Two years ago, Christopher and Eric used this podcast to bring much needed attention to the brutal homicide of a young gay man named William Arnold Newton, whose severed head and feet were found in a Hollywood dumpster in 1990. Meanwhile, empty nester Clark Williams was trying to find a new direction in life after his daughter had departed for college. Then he encountered an article about a shocking tip generated by Christopher and Eric's efforts to shine light on the long unsolved, brutal murde...
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Two years ago, Christopher and Eric used this podcast to bring much needed attention to the brutal homicide of a young gay man named William Arnold Newton, whose severed head and feet were found in a Hollywood dumpster in 1990. After a series of shocking revelations, the case has been solved, and a victim in danger of being forgotten has now been featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. #JusticeForBilly month begins with a stunning visit from LAPD homicide detective John Lamberti. Af...
Mar 05, 2023•51 min
Find out how this wrap up to Toxic Love Month almost became a second train wreck episode. (We're looking at you, Christopher.) Jasmine Fiore was determined to use her Playboy Playmate career as a stepping stone to a better life than the one in which her father abandoned their family and her mother struggled to make ends meet. So how did she end up horribly beaten, and mutilated and disposed of in an Orange County dumpster? Christopher and Eric chart the sad and infuriating course as they serve u...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Toxic Love Month gets a hint of sugar courtesy of you, our beloved Party People. On The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page, we asked you to share the most romantic thing anyone's ever done for you, and your answers inspired a lively discussion of the specialness of all relationships, including friendships. But before the confection turned too sweet, we brought in our wayward critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand for a dressing down that was anything but saccharine, which may well please his most arden...
Feb 19, 2023•59 min
Toxic Love Month continues with the second in Christopher and Eric’s "true crime pairing" charting the long fall of one of the music industry's most influential producers. On this episode, they serve you a True Crime Movie time featuring David Mamet's version of the Phil Spector murder trial. PHIL SPECTOR was met with Emmy nominations when it debuted on HBO. But did its celebrated writer/director show any regard for the facts of the case? Or only the ones that fit his point of view? Find out how...
Feb 11, 2023•57 min
No one chronicled a Hollywood murder mystery better than storied writer Dominick Dunne, and no one serves up Hollywood scandal better than your hosts Christopher and Eric. The first in one of their "true crime pairings", this installment of True Crime TV Club serves up DOMINICK DUNNE'S POWER, PRIVILEGE AND JUSTICE, season 1, episode 1, entitled "Phil Spector'. What really happened on that night twenty years ago when a down on her luck actress found herself at the isolated castle of a has-been mu...
Feb 05, 2023•58 min
Movin' On Month continues and in typical, morbid Christopher and Eric fashion your hosts are celebrating with a special edition of True Crime TV Club that focuses on one of the most famous haunted house stories in American history. Who was the biggest victim of the Amityville Horror story? The beleaguered couple who claimed they were run out of their new home by demonic spirits? Or the young children caught in the crossfire of what many believe to be a high flown hoax? Your hosts tackle the unpl...
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Have you heard the news? Eric Shaw Quinn is moving into a home of his own and in true TDPS style your hosts are celebrating by focusing on the negative. On The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page, we asked our beloved Party People to share with us the worst living situations they ever endured — and how they escaped. The answers ranged from the hilarious, to the revolting to the deeply emotional. Also, what's this we hear about a very special upcoming visit from TDPS critic-at-large Jordan Ampersan...
Jan 22, 2023•59 min
Movin' On Month continues! Eric Shaw Quinn's finally getting his own place. To celebrate, we're bringing you an all new True Crime TV Club that proves it's always better to live alone. Dorothea Puente seemed like a sweet, charitable old lady who took in boarders out of the kindness of her own heart. Then came the disappearances. And the strange smells. And the stupefying agents. Christopher and Eric serve up Episode 1 of Season 1 of the Netflix series WORST ROOMMATE EVER entitled "Call Me Grandm...
Jan 15, 2023•55 min
New year. Same Christopher and Eric. After a series of special encores, your hosts return with their first completely new episode of 2023. Join them for a tour of the new holiday traditions they're building in the wake of losing Christopher's beloved mother, Anne Rice. Christmas is what you make of it, and it turns out your hosts made plenty — and it included lots of Yorkshire pudding and even more Thomas Kincade.
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 2 min
"God gave us memory so we might have roses in December." This J.M Barrie quote is one of Eric Shaw Quinn's favorites, and it's why your hosts have chosen to mark their first holiday season without our beloved Anne Rice with a special tribute series to her memory. Anne's book tour for PRINCE LESTAT took her all over North America, but it was in beautiful downtown Burbank where she stepped on stage for her only live interview with Christopher and Eric in front of an audience. Enjoy Anne at her mos...
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr
"God gave us memory so we might have roses in December." This J.M Barrie quote is one of Eric Shaw Quinn's favorites, and it's why your hosts have chosen to mark their first holiday season without our beloved Anne Rice with a special tribute series to her memory. In 2014, Anne thrilled her legions of fans when she announced the return of her most beloved character, the vampire Lestat. PRINCE LESTAT was published later that year, and your hosts Christopher and Eric traveled with her to New Orlean...
Dec 25, 2022•59 min
"God gave us memory so we might have roses in December." This J.M Barrie quote is one of Eric Shaw Quinn's favorites, and it's why your hosts have chosen to mark their first holiday season without our beloved Anne Rice with a special tribute series to her memory. Join us as we travel back in time to our very first live broadcast from the TDPS studio in West Hollywood where we're joined by our first guest, Anne Rice. The beloved author — and beloved mother and friend — joined us for a lively, wid...
Dec 18, 2022•51 min
It's been one year since we lost our beloved Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice. As we remember this sad anniversary, we bring you a special encore presentation of one of our most emotional episodes. Recorded before a live audience at Colleen Hoover's Book Bonanza in Dallas, Texas earlier this year, join Christopher and Eric, and their special guests, bestselling romance writers Lexi Blake and Xio Axelrod, as they pay tribute to one of popular fiction's most legendary authors, who was also a remar...
Dec 11, 2022•46 min
We're calling it the train wreck episode, and not just because the crime involved took place next to some railroad tracks. Listen to find out why this became the most chaotic installment of Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club to date. Allegedly your hosts serve up an episode of a show called DEAD OF WINTER. Specifically, episode 5 of season 1. We think. We hope. One thing's for sure, madcap antics ensue. But that's par for the course at the TDPS Network.
Dec 04, 2022•1 hr
The brutal slaying of a prominent attorney's wife and son is only the beginning of this dark saga of murder, homophobia and corruption in South Carolina's Low Country. Your hosts — former southerners themselves — take a deep dive into this swampy, deadly soup by way of the HBO Max documentary series LOW COUNTRY: THE MURDAUGH DYNASTY. By the end, they have a possible theory of the case no one seems to be talking about. Do you agree?
Nov 27, 2022•1 hr
Smart British crime-solvers and gorgeous royal gowns. A riveting historical novel about one woman's search for revenge in earthquake ravaged San Francisco. It's all on the menu at Christopher and Eric's holiday time round up of their pop culture highlights from 2022. Belly up to the table as your hosts ladle out delicious servings of the TV shows they were most thankful for this year, along with tasty treats from the worlds of film and publishing as well
Nov 20, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Where are the children? Some true crime stories reach out from the screen and grab you by the throat from the second you first read the headline. That's what happened to Christopher and Eric when the tale of one of the most evil mothers in history first started making headlines in 2019. Does the new Netflix series SINS OF OUR MOTHER reveal depths of Lori Vallow's delusional evil and religious fanaticism that haven't been reached by previous coverage? Your hosts are determined to find out.
Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Are Christopher and Eric really going to do an entire episode about daylight savings time? Not really. They're going to take an entire episode to spotlight how much they DESPISE daylight savings time. And apparently you do too, Party People, because you flooded our Facebook page with comments to that effect. If there's anything dimmer than daylight savings time itself, it's critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand, who brings us his unenlightening man on the street report on this unexpectedly incendiary...
Nov 06, 2022•57 min
In the two years since your hosts Christopher and Eric started marking the Halloween season anniversary of young Billy Newton's gruesome and long unsolved murder, new witnesses and a potential suspects have emerged. For Christopher and Eric's first in studio interview, the LAPD homicide detective who inherited the case brings us an update on the current state of the investigation, and a new set of possibilities for concerned citizens who want to keep Billy's memory alive. In addition, Christophe...
Oct 30, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Are vampires real? Do werewolves enjoy their hairy gifts? Speaking of hair, would Christopher and Eric be able to recognize William Shatner in public if he didn't have his wig on? And why did William Shatner block Christopher on Twitter?! These are the thrilling, urgent and scientific questions your hosts tackle as they serve up episode 15 of THE UNXPLAINED, a show that mixes green screens and questionable scholarship with a side of the stomach turning. In addition, Christopher and Eric recall t...
Oct 23, 2022•1 hr
As your hosts Christopher and Eric kick off the Halloween season, they turned to you, our beloved Party People, to hear about the scariest experience you ever had that couldn't be easily explained. Ghosts! Messages from the beyond! Strange figures walking in the woods. There are chills aplenty on this spooky new episode, thanks to your spine-tingling contributions on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. And a last minute addition from critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand that's sure to terrify any...
Oct 16, 2022•56 min
For years now, Eric Shaw Quinn has proclaimed that if Lyle and Erik Menendez had been women, there would be statues of them on the lawn of the Beverly Hills Courthouse. Today, as the Discovery ID documentary MENENDEZ BROTHERS: MISJUDGED makes clear, a growing movement of young people are starting to agree with your host. Do Lyle and Erik Menendez deserve to spend the rest of their life behind bars, or have they been further victimized by a despicably dishonest prosecutor's office, the questionab...
Oct 09, 2022•58 min
It's almost impossible to believe that our beloved Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice's 81st birthday is happening without her on this earth, but Christopher and Eric are sure she would have loved this tribute to one of her favorite subjects — tales of the paranormal — and one of her favorite films. To celebrate Anne's life and work, we asked you, our Party People, to share ghost stories of your own and the results were emotional, moving and a little spooky.
Oct 02, 2022•58 min
Eric searched the heavens for a True Crime TV Club that could mark the autumnal equinox and somehow we all ended up at a gym in Florida. Find out how we made the strange trip as your hosts serve up episode 2 of season 1 of KILLER BODS, entitled "Pride & Payback". What turned a gorgeous physical trainer to South Florida's elite into an agent of death and destruction? Was it oblivious corporate overlords, bad management or what was once an essential ingredient to his brawny success?
Sep 25, 2022•1 hr
Will the upcoming midterms be a referendum on the SCOTUS decision about abortion? Will a certain treasonous and psychotic former president's picks for office make the cut? Are you as sick of these questions as we are? Good. Because Christopher and Eric will largely ignore them as they focus their election season episode on a far less consequential and entirely hypothetical match up. Who would make the better president, Christopher or Eric? Your answers were surprising and resulted in much broken...
Sep 18, 2022•58 min
Join the Party People and your hosts Eric and Christopher for the release of another steamy and emotional gay romance novel from Christopher's alter ego. SAPPHIRE SPRING, the second book in the Sapphire Cove series, deals with a topic many of us have experienced firsthand, high school bullying. And so we asked you this — What would your bully need to say or to do today to make up for the way they treated you during those years? Your answers were diverse, emotional and moving, much like C. Travis...
Sep 11, 2022•56 min
Serial killer Stephen Port used the anonymity offered by the Internet to kill and to deceive the grieving in diabolical ways. But to what extent was he aided and abetted by the incompetence and homophobia of the local police? And to what extent does this prestigious limited series on Britbox stick with the known facts of the case? Christopher and Eric are surprised by the answers as they serve up a True Crime Movie Time featuring "The Barking Murders" aka “Four Lives”. Now if only they could fig...
Sep 04, 2022•51 min
In the first serving of this all new True Crime Pairing, Christopher and Eric head across the pond and into the twisted mind of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, Stephen Port. In "How The Police Missed The Grindr Killer" — the BBC doc is available on You Tube here in the United States — we learn how Port claimed the innocent lives of several young queer men before playing sadistic mind games with their grieving relatives. But would this nightmare have come true for so many if not f...
Aug 28, 2022•55 min
With summer on the wane, it's time for a Back to School themed query on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. We asked, you answered. If you could travel back in time and relive your high school experience all over again, what would you do differently and why? Christopher and Eric have their own answers. Incompetent critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand joins us with his thoughts on the topic, or does he? Perhaps he’s just coloring outside the lines or maybe he just didn’t understand the question.
Aug 21, 2022•59 min
