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Christopher and Eric are so excited for the big changes that are afoot for The Dinner Party Show in 2016, they've gathered all their largely unqualified special correspondents for a very special take on The Night Before Christmas. 'The Night After Jordan' is destined to be a TDPS Christmas Classic. Have a listen and see if you agree!

The second installment of the TDPS Summer Sampler features a new interview with Jackie Collins dishing about her role in "Sharknado 3: Oh, Hell No." Plus: juicy gossip and insider-information about Hollywood with Shoshana Bean, Laura Benanti, Marcia Clark, Jackie Collins, Blake Crouch, Barrett Foa, Bryan Fuller, Terry Hayes, Chad Hodge, Ted Johnson, Heather Matarazzo, Jack Morrissey and Tim Williams.

#Hannibalism descends as Christopher and Eric welcome filmmaker Bryan Fuller back to the banquet table to dissect the third season of NBC's hit drama series "Hannibal." Meanwhile, adorably incompetent critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand attempts to discern whether the gorier elements of "Hannibal" are true-to-life, and a brand-new advertiser debuts the trailer for "True Horror," a bone-chilling tale of the current Republican presidential nomination candidates.

Christopher and Eric debate the ideal Spring Break scenario and play messages from the Party People left on the Dinner Party Line at 323-PEZ-TDPS. Adorably incompetent critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand tangles with drunk straight girls during a disastrous on-location report from Florida. And a new advertiser debuts: 'Tastrophe, the soft drink flavored with adolescent stupidity blended especially for Spring Break!

Bestselling author MJ Rose returns to discuss the state of the publishing industry as well as her latest book, "The Witch of Painted Sorrows." Plus: befuddled critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand attempts to solve California's water crisis. And a crotchety new advertiser debuts: CARP, the Curmudgeon's Association of Retired Persons.

Christopher and Eric fight over whose birthday should be celebrated first and for how long. The Party People compete to leave the most inappropriate birthday greeting on the show’s Party Line (323-PEZ-TDPS) The show’s special correspondents offer birthday greetings ranging from the celebratory to the insulting.

Christopher and Eric are joined by Heather Graham, the New York Times bestselling author of over 100 novels, for a lively discussion of “aging passionately”. How do you keep the fire burning in the oven when there’s snow on the roof? It’s one thing to age gracefully. But maintaining your passion for love, family and work as you grow older is quite another. There are some surprising answers and some surprising admissions in this thoughtful episode of The Dinner Party Show. Relationship expert JoNell Samms takes us to center court at the Poison Creek Mall for a glimpse of her take on the issue as well.

Jackie Collins, the legendary novelist who redefined Hollywood glamour, joins Christopher and Eric for this fabulous livecast, and the guys are practically besides themselves with excitement the whole time. Jackie shares her advice on writing, social media and meeting men on Grindr. Critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand tries to get in on the action as well. I've had so many people say to me, "Oh, you taught me everything I know about sex." And I think my books were very sexual before women were writing about sex at all.Jackie Collins The Dinner Party Show Podcast — Ep. 103: Jackie Collins Interview Transcript {This transcript is the Jackie Collins interview portion of Episode 103}{This transcript is provided as a courtesy and was transcribed as best as possible. Any errors or omissions in the transcript are unintentional. The recorded audio file of the podcast episode is considered the master of what was said.} Announcer: You are listening to The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn. Let's Dish. Christopher Rice: Welcome back to The Dinner Party Show. I'm Christopher Rice, Eric Shaw Quinn: And I'm Eric Shaw Quinn. Christopher Rice: And our guest has sold over 500 million books in- Eric Shaw Quinn: Today- Christopher Rice: Over 40- Eric Shaw Quinn: Just this afternoon, when they heard she was going to be on the Dinner Party Show. 31 consecutive New York Times bestsellers. Jackie Collins, welcome to the Dinner Party Show. Jackie Collins: It's so good to be here. You guys are great. Eric Shaw Quinn: It's such an honor to have you. Jackie Collins: Hello, Eric. Hello, Chris. Eric Shaw Quinn: The place is more glamorous just because you're here. Jackie Collins: Aha. Christopher Rice: During the break, you were already called a bad boy by Jackie Collins, which is very exciting. Eric Shaw Quinn: I didn't get it on tape. I'm just broken hearted. Jackie Collins: I said he deserved a spanking. Christopher Rice: Because he did not record Graham Norton. Eric Shaw Quinn: I didn't record Graham Norton. Jackie Collins: I know. And everybody loves Graham Norton. It's the best talk show on television. Eric Shaw Quinn: It is so funny. It is so funny. I wish there were more. Although I have to say, I think Jimmy Fallon is actually doing- Jackie Collins: No, no. Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel. It's all about Jimmy Kimmel. Eric Shaw Quinn: Nice job. I love all of those games that Jimmy gets- Jackie Collins: Oh my God. Eric Shaw Quinn: Jimmy Fallon gets- Jackie Collins: No, Jimmy Kimmel. You have to... That Jimmy is the one you have to follow. Eric Shaw Quinn: The one where Matt tied him to a chair. Jackie Collins: Yeah, that was very, yeah, that was great. Eric Shaw Quinn: That was insane. Jackie Collins: Did you see Jimmy Kimmel's acting school after the Oscars - Eric Shaw Quinn: No. Jackie Collins: Why? What's wrong with you? You're not watching the right television. Christopher Rice: Eric. Do what Jackie says. Jackie Collins: It's a fantastic show. Christopher Rice: Do what Jackie says. Jackie Collins: He did an acting school. Eric Shaw Quinn: I will absolutely do it. I will. Absolutely, I will watch it. I will watch him. Jackie Collins: He was fantastic. He had a black beret and black glasses and he had all these actors and he was hitting Sean Penn over the head with a rubber thing. Christopher Rice: That's fantastic. Jackie Collins: And then he was telling Jennifer Aniston what to do, and they were all an acting school. It was great. Christopher Rice: This is wonderful. Jackie Collins: You can catch it on YouTube. Christopher Rice: This brings me to my first question. Eric Shaw Quinn: I'll look for it. I will change my ways, I promise. Christopher Rice: You are a big Twitter user. Jackie Collins: I am. Yes. Christopher Rice: You love Twitter and you are very generous and positive on Twitter, which is not something I can say for everyone. You talk about what you like, you talk about what you enjoy seeing, whereas most people on Twitter, maybe sometimes me included, are very snarky and we go after people we don't like and blah blah blah. But you're very sort of supportive. I love that. It's like- Jackie Collins: Well, I said something today and I try to do this once a week. I say something about bullies because I hate bullies. And whenever I do, I get such a huge response. I think one of the things I said today was, "If you're a bully, you're a coward." And I get this huge response from it because it's so shocking that people are bullied. And I traveled around the country a couple of years ago with one of my books, Married Lovers, in a bus, a rock and roll bus. Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh, how excellent. Jackie Collins: And I went to all these casinos, all the Indian casinos, and I went to like 24 different places, but the audience would be fantastic, but there would be young boys who would say, "I don't fit in here and I'm bullied, because I'm different from the other guys", and stuff like that. And I realize that they need people to be supportive of them. Eric Shaw Quinn: Champions, absolutely. Jackie Collins: Yeah. So if I can give them a little, because I get so many 14, 15 year old boys writing to me and going, I love your books. Yeah. Christopher Rice: Why do you think that is? Do you think they gravitate towards your books? Jackie Collins: Well, interestingly enough, I was at the Vanity Fair Oscar party the other night, and I was talking to Baron Sasha Cohen. She said, name-dropping immediately. Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh my god, the most glamorous sentence that's been uttered on the show, maybe ever. Jackie Collins: And Isla Fisher, his wife was there, who's lovely and a wonderful actress. Christopher Rice: She's so funny. Jackie Collins: Very pregnant. And she said to me, she said, "I'm from a little town in Australia." She said, "And we had nothing there." She said, "Except I got your books and I read your books. And I said to myself, Isla, you got to get to Hollywood." Christopher Rice: Oh, wow. Jackie Collins: I know. That's fun. Christopher Rice: Absolutely. Eric Shaw Quinn: You inspired her journey. Jackie Collins: I Inspired her journey. Eric Shaw Quinn: How marvelous. Yes I guess that's a wonderful part of writing. Jackie Collins: I find I do get emails from people all the time saying that, that they are inspired because I write all different colors, all different sexual orientation, all different ages. And that appeals to everybody. There's something for everybody in my books. And I think that's why I've been lucky enough to be so successful for hundreds of years. Eric Shaw Quinn: How many books is it? It's so many. Jackie Collins: 32 books. Christopher Rice: 32. This must be Outdated Wikipedia Numbers. 31 consecutive New York Times bestsellers, but now it's 32. Jackie Collins: 32. Yeah. Christopher Rice: I was listening to another interview with you just because I had to look more prepared than Eric. And when you started, you wanted to write sexy books, but when you looked out at what was going on with books that were focused on sort of various sexual relationships, it was Harold Robbins and Sidney Sheldon. And you said in those books, the women were either in the kitchen or the bedroom. Jackie Collins: Absolutely. So it was a question of sex or cooking. And I thought, well, my women are going to be fantastic women. They're going to be strong. They're going to be sexually equal. They're going to be out there and they're going to do whatever they can do to be that way. And so I've created some very strong heroines over the years. And the strongest of course, is Lucky Santangelo. Christopher Rice: Of course. Jackie Collins: Which I did two miniseries for NBC about, which I wrote and produced. And nine books about Lucky now and The Santangelos comes out in June. Christopher Rice: Wonderful. Eric Shaw Quinn: Lucky 10. Jackie Collins: Which is a epic story and one of the family dies. I'm not going to say who. But I know everybody will be furious. However, I don't know what my characters are going to do. I sit down with a pen. I have no outline. Christopher Rice: That's the other thing that I was hearing is that you have no outline. You just sort of go with it. And you write out entirely by hand. Jackie Collins: Yes, I do. It's so old-fashioned, but I love it. Christopher Rice: But I think there are a lot of writers who do that. Nelson DeMille, I believe, writes out entirely by hand. Jackie Collins: Oh really? Christopher Rice: Yeah. There's a whole school of thought that it allows your mind, I don't do it, so I don't know why I'm speaking with this authority about it. But it allows your mind to sort of slow down and live in the book more, as opposed to your keys can sort of get away from you. Jackie Collins: Absolutely. My characters take me over. When I'm writing Lucky, I become Lucky. I'm writing an autobiography and the opening line of the autobiography is something that was actually said to me is, "Don't move bitch, or I'll blow your fucking head off." And that was said to me by a robber with an Uzi in my face. Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh my God. Jackie Collins: But I was writing the Lucky miniseries at the time, and so I went straight into Lucky mode. I thought, fuck you. How dare you speak to me like that with all that hate in your voice. And I was in a car. I was able to take off and escape. Christopher Rice: Good for you. Was this in Los Angeles? Jackie Collins: It was. Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh my God. ...

Romance Month continues on The Dinner Party Show. Relationship expert Miss JoNell Samms returns to dress up this encore presentation of one of her old classics with an all new introduction featuring a friend she met on the Internet. A friend who uses hand puppets to give live readings of erotic romance novels. JoNell. The Internet. Puppets who like to touch things. What could possibly go wrong? Find out in this podcast.

Eric has agreed to do a live reading of one of the more salacious sections in Christopher’s new erotic romance, THE SURRENDER GATE: A Desire Exchange Novel. Will he make it all the way through to the end? Will Christopher let him? The result is a lively discussion of sex, romance, and how to make the two things work together …on the page, at least. Also included, Christopher’s special report from the 2014 Romantic Times Convention, featuring fun interviews with some of the most popular erotic romance authors in publishing today.

Christopher and Eric are single. Alec Mapa is married with a child. So a podcast in which they discuss the secret to successful relationships should totally be free of bitterness and disagreement, right? RIGHT?? The Party People weigh in on our Party Line (323-PEZ-TDPS) with their own secrets to marriage (and divorce) success, and the end result is a great way to ignore Super Bowl Sunday 2015. Critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand debuts an all new series, HISTORY’S MYSTERIES, PLEASE.

Christopher & Eric celebrate their 100th episode with special messages from their special correspondents. Brock & Bastian, West Hollywood’s most perfect gay couple, have some "lifestyle tips" on how to make your winter travel plans seem fabulous, even if they aren’t. The Party People tell us how they’re dealing with cabin fever during the cruelest months of the year.

Who asked a question Christopher and Eric refused to answer? Time to fire up the “Innapropriatron” and let loose another volley of embarrassingly personal inquiries the show’s “Party People” left on the Party Line (323-PEZ-TDPS) And in a special new segment, Christopher and Eric subject erotic romance author Carrie Ann Ryan, the first author in this year’s 1,001 DARK NIGHTS series, to a gameshow style quiz about her love of werewolves, Air Force men and dirty dishes.

Horrible gifts! Glorious gifts! Your idea of the perfect New Year’s Eve! The show’s Party Line is always open to your voicemails at 323.PEZ.TDPS and for the first new LiveCast of 2015, Christopher and Eric highlighted your best messages about your holiday highs and lows. They also unleashed hellfire on the insulting new TLC show ‘My Husband Is Not Gay’. The Dinner Party Show is back and ready to serve everyone in the new year.

You voted, it’s time to hear the results! Christopher and Eric announce the winners of the first annual Forkie Awards. Find out who won for Best Sketch and Best Special Correspondent and enjoy all of the nominees along the way.

Host Jordan Ampersand and his drug-addled friends descend upon a glamorous L.A. shopping mall to explore the meaning of Christmas! They’re joined by Puffy The Christmas Elf and everyone learns an important lesson about dieting during the holidays.

By day, they’re a critically acclaimed novelist and a prolific film director. By night, they dismantle the homophobes and racists who occasionally drop-in on Christopher’s Facebook page. Meet novelist Michael Rowe (‘Enter, Night’ and ‘Wild Fell’) and director Ron Oliver (‘Beethoven’s Treasure Tail’) They’ve bringing their cool sophistication and savage wit to The Dinner Party Show’s last LiveCast for 2014. Have Christopher and Eric have met their match or their soul mates? Find out in this complete podcast of The Dinner Party Show’s final LiveCast for 2014.

With massive cyberattacks making headlines this week, bestselling thriller author THOMAS WAITE joins Christopher and Eric to discuss his new novel LETHAL CODE, which depicts a massive Pearl-Harbor-style cyberattack on the United States. How much of his book is fact and how much is fiction? How safe are we? And how much can you find out about Eric’s T.V. watching habits from a simple Google search? Christopher and Eric also discuss the wrap up of the epic book tour for PRINCE LESTAT and THE VINES, and Eric debuts his annual Christmas village, Greater Christmasville!

Christopher travels to the Romantic Times Convention in New Orleans to interview some of the most successful authors of erotic romance, his fellow contributors to 1,001 DARK NIGHTS, a monthly series of steamy novellas. It's a no-holds-barred special including hot talk of BDSM, happily-ever-afters and the most important question of all - would you rather spend the rest of your life married to a handsome vampire or a billionaire CEO? Eric and Christopher follow it all up with a lively discussion about critical double-standards when romance is compared to other popular genres of fiction.

It’s a special encore presentation of a holiday classic. Christopher and Eric take you back to center court at the Poison Creek Mall for another edition of ‘Live from Poison Creek’, starring, Ms. JoNell Samms. Listen in as mall security attempts to thwart the homespun wisdom (and homemade relationship advice) of show host Ms. JoNell Samms.

Christopher and Eric celebrate two whole years on the air with a special edition of You’re The Guest. No full frontal male nudity in the FIFTY SHADES OF GREY movie? The Party People are all riled up on the topic and they’ve left plenty of voicemails about it on the show’s Party Line (323-PEZ-TDPS). What’s up with the nudity double standard? Also, Christopher gives Eric an anniversary present that’s also a twisted form of self promotion for his erotic novel.

Twitter’s most hilarious comedian, Jenny Johnson, the woman who shut down Chris Brown’s account, stopped by The Dinner Party Show and Christopher and Eric still haven’t stopped laughing. Find out how Jenny made everyone in the studio crack up continuously for a good fifteen minutes. Special correspondent Miss JoNell Samms brings us a special report on Halloween safety, from center court at the Poison Creek Mall. Critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand teaches us how to make Halloween costumes “West Hollywood appropriate”.

Bless their hearts! Frequent Dinner Party Show guest Alec Mapa and “America’s transgender sweetheart” Calpernia Addams drop by to discuss their rival Internet radio show, NOONER, on the UBN Network. They chat with Christopher and Eric about growing up in the South and field special questions from the show’s Party Line left by critic-at-large, Jordan Ampersand. Jordan also files a special (disastrous) report about the build up to Christopher’s new horror thriller, THE VINES, which goes on sale October 21st.

Kristen Johnston, the hilarious star of ‘Third Rock From The Sun‘ and TVLand’s ‘The Exes', is the guest on this full podcast of The Dinner Party Show. She chats with Christopher and Eric about her hilarious and heartbreaking memoir, ‘Guts‘, her controversial new blog and life as a former space alien. Special correspondents Brock & Bastian, “West Hollywood’s most perfect gay couple” return with another edition of Etiquette 90069. The topic? Gay weddings! An E! Entertainment host asks the tough questions of the total losers.

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, the hilarious authors of the #1 New York Times bestselling young adult novel BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, join Christopher & Eric for a fiery, no-holds-barred chat about witches, magic spells and the publishing industry! Find out which topic is the most mysterious. Kami also discusses her brand new book, UNMARKED, the second installment in The Legion Series. Critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand is back with another episode of WHAT’S SCIENCE?

You are the most important guest on this episode of The Dinner Party Show! Christopher and Eric take your questions and ask for your help in solving a Manhattan murder mystery. Who killed Chuck The Groundhog? Was it New York mayor Bill DeBlasio? The show's Party Line is full of crazy voicemails from the show's loyal listeners, a.k.a the "Party People". Things always get crazy when you're the guest.

Christopher and Eric offer up their highest hopes and dish out their worst fears for the new fall T.V. season. It’s the launch of an all new TDPS game called ‘Good, Better, Worst’. Listen to the synopsis, then Christopher and Eric's predictions for failure and/or success. It's a full hour of unmitigated TDPS snark, complete with some hilarious fake commercials for shows you won't have to watch this season. Thank God!

The third season begins! TDPS favorite Bryan Fuller is back. The creator of NBC's HANNIBAL, PUSHING DAISIES and DEAD LIKE ME invited Christopher and Eric to a special screening of his new ScyFy Channel movie HIGH MOON in the backyard of his home.  They discuss the movie as well as Eric's problems with being outside for longer than five minutes. Christopher is giving away free electronic copies of his forthcoming supernatural thriller for 24 hours only…and he can't stop talking about it.

It’s time for AT THE TABLE 2, a special collection of highlights from some of our best celebrity interviews. Find out what scares #1 bestselling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell. Twitter phenomenon Caprice Crane recounts her run-ins with barn animals. Chaz Bono breaks new ground in the national conversation on transgender issues. The lovely Miss Coco Peru is startled by a probing question from Christopher. Dan Savage talks about the real meaning of “gay community”.

Christopher and Eric present some of the most hilarious and entertaining highlights from their first celebrity interviews. Their special guests include world-famous novelist Anne Rice, famed prosecutor Marcia Clark, Broadway diva and T.V. star Laura Benanti and a special musical performance from comedian Alec Mapa. Along the way there's delicious dish about about FIFTY SHADES OF GREY author E.L. James and gorgeous actress/model Amber Heard. It's a sparkling buffet of celebrity treats. Also being served up, Edgar Award winning mystery novelist Jan Burke, T.V. writer Chad Hodge, podcaster and entertainment guru Jack Morrissey and Patricia Nell Warren, author of the groundbreaking classic novel THE FRONT RUNNER.

Ms. JoNell Samms (a.k.a the voice of Eric Shaw Quinn), The Dinner Party Show’s resident “relationship expert, offers up her best advice on love, marriage and denial in this special greatest hits show, the latest installment in the TDPS Summer Vacation Series. Live and direct from Saint Etendre Parish, somewhere in the deep, deep, deep South, JoNell is a unique combination of clever and clueless whose homemade relationship advice can save any bad marriage, including her own.

Host Jordan Ampersand and his drug-addled friends descend upon a glamorous L.A. shopping mall to explore the meaning of Christmas! They’re joined by Puffy The Christmas Elf and everyone learns an important lesson about dieting during the holidays. Episode 53 originally aired Sunday, December 22, 2014.  Rebroadcast Sunday, August 20, 2014.

Live from center court at the Poison Creek Mall, relationship “expert” JoNell Samms is back for another ill-advised (and potentially dangerous) broadcast! She’s joined by the mall’s wacky support staff; Lupe, the mall manager who would love to see every show end in disaster, and Jim Bob, the maintenance director who can’t take a hint. And let’s not forget her special guests! The Rev. Graham Craquers is on hand to discuss the “right” kind of love, and the archery club from the local high school has a sack full of cupid’s arrows ready to rain love down on the unwilling. Gird your hearts and watch the skies, it’s another Poison Creek Mall catastrophe. Episode 60 originally aired Sunday February 9, 2014.  Rebroadcast Sunday, August 20, 2014.

One of The Dinner Party Show’s most beloved (and reviled) “special correspondents” stands trial for plotting an act of domestic terrorism (maybe). But ultimately, Jordan’s brains (or lack thereof) and moral fiber (or lack thereof) get entered into evidence in this highly unorthodox criminal proceeding which brings you the very best (or worst, depending on your point-of-view) of Jordan Ampersand’s catastrophic special reports for The Dinner Party Show.

When author panels at literary festivals degenerate into barroom brawls, TDPS is there to capture it all. It’s The Dinner Party Show’s SUMMER BOOK FESTIVAL, also bringing you excerpts from the latest audiobook bestsellers, including a thriller in which the author spends more time mentioning brand names than plot elements and a coming-of-age story about Southern women packed with every cliche south of the Mason Dixon line. It’s a scathing send up of books, the people who write them and the people who (try to) publish them, featuring some of the very best of Christopher and Eric’s scripted sketch comedy.

The summer holidays go south. The Dinner Party Show LIVE from the Poison Creek Mall somewhere in the Deep, Deep South with your Guest Host JoNell Samms. It’s a Dinner Party Show special, live from center court at one of the worst shopping malls in the deep, deep, deep South, where your host, JoNell Samms fights off irate security guards, a water feature no one seems able to turn off, the blender at Orange Julius and critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand, whose interviews with various mall merchants threaten disaster at every turn. JoNell’s special guests include the Rev. Evangelis Graham Craquers, who answers the questions, “Where would Jesus spend his summer vacation?”, and travel expert Tanya Lee Musgrave who has a special system for talking your man out of another ill advised trip to Reno. And the show’s disastrous big finish will forever give truth to the lie, “Nothing ever happens in Poison Creek!”

Christopher announces the publication date and publisher for his next supernatural thriller, THE VINES. (And Eric is forced to read the plot synopsis aloud to creepy music.) The final thrilling installment in Christopher’s interview with critically acclaimed thriller writer, Terry Hayes. Famed prosecutor and mystery novelist Marcia Clark is live in studio to discuss rampage killers and school shootings, the subject matter of her Rachel Knight mystery, THE COMPETITION. Hollywood has really glorified the genius psychopath, the genius serial killer, he outsmarts all the police…the psychopaths are not that smart. What makes it hard to catch them is they don't act on motives that are understandable, or you can't logic your way through their motives. They strike at random, they strike on impulse, but that's the kind of killer that's hard to catch.MARCIA CLARK The Dinner Party Show Podcast — Ep. 80 Marcia Clark Interview Transcript {This transcript is the Marcia Clark interview portion of Episode 80} {This transcript is provided as a courtesy and was transcribed as best as possible. Any errors or omissions in the transcript are unintentional. The recorded audio file of the podcast episode is considered the master of what was said.} Announcer: You are listening to The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn. Let's Dish. Christopher Rice: Welcome back to The Dinner Party Show. I'm Christopher Rice. Eric Shaw Quinn: And I'm Eric Shaw Quinn. Christopher Rice: And we actually called this show Beach Reading, but I think we forgot that we called it that, but that is why we just played a song called Life's a Beach. Eric Shaw Quinn: That's right. And that's what I said on my tweet and on my Facebook page today. Christopher Rice: I think I forgot to say that on my tweet and Facebook page today. Eric Shaw Quinn: Well, despite that fact, it's still all about beach reads, and we've got an author right here in the studio who has a book coming out next week. Christopher Rice: Marcia Clark is here. She's nodding. Eric Shaw Quinn: And it's the perfect beach read, her latest Rachel Knight. Christopher Rice: Absolutely. Latest installment in your Rachel Knight mystery series. The pre-order link for Barnes and Noble is up on our website at thedinnerpartyshow.com. Marcia Clark: Thank you very much. Christopher Rice: We encourage everyone to go there and buy the book. And this is the fourth? Eric Shaw Quinn: And support the show. Christopher Rice: The fourth? Marcia Clark: Fourth. Christopher Rice: The fourth installment. All right. Okay. Marcia Clark: Yes. Yes. Christopher Rice: Good. Marcia Clark: So we're going to talk about what it is? Christopher Rice: We can talk about what it is. Yeah, absolutely. Marcia Clark: We don't have to. Eric Shaw Quinn: No. Christopher Rice: We have to talk about what it is. Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh my God. Everybody wants to know. Christopher Rice: Do you have something else you want to talk about, Marcia? Marcia Clark: Not really. No. I'm open though. Christopher Rice: I'd rather talk about the finger sandwiches in the lobby. Marcia Clark: They're really looking good too. Christopher Rice: Yeah. But you know what you can do? You can do what I did. I had Eric read my plot synopsis. But if you want to talk about it… Eric Shaw Quinn: If you brought your plot synopsis, I'll be happy to read it. Christopher Rice: I think that you... I have a sense that you're good at public speaking. I just feel like it's maybe in your past. Eric Shaw Quinn: It's something I remember. I can't think quite why I think that. Christopher Rice: The Olympics, I think. Yeah, you were at the Olympics in '84. Okay. Anyway. Marcia Clark: Yeah. I don't even have a plot synopsis, and I think that the one that really is is set- Christopher Rice: This book has no plot. Marcia Clark: This book has no plot. Eric Shaw Quinn: What's it called? Marcia Clark: It's called The Competition. Christopher Rice: Okay. Eric Shaw Quinn: And what's it about? Marcia Clark: Here's the thing. I'm not sure it qualifies as a beach read, because what happened is, a couple years ago, I got seized by, you know how something just bugs you and you have to understand it and you have to figure it out? Eric Shaw Quinn: Yes. Marcia Clark: And I got seized by the Columbine shooting. Christopher Rice: Oh. Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh. Yeah. Marcia Clark: Way before Sandy Hook and all this stuff. Eric Shaw Quinn: Yeah. Marcia Clark: I was just obsessed with, what makes a kid turn out like that? Eric Shaw Quinn: Right? Marcia Clark: And how does this happen, and why does it happen, and why don't we catch it sooner? Christopher Rice: Right. Marcia Clark: And how come nobody saw the signs? Eric Shaw Quinn: Totally. Marcia Clark: That, to me, was the most compelling thing. Eric Shaw Quinn: Always. Marcia Clark: And really, were they bullied? Is that the whole story with them? Are they just victims of jocks, and they had to go out and shoot everybody as a result? So I got into... I researched it, and I had been studying the psychology of psychopathy and sociopathy back when I was a DA and back in the eighties and I had my first serial killer case, and I was puzzled then, too, like, "What makes someone like this? It's so inhuman." Eric Shaw Quinn: Right. Marcia Clark: So I kind of reinvigorated that research, and then studied the Columbine shootings, and then talked to shrinks and talked to a bunch of people. I have to write about this. Because I want to talk about, and I think we should be talking about, what it is that causes this. Because I think the first line of defense is to diagnose these kids, is to find who they are, figure out who they are, and then act accordingly. Do you know... For example, the best example, so I finished actually writing the first draft. I'm interrupting myself. I do that all the time. Eric Shaw Quinn: It's your story. Marcia Clark: I guess I'm allowed to. Eric Shaw Quinn: Tell it the way you want to. Christopher Rice: Yeah. I'm riveted. I don't care. Interrupt away. Eric Shaw Quinn: Yeah. Marcia Clark: Okay. So what happened is, I wrote the whole first draft, and then Sandy Hook happened. And I was like, "Oh my God." Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh, wow. Marcia Clark: "Maybe I shouldn't... I should maybe just forget to write something else and don't do this." Eric Shaw Quinn: Right. Marcia Clark: And then I thought, "But maybe it's important now, actually." Christopher Rice: Yeah. And maybe you're exactly the person to write it. I don't know. Marcia Clark: Yeah. Christopher Rice: Who does know? Marcia Clark: Or maybe this is the time. Christopher Rice: Right. Marcia Clark: And maybe we should all be talking about it and writing about it and figuring this out… Eric Shaw Quinn: Totally. Marcia Clark: ... together. And it does take a village, I mean, in this case, because there's going to be all kinds of people who have contact with kids, who have a more objective point of view than the parents do. Christopher Rice: Right. Marcia Clark: And they know stuff. School counselors, teachers, you got it, had kids and friends. Eric Shaw Quinn: That neighbor who saw that kid opening that storage unit just recently. Marcia Clark: Right. Right? Exactly. Eric Shaw Quinn: Just like, "Oh my God, this is- Marcia Clark: Exactly. Eric Shaw Quinn: Or that new division in Arizona, they call it M.I.S.T. The mental health.. Marcia Clark: Oh, yeah. Eric Shaw Quinn: ... support team where they actually go out and… Marcia Clark: Yeah. Eric Shaw Quinn: ...try and intervene before the fact with people who are having s mental health crisis. Yeah, all of it. Marcia Clark: We need it all. Eric Shaw Quinn: Yes. Christopher Rice: Yeah. Marcia Clark: We need it all. I mean, it's like, great. Everybody can go talk about gun control and all the rest of it. There is many... This is a puzzle with a lot of pieces to it. No question about it. Eric Shaw Quinn: Totally. Christopher Rice: Right, right, right, right. Marcia Clark: But the beginning of the answer has to be, let's find out who these kids are before they act out and do something about it. And there is actually a neuroscientist, Dr. Kent Kiehl, who has talked about the fact that there are studies and there are actual programs now that can catch these kids and help them young and actually therapize them out of becoming dangerous to society. So there's actually hope for these kids now… Eric Shaw Quinn: Good. Christopher Rice: Right. Marcia Clark: ... that there didn't used to be. Christopher Rice: Right. Let me ask you something about your research. Did you read a book about Columbine by the author Dave Cullen? Marcia Clark: Yes. Christopher Rice: Yeah. Now, he took something like, I don't know, seven or eight years to write that book, which in publishing is like a no-no. Marcia Clark: Yeah. Christopher Rice: If you're going to write a true-crime book, they want it out while the crime is still fresh. Marcia Clark: Right. Right. Christopher Rice: Sorry to put it that bluntly. And he said in that book that everything you will ever hear about every rampage shooting in the first two weeks will be wrong. Marcia Clark: Yeah. Christopher Rice: That everything that we believe to be true about the Columbine shooters, and stop me if I'm getting ahead of your pitch here, was, in fact, not really true. Marcia Clark: Yeah. Christopher Rice: They weren't actually very bullied. Marcia Clark: No. Christopher Rice: They had friends. They had a social grouping. It was this very simple narrative that came together very quickly that, I guess, assuaged people's own resentments about high school. ...

Zombie haiku! Crazy pick up lines. A MOMMY DEAREST reboot? A pill that might prevent new HIV infections. It’s all on the table on this edition of YOU’RE THE GUEST. Christopher and Eric field a deluge of voicemails from the show’s Party Line (323-PEZ-TDPS), and the resulting topics are far-reaching, wide-ranging and insanity-inducing. (Also, Christopher spends most of the show making every topic about him.)

Gun control. School bullying. When Christopher and Eric try to solve a problem, you might end up feeling better about the jerks who caused the problem to begin with. Enjoy your hosts' unsolicited advice to world leaders and find out why these two dudes deal mostly in fiction. This special edition includes an interview with screenwriter and author Terry Hayes, discussing his critically-acclaimed international thriller, I AM PILGRIM.

A TDPS Mockumentary! Christopher and Eric allow a documentary crew to follow them after they’re invited to host a float in the L.A. Pride Parade. But when Christopher places their youngest and most reviled special correspondent, critic-at-large Jordan Ampersand, in charge of float construction disaster ensues. And it’s all caught on Internet radio. The result is AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH meets PARIS IS BURNING.

Should 8-year-old girls be given mink coats? Why are some journalists scrubbing parts of Maya Angelou’s obituary? These are just a few of the questions being served up on the latest edition of YOU’RE THE GUEST, a special episode of TDPS in which Christopher and Eric respond to voice messages and Facebook posts left by the show’s loyal Party People. (The show’s Party Line is always open at 323-PEZ-TDPS.)

Christopher and Eric highlight the show’s gayest moments, including their gayest sketches, their gayest special correspondents and their gayest hopes for the big gay year ahead. This special episode is a perfect intro to The Dinner Party Show and all of its wacky servings, especially the gay ones.

One of our most controversial episodes to date. #1 bestselling author Steve Berry joins Christopher and Eric to discuss his brand new thriller THE LINCOLN MYTH. In the process he challenges popular assumptions about President Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Download the episode and join the conversation on our Facebook page.

It’s another special edition of The Dinner Party Show’s popular series, LIVE FROM POISON CREEK, coming to you “live” from center court at the Poison Creek Mall somewhere in the deep, deep, deep, deep South. What exactly is a Mother’s Day Derby? Your host “relationship expert” Miss JoNell Samms invites the manager of a local house of ill repute to host a 43-year old local Mother’s Day tradition that’s shrouded in mystery and intrigue. Find out why JoNell has never heard of it before now, and why the whole town will never want to hear of it again.

Christopher and Eric hold a contest for which Party Person can leave the most embarrassing confession of drunken misbehavior on the show’s Party Line. The voting continues on their Facebook page, but meanwhile the boys are horrified by the entries and desperate to share them with you.

Bryan Fuller, the creator of NBC’s HANNIBAL, PUSHING DAISIES and DEAD LIKE ME, joins Christopher and Eric for a rousing hour of live conversation featuring penetrating questions about hair-care, cannibalism and the writing process from the show’s “Party People”.

Voicemails from the show’s Party People set the menu for this raucous live episode of TDPS. Christopher and Eric tackle campaign finance reform, gay romance novels and a very special question from the show’s (previously silent) sound editor, Brandon Griffith. A social media battle ensues between a shirtless picture of Christopher and an adorable kitten named Smaug. Will Smaug win and end up taking Christopher’s place as co-host? Download now to find out!

Jordan Ampersand is back and Villa Pastenso will never be the same! When the swimming pool at Eric Shaw Quinn’s historic West Hollywood apartment building is poisoned with a hallucinogenic drug, it's up to Eric and his merry band of entertainment industry has-beens to find out who's behind it. Could the culprit be Jordan Ampersand, currently working off his community service hours at West Hollywood City Hall after his catastrophic attempt to become Villa Pastenso’s building manager? Find out in this special episode of non-stop hilarity.

The party line’s been ringing off the hook so Christopher and Eric have devoted another entire show to your outrageous and inappropriate questions. Listen as Christopher “does a Meg Ryan”. Find out the strangest thing anyone’s said to Eric after sex. If you sent the kids out of the room for our last episode, don’t bring them back in until you’re done listening to this one as well.

Which question will Christopher and Eric refuse to answer? What’s too far? What’s not far enough? The Dinner Party Show’s brand new Party Line allows listeners to leave questions and comments about the show. (323-PEZ-TDPS) This week, Christopher and Eric hold a contest for the most inappropriate question. But along the way they give some shocking answers to a few questions you probably thought (or hoped) they didn’t have the guts to answer. Send the kids out of the room for this one, folks.