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80 Yard Run, The

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The frightening fight between Luis Rodriguez and Hurricane Carter. The art of bullfighting explained. Joe’s grad student days at the University of Iowa during football fever. Joe enjoys an erotic experience with a stranger in a movie theater. A drunken football game leads to Joe’s 80 yard run into a herd of oncoming bulls.

Series: NPR Playhouse and WBAI
Show Type: Monologue
Cast: Joe Frank
Air Date: 09-18-1979
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

Category: NPR Playhouse and WBAI.

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Series: NPR Playhouse and WBAI
Show Type: Monologue
Cast: Joe Frank
Air Date: 09-18-1979
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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"Joe Frank is a singular voice in radio. What he has done is hypnotic, psychotic, neurotic, sad, terrifying, and some of the funniest stuff I have ever heard anywhere. I can't think of another radio performer who has come close to achieving this kind of alchemy."

Charlie Kaufman, filmmaker

"You don't have to close your eyes to appreciate Joe Frank's dense audio universe cascading out of your radio. It helps, though, because there are so many layers - of sound, philosophy, of reality-coursing through his dramas... Come to think of it, after awhile, you won't want to close your eyes because in Frank's short stories for the radio, the tension and pathos are as enveloping as they are intriguing... "

The Washington Post

"[Joe Frank is] the most imaginative, literate monologist in radio today... If a microphone could capture the nether recesses of the modern psyche, it would sound like Frank's absurd comical excursions: Radio Vertigo."

The Village Voice

"I came upon Joe Frank's work by accident a number of years ago while driving to my home in the Napa Valley late at night. I couldn't believe the originality and sheer brilliance of what I was hearing. From that moment on I became a dedicated Joe Frank fan. Joe Frank's shows raise the most interesting and enduring questions in new and original ways and are consistently thought-provoking and very funny."

Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker

"Mixing bizarre monologues, multi-sequenced dramatic vignettes and mock-solemn critiques, [Joe Frank's work] is both sophisticated and surreal. A sizable cult has been growing around Frank...a rare radio talent."

The Village Voice

"Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon Magazine

"[Frank] travels in the emotional landscape of Bergman and Fellini; there's a tension and sense of mystery halfway between Kafka and Chandler... and a satiric edge worthy of Firesign Theatre and Woody Allen... No one else in radio is doing what Frank does."

The Washington Post

"To me, he's what radio is really for... his show makes me think he's getting to some great truth... so completely captivating and just unlike anything else."

David Sedaris, writer

"Joe Frank's often bizarre scenarios for the mind are decidedly offbeat radio fare...part surreal satire, part bizarre meditation, part fever dream."

Los Angeles Daily News

"The perfect Joe Frank experience is driving down an unfamiliar highway alone at night. You turn on your radio and are greeted by a lush, resonant voice that lulls you into a seemingly simple tale of love: a man at an airport saying goodbye to his wife over the phone, which abruptly turns into a vision of betrayal, alienation and death - often from obscure disease - all brought about by some profound personal failing, which is redeemed at the last moment by a nearly transcendent moment of joy."

Salon

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80 Yard Run, The

Series: NPR Playhouse and WBAI

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 09-18-1979

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: NPR Playhouse and WBAI

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 09-18-1979

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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80 Yard Run, The

Series: NPR Playhouse and WBAI

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 09-18-1979

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: NPR Playhouse and WBAI

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 09-18-1979

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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