I Swear To Drunk I Am Not God

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 12 - PART 2

We're back for part two!

 Part Two follows the fallout of the missing $40 million from the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union and the investigation into Lawrence E. King Jr. as allegations of abuse and exploitation, involving vulnerable youth, begin to surface. While these claims were documented in testimony and hearings, they were never proven in court and remain heavily disputed. 

As investigator Gary Caradori gathered key witness accounts, his sudden death in a plane crash (and the disappearance of critical evidence) only deepened th...

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 12 - PART 1

We're back and I accidentally did another two-parter!

We’re digging into the case that turned Omaha into the epicenter of a political and social nightmare: The Franklin Scandal.

We’re looking at the $40 million collapse of a credit union and the man at the center of the storm - Lawrence E. King Jr. Was he just a high-society fraudster, or was he the gatekeeper to a pedophile ring reaching the highest levels of the American elite? We’re peeling back the layers of Joh...

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 11.

We’re back in murder land.

We’re digging into one of the most heartbreaking and controversial chapters in true crime history: The Atlanta Child Murders.

We’re looking at the victims the world almost forgot and the man the system was desperate to pin it on - Wayne Williams. Was he a prolific predator, or a convenient scapegoat for a city on the brink of a race war? We’re peeling back the layers of a botched investigation, the FBI’s involvement, and why th...

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 10, Part 2.

We’re back in it.

In the final chapter of our dive into Whitney Webb’s One Nation Under Blackmail Vol 2., we move out of the smoky backrooms of the 20th-century mob and into the high-tech, high-def world of the modern technocracy. Volume 2, Part 2 is about the digital harvest.

We’re picking up right where the "stray cats" met - Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. This isn't just a story about a "creep" and his girlfriend; it’s a breakdown of the infrastructure that made the...

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 10.

We’re back in it.

In this episode, we continue the conversation started in Volume 1, this time diving into “One Nation Under Blackmail: Volume 2” by Whitney Webb.

If Volume 1 taught us anything, it’s this: the system was designed this way.  Volume 2 drops us directly into the rise of Jeffrey Epstein. Not just the headline version of Epstein or the crimes we already know. But the infrastructure around him. Epstein didn’t come out of nowhere.

This episode focuses on the machinery...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 9!

In this episode, we descend into the suburbs of 1970s Houston to examine the case of Dean Corll, a man the world remembers as “The Candy Man,” but whose neighborhood knew as "The Pied Piper".

Behind the friendly persona was one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. Corll groomed and manipulated teenage boys, ultimately recruiting two of them - David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. - to help lure victims to his apartment. Corll orchestrated what was, at the time, t...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 8 - PART 2!

In Part 2, we move from smoky back rooms to boardrooms with better lighting.

If Part 1 built the foundation - Prohibition money, mob logistics, compromised officials - Part 2 shows what happens when the underworld goes corporate. The old guard dies off, but the infrastructure evolves.

Drawing exclusively from Whitney Webb’s One Nation Under Blackmail (Vol. 1), this episode explores how blackmail, intelligence operations, private banking networks, political fixers, and “respectable” institutions converged in the 1970s–1990s to form something far more durable than a crime ring...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 8 - PART 1!

In this episode, I pull back the curtain on One Nation Under Blackmail Vol 1. by Whitney Webb - a meticulously sourced deep dive that reframes power, corruption, and control in America as a long-running business model, not a conspiracy theory. 

We'll talk about how intelligence agencies, organized crime, financial institutions, and political elites converged to create a system where corruption isn’t a bug - it’s a feature. Blackmail becomes leverage. Leverage becomes policy. And accountability eventually dies.

This episode is about power c...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 7!

In this episode, we examine the case of Jane Toppan, a woman often reduced to the label of “killer nurse,” but whose crimes reveal something far more disturbing. Toppan didn’t simply murder her patients - she manipulated them. 

Charged with twelve murders and confessing to at least thirty-one, she exploited a system that trusted caregivers implicitly and rarely questioned deaths labeled as “natural.” Her case forces an uncomfortable conversation about access, authority, and how easily harm can hide behind a smile and a uniform.

This is a cas...

In this Sober Take, we examine the federal sentencing memorandum in Pamela Anne Hemphill, a January 6 case that shows how courts evaluate individual conduct inside a mass event.

*CORRECTION:KEPT CALLING HER PATRICIA IN THE EPISODE*

Hemphill pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a restricted Capitol building, a misdemeanor offense. On its face, the charge appears minor. But the government’s sentencing memorandum argues that her conduct, credibility, and history place the case on the more serious end of the misdemeanor spectrum.

The government ultimately re...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 6!

In this episode, we step deep into Chicago history to unpack the myth and the menace of Sylvester “Two Gun Pete” Washington, one of the most infamous and contradictory figures in the city’s law enforcement past.

Celebrated by newspapers as a fearless crime fighter and quietly feared by the communities he policed, Washington was the most recognizable Black police officer in Chicago history. Armed with two pearl-handled .357 magnums, he built a reputation that blurred the line between lawman and outlaw.

This episode examines how Washingt...

In this Sober Take, I ramble about a federal class-action lawsuit alleging that Stake.us operates as an illegal online casino in the United States while marketing itself as a “free” social gaming platform.

The lawsuit also names celebrity promoters, including Drake and Adin Ross, alleging they were paid to livestream gambling activity using funds supplied by the platform—creating a misleading picture of risk for everyday users.

This episode does not determine guilt. Instead, it explains what is being alleged, why the case is being heard in federal court...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 5!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This week, We're on a road trip. I'm joined by my sister, Kirrah, as we take on one of the most disturbing cases in modern American crime history.

His name was Samuel Little, and for decades he moved through cities virtually invisible. Between the 1970s and early 2000s, Little murdered women across the United States while law enforcement repeatedly failed to connect the cases or, in many instances, failed to investigate them at all.

We're going to break down Samuel Little's, ho...

Welcome to Season 4 – Episode 4!

This week, we’re taking a sharp left turn from Kansas and landing in Miami Beach.  In July of 1997, world-renowned fashion icon Gianni Versace was gunned down on the steps of his own mansion.

And at the center of it all? A social climber named Andrew Cunanan.

Today, we’re digging into how a kid from San Diego spiraled into a cross-country killing spree, how he managed to stay one step ahead of the entire country for three months, and how it all ended in Miami leaving the fas...

Welcome to Season 4 - Episode 3!

This week, we’re heading to Wichita, Kansas. The quiet little town that wasn’t so quiet once BTK showed up.

Bind. Torture. Kill. That’s what he called himself. And for thirty years, he hid behind the mask of a husband, father, church leader, and city code enforcer while secretly turning his darkest fantasies into reality.

My sister Kirrah is joining me this week to unpack how a man that ordinary managed to fool everyone including his family, his congregation, and even the cops.

 Grab your dr...

Welcome to Season 4 - Episode 2!

**THIS EPISODE HAS SOUND ISSUES**

This week, we're going to blast off (literally) into one of the strangest true stories in American history: Heaven’s Gate.

In 1997, 39 people dressed in identical black outfits and Nike Decades “left their vehicles” in hopes of catching a ride on a UFO trailing the Hale–Bopp comet. Behind the headlines were Marshall Applewhite (a fallen preacher’s kid turned prophet) and Bonnie Nettles (a nurse turned spiritual guide) who built a belief system that mixed Theosophy, UFOs, and the Book of Revelat...

Welcome to Season 4 - Episode 1!

This Halloween, we’re back — and we’re not just telling a ghost story, we’re living one.

Join me! I'm with Sal as we record inside the infamous Congress Plaza Hotel in downtown Chicago. A place that’s been called one of the most haunted hotels in America. From shadowy hallways to creaking elevators, we’re chasing the same whispers that terrified guests for over a century.

I’ll share why this city feels like it was built on “sour ground.” And Sal? He'll be right there with me as we expl...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 10!

In this episode, I’m joined by my homeboy, Jeremy! We'll talk about the chilling case of the Idaho Four—the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students that shook the nation. We'll walk through the known facts, the timeline of events, and the arrest of suspect Bryan Kohberger.

The poison in this episode is the Tequila Bee's Knees.

If you want to drink with us, you will need mezcal, honey, lemon juice, honey syrup, angostura, and tequila.

The recipe for the Tequila Bee's Knee...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 9!

In this episode, I’m joined by my homeboy, Dustin! We’re diving into the final hours of Bobby Franks’ life and peering into the twisted minds of two wealthy kids who thought they were too smart to ever get caught—spoiler alert: they absolutely weren’t. We’ll talk Nietzsche, terrible alibis, why murder isn’t exactly a team-building exercise, and the hidden forces that turned an ordinary Chicago afternoon into a lasting nightmare the city would never forget. Come for the true crime, stay for the banter.

The poison in this...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 8!

This week, my sister Kirrah joins me to explore Chicago’s explosive Red Summer of 1919. We unpack the racial tensions that triggered Eugene Williams’ death, discuss the violence that erupted after, and connect how these historic struggles reflect the political divides we still grapple with today. 

The poison in this episode is the Crooked Cowboy.

If you want to drink with us, you will need bourbon, ginger beer, grapefruit juice and maple syrup.

The recipe for the Crooked Cowboy is as follows:
2 oz Bourb...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 7!

In this episode, we're diving headfirst into the twisted road of the Happy Face Killer: a long-haul trucker who turned America's highways into his hunting grounds. False confessions, a trail of dead women, chilling letters signed with a...Happy Face? Weird much?

The poison in this episode is the Blackberry Bourbon Smash.

If you want to drink with us, you will need bourbon, mint, blackberries, ginger beer, lemon juice and maple syrup.

The recipe for the Blackberry Bourbon Smash is as follows:

2...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 6!

She's back! After a long break, my sister, Kirrah rejoins the poddy as we take a deep, emotional dive into the tragic and haunting case of Andrea Yates. We unpack the events leading up to that fateful day, and the deeper mental health struggles that were overlooked. It's a heavy episode, but having her back makes it a little lighter...and it's my BIRTHDAY! So...let’s get into it..

The poison in this episode is the Fleur de Paradis.

If you want to dr...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 5!

In this episode, Sal and I dive into the chaos surrounding the 448-page and 187-page Mueller reports — the one that breaks down Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election and the investigation that shook up American politics.

The poison in this episode is the Whiskey Sour.

If you want to drink with us, you will need bourbon whiskey, lemon juice and simple syrup.

The recipe for the Whiskey Sour is as follows:

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 4!

Join me as I dive into the mysterious events of the Battle of Los Angeles—a strange, high-intensity event that took place on the night of February 24, 1942.  Was it really a Japanese attack, or something else entirely?  I will explore the theories, the cover-ups, and the lasting questions surrounding this infamous, bizarre episode in U.S. history.

The poison in this episode is the Saints of LA.

If you want to drink with me, the recipe for the Saints of LA is as f...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 3!

Back with a Black History Month Episode!

In this episode, I'll be talking about the 1977 Martin Luther King Jr Investigation Report report detailing the FBI investigation efforts and the Office of Professional Responsibility Task Force's attempts to correct the original report. Better late than never! Let's dive in! Sip!

The poison in this episode is the Crimson King.

If you want to drink with me, the recipe for the Crimson King is as follows:

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 2!

Back from the Brink: I Swear to Drunk I Am Not God Returns!

Back from taking a mental health break after the 2024 election, I Swear to Drunk I Am Not God is back! In this episode, Me and Sal will dive into the chaos surrounding the newly released Jack Smith 174-page report detailing the investigation into President-Elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. This will be my only political episode this season...so, buckle up, buttercup and welcome back!

The...

Welcome to Season 3 - Episode 1, Part 2!

We’re back! So let's continue one of the most infamous unsolved cases in American history: the Black Dahlia murder! Join me as we dive deep into the twisted story of Steve Hodel and his investigation into his own father, George Hodel—a man Steve believes was responsible for the brutal slaying of Elizabeth Short, aka the Black Dahlia. This episode explores the chilling clues, dark secrets, and tangled web of crime, conspiracy, and corruption that surrounds this decades-old mystery!

The poison in this episode is the Bl...