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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe tells of a Thanksgiving dinner in which he eats too much. | |||
6:00: Joe wonders how many people think about the origins of | |||
Thanksgiving, imagines Pilgrims. | |||
8:00: [[Arthur Miller]] tells of being on a raft trying to paddle up | |||
the Zhang (sp?) river, but they can't out-row the current, so they | |||
drift downstream. They see the Holy Man of Bei-lin (sp?). They | |||
misunderstand the weird noises he makes, think he's gone mad; Arthur | |||
later concludes that he was mirroring their confusion. | |||
11:30: Joe talks about the idea of the pilgrim, that the journey, not | |||
the destination, is the true meaning of a pilgrimage. | |||
14:30: Arthur Miller opines that pilgrimage is a search for a home, | |||
tells of a journey from Paranaguá to Curitiba<ref>both in the Paraná | |||
state of Brazil</ref>, stops in a chapel along the way, has a | |||
metaphysical experience, falls asleep, is robbed and dumped in the | |||
gutter. | |||
19:10: Bill Nelson's 'The spirit cannot fail you'. | |||
20:50: Wandering the streets of Soho, Joe falls in love with a 1953 | |||
Buick Century 4-holer convertible. Though it's worth only a few | |||
hundred, he pays the owner ([[Grace Zabriskie]]?) $15,000 for it | |||
(she's suspicious of his motives), having sold all his stuff and | |||
borrowed from friends and family. He drives west. | |||
27:10: At a Philips 66 service center, Joe stops for a tuna melt, | |||
falls in love with his waitress ([[Helen Wilson]]?), tries to get her | |||
to go with him. She refuses. | |||
30:00: Joe delivers a mock paean to a fictional mother, all the things | |||
she did for her children and husband.<ref> originally aired in | |||
[[Problems]].</ref> | |||
38:40: Arthur Miller tells of trying to kill himself in Budapest, but | |||
failing. He takes a train to Cracow, hoping to consult Dr Heinrich | |||
Gorscht (sp?), who, he thinks, is the only man who can help him. He | |||
finds him in a billiards hall. | |||
44:40: Joe reaches the Rockies. A state trooper ([[Florinel | |||
Fatulescu]],<ref> who has an IMDB page | |||
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268935/</ref> stops him for a flickering | |||
tail light; he likes the car, complains that Americans move too much | |||
(He's Rumanian). | |||
47:20: Joe arrives in Las Vegas. He opines that the gambler is more | |||
in touch with ultimate reality than the engineer because the gambler | |||
abandons himself to chance. | |||
50:00: Joe arrives at the Pacific ocean, drives into it. He sees a | |||
guy with a car (1957 Chevy Belair) in the water up the shore | |||
([[Douglas Johnson]]?). He's fallen in love with it, plans to haul it | |||
out, refurbish it, drive it to the East coast. | |||
52:50: Joe imagines all the people who sneak into the US, that what | |||
they really want is a car, a full tank of gas, the freedom of the | |||
highways, they're our new pilgrims. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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Second person description of a thanksgiving dinner. Thoughts about the pilgrims including birth defects. Actor: Meeting a holy man while being washed downriver. The point of a pilgrimage. Actor: Falling asleep in a temple. Falling in love with a car and buying it, then driving across the country as a pilgrim, falling for a waitress. Actor: trying to commit suicide in Budapest, taking a train to see a doctor in a pool hall. Driving in the rockies and the desert. Being pulled over by a cop who complains that people travel too much. Driving to Las Vegas. Driving into the ocean. | Second person description of a thanksgiving dinner. Thoughts about the pilgrims including birth defects. Actor: Meeting a holy man while being washed downriver. The point of a pilgrimage. Actor: Falling asleep in a temple. Falling in love with a car and buying it, then driving across the country as a pilgrim, falling for a waitress. Actor: trying to commit suicide in Budapest, taking a train to see a doctor in a pool hall. Driving in the rockies and the desert. Being pulled over by a cop who complains that people travel too much. Driving to Las Vegas. Driving into the ocean. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
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{{Long Gray Line (Thomas Newman)}} [29:56] | {{Long Gray Line (Thomas Newman)}} [29:56] | ||
== | == Credits == | ||
'You've been listening to Joe Frank "Flashback". This program was | |||
called "Pilgrim" with Arthur Miller, Grace Zabriskie, Helen Wilson, | |||
Florinel Fatulescu, Douglas Johnson, and Joe Frank; mixed by Jerry | |||
Sommers, remixed by Ray Guarna; written and produced by Joe Frank.' | |||
== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
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* This program was often rebroadcast on Thanksgiving | * This program was often rebroadcast on Thanksgiving | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||