The Nature Of Things

The Nature of Things[1]

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
April 3, 2000
Cast
Larry Block, Zak Block, Michael Meloan, Kristine McKenna, Jack Kornfield, Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, Karma Style, 1 hour
Preceded by:	The Wire
Followed by:	Karma (Part 1)

"According to the theory of the big bang, the universe exploded from a single point."

The Nature of Things is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on April 3, 2000.

Synopsis

• The big bang is absurd. Deep sea creatures. Various Animals and god's plan.
• Jack Kornfield: talking about the universe and wisdom and knowledge ("what is a satellite?").
• Larry Block talks about drinking before a show, reads a poem.
• Kristine McKenna: A woman cries and talks about her sister.
• Larry and Joe discuss self destruction.
• Mike Meloan talks about meeting an Indian fortune teller in a parking lot.
• Kornfield: a merciful being assumed your body.
• Kristine talks about hearing a man in pain.
• A birthday party for film industry types: a man buys a bakery, shits in an airport.
• Kornfield: The scale of it all.
• Larry talks about drinking and then eating junk, antidepressants, suicide.
• Kornfield: a class describes an orange - an exercise in observation.

Music

This is an incomplete record of the music in this program. If you can add more information, please do.

• "Brazil" - Antonio Carlos Jobim (from Stone Flower, 1970) | YouTube

• "Re-arrange" - Cinematic Orchestra (from Talkin Inside The Beat, 1999) | YouTube

• "Black Coffee" - Patricia Kaas (from Café Noir, 1996) | YouTube

Shared material

• Karma Don't Deny Me
• Karma (Part 3)

Miscellanea

• Fortune Teller sequence also in Karma Don't Deny Me.
• Nature discussions also in Karma (Part 3).