The Eighty Yard Run: Difference between revisions

== Commentary ==

"The 80-Yard Run" was the first Joe Frank program I ever heard. It was produced back in 1977. It confused me and scared me a little, because while it was hypnotizing, it was also unsettling. Part of it seemed like autobiography, part of it was about boxers of the 1950s, and the end just spun off into a surrealistic dream. In other words, it had some of the same elements that Joe continued to perfect during his decades of work.

"I know that Joe didn’t like The 80-Yard Run very much. His is voice higher than his later shows, the sound mix isn’t always perfect, and Joe even takes a break to get a cup of tea halfway through. But I like the roughness of that very early episode. It shows Joe’s creativity while it was still percolating, while he was still getting a handle on what he was doing." ([http://curious.kcrw.com/2018/01/remembering-joe-franks-hallucinogenic-journeys "On Joe Frank’s Hallucinogenic Journeys"])

“I felt everything I understood about radio was broken in an instant,” Glass says, “when he said, ‘I am going to fix myself a cup of tea, and be right back in a moment.’ And there is this break” ([https://slate.com/culture/2018/01/joe-franks-last-interview-before-his-death.html Joe Frank Signs Off"])