Famed prosector and mystery novelist Marcia Clark along with award-winning author and forensic science advocate Jan Burke join the party to discuss a death by llama, and a special visit from "special correspondent" and travel expert, Tanya Lee Musgrave.








Eric Shaw Quinn: You are listening to The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn. The Dinner Party Show, where we ask the question, is soup really that amazing?



Christopher Rice: Laughing at ourselves with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn on The Dinner Party Show.



Eric Shaw Quinn: And Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.



Christopher Rice: Marcia Clark is in the studio.



Eric Shaw Quinn: Yes.



Christopher Rice: Welcome, Marcia.



Marcia Clark: Hi, guys. Thank you so much for having me.



Eric Shaw Quinn: Tonight's guests are Jan and Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.



Christopher Rice: We got this button. Yeah. Marcia Clark.



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Marcia Clark: Oh yeah. Oh, the crowd. I love it. Yes. I'm waving to the crowd. I'm doing the Queen thing.



Christopher Rice: Are you? You look amazing.



Marcia Clark: The Queen thing. Why, thank you.



Christopher Rice: We haven't gotten video figured out yet, but we are filming tonight's show for our archive and we'll post clips, but I'll describe. You're in a beautiful silk shirt and a lovely leopard... Is that a leopard print?



Marcia Clark: It's ocelot.



Christopher Rice: It's ocelot.



Marcia Clark: Ocelot.



Christopher Rice: Okay.



Marcia Clark: Not real ocelot. I don't do real.



Christopher Rice: Yeah, of course.



Marcia Clark: Right. Of course. Of course.



Christopher Rice: You hear that, animal people? She's not wearing her real fur.



Marcia Clark: Yes. Don't throw stuff on me.



Christopher Rice: Don't start that. Yeah. Absolutely.



Eric Shaw Quinn: I'm sure we'll do something that will upset you, but this isn't it.



Christopher Rice: Yeah, absolutely. I'll just tell people how we met. We met at Patricia Cornwell's launch party for her last novel here in Los Angeles. You were the nicest person at the party and also the prettiest.



Marcia Clark: I thought you were both.



Christopher Rice: Oh, thank you.



Marcia Clark: I did. And I was like so jazzed.



Eric Shaw Quinn: No, it's you. See how I'm the guest on the show?



Christopher Rice: I ran home and I told Eric... I went to the party and I was dying to meet Patricia because I'd been a huge fan of hers for years and years and years. We connected on Twitter and she had sent me some really nice emails and invited me to what was a very actually small, intimate party at Sunset Tower. I got to meet her, which was a thrill. But then I got to meet you, which was a real thrill because we worshiped you in our house. My mom just adored you. She thought you were such a strong, independent woman who stood up under an amazing amount of pressure.



Eric Shaw Quinn: Unbelievable.



Christopher Rice: She really really loved you. I got to run home and tell everybody that I had met Marcia Clark. I was like, yeah, yeah, Patricia Cornwell’s party was great. Blah, blah, blah. I met Marcia Clark!



Marcia Clark: It's a mutual admiration. I loved you. I love your mom.



Christopher Rice: Thank you.



Marcia Clark: I mean, I was like, oh my God, what a perfect connect. It really made the whole night for me. It was so much fun. So much fun.



Christopher Rice: It was a lot of fun.



Marcia Clark: And there you were. It's like, Chris Rice. Chris? Oh my God.



Christopher Rice: I was like Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.



Marcia Clark: It was wonderful. It was wonderful.



Eric Shaw Quinn: Totally, yeah. And then we started talking about, oh, got to get her to come on the show. Oh yeah. That would be great. Oh yeah, absolutely. We'll have her on the show.



Christopher Rice: Absolutely. Because you really were the most famous prosecutor in America as a result of that trial.



Eric Shaw Quinn: And one of America's leading exp...