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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
This program features several Joe Frank stories. | This program features several Joe Frank stories. Mike Waters, the announcer, begins by comparing hearing Joe's work to watching a movie. | ||
0:52: "The Night Watchman": the first person account of a night watchman who rises through the ranks of a company by inviting bosses to dinner, poisoning them, then burying them in the back yard. When Joe becomes the boss the new night watchman invites him to dinner.<ref>Joe tells a similar story in [[Lies]]</ref> | |||
7:55: "A Time On The Beach": Joe describes his life on a beach in Curaçao; though a diabetic, he eats a chocolate gun.<ref name=emergency>Joe uses this segment in [[Emergency Room]]</ref> | |||
12:05: "Caldwell": a fitness nut who dies while climbing stairs in the 1977 blackout has an out of body experience. He travels down a long dark tunnel and emerges into a festive dinner party attended by dead family members. They do the carnival dance. Then he's resuscitated, to his regret.<ref name=emergency /> | |||
17:26: "Isn't it true that we continue to strive all our lives in order to find peace and fulfillment ... life is not a game you can win, but a game that has no end, and all you do is die somewhere in the middle of it."<ref>Joe uses this segment in [[He Hesitated]]</ref> | |||
25:41: "Long Island Memories": Joe's childhood in Long Island. A child is open to experiences: Lady bugs, frogs, turtles, butterflies, campfire, grandmother's hollow chocolate-filled cookies, being in the countryside with a dog, walking to meet his father's car on its return home.<ref>Joe tells a similar story in [[Karma Memories]]</ref> | |||
30:20: It's now almost 30 years later. Joe's promoting rock concerts, is driving from Binghamton to Syracuse. Because of the traffic on Route 81 he takes a country road, gets lost, runs out of gas, starts walking. He sees a car approaching in the distance, remembers meeting his father's car coming home from work when he was a boy. It's Murray Gwertzmann, director of A&R at Capitol Records, who had made the same mistake, picks Joe up in his limo; they celebrate with Dom Perignon. | |||
33:59: "Beautiful Woman on Elevator": Joe's in an elevator with a beautiful woman; he fails to work up the nerve to talk to her. 'Hard Work' plays in the background. Joe says this happens to him almost daily.<ref>Joe tells the same story in [[Five Part Dissonance]] and a similar story in [[Obsessions]]</ref> | |||
53:54: "That was really wonderful, Alan - I've never heard it played quite that fast": a dispute between fast piano players.<ref>Joe uses this segment in [[Arena]] and [[Emergency Room]]</ref> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
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== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
* About 16 minutes of the program is a distinct "Cartoon For Radio" segment by | * About 16 minutes of the program is a distinct "Cartoon For Radio" segment by Mac Calhoun | ||
* The background music to the elevator story ("Hard Work") is used often on Harry Shearer's ''Le Show.'' | * The background music to the elevator story ("Hard Work") is used often on Harry Shearer's ''Le Show.'' | ||
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* [https://soundcloud.com/thejoefrank/the-nightwatchman-extended The Nightwatchman] - extended version at [https://soundcloud.com/thejoefrank SoundCloud] | * [https://soundcloud.com/thejoefrank/the-nightwatchman-extended The Nightwatchman] - extended version at [https://soundcloud.com/thejoefrank SoundCloud] | ||
* [https://www.worldcat.org/title/laughing-back-a-movie-for-radio/oclc/8236943/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true Worldcat] | * [https://www.worldcat.org/title/laughing-back-a-movie-for-radio/oclc/8236943/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true Worldcat] | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] |