# Negative Attention Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/risk-962579/negative-attention Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/risk-962579/negative-attention.md Podcast: [RISK!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/risk-962579) Published: 2026-06-23T13:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.risk-show.com/podcast/negative-attention Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/mgln.ai/e/485/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS1471390147.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/risk-962579/episodes/negative-attention Duration seconds: 2097 ## Resource Brittany Ross and Sam Feirstein are both hungry for it in this episode: the moment someone finally looks your way and says, yes, you. For Brittany, that moment arrives in the least expected form. She is in her early 20s, grinding through acting classes and princess gigs and bar shifts, desperate for anyone in Los Angeles to see her as the star she knows she could be. When a neighbor with an apparent break from reality begins accusing Brittany of following her through the apartment building, Brittany finds herself oddly reluctant to shut it down. The woman is unhinged, possibly dangerous, and giving Brittany more attention than anyone in Hollywood has managed in years. Sam's wound runs deeper. His story begins at a dressing room in a North Hollywood strip mall in 1976, where a single word from his mother sets off a decade of relentless bullying. By the time he lands at a commercial casting in the 1990s, surrounded by quarterbacks and cheerleaders, the kid who won a writing contest nobody noticed is just trying to get one person to see him as something other than a problem. Leave your comments and find episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/negative-attention Be Part of RISK! šŸŽŸ See RISK! liveā  on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 in NYC! āœļø Pitch your storyā  ā¤ļø Support us on Patreonā  šŸ’µ Make a one-time donationā ā  via PayPal or Zelle to kevin@risk-show.com šŸ“š Shop merch or the RISK! bookā  šŸŽ“ Take storytelling classes with usā  šŸŽ„ Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/risk-962579/episodes/negative-attention/transcription-requests` ā€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/risk-962579/negative-attention.md` ā€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.