And That's Why We Drink

By Christine Schiefer, Em Schulz

Society & Culture Comedy

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A Paranormal and True Crime Podcast Hosted by Christine Schiefer, Em Schulz, and Boxed Wine

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E241 Time Travel Art and Cu...

09.19.2021

Welcome to episode 241, where we’re hiding flasks and iPhones in Nancy Reagan’s memoir! Em is also making plans to shop for purple t-shirts at Target when Christine goes into labor. In terms of stories, we’ve got some intriguing ones ...

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09.19.2021 E241 Time Travel Art and Cubed Wombat Poop Welcome to episode 241, where we’re hiding flasks and iPhones in Nancy Reagan’s memoir! Em is also making plans to shop for purple t-shirts at Target when Christine goes into labor. In terms of stories, we’ve got some intriguing ones ...
09.12.2021 E240 A Haunted Hotline and a Vegan Doc Marten Sized Baby Welcome to episode 240! We've got the conclusions to both of our two-parters this week. First Em closes out the history of Ed and Lorraine Warren and their paranormal fame, as well as their potentially problematic side. Then Christine brings ...
09.05.2021 E239 A Trash Pile of Ghostly Magazines and the Paranormal D.A.R.E. Program It's episode 239 and we've got some big stories for you! First Em covers the history of famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (including the Conjuring universe). Then Christine brings us the first in a two part series on ...
09.01.2021 Listener Stories: Vol. 59 Happy Zeptember! We’re here with a grab bag of creepy stories for you…or is it just Em and a collection of audio clips of Christine gasping? We’ll never tell! So keep an eye on your rocking chair, don’t look in ...
08.29.2021 E238 Bagelbites with Italian Seasoning and a Summer Camp Forensics Degree Who is the Italian Bagelbites? Tune in to Episode 238 to find out! Em covers a creepy kid story for Christine with the tale of Azzurrina the ghost child said to haunt Montebello Castle in Italy. Then Christine brings us ...
08.22.2021 E237 The Ghost With No Pants and a Matchmaking Serial Killer Paint us like one of your French aliens, Jack... this week episode 237 has us traveling to Em's favorite place of all time, Canada, for the Falcon Lake Incident. Then Christine brings us a story that's less about teeth than ...
08.15.2021 E236 Ghostly Dog Breath and a Sardine and Sadness Sandwich We are the Village People this week! It's episode 236 and Em is taking us across the pond to tell the tale of a village full of ghosts known as Pluckley Village. Then Christine brings us a wildly disturbing cult ...
08.08.2021 E235 Space Cowboys and Semantics Champions Welcome to episode 235! This week we're diving into one of Christine's favorite paranormal topics, aliens! Em takes us to the supernaturally iconic Roswell to cover the Majestic 12 and the famed Roswell Incident. Then Christine covers the infuriating story ...
08.01.2021 Listener Stories: Vol. 58 Christine asked and you delivered (pregnancy pun?) with the creepy, sweet and also downright scary pregnancy stories! This month we've got wild dreams, "monster spray" and even possible black eyed kids so knuckle and buckle for a wild time! Please ...
08.01.2021 E234 An Anxious Tooth Mouse and an Amateur Alligator Charmer It's episode 234, folks, and we've got some stories out of left field for you! First Em takes on the history of the tooth fairy so get ready for some burning and buried teeth. Then Christine brings us the story ...
07.25.2021 E233 Cryptid Smut and a Boy Boss Summer Welcome to episode 233! Come slap thumbs with us as Em covers the faceless, featureless Dover Demon, who might be an alien, might be a monkey, but either way most definitely uses his long toes to hold up his big ...
07.18.2021 E232 Paranormal Anxiety and a Seat in the Barking Room How did ghosts handle the pandemic? We tackle this tough topic and more in episode 232 as Em takes us to the Sorrel-Weed House and shares some super terrifying paranormal audio and pics. Then Christine covers the mysterious case of ...
07.13.2021 BONUS: In Conversation with Hannah Smith of The Opportunist Surprise! We have a fun bonus mini crossover episode for you today! We chatted with Hannah Smith of The Opportunist podcast, one of our favorites for mystery and intrigue. Tune in as Hannah shares with us a very strong candidate ...
07.11.2021 E231 A Royal Jalapeño Crib and the Worst Quilt Ever Ever Quilted Welcome to episode 231 where we share Something Corporate facts... we mean new, wild paranormal and true crime stories! This week Em covers a haunted lady in different color attire than the usual white or gray, the Brown Lady of ...
07.04.2021 E230 A Cauldron of Mac and Cheese and Sugar Free Gummy Bear Consumption Let it be known that a man had the audacity for the millionth time and it was only the 1500s... Welcome to episode 230 for something old and something new! First Em covers the Wise Wife of Keith aka Agnes ...
07.01.2021 Listener Stories: Vol. 57 Hey ghosty pop, we simply can't do this right now! Join us for another rousing set of truly cursed stories sent in by you all. This month we hear from listeners about their haunted hospital elevators, potentially possessed children and ...
06.27.2021 E229 Team Aliens and the Opposite of a Jolly Rancher If there are no flying saucers, then why are you at my house, weirdo?? ...is what we would say to the Men in Black should they come a knockin'. But don't tell them that, because we really don't want to ...
06.20.2021 E228 Goat Cheese Marshmallows and Bougie Gators This week we're here to party, y'all! Specifically with the incredible ladies from Sinisterhood! We're so grateful and excited to have Heather and Christie on this week (and to have been on an episode of theirs - check out Sinistershood, ...
06.13.2021 E227 The Ghouls Next Door and the Criminal Pickle Barrel What's your go-to ghost move? Ours is just draining everybody dry of their food and drink... Welcome to episode 227, where Em takes us all the way back to, first 2019 and then to year 5, for a good old ...
06.06.2021 E226 Poisonous Sharks and the Patchsquatch It's that time of year again... it's our birthdays episode!! And we've come to realize that we are the poisonous sharks that lie in your 30s. Please drink some wine and eat a steak on our behalf. In honor of ...
06.01.2021 Listener Stories: Vol. 56 Welcome to Gemini Season and Listener Stories: Vol. 56, boozers and shakers! We're building up the birthday energy and reading all your creepy stories. This month we run quite the gamut with some connections to recent topics, unusual hauntings and ...
05.30.2021 E225 A Baby Barcalounger and the Water Tumbler of Doom It's episode 225, folks, and we've got some personal updates for you! Here are a few clues: Em had their pants down in a murderer's house and Christine had a catastrophe involving a dolphin named Dolph Lundgren and a sizzling ...
05.23.2021 E224 The Hogwarts of Prisons and Two Generations of Cringeworthy Screen Names It's episode 224! And the Vaccination Trifecta are finally out of quarantine and visiting family so we're super excited to bring you our very first live show from Christine's home state of Ohio! We had such a blast in Columbus ...
05.16.2021 E223 Schiefersaurs and Balloonatoons Apologies in advance to all the cuttlefish out there... episode 223 takes us into the depths of the sea for Em's story on the legendary Kraken (as well as some wild facts about squids vs octopi) ! Then Christine covers ...
05.09.2021 E222 The Wine Kill Switch and the Paranormal Vagina Monologues It's Em's lucky episode 222 and the rumors are true... Christine is with demon! We're dishing all the details on reactions and reliving the wild pregnancy genius that is The Maltese Bagans (created because a certain famed demon hunter yet ...
05.02.2021 E221 Family Nuts and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Backrooms You asked, Em covered the wrong story, and then we finally delivered... this week on episode 221 Em is officially covering the topic so many of you asked for: the Backrooms Theory. And, wow, is it creepy! From mobile mannequins ...
05.01.2021 Listener Stories: Vol. 55 We're back with some traditional (and extremely creepy) listener ghost stories this month, boozers and shakers! Tune in to Listener Stories: Vol. 55 for a terrifying paranormal tunnel, some wild symptoms of exorcisms and to top it all off a ...
04.25.2021 E220 Astrophysics Improv and the Owl Queen Did you want to learn science from someone who just learned it yesterday? Well, welcome to episode 220 in which we do our best to understand multiverses, black holes and spaghettification (which we promise is a real term) all because ...
04.18.2021 E219 A Paper Mâché Nose Doll and Mothman's Grandchildren Get ready because episode 219 is a chatty one! What is a paper mâché nose doll? Who are mothman's grandchildren? We've got wild speculation on both this week and two fascinating topics: First Em takes us back into old school ...
04.11.2021 E218 A Skeleton's Waiting Room and Christine's New Screen Name Is that the voice of the wise owl in the woods? Is it the ghost of a grandma who wants to cremate her cares? Or is it Chrisitne in her old elementary school play costume trying to infiltrate a secret ...
04.04.2021 E217 A Mantis Manifesto and a Serial Killer's Dentist If you see a praying mantis while listening to this episode, cover it's ears! Because this week in episode 217, Em takes us on a deep and disturbing dive into the world of praying mantis aliens (segoo-ing from the evil ...
04.01.2021 Listener Stories: Vol. 54 Does this melodious voice sound familiar? Maybe even like it was cursed by a witch in order to achieve paranormal radio stardom? That's right, we have the one and only Terry Carnation from Dark Air as our first, best (and ...
03.28.2021 E216 The Opposite of a Meet Cute and a Half Sister in Space Blessings from the satanic praying mantis! It's episode 216 and Em is taking us to space for the wild and disconcerting story of the abductions of Laura Clarke. Then Christine takes us to Cleveland to cover an extremely disturbing case, ...
03.21.2021 E215 Bigfoot Geometry and Tin Can Fingerprints Today in episode 215, we're tackling the big questions, like is it Bigfoots or Bigfeet? We're taking you back to our live show in Seattle this week where Em covers the most famous cryptid of all, that's right, Washington State ...
03.14.2021 E214 Em's Sleep Skin and Christine's Day Skin It's episode 214 and you know what that means... a lesson in face washing direct from Em's apartment that didn't have running water at the time of recording! Sit back, relax and let Em regale you with their post-pandemic fashion ...
03.07.2021 E213 A Trashy Bunny and the Podcast Built on a Thousand Demons Excuse me, Spotify? We'd like to submit our podcast for a new category, that will only include us, called "Podcasts Built on a Thousand Demons". We anxiously await your response. In the meantime, Grandpapa Emothy is bringing us a wild ...
03.01.2021 Listener Stories: Vol. 53 Sit back, relax and enjoy our chill 90s coffee shop vibes this month, boozers and shakers. Let us set the stage: you're walking back to your seat with a scone and a London Fog in hand. Maybe you're wearing a ...
02.28.2021 E212 Conspiracy Theory Lasagna and the Migraine Episode It's episode 212 and we're finally gonna come right out and say it: Q ain't cute, friends! Em rounds out their QAnon trilogy with ways this new movement mirrors cult activity and provides resources for people struggling to leave, help ...
02.21.2021 E211 The Echelon Twins and a Rotary Butt Dial Welcome to episode 211, where this week we're spreading the bad news so it doesn't turn into worse news... Join us as Em dives even deeper into the world of conspiracy theories for the second part in their series on ...
02.14.2021 E210 The Golden Plunger Award and the London Fog Cult Let's plunge into it! Episode 210 celebrates all things lemon and plunger related as we also spill bread crumbs all over the floor... That's because Em is taking us on a very timely journey through the wild web of beliefs ...
02.07.2021 E209 A Ghost's Recliner and the PTA of Covens Conjure us up a set of bleachers because we want to cheer on your coven! This week episode 209 takes us first to Arkansas and Em's story on the creepy Bettis House and the rumored legend of the Dog Boy. ...
02.01.2021 Listener Stories: Vol. 52 Happy February! We've got DJ Love and DJ Cupid in the house... but we rewound live radio so we're actually not sure those are the final names we're going with. This month we've got quite the smorgasbord of mind-bending tales, ...
01.31.2021 E208 Creepy Coats and a Party Lemon Lindas and tigers and bears... oh my! Episode 208 is brought to you by plain water, Em's bougie childhood and Xiinön's birth story. On the paranormal side of things, Em takes us back to the 80s for a UFO sighting ...
01.24.2021 E207 The Return of the Plunger Fort and the Paranormal Gossip Mill Welcome to episode 207 where we celebrate our podcast conception and the birth of Em's paranormal tabloid! Em takes us on a salacious journey through the paranormal history of the Cheltenham Ghost. Then Christine covers a cold blooded case with ...
01.17.2021 E206 A Vengeful Lady Fish and Biscuits with Bear Welcome to episode 206! This week we learn that hell hath no fury like a vengeful lady fish, or at least someone who's extremely into mermaids. Em covers the paranormal stories of legendary location Pyramid Lake, including the people who ...
01.10.2021 E205 A Zero Gravity Wine Bra and a Coffee Date with Slender Man Be careful with your bread this year, everyone! It's episode 205 and we're already worried about what we could manifest even with just sandwich predictions. Speaking of predictions, this week Em covers all the times the TV show The Simpsons ...
01.03.2021 E204 This Year's Sandwich Predictions and the Old Synaprague Happy 2021 and episode 204! Christine has already met her quota of songs sung to Em, but don't worry she has more. This week we're starting the new year with a bang as Em brings us the story of the ...
01.01.2021 Listener Stories: Vol. 51 Welcome to 2021! We're only predicting sandwiches this time around. We decided to scale down our manifesting this year and just focus on food... remember when we learned the history of the word "quarantine" mere weeks before the epidemic hit. ...
12.27.2020 E203 The Abdominal Snowman and Christmas on an Embered Ash 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 ...
12.20.2020 E202 Spiritualist Chippendales and the Murder Situation Show 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 ...

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And That's Why We Drink episodes:

E241 Time Travel Art and Cubed Wombat Poop

E240 A Haunted Hotline and a Vegan Doc Marten Sized Baby

E239 A Trash Pile of Ghostly Magazines and the Paranormal D.A.R.E. Program

Listener Stories: Vol. 59

E238 Bagelbites with Italian Seasoning and a Summer Camp Forensics Degree

E237 The Ghost With No Pants and a Matchmaking Serial Killer

E236 Ghostly Dog Breath and a Sardine and Sadness Sandwich

E235 Space Cowboys and Semantics Champions

Listener Stories: Vol. 58

E234 An Anxious Tooth Mouse and an Amateur Alligator Charmer

E233 Cryptid Smut and a Boy Boss Summer

E232 Paranormal Anxiety and a Seat in the Barking Room

BONUS: In Conversation with Hannah Smith of The Opportunist

E231 A Royal Jalapeño Crib and the Worst Quilt Ever Ever Quilted

E230 A Cauldron of Mac and Cheese and Sugar Free Gummy Bear Consumption

Listener Stories: Vol. 57

E229 Team Aliens and the Opposite of a Jolly Rancher

E228 Goat Cheese Marshmallows and Bougie Gators

E227 The Ghouls Next Door and the Criminal Pickle Barrel

E226 Poisonous Sharks and the Patchsquatch

Listener Stories: Vol. 56

E225 A Baby Barcalounger and the Water Tumbler of Doom

E224 The Hogwarts of Prisons and Two Generations of Cringeworthy Screen Names

E223 Schiefersaurs and Balloonatoons

E222 The Wine Kill Switch and the Paranormal Vagina Monologues

E221 Family Nuts and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Backrooms

Listener Stories: Vol. 55

E220 Astrophysics Improv and the Owl Queen

E219 A Paper Mâché Nose Doll and Mothman's Grandchildren

E218 A Skeleton's Waiting Room and Christine's New Screen Name

E217 A Mantis Manifesto and a Serial Killer's Dentist

Listener Stories: Vol. 54

E216 The Opposite of a Meet Cute and a Half Sister in Space

E215 Bigfoot Geometry and Tin Can Fingerprints

E214 Em's Sleep Skin and Christine's Day Skin

E213 A Trashy Bunny and the Podcast Built on a Thousand Demons

Listener Stories: Vol. 53

E212 Conspiracy Theory Lasagna and the Migraine Episode

E211 The Echelon Twins and a Rotary Butt Dial

E210 The Golden Plunger Award and the London Fog Cult

E209 A Ghost's Recliner and the PTA of Covens

Listener Stories: Vol. 52

E208 Creepy Coats and a Party Lemon

E207 The Return of the Plunger Fort and the Paranormal Gossip Mill

E206 A Vengeful Lady Fish and Biscuits with Bear

E205 A Zero Gravity Wine Bra and a Coffee Date with Slender Man

E204 This Year's Sandwich Predictions and the Old Synaprague

Listener Stories: Vol. 51

E203 The Abdominal Snowman and Christmas on an Embered Ash

E202 Spiritualist Chippendales and the Murder Situation Show

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