And That's Why We Drink

Christmastime is here! It's episode 203 and our official holiday episode so whether you celebrate with Elf on a Shelf, Mensch on a Bench, Krampus on the Mantle or Caillou in the Bayou, we're here to bring you some festive cheer! Em takes us into the wintery snowbanks to cover the history of the Yeti, then Christine covers the Christmas crimes of lone outsider Dewey Sham aka the Santa Clause Burglaries. Em also declares Christine dangerously good at bamboozling... and that's why we drink! Please consider supporting the companies that support us! See for yourself why TRUFF is the biggest hot sauce on Instagram and Tik Tok! Get 10% off site-wide when you use promo code DRINK at truff.com. That’s 10% off everything—including White TRUFF VIP box and TRUFF Variety Pack. Just in time for the holidays! Just shop at truff.com and use promo code DRINK.Get a 3-Step Routine for any skin type by visiting glossier.com/podcast/DRINK. For a limited time, new customers can get 10% off your first order.Simply visit athleticgreens.com/DRINK and join health experts, athletes and health conscious go-getters around the world who make a daily commitment to their health every day.Go to HelloFresh.com/drink10 and use code drink10 for 10 free meals, including free shipping! With HelloFresh, you get fresh, pre-measured ingredients and mouthwatering seasonal recipes delivered right to your door. HelloFresh lets you skip those trips to the grocery store, and makes home cooking easy, fun, AND affordable – and that’s why it’s America’s #1 meal kit! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Would we want to have our pants unbuttoned in a dark wardrobe by a bunch of spiritualists? We ponder this and many more hard hitting questions this week as Em brings us back to the booming age of American Spiritualism with the story of the Davenport Brothers and their tricky wardrobe. Then Christine takes us to 1996 and Christmas day in Boulder, Colorado for, you guessed it, the notorious JonBenét Ramsey case! Our orthopedic slippers are off on this one, so buckle up for all of our thoughts and theories. We also hatch a plan to convert our Blue's Clues wardrobe into a working Davenport cabinet... and that's why we drink! Please consider supporting the companies that support us! Right now, Embark has an offer on their Breed and Health Kit for our listeners this holiday season! Go to Embarkvet.com now to get free shipping and save $50 off your Embark Breed and Health Kit with promo code DRINK. Visit Embarkvet.com and use promo code DRINK to save $50 today.Finally, a pair of glasses designed for the 21st century. Go to FelixGrayglasses.com/DRINK to shop glasses that work as hard as you do. Free Shipping. Free Exchanges. 30-day money back guarantee. FelixGrayglasses.com/DRINK.Daily Harvest makes it easy to eat clean, undeniably delicious food, no matter what your day brings. Keep it simple with Daily Harvest! Go to DAILYHARVEST.com and enter promo code DRINK to get $25 off your first box!FabFitFun is the only subscription that delivers full-size self-care and wellness products straight to your door. Use coupon code “DRINK” for $10 off your first box at www.fabfitfun.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to our big 50th listener stories episode! In honor of such a milestone, we're covering the hard hitting topics you've always yearned to know more about, like "does every dead guy have his name changed to Walt in the afterlife?" and "if you buy 12 cakes and your grandfather's ghost eats 9 of them, how many do you have left?". We also have a very special theme this time around: How ATWWD Cursed Me. We're chilled to our very core by all your creepy experiences related to the podcast. We also may have had a special guest write in... and that's why we drink! Please consider supporting the companies that support us! Don’t spend a minute of your holiday season at the Post Office this year. Sign up for Stamps.com instead. With our promo code, DRINK, you get a special offer that includes a 4-week trial PLUS free postage and a digital scale. No long term commitments or contracts. Just go to Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in DRINK.Glossier put Boy Brow + Generation G together for an instantly put-together look— full, fluffy brows and just-blotted lips in just two steps. Get the Boy Brow + Generation G duo by visiting glossier.com/podcast/DRINK. For a limited time, new customers can get 10% off your first order. You can grow thicker, healthier hair AND support our show by going to nutrafol.com and using promo code DRINK. New customers will get 20% off – this is their best offer available anywhere. Plus FREE shipping on EVERY order! Get fresh, pre-measured ingredients and mouthwatering seasonal recipes delivered right to your door with HelloFresh, America’s #1 meal kit. Go to HelloFresh.com/80drink and use code 80drink to get $80 off including free shipping! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 201 is one linguine all the way to the top! Mostly because we discover that if we die under strange circumstances and there's not a ouija board session with us entered as witness testimony, we'll be pissed. This week Em covers the Fox Sisters, whose claim to fame is foot cracking and accidentally founding American Spiritualism. Then Christine takes us to Australia for the wildly mysterious death of Phoebe Handsjuk and a deep dive on the science of trash shoots. And maybe we're just a product of our times, but we're not sure we would recognize the specific sounds of coffin-making... and that's why we drink! Please consider supporting the companies that support us! Don’t wait. Do something nice for yourself. Go to Brooklinen.com and use promo code drink to get 10% off your first order and free shipping.BetterHELP wants you to start living a happier life TODAY. Visit https://betterhelp.com/drink and join the over 1,000,000 people taking charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional.Listen at home, or wherever you are — your holidays will be merrier with fun, festive tunes. Remember: for a limited time, new subscribers can get three months of Amazon Music Unlimited for FREE. Go to Amazon.com/whywedrink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 200 is finally here!! Can you even imagine a world in which Christine doesn't know Em is a clown?! Or that Em would be surprised that a member of Christine's family set a bear loose in town? We're taking quite a few walks down memory lane today and we've got some fun, throwback announcements to go with it! We just released a kick ass, limited edition ATWWD comic book that brings our very first episode to life! We also released vintage merch that's lived with us in all our recording studios (and Em screen printed with their very own hands). Em also made us all a digital escape room so we can celebrate together from afar. And we've got some surprise guest appearances from Lemon (who is safe and sound and quarantining with Em) and the story of a newly blossoming, real life friendship with Farmer Bob. For our stories today we decided to keep with the throwback theme and revisit the topics from our first episode: The Winchester Mystery House and Jonestown! We had a blast giving these OG topics a fresh coat of paint with our current research methods. We even discovered some new details we missed the first time around, like the Winchester Mystery House is even more of a fire hazard than we previously thought and Jim Jones just might have been the only straight person in the entire world. Most importantly, thank you to everyone who has stuck with us on this wild ride. We can't thank you enough for helping us spiral this small idea of ours into the chaotic fever dream it's become. We couldn't do it without you! But perhaps most importantly, even after 200 episodes, you can still call us daddy and we'll sell you a monkey... and that's why we drink!Get your copy of our brand new, kick ass comic book and vintage merch here: atwwdmerch.comCheck out Em's digital escape room here! (For the best quality, please use a laptop instead of a phone. Thanks!) Bit.ly/atwwdescaperoomPlease consider supporting the companies that support us!Don’t spend a minute of your holiday season at the Post Office this year. Sign up for Stamps.com instead. There’s NO risk. With our promo code, DRINK, you get a special offer that includes a 4-week trial PLUS free postage and a digital scale. No long term commitments or contracts. Just go to Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in DRINK. That’s Stamps.com, enter DRINK. Stamps.com – Never go to the Post Office again.Shop Native’s holiday collection TODAY by going to NativeDeo.com/drink, or use promo code drink at checkout, and get 20% off your first order.ThirdLove knows there’s a perfect bra for everyone, so right now they are offering our listeners 10% off your first order! Go to THIRDLOVE.com/DRINK now to find your perfect-fitting bra… and get 10% off your first purchase! That’s THIRDLOVE.com/DRINK for 10% off today!You can get $10 Off your first pair of Feetures—just in time for the holidays! Use promo code DRINK at feetures.com for $10 off your first pair. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy December, creeps and peeps! Did we request full moon stories? It sure seems like we did as we've got a whole fun batch of creepy, sweet and just plain wild stories related to the full moon! We also couldn't completely ignore the impending advent so our last story involves a special, festive yet ghostly guest appearance. Thank you to everyone who sent in their stories! Don't forget to submit your scary stories for our big 50th listener's episode bash! Send any and all stories about "How And That's Why We Drink Cursed Me" to andthatswhywedrink@gmail.com by December 2nd! And if you'd like to hear your story read in a lovely Scottish accent by long-time friend of the podcast, CK for our bonus Patreon listener's episodes, you can email CK directly now at CKATWWD@gmail.com!Please consider supporting the companies that support us!Right now, just for our listeners you can go to HuntAKiller.com/DRINK and use promo code DRINK at check out for 20% off your first box. Head to HuntAKiller.com/DRINK for 20% off and show support for our podcast.BetterHELP wants you to start living a happier life TODAY. Visit https://betterhelp.com/drink and join the over 1,000,000 people taking charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Special offer for ATWWD listeners! Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/drink.Right now, Embark has an exclusive offer on their Breed and Health Kit for our listeners this holiday season! Go to embarkvet.com now to get the best deal of the year AND free shipping. Use Promo code DRINK to save $64 off your Embark Breed and Health Kit.Rather than giving an unoriginal gift this holiday, make it unregiftable with a custom gift from Vistaprint. Go to Vistaprint.com/DRINK to get started on your unregiftable gift. The holidays are coming up! Don’t miss your chance to get an unregiftable gift. Get started today at Vistaprint.com/DRINK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Always Christine, never the coroner... this week on episode 199 (wow, so close to 200!) we're still battling side effects of our new medications but are wholeheartedly embracing all the many and varied ways we could feel uncomfortable next! We've also got some big and mysterious stories to distract us this week as Em takes us on an epic Scottish adventure to Loch Ness. That's right, Em is covering the legend of Nessie (and their potential love interest with some Xiinön-level falsies)! Then Christine covers an unsolved mystery that will leave you contemplating chimneys, folded clothes and cabins in the woods in the story of missing Colorado teen Joshua Maddux, also known as the Boy in the Chimney. And do you think Nessie could have been a vacuum cleaner this whole time? Either way, Em may have officially sent Christine over the edge and into the loch... and that's why we drink! Check out the poem Em mentioned in their story that was written in Nessie's very own first language: bit.ly/nessiesongPlease consider supporting the companies that support us! ThirdLove knows there’s a perfect bra for everyone, so right now they are offering our listeners 10% off your first order! Go to THIRDLOVE.com/DRINK now to find your perfect-fitting bra… and get 10% off your first purchase!Check out all the amazing shoes, bags and masks available right now at rothys.com/DRINK. That’s Rothys.com R-O-T-H-Y-S.com/DRINK. Style and sustainability meet to create your new favorites!Simply visit athleticgreens.com/DRINK and join health experts, athletes and health conscious go-getters around the world who make a daily commitment to their health. Go to athleticgreens.com/DRINK and get your FREE year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs today.Take control of acne, dark spots, breakouts or whatever your unique concerns may be with a powerful skincare treatment made for YOU today! Go to Curology.com/drink for a free 30-day trial, just pay for shipping and handling! See Curology.com for all the details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's episode 198 and we've got lots of juice covered news for you! For starters, we're getting so close to our 200th episode and we can't wait to share the surprises we have in store. Then Em announces they've officially been diagnosed with ADHD and is reaping the benefits of their new medication, including both dry mouth and a laser focused deep dive into what it means to be drawn and quartered... which unfortunately happened in their story topic this week: the Charleston Old City Jail aka the most haunted building in South Carolina. Then Christine covers a story with a wild amount of footage pre-murder: the Watts family killings. We're also led to believe Nichol is the new Meghan... and that's why we drink!Check out Dakota Laden's winning mashup video Em talks about here! bit.ly/gamashupPlease consider supporting the companies that support us! Don’t spend a minute of your holiday season at the Post Office this year. Sign up for Stamps.com instead. There’s NO risk. With our promo code, DRINK, you get a special offer that includes a 4-week trial PLUS free postage and a digital scale. No long term commitments or contracts.Just go to Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in DRINK.Shop 15% off through Black Friday and Cyber Monday! Go to Felix Gray Glasses.com/DRINK to shop better Blue Light glasses at their best price EVER. Free Shipping. Free Returns. Free Exchanges.Join MILLIONS of happy HELLO TUSHY customers RIGHT NOW and have a clean butt with every flush. Go to HELLOTUSHY.com/DRINK to get TEN PERCENT OFF.Go to Vistaprint.com slash DRINK to get started on your unregiftable gift. The holidays are coming up! Don’t miss your chance to get an unregiftable gift. Get started today at vistaprint.com/DRINK. Get the Cloud Paint Duo by visiting Glossier.com/podcast/DRINK. For a limited time, new customers can get 10% off your first order. (certain exclusions apply) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Starch Season again! We're back with another bonus listeners episode and, wow, do we have a peeling you'll like this one... believe it or not, we actually did get potato themed stories as requested. We're also super excited to share a turkey adjacent combo of stories involving an armed tricyclist, the panting of a bunch of ghost poodles, and a ransom note found in the floorboards of an old house. Thank you to everyone who sent in stories to help us get into that November mood. Could you peel a potato for all of eternity? Only if we could take breaks to eat those delicious god-apples... and that's why we drink! Please consider supporting the companies that support us! Daily Harvest makes it easy to eat clean, undeniably delicious food, no matter what your day brings. Keep it simple with Daily Harvest! Go to DAILYHARVEST.com and enter promo code DRINK to get $25 off your first box! Right now, Embark has an exclusive offer on their Breed and Health Kit for our listeners this holiday season! Go to Embarkvet.com now to get the best deal of the year AND free shipping. Use Promo code DRINK to save $64 off your Embark Breed and Health Kit. Offer ends on 12/1.It’s simple: if you have a computer, Honey should be on it. It’s free and works with whatever browser you use. You can get Honey for free today at Joinhoney.com/DRINK.Get 10% off site-wide when you use promo code DRINK at truff.com. That’s 10% everything—including White TRUFF VIP box and TRUFF Variety Pack. Just in time for the holidays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's episode 197 and we're here to tell you, we don't know that goat and we've never seen that lizard before in our lives! Although we might have started an avalanche by turning ourselves into wolves, because this week Em brings us the second part in their two-part series on the history and trials of werewolves. Then Christine covers the tragic death by exposure of Saskatoon Saulteaux First Nations teen Neil Stonechild and the wildly racist practice of starlight tours by local police. Lastly, we offer our apologies but we mean full offense to medieval pamphlet writers... and that's why we drink! Please consider supporting the companies that support us! You can grow thicker, healthier hair AND support our show by going to Nutrafol.com and using promo code DRINK. New customers will get twenty-percent off plus FREE shipping on EVERY order. This is their best offer available anywhere.Don’t spend a minute of your holiday season at the Post Office this year. Sign up for Stamps.com instead. There’s NO risk. With our promo code, DRINK, you get a special offer that includes a 4-week trial PLUS free postage and a digital scale. No long term commitments or contracts. Just go to Stamps.com, click on the Microphone at the TOP of the homepage and type in DRINK.Give the gift of Native by going to NativeDeo.com/drink, or use promo code drink at checkout, and get 20% off your first order.Brooklinen is the home essentials company offering premium sheets, bedding, towels and much more without the luxury level markups. Go to Brooklinen.com and use promo code drink to get 10% off your first order and free shipping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices