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Bad Medicine

RISK!

RISK!

Personal Journals, Arts, Society & Culture, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Bad Medicine brings together three storytellers whose bodies, doctors, and circumstances all conspire against them in very different ways. Pam Stepansky throws out her back on a spin bike, ends up bedridden at her father's apartment, and asks him to do something she never imagined asking any parent to do. What follows is a five-day hospital stay where she's dosed with narcotics she explicitly refused, and a long recovery that forces her to finally reckon with who she wants to be. Brad Lawrence walks himself to the ER after gaining 25 pounds in five days and charms an entire floor of doctors and nurses into basically hanging out with him. Then his wife shows up to get shit done. Kevin Allison takes his first trip to San Francisco in 1993 with his best friend, buys three doses of surprisingly potent acid from someone who looks a lot like Jesus, and things escalate from there. Full episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/bad-medicine  Support RISK! & Get Involved 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC on Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of Risk, you'll hear,

0:04.3

I need you to change my maxi pad.

0:06.7

And you'll hear, we would turn and look at each other simultaneously and say,

0:12.3

Off bus, off bus.

0:15.0

And that is me, Kevin Allison,

0:18.4

on the show where people tell true stories they never thought they dare to share.

0:27.3

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0:53.4

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1:01.1

What happens when two people who grew up in a very strange corner of Los Angeles

1:05.7

look back and realize just how bizarre their upbringings really were?

1:10.4

They start a podcast, of course.

1:12.4

I'm Ashley Johnson.

1:13.7

And I'm Talison Jaffe.

1:15.1

Before we became the internet people we are today,

1:17.6

we spent our childhoods as working actors,

1:20.0

appearing in shows like growing pains and films like Mr. Mom.

1:23.1

And our podcast, Weird Kids,

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