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|data8 = [[:Category:Karma Style|Karma Style]], [[:Category:Serious Monologue|Serious Monologue]], 1 hour
|data8 = [[:Category:Karma Style|Karma Style]], [[:Category:Serious Monologue|Serious Monologue]], 56 minutes
|data4  = October 8, [[2000]]
|data4  = October 8, [[:Category:2000|2000]]
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/small-world-karma Small World Karma][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Small%20World%20Karma]
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/small-world-karma Small World Karma][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Small%20World%20Karma]
|data6  = Joe Frank, [[Larry Block|Larry Block]], [[Debi Mae West|Debi Mae West]], [[Jack Kornfield|Jack Kornfield]]
|data6  = [[Larry Block]], [[Debi Mae West]], [[Jack Kornfield]], Joe Frank
|data10 = [[Waiting For Karma]]
|data10 = [[Karma Redux]]
|data11 = [[Karma Memories]]
|data11 = [[Waiting For Karma]]
|data2  = [[The Other Side]]
|data2  = [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]
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''"The picture opens with a married couple, sunbathing on a boat."''
''The picture opens with a married couple, sunbathing on a boat.''


'''Small World Karma''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on October 8, [[2000]].
'''Small World Karma''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on October 8, [[:Category:2000|2000]].


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
*Joe narrates a detailed synopsis of "[[wikipedia:The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man|The Incredible Shrinking Man]]."
Joe tells the story of <i>The incredible shrinking
man</i>.<ref>originally aired in [[He Hesitated]]</ref>
 
12:30: Larry tells Joe he's found a great new place to hide his
scotch.  Larry observes that a lot of athletes at the Olympics thank
god for their victories; Joe and Larry talk about how ridiculous this
is.
 
18:30: Debi tells Joe about the sacred women's dance circle in
Topanga.
 
23:00: Debi tells about her trip to Europe with a boyfriend.
 
26:00: Larry talks about god some more, how the Christian god is more
powerful than the Jewish god.
 
27:50: 'My father was a German Jewish industrialist who divorced his
wife to marry my mother when he was 42 and she was a 17-year-old high
school senior'.<ref>Joe's father, Meier Langermann, was 41 when he
married Joe's mother, Friederike Passweg, who was 18.  He turned 42 a
month after the marriage, and she had turned 18 a month before, so it
was close.  He was born in Poland, apparently had a factory in Berlin.
Ship's logs record his nationality as Polish.</ref> 'She was from a
poor family that was delighted with the match because it meant that
they'd all be taken care of from that moment on - and that's exactly
what happened.  My father took some of them into his business and
subsidized and supported others, and he was always there whenever
anyone was in financial trouble.  And my father took my mother's older
brother, Ben, into the business, and taught him from the ground up and
groomed him to eventually take over the firm when he retired.  But my
father lost his business empire under the Nazis and the family had to
flee Germany in 1939, just before the war.  My father managed to get
most of our relatives out of Europe.'<ref>Ben, his wife and their
daughters; Sabine Passweg, Friederike's mother; Sigmund, Sonia, and
Michael Spiegel, Friederike's brother-in-law, sister, and their son,
all made it to the US.  Friederike's father was already dead.  What
happened to Meier's first wife?  Did Meier and his first wife have any
children?  His parents were probably already dead, considering his
age.</ref> Meier built a new set of shoe factories in the US.
 
29:10: Joe says his father died when he was 5.<ref>He died 1943
October 8, aged 56</ref>  Ben took over the business.
 
29:20: Joe says he was close to Ben's 3 daughters, played together,
went to the same school, summered in the country on Long Island
together.<ref>Eva, born 1934; Ruth, born 1938; Frances, born 1941;
Joe was born in 1938.</ref>
 
39:50: 'Ben was a good-humored, big bear of a man who took over the
position my father had formerly held as patriarch of the family.  He
was invariably kind to me.'
 
30:10: Joe and his parents<ref>Frederika had married 'Freddy'</ref>
moved to the suburbs.  Joe started failing his courses, went to summer
school, hung out with the bad crowd, got into trouble.
 
30:50: In a fight in high school, someone kicked Joe in the groin; a
tumor developed in his testicle, ended up with testicular cancer, had
an unfavorable prognosis, got surgery and radiation therapy.<ref>Joe
says this was before chemotherapy.</ref> He suffered greatly.
 
33:00: One night in the hospital Joe prays and end to his suffering,
then thinks about all the other sick people in the hospital, prays for
them, then for all the sick people in the world... until he decides
that prayers are futile against so much suffering, gets mad at god for
allowing it.
 
35:10: 'A year later, in 1965'<ref>Joe was born in 1938, was in high
school 1952-1956.  In [[Karma (Part 7)]] Joe says, '2 years before
(1965), I had had a particularly-virulent form of testicular cancer.
In [[Too Close To Home]] he says he had testicular cancer when he was
23.</ref> Joe's uncle Ben became ill, a liver ailment.
 
36:00: Joe was in Macy's 1965 November 9, the day of the great
blackout.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965 Northeast blackout of 1965]</ref>
Joe went to visit Ben, but turned back.<ref>originally aired in
[[Karma (Part 7)]], told again in [[Too Close To Home]]</ref>
 
42:40: Jack Kornfield visits a contractor with a serious brain cancer.
The indicated surgery may make it impossible for him to speak; he has
to decide in a day.  He's only interested in his spiritual life.  The
surgery went successfully: they got enough of the tumor but kept his
speech.  He became a counselor for the sick and grieving, lived another
8 years.
 
47:00: Debi tells of her father's (Noble's) death.<ref>I find no
evidence of Noble Zadler.</ref> She had to insist on more morphine for
his pain, then the removal of his oxygen mask, so he died.  She said
it was a beautiful experience.
 
52:00: Debi tells of being at the Hard Rock Caf&eacute; in Washington
DC on the first anniversary of her father's death; her waiter was named Noble
 
53:00: Debi says 'intensive purposes', Joe corrects her.<ref>He let it
slide in [[Arena]], about 16:10</ref>
 
54:20: Debi's cat kills a hummingbird.  She's upset.
 
<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">
*Joe narrates a detailed synopsis of ''[[wikipedia:The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man|The Incredible Shrinking Man]]''.  
*Larry and Joe - A new hiding place for liquor.  The egotism of Olympic athletes who pray for victory and thank god after winning.  Why don't they attribute defeat to god.
*Larry and Joe - A new hiding place for liquor.  The egotism of Olympic athletes who pray for victory and thank god after winning.  Why don't they attribute defeat to god.
*Debi - A sacred women's dance circle.  Earth snake dance.  Good sex.
*Debi - A sacred women's dance circle.  Earth snake dance.  Good sex.
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*Kornfield - He visits a businessman with a brain tumor who wants to talk about the spiritual life.  The man elects for surgery which may leave him unable to communicate verbally, emerged undamaged, and lives on as a changed man. "All that matters is what you've learned."
*Kornfield - He visits a businessman with a brain tumor who wants to talk about the spiritual life.  The man elects for surgery which may leave him unable to communicate verbally, emerged undamaged, and lives on as a changed man. "All that matters is what you've learned."
*Debi - She allows her father to die in the hospital.  "For all intensive purposes."  Manifesting a waiter with her father's name.  She freaks out when her cat catches a hummingbird.
*Debi - She allows her father to die in the hospital.  "For all intensive purposes."  Manifesting a waiter with her father's name.  She freaks out when her cat catches a hummingbird.
</div></div>
== Music ==
{{Colours (Big Bang)}} [Intro]
{{Recess (El Gran Lapofsky)}} [18:10]
{{Rearrange (Cinematic Orchestra)}} [27:21]
== Shared Material ==
* [[He Hesitated]]
== Additional credits ==
From the broadcast: 'You've been listening to Joe Frank "The other side".  This program
was called "Small world karma" with Debi Mae West, Larry Block,
Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, and Joe Frank; edited by
J. C. Swiatek and mixed by Bob Carlson; production assistance:
Esm&eacute; Gregson; music supervision: Thomas Golubi&#263;'


== Miscellanea ==
== Miscellanea ==
Shares the Incredible Shrinking Man story with [[He Hesitated]].
Shares the Incredible Shrinking Man story with [[He Hesitated]].


== Music ==  
== Commentary ==
{{Fear (Cinematic Orchestra) }}


== Commentary ==
A friend went to the sacred women's dance circle in Topanga;
{{commentary}}
she told me they were naked.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 01:01, 16 January 2022 (EST)


== Footnotes ==


[[Category:Karma_Style]]
[[Category:Karma_Style]]
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[[Category:2000]]
[[Category:2000]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|20001008]]
[[Category:The Other Side]] [[Category:Show_by_date|20001008]] {{Airdate|airdate=2000-10-08}}
{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=[[Larry Block]], [[Debi Mae West]], [[Jack Kornfield]], Joe Frank}}
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