Antique Tea
Antique Tea is a deep look into all the gossip you've never heard about...because everyone is already dead. Part history - part dish, Erica Maity researches the hell out of historical figures you may or may not know about. She digs deep and pulls out all the skeletons in their closet. Including their own skeleton. Then she serves up tea to her bestie Jason Hays who doesn't know history from his elbow. He devours the hot goss and spins his modern take on all their bullshit. It's just two good friends throwing shade throughout history. So put on your fanciest gown, pull up a Queen Anne side chair, and pour yourself a hot cup of Antique Tea.
Episodes
29 episodes
Halloween Episode: PIGEON MURDER (Olga of Kiev)
In which Erica terrifies Jason by telling him a story of cleverness, revenge, and raining chaos on your enemies using Jason's deepest phobia: pigeons. Also, sci-fi, Cersei, and sainthood.Get in touch! You can find us on Twitter @theanti...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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1:24:31
Prohibition 11: What Loopholes? (Mabel Walker Willebrandt)
In which Erica and Jason meet Mabel Walker Willebrandt, America's sobriety czar(ina?), and discuss the many ways in which one could still get a drink during Prohibition if they really wanted to (including oops wine, floating bodegas, and preten...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:05:55
Prohibition Bonus: Easy As Riding a Bike (ft. Kate Shearing)
In which Erica is joined by her childhood friend Kate to do a reading of Frances "Frank" Willard's book "A Wheel Within A Wheel" and learn, together, how riding a bike is a metaphor for everything and why engorged genitalia are worth avoiding. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:14:13
Prohibition 10: The Most-Kissed Man in America (Richmond P. Hobson)
In which Jason and Erica discuss the surprising career of Richmond P. Hobson, survivor of the sinking of the Merrimac, excessive kisser, and amendment submitter. Also, ship holes and wet women.Get in touch! You can find us on Twitter
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:25:31
Prohibition 9: Past is Prologue ft. Kieryn Darkwater
In which Erica and Jason are joined by Kieryn Darkwater from the Kitchen Table Cult podcast to discuss Wayne Bidwell Wheeler, the rise of the Anti-Saloon League, and how the ASL's tactics were prologue to those used today by the Religious Right...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:40:36
Sketchfest Seattle: Leaves of Grab-Ass (Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman)
In which Erica and Jason discuss the time that Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman hooked up (and redefined celebrity) in front of a live audience at Sketchfest Seattle 2021! Get in touch: @theantiquetea on Twitter, @antiqueteapodcast on ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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46:15
Status Update and Announcements!
In which, if this five minute status update is too long to listen to, you would have learned that we had a great show in Seattle, did a bitchin' photo shoot, and will be uploading to Youtube as well as podcast platforms in the near near future....
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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5:07
Prohibition 8: Propaganda for Kids (Mary Hanchett Hunt)
In which we discuss how Mary Hanchett Hunt created DARE before DARE was a thing, and Jason figures out what hill he's willing to die on.Get in touch! You can find us on Twitter @theantiquetea, on Instagram @antiqueteapodcast, and you ca...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:26:01
Prohibition 7: MLMs and Monopoly Friends (Madam CJ Walker and Adolphus Busch)
In which we conclude our last episode on the Madam and the Deutschman by talking about employee working conditions, general skulduggery, and deciding whether or not network marketing is inherently scammy.Get in touch! We are
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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53:16
Prohibition 6: Fuck You Money (Madam CJ Walker and Adolphus Busch)
In which we attempt and fail at finishing the Madam CJ Walker and Adolphus Busch miniseries in a single episode, but we succeed at discussing what we'd do if we were filthy rich and what a good bad German accent sounds like.Check out ou...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:16:55
Prohibition 5: Franchise This (Madam CJ Walker and Adolphus Busch)
In which the enterprises of Madam Walker and Adolphus Busch really take off... under morally dubious circumstances.Come see us live at Seattle Sketchfest! Tickets available now at sketchfest.org.<...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:16:46
Prohibition 4: The Steamboat Enterprise (Madam CJ Walker and Adolphus Busch)
In which we look at two stories of how people serving their underserved communities can make a LOT of money and scare the pants off of people who think all the money should belong to them - meet Adolphus Busch and Madam CJ Walker.Get in...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:24:20
Prohibition 3: The Cyclone Cometh (Carry Nation)
In which we return to our discussion of Carry Nation with some new sources, some big surprises, and a very good Sam Elliott impression.COME TO OUR LIVE SHOW! We will be at Seattle Sketchfest on September 5, 2021 at 2PM! Tickets availabl...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:23:20
Prohibition 2: Lady Nation (Carry Nation)
In which we explore the beginnings of prohibition, learn some excellent nicknames, and meet Carry Nation, the god-fearing, god-hearing, axe-wielding scourge of pubs everywhere.Get in touch! You can find us on Instagram
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:15:42
Prohibition 1: Pre-Prohibition Pub Quiz Party
In which Erica and Jason cover pre-Temperance era American drinking history by getting drunk and playing a pub quiz. You can play along here. Whether your answers are correct, funny, or simply e...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:23:10
The Rice Chest BONUS MOVIE EPISODE
In which Jason tells us all about what might be the best historical movie either of us can remember watching, 2015's The Throne (available on Amazon Prime).Get in touch! We're on Twitter @thean...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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49:33
The Rice Chest 4: Killer Tupperware
In which we learn the chilling conclusion to the life of Prince Sado, and Jason makes an apt analogy.* Apparently our finale episodes are cursed, as we had major audio issues with this one too. Apologies - I've checked our files for fut...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:05:06
The Rice Chest 3: It Gets Worse
In which Prince Sado meets a thunder god, has a clothing conniption, and severs a head (or ten).Get in touch! Follow us on Instagram @antiqueteapodcast, on Twitter
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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58:47
The Rice Chest 2: Archetypes of Dadding
In which we (finally) meet the young Prince and spend some time with him and his dad, King Yeongjo, whose dadding leaves, we find, quite a bit to be desired. Get in touch! We are on Twitter @th...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:02:10
The Rice Chest 1: The Little Lady
It's series two, and it's gonna get dark. We're beginning the fractured fairy tale of the madness of Prince Sado of Korea, but we've gotta start with his future wife (and teller of his story), Lady Hyegyong. Meet her, her family, and the goose ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:09:15
Young Romantics 8: Everybody Dies Eventually
In which we see how Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron meet their ends in some exceptionally surprising ways.Editor's note: we recorded this with a new setup very late at night so the audio is not quite where we like it ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:22:32
Young Romantics BONUS MOVIE MINISODE
In which Jason takes the lead and reviews three very different movies about Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley... and breakout star Lady Caroline Lamb. There will be big eighties hair, young Laura Dern, and some extremely ill-advised makeu...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:35
Young Romantics 7: Three Funerals and a Wedding
The penultimate episode in our Young Romantics series, in which Erica misremembers the name of a classic nineties movie, Jason gets really mad, and we have three funerals and a wedding.Content warning: suicide. If you are struggling wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:17:45
Young Romantics 6: The Lord of Secrets
Byron's got a lot of secrets in his closet. Incest, a goose, and a bunch of Methodists... And we wonder why his relationships never lasted!Check out our live bibliography at www.bookshop.org...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:18:58
Young Romantics 5: Byron, Bruin, and a Bunch of Babes
A dashing poet, a bear that sits college exams, and lots of sex - meet Lord Byron! And Lady Caroline Lamb. If we forget to mention her, she might kill us, or at least burn our stuff.Check out our live bibliography at
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:13:25