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 == Synopsis ==
+Joe tells of his father, a beloved professor, dying in hospital.  Joe
+sees a horrific crash on the street.  His father pulls out his IVs and
+wires.  Joe goes to fetch a nurse, finds her copulating with a
+patient.  He hears his phone ring, goes back to his father's room:
+it's his wife, Darlene<ref> Darlene is his wife in [[Prison Songs]],
+the hostess in [[Obsessions]]</ref>, angry about missed alimony
+payments.  Joe prays for his father, after which he dies.
+:30: At the funeral a few days later, Joe's mother goes to the
+coffin, wails, falls dead.  They put her in the coffin.  A
+thunderstorm washed out the road to the cemetery, so they take an
+alternate route and get lost.  A bridge collapses under the cortege.
+The cemetery floods, coffins and skeletons float away.  Lightning
+strikes the church, setting it and the people inside on fire.  A
+traffic helicopter crashes into a mausoleum.  2 shabbily-dressed girls
+emerge from the underbrush, throw stones at Joe, call him a Jew
+bastard.  Joe decides the universe is malignant.
+:20: Joe has a powerful dream of an angel.  Then he starts seeing
+her everywhere, becomes obsessed with her.
+:10: Joe sees her in a neighborhood restaurant.  They spend the
+evening together: a walk, a ride in a horse-drawn carriage, a jazz
+club, a cabaret, shopping at the drug store.  She goes home in a cab
+that leaves before she gives Joe her phone number.
+:00: Joe recalls being at a resort when a child.  His parents were
+dancing, in love, stylish.  After it starts to rain, everyone else
+flees, but his parents continue to dance.  'It was the happiest most
+memorable and most deeply moving time in my life; it was the only time
+I felt truly at peace.'
+:30: Joe recounts a dream, seeing a 'Sicilian
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loni_Anderson Loni Anderson]' at a
+restaurant.  They leave together in a cab while Joe's girlfriend,
+Justine<ref>also his girlfriend in [[Justine]] and [[The Sacred]]</ref>,
+leaves in another.  His cabbie has to wait to pick up
+another passenger, a pony.  Joe can't wait because he has to get to
+Justine's, so he gets out, hails another cab, ends up in a bus.  Joe
+sees the woman in the street, on a ladder, breasts exposed, squirting
+milk.
+:30: Joe recalls when he was about 19.  He meets a 29-year-old woman
+in a club.  He goes home with her.  They make love.
+:20: Joe recounts his expedition to climb
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2 K2]. Joe recruits a team of
+completely-unprepared people.  They carry the wrong equipment.  They
+don't prepare.  They get out of shape.  They forgo maps.  They bring a
+marching band.  They take LSD and get drunk.  Many die.  They never
+climb the mountain but like to think they did.  They get together
+annually to remember the expedition.
+<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">
 *Joe watches his wonderful and respected father painfully wasting away.
 *A grisly car accident occurs outside his hospital window. Joe's father is near death.
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 *Climbing K2. "And so we had a prodigiously psychedelic experience."<ref>This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY908oLJVmw segment] is on the Joe Frank channel of YouTube</ref>
+</div></div>
+== Additional credits ==
+Closing credits: 'This is Joe Frank.  You've been listening to
+"Somewhere out there".  This program was created in collaboration with
+Arthur Miller and David Rapkin; recorded, edited, mixed, and music
+looping by Bob Carlson, with special guest vocalist Judith Owen and
+sax player David Brown.  Thanks also to Jennifer Ferro, Carly Eiseman
+and Esm&eacute; Gregson.  "Somewhere out there" will return next week
+at the same time.'
 == Music ==
 {{Valencia (Rachid Taha)}} [Intro]
 {{Buried At Sea (MC 900 Ft Jesus)}} [31:59]
+Judith Owen vocalizes and David Brown plays sax for the opening segments, backed by Taha's 'Valencia'.
 == Footnotes ==
 [[Category:Absurd Monologue]]