From shiro at uclink4.berkeley.edu Mon Aug 2 01:52:12 2004 From: shiro at uclink4.berkeley.edu (Erik Shirokoff) Date: Mon Aug 2 01:52:17 2004 Subject: [joe-frank-list] Origin of the telephone medium/preacher clip? Message-ID: <20040802085212.GA11640@jabberwock.hopto.org> Hi folks - This isn't exactly a name-that-show question, but it's close. In several of Joe's programs (Prayer, A Natural Disaster, Bible Stories, Men of the Cloth) there are clips in which someone posing as a medium/preacher calls people on the telephone and tries to convince them to repeat absurd prayers. Somewhere, some time in the last decade, I remember hearing an explanation for the clip. It involved a recording engineer somewhere making prank telephone calls and then secretly distributing the tapes to radio people. Did anyone else hear the explanation for that clip? Any idea where it was? I *think* the explanation was on a radio program, and I seem to remember it wasn't immediately associated with Joe. A couple likely guesses are: an episode of This American Life, an Over the Edge show, an interview in a random news or arts program, or possibly an announcer or pledge drive jockey introducing a show. But, memory being what it is, its possible it was actually a text article somewhere. Any clues? - Erik From Peisithanatos at aol.com Mon Aug 2 02:02:22 2004 From: Peisithanatos at aol.com (Peisithanatos@aol.com) Date: Mon Aug 2 02:02:34 2004 Subject: [joe-frank-list] Origin of the telephone medium/preacher clip? Message-ID: <155.3b10dd3d.2e3f5d1e@aol.com> "Alice is a member of our Spirit group".... hAhahHA! Classic! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.armory.com/pipermail/joe-frank-list/attachments/20040802/5ec7d44e/attachment.htm From contact at joefrank.com Mon Aug 2 21:18:34 2004 From: contact at joefrank.com (contact@joefrank.com) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:18:54 2004 Subject: [joe-frank-list] Origin of the telephone medium/preacher clip? In-Reply-To: <20040802085212.GA11640@jabberwock.hopto.org> References: <20040802085212.GA11640@jabberwock.hopto.org> Message-ID: <1091506714.410f121ad1f98@dns20.dnsback.com> This American Life got the material through Joe Frank who originally aired it (Joe never broadcasts material from other radio programs). The material originated from a sound artist in Baltimore who also appears in another Joe Frank show, "Hot Line." The artist's name is David Franks. Quoting Erik Shirokoff : > > Hi folks - > > This isn't exactly a name-that-show question, but it's close. > > In several of Joe's programs (Prayer, A Natural Disaster, Bible Stories, Men > of the Cloth) there are clips in which someone posing as a medium/preacher > calls people on the telephone and tries to convince them to repeat absurd > prayers. > > Somewhere, some time in the last decade, I remember hearing an explanation > for the clip. It involved a recording engineer somewhere making prank > telephone calls and then secretly distributing the tapes to radio people. > > Did anyone else hear the explanation for that clip? Any idea where it was? > > I *think* the explanation was on a radio program, and I seem to remember it > wasn't immediately associated with Joe. A couple likely guesses are: an > episode of This American Life, an Over the Edge show, an interview in a > random news or arts program, or possibly an announcer or pledge drive jockey > introducing a show. But, memory being what it is, its possible it was > actually a text article somewhere. > > Any clues? > > - Erik > _______________________________________________ > Joe Frank Mailing List > joe-frank-list@armory.com > http://www.armory.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/joe-frank-list > Best, The Joe Frank Team From uhohjf at yahoo.com Sat Aug 7 22:42:01 2004 From: uhohjf at yahoo.com (B. Thong) Date: Sat Aug 7 22:43:37 2004 Subject: [joe-frank-list] Audio blogging? Message-ID: <20040808054201.60926.qmail@web41208.mail.yahoo.com> I just procrastinated an hour or two away searching for random information on the net and went on a splurge into web blogging... then audio blogging, and thought wouldn't it great if Joe started a blog? an audio blog especially? He could just call up some number (i would imagine) and start recording whatever was on his mind. Short snippets of what's going on in his life, his mind. I was listening to one guy's audioblog and couldn't continue. He was sharing stuff that was... I don't know, uninteresting. It wasn't going anywhere. Just random thoughts, with the contents of which expressed the fact that he knew what he was doing... recording a raw message to who knows where, surely thinking that someone will listen to it. But there wasn't any content, meaning, anything that was being transmitted of emotional/intellectual worth. Then, of course, I thought of Joe. But then, in such an unedited version of what he has to say, would it be 'compelling' enough for me to continue? A frightening thought. But heck, I just need a dose of escapism, no matter how meaningless. B __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com