Al Anonymous: Recent Episodes
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A lifestyle podcast hosted by Al Bedell (with guests) about wellness, addiction, sobriety, mental health, drugs, and spirituality. Thought-provoking feel good/feel sad content. Pretty funny, too.
HOTLINE: 920-3-CALL-ALL (9203225525)
Help Desk/Advice/Inquiries: help@alanonymous.com
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Reality star/pop music revolutionary/former teen mom/comedian/podcaster/NY Times Best-Selling author/Entrepreneur/12 Stepper/trauma survivor/lifestyle influencer Farrah Abraham is fresh out of rehab and spills her guts with ππ, her long lost sister from another Mr., over Zoom.
Watch the UNCUT FULL LENTH EXCLUSIVE VIDEO only on ππ's patreon!!!! patreon.com/alanonymous
Follow Farrah's journey on instagram: instagram.com/farrahabraham
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ππ has made several devastating and life-ruining mistakes but U DON'T HAVE TO. Hit the hotline 9-203-CALL-AL (920-322-5525) with questions, suggestions, words of praise, etc. All will be answered on Nite ππ Anonymous π¦β‘οΈ
Nite Al Anonymous is a brand new call-in show and it is airing LIVE tonite (4/28/2022) at 7PM EST on radio.montezpress.com but if you miss it it will be available on patreon!
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Artist/Designer/Director/Pop Star/Entrepreneur/Astrologer/Customer Service Representative/Believer/Actual Angel Kyle Hide and ππ sit down to address their BRAND NEW COLLABORATION. They also discuss pranks, astrology and the power of belief.
i-need-god.com instagram.com/ineedgodineverymomentofmylife
HIRE KYLE: http://kyle.church
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Creative/Writer/Comedian/Trendsetter/Columnist/Employee/FiancΓ© Eric Schwartau and ππ discuss societal norms, therapy, writing and speak out against war.
http://ericschwartau.com/ https://www.gawker.com/profile/eric-schwartau-82663085
Twitter.com/ericschmerick Twitter.com/talkhole
article we discuss: https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/culture/tennissance-the-laws-of-the-court
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Entrepreneur/European (Swiss)/Connoisseur/New Yorker Albon de Pury and ππ talk about AL'S, a non-alcoholic beer for everyone. Also the regular drinking and recovery lifestyle stuff.
drinkals.com instagram.cin/drink_als
Stylist/Humorist/Actor/Artist/Gay Genius/Gemini Jake Levy and Al talk about a wide variety of addictions present in Jake's family.
https://www.cff.org/ patreon.com/alanonymous
Andy and ππ talk about Sober January, lifestyle evolution, and leveling up.
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DJ/Producer/Musician/Cool Girl/Renegade/Angel Emma Olson AKA Umfang and ππ talk about nightlife, the club scene, party drugs, dancing (ballet) and the healing power of music.
http://www.discwoman.com/roster/umfang patreon.com/alanonymous
Scammer/Artist/Writer/Influencer/Entrepreneur Caroline Calloway tells her story of deception, drug abuse, multiple book deals, and acceptance.
https://www.instagram.com/carolinecalloway carolinecalloway.com
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Failing to believe in something larger is the first step to worshipping your vices. Kyle Hide and ππ ruminate on god and addiction.
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http://i-need-god.com
http://kyle.church
http://instagram.com/ineedgodineverymomentofmylife
patreon.com/alanonymous
Sydney Hirsch and ππ discuss good and (mostly) bad habits, the futility of comparing yourself to others, how to cope with feelings of jealousy, and confronting your inner critic.
twitter.com/queasy_f_bby patreon.com/alanonymous
Artist/Designer/Storeowner/Farmhand/Poet Dayton C. and ππ discuss their feelings, speak their truths, and reflect on addiction.
www.earthworm.nyc instagram.com/earth_worm.exe patreon.com/alanonymous
Designer/Skater/Artist/Traveler/Newly Sober/Mail Correspondent/Philosopher Pat Everman and ππ discuss the positive and (mostly) negative aspects of being a Child of Divorce and the ways such early trauma can creep into adult life.
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Artist/Curator/Room Veteran/Heterosexual Joe Speier and ππ shoot the breeze about shooting up, shotgunning and killing your ego.
TW: brief anti-psychedelic tangent
joewspeier.com patreon.com/alanonymous
Artist/Graphic Designer/Beautiful Being Riley Hooker and Al discuss psychedelics and kratom use in recovery and consider some reasons we may suppress our emotions and trauma.
Artist/Videographer/AlienAngel Victoria (Vivi) Cronin and Al discuss their struggles and triumphs with sobriety, tragedy, family, and feeling like an alien.
Al Anonymous Hiatus officially over
instagram.com/funkysalad
Glenn Again. He and ππ chat about moving out, moving up, moving on, and letting go...
Designer/Consultant/Commentator/Creative/Actual Person Eric Hu discusses being a (reformed) hater, his relationship with alcohol and Jesus, and empathy.
https://erichu.info/
Artist/Performer/Filmmaker/Writer/Princess Amalia Ulman takes us on a journey from her childhood to her art practice and the production of her debut feature film 'El Planeta' while making a few pit stops about addiction, drugs, and recovery along the way.
https://amaliaulman.eu/ https://elplaneta.info/ https://www.instagram.com/amaliaulman/
Curator/writer/organizer/hipster Nick Irvin and ππ sit down to discuss partying downtown, 9/11, and "sobriety." CW: Name-dropping.
Nick's insta: instagram.com/nick.erffin Song Cycle: songcycle.us
Actress/Podcaster/Comedian/Cool Girl/It Girl/Chill Gf Ruby McCollister and Al discuss the psychedelic nature of being a girl.
https://www.instagram.com/ruby.mccollister
A mere month after Sommelier/Communicator/Miamian Michelle Quintana's father has passed she describes grief, acute grief, love and loss with Al.
Instagram.com/michi_quintana
To celebrate her 50th episode Al talks to artist/stylist/humorist/nodel/influencer/BFF Emily Hanson about sobriety and serenity.
instagram.com/myangelmindfreak
Writer Suzy Katz and Al discuss bar crawls, walks of shame and the blackouts in between.
Suzy Katz is a freelance writer covering mental health, culture, and drugs.
instagram.com/suzy_sometimes https://authory.com/SuzyKatz
Julia C. and Al discuss sex, love, addiction, and SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous.)
instagram.com/juuliacooke https://books.apple.com/us/book/i-would-do-anything-for-love/id1045263276
Jason is a longtime hometown friend of Al's who has recently quit smoking cannabis. Discussions about addiction, sobriety, recovery and some trips down memory lane.
Meet the other half of the Al Anonymous team, producer/editor/musician/sober person Vasilis Fotopoulos. We discuss how sobriety "gets easier" while life continues to be awful. Happy New Year.
https://sivil666.bandcamp.com
Designer/Empath/Cat Person Sean Manchee and I discuss pet therapy, grief, sobriety, and "awareness." But mostly we talk about cats.
Painter/philosopher Jamian Juliano-Villani and Al discuss some of their favorite addictions: shopping, booze, adderall, talking.
Jamian's show 'Mrs. Evan Williams' is now open at JTT Gallery in NYC. https://jttnyc.com/exhibitions
Educator/musician/very funny person Louie Glaser and I attempt to define happiness on the eve of Thanksgiving 2020.
soundcloud.com/louieglaser instagram.com/booksover twitter.com/blood_napkin
Author/Scholar/Princess Larissa Pham and Al discuss gratitude, nihilism, buddhism, LSD, and ghosts. It's cute.
https://larissapham.com/
patreon.com/alanonymous
John Maydick discusses his addiction to sports betting, facing the ultimate loss, and his ongoing recovery.
Kratom bar owner/healer Vanessa Lopez discusses using medicinal plants during recovery and the stigma/guilt associated with it.
https://www.instagram.com/misfitkavabar/
Life Coach/Writer Victoria McCooey details warning signs of a potential abusive relationship, advice for leaving a dangerous situation and shares her story of divorcing a narcissist abuser.
https://www.victoriamccooey.com/ instagram: @victoria_mccooey
*trigger warningdomestic abuse**
Painter/Cool Girl Brynn Wallner and Al discuss some rock bottoms, sticking with Sober October, and the difference between LA and NY.
insta: brynntrill <3 twit: BRYNNTRILL2
Professional chess player/teacher Bert Leonard and I discuss logical decision making, sobriety, and how to apply chess wisdom to every day life.
Zach Smith and Al discuss the difficulty and beauty of having nocturnal tendencies in a diurnal society, as Night Owls in a Rise and Grind world.
Occult practitioner Lee Wilson and I sit down in Tompkins Square Park to discuss shadow work and embracing the darkness within.
Lee mentions his mentor, Hampus D. Hammarlund. His instagram is @blackwitchdaniel.
Co-Host of Seeking Derangements Ben Mora joins me to talk about sexuality, bisexuality, coming out, staying in, and maintaining mental stability amidst uncertainty and panic.
Subscribe to Ben's pod here: https://www.patreon.com/seekingderangements
When I caught wind of Isaac Peifer going sober for a week I just had to get him on the pod. We discuss social anxiety, drinking to excess, illegal private parties and shared public misery.
*Note: Neither Al nor Isaac have attended illegal parties.
Mia Kerin reinforces the foundations of self-care in what becomes an impromptu therapy session amidst a personal spell of my own depression.
Communist co-host of the anti-pedophile podcast TrueAnon, Brace Belden teaches me some podcasting tricks of the trade and we chat about addiction, recovery, and The Program.
Poet/Coder Willis Plummer attempts to read poetry as I beg him not to. We discuss our new quarantine mindset and hobbies, particularly his startling use of ketamine and I attempt to have an intervention.
Though we don't explicitly mention it on the pod, Nick DeMarco is an artist from Seattle. In this episode we discuss our longterm struggles with insomnia.
Longtime member of the Downtown New York Art Scene Jo Shane reflects on her drug use in the 70's and the years of sobriety she's since gotten back. We discuss art, Brandy Melville, the cool person AA meeting in the West Village, and how the 12 step program can actually work.
Artist/Skater Parker Ito and I look at the subtle differences between passion, obsession, addiction and OCD.
Bolt Brown and I discuss our mothers' experience with multi-level marketing platforms such as Melaluca, Avon, Herbalife, and Mary Kay. Shout out to Kacey Musgraves, actual angel. <3
Poet, mental health advocate, and actual angel David Terry and I discuss homelessness, addiction, mental health, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a very abridged version of The David Terry Experience. Personal favorite of Al's
https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/get-help/im-in-need-of-housing/
https://therapysafetynet.org/resources/additional-resources-uninsured/
https://www.freerehabcenters.org/state/new_york
Actress/Genius Annie Hamilton and I hang out for literally the first time ever and discover that we are kindred sisters seemingly cut from the very same luxurious cloth. We go over our traumatic childhoods, seeing our dreams die at an early age, acting out online, and our passion for the art of performance.
LA Warman and I meet in a Jewish cemetery on a rainy day, record this episode about LAβs death doula practice, and then get locked in the cemetery until we have to call 311 to escape. Warning: this one's a little heavy.
LAWarman.com WarmanSchool.com
*DISCLAIMER IF U R MY DAD OR IF WE HAVE EVER SLEPT TOGETHER PLZ SKIP THIS EPISODE****
Arjun comes on the pod to talk about how he hates coming. We then talk about how we both hate sex and why you should too.
Arjun also has a pod: diversityhire.substack.com
Rachel Bell invites me over to her new spacious one bedroom apartment which she shares with her new French husband. We discuss sobriety, spirituality, faith, and traditional values in a not boring way.
Win and I talk about the outskirts of NYC, hazardous driving conditions, regressive behavior, and suburban anarchism. A bit on breakups as well.
Ripley Soprano and Dave Justice meet me at the Peopleβs Space, a former public school turned illegal squat turn gallery turned performance studio turned mutual aid center, to bring awareness to the importance of harm reduction and narcan distribution.
**Aired on Montez Press Radio 6/27/20
After an initial failed attempt to record this episode Juliana Huxtable joins me from Berlin to talk about digestive health, clean eating, body image and the porn industry.
Dasha Nekrasova and I set out to decipher the true meanings of buzzwords such as "codependency," "borderline," "narcissist," "gaslighting," "trauma," and "healthy relationships."
Journalist James Payne and I discuss where sobriety falls on the political spectrum and its contentious role in cults, countercultures, and American history.
Aired on Montez Press Radio 5/30/2020.
Pete Yares woke up in Tuscon, AZ at 3PM and texted our group chat "Lord have mercy I am so fucking hungover," so I asked if I could record his hangover for the pod. After some technical issues we discuss different kinds of hangovers, "icing," sobriety, and recovery. I also get to voice a few qualms I have with AA.
I catch up with an old flame, Griffin Harwood AKA Griffin Pyn AKA Sewn Leather AKA Skull Katalog AKA Breathdrawn Life-Deliverance, for the first time in a decade. We discuss the past ten years and what led us both to a life of sobriety. Griffin also explains Hare Krishna Consciousness because he's now a Hare Krishna.
https://breathdrawnlifedeliverance.bandcamp.com/
I invite myself over to Louie Glaser's house in the middle of the day and we record this episode about taking the edge off, happy hour, the morning after, social distancing and quarantine musings. Follow Louie on instagram at instagram.com/booksover and twitter twitter.com/Blood_Napkin.
WARNING: IF YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON ME OR IF YOU ARE MY DAD PLEASE SKIP THIS EPISODE
Liv and I pretty much just girl talk about navigating sober dating, quarantine dating, long distance dating, dating in new york, men, guys, dudes, s*x and love and the power of both. Olivia defines 'boyfriend' as 'an audience for your inner monologue,' and we theorize that perhaps all men are bastards.
Petra Cortright shares her experience with partying, motherhood, recovery the art world, censorship and a devastating Christmas Miracle.
Glenn and I discuss procrastination, "the thinking of the thoughts," depression, and facing yourself in quarantine.
Amalia Soto aka Molly Soda and I have a cute convo about growing up Online, pre-sobriety and post-.
Aired on Montez Press Radio 4/25/20. In this episode I have no guest as we are still in quarantine. However, I give a brief history and biography of each of my houseplants. It kind of sounds like The Moth on crack and I'm sorry.
Leia Jospe and I discuss anger, rage, fear, temper tantrums, mental breakdowns, lashing out, bullying, seeing red, etc. We explore that sources of these emotions and behaviors as well as ways to manage such frustration.
First ever pod recorded all by myself. I am shocked I figured out how to do it tbh. This was played on Montez Press Radio but now you can listen here. It ends abruptly. Also I have no guest on this one, had to go it alone. Bear with me. I'm new.
Anna Khachiyan and Paris Hynes discuss sobriety. This was January 2019 and it's taken me like 4 months to post it. I sound mad stupid in this one but Anna is brilliant and Paris is endearing. This was the first time I recorded a pod outside of the Montez studio. Thank you for teaching me, Anna. <3
Recorded a little convo with Mia Kerin and Evan Eisel like 3 weeks I was released from the Eating Disorder Unit at a mental institution. Funny anecdotes about camaraderie, characters and lessons learned.
Emily Hanson, Dasha Nekrasova and I discuss eating disorders, depression, antidepressants and the "death drive."
Recorded like a month after my brother died. Sophie Helf and I talk about traumatic events and rock bottoms that led us to sobriety.
First episode recorded in 2018 with Montez Press Radio. I have a chit chat with Jeanette Hayes, Olivia Henry and Bea Fremderman as we explore new sobriety. I don't remember the exact date it was recorded but it was like 2 weeks before my brother died.