For their 50th episode, Christopher and Eric visit the 50th state! On the latest installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts take you to the island paradise of Hawaii and don't find anything close to the tropical escape they've been looking for. In the summer of 1931, when an inebriated Navy Officer’s wife decides to walk home alone from a local nightspot, the result is a series of shocking accusations resulting in an abominable lynching, rising geopolitical tensions a...
Nov 08, 2020•56 min
As Christopher comes out as a fan of cryptids, Eric wonders if these amateur videographers really captured some frenzied hauntings or if they've just got the world (and their appliances) on a string. It's a special Halloween-adjacent episode that tackles the wild and supposedly frightening world of furry bigfoots, shapeshifters and ghosts, ghosts and more ghosts. Your hosts serve up two episodes of PARANORMAL CAUGHT ON CAMERA. Christopher gets mauled by Season 1, Episode 2, "Oregon Bigfoot and M...
Nov 01, 2020•1 hr 1 min
It's been thirty years since the dismembered remains of William "Billy" Newton were discovered in a Hollywood dumpster, three decades in which his loved ones have gone without answers in his brutal killing. Last seen alive at a gay nightclub in West Hollywood, the young man's horrifying slaying traumatized a community, inspiring many wild theories, but no arrests or real leads. To mark this grim milestone, Christopher and Eric turn up startling new information about the case, including a detaile...
Oct 25, 2020•58 min
Christopher and Eric return to one of their favorite true crime television series, the exquisitely produced and absolutely riveting THE CASE THAT HAUNTS ME, serving up Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 3, entitled "The Evil Fantasy, Parts 1 and 2". Like us, maybe you've heard of the notorious Canadian serial killer who hid the body parts of his victims in shockingly idyllic locations. But you might not know the twisted path through the darkest corners of the Internet that lead Toronto police to his doo...
Oct 18, 2020•56 min
In one of the more moving and riveting installments of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club to date, your hosts serve up the powerful documentary film REWIND, an exploration of the sexual abuse that infected a family for generations and an indictment of how the criminal justice system treated one of its youngest victims. Directed by the man who was subjected to this horror show of physical, emotional and judicial abuse, REWIND uses unflinching interviews with the official and familial wit...
Oct 11, 2020•55 min
When satellites go high, TV producers go low. That's the basic flight path for WHAT ON EARTH? the latest victim…er, subject of Christopher and Eric's special series, "What's Science?" Eric takes to the skies of Episode 3, Season 8, and ultimately crash lands on an "Island of Alien Ooze". In Episode 4 of Season 2, Christopher peers down through the clouds to see "Who Built Supervillain Island?" even though the answer's pretty obvious and he'd rather talk about that blood waterfall in Antarctica. ...
Oct 04, 2020•57 min
Join Christopher and Eric on this trip back through the years to a simpler time when married male business owners chose to live with their much younger, handsome male employees in cramped apartments just because they wanted to save on rent. (Yeah, sure, dudes.) A more peaceful time when sleeping with your relatives was as simple as having a little cosmetic surgery, and Chevrolets were considered cool. This installment of True Crime TV Club, in which Christopher and Eric serve up Season 2, Episod...
Sep 27, 2020•53 min
In this new edition of WHAT'S SCIENCE?, Eric takes a conspiracy-driven trip to the moon that never quite sticks the lunar landing. Or anything else, for that matter. Meanwhile, Christopher tries to keep track of the hundreds of names that have been given to mysterious giants throughout the centuries, and ultimately puts his pen down somewhere around name #342. Welcome to the world of FORBIDDEN MYSTERIES – ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE & LOST WORLDS, in which nothing is at it seems. Or accurate. Or compr...
Sep 20, 2020•56 min
A twenty-minute TV show with a fifteen minute opening theme song! One male strip club re-enactment played over and over and over and over (and over) again! An "adult film superstar" Christopher and Eric have never heard of! It's an episode packed with True Crime TV Club firsts as Christopher and Eric warily slide their dollar bills into the sweaty G-string of Season 1, Episode 8 of YOUNG, HOT & CROOKED entitled, "Killer Looks". Was John Snavely, a popular porn performer with a gay-for-pay pa...
Sep 13, 2020•51 min
HBO's documentary series I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK paints a powerful portrait of the obsessions that inspired and consumed Michelle McNamara. Her work was pivotal to identifying The Golden State Killer. But in the end, a different and more insidious killer claimed McNamara's life. Christopher and Eric go on a deep dive into the dark, as they take an honest look at the close kinship shared by inspiration, obsession and addiction. Sanity should not be the cost of creativity. Your hosts also discuss...
Sep 06, 2020•56 min
A terrible storm. A gorgeous couple poised to begin an exciting new life. Enough real crime scene video to give you the creeps. And then some more crime scene video on top of that. In their dark salute to hurricane season, Christopher and Eric serve up Season 1, Episode 3 of AMERICAN NIGHTMARE, entitled "Paradise Lost". When Mike and Missy MacIvor are found brutally murdered in their new home in the Florida Keys, the blood trails seem to lead to past lovers. And possibly their neighbors. Or mayb...
Aug 30, 2020•54 min
Christopher and Eric put down their magnifying glasses and pick up their Botox needles so they can get rid of all the furrows in their brows they developed after sitting through these alleged trips into the paranormal. Eric breaks down Season 2, Episode 6 of FORBIDDEN HISTORY, entitled "Bloodlust: Real Vampires". It sheds plenty of blood, for sure. But no one seems that interested in drinking it. Especially Eric. Christopher heads to the island of Sardinia for "Mystery of the Giants," Episode 9 ...
Aug 23, 2020•58 min
Christopher’s third and latest offering in his Burning Girl book series unfolds in Texas. To celebrate the release of BLOOD VICTORY, Christopher and Eric revisit the sordid mysteries of a small Texas town that's fairly free of chainsaws, but home to one blood-soaked axe murderer. In Season 2, Episode 3 of THE 1980's, THE DEADLIEST DECADE, entitled "Friday The 13th", we meet mild mannered married couple Al and Betty Gore. When Betty, a devoted wife and school teacher is found brutally murdered in...
Aug 16, 2020•56 min
Inspired by the first episode of HBO's documentary series I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK, Christopher and Eric channel their inner Michelle McNamara, the citizen detective who helped crack The Golden State Killer case, and take to the internet to discover all they can about two real life mysteries that have obsessed them for years. For Eric, it's a mysterious Santa Barbara kidnapping with strange sexual overtones in which the wealthy and handsome young victim might have been in on the scheme. For Chri...
Aug 09, 2020•55 min
It's some parents' worst nightmare, and in the early 2000's it was every cable news network's favorite kind of story. A missing young white woman whose disappearance is shrouded in mystery and suspicion. But the Natalee Holloway case took more twists than most. It even made a pit stop for a little retribution. As your hosts serve up Episode 12 from season 3 of VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, find out which central player in this international drama most impressed Eric with her fortitude and smarts, an...
Aug 02, 2020•52 min
Something tells Christopher and Eric that big summer vacation you had planned for 2020 isn't going to work out. So why not take a walk down memory lane and relive some of those summers when you felt safe going outside without protective gear and a pocket full of experimental (and non-recreational) drugs? On The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page we asked you to share your happiest summer memories, and did you ever! Join us as we celebrate your wonderful responses. And just a reminder that even wh...
Jul 26, 2020•55 min
Christopher and Eric take you back to the very unfriendly skies of 1956 and a murder that changed the modern conception of human evil - at 30,000 feet! Your intrepid flat screen detectives visit the series A CRIME TO REMEMBER, Episode 4, Season 1, where they discover that sometimes even the most hideous acts of mass murder are caused by the simplest (and darkest) of human motives. What happened aboard United Airlines Flight 629 changed the aviation industry forever, and its artful depiction here...
Jul 19, 2020•51 min
Our fearless hosts take a break from the grueling True Crime TV beat to consort with the lunatic fringe! They’ll each explore a different mind-bending episode of MYSTERIES AT THE NATIONAL PARKS. Then, in a TDPS first, Christopher and Eric face off as each man recounts his walk on the weird side and tries his best to describe…whatever the hell it is he just watched. In Episode 4, "Land of the Lost", Christopher's hike up Mt. Shasta turns up a race of very tall, very robed alien beings while Eric'...
Jul 12, 2020•58 min
Did Christopher and Eric finally discover a true crime TV show with re-enactments that live up to Christopher's impossibly exacting standards? Will this bloody foray into the forests of British Columbia convince Eric to spend more time outside? The answer to only one of these questions is yes. Find out which one when Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club serves up Episode 8, Season 1 of THE CASE THAT HAUNTS ME. Detective Mike Eastham delivers a harrowing re-telling of a disturbing crime that...
Jul 05, 2020•53 min
Christopher and Eric close out their Pride Month celebration with an episode packed full of coming out stories in all their various forms. They asked, you answered. Thanks to your Facebook responses, your hosts spend the episode celebrating your authenticity and self-acceptance as well as their own. Maybe you took the courageous step yourself, or maybe you were the one someone came out to. It's all something to be proud of! A reminder that even when it's not Pride Month your questions and commen...
Jun 28, 2020•53 min
Christopher and Eric continue to honor Pride Month with an installment of Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club that takes us back to a time when getting thrown out of the military wasn’t the worst thing gay people had to worry about. As Christopher and Eric discuss Season 1, Episode 8 of THE 1990'S, THE DEADLIEST DECADE, we meet handsome, beloved Navy radioman Allen Schindler, whose attempts to shield himself from institutionalized, systemic anti-gay harassment result in bloodshed and a mot...
Jun 21, 2020•53 min
"Gay panic"! It's not just when Eric finds out he can't watch the Oscars live. It's the offensive and ridiculous notion that implying someone might be gay is so terrible that person is justified in doing all manner of awful things in response. Christopher and Eric vent a little gay rage on this hideous and hypocritical concept in this, their second episode observing Pride Month. Their impassioned discussion touches on an episode of the new Netflix series TRIAL BY MEDIA and its coverage of the in...
Jun 14, 2020•56 min
It's a real-life story that reads like one of Christopher and Eric's novels, a tale of double lives, secret sexuality, crimes of passion and betrayal. In this installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, Christopher and Eric return to one of their favorite true-crime TV series. DATELINE "Before Daylight", Season 28, Ep. 27, goes all in on the vicious murder of twenty-three-year-old Missouri college student Jesse Valencia. The crime was swift and brutal, and in the end, a popular y...
Jun 07, 2020•52 min
As they approach thirty episodes, Christopher and Eric take a deep dive on why true crime captivates us all, and which installments of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club so far have haunted them most. Don't worry. It's not like those episodes of "The Golden Girls" where they'd just eat cheesecake and play scenes from old episodes. A clip show, this 'aint. Rather, it's a probing discussion of why crime stories captivate the culture from two fiercely opinionated, bestselling practitioners...
May 31, 2020•53 min
Murder? Definitely. Paradise? Hardly. Christopher and Eric embark on a trip to the South of France in search of high crimes amongst the upper classes. Well, these criminals are definitely high on something, that's for sure. The rest is a masterclass in poor life choices as your hosts serve up MURDER IN PARADISE: Season 1, Episode 6. When hedonistic British aristocrat Anthony-Ashley Cooper goes missing from his Cannes hideaway after a brief and fiery marriage to a woman half his age, the lusty lo...
May 24, 2020•52 min
This week, your hosts get personal with your personal responses to the topics of aging and age-related time travel as they tackle the question, "If you had to be one age you've already lived for the rest of your life, which one would it be and why?" As with every installment of Ask Eric, Eric and Christopher weigh in, but it's your wonderful responses on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page that made it even more of a party. And if you want to treat yourself to some of what Christopher likes to...
May 17, 2020•55 min
It happens every few episodes. Just when Christopher and Eric announce that their True Crime TV Club has served up the most disturbing crime imaginable, they somehow manage to top it, this time with the breathtakingly diabolical deeds of British serial killer couple Fred and Rosemary West. (MURDERERS AND THEIR MOTHERS. Season 1, Ep. 2) There's evil, and then there's Fred and Rosemary West evil. How much are their parents to blame for their diabolical deeds? More importantly, how much of their st...
May 10, 2020•49 min
If you want to treat yourself to some of what Christopher calls "the ass-kicking advice" of his co-host Eric Shaw Quinn, you can always send him your questions at eric@thedinnerpartyshow.com, or post on the social media page for The Dinner Party Show. This week, your hosts get personal and helpful on the topics of working from home (which they do even when there isn't a pandemic) and the more philosophical question of "What's the thing in your life you most resisted, but turned out to be best fo...
May 03, 2020•55 min
When Eric first came up with the idea for Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, he proposed Wives With Knives as a potential show he and Christopher could break down and serve up for their listeners in steaming hot slices. The big day has arrived! Christopher and Eric are finally serving up an episode of the aforementioned crap - I mean, crime-fest, this one entitled "Mama's Little Princess." (WIVES WITH KNIVES, Season 3, Ep. 7) Expecting intrigue among the manner born, your hosts were in...
Apr 26, 2020•51 min
It's the trashy true crime sensation that's sweeping the sheltering-at-home nation, and naturally Christopher and Eric have a growling desire to go on and on and on about it. And as always, they're not saying the same ol' things everybody else is saying. Especially Eric. Is Carole Baskin a trumped up cyberbully as well as a possible husband murderer? Was Joe Exotic set up by his own ego or his terrible fashion choices? What's the damn difference between a big cat cage and a so-called big cat "sa...
Apr 19, 2020•1 hr 3 min
