DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

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 young gay man was left to bleed to death on a grassy lawn outside his apartment. Eric and Christopher get passionate as they serve up their competing theories of what really happened to Jesse Valencia during his last terrifying minutes. More importantly, they tackle the case's enduring question - did justice ensnare the one who was actually guilty, or just the one who had the most to hide?

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)

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 of mystery and suspense. But if you brought cheesecake, they'll totally have some.

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)

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 lord becomes the epicenter of an international manhunt that turns up four different versions of every story, all of them blood-soaked. The next time Christopher and Eric take a trip to this tawdry part of the true crime world, they'll be sure to buy travel insurance.

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)

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 call "Eric’s ass-kicking advice", send co-host Eric Shaw Quinn your questions at [email protected], or post them on the Facebook page for The Dinner Party Show.

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)

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 story can Christopher and Eric get through without screaming into their mics or putting their fingers in their ears and humming a happy tune? This edition of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club really puts your jaded mystery writing, true crime solving hosts to the test. Thankfully, they survive, and so will you.

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)

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 [email protected], 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 for you?" Some of your Facebook responses were amazing, and Christopher and Eric had a ball going through them.

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)

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 instead met with something so low class it makes Joe Exotic look like Brooke Astor. But there's a stunning surprise in store – halfway decent re-enactors! Can it be true? Take a listen to find out.

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)

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 instead met with something so low class it makes Joe Exotic look like Brooke Astor. But there's a stunning surprise in store – halfway decent re-enactors! Can it be true? Take a listen to find out.

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)

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 "sanctuary" anyway? While it's not technically an installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, there's no way your hosts couldn't weigh in on this big cat carnival of crazy with some piping hot takes of their own.

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)

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 "sanctuary" anyway? While it's not technically an installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, there's no way your hosts couldn't weigh in on this big cat carnival of crazy with some piping hot takes of their own.

(If this episode sounds different from our others, that's because it was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope to be back in our usual studio space as soon as public health advisories allow.)