Last New Year's Eve, Joe Lynskey was headed home from lunch and stepped onto an empty platform at 18th Street and 1st Avenue when he was violently pushed from behind and inches from being hit by a moving subway car. He survived. And his 12 years of recovery from drugs and alcohol are helping him move forward. 
 
Show Notes:
<ul>
 <li> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/nyregion/new-york-subway-shove-survivor.html">"He Was Pushed In Front of a Subway Car</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/nyregion/new-york-subway-shove-survivor.html">.</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/nyregion/new-york-subway-shove-survivor.html"> How did He Survive?"</a>
</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwGefoZjWdw">"NYC Subway Survivor Meets FDNY Who Saved Him"</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.thesmallbow.com/">The Small Bow Newsletter!</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/donate">Help Support TSB!</a></li>
</ul>

Last New Year's Eve, Joe Lynskey was headed home from lunch and stepped onto an empty platform at 18th Street and 1st Avenue when he was violently pushed from behind and inches from being hit by a moving subway car. He survived. And his 12 years of recovery from drugs and alcohol are helping him move forward. Show Notes: "He Was Pushed In Front of a Subway Car. How did He Survive?" "NYC Subway Survivor Meets FDNY Who Saved Him" The Small Bow Newsletter! Help Support TSB!

Last New Year's Eve, Joe Lynskey was headed home from lunch and stepped onto an empty platform at 18th Street and 1st Avenue when he was violently pushed from behind and inches from being hit by a moving subway car. He survived. And his 12 years of recovery from drugs and alcohol are helping him move forward.&nbsp;
 
Show&nbsp;Notes:
<ul>
 <li>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/nyregion/new-york-subway-shove-survivor.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">"He Was Pushed In Front of a Subway Car</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/nyregion/new-york-subway-shove-survivor.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">.</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/nyregion/new-york-subway-shove-survivor.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">&nbsp;How did He Survive?"</a>
</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwGefoZjWdw" rel="noopener noreferrer">"NYC Subway Survivor Meets FDNY Who Saved Him"</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.thesmallbow.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Small Bow Newsletter!</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer">Help Support TSB!</a></li>
</ul>

How to Survive a Nightmare w/Joe Lynskey

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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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

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 &amp; community at: http://www.thesmallbow.com

IG: @smallbowmedia

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