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|data8 = [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Narrative Monologue|Narrative Monologue]], | |data8 = [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], [[:Category:Narrative Monologue|Narrative Monologue]], 60 minutes | ||
|data4 = March 3, [[1996]] | |data4 = March 3, [[:Category:1996|1996]] | ||
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/road-to-calvary-the The Road To Calvary][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=The%20Road%20To%20Calvary] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/road-to-calvary-the The Road To Calvary][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=The%20Road%20To%20Calvary] | ||
|data6 = | |data6 = [[Friederike Frank]], Joe Frank | ||
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|data2 = [[Somewhere Out There]] | |data2 = [[Somewhere Out There]] | ||
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''I was working in a slaughterhouse. My job was to grasp two cantilevers.'' | ''I was working in a slaughterhouse. My job was to grasp two cantilevers.'' | ||
'''The Road To Calvary''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on March 3, [[1996]]. | '''The Road To Calvary''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on March 3, [[:Category:1996|1996]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe works in a slaughterhouse. They process everything: | |||
'sheep, cows, chickens, ducks, lambs, deer, moles, beavers, and, | |||
inexplicably, sometimes an occasional human being: a scuba diver | |||
wearing goggles and flippers, a Scoutmaster, a man in the bathrobe and | |||
slippers, the small dog hanging from a leash,' and occasional worker. | |||
The boss, Skeffington, pollutes the river, abuses the workers, does it | |||
proudly, dares the townspeople to stop him. Working in the | |||
slaughterhouse stimulates the sexual appetites of the workers, who | |||
copulate in the maintenance closet. | |||
11:50: Joe and his girlfriend, Wilma, quit the slaughterhouse | |||
and take jobs at the nuclear plant. At the same time Skeffington | |||
becomes the director of operations there, operates it as safely as he | |||
had the slaughterhouse. Joe accidentally overhears a cabal that sells | |||
plutonium to Iraq. When he confronts one of the scientists in the | |||
cabal, he takes a cut of his money to keep silent, buys a villa on the | |||
Costa del Sol and reforms. | |||
24:00: Joe recalls working at NIH 'to determine the effects of | |||
addictive substances'. He'd drink all kinds of alcoholic beverages, | |||
take illegal drugs, then perform difficult tasks to see how they | |||
affected him. One day they put him in a padded cell to study | |||
withdrawal. | |||
27:50: Joe tells of running out of gas in the middle of the | |||
desert without water. He walks, encounters an old Indian man, sits by | |||
the fire with him for hours. It makes no difference to Joe. | |||
30:30: Joe describes Jesus climbing towards Calvary, imagines | |||
a long list of trivial thoughts unto him, 'I still have some dry | |||
cleaning I haven't picked up. I was going to rotate the wheels on my | |||
ox cart. And there are a few carpentry jobs unfinished: some night | |||
tables, a bureau, a chest of drawers, and a matched pair of | |||
bookcases...' He imagines fleeing, all the things he could turn the | |||
cross into - but continues. | |||
34:10: Jesus sees a couple in love, their picnic, the painter | |||
painting them, an audience watching. He notes that he's a virgin, | |||
will never have that sort of love, imagines how it could be. But | |||
forgoing crucifixion would make a mockery of his life's work. | |||
40:20: Jesus stops at a blues club. He sees a girl he likes, | |||
likes the music, wants to hang out, but moves on. | |||
41:50: Joe lists religious practices - says they'll all be | |||
futile if no one watches, or if you don't have god in you. | |||
45:50: Joe's mother tells Joe about her husband, Teddy's, | |||
declining health, how badly the nurses treat him at the hospital.<ref>Joe always calls his stepfather Freddy in his shows.</ref> | |||
<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"> | |||
Working in a packing house, sex in the presence of death, the evil plant manager. Working in a nuclear plant, sex and electricity, plant disasters, spies. Getting rich by black mailing a spy. Working as a test subject on addictive substances. Running out of gas in the desert and having a meaningless encounter with an Indian. Jesus on the road to Calvary - he considers alternatives, witnesses lovers with an audience, stops at a blues club. Praying in a godless world. Woman talks about a man's illness. | Working in a packing house, sex in the presence of death, the evil plant manager. Working in a nuclear plant, sex and electricity, plant disasters, spies. Getting rich by black mailing a spy. Working as a test subject on addictive substances. Running out of gas in the desert and having a meaningless encounter with an Indian. Jesus on the road to Calvary - he considers alternatives, witnesses lovers with an audience, stops at a blues club. Praying in a godless world. Woman talks about a man's illness. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{One More Night (Can)}} | {{Music-Stub}} | ||
{{ | {{One More Night (Can)}} [Intro]{{Unidentified|id=need id starting at 27:45}} | ||
{{Go Faster (Propellerheads)}} | {{Sex (The Necks)}} [45:30]<!--original KCRW broadcast, later WBEZ broadcasts, and joefrank.com versions are all identical - no {{Go Faster (Propellerheads)}} or {{Rearrange (Cinematic Orchestra)}} - receipts please--> | ||
== Additional credits == | == Additional credits == | ||
The original broadcast credits state: "Created in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. Recorded, edited, and mixed by Theo Mondle. Music production by [[Bob Carlson]]. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro, Carly Eiseman, and Esmé Gregson." | The original broadcast credits state: "Created in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. Recorded, edited, and mixed by Theo Mondle. Music production by [[Bob Carlson]]. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro, Carly Eiseman, and Esmé Gregson." | ||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
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[[Category:Bob Carlson]] | [[Category:Bob Carlson]] | ||
[[Category:Somewhere Out There]] | [[Category:Somewhere Out There]] | ||
[[Category:Show]] | [[Category:Show|Road To Calvary]] | ||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19960303]] {{Airdate|airdate=1996-03-03}} | [[Category:Show_by_date|19960303]] {{Airdate|airdate=1996-03-03}} | ||
{{Series|series=Somewhere Out There}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} |