Summer of Scandal jitterbugs into the dangerous dance of politics with FALL TO GRACE, a so-called documentary that could use a lot more skip in its step. Remember when a politician coming out of the closet seemed like a seismic news event? In comparison to today's political climate, the story of New Jersey governor Jim McGreevy seems almost quaint. And that's why your hosts spend the first part of this episode talking about Christopher's spicy new erotic romance novella, PARTY OF THREE, which fe...
Jun 29, 2025•56 min
The hacking scandal at infamous media baron Rupert Murdoch's News of the World was one of the biggest stories of the early 2000's. Naturally, it resulted in complete destruction of everyone responsible, including one of the biggest right wing — Oh, wait. As Summer of Scandal surfs its way into the world of media, Christopher and Eric serve up two episodes of the BBC series THE RISE OF THE MURDOCH DYNASTY to find out what cost or consequence, if any, one of the world's most powerful media empires...
Jun 22, 2025•56 min
Grab your beach bag, Party People! (And the phone number for your best lawyer friend!) It's time for a Summer of Scandal. For the kick off, Christopher and Eric hop in a brand new Pierce-Arrow with Fatty Arbuckle, one of 1921's biggest silent film stars, and head up the California coast for said star's date with personal ruin. But did the highest paid actor in the world at that time do anything wrong in that infamous twelfth floor suite at San Francisco's St. Francis hotel? As they serve up seas...
Jun 15, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Christopher and Eric round out All About Representation Month by asking you, our beloved Party People, about the queer people who have made the biggest impact in your life. Some of you went with ancient emperors, other chose lovers past and present. The result is a lively, warmhearted discussion of mentorship, community and friendship that ends our Pride Season celebration on an uplifting note. (Next month we'll do a hideously disturbing true crime episode again. Promise.)
Jun 08, 2025•55 min
All About Representation Month takes a a hard light turn as Christopher and Eric navigate the recent history of gay representation in the world of sitcoms. Remember Blanche's gay brother on an early episode of THE GOLDEN GIRLS? How about a young “president” Tony Goldwyn's heartrending turn as a terminal AIDS patient who asked the designers of DESIGNING WOMEN to create his funeral? How do they compare with the sparkling new Hulu sitcom MIDCENTURY MODERN in which the gay characters take center sta...
Jun 01, 2025•1 hr
Meet Herb Baumeister. Successful businessman. Noted introvert. Lover of rotting food. And possible serial killer. As All About Representation Month continues, Christopher and Eric serve up the final two episodes of THE FOX HOLLOW MURDERS: PLAYGROUND OF A SERIAL KILLER, spotlighting the crusading Indiana coroners working to identify the forgotten gay victims of a staggeringly prolific serial killer. When a bungled investigation and a sudden suicide served as an excuse to shut down the search for ...
May 25, 2025•54 min
This year, Pride Season at TDPS is all about visibility, inclusion and respect for LGBT people, three things of which our current political climate is in desperately short supply. Welcome to All About Representation Month, beginning with a supersized True Crime TV Club that's about bringing long overdue justice to the forgotten gay victims of a vicious and prolific serial killer. When queer men started vanishing without a trace from the streets outside popular Indianapolis gay bars in the early ...
May 18, 2025•57 min
To atone for forcing Eric to endure three full episodes focused on one of reality television's most awful shows, Christopher wraps up Sin City Month by taking us down the rabbit hole of Las Vegas history, including the city's connection to the gay scion of a notorious Gilded Age copper baron. Then it's time to discuss the concept of sin itself with you, our beloved Party People. "What is the deadliest of the seven deadly sins?" they asked listeners on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. Their...
May 11, 2025•1 hr
In their second and final episode devoted to the Paramount + true crime series, SIN CITY GIGOLO, Christopher and Eric watch in disgust as a sanctimonious district attorney attempts to deflect the public's attention from terrible police work, and the man who most likely committed this awful crime descends into self-pitying rationalizations and flat out delusions. Are there any heroes to be found in this sad, tragic tale? And what single event first started this destructive and lethal spiral? The ...
May 04, 2025•59 min
Magic mushrooms have never felt less enchanting. Christopher and Eric serve up the first two episodes of SIN CITY GIGOLO, a salacious new true crime series from Paramount + in which the scorching Las Vegas sun reveals the murderous truths coiled beneath reality TV illusions. What happens when the cameras stop rolling, the checks stop coming and you realize all that fame you supposedly enjoyed was mostly a few thirsty people on the internet? Episodes 1 and 2 offer some disturbing answers. When an...
Apr 27, 2025•51 min
Your hosts replace class with ass as they depart the refined salons of Paris and land face down on the scorched centerline of the Las Vegas Strip. The result is a new month of episodes that just might put their immortal friendship to the test! Was Christopher too strong in his suggestion that they tackle a recent true crime series about a shocking criminal case involving a key cast member of one of reality TV's tawdriest shows? Should Eric have been more vocal with his concerns that watching fou...
Apr 20, 2025•54 min
Christopher and Eric assumed their accidental arrival in Paris mid-Fashion Week might have made the place a little less fashionable. Little did they know the standards had already been lowered as far as they could go in this Paris-set episode of the classic TV series MURDER, SHE WROTE entitled “A Fashionable Way To Die”. Revisit the highlights of your hosts Parisian sojourn by way of this creaky, silly Hollywood take on the Paris fashion industry by way of 1986. More sequins grace this catwalk t...
Apr 13, 2025•56 min
Does the life of famed fashion designer Coco Chanel really qualify as a true crime story, or is it more a narrative of survival and resistance? Some think she’s a feminist icon, some consider her a Nazi spy. Whatever the case, her cultural influence is impossible to deny, and her life story couldn’t be a better fit for Tres Paris Month. Christopher and Eric serve up the riveting documentary film COCO CHANEL: UNBUTTONED, which has the special distinction of including scores of glamorous, fabulous...
Apr 06, 2025•58 min
Wait a minute! A What’s Science episode with actual science in it? Can it be true? What happened to all the aliens and ghost hunters? Tres Paris Month ushers Christopher and Eric inside the recently re-opened Notre Dame Cathedral by way of a riveting Nova documentary called REBUILDING NOTRE DAME and their own visit a week prior. In 2019, a devastating fire swept through the cathedral’s ceiling, destroying its iconic spire as the world wept. After years of restoration, the cathedral opened its do...
Mar 30, 2025•52 min
Welcome to Tres Paris Month, in which Christopher and Eric rub your noses in the fact that they just completed an amazing Parisian holiday to celebrate both of their birthdays — and you didn’t, presumably. 2024 was the year from hell, so your hosts were long overdue for a charming vacation packed with history, foie gras and Eric’s stern notes for the curators of the Louvre. Back here on the home front, there’s much to be excited about in the world of Dinner Partners Productions, including ANNE R...
Mar 23, 2025•58 min
Before they became true crime mavens and the host of a podcast some call My Gayvorite Murder, Christopher and Eric hosted the madcap live internet radio variety show, THE DINNER PARTY SHOW WITH CHRISTOPHER RICE & ERIC SHAW QUINN, hours upon hours of sketch comedy featuring their deranged special correspondents alongside lively interviews with surprising and amazing celebrity guests. Who was their favorite celebrity interview of all? (Other than the most obvious one, of course, dearly departe...
Mar 16, 2025•45 min
Before Christopher and Eric jetted off to celebrate their birthday month by outing all the gay in "Gay Paris", they put together these special flashback favorites to celebrate their Party People here at home. This week, it’s Eric’s turn to reach into the vaults and shine a light on his favorite past installment of True Crime TV Club. Naturally, he had to rifle through about ten or twenty contenders before settling on a final pick. But there’s one hideous real-life villainess who steps out from t...
Mar 09, 2025•1 hr 14 min
It’s Christopher and Eric’s birthday month and they’re reaching back into the vaults to bring you new presentations of their favorite past installments of Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club. This week, it’s Christopher’s turn, and he’s selected “the episode in which True Crime TV Club found its voice”. Or so he thinks. What was his pick? We don’t want to spoil the surprise, but we’ll give you a few hints. It’s got a plotline you’d normally find in a gay adult video only without all the ...
Mar 02, 2025•59 min
In the final installment of Mad Love Month, Hollywood gives Steven J. Russell, the man they call King Con, the big screen treatment and the results are...mixed. In the second half of this true crime pairing, Christopher and Eric compare reported facts with cinematic depictions to find out how much of this Jim Carrey vehicle I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS is fiction. And would this exploration of a devoted gay romance defined by rampant criminal activity be told in quite the same way if Hollywood were...
Feb 23, 2025•53 min
Mad Love Month continues with the first in an all-new true crime pairing about a resourceful and indefatigable conman who will stop at nothing to be with the man he loves. If he has to involve that same man in a few dozen criminal conspiracies along the way, so be it. All’s fair in love and insurance fraud. Christopher and Eric serve up episode 9 of season 3 of the Discovery + and IDCaseFiles show I ALMOST GOT AWAY WITH IT entitled “Got A Boyfriend To Support”, the jaw dropping tale of Steven J....
Feb 16, 2025•58 min
Is a romance between a prison’s warden and one of its most violent inmates a match made in hell or just Alabama? We’re not quite sure after watching the Netflix documentary JAILBREAK: LOVE ON THE RUN. Welcome to Mad Love Month, where Christopher and Eric celebrate the month that shelters Valentine’s Day with tales of misguided passions that run afoul of the law…and sound judgement, common sense, self-preservation. You know, the lot. After seventeen years as the director of operations at Lauderda...
Feb 09, 2025•59 min
Your hosts said they weren’t going to talk about the news on earth this month. But when the headlines here at home start to include craft that might be from another world, what are two overly caffeinated podcasters to do? On this final installment of Out Of This World Month, Christopher and Eric serve up the sweeping documentary THE PHENOMENON, which addresses the stunning recent disclosures by the US government regarding topics that were once dismissed as the province of kooks, con artists and ...
Feb 02, 2025•57 min
Out Of This World Month resumes with one of the most frightening and compelling alien abduction stories ever told. Did a group of loggers in the Arizona wilderness invent this terrifying tale of strange spacecraft, teleportation beams and missing time? The documentary ALIEN ABDUCTION: TRAVIS WALTON challenges you to look into their eyes and decide for yourself. They haven’t changed their story in decades and the haunting details they share made for a big screen adaptation in the early 90’s. This...
Jan 26, 2025•57 min
Your hosts Christopher and Eric are accustomed to reporting on disturbing stories long past or far away, but this week they found themselves living at the center of frightening international news as a series of horrific and unprecedented firestorms ravaged Los Angeles County. In this episode, they share their own evacuation story as the Sunset Fire threatened their beloved hometown of West Hollywood. They also share the crash course they received in wind patterns, Southern California geography a...
Jan 19, 2025•56 min
Christopher and Eric continue to enjoy their “off world time” in response to the garbage fire of a year that was 2024. Out Of This World month heads to the New Mexico desert by way of one of the most beloved non-fiction television series of all time, UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. In 1989, the iconic show introduced mainstream audiences to the Roswell conspiracy and its shocking implications about life from other worlds. How does that seminal episode compare with their most recent follow up in the new Netf...
Jan 12, 2025•55 min
Given how 2024 wrapped up, Christopher and Eric have no interest in spending the first month of 2025 talking about the news on this planet, so get ready for Out Of This World Month, a series of episodes devoted to extraterrestrial happenings, abductions, crashes and conspiracies so far out you’ll need a teleportation device to see them through. How is it possible Christopher and Eric have gone this long skewering fact free TV nonsense without serving up a show as absurd as ANCIENT ALIENS? Could ...
Jan 05, 2025•55 min
All I Want For Christmas Month — and 2024 itself — comes to what we hope is an optimistic close with this episode focused on our highest hopes for the year to come. We’re replacing those pesky, self-critical New Year’s resolutions with big dreams and even bigger commitments. On The Dinner Party Show’s Facebook page, we turned to you, our Party People, to hear your strategies for cultivating joy in the face of world events that can inspire dread. Making art, welcoming new life, holding your heads...
Dec 29, 2024•55 min
Christopher and Eric continue All I Want For Christmas Month with a desperate plea for help from you, their beloved Party People. Please find them some holiday themed true crime TV episodes that aren’t hideously nightmare inducing. Your hosts decided to divide up the work this year, delivering dueling Christmastime massacres, one of which may well win the dark distinction of the most disturbing story ever discussed on the podcast. Listen to find out which episode of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS tak...
Dec 21, 2024•56 min
It was a year of smart, eccentric detectives and a surprise epic that captivated American audiences even though most of it wasn’t in English. Christopher and Eric serve up their favorite entertainment offerings from 2024, a year they’d otherwise like to forget. Compare and contrast with the small screen highlights they singled out back in May on Episode 232. Did SHOGUN live up to its epic promise? Did MARY & GEORGE continue to break new ground after Eric enjoyed its first two episodes? What ...
Dec 15, 2024•58 min
All I Want For Christmas Month begins with a perspective-giving crash course in how bad a bad year can be. True crime takes a backseat to true catastrophe as Christopher and Eric count down the final weeks of 2024, a year they’d desperately like to put in their rearview mirror. What better way to distract themselves from the personal disasters that littered their last twelve months than with some historical cataclysms that put the trials of these dreadful 365 days in perspective. Christopher tak...
Dec 08, 2024•1 hr 2 min
