Joe: Script for Audio Excerpt

Joe: Script for audio excerpt

Kathy: Do you love Johnny Cash? Joe: Hi, I'm Johnny Cash (singing). Kathy: Is that your favorite type of music? Joe: (singing) Take this job and shove it. I'm not coming this place no more. He used to say that. Kathy: I will sing that with you if you want to sing it because I do, I really love that song. Joe: Do you like Kenny Rogers? Kathy: Yes, I do like Kenny Rogers. Joe: Know when to hold em, Kathy: Know when to walk away… Joe: Country Western. Kathy: Exactly. Do you get to play music here? No? How long you’ve been here? Joe: I’ve been here about 20 years. Kathy: Wow. Do you remember when you first came? Joe: Yeah, I was young. Kathy: Were you? You're still young. Joe: Yeah, but I'm getting up there now. Kathy: Ok, oh. Kathy: Well do you have good friends here? Joe: I have a couple friends. Not that much. Kathy: Mm-hm. Joe: You know Myers? He’s not here no more. He passed away. Kathy: I'm sorry. Joe: He’d been sick a long time. Celia: You were friends. Joe: Yeah. Joe: I do miss, I my all my friends passed away. Celia: Sure. Joe: I’m running out of friends, a little bit. You know, a little bit sad or I sad and were not too happy… Kathy: Well maybe you'll get some new friends. Joe: I figured I have to move on to a different job. Like I been doing, like I did a long time ago with more people like me. Kathy: Right. Are you a good worker? Joe: Oh yeah. Everybody says…you know the bottles, they're like 50 pounds. They say, “Joe, you're strong, lifting boxes up.” Kathy: Mm hmm. That’s heavy. Does it feel good to keep busy? Joe: Keeps me out of trouble. Kathy: And keeps you in shape? Joe: Yep. Kathy: Yeah that’s true. Makes the day go by? Joe: Fast. Kathy: Yes. But you said you'd like to work somewhere else. Where is that? Joe: I’ll think on that. Kathy: Yeah, that’s OK. You can think about it. Joe: Maybe at the store or things like that. Kathy: Is that sound more… Joe: Restaurant. I can work there too. I’d like that. Joe: But I don’t know what I’m doing here. I'm smart and high functioning, I don’t know why they put me here.