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 |data2 = [[UnFictional]]
 |header3 = Original Broadcast Date
-|data4  = 10/19/2015
+|data4  = 10/19/[[:Category:2015|2015]]
 |header5  = Cast
 |data6  = [[Ryan Cutrona]], [[David Cross]], Joe Frank
 |header7 = Format
-|data8 = [[:Category:Serious_Monologue|Serious Monologue]], [[:Category:Mock_Interview|Mock Interview]], 30 minutes
+|data8 = [[:Category:Serious_Monologue|Serious Monologue]], [[:Category:Mock_Interview|Mock Interview]], 27 minutes
 |header9 = Chronology
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 ''"Some native peoples, they would have a name like Soar Like An Eagle, that's the person's name..."''
-'''Downfall''' is a radio program produced by Joe Frank and broadcast on KCRW's [[UnFictional]] Series. It originally aired on October 19, 2015. This was Joe's final program.
+'''Downfall''' is a radio program produced by Joe Frank and broadcast on KCRW's [[UnFictional]] Series. It originally aired on October 19, [[:Category:2015|2015]]. This was Joe's final program.
 == Synopsis ==
+:50: A man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) and Joe 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<ref>Dr Nierenberg is also mentioned in [[When I'm Calling You]] and [[Bottle For A Headstone]]</ref> 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)}}
+{{The Watcher - Instrumental (Dr. Dre)}} [2:40]
-{{Funky For You (Deadbeats)}}
+{{Funky For You (Deadbeats)}} [7:35]
-{{Your Place (Zero 7)}}
+{{Your Place (Zero 7)}} [16:03]
 == Additional credits ==
 * Mixed by [[Ray Guarna]]
 * Special thanks to [[Michal Story]].
-== Commentary ==
-{{commentary}}
 == External links ==
 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr8SKS1y0cE "Downfall" on Joe's YouTube channel]
 * [https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-downfall "Downfall" streaming audio at KCRW]
+== Footnotes ==
 [[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
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 {{Series|series=UnFictional}}
 [[Category:Bob Carlson]]
+[[Category:Ray Guarna]]
 [[Category:2015]]
 [[Category:Show]]
 [[Category:Show_by_date|20151016]]	{{Airdate|airdate=2015-10-16}}
 {{Cast|cast=[[Ryan Cutrona]], [[David Cross]], Joe Frank}}