care<br> | |||
Teach us to sit still<br> | |||
Even among these rocks,<br> | |||
</blockquote> | |||
He tells us about his colleague, Julie Wester (sp?), who used to be a | |||
hospice nurse, that, in hospice there are no more emergencies, that | |||
they just accept what happens. | |||
22:20: Joe dreams that Kate came to his house, with braces on her | |||
teeth, as though she were a teenager. He's desolated when he wakes to | |||
find it a dream. | |||
23:10: Joe discusses his relationship with Kate with Larry.<ref>Larry | |||
uses the word 'karass' to describe Joe and Kate's relationship, a word | |||
invented by Kurt Vonnegut in [[Wikipedia:Cat%27s_Cradle|<i>Cat's Cradle</i>]]</ref> Joe tells him they | |||
can't have a thoughtful, fair relationship. Joe claims he examines | |||
himself, Kate doesn't. Larry supports him. | |||
27:50: Kristine McKenna talks about how people feel about breakups, | |||
applies it to Joe and Kate.<ref>In [[Karma (Part 5)]] Kristine says | |||
she hasn't met Kate.</ref> | |||
30:20: Joe woke up in a sweat last Saturday, missing Kate; they | |||
usually went on a trip. Joe wondered what to do, mixed a bottle of | |||
vodka and orange juice, started drinking. He noticed that he talks to | |||
himself all the time. He went to the station to work on the show. | |||
33:50: Joe talks about the 'hot, French, blonde' who works at the | |||
station on Saturdays. While Joe talks about music with his friend | |||
Thomas Golubić,<ref>credited as a music consultant on many of | |||
Joe's shows</ref> she and Joe talk about sex. | |||
36:00: Kristine tells about working at a job 10 years ago. She had a | |||
relationship with her boss's former boyfriend. They did too many | |||
drugs. He started a relationship with Kristine's 'best friend at the | |||
time'. Kristine lost her mind (so she says), lost control, threw his | |||
bike across his office. She got fired, even though she was the top | |||
salesperson (so she says.) | |||
40:10: Kornfield tells of the English monk who came to his monastery, | |||
was unhappy with it, went to a number of different monasteries, | |||
disliked all of them. His master, Ajahn Chah, said, 'He's like the | |||
monk who put his bag down in dogshit and thinks all the monasteries he | |||
goes to smell bad.' | |||
42:00: Kornfield tells of Konigiri (sp?) Roshi, a Zen master dying of | |||
cancer. He told his students that they were waiting around to see how | |||
a Zen master dies. | |||
42:40: Kornfield quotes Jung, 'One does not become enlightened by | |||
imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.' | |||
43:00: Kornfield remembers teaching with [[Wikipedia:Stephen_Levine_(author)|Stephen Levine]], | |||
how people deny death. | |||
44:50: Joe tells of Kristine's 2 cats, who fight unless separated. | |||
(She lives in studio apartment.) She tries to get them to get along. | |||
During one such session she was cut so badly she went to the emergency | |||
room. She was sick again the next day; Joe drove her to the ER. They | |||
see someone arrive, die within an hour. Kristine gets an IV of | |||
medication. She goes home but has to go back later. She calls Joe, | |||
who records their conversation. One of her neighbors was screaming in | |||
pain; she finds out he is expected to die. She talks about how | |||
difficult is acceptance of death.<ref name=nature /> | |||
50:50: Joe tells of going to a birthday party. Someone tells | |||
the story of the antics of comedy writer Norman Wexler: buying | |||
everything in a bakery, taking a dump at LAX.<ref name=nature /><ref>According to his IMDB page, 'Andy Kaufman's character of "Tony | |||
Clifton" was partially based on Norman Wexler' and 'Wexler was the | |||
mysterious "Mr. X" referred to in Bob Zmuda's biography of Andy | |||
Kaufman, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923319/ ''Andy Kaufman Revealed''].</ref> | |||
55:10: Kornfield tells us how large the universe is.<ref name=nature /> | |||
59:00: Kristine tells Joe how horny she is; she wants to have Tantric | |||
sex this summer. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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*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. | *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. | *[[Jack Kornfield]]: imagine being told a cancer diagnosis is a mistake. | ||
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*Kornfield: the scale of the universe, microscopic and cosmological empty space. | *Kornfield: the scale of the universe, microscopic and cosmological empty space. | ||
*Debi: she wants tantric sex. | *Debi: she wants tantric sex. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Rearrange (Cinematic Orchestra)}} | {{Rearrange (Cinematic Orchestra)}} [Intro] | ||
{{Spacebeach (Arling & Cameron)}} | {{Spacebeach (Arling & Cameron)}} [11:06] | ||
{{Brazil (Antonio Carlos Jobim)}} | {{Brazil (Antonio Carlos Jobim)}} [18:58] | ||
{{Colours (Big Bang)}} [30:01] | |||
== | == Footnotes == | ||
[[Category:Karma_Style]] | [[Category:Karma_Style]] | ||
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[[Category:Show]] | [[Category:Show]] | ||
[[Category:The Other Side]] [[Category:Show_by_date|20000618]] {{Airdate|airdate=2000-06-18}} | [[Category:The Other Side]] [[Category:Show_by_date|20000618]] {{Airdate|airdate=2000-06-18}}{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=[[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Jack Kornfield]], [[Debi Mae West]], Joe Frank}} | ||
{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=[[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Jack Kornfield]], [[Debi Mae West]], Joe Frank}} |