Antique Tea

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 @theantiquetea, on Instagram @antiqueteapodcast, or email us at [email protected]. You can also check out our live bibliography at bookshop.org.

Hosted by Erica Maity and Jason Hays
Written, produced and edited by Erica Maity

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 pretending to be Jewish).

Get in touch! We're on Twitter @theantiquetea, Instagram @antiqueteapodcast, and you can email us at [email protected]. Check out our online bibliography/source list at bookshop.org and maybe buy a book!

Hosted by Erica Maity and Jason Hays
Written, produced and edited by Erica Maity

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. Also, Frank trips on ether.

Get in touch! We're on Twitter @theantiquetea and Instagram @antiqueteapodcast, and you can email us at [email protected]. Find our live bibliography (and buy a book) at bookshop.org!

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 @theantiquetea, Instagram @antiqueteapodcast, or email us at [email protected]. Check out our live bibliography at bookshop.org and buy a book.

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. Warning: this one gets really political.

*Erica's recording software picked up the wrong mic, again. We're working on it. We're really proud of this episode, so please bear with the tinny audio. This one's worth a listen.

Get in touch! Find us on Twitter @theantiquetea, on Instagram @antiqueteapodcast, check out Kieryn's podcast Kitchen Table Cult, and email us at [email protected]. Our source list is available at Bookshop.org - buy a book!

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 Instagram, or email us at [email protected].

Hosted by Erica Maity and Jason Hays
Written, produced and edited by Erica Maity
Recorded by Sketchfest Seattle

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. And that there is no episode this week, because the above took a lot of work and your hosts are very very tired.

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 can always email us at [email protected]. And as always, if you want to know more you can check out our live bibliography on bookshop.org.

Hosted by Erica Maity and Jason Hays
Written, produced and edited by Erica Maity

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 @theantiquetea on Twitter, @antiqueteapodcast on Instagram, or you can email us at [email protected]. Our live bibliography is up to date and available on bookshop.org.

Hosted by Erica Maity and Jason Hays
Written, produced and edited by Erica Maity

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 our live bibliography at bookshop.org and buy a book! You can also get in touch: Twitter @theantiquetea, Instagram @antiqueteapodcast, or at [email protected].

Hosted by Erica Maity and Jason Hays
Written, produced and edited by Erica Maity