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Geoff Douville
Geoffrey Douville (May 17, 1971 - February 1, 2020) was a musician, podcaster, filmmaker, and bar owner from New Orleans. He was a founding member of the eclectic band Egg Yolk Jubilee, co-host of an acclaimed New Orleans podcast, and maker of several short films.

Biography
Douville grew up in New Orleans. He attended Archbishop Rummel High School and the University of New Orleans, from which he graduated in 1993.

Douville co-founded Egg Yolk Jubilee in 1996, and remained a member until his death in 2020. He was a guitarist and singer with the band, and he wrote some of the band's songs including "Sex Robots."

With his friend Joel Jackson, Douville hosted the podcast It’s a Good Life, Babe: Geoff and Joel’s Tales from New Orleans, first from 2012 to 2014, during which time they recorded over 150 episodes, and again between 2016 and 2020 when they recorded 225 additional [?] episodes. It's a Good Life, Babe was included on two lists of four top New Orleans podcasts, and named as an extra on another top-ten list. [more about the podcast's notability or recognition?] In the podcast the two shared stories, often focused on New Orleans, particularly its music, culture, food, history, sports, and Jazzfest, often interviewing guests of renown and significance within the New Orleans community. Podcast guests with broader notability included James Andrews, Ben Jaffe, Kid Koala, Ben Ellman of Galactic, and Tank and the Bangas. The podcast's final four episodes, recorded in 2020 by Jackson after Douville's death, were tributes to Douville.

Douville was a professional film and television cameraman, regularly shooting at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Bonnaroo Festival (where he and Jackson met). He made several short films about New Orleans, as writer, director, cameraman, and in one case narrator. "Franklin and Dauphine," a short directed by Douville, was a segment in the 2012 compilation film Where Y'at (hello), the showings of which in 2012-13 included two film festivals and a brief display at a theater. Douville also directed a segment of the 2015 compilation film Dusk/Dark/Dawn.

Douville taught in the music industry program of Loyola University New Orleans (when?).

From 2009 to 2016, Douville co-owned the bar Lost Love Lounge (also called, at different times, Love's Lost Lounge) in New Orleans's Faubourg Marigny neighborhood.

Douville married Traci Birch in December 2019.

In early 2019, Douville was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. He died of cancer on February 1, 2020. Tipitina's held a tribute concert for him on March 5, 2020.