Drink about something
True crime and some fun banter adventures with music you don't want to miss!
Lindsey finds stories that are amazingly shocking enough that you just may need a drink after or during the tales of past crime trauma!
Episodes
151 episodes
EPISODE 98: The Suspicious Death of Joanna Hunter Lewis
A “suicide” ruling can close a case in minutes, but it can also lock a family into years of unanswered questions. We’re telling the story of Joanna Lynn Hunter, a talented, empathetic woman whose life becomes tangled in coercive control, religi...
EPISODE 97: Abraham Shakespeare
A $30 million lottery ticket sounds like freedom, until it starts sounding like footsteps behind you. We’re drinking about the true crime case of Abraham Shakespeare, a Florida lottery winner who went from day labor and barbershop hangouts to s...
EPISODE 96: Rebecca Schaefer
A lot of true crime starts with a stranger in the shadows, but this one starts with something almost innocent: fan mail. We’re talking about Rebecca Lucille Schaefer, a young actor and model whose career was taking off when a man decided her li...
DRUNK ABOUT SOMETHING: Josef Fritzl RECAP
A man lives a public life with a wife, kids, tenants, holidays, and steady work, while a second family exists behind locked doors no one is allowed to open. That contradiction is what we can’t stop circling in this recap of the Josef Fritzl cas...
EPISODE 95: Josef Fritzl PART 2
A hidden basement. A respected neighbor. A story about a “runaway” that people accepted for decades. We dig into the second half of the Josef Fritzl case and walk step by step through how Elisabeth Fritzl was kept in a concealed cellar in Amste...
EPISODE 94: Josef Fritzl PART 1
A state-funded “bomb shelter” sounds like safety, but what if it’s the perfect cover for a secret no one wants to imagine? We go from a quick deep dive on the real origin of Stockholm syndrome to a case that makes your stomach drop: Josef Fritz...
DRUNK ABOUT SOMETHING! PATTY HEARST RECAP
A Burger King crown, a couple of drinks, and a story that still splits people down the middle: was Patty Hearst brainwashed, fighting to survive, or making a willing leap into radical politics? We’re Jesse and Lindsay, and we’re doing a fast, n...
EPISODE 93: Patty Hearst PART 3 After The Shootout
A TikTok “Netflix documentary” joke turns into a real-life horror story, and it’s the perfect gut-punch opener for a finale about what happens when people stop seeing consequences. We close out our three-part Patty Hearst saga by picking up aft...
EPISODE 92: Patty Hearst And The SLA PART 2
Patty Hearst’s story doesn’t just escalate, it mutates. One moment she’s a kidnapped college student being ordered to read revolutionary scripts, and the next she’s forced into a public “Tanya” identity that the whole country can judge from a p...
EPISODE 91: Patty Hearst is in a Ransom Crisis PART 1
A bathrobe, a knock at the door, and a split-second decision that turns into one of the biggest American true crime stories of the 1970s. We’re drinking about Patty Hearst, the Hearst Communications heiress whose quiet Berkeley routine gets sha...
EPISODE 90: Oscar Pistorius And The Night Reeva Steenkamp Died
A throwaway joke at work that nobody understands can make you feel ancient, but nothing snaps the room into focus like a story where fame, paranoia, and violence collide. We’re Jesse and Lindsay, and we’re digging into the Oscar Pistorius case,...
DRUNK ABOUT SOMETHING: The Sarah Everard Case Recap
A police badge is supposed to signal safety. In Sarah Everard’s case, it became the tool that took it away, and we’re still angry about it. We jump on live for a raw recap of our full coverage, walk through who Sarah was, and trace how a normal...
EPISODE 89: The Outraging Murder of Sarah Everard
A normal walk home. A well lit London street. CCTV everywhere. Then a man flashes a badge and says the words that are supposed to mean safety: “I’m a police officer.” Sarah Everard’s case hits like a punch because it’s not a mystery built on ba...
DRUNK ABOUT SOMETHING : Stephen Jay Russell, and maternal instinct recaps
A fake pregnancy is one thing. Keeping it alive for months, staging a gender reveal, and pulling everyone into the performance is something else entirely and the ending is as brutal as it is hard to understand. With drinks on the table and zero...
EPISODE 88: The Things Steven Jay Russell Does for Love
A man with a genius IQ. A trail of fraud that spans states. Multiple prison escapes that sound impossible until you realize he planned them like a full-time job. We’re drinking about Stephen J. Russell, the real-life con artist behind I Love Yo...
DRUNK ABOUT SOMETHING. PART OF A CRAZY STORY.
A true crime documentary rarely hits like this, but Maternal Instinct starts with a scene so shocking we’re still trying to process it while we talk. We’re recording “raw, uncut, and unedited,” drinks in hand, walking through the viral story ou...
EPISODE 87: Gypsy Rose Blanchard
A mother, a wheelchair, a stack of diagnoses, and a whole community convinced they’re watching a miracle of survival. Then the news shows Gypsy Rose Blanchard standing up, and everything people “knew” collapses. We’re telling this story with ca...
DRUNK ABOUT SOMETHING Hitler And Hooters Meets A Murder Plot
A “missing” purse. A hot tub night with new friends. A couple chasing thrills so hard they stop seeing people as people. We jump into the strange, brutal story of BJ and Erica Seifert and how their relationship goes from intense to outright dan...
EPISODE 86: Erika and Benjamin Sifrit (HITLER AND HOOTERS)
A friendly shuttle ride and a “buy us a drink” deal shouldn’t end in horror, but sometimes the danger shows up wearing a smile. We start with our usual kitchen-table banter and a round of “what made us feel old,” then we pivot into a killer cou...
DRUNK ABOUT SOMETHING: Daniel Morcombe And Jeni Haynes recap
A missing kid case is devastating on its own, but it hits differently when it starts with something painfully normal: a teenager heading out to get a haircut and buy Christmas gifts. We talk through the Daniel Morcombe case with the respect it ...
EPISODE 85: REVISIT OF Jeni Haynes
A child’s brain can do something both miraculous and devastating when the world becomes unsafe: it can split experience into separate parts just to survive. That’s the core of the Jenny Haynes story, and it’s why we brought back our most-listen...
THIS FRIDAY WE REVISIT JENI HAYNES!
The human mind's capacity to protect itself is both remarkable and haunting. When four-year-old Jeni Haynes began suffering unimaginable abuse at the hands of her father, her developing brain created an extraordinary defense mechanism – dissoci...
EPISODE 84: Daniel Morcombe
Three minutes late can be the difference between a normal Saturday and a family’s worst nightmare. We’re talking about the Daniel Morcombe case from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, where a 13-year-old boy leaves home to get a haircut and shop for ...
EPISODE 83: Susan Kuhnhausen
A man steps out from behind a bedroom door wearing yellow dish gloves and raises a claw hammer. Susan Kuhnhausen, a 51-year-old ER nurse in Portland, Oregon, has seconds to decide whether she becomes a headline or a survivor. What happens next ...