Murder, dreams, and margaritas with Erin and Heather.
Erin and Heather work through murders and disappearances, from the 1927 Bath School Disaster to the case of Paige Renkoski, with drinks in hand. Friends like Mar, Linda and Darlene sometimes join, and the talk swerves between case files, personal stories and rowdy laughter.
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That Would Go Good With Vodka treats true crime as something to talk through among friends, drink in hand. Erin and Heather sit at the center, and the setting shifts around them. They have recorded out in the woods with birdsong in the background, beside a friend's pool over homemade margaritas, and in a parked car watching the snow. The cocktails are not decoration; one episode pauses to list a red winter drink down to the dash of absinthe. The case list is wide. It runs from Lavinia Fisher and the legend of a Charleston inn to Sylvia Likens, the Keddie cabin murders, Katherine Knight and the Rhoden family massacre in Ohio. Michigan keeps pulling the conversation back, with episodes on the 1927 Bath School Disaster, the Woodward Corridor killings in Detroit, a Thanksgiving mass murder in Muskegon and the disappearance of Paige Renkoski from the shoulder of I-96. The Bath episodes carry a personal thread: one speaker passes along stories handed down from a man who lived next door to Andrew Kehoe, and the group catches a factual slip in a 1927 book on the disaster. Another episode, 'Half Pint: A little history of Bath, Michigan with Dale!', gives the floor to a longtime Bath resident. Sources are read aloud and then argued with. In the Kevin Bacon episode, the pair weigh whether a killer's earlier incidents were practice runs, then react, not kindly, to a public statement from the actor who shares the victim's name. The Lavinia Fisher telling lays out the trapdoor-and-spikes legend before admitting the record does not fully back it, and the pair half wish it did. Tangents are part of the deal. A cat's tail threatens to pause the recording; a drinking rule gets invented on the spot around the phrase 'Bob's your uncle'. Some detours land hard, as when talk of Conrad Roy III and Michelle Carter opens into a candid exchange about self-harm and the way bullying now follows kids onto their phones. Not every episode is a case file. 'Dream a little dream for me' puts Heather with Mar, Linda, Darlene and Theresa, working through dream-dictionary readings, a locker dream that still recurs decades later and a story of a mother who sensed trouble in her sleep. There are holiday specials, too, built around Mexican folklore and St. Patrick's Day. The language is salty and the laughter gets loud. Even so, victims are named and remembered, and the frustration at a killer or at a lenient outcome sounds genuine.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes true crime delivered as a loose, boozy hangout, with personal tangents and blunt humor alongside the case details. Also a fit for anyone drawn to Michigan cases like the Bath School Disaster.
What sets it apart: The case work comes wrapped in a hangout: recordings by a pool or in a parked car, friends chiming in, cocktail recipes beside case files. Recurring Michigan cases, including the Bath School Disaster told with stories from a Kehoe neighbor's family, give it a regional anchor.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Sunday-fun-day dream chat turns black-and-white sleep, a spaceship and a vacuum into communal comic relief.
This PlayNext episode has the easy rhythm of a room passing the conversation around. Heather steps in while Erin takes a break, and Mar, Teresa, Linda and Darlene help keep the dream talk moving from one odd question to the next.
A loose, personal look at Paige Rinkovski's 30-year cold case, grounded in memory and Michigan atmosphere.
Paige Rinkovski's case comes into focus as a 30-year cold case, but the episode first makes room for the woman at its center. She is remembered through the shape of an ordinary life: kind and loving parents, three sisters, and a childhood friend who saw her as creative, with a…
Family memory gives Kehoe's skill, rigidity, and anger an intimate chill.
This episode frames Kehoe through family memory, letting Otis Van Ostrom's account travel through his son, grandchildren, and Keith's family ties. That lineage gives the history a human scale.
A plainspoken Bath disaster account centered on the rescue work, the injured students, and the confusion after the blast.
This single-episode review follows the Bath disaster of 1927 through the immediate aftermath of the blast, staying close to injured students, frantic parents, and rescuers working around unstable wreckage.
A loose family folklore chat turns the Kukui into a half-shadowy warning, with margaritas, memories, and a few detours.
Erin and Heather frame the Kukui as the kind of family warning that lingers because nobody quite pins it down. The monster is remembered here as a way to keep children in line, with the conversation tracing its stated roots in Portugal and Galicia and its place in Spain,…
Pressure, teasing, and chaotic comic timing.
Smosh chaos, left in the room.
Riddles as bait, derailments as sport.
Fast riffs, bad premises, committed chaos.
Absurd riffs, ranked badly and fast.
D&D at Brian Posehn's table, jokes included.
That Would Go Good With Vodka shifts from cocktails to dreams as Heather, with Mar, Teresa, Linda, and Darlene, asks why some people remember dreams and others do not.
["That Would Go Good With Vodka opens with Erin and Heather reading Shola M.
That Would Go Good With Vodka examines Andrew Kehoe’s background before the 1927 Bath School disaster, beginning with his birth in Tecumseh, Michigan, on February 1, 1872.
Erin and Heather reopen their Bath, Michigan episode after a windy park recording failed, then frame the story as a local retelling of the Bath School Disaster.
Cinco de Mayo margaritas frame an episode that jumps from a Conrad Roy coercion text into Mexican folklore.
That Would Go Good With Vodka shifts from Erin and Heather’s jokes about “Bob’s your uncle” and exploding canned chili to a discussion of the Conrad Roy III case.
Heather’s birthday episode uses Serial Killer Tipsy Trivia before examining Ira Einhorn, a Philadelphia counterculture figure associated with Earth Day and known as the Unicorn Killer.
That Would Go Good with Vodka covers Eric Cross’s unresolved 1983 death after a graduation party in Vicksburg, Michigan, attended by more than 300 people.
That Would Go Good With Vodka examines the Bobby Kent murder case through Bobby Kent’s childhood friendship with Marty Puccio in Hollywood, Florida.
Erin and Heather recount the April 22, 2016 killings of eight members of the Roden family across four Pike County, Ohio homes.
That Would Go Good with Vodka’s “Happy St.
That Would Go Good With Vodka examines the December 24, 2019 disappearance and killing of 25-year-old Kevin Richard Bacon after he left Swartz Creek to meet someone from Grindr.
That Would Go Good With Vodka examines the November 1985 disappearance of David Tyll and Brian Adjun after the two men left St.
That Would Go Good with Vodka introduces the story of Katherine Knight through her childhood in Aberdeen, Australia, where family violence and sexual abuse shaped her early life.
That Would Go Good With Vodka examines Brenda Spencer's January 29, 1979 shooting at Cleveland Elementary in San Diego through a conversation between Erin and Heather.
That Would Go Good With Vodka examines the Alpine Manor murders through the relationship between nurses Kathy Wood and Gwen Graham, who worked at the Walker, Michigan nursing home during five patient deaths in nine months.
Erin and Heather recount the legend of Lavinia Fisher, who allegedly targeted travelers at the Six Mile Wayfarer Inn outside Charleston, South Carolina, around 1820.
Erin and Heather examine Eileen Wuornos, whom they describe as America's first well-known female serial killer, including the claim that she killed seven men in twelve months.
That Would Go Good With Vodka examines the 1981 Keddie Cabin Murders, in which Sue Sharp, John Sharp, and Dana Wingate were found brutally attacked in Cabin 28 while 12-year-old Tina Sharp was missing.
Heather and Erin chat with friend Dale at the American Legion bar about math and their podcast.
Heather and Erin catch up after Thanksgiving, sharing stories about family gatherings and joking about rebellious parents.
Heather and Erin sit by a fire, chatting about their podcast and teasing future episodes in a humorous, casual style.
Two friends introduce their new podcast with lighthearted banter about how everything goes well with vodka.