The Marble Faun - Part 2

Everything Is Stories

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In part two of our episode we pick up with Jerry as he returns to New York City from Saudi Arabia. With money in his pocket he decides to indulge in a free lifestyle, immersing himself in the gay community at various bath houses and night clubs on a regular basis. After running a successful business and ultimately losing a loved one to the AIDS epidemic, he struggles with addiction in the rough and tumble 1980s East Village. From there we follow as he drives his taxi cab through a rapidly changing landscape, watching old haunts and the character of the city he once knew slowly disappear Produced by Bart Barshaw, Paulus Van Horn, Garrett Crowe, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray. Music by Total Control, Cocoa Leaf, and Dan Svizeny. Transcripts are available at everythingisstories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The truth of matter was, stories were everything and everything was stories.
0:06.8	Everybody told stories.
0:08.5	It was a way of seeing who they were in the world.
0:11.4	It was their understanding of themselves.
0:17.9	The truth of Tompkins Square Park was if you went in that park at night, you could be killed in 10 feet in.
0:29.3	They had fires burning.
0:30.9	They had tents.
0:32.2	There were all kinds of drugs.
0:34.5	There were all kinds of sick people.
0:36.9	I was out of control. Many people in the building
0:39.9	were heroin, cocaine addict. You'd hear shots at night. People would get shot right. A person got
0:45.5	stabbed at the front of my building. All kinds of darkness. There's one afternoon, I drive up to my building and go upstairs and I double
0:57.5	park and I come back downstairs and all hell is broken loose beyond the park
1:03.2	fence.
1:04.2	Both gallop.
1:05.2	People are heading onto the sidewalks on both sidewalks as the police head up Avenue A on horseback.
1:11.6	The horse is now torn back and are heading towards Avenue A.
1:14.6	There are people ripping tree limbs down and breaking car windows,
1:19.6	setting them a fire, and hoards and hundreds of people
1:23.6	racing around, dooring damage to storefront and all these vehicles, because the police was chased
1:29.9	getting them out of there for the night, perfect.
1:33.0	That's the sound of a helicopter.
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