Jeremy Jackson Wasn’t Always Relaxin
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.
2hr 33m Feb 16, 2022
2hr 33m
Newfoundland UFOs, ODs and Woodland Spirits with Brett Fizzard
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 ...
2hr 7m Feb 09, 2022
2hr 7m
What Happens at the Roosevelt, Stays at the Roosevelt
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
2hr 7m Feb 01, 2022
2hr 7m
Scat, House of Pies and good ol fashioned hookin’ with Gregory.
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!
1hr 21m Jan 27, 2022
1hr 21m
Credit Cards and Chunky Shards with Laura
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!
2hr 43m Dec 15, 2021
2hr 43m
Bad Trip with Big Ed
Episode 77. Touring with the Grateful Dead, Smoking PCP with Lafayette, and the greatest relapse story of all time. 
1hr 38m Dec 09, 2021
1hr 38m
Smuggled Drugs and Under-The-Bar Blowjobs with G-spot
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. 
1hr 55m Nov 15, 2021
1hr 55m
Alternative Recovery with Chris Collins
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!!
2hr 25m Oct 25, 2021
2hr 25m
This Dick is Complicated with Brooks Buford
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.  
1hr 51m May 18, 2021
1hr 51m
South of Sanity with Patrick Connolly and Willis Stork
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.
1hr 50m May 03, 2021
1hr 50m
Skid Row Crack Connoisseurs with Brandon and Reno
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.
1hr 53m Mar 15, 2021
1hr 53m
Erasing Stigmas with Frank & Erika Ball
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. En...
1hr 42m Feb 08, 2021
1hr 42m
The Most STDs You've Had at Once with Ann Pyne
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.patre...
1hr 24m Jan 18, 2021
1hr 24m
Prostitutes and Pookie Bongs with Hassan
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....
1hr 46m Dec 07, 2020
1hr 46m
A Moving Riot with Horace Martin
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 o...
1hr 12m Nov 17, 2020
1hr 12m
Haunting in Hagerstown with Chris
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.
1hr 52m Oct 31, 2020
1hr 52m
The Psychedelic and the Spectral with Sven from Sweden
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: htt...
1hr 30m Oct 19, 2020
1hr 30m
Sweatin Down to Your Skivvies with Nada5150
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 s...
1hr 44m Sep 28, 2020
1hr 44m
Drugs, Addiction and Dumb Shit with Dave from Dopey
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 quali...
1hr 29m Sep 21, 2020
1hr 29m
Raves, Meth and Ayahuasca with Eddie
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 ...
2hr 19m Sep 14, 2020
2hr 19m
Booty Hole Shaving in the LA River Basin with Deedee
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...
1hr 49m Sep 08, 2020
1hr 49m
Shrooms, Beer and Jäger with Kelly from Ohio
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 lis...
59m Aug 17, 2020
59m
Fireworks, Fentanyl and 50 Cent with Rico
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 - G...
1hr 47m Aug 10, 2020
1hr 47m
Art, Acid and Anarchy with Ian Swordy
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...
1hr 20m Jul 20, 2020
1hr 20m
Graffiti and Family with Charlie the Hustler
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 viol...
1hr 34m Jul 13, 2020
1hr 34m
When the Cocaine was Good with Susannah
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 ye...
1hr 12m Jul 06, 2020
1hr 12m
Honeybuns and Fifi Bags with William S. Hayes
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 ...
1hr 50m Jun 29, 2020
1hr 50m
Criminology, Australian Bikies & Blackout Drinking with Nathan
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 ...
1hr 54m Jun 22, 2020
1hr 54m
If You Get Clean I'll Give You Anything in the World with Gilbert Trejo and Andrew Mishko
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...
2hr Jun 15, 2020
2hr
Drugs are Cheaper if You're Naked with Alison Knight
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 sob...
1hr 32m Jun 08, 2020
1hr 32m
Listener Call-Ins: From Brothels in Germany to Acid in Colorado
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 futur...
2hr 37m May 25, 2020
2hr 37m
Meth Labs, Hookers and Hand Grenades with Jeff Franklin
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...
1hr 59m May 18, 2020
1hr 59m
Doing Drugs with Acronyms with Awesome Haley, plus Everything was Diamonds and Glitter with Cesar
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. Tu...
2hr 3m May 11, 2020
2hr 3m
Red Dirt Meth and Nebraskan Exorcisms with David
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 n...
1hr 43m May 04, 2020
1hr 43m
The Heroic Dose with Michael Angelos
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 ...
1hr 45m Apr 27, 2020
1hr 45m
Russian Danny's Ex-Fiancé, Sasha
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.
1hr 54m Apr 21, 2020
1hr 54m
Gunfire in the Hospital and Hangovers at Preschool
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 differ...
1hr 33m Apr 13, 2020
1hr 33m
Tweakers You Can Spot from Space with Gary and Reno Part II
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 score...
1hr 15m Apr 06, 2020
1hr 15m
Everything is a Dildo if You're Brave Enough with Gary
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 epis...
1hr 43m Mar 30, 2020
1hr 43m
Champagne, OxyContin and Lots of Ghosts with Jack Osbourne
Episode 41. I’m not sure if extra ghost stories is what we need right now given we’re all homebound and stir-crazy, but it’s what we’re getting. What a great guy. We had an awesome time talking to Jack about his party-crazy MTV days as a wilding 16-year-old popping Quaaludes and opiates up and down the Hollywood strip; getting into fights and clowning Justin Timberlake. And an equally great tim...
1hr 32m Mar 23, 2020
1hr 32m
PCP and a Late Start to the Good Life with Lucky and Lepke, Part II
Episode 40. Southsiders Lucky and Lepke are back for more All Bad. Ghosts, SWAT Teams, PCP, arrests and GHB before finding a sober way out with the help of gratitude and some higher power. They call it a late start to the good life, never forgetting those they lost along they way. Enjoy.
1hr 46m Mar 16, 2020
1hr 46m
Southside Bullets and Ganging with Lucky and Lepke, Part I
Episode 39. This week we got some old Hollywood bangers from a couple Southside "cholos." Born in Santa Monica and Baldwin Village respectively, Lucky and Lepke met in the joint in 1993 and quickly bonded over their shared Italian-Jewish heritage and a love for classic cinema. But they also had addiction in common. They tell all this week from riots on the yard to smoking Maui Wowie in 1970s Lo...
1hr 45m Mar 09, 2020
1hr 45m
The Marvelous Miss Elliot
Episode 37. Miss Elliot (AKA Anita Dick) has lived quite a life. From growing up a gay man in Arkansas, to navigating the legalities and madnesses of male prostitution in 1980s New Orleans, to finally becoming the longest running hooker on Sunset Blvd in the 1990s. He's since found himself a successful career as a celebrity hairstylist and managed to stay clean 26 years. All that and more. Plus...
1hr 33m Feb 24, 2020
1hr 33m
Phish, Drugs and Brotherly Love with Chris Paulson
Episode 36. Born and raised in Hancock Park Chris knows the insanities of Hollywood well. And as the youngest of three drug-dependent brothers he did all he could to prove his worth. They pushed each other into all sorts of bad behavior, but also had each other’s back. Whether tricking each other into smoking PCP, drunkenly beating each other into bruises at Grandma’s funeral, or hugging after ...
2hr 35m Feb 17, 2020
2hr 35m
The Heroin Obsession with Jason Jardine
Episode 35. This week’s guest joins us from Vancouver. Jason is an avid listener of the show who reached out to us via email to share some war stories. We were lucky enough to get him in for a recording when he was in LA on travel last week. My God. Jason has some killer stories. He joins Mike, Keith and Russian Danny to talk everything from exploding bowels to hallucinating amputations, from g...
1hr 57m Feb 10, 2020
1hr 57m
White Collar Crimes with Lily and Gidget
Episode 34. Growing up in Oakland and later Orange County, Lily had a habit of running with the wrong people. Mostly whoever was on the other side of a dope bag. And mostly skinheads. But she owes a debt of thanks to Nordstrom's return policy for floating her habit too. And Easy-Off Oven Cleaner for helping her counterfeit bills. Tune in to hear all about those white collar crimes plus gun char...
1hr 53m Feb 03, 2020
1hr 53m
Some From the Vault: The It's All Bad Archives
Episode 33. This week we pull from our earliest recordings. It's All Bad has been an ongoing project for almost 3 years now. Initially, the show was very much a work in progress and we had a hell of a time getting the microphones to function in our favor. Still, we had some great guests on to share some crazy stories, like our good friend Youree who's highlights are featured here. Plus we've go...
1hr 33m Jan 28, 2020
1hr 33m
Speedballs and Brothels with Jerry Stahl and Zoe Hansen
Episode 31. Our guests this week are Jerry Stahl and Zoe Hansen. Jerry is a novelist and screenwriter known for his 1995 memoir Permanent Midnight. And Zoe is an ASMRtist and author who contributed to the 2013 collection The Heroin Chronicles, edited by Jerry. Together they've got decades of bad behavior under their belt. Everything from shooting dope and running brothels in NYC to shooting spe...
1hr 40m Jan 13, 2020
1hr 40m
The Mind-Erasing Power of Benzos with Sebastian and Reno
Episode 30. This week we welcome back Reno and newcomer Sebastian to talk a lot of shit with Uncle Mike and Russian Danny. By shit I mean: shit in a Trader Joe's bag, shit on a religious statue, shit running down your leg at a party, shit on the kitchen floor, upper decker shits, shit in a shoe, etc. Plus, San Fransisco raves, eviction stories, and of course, the mind-erasing power of benzos. T...
1hr 6m Jan 06, 2020
1hr 6m
Earth is a Seedpod with Aaron Rose
Episode 29. Aaron Rose is an artist, film director, curator and author who directed the 2008 documentary Beautiful Losers. He joins us today to discuss everything from Buffo Ceremonies to Third Reich collectibles. From accidentally sleeping with an 80-year-old woman to the scary reality of hallucinogenic flashbacks. Plus, a strung-out Russian Danny is tracked and accosted by Jean-Claude Van Dam...
1hr 28m Dec 30, 2019
1hr 28m