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EP 26: GEOFF
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:36:05
Publish Date: 2017-04-29 17:40:42
Description:

Do you read or write poetry? Do you struggle with addiction? Are you interested in the history of New York City?

Then you are Geoff.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Geoff’s books:  themcsorleypoems.net

Geoff’s son’s book: http://a.co/j7zv4Le - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316231592

McSorley’s website: https://mcsorleysoldalehouse.nyc/

AA: http://www.aa.org/

Joseph Mitchell: Up In the Old Hotel - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210783.Up_in_the_Old_Hotel

Photograph of Babe Ruth: Nat Fein - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Fein

Music:

Billy Murray “The Streets of New York”

Hyden Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”

 

NOTES:

  • 2:00 Join our FB community group! - https://www.facebook.com/groups/afaceprojectcommunity/
  • 2:15 Info about Ask the Storyteller
  • 3:00 Next Ask the Storyteller is Julia (episode #2). She will be LIVE Sunday May 7th, 7pm CST in A Face Project: Community group on Facebook
  • 3:45 Natalie loses her voice
  • 5:50 About McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon and Joseph Mitchell
  • 9:45 Geoff’s story begins…”It’s the oldest operating bar in New York City…”
  • 11:00 Geoff gets an apartment above McSorley’s
  • 11:30 Grew up in an abusive household
  • 12:20 Geoff’s mother falls ill
  • 14:00 Geoff starts a writing program in NYC
  • 15:00 Started working the bar 44 years ago
  • 15:20 Recognizes he has a drinking problem
  • 16:20 Starts to feel suicidal and attends his first AA meeting
  • 18:30 Bar patrons try to get Geoff to drink after he was sober
  • 19:00 You lose friends, but it becomes about surviving
  • 20:15 “You don’t drink one day at a time.”
  • 21:25 “It’s the little things that can really drive people to drink.”
  • 22:11 The bar is where he is supposed to be
  • 22:57 Everything in the bar is original
  • 23:10 Nat Fein’s Babe Ruth photo inspires a poem in Geoff’s collection
  • 23:40 Geoff reads from his book
  • 25:50 All male bar until 1970
  • 26:40 Light & dark ale are the only things on tap...still
  • 27:30 Why is there sawdust on the floor?
  • 28:10 Simple food and a free trip through time
  • 28:25 “Be careful what you’re doing because you may end up doing it.”
  • 29:00 If you think you have a drinking problem, ask for help
  • 29:40 “There’s no shame in asking for help if you want to live.”
  • 30:35 What the bar has taught Geoff…
  • 31:05 If I drop dead tomorrow...
  • 32:30 Get a free sample of our magazine - http://www.afaceproject.com/
  • 34:45 Geoff reads another poem
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