DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

Last Resorts Month continues as Christopher and Eric set sail on the fiery seas of hell, otherwise known as the stormy waters off New Jersey during the Great Depression. The horrifying story of the SS Morro Castle was in danger of being lost to history until the popular YouTube Channel, Oceanliner Designs, worked overtime to salvage this dark tale from the forgotten depths. In this offbeat, but ex...

As summer swelters, your hosts Christopher and Eric are determined to get in their last bit of beach time — inside in the frosty air conditioning watching bad things happen to those who spend too much time on the beach. Welcome to the first episode of Last Resorts Month, in which a new travel-themed true crime series called FATAL DESTINATION takes us south of the border for some bad real estate de...

It's rare that one finds a documentary in which all the interview subjects direct the same level of venom and disdain at the same target with quite this much elegance and skill, but the BBC special EDWARD VIII: TRAITOR KING is one of them, and Christopher and Eric delight in every barbed sentence. Summer of Scandal concludes with a grand promenade into the world of royal families — and their schem...

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 McGreevey seems almost quaint. And that's why your hosts spend the first part o...

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...

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 wr...

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. (N...

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 comp...

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...

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 st...

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 deadl...

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...

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...

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 o...

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,...

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 C...

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, de...

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 f...

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...

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 contender...

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...

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 devo...

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...

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, s...

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 th...