DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

Out Of This World Month resumes with one of the most frightening and compelling alien abduction stories ever told. Did a group of loggers in the Arizona wilderness invent this terrifying tale of strange spacecraft, teleportation beams and missing time? The documentary ALIEN ABDUCTION: TRAVIS WALTON challenges you to look into their eyes and decide for yourself. They haven’t changed their story in...

Your hosts Christopher and Eric are accustomed to reporting on disturbing stories long past or far away, but this week they found themselves living at the center of frightening international news as a series of horrific and unprecedented firestorms ravaged Los Angeles County. In this episode, they share their own evacuation story as the Sunset Fire threatened their beloved hometown of West Hollywo...

Christopher and Eric continue to enjoy their “off world time” in response to the garbage fire of a year that was 2024. Out Of This World month heads to the New Mexico desert by way of one of the most beloved non-fiction television series of all time, UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. In 1989, the iconic show introduced mainstream audiences to the Roswell conspiracy and its shocking implications about life from...

Given how 2024 wrapped up, Christopher and Eric have no interest in spending the first month of 2025 talking about the news on this planet, so get ready for Out Of This World Month, a series of episodes devoted to extraterrestrial happenings, abductions, crashes and conspiracies so far out you’ll need a teleportation device to see them through. How is it possible Christopher and Eric have gone thi...

All I Want For Christmas Month — and 2024 itself — comes to what we hope is an optimistic close with this episode focused on our highest hopes for the year to come. We’re replacing those pesky, self-critical New Year’s resolutions with big dreams and even bigger commitments. On The Dinner Party Show’s Facebook page, we turned to you, our Party People, to hear your strategies for cultivating joy in...

Christopher and Eric continue All I Want For Christmas Month with a desperate plea for help from you, their beloved Party People. Please find them some holiday themed true crime TV episodes that aren’t hideously nightmare inducing. Your hosts decided to divide up the work this year, delivering dueling Christmastime massacres, one of which may well win the dark distinction of the most disturbing st...

It was a year of smart, eccentric detectives and a surprise epic that captivated American audiences even though most of it wasn’t in English. Christopher and Eric serve up their favorite entertainment offerings from 2024, a year they’d otherwise like to forget. Compare and contrast with the small screen highlights they singled out back in May on Episode 232. Did SHOGUN live up to its epic promise?...

All I Want For Christmas Month begins with a perspective-giving crash course in how bad a bad year can be. True crime takes a backseat to true catastrophe as Christopher and Eric count down the final weeks of 2024, a year they’d desperately like to put in their rearview mirror. What better way to distract themselves from the personal disasters that littered their last twelve months than with some...

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 Frid...

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 tr...

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 g...

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...

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 se...

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...

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 mom...

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 medi...

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 c...

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 D...

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...

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 document...

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 Ol...

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 jus...

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 t...

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...

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 t...