From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of stories and personal documentaries and today on the program

another episode from radio storyteller Joe Frank. Every few months we've been

premiering a new episode from a radio legend who's been

producing work for most of the last three decades that is strange, dark, uncomfortable,

often hilarious, and weaves back and forth between the truth and the surreal.

And on today's episode, a man's experiences with women,

beginning with his mother, create misery for everyone.

And a warning that this program contains material that may be offensive to some people.

There's no foul language, but there is some mature and disturbing descriptions that are probably not suitable for children.

From KCRW.com, it's unfictional with sunken ship by Joe Frank. I'm visiting mom at the home. She tells me the food is unfit for humans.

Yesterday her tuna sat which had a fish head in it and last night she found the

tale of an animal in her potato salad. She says the food is going to

kill her. Look how skinny I am, she says. I'm just skin and bones and my clothes hang off me like they took the drapes down from the windows

and put them around my shoulders.

Do you know that the people who wash the toilet bowls are the same people who cook the food.

They make the beds and wash the clothes.

And when the clothes come back, they've got so much soap in them.

I swear I get bubbles under by arms. Every day is the same thing, she says.

You wake up, they dress you, bring you down for breakfast, then you go back to your room you read a magazine you watch

some TV you go to the bathroom I went three times today she says I sat on the toilet for 20 minutes I was

squeezing and squeezing and then finally one little plop you want to Here, look, I have it in my purse. And sometimes she says her bowel movements

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