Fat Man Down

Fat Man Down [1]
Series
	Somewhere Out There
Original Broadcast Date
	5/24/1997
Cast
	Joe Frank
Format
	Serious Monologue, Absurd Monologue, 58 minutes
Preceded by:	A Death In The Family
Followed by:	Talk To Me
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He tries to sleep as long as possible. When he feels himself rousing...

Fat Man Down is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Somewhere Out There. It was originally broadcast on May 24, 1997.

Synopsis

A washed-up musician tries to fill time.
As an old man, he's in a hospital, but imagines he is in a resort.
As a college student, he steals brownies from Howard Johnson's restaurants on road trips between home and school. He fills his trunk with them. Later then put them back.
In New York he gets a job as a janitor at a church and dates a German waitress who he makes love to on the alter of the church, and his caught by a priest.
Stealing sunglasses, cafe meals.
Telemarketing for an opera company.
Subway stations as an underground world.
His mother tries to kill herself.
His mother sings The Linden Tree at a restaurant, talks about wanting to become a singer.
Playing music in a bar.
Walking in central park and becoming ill.
Dream of about being lost and leading a child through a strange city, trying to call his mother at the phone company from a booth. Hiring prostitutes.
A woman whispers in German.

This program shares most of its text with Dreams of The River, but includes hospital scenes in place of the scenes from a boat going downriver, persistent background music, and no sound effects. This is not a remix, but a recording of the same text with small changes. Also contains a third person version of the telephone booth story from Islands.
Much of the text in this program also appeared in the short story Fat Man, published in The Queen of Puerto Rico.