PodCats - Crime & Cocktails

Send us Fan Mail Pour a drink, lock your doors, and lower your moral standards — because the Podcats were absolutely hammered recording this one, and Erica chose this to finally confess her undying love for Ed Gein. (Yes… that Ed Gein. We’re concerned too.) In this episode, Jess, Erica, Traci, and special guest Julian dive headfirst into the dark, gruesome, and occasionally ridiculous world of Ed...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode of Crime and Cocktails with the PodCats , Jess, Erica, and Traci welcome TomCat Julian (aka the honorary feline of the night aka Party after Five) for a wild ride through Netflix’s The Perfect Neighbor — a disturbing true crime tale of Florida feuds, front porch fury, and a heaping dose of old-fashioned racism. Espresso martinis in hand, the crew dives headf...

Send us Fan Mail Jess and Traci are four hours into a Friday night when they decide to go full-send on Netflix’s new documentary aka Charlie Sheen . Pour a drink and settle in: we chat the coke, the meltdowns, the infamous “tiger blood” era, and the jaw-dropping personal revelations — yes, the ice-cube anecdote, the Apocalypse Now near-fatal set story, our takes on exes like Denise Richards and Br...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Crime and Cocktails with the PodCats , Jess and the kitties dive into Netflix’s Unknown Number: The High School Catfish — an INSANE docuseries that unpacks one of the most elaborate catfishing cases to ever hit a high school community.  Of course, it wouldn’t be a PodCats episode without a little chaos — Mama Kitty gets a surprise “Happy Birthday” serenade, Jess...

Send us Fan Mail Most of the Podcats made it to the mic this week to tackle a documentary with quite possibly the longest title we've ever attempted to pronounce after two cocktails. This is also a part of our new twist - PodCats After Dark. Which means we get pretty raunchy and the content is absolutely unsuitable for anyone under 18. Put on your headphones kitties.  In short: A Deadly Ameri...

Send us Fan Mail Jess and Traci are here with a couple of guests to discuss the three-part documentary This is the Zodiac Speaking, streaming on Netflix. But they all pre-gamed WAY too much so this is more like a Bad Moms podcast with  hear less lots of inappropriate conversation. We caution you to keep your children out of the car when you listen to this episode. Truely, we were hammered.  If you...

Send us Fan Mail This episode hosts just a couple of kitties - Jess and her guest T Bone. We do have to warn you that the kitties were sipping cocktails for HOURS before they got to Chowchilla so words are slurred and there is some confusion. But we did manage to get most of the story out. If none of what we said made sense, here is what the doc was all about: CNN Films and Max covered what was tr...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 6!  Traci and Jess sip expresso martinis and discuss the insanity of Ms. Elisabeth Finch as depicted in the documentary "Anatomy of Lies"......currently airing on Peacock.  We are captivated by scammer and grifter stories, as are most of us who don’t fabricate fake identities or take other peoples stories as our own. These tales offer a safe, vicarious...

Send us Fan Mail Traci and Jess made pineapple mimosas to pregame for this one! You will never drink them with OJ again once you try pineapple 🍍😋🍹 We were able to really get into a good convo about this wild documentary without the distractions of our missing PodCats but we totally missed those wild pussycats.  BTW - This was a recommendation of Traci's and it was SO GOOD! Here is the gist...

Send us Fan Mail Jess, Traci and Madison are all in the house discussing this insightful documentary that we ALL loved! The cocktails were flowing so the kitties got off track from time to time but you will get the gist of it.   Stormy premiered on Peacock March 18, 2024.  We all found Stormy Daniels to be a complex, deeply compassionate women and her story is that of a widely misunderstood indivi...

Send us Fan Mail Jess, Madison and Traci are all in the house discussing the Docuseries about Ashley Madison on Netflix. If you are not familiar with Ashely Madison, it is the dating website where married people can find someone to cheat with. And in 2015, they were super hacked by The Impact Team. This person or persons got into their database and exposed the names, personal info and preferences...

Send us Fan Mail The PodCats are mostly all in the pod today with the exception of Traci who missed all of the chaos.  Our friend Ivy joined us from Canada and we had a Tom Cat in the house!! Thanks for having some fun with us Ivy & Justin!   "Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God"  is a documentary that explores the life and death of Amy Carlson, also known as Mother God. She claimed...

Send us Fan Mail Most of the PodCats are in the house to  chat about a deadly love triangle in the Netflix Documentary called Lover, Stalker, Killer.  This is the true story of how auto mechanic Dave Kroupa became the center of an online dating nightmare that resulted in years of stalking and harassment, arson, and a murder.  There are interviews with Dave Kroupa, law enforcement officials, and ot...

Send us Fan Mail Most of the PodCats are in the house to  chat about all the twists and turns in the INSANE Netflix docuseries about the kidnapping of Denise Huskins.  This is a three-part docuseries from The Tinder Swindler   filmmakers Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgin.  They did a great job combining interrogation footage, interviews, and audio recordings to describe how Denise Huskin and A...

Send us Fan Mail All the cats are in the pod to discuss this absolutely insane docuseries about a young lady named Natalia Grace, who was initially assumed to be a 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan. Natalia was born with a rare bone growth disorder which added to some of the confusion when it was potentially discoverd that she may have actually been a fully grown adult at the time of her adoption.  We n...

Send us Fan Mail All the cats are in the pod to discuss Dr. Paolo Macchiarini- the  world famous surgeon revolutionizing stem cell-infused windpipe transplants.  Especially when it comes to that tiny problem where his patients keep dying.   Paolo is also quite the ladies man and the kitties are in awe of his elaborate lies and the amount of sheer deception in this very narcissistic Doctor.  Madiso...

Send us Fan Mail Madison, Traci and Jess have a lot to say about this cult insanity. Clearly because it's one of our longest shows.  We apologize in advance for how long this is and for the many distractions we had. Perhaps too much RumChata?  Anyway, you might want to save this one for your next road trip! (Without the kids)  This is a Netflix documentary that really comes down to the desper...

Send us Fan Mail The kitties are on the road at Erica's enjoying pineapple margaritas to discuss The Devil on Trial - a documentary of a "true" demonic possession.  We learn about this family who  is truly fractured by not only the possession but also the different views on what did or did not take place.  At the center of the story is David Glatzel who was supposedly possessed at t...

Send us Fan Mail All the cats are in the pod except Madison who is celebrating she and her moms birthday!  We are having cocktails with her 🍹🍷🍸 in spirit! Todays show took place at Ericas pad instead of the PodCat studio and lets just say, Erica makes a mean pineapple margarita.  Today we are talking about the TINY LITTLE documentary on Hulu called "Ruby Franke A Momfluencer's Double...

Send us Fan Mail All the cats are in the pod except Traci who had to tend bar 🍹🍷🍸so we had to make our own cocktails without her😢 Today we are talking about the Three Part documentary by Investigation Discovery that premiered on Discovery plus in March called "Jared from Subway: Catching A Monster” about Subway pitchman Jared Fogle and his fall from grace.  Jared became a pop culture figu...

Send us Fan Mail All the cats are in the pod discussing this crazy case from the 80s which was depicted in the movie, Indictment: The McMartin Trial. No, not a documentary but there are a few out there if you want to go bonkers with this and find them. The cats had a few too many cocktails, called in grammy cat, had a guest Tom Cat you will enjoy and veered off topic multiple times but you will ge...

Send us Fan Mail MOST of the cats were in the pod to have cocktails and chat about this documentary that came out back in 2019.  This was one of Netflix's Top 5 most-watched documentaries of 2019 but it does seem that a LOT of people missed it. This episode may have had more cocktails than crime because we were celebrating PodCat Traci's birthday.  Excuse all the roads we went down that...

Send us Fan Mail The Podcast are sipping and chatting about  the three part documentary called Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal. This was made by Jenner Furst and Jennifer Willoughby Nason and is currently available on Netflix -  And of course - the actual trial has been going on and wrapped up just a couple of days after our podcast. So many people were talking about this family and the serie...

Send us Fan Mail In 2013, Kai and his hatchet went viral after saving the day.  For those of us who didn't follow the rest of the story, the Netflix new documentary fills us in on what happened NEXT in this super bizarre story!  Kai, whose real name is Caleb McGillivary, ended up in prison for murder. Most of the kitties HATED this documentary and it only got a couple of paws but at least we...

Send us Fan Mail All the cats were in the pod to sip cocktails and discuss this astounding true docuseries. Don’t Pick Up The Phone followed  the true story of an investigation into a hoax caller who talked managers into strip-searching employees at fast food businesses across the US. The scam was INSANE! A man would call a fast food restaurant pretending to be a police officer. He would convince...