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 == Synopsis ==
+:50: A man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) talk about Native American names, such
+as 'Soar Like An Eagle', 'Spotted Mouse', 'Hat Stench'.
+:00: Joe, hosting an episode of 'Travels across America' interviews
+Solomon Hicks ([[David Cross]]), mayor of Sand Hill, Georgia, which he
+has mismanaged to its ruin: potholes and craters in its streets, the
+collapse of a bridge, the roof of the elementary school auditorium,
+pollution of a lake.  Hicks has facetious explanations, plans to build
+the world's largest amusement park to divert Sand Hillers' attention.
+:50: Joe goes home, takes a bath, feels himself melting, dreams of
+playing chess with a mysterious cowled man while riding in a horse
+cart - 'a wheel came off the wagon, and a coffin fell out, spilling
+clocks ticking without hands.  And I watched legions of
+professionally-maimed and disfigured beggars follow tourists to their
+hotels and wait underneath their cars.'
+:20: Joe's lying on his back, lying beside a woman.  She gets up,
+rends her clothes, smears ashes on her forehead, cries out, "Where is
+God?"
+:00: They have just watched a report of a plane crashing in the
+South China Sea.  Joe wonders how the relatives of the victims feel.
+A letter was found in the wreckage, addressed to Joe, apparently from
+a girlfriend who wanted to break up with him.  Joe remembers the
+beginning of their relationship.  2 weeks after they moved in
+together, he came home to find everything gone.
+:00P: Joe lists places where one can and can't sing the blues.
+:00: Man (Cutrona) talks about a primitive Amazon tribe, that
+wealthy people are often unhappier.
+:20: Joe tells about seeing a therapist.  Their relationship evolved
+into a friendship; she ended up telling Joe more about her life than
+Joe told her about his.  She remembered her seventh birthday party, at
+which her father died.  Then she broke off the relationship.
+:50: Man (Cutrona) tells Joe about talking to his imaginary friend.
+:40: Joe notices people talking on their cellphones while they're
+driving.  Joe wonders whether it's because they're lonely or trying to
+impress others.
+:40: Joe asks Hicks about his affair with the wife of his opponent
+in the upcoming mayoral election.
+:40: 'I'm looking for a small, screw-top plastic container.  I
+believe I left it on my desk next to my notebooks beside a cup of
+coffee and a Danish, but I may have left it in the Fairmont Hotel's
+bathroom, because Dr. Nierenberg at the food table as I was eating
+some Kasha with kiwi fruit salad and pickled Vidalia onions said he
+required a urine sample immediately, and I was directed to follow the
+wrought iron fence facing the small gazebo at the end of the gravel
+path.'
+:40: Joe tells of being in the mens' room, comparing his urine
+stream to that of a robust young man, noticing the behavior of others.
+:50: Joe recounts that when he was 5, his father gave him 2 silver
+dollars, which he buried in the front yard.  A woman asked him what he
+was doing, said the silver dollars were hers, took them.
+:40: Joe and Hicks talk about prayer.
+<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">
 Downfall from Joe Frank consists of the interview of a mayor facing charges of incompetence and corruption, interspersed with contemplative conversations and dreamlike events… which is to say that Downfall is a comic program of dubious value, limited merit, debatable and problematic. In lieu of flowers please bathe more frequently. - [https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-downfall KCRW]
+</div></div>
 == Music ==
 {{The Watcher - Instrumental (Dr. Dre)}} [2:40]