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Christopher & Eric

Christopher Rice & Eric Shaw Quinnthedinnerpartyshow.com
New York Times bestselling novelists Christopher Rice (The Burning Girl Series) and Eric Shaw Quinn (The Write Murder Mysteries) return to their studio on West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip for an all new podcast that’s all talk. Join them for their trademark blend of humor, irreverence and passionate opinion as they dish on some of the most popular true crime TV shows of the moment in their recurring, special feature “Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club”. (A production of TDPS, the same network that brought you the comedy/variety and celebrity interview filled fun of The Dinner Party Show.)
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Ep. 20 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “Passport To Murder: South of the Border Sins”

Is this the most disturbing installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club yet?! If not, it's pretty damn close. When Christopher and Eric serve up this episode of the Discovery ID series "Passport to Murder", the toxic brew includes a Spring Break vacation into hell and a murder so gruesome they struggle to get through its details. Was it drug fueled insanity or a deep belief in Satan that drove the perpetrators to commit the barbaric acts visited upon handsome Texas college student...

Apr 12, 202054 min

Ep. 19 – Introducing “Ask Eric”

Got a question that's keeping you up at night? Ask Eric. He pulls no punches and he takes no prisoners. He delivers the truth unvarnished, and his guidance can deliver the perspective shift you and your neuroses so desperately need. He's fifty percent of 'TDPS presents Christopher & Eric', and he also keeps the other fifty percent from losing his ever-loving mind. Now you too can take advantage of the ass-kicking advice of Eric Shaw Quinn. In the first installment of an all new segment, 'Ask...

Apr 05, 202056 min

Ep. 18 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “48 Hours: Finding Yura – Manhunt On The Dark Web”

A doomed, disturbing, international and highly inappropriate teenage love affair. A murder-for-hire plot that circles the globe and the dark web. An on-camera confrontation with an alleged criminal mastermind. It's the first time Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club has served up an episode of "48 Hours", and before they're through the first course, your hosts find themselves choking on a question too big to swallow in one gulp – just what in God's name is "the dark web" anyway? The answe...

Mar 29, 202057 min

Ep. 17 – Gay Crimes and Sistameanors

Did Christopher actually go on a beach vacation with Gianni Versace's killer?! Is that why the FBI stormed Anne Rice's Garden District mansion in 1999? Eric won't stop until they've served up every detail of this way-too-close-to-home edition of True Crime TV Club. Only without the TV. Plus a whole lot of sarongs. And green Lexuses. (Lexi?) And, of course, gay dance parties. Together, Christopher and Eric feast on the Rice family's near brush with Andrew Cunanan's dark legacy, also tackling the ...

Mar 22, 202057 min

Ep. 16 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “The 1980’s, The Deadliest Decade: The Cotton Club Murder”

Mountains of cocaine and a sex-party filled seventy room mansion in the Hamptons are just two of the spicy ingredients in this installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, a sordid stew of drug-fueled conspiracies and ambitions run amok in 1980's Hollywood. When wildly successful theater producer Roy Raydin tries to make a name for himself in the City of Angels, he crosses paths with a host of wannabes and couldabeens who lead him to the doorstep of usetabe uber-producer Robert Ev...

Mar 15, 202055 min

Ep. 15 – Birthday Ache

Your hosts thought it would be a frothy and fun conversation about the fact that their birthdays are only days apart, but this special birthday episode turned into a probing and revelatory discussion of aging, self-esteem and defining your values in a youth-obsessed world. Also, you’ll want to listen closely for the moment when Christopher really pissed Eric off. Also, they barely talk about dieting. Maybe only a little. Promise. Look, it's their birthday month. They can talk about what they wan...

Mar 08, 202053 min

Ep. 14 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “Mansions & Murders: Great Exploitations”

True Crime TV Club gets exclusive as we rummage through the closets of Brooke Astor, the toast of Manhattan. Christopher and Eric don white gloves and guide you down the gilded corridors of New York high society, where loyal butlers, scheming sons and malicious daughters-in-law await, along with a roster of luminaries like David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger, to name drop a few. You are cordially invited to join us for a members only walk through of an episode of "Mansions & Murders" detai...

Mar 01, 202054 min

Ep. 13 – Vengeance Is Whose Again?

Christopher's Burning Girl novels feature a super-powered vigilante who seeks vengeance against sadistic serial killers like the ones who murdered her mother. When he pulls back the curtain on the latest installment, "Blood Victory" (out August 2020), this sneak peek inside Burning Girl's hunt for a serial killing truck driver morphs into a lively discussion of Eric's love of revenge stories in general. What makes these powerful stories tick, and what are the rules, if any, for a good revenge ta...

Feb 23, 202057 min

Ep. 12 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “People Magazine Investigates: The Darkest of Nights”

Teenage angst combines with the isolation of a small Alaska town to fuel a fiery crime that tests the limits of Christopher and Eric’s threshold for darkness in this installment of “Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club”. When loving mother Laurie Waterman goes missing while her husband and daughter are both out of town, the people of Craig, Alaska are both baffled and disturbed. As People Magazine Investigates tells this sordid tale, Christopher and Eric find themselves lost in a maze of ...

Feb 16, 202052 min

Ep. 11 – Award Yourself

It's awards season in Hollywood, so Christopher and Eric are diving into the deep end of the glittering swimming pool as they talk more about the meaning of the season (or lack thereof) than the nominees. Is it really "best picture"? What's the difference between popularity and success? When the emperor has no clothes, should you whack him with a mink stole or hand him a gold statuette? What? You thought your hosts were just going to rattle off which Best Picture nominees they loved to hate? You...

Feb 09, 202057 min

Ep. 10 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “Vanity Fair Confidential: Murder Most Obsessive”

True Crime TV Club is back. This time Christopher and Eric take you on a steamy tour of 1970’s Hollywood and a torrid sex scandal that came close to consuming the Reagan White House. In the early 70’s, millionaire mogul Alfred Bloomingdale met a beautiful aspiring young actress named Vicki Morgan. The result was a secret, decade-long affair that would ultimately consume socialites and politicos before it ended in a disturbing murder and a court case that captured the attention of one of Vanity F...

Feb 02, 20201 hr 1 min

Ep. 9 – Holiday Escape

Christopher and Eric have returned from their holiday hiatus with hearts full of lovely comments from their listeners, a.k.a “the Party People”, as well as their usual headfulls of opinions. How much blood, sweat and screaming went into the construction of Eric Shaw Quinn’s “Greater Christmasville”? Do pre-holiday diets lead to holiday binges? Was Christopher’s gift to Eric a total disaster? ‘True Crime TV Club’ returns in our next episode, but this hour’s about our amazing listeners and holiday...

Jan 26, 202051 min

Ep. 8 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “Redrum: An Imperfect Family”

Just in time for Christmas, it's a tale of holiday murder. With re-enactments. A lot of them. In the latest installment of "Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club", your hosts debate which is the worst crime; the violent murder of Texas couple Rick and Suzanna Walmsley just hours after they finished decorating their home for Christmas, or this lurid, re-enactment filled half-hour of television that wildly attempts to plumb the motives for the brutal killing. The always opinionated Christoph...

Dec 15, 201950 min

Ep. 7 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “ABC News Special: The Last Days of Phil Hartman”

Fame. Drugs. Murder. Encino! They're all on offer in the latest installment of "Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club" in which your hosts tackle a recent ABC News Special about the 1997 murder/suicide that claimed the life of one of Saturday Night Live's most famous cast members in his tony San Fernando Valley home. What toxic blend of ingredients turned the seemingly perfect marriage between famed actor Phil Hartman and his beautiful young model wife Brynn into a crime that splashed bloo...

Dec 08, 201954 min

Ep. 6 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “Dateline: The Thing About Pam”

It's the Dateline episode everyone's talking about, and Christopher and Eric have plenty to say about this astonishing story as well. Some of it they're going to yell because this case is just that crazy. What happens when a Dateline producer becomes implicated in the very crimes she's been sent to cover? To find the answer, travel with your hosts to the St. Louis suburbs where you'll meet a woman of such diabolical confidence you might not believe her if Christopher and Eric made her a characte...

Dec 01, 201951 min

Ep. 5 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “20/20: With Friends Like These”

A mysterious shoe box full of cash. An abandoned car on a bridge. A turbulent river named for beasts of the sea. How does ABC's 20/20 tie these disparate elements together as they cover the disturbing disappearance of New Jersey teenager Sarah Stern? Christopher and Eric have some very strong opinions on the matter, and they're excited to hear yours. In the latest installment of "Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club", your hosts break down one of the Garden State's most recent high profil...

Nov 24, 201950 min

Ep. 4 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “Bayou Blue”

Take a trip into the shadows of the Louisiana bayous as Christopher and Eric join the hunt for one of the most prolific serial killers in history. In the second installment of Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club, your hosts serve up the disturbing and hypnotic true crime documentary, “Bayou Blue”, the tale of serial killer Ronald Dominique, believed responsible for the murders of over twenty-three men. Join Christopher and Eric on a twisted journey to the state they once called home as t...

Nov 17, 20191 hr 1 min

Ep. 3 – Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club Serves Up “Southwest Of Salem”

Join Christopher and Eric as they wade through accusations of devil worship, tainted investigations and homophobia to reveal the twisted path to the truth taken by several embattled, strong-willed women determined to settle for nothing less than justice. In this first installment of their new feature "Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club", your hosts serve up the searing and controversial documentary "Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four."

Nov 10, 20191 hr 8 min

Ep. 2 – There’s More Than One Way To Be Gay

Christopher and Eric go all in on the topics of coming out, being yourself and letting your own personal freak flag fly. Also, they reveal the title of the first true crime documentary they'll be discussing for "Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club," debuting in Ep. 3.

Nov 03, 20191 hr 9 min

Ep. 1 – Home Again, Home Again

Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn, New York Times bestselling authors and creators of "The Dinner Party Show," return to their dining room studio on West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip to bring you the first episode of an all new podcast that’s all talk.

Oct 27, 20191 hr
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