Having devoted their previous episodes to retail-related abuse and a gruesome family massacre, Christopher and Eric explore the lighter shade of Black Friday — the gifts! They turned to you, our beloved Party People, on The Dinner Party Show’s Facebook page to hear about the most memorable and cherished gifts that have come your way during the holiday season. Your moving answers allowed Black Friday Month to end on a lighter note, offering us the break we all needed from the usual holiday horror...
Dec 01, 2024•58 min
Every holiday season, your hosts Christopher and Eric search high and low for a holiday themed true crime story that goes easy on the bloodshed. A high-speed chase involving a van full of stolen frozen turkeys, perhaps? No such luck again this year. Once again, we were confronted with the same gory buffet of holiday horrors, giving us no choice but to continue a dark – dare we day black -- TDPS tradition. In season 4, episode 7 of the Peacock series HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, entitled “Cold Turk...
Nov 24, 2024•52 min
Black Friday Month continues with an unconventional installment of Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club in which the victims range from the self-esteem of teenage girls everywhere to the coastline of an African nation. Ever heard of fast fashion? Christopher and Eric hadn’t until they watched this eye-opening documentary BRANDY HELLVILLE & THE CULT OF FAST FASHION on Max. Follow along on this globe-trotting journey from a small Italian town known for fashion prowess (and fraud), to th...
Nov 17, 2024•55 min
Welcome to Black Friday Month, when Christopher and Eric offer discounts on the many shades of black— from the darker side of retail, to the gorier side of gratitude to the glory of giving and receiving. In this installment of Christopher & Eric’s True Crime TV Club, your hosts serve up THE ABERCROMBIE GUYS: THE DARK SIDE OF COOL, in which a brand that exemplified all American masculine perfection became a front for toxically masculine abuse. With the recent arrest of the fashion label’s for...
Nov 10, 2024•1 hr 4 min
If you’re anything like your hosts Christopher and Eric, the date of November 5, 2024 has been burning a hole in your calendar for almost a year now. But this episode isn’t about politics. It’s about how we deal with situations that feel entirely out of control. We turned to you, our beloved Party People, by way of The Dinner Party Show’s Facebook page to find out how you manage anxiety and the sense of being constantly overwhelmed by a world in which the media seems determined to both divide an...
Nov 03, 2024•54 min
To celebrate Halloween Season, Christopher and Eric have tried to find a way to merge their two greatest loves — true crime stories and preposterous theories of the paranormal. Have they found a winning combo in the new Hulu series OUT THERE? They’re so determined to find out, they’re bringing you not one, but two separate episodes of the show. Eric pranced off to meet the “Pope Lick Goatman”, and Christopher joined a hunt for some “Ghosts of Chinatown”. Find out who broke the most Ouija boards ...
Oct 27, 2024•1 hr 4 min
The second episode in a true crime pairing about one of the most prolific serial killers — and most prolific killers of queer men — of all time, Christopher and Eric finally find a true crime inspired drama that doesn’t have them scrambling for Wikipedia after every ridiculous scene. The BritBox produced DES features fine performances and impeccable production values (along with the occasional moment of wooden scripting.) But does it convey the true horror of both the cold, calculating monster a...
Oct 20, 2024•52 min
How is it possible two avowed true crime junkies like Christopher and Eric haven’t heard of a serial killer alleged to have been one of the most prolific in history? Could it have anything to do with the fact that this killer’s victims were mostly queer men? In the first of this true crime pairing on Dennis Nilsen, your intrepid hosts brave the grandiosity, pretentiousness and sheer evil of a media-savvy monster who never met a dire situation he couldn’t exploit to his own evil ends. Is a childh...
Oct 13, 2024•59 min
In this personal and intimate conclusion to Double Identity Month, Christopher and Eric turn to you, their beloved Party People. On The Dinner Party Show’s Facebook page, we asked if any of you have been profoundly deceived by an Internet con-artist. Your answers made for some shocking stories in the retelling, igniting an engrossing conversation about the ways in which the anonymity afforded by cyberspace can be used to abuse. Eric shares his own story of dismantling his charming personal Inter...
Oct 06, 2024•59 min
There are certain questions your hosts Christopher and Eric return to again and again on this true crime-centric podcast. What is the true nature of justice? Is it possible for victims of violent crime to ever get closure? What the hell is bitcoin? In episode 5 of season 1 of the Canadian – not that there’s anything wrong with that – true crime series RICH AND SHAMELESS, entitled “The Mysterious Disappearance of a Bitcoin Millionaire”, we get a crash course in how this confusing Internet based c...
Sep 29, 2024•56 min
Your hosts Christopher and Eric are both bestselling authors who are never reluctant to share personal details about their lives. But at the end of the day, what does an author of fiction truly owe their audience when it comes to their own life story? This is just one of the questions that defines the twisty and edgy tale of literary phenomenon J.T LeRoy as Christopher and Eric serve up episode 2 of season 4 of one of their favorite series, VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, entitled “The Boy Who Cried A...
Sep 22, 2024•54 min
After having thoroughly conspiracy wearied themselves last month, Christopher and Eric are desperate for a little justice and closure. Here they kick off a new batch of episodes devoted to con artists getting their just deserts. Welcome to Double Identity Month. Open wide, bastards! Hell hath no fury like a woman conned. That’s certainly the case in THE TINDLER SWINDLER, a popular Netflix documentary that forces us to answer the question, if a handsome stranger invited us to hop on a private jet...
Sep 15, 2024•59 min
Conspiracy Weary Month’s final installment takes us back to a sweltering New Orleans summer in 1990, when an innocent request for pancakes landed young Christopher — and his adorable dog — on the set of one of Hollywood’s biggest films, ultimately giving birth to a lifelong obsession that has now claimed Eric Shaw Quinn as well. (Almost.) That obsession is the lies, bigger lies and damn lies in Oliver Stone’s overwrought, unwieldy and at times barely comprehensible film, JFK, a Hollywood hack jo...
Sep 08, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Deep in the You Tube vaults lurks this authoritative and impeccably reported takedown of one of the worst lies ever told about the Kennedy assassination. FALSE WITNESS, adapted from the groundbreaking non-fiction book by Patricia Lambert, responds to Oliver Stone’s preposterous blockbuster JFK with a hail of hard truths. The fact that it enjoys a fraction of the audience of that odious film is just one more injustice offered up by the deeply strange story of deranged New Orleans District Attorne...
Sep 01, 2024•55 min
There’s fact, there’s fiction, and then there’s movies about true crime stories written by David Mamet (and possibly a long list of studio notes.) As Conspiracy Weary Month continues, Christopher and Eric serve up Hollywood’s big screen treatment of Jimmy Hoffa’s complex legacy. It’s the second in a true crime pairing about the notorious labor leader’s still unexplained — if you don’t buy Eric’s theory (see Ep. 245) — disappearance. HOFFA is a big movie. With big stars. And even bigger crowd sce...
Aug 24, 2024•54 min
Welcome to Conspiracy Weary Month, where your skeptical hosts, Christopher and Eric, add some of their typical adverbs and spices and a dash of their signature saltiness to the sacred cows of online speculation while serving them up on a hot takeaway platter. The disappearance of notorious labor leader Jimmy Hoffa in the mid 1970’s inspired rafts of conspiracy theories and a host of aging mob guys to issue suspicious confessions to the alleged murder late in life so they could rake in book and m...
Aug 18, 2024•56 min
Sex Scandal Summer draws to a close with this second serving in a “true crime pairing” about much maligned royal Prince Andrew and the epically disastrous BBC Newsnight interview in which he tried — and failed — to distance himself from one of history’s worst sex scandals. Christopher and Eric have served up plenty of true crime inspired films that veer off into la la land in their dogged effort to avoid anything that looks like a fact. But the Netflix produced SCOOP adheres very close to the tr...
Aug 11, 2024•56 min
Sex Scandal Summer goes royal as Christopher and Eric head across the pond — and then back again — with “PRINCE ANDREW: BANISHED”, a snarky takedown of the House of Windsor’s possible connection to convicted sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, streaming on Peacock in the US. It’s the first in a long overdue “true crime pairing” that continues in our next episode with a True Crime Movie Time featuring SCOOP, a recent Netflix film. Despite being Queen Elizabeth’s favorite, Prince Andrew ...
Aug 04, 2024•58 min
After Eric unleashes a tirade against Pinterest, his winner for Most Homophobic Social Media Platform In Existence, he and Christopher kick off the next chapter of Sex Scandal Summer by serving up an hour of television that makes its host look worse than the scandalous subject. In episode 2, season 1 of THE UNITED STATES OF SCANDAL, entitled “Mark Sanford”, the notoriously unfaithful conservative Southern politician pales in comparison to host Jake Tapper, who, while making the story largely abo...
Jul 28, 2024•55 min
Pool boys and Evangelicals and cougars, oh my! Christopher and Eric kick off Sex Scandal Summer by serving up the spicy Hulu documentary GOD FORBID: THE SEX SCANDAL THAT BROUGHT DOWN A DYNASTY. When twenty-year old Miami pool boy Giancarlo Granda is invited to take part in a night of taboo busting sex with a wealthy older woman he met at the Fontainebleu Hotel and her (at least) voyeuristic husband, little does he know he’ll eventually find himself at the center of a scandal that helped remake A...
Jul 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Your hosts wrap up Sapphire Cove Summer, their celebration of Christopher’s steamy new gay romance novel, SAPPHIRE DAWN, with a warm and delicious serving of one of Eric’s favorite movies, BIG EDEN, an open hearted, wonderfully acted and beautifully shot rom com set in mountainous Montana. And the romantic leads are both men! The perfect antidote to last episode’s foray into reality show hell, it’s also another case of “Christopher should have watched this movie when Eric first recommended it fi...
Jul 13, 2024•53 min
Orange County is once again the setting of Christopher’s steamy new Sapphire Cove novel, so your hosts decided to take a fun and frivolous trip to the region by way of a popular Netflix reality show. Big mistake. Huge. Sapphire Cove Summer was supposed to be a much needed break from dark and disturbing true crime stories, but when your hosts decided to sample the first four episodes of the third season of SELLING THE OC, they found themselves relentlessly tortured by a gilded coterie of witless ...
Jul 07, 2024•54 min
As Sapphire Cove Summer, their celebration of Christopher’s steamy new gay romance novel continues, Christopher and Eric serve up a controversial slice of sexy Hollywood history. In SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD, documentary filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer deftly explores the relentlessly cheerful Scotty Bowers, Tinseltown’s most famous male escort. The former sex worker’s tell all memoir blew open closet doors and shocked readers upon its release a few years ago, but it was Scotty’s frank ...
Jun 30, 2024•53 min
Welcome to Sapphire Cove Summer! Christopher and Eric kick off a rollicking release party for SAPPHIRE DAWN, the new installment in Christopher’s steamy gay romance series. One of the most brash and controversial characters in the series is getting his very own happily ever after…courtesy of a premise from Eric Shaw Quinn himself. (Opposites attract planning a wedding anyone?) Your hosts also shower tons of love and attention on the gay romance novels they love, with special shout outs to bestse...
Jun 23, 2024•1 hr
Say the name Matthew Shepard to any queer person who lived through the 1990’s, or any person with an ounce of humanity, and they’re likely to get tears in their eyes. That’s the case with Christopher and Eric. As they serve up THE MATTHEW SHEPARD STORY: AN AMERICAN HATE CRIME on Discovery ID, their own memories of that painful time come bubbling to the surface, reinforcing their personal devotion to the concept of Pride Month, visibility and equality. It’s a searing comprehensive documentary abo...
Jun 16, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Sometimes LGBT equality means the freedom to make the same crappy choices straight people do. Your hosts travel to the beautiful Ohio River Valley to meet an out and proud hairdresser turned coal mine foreman with questionable taste in men and home decor. In episode 8 of season 32 of venerable true crime classic DATELINE, entitled “Dangerous Secret”, the unflappable Dennis Murphy narrates this twisty, soapy tale of bedroom antics turned deadly. Meanwhile, Christopher and Eric play a speedy game ...
Jun 09, 2024•54 min
Pride Month continues as Christopher and Eric head to Texas for a True Crime TV Club installment that deepens their previous episode’s discussion of crime and hate in the Lone Star State. It turns out Paul Quintanilla was just one of many queer people who lost their lives to cable TV’s supercharging of bigoted televangelists in the 1990’s. In season 2, episode 3 of VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, entitled “The Killing Trail”, we follow a hateful and bloody path from the windswept beaches outside Corpu...
Jun 02, 2024•54 min
Christopher and Eric kick off Pride Month with a much anticipated return visit from their very own citizen detective, Clark Williams, the man who solved the Billy Newton murder. This time Clark sits down at our table to share the work he’s been doing on an eerily similar case brought to him by one of our beloved Party People. In June of 1994, 28-year-old Paul Quintanilla was discovered in an empty field within sight of the Dallas Cowboys training facility in Irving, Texas, hours after leaving a ...
May 26, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Rain drops on roses and 2024 is almost half over. We will have no whiskers on kittens, but Christopher and Eric do have plenty of opinions about the pop culture highlights from the first part of the year – not a big surprise. More importantly, will their current crop of favorites still be in their top spots by the time 2025 rolls around? Even more importantly, will Christopher and Eric even remember they promised you they’d answer this question come December? Doubtful, but stay tuned. In the mea...
May 19, 2024•59 min
In the final chapter of Couples From Hell Month, Christopher and Eric take a trip to Paduka, Kentucky by way of Tampa, Florida thanks to a devious, underhanded and murderous, lonely hearts con artist who cruelly plots his way into a good woman’s heart with the help of his long lost “illegitimate stepson”. While they’re all about diversity and inclusion, your out and proud hosts see little to celebrate about the fact that Charles Chumbler and Michael Kariakis are one of the few same sex couples c...
May 11, 2024•54 min
