It's All Bad

We are BACK!  Season 3 starts Friday February 10th!   

We'd like to thank Sean for giving his time to tell us in great detail wacky stories about him smuggling drugs across the Mexican border, unintentionally taking way too much acid on several different occasions, getting raided by the DEA at a clandestine LSD party house in Texas. Plus tons of shit stories from all of us at It's All Bad.   

Episode 100. All of us here at Its All Bad know Chris as the salt to the earth. But he always wasn't like that. Imagine smoking so much crack that you smoked yourself sober. Hard to believe, but dude worked a rehab facility in the same building docked with a clothing optional gay hotel/bathhouse in West Hollywod. 

Episode 99. Selena has stories of getting raided by the Culver City swat  team with her parents! Getting a felony at 11 years old! Started using cocaine for medicinal purposes! Dating stage 5 clingers! Escaping from rehab in the hills of Malibu!  And a drug fueled threesome with an old lady and her boyfriend that went all bad!! Plus her story where she has a picture that proves ghosts really do exist!!!

Episode 98. Listen, let's not get it twisted. Two things that go great together are smoking meth and having sex. And quite possibly nobody knows that better than this week's guest, Lawrence. But between the laughs, he's telling it like it is too. Some shit in life is hard to hear. That doesn't mean we shouldn't hear it. Thanks for listening.

Episode 16. Listen, let's not get it twisted. Two things that go great together are smoking meth and having sex. And quite possibly nobody knows that better than this week's guest, Lawrence. But between the laughs, he's telling it like it is too. Some shit in life is hard to hear. That doesn't mean we shouldn't hear it. Thanks for listening.

Episode 97. Edgar started smoking crack at 13, and caught his first case at age 12, then moved onto meth at 14, then got jumped into gang at 14! countless GTA convictions, plus surviving several murder attempts on his life!  His story is unbelievable, you just can't make up a story up like his! There's even more riveting tales than what I've just listed that are on this episode! And in good fashion, he's now thriving sober where the promises are so ever present in his life today! What an incredible episode! This man is a true living miracle!

Episode 96. Leveling up from balls to pounds of meth, getting wire tapped and raided by the DEA, Surviving homelessness and importing meth into Germany in bottles of silicone lube! Accidentally taking acid at 12 years old. Her story on getting sober is both brutally honest and inspirational! 

Episode 96. Recorded LIVE Thursday, May 19th at the Echoplex with returning guests Big Lucks of the Hard Luck Show (Ep 39 & 40), Kingsley and Minerva (Ep 80), Gregory (Ep 79), Nick Curtis (Ep 89), Alex 2Tone of Powerful Truth Angels (Ep 11), Ann Pyne (Ep 69), Glynis (Ep 88), Reno (Ep 25 and waaay more), and your hosts—Risky Wager, Uncle Mike, Lawrence, and Ukrainian Danny. They're all here for It's All Bad. (Apologies we did not get a clean recording of Giant Drag's musical performance...Guess you had to be there!) Thanks to everyone who came out to support us and thanks to all those who couldn't make it but have continued to support us all these years anyway. We love you all.

Episode 95. Steve joins us today 10 years sober. Before that it was bad from the beginning. He grew up skating in San Diego and quickly gravitated towards alcoholism as a one-man sport. Then it was black outs by 3rd period. Hand tattoos. Dropping out of high school. Selling dope. Running fraud rings. Rack-and-returns. Friends getting life terms. Nodding out on the freeway. And shooting heroin in the hospital. But then, for Steve, came second chances and learning how to live. Thanks for joining us.

Episode 94. So sang Kris Kristofferson, and that lyric has never rung truer than with Mads. 4.2 GPA out of high school accompanied by a growing lust for bad behavior and all the tricks and treats that come with that, literally. After a scholarship to a top notch university, things got wild. To pay the bills and fund a blooming habit, Mads turned to the world's oldest profession. Morning sessions with repeat johns led to afternoon seminars in Quantum Physics. And now, on the other side of it all, thriving, she shares her riveting tale of the road less travel on another episode of It's All Bad.

Episode 93. Melanie Vesey joins Mike (whom she acted with in the early 2000s), Keith, and Reno to talk NYC clubbing and Go-Go Dancing, LOVING drugs, foxhole prayers, fentanyl strips, getting sober with friends, acting in Man On The Moon, contact highs, skinheads in the living room, movies, and recovering from getting shot by her girlfriend.

Episode 92. Norm joins us with Reno and Boston Patrick to talk Oaktown, speedballs at Chrstimas, lunatic fathers, America the Business, praising Jesus with a pookie, drowning on drugs, slow pimping, robbing from the East Bay Dragons, and the absence of life and other pivotal shit. Plus Reno breaks down his relapse at a Vegas tradeshow and Boston Patrick talks smoking grass, pumping gas, and...watching cable.

Episode 91. Adam from Dry Sockets and Mexi Mike fro Section H8 join us to talk punk rock, CCFs, Naltrexone implants, carpet sharking, smoking teeth, getting beat down by dead heads, busting out of camp, shooting coke in Mom's car, getting shot in the foot while on heroin, punk rock dentists (@o.t.h.punk), dad weed, staying sober during Covid, living with dental traumas and more. Plus, Reno goes to a Tim McGraw concert.

Episode 90. Krystal joins us with talk of superhero moms, growing up in Beverly Hills, clubbing from Hollywood to NYC and SF, manufacturing meth in Lancaster, Quaaludes, pulling tricks for better or much worse, shooting a guy, dating an Italian mobster, starting riots in prison, partying with Prince, straight men with guilty pleasures, crack vacations, cocaine seizures, bush people, and that good kind of dope that opens up your whole asshole to the world.

Episode 89. Nick and Gregory join us to talk homelessness in Hollywood, wannabe gang-banging, junkie tents vs tweaker tents, lawlessness, tentfires, moms whooping ass, homeless juggalos, catheters, dead hookers, degenerate communities, detox, blown out brains, robberies, giant dicks, and way, way more.

Episode 88. Our friend Glynis joins us this week to talk growing up in Worcester, escorting in Providence, fruity-flavored freebasing, smoking fentanyl, doing federal time, smuggling immigrants in from Mexico for a shockingly low amount of money, Oxy80s, Baby Daddy Demons, pyschosis and so much more.

Episode 87. We are stoked to have one of our favorite musical artists N8NOFACE on tonight to talk tweaking, colostomy bags, getting started in music, dealings with Narcos, robberies, outfitting private jets, and pissing orange. N8's story leads us from the Tuscon desert to Long Beach, CA. Go listen to his music. We love it.

Episode 86. One our favorite guests and friends Annie Hardy is back to talk tweaker types, gooning, rump bumping, schizophrenic stalking, trash loving, fucking like jack hammers, and how meth got her hired on the upcoming Blumhouse horror movie Dashcam. Plus some tales of prison, masturbation, and mixing PCP with meth from Lawrence and Ukrainian Danny. Shout out Dave for making this one sound good.

Episode 85. Long-time pals Jimmy and Jeff talk with the gang about Triple C Robotripping, breaking out of rehab, tweakers and bikes, doing meth on accident, superstitious tattoo artists, Morgellons psychosis, hot rails gone wrong, fuck mutt, and looking like they've done every drug on the planet in this epic from Riverside, CA.

Episode 84. This week, it's all crank. Keith's long-time buddy Phil and his pops, Ric—a founding congregant of the Church of the Crystal Methodists—tell stories of tweakers, psychosis, chemistry and cooking, from San Gabriel to Covina back before Walter White was Walter White. Today they're sober and successful musicians. Check 'em out at wildcardqm.com/

Episode 83. Josh “Bagel” Klassman is an underground photographer, surfer, and troublemaker born and raised in Venice, California. He talks getting your ass beat, hungover surf sessions at the Venice Breakwater, mushroom trips, the problems with hard drugs, giving fake names to cops, growing up with Jay Adams, living at Shangri-La in Zuma, and touring with Jane's Addiction.  Also one of the most haunted ghost stories we've heard. Thanks for listening. This Bagel has everything on it.

Episode 82. This is Jeremy Jackson. You know him as Hobie Buchannon from Baywatch. From the ‘Bu to the OC to the mean streets of the SFV… there's much, much more to the story. Welcome to another episode of It's All Bad.

Episose 81. This week's guest comes at us from Newfoundland, Canada. Brett Fizzard the Wizard started on hallucinogens when he was 12 years old and quickly made the move to opiates and stimulants. His stories involve UFO sightings, puking up teeth, woodland ghost spirits, being initiated into freemasonry while his best friend was overdosing at home, lunatics yelling “I'll suck your dick,” evil and sexual things at the end of the bed, and other weird folktales that only Newfoundland could produce. Enjoy.

Episode 80 - Minerva and Kingsley, two friends telling tales of how they met, relapse, cooking meth, getting kidnapped,  turning tricks, plus even more diabolical madness

Episode 79: Straight outta Gardena this weeks guest joins us to tell his tales of hooking in the mean streets of Hollywood. He'll sit on your face and order Amazon packages, tie you up and egg your house. Here's Trauma Boner!

Episode 78. Fresh out of the Fed Laura joins fan favorite and ex-HGH hustler with the golden pipes Reno, for tales of Chris Bathum, The Cecil Hotel of horrors, airport mayhem and much more bad Hollywood craziness!

Episode 77. Touring with the Grateful Dead, Smoking PCP with Lafayette, and the greatest relapse story of all time. 

Episode 76. Growing up a club kid in the 90s, trading alcohol for illicit drugs in foreign countries, and under-the-bar blowjobs with Gspot. 

Episode 75. 96 Hours of edging, sex dungeons, Covid lock-downs and sobriety with one of our favorite guests, Lawrence. 

Episode 74. If you've listened to the show before, then you heard the name Chris Collins. More than a few guests have name-dropped him in their stories. A good friend of Danny's, Chris joins Russian Danny, Keith and Lawrence in our new recording space (thank you Chris) to share some bangers for old time's sake. We back!!

Episoe 73. This week we have Atlanta born, rapper and musician Brooks Buford. He talks with Russian Danny, Keith and Seth about getting banned from dating apps, smoking crack on acid (AKA 'Space Basin'), going into rehab at 17, relapsing hard in the wake of success with his raprock group Rehab, uncomfortable sex stories, why he wishes he'd seen a ghost, the power of love, and so much more.  

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:  @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Follow us on Instagram:  @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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/dp/0578614871 Watch the Episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ItsAllBadPodcast Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad It's All Bad T-Shirts: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Follow us on Instagram:  @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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/ Follow us on Instagram:  @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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 Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DS4s9iriDpo Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad It's All Bad T-Shirts: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Follow us on Instagram:  @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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 other ways that we're excited to share. Enjoy! Listen to Dopey: https://www.dopeypodcast.com/ Support It's All Bad on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad Buy Some It's All Bad Ts: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Follow us on Instagram:  @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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 animator and find stability and family life. Thanks for joining us Eddie. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad It's All Bad T-Shirts: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Watch the Episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xalszg6ae-A Follow us on Instagram:  @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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.com/itsallbad It's All Bad T-Shirts: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RIazfiEdhgY Follow us on Instagram:  @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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 listening and stay safe. Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad It's All Bad T-Shirts:  https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/j8nhxhbM-Z0 Follow us on Instagram:  @itisallbad Email to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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 back. Today Ian—an artist—is 2 years sober and works un-ironically at a craft brewery in Bushwick. He has a new book out which you purchase from his site (below) along with his sculptures. Thanks for listening.  ianlcswordy.com It's All Bad T-Shirts: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ CHARLIE THE HUSTLER LIM. ED. T-SHIRT SALE ENDS SOON!!! Support us on Patreon for bonus stories from each episode: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUng8Iei558 Follow us on Instagram: @itisallbad Email us if you want to be on the show:  itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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 recovery in Arizona where he unrolled in acting classes at a community college. But then there was relapse, more violence, more arrests, taking on white leaders in the Mojave Desert prison system, and finally applying to halfway houses in Florida without medical insurance and bit-by-bit turning it around. Charlie has seen it all. Today he has 6 months sober and is happily settled in the Massachusetts countryside. SUPPORT CHARLIE THE HUSTLER: https://www.instagram.com/charlie_the... https://www.charliethehustler.com/ It's All Bad T-Shirts: https://itisallbadpodcast.bigcartel.com/ Support us on Patreon for bonus bangers: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhoJd5Pkqg Follow us on Instagram: @itisallbad Email us if you want to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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.bigcartel.com/ Support us on Patreon for bonus bangers: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RuTM7X3F1Xk Follow us on Instagram: @itisallbad Email us if you want to be on the show: itisallbadpodcast@gmail.com

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 of boosting, prison politics, Honeybuns, Fifi bags, Krokodil, ball-scraping, butt cheek-spreading, and everything in between. You can purchase Burden of Concrete on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Burden-Concrete-William-S-Hayes/dp/1940213061 Support us on Patreon for bonus content from this episode, early access to and discounts for IAB merch, and archived recordings from the earliest It's All Bad sessions https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad Follow us on Instagram for pics from the episode, bts content and announcements https://www.instagram.com/itisallbad/

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 way out. Support us on Patreon for bonus content from this episode: https://www.patreon.com/itsallbad On Patreon you'll also get access to the earliest It's All Bad recordings when we were still just getting our shit together. There are 2 sessions up there currently and more to come in the next few weeks. Follow us on Instagram for pics from the episode and behind-the-scenes content: https://www.instagram.com/itisallbad/ Shirts available to support BLM Los Angeles: https://calimucho.printavo.com/merch/together-we-are-stronger/products/it-s-all-bad-56336 More merch is on the way. Stay tuned.