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+|data8 = [[:Category:Improv Actors|Improv Actors]], [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Found Tape|Found Tape]], 55 minutes
-|data4  = December 5, [[1999]]
+|data4  = December 5, [[:Category:1999|1999]]
 |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/predator Predator][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Predator]
-|data6  = Joe Frank, [[Larry Block|Larry Block]]
+|data6  = [[Larry Block]], Joe Frank
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 ''"This young lady came to stay with us a couple of months ago."''
-'''Predator''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)]]. It was originally broadcast on December 5, [[1999]].
+'''Predator''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on December 5, [[:Category:1999|1999]].
 == Synopsis ==
+[[Predator]] begins with Larry's account of a friend of his daughter
+staying with them in New York, her encounter with a suspect movie
+director.  That lasts 33 minutes; the rest is re-used material from 8
+different shows.
+Zoe is 17.  She's at a private school for dance in Washington DC,
+taught by Russian ballerinas.  Larry and Jolly let her dancer-friend
+Rebecca (also 17) stay in Zoe's room while Zoe's out.  Rebecca meets a
+suspect film director who, the Blocks
+think, is inappropriately interested in her.  They object to Rebecca
+meeting him.  Larry talks to the director, finds him charming, still
+has reservations about him.  Larry talks to Rebecca's mother, Mary,
+who thinks Rebecca's meeting the director is a good idea; she thinks
+the director wants to sniff her up because she's a young girl, but it
+would be a valuable lesson for her.  Jolly continues to object.
+Rebecca is unhappy about this.
+On a visit to Zoe in Washington Rebecca is so cold to her Zoe no
+longer wants Rebecca staying in her room, so Rebecca moves out when
+her father visits on Thanksgiving.  The families are irreparably
+riven.
+:50: Joe talks about power, how it has clarity, does what it wants,
+never asks permission, never apologizes; power rules the natural
+world.<ref>originally aired in [[The Dictator (Part 1)]]</ref>
+:50: Joe quotes Dostoyevsky, 'If god didn't exist everything would
+be possible',<ref><i>Brothers Karamazov</i></ref> then about Camus's
+opinion of the Nazis.<ref>I'm pretty sure the letter of Camus to which
+Joe refers doesn't exist.</ref> Joe quotes Nietzsche, 'God doesn't
+exist.', says he was arrested as an accessory after the fact for god's
+murder, put under the care of Jung.  He then says Freud said, 'The
+past determines the future', but now we know it's the reverse.<ref>originally aired in [[Five Part Dissonance]]</ref>
+:20: Joe says Hegel wrote that our ideas are shaped by the time they
+are formed, which makes them invalid.  Then Joe asks if we have ever
+felt a movement underneath our feet, points out the the Earth moves,
+that gravity holds us to the Earth.<ref>originally aired in
+[[Questions]]</ref>
+:10: 'if you put an empty frame against a blank wall you suddenly
+notice the patterns of the wallpaper the color the cracks in the
+plaster&hellip;'<ref>originally aired in [[Case Studies]]</ref>
+:50: 'We all hunger for meaning&hellip;' we look for it by
+researching our ancestries.  Joe points out that the number of
+ancestors increases exponentially, 1,024 after 10 generations,
+,048,576 after 20, 1,073,641,624 after 40.<ref>it's really 30</ref>
+more than the population of the Earth that long ago.<ref name=border>originally aired in [[At The Border]]</ref>
+:40: 'The ambiguities of life are infinite - life is impenetrable,
+it's opaque&hellip;'<ref name=border />
+:30: 'Some people can't believe that the world is the result of an
+explosion that took place billions of years ago&hellip;'<ref>Joe says
+the same, but in first person, in [[Thank You, You're Beautiful]]</ref>
+:30: 'The discovery that you have you lost your way in life can come
+upon you relatively quickly&hellip;' - but that it's easy to lose your
+way.<ref>originally aired in [[In The Dark (Part 2)]]</ref>
+:30: A psychologist <ref>a Black man?</ref> talks to someone whom
+police officers allege threatened to kill his wife and children.  He
+ends up praying that he not do anything crazy.<ref>originally aired in
+[[Nightride]]</ref>
+:50: 'I have danced spinning madly among the sacred cowgirls&hellip;' Joe
+tells all the dancing he has done, then a number of other amazing
+things.<ref>originally aired in [[Blues Singer]]</ref>
+:10: 'I have drunk gallons of Chablis&hellip;' - Joe lists
+accomplishments.<ref>originally aired in [[Stories For Nothing]]</ref>
+<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">
 Larry tells a story: while the friend of his teenage daughter is staying with his family, she becomes involved with an older film director.  Larry's wife disapproves of the relationship, and the girl has a falling out with Larry's daughter.  Monologue: the nature of power, the cruelty of the world, transcending tragedy by becoming part of it.  Dostoevsky, Camus - morality without gods.  Kant arrested and charged with causing the death of god.  Jung, the immortal past, and eternal youth.  Using Hegel to disprove Hegel.  The earth moving beneath your feet. A frame placed on a blank wall.  The geometric growth of number of ancestors and the futility of genealogy.  Embrace uncertainty.  Proponents of creationism.  Organizing books according to color.  The prison interviewer psychologist recording: don't trust angels and the save my ass daily declaration.  "I have danced among the sacred cowgirls;" "won the limbo contest at the Vatican;" I have seen...
-== Miscellanea ==
+</div></div>
-*Shares material with [[Nightride]], [[Philosophy]], [[Case Studies]], [[Dictator, The (Part 1)|The Dictator]]
-*The director Larry discusses is quite likely [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864812/ James Toback].
-== Commentary ==
+== Music ==
-{{commentary}}
+{{Gumbo (Klarky Cat)}} [21:40]
+== Shared material ==
+* [[Nightride]]
+* [[Philosophy]]
+* [[Case Studies]]
+* [[The Dictator (Part 1)|The Dictator]]
+* [[Five Part Dissonance]]
+* [[Questions]]
+* [[At The Border]]
+* [[Thank You, You're Beautiful]]
+* [[In The Dark (Part 2)]]
+* [[Blues Singer]]
+* [[Stories For Nothing]]
 == External links ==
 *Joe Frank Mailing list member Dave [http://www.armory.com/pipermail/joe-frank-list/2006-July/000801.html noticed] a similarity to [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ramonf/Classes/MATH100Fall2009/ShallowRoots.pdf this July 2006 news story] (originally from [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man Yahoo! News]) about the origin of the species.
+== Footnotes ==
+[[Category:Larry Block]]
 [[Category:Improv_Actors]]
 [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
 [[Category:Found_Tape]]
-[[Category:1999]]
+[[Category:1999]][[Category:The Other Side]]
+[[Category:Show]]
+[[Category:Show_by_date|19991205]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1999-12-05}}
+{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=[[Larry Block]], Joe Frank}}

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