[joe-frank-list] 'Bible salesman'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	Joe's annoyed when people are referred to as 'larger than
life', imagines how he can be larger than life, slangs some famous
people who were characterized as larger than life.
	4:00: Joe tells of when he was a bible salesman.  His bibles
were defective - the manufacturer substituted random content for the
missing parts, including porn.
	9:30: Staying in a motel at night, Joe reflects on his
relationship with god.
	11:30: Joe tells of his mother's illness, that he had to put
her in a convalescent home, that he sold bibles to pay for her care.
He remembers that his mother was a Communist who objected to religion.
When Joe took an interest in Christianity when he was a boy, she
punished him.  Joe's father, trying to avoid appearing before the
House unamerican activities committee (HUAC) shot himself in the head.
He survived and named all sorts of people as Communists to HUAC, many
of them innocent.  His mother moved out, taking Joe.
	16:50: Joe tells of his encounters with women on the road.
	18:10: Joe comes upon a convent in Montana.  Because it had
run out of money the nuns prostitute themselves to keep it running.
Joe pimps for them, maims and kills Johns who don't pay.
	20:10: Joe also deals drugs.  His partner, Johnny, snorted an
ounce of cocaine he was supposed to sell, didn't have the money to pay
off Ramon, their supplier.  Joe has him dig his own grave then kills
him.  (Johnny mentions that they can sell cocaine at the Childe
Harold, which was a famous tavern in DC,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602370_pf.html
. In 'Why I don't love you anymore' Joe tells the story of Mike
Fremuth and him picking up a girl at the Childe Harold.  Mike Fremuth
eulogized his friend Jim in 'Goodbye'.)
	27:40: Joe and the nuns made enough money not only to save the convent
but to expand services.
	28:00: Now Joe wanders the country, not selling anything.
	29:10: 'I was on a raft, tied to a stake, drifting down the
river...'  Joe gives an account of surreal trip down the river; he
sees hippos both in the river and sunning themselves on the shore,
cutting a birthday cake made of tires.  He sees kids hitting a piñata
that looks like an old woman.  He sees a newlywed couple coming out of
a church; their car drives onto the sidewalk, running people over.  A
crowd stops the car, beats them, hangs them from lampposts.  Then they
all laugh about it, bury the people they killed.  He sees Jesus on
waterskis, pulled by a fat man in a rowboat.  Joe says he told this
dream to his analyst.  Joe walks into her closet, finds stairs that
take him to the catacombs beneath Rome.  He sees Jesus, still on his
waterskis.
	37:40: Joe must find peace, speculates on odd places where he
could find it.
	44:00: 'Is it better not to have happiness and to be in a
state of desperately wanting happiness or to be in a state of
not-caring that you're not happy...' - Joe discusses.
	45:30: 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' - Joe
discusses the author of this claim (wrongly).
	47:30: Joe tells of when he was an actor, playing Jesus in
'tableaux vivantes' of the crucifixion.  Although popular, he walks
away from it, goes to a local brothel, hire 2 girls, plays board
games, etc.  The girls reminded him of the nuns at the convent.

	Original credits: 'This is Joe Frank.  You've been listening
to "Somewhere out there", created in collaboration with Arthur Miller
and David Rapkin.  This program was edited and mixed by Theo Mondle;
music production by Bob Carlson; special thanks to Jennifer Ferro and
Esmé Gregson.'

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russell bell