Christopher & Eric

Welcome to Thanksgiving Beasts, when the world of true crime TV sets out to ruin one of America's most popular holidays. When a handsome, well-liked young bartender is shot execution style on a desolate Maryland road the night before Thanksgiving, his community reels, the cops go searching for suspects…and then everything goes as cold as Thanksgiving leftovers. But when the leads finally start pouring in years later, they're delivered by a markedly different cast of characters than the one presented by episode 11 of season 8 of the show NIGHTMARE NEXT DOOR, entitled "Thanksgiving Tragedy". It's not the first time we've caught a "non-fiction" show in the act of departing from the facts of the "true crime" it claims to cover. But fictional characters? This is True Crime TV Club! Join us as we ask if the facts were changed to  protect the innocent? The guilty? The victim?

In which we mark the 35th anniversary of the brutal murder of young gay man named Billy Newton, which was finally solved two years ago thanks to the persistence of a group of determined amateur detectives, Christopher and Eric included. But the case would never have been fully closed if it not for the tireless, diligent work of this episode's special returning guest, Clark Williams. And guess what? He's done it again. With a completely different case in a completely different part of the country. "The Clark Williams Method" has brought healing and justice to another long suffering family, and Clark is back to tell us how. Also, we announce a special change in how we plan to celebrate Billy's memory in the years ahead.

The big weekend has arrived. Christopher and Eric are in New Orleans presenting ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION, a gorgeous tribute to our dearly departed Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice to #AnneFans who are lucky enough to be there in person. To mark the occasion, here is an hors d’oeuvre to tide you over till the web cast of the event premieres on AnneRice.com. They've put together an all new collection of some of their greatest interviews with our beloved Lady Anne. So, if you couldn't make it to New Orleans for the celebration, you can celebrate at home with this special episode. And stay tuned for the free film version of our big event, which should post to AnneRice.com in just a few weeks!

You've met Lestat. Now it's time to meet Sabine, the sure-to-be-iconic vampire heroine of #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab's "love letter to Anne Rice", BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL. Christopher and Eric welcome the beloved dark fantasy author to their latest AnneCast. Not only do they discuss the moving peer tribute she contributed to the documentary film for ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION, they talk about writing into the darkness, "stress testing" supernatural worlds and the changing faces of queerness in speculative fiction. It's a conversation as riveting as any of Victoria's many bestselling novels. Unfortunately, the author's beloved cat did not make an appearance. Listen to find out why.

Christopher and Eric bring Social Media Mayhem Month to a shattering close with this excruciating Netflix documentary about one woman's descent into longing and deception. SWEET BOBBY: MY CATFISH NIGHTMARE takes us across the pond to the UK where marketing executive and radio host Kirat Assi finds herself captivated and romanced by a man who can never quite make the time to see her in person. A murder attempt, witness protection, a series of strokes – the list of excuses for why handsome Bobby Jindu can't manage to propose marriage in person grows longer and more outlandish by the day, week, month, year. When the truth arrives during a desperate confrontation, a family is divided, and the limits of the British criminal justice system are laid bare.

Social Media Mayhem Month continues with the crime that grabbed national headlines during the COVID pandemic even though it had nothing to do with masking or vaxxing. A frustrated Christopher and Eric serve up all three episodes of the Netflix true crime documentary series AMERICAN MURDER: GABBY PETITO, a show that uses bodycam footage and Gabby’s own YouTubery to dubious result as they retell this tragic tale.  The stark differences between the victim's social media profile and her real life are laid bare, but the larger questions about how these two young souls got lost in the wilderness of their relationship never seem to get asked.

Even people who aren't fans of true crime documentaries can't stop talking about this mind blowing true crime documentary. To kick off Social Media Mayhem Month, Christopher and Eric serve up UNKNOWN NUMBER: THE HIGH SCHOOL CATFISH. In this small Michigan town, high school sports are king, Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny are the adorable couple everyone admires (and envies), and someone is using the anonymity of the internet to introduce chaos and fear into this tight knit community. When the hateful text messages start arriving one after the other, no one can pinpoint their source. Relationships are ruined. School officials are flummoxed. False accusations are waged. Once revealed, the author's identity sends out shockwaves more damaging than any string of words.

The countdown to ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION continues. Your hosts continue to celebrate the incredible authors who generously offered our Premiere Party Person, Lady Anne, their peer tributes for the event's emotional documentary films celebrating her life and legacy. J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood novels are a global phenomenon, and the basis for a hit new television series, but their author is also one of Christopher's closest friends. Find out what happens when she meets Eric for the first time and the two are allowed to compare Christopher notes. The result is a rousing conversation about the incredible impact Anne's novels had on the iconic writer who brought vampires into the realm of romance fiction.

Nostalgia Month continues as Christopher and Eric celebrate crossing the 300 episode mark. To enshrine the occasion, they're serving up another one of their favorite series, VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, and another trip back in time. In episode four of season three, they head to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1981, where the brutal murder of a devoted cop's (ex) wife sets off an international saga of frame ups, jail breaks and drug busts that have less to do with the war on drugs and more to do with a war on truth. Also, watch out for a cop they call Disco. "Was Bambi Framed?". That's the title of today's true crime serving. Christopher and Eric have thoughts, but they also want to hear yours.

It's widely acknowledged that art and madness often go hand in hand. Blend in some incompetent police work and you've got a crime they'll still be talking about in the next century. We sure are. Nostalgia Month continues as Christopher and Eric celebrate crossing 300 episodes. A CRIME TO REMEMBER has always been one their favorite series, and episode three of season four, entitled "Such A Pretty Face" is both riveting and surprising. Travel back in time to depression era America, where modeling was a disgraceful profession, strange men renting your spare bedroom was a regular occurrence, and the police felt free to beat the crap out of you until you confessed to whatever crime they were investigating at the time. You know, the good old days when things were still apparently so great.

Welcome to Nostalgia Month! Christopher and Eric celebrate their 300th episode by reminiscing about their favorite episodes past. But don't worry. It's not one of those punch-the-clock clip shows they threw together just to fill time. Those will come later in the year, when the jaw aches from all their yammering set in. They're also diving into another episode of THE PLAYBOY MURDERS, specifically the first episode of its second season, entitled "Double Trouble". Is Hugh Hefner's legacy getting the Me Too reckoning it deserves? Or should the blame for this sordid tale lie squarely at the manicured feet of one banished bunny and her wayward jewelry collection? One thing's for sure – never agree to an afterhours meeting in an alley in North Hollywood. We don't care what you're selling.

As excitement for ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION builds, we bring you another passionate, emotional look inside Anne's legacy, this time with a special visit from a beloved, #1 New York Times bestselling author whose filmed tribute to Anne will be included in the event's documentary films. Leigh Bardugo cast a spell over the world of young adult fiction with her mega-bestselling Grishaverse novels. With her more recent novels like NINTH HOUSE and THE FAMILIAR, she transitioned into the world of adult fantasy and horror, a process that reconnected her with one of her earliest and strongest fictional influences, Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Leigh joins Christopher and Eric in their West Hollywood studio for a warm and passionate discussion of Anne's powerful legacy and the creative possibilities offered by dark fiction. ANNE RICE, AN ALL SAINTS' DAY CELEBRATION takes place in New Orleans on November 1, 2025.

Back To Fools months gets political, maybe more political than the podcast has ever gotten, as your hosts serve up the toxic formula of how the Wild West of Internet message boards led to one of the most disgraceful and chaotic events in United States political history. In the Netflix documentary THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK: MEMES TO MAYHEM, Christopher and Eric travel from LOLz, to social justice activism to deranged conspiracy mongering and ultimately an insurrection on the steps of the US Capitol. What's to blame for the complete breakdown in critical thinking skills that enables misinformation to spread, thrive and kill? Eric has some sharply critical answers. We hope someone out there adds them to their lesson plan.

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.