[joe-frank-list] 'Jam'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	'Papa don't take no mess' (James Brown)
	Joe confesses to an affair with Melanie Loewenberg for the
last 3.5 years.  She's 33 years younger than Joe.  (Which would make
her 28 at the time of the show.)  Joe apologizes to everybody, invites
all sorts of spiritual leaders to a prayer breakfast.
	5:10: Joe talks to a preacher (David Cross) about faith.
	5:50: Larry calls, has been thinking of Joe.  He sounds drunk.
	6:20: The preacher talks about his faith.
	9:00: Larry talks to Joe about nature documentaries on TV, how
weird the people are.
	11:20: A guy leaves a long message on Joe's answering machine,
wants to get together; he puts on funny voices, including a Peter
Lorre impersonation.
	14:00: Joe asks the preacher why good people suffer and bad
people don't.
	19:10: Joe asks the preacher how he knows when god is present.
He says that god is always there, even when he leaves.  The preacher
finds a Canadian dollar.
	21:10: Naomi calls.  They schedule seeing 'Limbo' (the 1999
John Sayles film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_(1999_film)) at
the NuWilshire (http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1139 - an old
movie theatre in Santa Monica) at 3:30.
	21:40: Joe tells a mock fable about a child who grew to old
age in 1 day, sucked on the offered breast of a beautiful young woman,
which made him younger and her older; a unicorn and hippopotamus show
up.  It ends badly.
	25:20: Joe and the preacher talk about an older preacher who
has sex with young women in his congregation.
	27:00: The preacher tells Joe about ORT, a gang of Jewish
women, Israeli army soldiers, who corrupt Christian pastors.  They
talk about Jimmy Swaggart
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart) and Jim Bakker
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker), TV preachers whose
infidelities were caught out.
	28:30: Karen calls.
	32:20: Larry tells Joe about his current role.  He thinks he's
doing great acting, and that no one cares.
	35:50: Joe tells about Isabella, whose husband, a missionary,
becomes corrupt on his mission, but writes about his great successes
to Isabella.  Their 2 children suffer from his sins.  He refuses her
entreaties to return.  The children die.
	39:20: 'I was a rambunctious rebellious devil child...' the
preacher tells Joe about his misspent youth.  Then he saw god on a
Circle Line tour (https://www.circleline.com/) in NYC - he was the
maintenance man on the boat.
	42:30: Larry tells Joe about the baboon quarry at the
Frankfurt Zoo
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Zoological_Garden) in the
late '60s, when he was in the Army.
	44:00: Joe tells us how it is.
	47:50: The preacher tells Joe about stealing penny-candy.
Then they talk about death and the afterlife.

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russell bell