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 '''Thief''' is a radio show produced by Joe Frank which aired on KCRW's series [[UnFictional]]. It was originally broadcast September 25, [[:Category:2012|2012]]
 == Synopsis ==
+:00: When he was eight, Joe began stealing stuff from his parents.
+When they were out he'd go into their room, rummage around, take stuff
+he liked.
+:40: One afternoon he found photographs of himself as an infant with
+people he did not recognize.  He wanted to ask his parents about them
+but didn't want to reveal he was a thief.
+:10: His own stuff started disappearing.  The house became bare.
+:50: The parents put up surveillance cameras, hired a guard.  Joe
+barricaded his door.
+:30: Joe cracked, asked about the pictures.  His parents didn't know
+who those people were either.
+:50: They made up.
+:50: His parents took in a Romanian exchange student, Angelisa
+(sp?).  Joe fell in love with her.
+:40 While rummaging in her room Joe found a love letter from his
+father to Angelisa.  He put it in his mother's purse.  He ran away
+from home for a day, met a clown whose trick flower squirted water in
+his eye.
+:30: The next evening, when his father returned from work, he found
+the house empty of everything except his clothes, their photo albums
+in ashes in the fireplace.
+:40: He walked into town the next day, found the bank account
+cleaned out, their house foreclosed.  When he walked back home the
+house had disappeared, homeless people were living on the lot.
+:50: Joe returned.  He and his father went out to the highway,
+hitchhiked.  A truck, trying to stop for them, jack-knifed, killing
+his father.  Joe found the driver unconscious, dragged him out of the
+cab, drove off with the truck.<ref>Notice the similarity of this story
+with McKenzie's in [[Duplicity]].</ref>
+:40: Joe describes the lavish party Alberto Mu&ntilde;oz threw for
+his birthday last week, 'beautiful young showgirls, overweight
+powerful businessmen, and children with gift bags of sweets and toys.
+At the front gate, footmen in liveried uniforms parked cars while
+Nubian slave girls, holding high silver and gold inlaid trays of hors
+d'oeuvres and champagne, circulated through the festive crowd.'
+:50: Mu&ntilde;oz gives Joe 'a small lake in which model ships
+engaged in battles firing miniature cannons to replicate the famous
+naval campaigns in history.'
+:40: Mu&ntilde;oz leads a drug cartel; all his opponents die violently.
+:50: The police arrest Joe and other members of the cartel, put them
+in 'a palatial prison with huge bedrooms and marble bathrooms, an
+Olympic-sized heated swimming pool, a brothel featuring the most
+gorgeous schoolgirls.'  They escape with the warden's help, go into
+exile on Mexico's Caribbean coast.
+:30: Superman is Joe's hero when he's six.  He asks questions about
+him of his parents, who treat them as frivolous, which miffs Joe.
+<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">
 Multiple thefts lead to paranoia in a suburban family, love dies and the crime rate goes up.
+</div></div>
 == Music ==
 {{Down and Out (Boozoo Bajou)}} [Intro]
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 * [https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-thief Thief streaming audio at KCRW]
+== Footnotes ==
 [[Category:2012]]
 [[Category:UnFictional]]