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    The Small Bow Podcast

    Welcome to the Small Bow Podcast. I’m your host, A.J. Daulerio. This is a show about expanding the definition of recovery, where we talk to writers, entertainers, recovering addicts, recovering jerks, and even the occasional normal person — about their struggles with love, sex, money, loneliness, shame, grief, drugs, alcohol, ego, identity, fame, and other fun things. Whatever is bringing you down, you might find something here that you didn’t know you needed.

    In addition to this podcast, the Small Bow is also a newsletter and recovery community that I started in 2018 to chronicle my own path toward sobriety and sanity following multiple rehab stints and a very public ordeal in which I was a co-defendant in Gawker’s groundbreaking legal trial against professional wrestler Hulk Hogan for publishing a portion of his sex tape. A Florida jury voted in favor of Hogan and awarded him $115 million, which bankrupted the company and torched my former life.

    But out of the ashes of that ordeal grew the Small Bow. If you like what we do, consider subscribing to our newsletter and joining our community. We publish essays, interviews and other musings on recovery, and have online recovery support meetings seven days a week.

    Sign up for the Small Bow newsletter & community at: http://www.thesmallbow.com

    IG: @smallbowmedia

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    Latest Episodes:
    The Weight Loss Feb 28, 2025
    Show notes

    Writer and director Cory Reeder shares about his life-long quest for inner peace from a family tragedy that haunted him for more than 30 years. Trigger warning: some graphic content.


    Show Notes:


    • Cory Reeder



    Defective Character Limits Feb 14, 2025
    Show notes

    NYT’s writer and author Kate Conger lets us know how she’s holding up since her once humble beat covering a billionaire troll who builds rockets and purchased Twitter has become much more intense, important, and crazy since he’s become a very active member of the Trump administration.


    Show Notes:


    • Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
    • Kate’s recent NYT’s stories

    Joy as an Act of Defiance Feb 07, 2025
    Show notes

    Writer Heather Havrilesky comes on to discuss her creative process and how doing super-vulnerable activities like her Zoom singing lessons helps her grow as a person. Sometimes, our greatest joys come from the process, not the results. As the world continues to fail us, we need more joy; we need more process.


    Show Notes:


    Ask Polly Columns:

    • “Passion Requires Slow Cultivation”
    • “Reckoning With This Vicious World”


    Death, Sex, and Money: “The Transcendent Power of Low-Stakes Art”


    Joan As Human Woman Jan 23, 2025
    Show notes

    Joan Wasser, AKA Joan As Policewoman walks us through her 20 years of sobriety, how her creativity has evolved, what defects remain, and the path of processing grief.


    Show Notes:


    Buy Joan’s Music and Merch

    Sober Oldster Interview



    All Meat Rots Jan 17, 2025
    Show notes

    Peaceful John returns to the pod just in time for the new year and we discuss how vanity and ego never go away, personal needs, and are friendships you develop inside recovery rooms real friendships? Plus, the usual sonorous laughter and deep-ass breaths found in all Peaceful John episodes.


    Notes:


    TSB Newsletter



    You Are F*cking Amazing! Jan 10, 2025
    Show notes

    This is a super Dopey episode of The Small Bow, where we speak with Dave Manheim about whether heroin addicts celebrate Dry January, our future ambitious plans for our respective projects, Dave’s book idea, and more.


    Show notes:


    Dopey Podcast

    TSB Newsletter

    Gabby Bernstein


    It’s Okay If You’re Not Ready Jan 01, 2025
    Show notes

    We revisit an old Small Bow essay about my first New Year’s Eve sober—all the feelings of self-pity and loneliness almost drove me to a very bizarre and off-putting relapse. Sobriety didn’t give me the peace of mind and the results I wanted right away. I beat myself up about it, but you don’t have to.


    Show notes:


    The Small Bow’s Newsletter

    Search Engine episode featuring A.J. Daulerio about Dry January

    [Swamp Dogg]


    The Fleeting Joys of Parenthood with George Bilgere Nov 15, 2024
    Show notes

    I talk to my version of Taylor Swift, Cleveland poet George Bilgere, whose writing and distinctive voice have influenced my post-sobriety writing (and parenting) more than anyone else. It's a time when a lot of new things come and go, and I want to figure out how to be okay with that.


    Show notes:

    Poetrytown.com

    Georgebilgere.com

    TSB story featuring George’s work.

    Writer’s Almanac Poems

    “Cheap Motels of My Youth” featured on Rattle


    In this episode:

    00:38 Hello and Welcome

    05:47 The interview begins

    10:32 How to be light and dark, Tony Hoagland

    18:50 "I forgot to say goodbye"

    26:29 Thinking about death and other endings, Billy Collins

    32:32 Children: Believe the hype! Grieving ahead of time

    34:35 Sources of Inspiration, Bilgere as aberration, Diaper moments

    40:45 How much should we micro-grieve?

    52:06 Is this Home?

    58:01 Preparing for the world


    Notes from the American Schoolyard with John Devore Nov 08, 2024
    Show notes

    Today we talk about how a lack of personal safety as little boys taught us how to be drunk, angry, impotent men. It’s about bullying and Bukowski and desperation and an inability to show love for ourselves and accept love from others. Usual shit.


    Show notes:

    John's book Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway.

    Swamp Dogg's record.


    In this episode:

    01:24 - Keep on trying

    06:06 - Curtains up, Beard ASMR, Daily Carry Bros

    08:57 - Military & Theatre

    15:20 - Meeting via Maxim, the Black Table

    21:20 - Bonding over 'party fouls'

    23:16 - The Email and the party

    26:21 - The language of toxic masculinity

    30:19 - Calling from the wreckage, John's advice to A.J.

    36:46 - The little old lady

    40:26 - Confronting fear in early sobriety

    47:51 - Jane Fonda's Toxic Masculinity Observation

    51:12 - Shakespeare on Masculinity, Back to Buk'

    55:48 - Kid Stardust on the Porter House

    1:00:22 - Trying to feel safe and loved

    1:03:33 - Live from the boxing gym, losing fights, mano a wall

    1:07:14 - Anger as an indicator

    1:09:43 - Revenge fantasies

    1:11:56 - How to become a villain

    1:18:56 - Schoolyard: 1 Bukoski: 0, Swamp does CCR


    The State of the State of the State Nov 01, 2024
    Show notes

    We pause to introduce a new segment, and talk shop about some big plans in the works for the new year. The Small Bow universe is growing in exciting ways, with help from some new friends. Also, a little Q&A about how things are going so far in Season 2, what's next for the podcast, and some industry gossip.


    Want to help guide things? Take two minutes to tell us what else you’d like to see from The Small Bow in our listener survey here.


    Things we mentioned:

    Hear A.J. interviewed on PJ’s podcast Search Engine here.

    Listen to the Death Sex and Money episode we’re talking about.

    Check out Garrett's newsletter Healings.

    Did we…already mention the survey? There’s a survey.


    In this episode:

    0:38 Intro

    0:57 SOTS?

    2:06 Growth Plans

    3:06 Survey, App plans

    11:12 What are people Googling?

    14:00 Doing less, check engine light, Death Sex & Money

    17:34 How the Slate Ask A.J. column is going

    20:26 A.J.'s app plans

    23:59 An entry point for early recovery

    29:40 Ads creator economy, high bar

    32:25 Partnering with people who want to work with us

    36:32 Around the world, around the world


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