DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

Meet the Heenes. The father is an inventor whose process includes shouting abuse at his wife and son. The mother forgets the meaning of words like hoax when she's accused of perpetuating one. And the children tend to supply well shot, wide angle video coverage of some of their family's worst moments. Our family hour installment of Back To Fools Month takes to the skies over Colorado with TRAINWRECK: BALLOON BOY. Is there still as much hot air to this story as there was when it first went airborne in 2008? If so, will enough be left over for Christopher and Eric to inhale some and talk funny? These are the earthshattering questions that await in this exploration of one the most absurd alleged hoaxes of the 21st — or any — Century.

Back To Fools Month begins with the most dangerous type — a murderously irresponsible and privileged fool. Like so many of you, Christopher and Eric were riveted by this tale of hubris and catastrophe when it first broke across the world stage. The Titan submersible sounded like it could barely survive a dip in a duck pond. How could so many supposedly intelligent people send this glorified tin can to the dark ocean depths? The answers are chilling, as the Netflix documentary TITAN: THE OCEANGATE SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER makes clear. A stunning abuse of wealth and power and one spoiled billionaire's desire to be a "big swinging" you know what conspired to send five people to a dark and watery grave.  But the real crime on display is the same brand of disdain and disregard for sound scientific principles that's currently crippling parts of our federal government.

The excitement is building for ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION, your hosts lavish tribute to the life and legacy of our dearly departed Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice. This is the first in a special series of episodes leading up to the event's debut on November 1st in New Orleans. Here Christopher and Eric guide you through their vision for the show, the many ways in which we'll pay tribute to one of the world's most beloved authors and the long and often challenging road the production took to get to this point. Stay tuned for more AnneCasts to come!

Look, Christopher and Eric love DATELINE as much as the next true crime junkie. But sometimes the show's rush to get an episode on the air can lead to a rush to judgment. That's their concern with a recent episode entitled "Siren Song", the seventieth episode of their thirtieth – that's right, thirtieth! – season. TV show detectives love to say it's always, always, always the husband. Or boyfriend. Or fiancé. But is that really the case in the strange disappearance of Sarm Heslop, who vanished from her boyfriend's luxury catamaran off the coast of the US Virgin Islands in the hours before dawn? COVID kept her friends and loved ones from joining the search and now they fear the local authorities let the most likely suspect slip through their fingers.

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 exhaustive documentary INFERNO – THE BURNING OF MORRO CASTLE we learn how international political tensions, Depression era desperation and a serial killer conspired to turn a popular floating pleasure palace into a smoldering labyrinth of horrors.

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 dealings and some bad romance. In episode 1, entitled "Baja Noir", we follow an affluent Houstonian as he heads to Rosarito Beach to pick up the keys to his sunny new condo. Little does he know the other man named on the deed has him scheduled for a darker date.

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 scheming, traitorous, black sheep sons. You may know Edward VIII as the supposed romantic hero who gave up the crown for love. Did you also know he was a traitor to his country who gave the Nazis intelligence that proved critical to their war plans and that he spent more time trying to retrieve his wife's swimsuit from a war zone than to protect his brother and sister from the Blitz? We didn't either.

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 of this episode talking about Christopher's spicy new erotic romance novella, PARTY OF THREE, which features a hot throuple's weekend stay at Sapphire Cove, the luxurious beachfront resort that plays host to Christopher's ongoing gay romance series. And then there's whatever FALL TO GRACE is.

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 DYNASTY to find out what cost or consequence, if any, one of the world's most powerful media empires suffered after engaging in widespread acts of fraud, bribery, blackmail and defamation as well as invading the privacies of everyone from celebrities to grieving parents.

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 wrong in that infamous twelfth floor suite at San Francisco's St. Francis hotel? As they serve up season 1, episode 2 of the (surprisingly good) late 90's true crime TV series SCANDAL, entitled "Silenced Star", your hosts chew on Hollywood's first ever celebrity scandal. Turns out it’s hard to say whether the sour taste of guilt is coming from the accusers, or the accused.