Episode 72. We got the duo of Patrick from Boston and Willis from Oakland this week. Tales of explosive VD, Aerosmith gas station blowups, the evils of alcoholism, shapeshifting, valium, and so much more. Both are based in Los Angeles today. And Patrick has a new film you should absolutely go watch on Amazon Prime: “Desire Lines.” Link to watch in Instagram bio.
Episode 71. Our guest this week is our friend Brandon. Plus, everyone's favorite guest host, Reno, is back. The guys talk Skid Row magic, drug-dealing outta Cold Stone Creameries, taking crack with a cool glass of Mango Kool-Aid, becoming a Vape Guru, PCP, and everything else on the long road to recovery. Thanks for listening.
Episode 70. Our guests this week are the husband and wife team behind We Are Those People, an Austin-based non-profit dedicated to sharing stories of hope and recovery and erasing stigmas around addiction. They've got some amazing insights into recovery and some great stories including the how-they-met-in-recovery love story, plus, Danny retells his classic ghost story featuring Anton LaVey. Enjoy. Check out We Are Those People: https://www.wearethosepeople.org/...
We back! Our guest talks with the guys this week about benzos and prescription scams, sledding in the snow on lean, bad hookups, seances, getting sober at 21, micropenises, getting dosed at a Schpongle show, all the fucked up things you’ll still do sober, plus threesomes, STDs and cults. Enjoy. Watch the Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tny6F3Lk9FQ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad It's All Bad T-Shirts: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Follow us on Instagram: ...
Episode 68. Our guest today is a good, long-time friend of Danny's who saw it all in his time on the streets. The guys talk everything from war movies to getting robbed by prostitutes. From pookie bongs to running strip clubs. From gang banging to fighting for your life. And how doing drugs opens that portal to a lot of other disturbing shit. Enjoy. Watch the Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6o7kVKaxcUI Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad It's All Bad T-Shirts: https://i...
Episode 67. Horace Martin did not conform. Did not have a formal education. He's been a bricklayer, a sailor, a boxer, an actor, a felon, a regular at boys' homes, detention centers, lunatic asylums, and prisons. A very exciting life and also very painful. Sober 32 years. Born in Ireland, moved to England, and made his way to the states. Today he is a poet and an author. You can get his book on Amazon or where ever you get your books: https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Homes-Prisons-Lunatic-Asylums/...
Episode 66. Happy Halloween folks. To celebrate we've got a special episode from our dear friend Chris Boyer who spent the better part of a few years living (and partying) in an old, deeply haunted mansion in Hagerstown, Maryland. That, plus the usual, drug-infused madnesses. Enjoy.
Episode 65. We're joined this Halloween season by Sven all the way from Sweden. He talks with Mike and Danny about mushroom picking and liberty caps, why edibles shouldn't taste so good, taking a handful of mystery drugs, walking into places you're not supposed to be, designer psychedelics (2CE & 5MEODPD) and some deeply unsettling dream and ghost experiences. Enjoy. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad It's All Bad T-Shirts: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Follo...
Episode 64. Seth AKA Nada 5150 talks fighting, silk road and mail-order drugs, uncomfortable situations with prostitutes, rehabs with tigers, tattoos, and music. You can find him on Spotify, Youtube, SoundCloud, or wherever else you get your music. Seth has also been helping us out with audio mixing and mastering recently. Thanks for coming on Seth and sharing some madness. Glad you’re on our side. Follow Seth on Instagram and Check out his music: https://www.instagram.com/nada5150_/ Watch the E...
Episode 63. If you listen to our show you're probably already familiar with Dopey, "the podcast about drugs, addiction, and dumb shit." This week we got Dopey's host Dave on the phone to talk each of those things. Plus, death, methadone, good tweaker/junkie snacks, self-delusion, hustling for a fix, pushing daisies and the power of sharing these stories. Apologies in advance for the audio quality. We had to do this one over a 5-way phone which introduced a host of new problems. But it's a great ...
Episode 62. Wow. This is an epic tale. Each time we thought he hit bottom he just managed to make things worse. From casual drinking and blowing off steam after work, to immersing himself in 1990s LA rave scene and spiraling downward into meth. Gang warfare and mind-loosening psychedelic trips followed until he finally crashed and burned. All in the course of just a couple years. Eddie finally overcame his demons during an ayahuasca trip in Brazil. Which helped him restart his career as an anima...
Episode 61. Deedee talks with us about growing up the only brown girl in Orange County, adult adoption and its aftermath, working as a working girl in Hollywood, GHB, dine and dash manicures, raves, homelessness, digging through dookie for leftover shards of meth and so much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad It's All Bad merch: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Follow us on Instagram: @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com...
Episode 60. After blacking out the first time drinking, Kelly stuck (mostly) to weed and psychedelics through high school, then returned to alcohol at 21 and mixed them to some success...but mostly: Taco Bell DUIs, ruined relationships, mile high club while technically still on the clock (billed as travel day), wigging out on too much acid, Miller light and Jäger bombs. Kelly is a long-time listener who reached by email with some stories to tell. Enjoy. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon...
Episode 59. Rico’s email to us sums his episode up nicely: What's up guys, big fan of the show. I'm 29, I live in Boulder, CO and I have some stories from my past that I think would fit well. Some of my them include: - How I got expelled from high school - Spending a night on the street in New York - Waking up in a trash bag - Crashing my car on speed - Doing fentanyl before it was cool - Getting dusted in Santa Monica - How to stay awake for 100 hours All that and so much more. Thanks for liste...
Episode 57. This week we have a very different picture of New York. Ian Swordy escaped his wasp-y, Long Island upbringing in pursuit of punk rock, partying and political anarchy in the late 90s/early aughts. And while everyone around him got their legs snapped along the way, Ian seemed to coast through it all on a plate of blueberry pancakes and a message from God. That is until the message ran out. Ian eventually found himself alone, broke and wasted, waiting for someone who was never coming ba...
Episode 56. Charlie Hustle has earned himself a reputation as a wild-man, savage, graffiti savant. Raised by alcoholic parents in Brooklyn and then Staten Island, CH fell in love with graffiti by the 3rd grade. It gave him a community and a brotherhood that helped him navigate finding his own identity. But as New York changed under Giuliani in the 1990s, that community quickly escalated to violence, PCP every day and over 100 arrests in and out of Rikers Island. By 20, Charlie discovered recover...
Episode 55. So good that you'd get diarrhea just saying it's name. Hollywood in the 1980s. Our guest this week is Susannah, an old production friend of Keith's who went through the wringer of cocaine and alcohol addiction until she sent herself headlong into a coma and finally got the wake-up call she needed. (A ghostly visit from her deceased mother helped too.) This November she'll have 15 years sober and is ready to conquer the world in her 50s. WE GOT T-SHIRTS: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigc...
Episode 54. Burden of Concrete , the new book by William S. ("Scotty") Hayes is a harrowing account of his life. His tale begins with his teenage years and a brief foray into juvenile hall, then on to the county jail. By the early ‘90s, in the midst of an exploding Seattle music scene, he falls victim to the scourge of heroin addiction. The chaotic lifestyle that ensues thrusts him into a world of concrete: polluted cells and streets. We talk with Scotty and his friend Renee about the wizardry o...
Episode 53. It's All Bad welcomes our first intercontinental guest. Nathan of Victoria, Australia has been stabbed twice, broken every rib at least once, 8 broken noses, 17 broken hands, 3 missing teeth, 18-20 ODs, a golf club to the abdomen, a cricket bat to the head, etc. Now he's sober, happily married with 4 kids, working in recovery and an expert in criminology. We talk bikie gangs, drug dealing and hustling, serial killers, P2P's Australian origins, and that one friend who couldn't find a ...
Episode 52. Childhood friends/drug addicts, Gilbert Trejo and Andrew Mishko, join us to talk adolescent heart attacks and shooting cocaine on Planet Venice, CA. Plus, the craziest room Russian Danny ever set foot in, mushrooms while babysitting, and a never-ending story about meeting President Barrack Obama. And tutorials! How to (successfully) go 3 months without shitting, and how to file down a football pump for shooting dope (don't try any of this at home, ever). Also—maybe a first in podcast...
Episode 51. For Alison and her gang of morally depraved degenerates—known as the Manson Family—Isla Vista, CA in the 1990s was the party scene of all party scenes. The beachside college town was host to all kinds of mad shenanigans that ordinarily involved thousands of acid trips, car-jacking, white drugs, skateboarding, stripping naked, punk shows and Zima. Lots of Zima. Alison is 15 years sober today and joins us to share all this and more with you.
EPISODE 50. Thank you to everyone for great year of terrible stories. To celebrate our fiftieth episode, we've got 5 listeners calling in to share some of their own fuck ups. Plus, we're bringing back fan-favorite, Gabby (Episodes 7 & 8), to tell some Bay Area bangers. Here's to all of you who make this show possible, and to another year of bad stories. If you want to share a story in the future. Email us at itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com.MUSIC FROM THE EPISODE: Check out Jon's band Supercollid...
Episode 49. Get ready for some Covina bangers from longtime members of the Church of the Crystal Methodists. Lots of speed and cooking meth. Lots of escaping the police and dodging prison time. Some great America's Dumbest Criminal/botched crime stories. Some cautionary tales of selling to celebrities like Daryl Strawberry. Insane ghost stories. Aliens. Smoking PCP with Pony League coaches. Man. You name it, this episode's got it. Enjoy.
Episode 48. This week we have a double header for you. First up is Awesome Haley. A long-time fan from Missouri who has stories of DMT-making, mail-order research chemicals, haunted hotels, rubber-tramping gone bad and, of course, Juggalos. Haley is great and we are so grateful for her coming on. Then we have something totally different. What can you say about Cesar? He's in the thick of it. Turned onto drugs in his thirties after therapy didn't take, he's got stories of Grindr dates gone awry a...
Episode 47. Our guest this week is a longtime listener from Nebraska. David traded time between Lincoln and Fremont chasing meth and leading a blue-collar double-life between managing a restaurant and dealing with speed freaks. He toured the South as a drummer in a Red Dirt country band and caught a felony possession charge on a residue amount. Not to mention a deeply haunted apartment, Xanax nods, making love with lightning bugs, and the exorcism of his abusive ex-girlfriend. Congrats on one ye...
Episode 46. A self-proclaimed “terrible junkie” who would rather do his drugs alone in a bathroom than deal with the dirt, hustle and anxieties of life on the streets. Like a Larry David heroin addict who didn’t want to sit in traffic to cop. Michael Angelos grew up in Malibu and started getting himself in trouble very early with his first brush with sobriety at just 16 years old. He spent the 80s and 90s in and out of the Hollywood rock scene with bands like Jane’s Addiction—a scene where “you ...
Episode 45. They never got married, but still spent a honeymoon squatting at playhouses, apartments and Uhauls all over town as they smoked, shot and stole their way to rock bottom. Eventually, they pawned their engagement rings for $20 worth of methadone and checked into rehab. Here they are today, to tell us all about young love and bad memories in the heart of Hollywood.
Episode 44. Two places you don’t exactly want to see bad behavior. Methed-out, Peter goes up against forty cops in a hospital. Gets shot five times and faces five years in prison. Luckily he had his colostomy bag to keep him company. Meanwhile Olivia gets promoted, praised and forgiven for her consistent black-out drinking when she first moved to LA. Really this episode is about two VERY different people who both kept standing back up after getting knocked down hard. When, sometimes, the best th...
Episode 43. This week we pick up where we left off. Working in the recovery and the healthcare industry is hard enough sober. Stress. Mental illness. Pulling things out of patients' buttholes. Etc. Try it with a drug habit. In this episode we talk healthcare and schizophrenia. Threesomes and mushrooms. Zimas and drunkenly auditioning for The Price is Right. Reno walks all over town, Keith scores big at a garage sale and all parties slowly find their way out of that life. With the ability now to ...
Episode 42. The Orange County episode. One of many more to come because the OC has some serious demons to unpack. Just ask Gary (who would prefer to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.) From flashing crowds at punk rock shows to smoking meth at Knott’s Berry Farms. From the “Meth That Makes You Cum” to Darvocet cupcakes and Hessian stepdads. Plus! Gary’s own secret DIY dildo recipe. This episode has it all. In fact we couldn’t even fit it all in here. Part II with Gary is gonna drop next Monda...
