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 == Synopsis ==
+:20: Joe describes a serial killer in Ohio, a postal employee, who
+killed 43.<ref>I can't identify this person.  It sounds like John
+Wayne Gacy, but his details were different.</ref>
+:20: Peruvian conjoined twins separated in Washington, DC.<ref>I
+can't find this story.  In recent accounts Peruvian physicians
+separate their conjoined twins.</ref>
+:00: Joe tells of the woman who killed her 2 boys to have a
+relationship with a man.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith Susan Smith]</ref>
+:30: Joe tells of Roman Catholic priests who have molested
+children protected by the church.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_priests%27_sex_abuse_scandal Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal]</ref>
+:20: Joe tells of the 'DC Sniper'<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Boyd_Malvo Lee Boyd Malvo]</ref>.
+:50: Joe tells of the California congressman who had an affair with
+an intern; she was discovered murdered; he was
+suspected. <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Levy Chandra Levy]</ref><ref>but wasn't guilty.</ref>
+:20: Joe tells of 23 illegal immigrants, bound to work in a Houston
+factory, are found dead of heat stroke in a cargo container.<ref>I
+can't find this story; I know of Chinese immigrants in a container in
+NY harbor who suffocated and immigrants in box cars in Texas who
+cooked to death.</ref>
+:40: Young Russian women lured to the US with promises of good jobs
+are forced into prostitution.
+:00: Larry and Joe talk about their favorite lines from Frost
+poems.
+:50: Joe tells of the nightclub fire that killed 100.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire Station nightclub fire]</ref> says that
+there were others' in Japan and Argentina and elsewhere around the
+world'.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nightclub_fires List of nightclub fires]</ref> He
+talks about the callousness of the reporters who cover the stories.
+:10: Joe tells of the toddler entered in beauty contests,
+her murder.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JonBenet_Ramsey JonBenet Ramsey]</ref>
+:40: Joe tells of the young woman kidnapped by a cult leader.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Smart Elizabeth Smart]</ref>
+:00: Joe tells of the murder of a pregnant woman by her
+husband.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laci_Peterson Laci Peterson]</ref>
+:10: Joe tells of the woman in a coma, fought over by her
+husband and parents.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo Terry Schiavo]</ref>
+:50: Larry tells the story of his daughter accompanying her friend,
+whose mother in Chicago just had a massive stroke, to visit the
+mother.  Larry and Joe compare their ills.
+:30: Joe says his mother told him, when he was being treated for
+bladder cancer in 1991, that it's worse for her than him.
+:50: Joe tells of the teacher who had an affair with a
+-year-old student.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra_Lafave Debra Lafave]</ref> wishes
+he had had an older lover when he was a boy.
+:00: Joe tells of the fellow who parked his car on the train
+tracks to impress a lover who jilted him.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Alvarez Juan Manuel Alvarez]</ref>
+:40: Joe tells of the trial of a pop star tried for child
+molesting.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson:_2005_trial Michael Jackson trial]</ref>
+:20: Joe tells of the earthquake in 2004 that caused a
+tsunami that killed hundreds of
+thousands.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake 2004 Indian ocean earthquake]</ref>
+:50: Joe tells of dealing with the aftermath of the Rwanda
+genocide.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_genocide Rwanda genocide]</ref>
+:10: Joe tells of the Darfur conflict.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict Darfur conflict]</ref>
+:40: Joe tells of the westerner beheaded by Arab insurgents.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl Daniel Pearl]</ref>
+:00: Joe tells of suicide bombers in mosques.
+:10: Joe tells of injured veterans at Walter Reed.
+:40: Joe contrasts the $15K bonuses offered for enlistment to
+the luxury of the wealthy.
+:40: Joe mentions the dangers of avian flu, holes in the
+ozone layer, global warming, destruction of the Brazilian rainforest,
+nuclear waste, al Qaeda terrorists.
+:00: Lester Nafzger tells Joe about a game he played in school,
+'Smear the queer'<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smear_the_queer Smear the queer]</ref>.  Lester says he's against self-deprecating
+jokes.
+:30: Joe tells Lester about his 'date' with Ariana Huffington.  They
+go walking.  Joe took 2 valium, couldn't keep up.  She never called
+him again.
+:40: 'Each one of us in his or her life has taken small
+imperceptible steps that added together in the aggregate have changed
+us profoundly - millions of steps...' Joe talks about the steps we
+take in life, their significance.
+:30: 'The first chief rabbi of Palestine in the 1920s, before the
+Holocaust, said that in the face of the suffering in this world, to
+not contemplate atheism is itself almost sinful.'  Joe says we want
+the transcendent, tells of a rabbi who spoke of 'theological
+pointillism', that one has to look at the larger picture, not details.
+:40: 'I've had a few experiences which I would consider genuinely
+religious where I felt the presence of something beyond myself...' Joe
+talks about why he doesn't participate in organized religion,
+questions practices of Evangelic Christianity and Islam.
+:40: Joe suggests that if Jerry Falwell had been raised in Qum,
+Iran, instead, he would have been as passionately Muslim; that
+Khomeini, raised in an Evangelic Christian family, would have been as
+passionately Christian.
+:30: Joe tells of having Chef Boyardee spaghetti and meatballs for
+the first time since he was 16.  An old friend from high school calls
+him, mocks him for his age, says he's probably eating Chef Boyardee
+spaghetti and meatballs.
+:20: Joe tells of seeing the store 'Tuesday Morning' while driving
+on Santa Monica Boulevard<ref>901</ref> to St John's hospital<ref>2121 Santa Monica Boulevard</ref><ref>so Joe's
+going away from the ocean</ref> to visit his mother just as the DJ on KCRW
+announces that it's Tuesday morning.  He finds the coincidence
+significant.  He stops in on his way back from the hospital, finds it
+full of kitschy junk.
+:30: Joe wonders if the 2 coincidences are significant, that
+something is going on, imagines it's his late father, asks Lester what
+he thinks.
+:00: Lester says he thinks it's because Joe is concerned
+about death, that, if he looked carefully at other events in his life,
+he'd find similar coincidences, worries that saying so may harm the
+comfort Joe gets from feeling that someone is looking after him.
+<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;">
+<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
+<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
 *Distressing news stories that reflect a world in chaos, serve as a repeated motif throughout this program.
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 *'''Monologue:''' the innumerable steps that make up and change our lives, taking us inexorably towards death. Metaphors on time, progress and death. Atheism vs. longing for God. Evil: can it be seen in perspective? Seeing God as the unknown. Joe on his own religious outlook. Rejecting the "join us or face eternal damnation" concept behind organized religion. Upbringing as a source of religious conviction.
 *Joe talks to Lester about facing his own death: twice he has fought cancer. Extreme coincidences in his life suggesting an unseen force; these experiences are comforting to Joe. A heartfelt conversation concludes the program, Lester is skeptical about the coincidences but reluctant to hurt his friend's feelings or shake what little faith he has left.
+</div></div>
 == Music ==
 {{A Mother (For Your Mind) (The Herbaliser)‎}} [Intro]
 {{Coming Down (Future Loop Foundation)}} [34:25]
+== Footnotes ==
 [[Category:Telephone]]