DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

Three words. Toxic. Lesbian. Vampires. As Christopher and Eric kick off IWTV50 Month they’re revisiting their spicy interview with one of today’s most brilliant and audacious authors of dark fantasy, V.E. Schwab. This time they’ve finished reading her sapphic vampire opus “Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil” and have nothing but raves to share about it. (Sabine 2028!) What better way to celebrate...

Christopher and Eric leave behind dark anniversaries and embrace Anne Rice’s signature “light in the darkness”, with a special kick off episode for their multi-city tour celebrating the special new 50th anniversary edition of the novel INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. They’re joined for candid and inspiring interviews by the luminous #1 New York Times bestselling authors of fantasy and horror who are s...

The final installment in Dark Anniversaries Month opens up the history books to a chapter your hosts have never read before, the 1920 bombing of Wall Street. Christopher and Eric were stunned to discover they knew next to nothing about this searing tragedy and the cauldron of political unrest that ignited it. In post-World War I America, growing discontent over financial inequity turned anarchists...

Dark Anniversaries Month continues as Christopher and Eric travel back in time to a day that will live in infamy, and a horrifying moment that has shocking parallels to a more recent attack on the homeland. They’re serving up PEARL HARBOR: SURVIVORS REMEMBER a moving and amazingly firsthand documentary about the Japanese attack on American naval forces that launched our nation’s involvement in Wor...

Christopher and Eric begin a month of anniversaries, starting with the dark and moving towards the “light in the darkness”, the publication of a special 50th anniversary edition of Premiere Party Person Anne Rice’s iconic novel INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. This year also marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, an event your hosts lived through and remember all too well, a truly dark...

Christopher and Eric conclude Back to School Murder Month with a brief visit to the high school and college years of beloved Premiere Party Person Anne Rice, a time when she shrugged off academic constraints to pursue her own artistic passions while simultaneously falling in love with the man we all know today as Christopher’s dad. Then it’s time to serve up the conclusion of the new Netflix serie...

At long last, Christopher and Eric tackle one of the most horrifying and talked about true crime stories in recent memory, the vicious slaying of four Idaho college students as they slept. The new Netflix series THE IDAHO MURDERS: COLLEGE NIGHTMARE is the basis for the first in this two-part True Crime Special Edition. Your hosts tackle the devastating nature of the crime, the enduring mystery aro...

Christopher and Eric are left surprised and more than a little moved by this unconventional series about a group of rural high schoolers in Appalachia who take it upon themselves to find justice for the forgotten victims of a possible serial killer. MURDER 101 isn’t your typical true crime series, and the inspiring educator at its center isn’t your typical teacher. If more took his lead down the r...

Christopher and Eric commence Back To School Murder Month with this scandalous installment of True Crime TV Club from – where else? – Florida! Also, is it Punta Gorda? Or Puta Gorda? Eric has thoughts! Meet George Kenney. Principal, father figure and hypnotist. (Yes, you read that right.). In season 2 and episode 5 of THE CURIOUS CASE OF, entitled “The Principal Who hypnotized His School”, specula...

The Mayfair mansion might not have been at the beach, but it sure offered up its fair share of horrors. That’s why the final installment in Dinner Partners’ Beach House Horrors Month opens with a celebration of a recent illustrated edition of one of Anne Rice’s most iconic works, “The Witching Hour”, and a brief look back at what today stands as our beloved Premiere Party Person’s most autobiograp...

Dinner Partners’ Beach House Horrors Month serves up a true crime series out of the United Kingdom about which Christopher and Eric knew absolutely nothing before they watched. They weren’t even sure where on the global map this posh vacation island actually was by the time they sat down to record this episode. (Actually, it was Eric who was confused. But he owns up to it — very big of him — once...

Dinner Partners’ Beach House Horrors Month opens with an amuse bouche of breathless history, serving up the man who built San Diego. (Don’t say we didn’t warn you!) The suspicious death of Rebecca Zahau inside a historic Coronado Island mansion blasted the storied (see above warning) Spreckels family name into the news nearly a century after their great fortune dwindled. Christopher is determined...

Dinner Partners’ Beach House Horrors Month begins with a rousing discussion of Anne Rice’s “lost La Jolla year”. Did you know that when our premiere Party Person famously departed New Orleans in 2003 her first landing place was this tony Southern California jewel? (Spoiler alert – it wasn’t a love match!) It’s the perfect lead in for Christopher and Eric’s two part serving of the most controversia...

The final installment of Summer In The City Month sees jealousy and rivalries erupt — inside the Dinner Partners studio! Christopher accuses his best friend Eric of wanting to replace him with renowned death investigator Barbara Butcher, who has better hair (maybe), a better car (unlikely) and a better facility for navigating autopsies (definitely). How can Christopher compete? The sixth episode o...

At almost 350 episodes, Christopher and Eric often suffer from a case of “Have we done this one before?” But this serving of a haunting New York disappearance includes new details and confirms their old suspicions about this strange and disturbing case. HOMICIDE NEW YORK – not to be confused with NEW YORK HOMICIDE, authors of our previous episode — is one of the best new true crime series to come...

Summer In The City Month continues with this devastating, emotional and ultimately inspiring tale of an urban community rising up against the hate in its midst. If someone doesn’t make this story into a movie, Christopher and Eric just might. Jackson Heights, Queens. 1990. The AIDS epidemic is at its peak and gay men are being targeted for violent attacks throughout the country. But we’re supposed...

Christopher and Eric are kicking off a month of True Crime TV Club set in Manhattan and the outer boroughs. They’re calling it Summer In The City Month because only a killer would enjoy New York in July. And it’s still Pride Season which is why they’re starting off with this tale of cold hearted predators stalking gay men in the city. In the second episode of the ninth season of venerable true cri...

Christopher and Eric wrap up their special month of Pride Pairings by serving up a boisterous biopic of the great Oscar Wilde that didn’t age quite as well as they’d hoped. In WILDE, Stephen Fry’s excellent performance as the title subject is hypnotic, and Jude Law scorches a hole in the screen as his manipulative young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. But does this sprawling film truly capture the mag...

As Christopher and Eric continue their month of special Pride Pairings, they launch their two-episode exploration of literary great Oscar Wilde with a True Crime TV Club installment they assumed would be focused on the young lover many blame for Wilde’s personal destruction or at the very least the young man’s father. Turns out this documentary assigned that role to someone entirely unexpected. Wh...

We have a new rule here at Dinner Partners. Every Pride celebration should involve a stunning performance by Coleman Domingo. As Christopher and Eric continue their special Pride Pairings, they explore how Netflix biopic RUSTIN compares to the facts of the iconic civil rights leader Bayard Rustin’s life as revealed in last week’s documentary. Your hosts are largely impressed by this sweeping, sump...

Christopher and Eric kick off their Pride Month celebration with a series of special Pride Pairings in which documentarians and dramatists alike illuminate the personal lives of two of gay culture’s most towering figures. In this episode, we begin a two-part exploration of one of the civil rights movement’s greatest – and previously unsung — heroes, Bayard Rustin, whose indefatigable nature and aw...

In this episode, Eric’s wit, wisdom and incisive commentary on life take center stage. More so than usual. Why? Because those are the things you told us you wanted to hear more of. (That and Christopher messing up his own notes during installments of True Crime TV Club.) We hope all of you aren’t living entirely according to the life lessons Eric serves up in between commenting on gruesome murders...

You can’t have Homecoming Month on a true crime-centric podcast if you don’t include an episode of true crime television that actually has the word homecoming in the title. Homecoming queen, no less. Such is the case with the thirty-fifth episode of the twenty-fourth season of the always in a class by itself DATELINE entitled “The Hometown Hero and the Homecoming Queen.” If the match sounds too go...

Christopher and Eric have identified many recurrent and grievous sins when it comes to the world of true crime television, but the first episode of season 22 of CRUISE SHIP KILLERS entitled “Nadia,” might have birthed an entirely new but nevertheless jaw dropping transgression. You’ll have to listen to find out what it is. But we’ll warn you. If this tale of murder and betrayal during a floating h...

Homecoming Month begins with a Dinner Partners style house tour. You’ve been asking for the final chapter of Eric’s home renovation saga, and it’s high time we blew the drywall dust of ourselves and delivered it to you. And this raised a very important question. Our beloved premier party person Anne Rice passed away before Eric started his journey into headaches and hot water heaters. Would she ha...