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Reach One NetworkThe Night We Met on a Train - Episode 2: The Follow UpApril and her assistant Claire talk about the encountering experience April had with Langston on the train. Meanwhile, Langston gets called into his publisher's office to discuss his book and his first time meeting April.Series Synospis Two train passengers met under awkard circumstances while navigating through their own professional and personal love life filled with bad relationships, internet dating, and heartbreak. Music Credit: Joe Montague - Mother LodeJoe Montague - Golden GooseJoe Montague - GrubstakerCast Members Shaundria Campbell as April Yaaqov Black as Langston Dainelle Thracker as Tanika Duke Muse as Marcus Liam Torres as Steven (Old Passenger...
2025-03-1808 min
Reach One NetworkTHE NIGHT WE MET ON A TRAIN PILOT - MY NAME IS...WHAT'S YOURS? (FREE PREVIEW)Episode One Synospis Langston and April aboard a train to only find themselves engaging in a debate over how they look at dating life in the 21st century. Series Synospis Two train passengers met under awkard circumstances while navigating through their own professional and personal love life filled with bad relationships, internet dating, and heartbreak. Cast Members Shaundria Campbell as April Yaaqov Black as Langston Dainelle Thracker as Tanika Duke Muse as Marcus Liam Torres as Steven (Old Passenger Man on the Train)Stanford Lee as Kevin Lee (The Radio Announcer) Season One Cast Members Shaundria Campbell Yaaqov Black...
2025-02-2510 min
Strange CountryThe Man Who Killed HalloweenHalloween is the time of year of ghouls, goblins and moral panic about candy. Could some neighbor be handing out candy full of pins? Or even worse, plain boxes of raisins? Where did this all come from? Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the origin of poisoned candy, stemming from one father who poisoned his own kid to collect insurance money. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: "DEA Warns of Brightly-Colored Fentanyl Used to Target Young Americans." DEA.gov, 30 August 2022, https://www.dea.gov/p...
2023-10-0535 min
Dynamics of a PodcastEpisode 20: Moriarty on Stage, Part 2 — Talking with the Original Cast In this second episode focused on Ken Ludwig's Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure, and its world premiere at the Cleveland Play House, we talk this time with the original cast: Christian Pedersen, Nick Gaswirth, Jeff Bender, Olivia Gilliatt, and Talley Gale! There are two places in which we talk spoilers — one is our now-normal spoiler section (suggestions for naming it are welcome!) — and the other happened first during the course of the conversation. The first moment is brief and happens between 0:38:04 and 0:38:16 — believe us when we say you're better off not spoiling this for yourself if you don...
2023-05-221h 08
Tea & VulgarityEmma Goldman: Love Is Indeed a StrangerIn the last installment of Goldman's "Love and Marriage," we read her case for what real love means.
2022-02-1306 minTea & VulgarityEmma Goldman: The Hideous Epithet, BastardEmma Goldman makes the case that love is not free, especially in marriage in 1914.
2022-02-1304 minTea & VulgarityEmma Goldman: A Mute Beast Fattened for SlaughterEmma Goldman's 1914 essay really hits home with Lady L's soapbox on weddings.
2022-02-1106 minTea & VulgarityEmma Goldman: Slavish Acquiescence to Man's SuperiorityThird part of Emma Goldman's 1914 "Marriage and Love."
2022-02-0904 minTea & VulgarityEmma Goldman: Remaining StrangersPart two of Emma Goldman's 1914 piece, "Marriage and Love."
2022-02-0904 minTea & VulgarityEmma Goldman: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter HereFrom "Marriage and Love" by Emma Goldman. " If however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life..."
2022-02-0903 minTea & VulgarityFlea-Sized Pod 14: Her Posterior's ApertureWhen I recorded this, I didn't realize the new subleaser was still home...oops.
2022-01-1407 min2022-01-1404 min2021-12-2003 minTea & VulgarityFlea-Sized Pod 11Bella experiences DP -- double priests, dubious penises. Someone fetch this lady her salts.
2021-12-1605 min2021-12-1203 min2021-12-1203 min2021-12-1202 min2021-12-1004 minTea & VulgarityFlea-Sized Pod 6A very ugly priest turns Bella on. This one is preposterously descriptive!!
2021-12-0604 min2021-12-0603 min2021-12-0304 min2021-12-0302 minTea & VulgarityFlea-Sized Pod 2Another 2 minutes dedicated to the revels of Bella, Hot Priest, and our sentient -and literate - flea.
2021-11-2302 min2021-11-2302 min
Tea & VulgarityFootnotes: Flea FetishWhy would someone associate a flea with sex? Well, both fleas, and fleas on people, were a fairly common part of Victorian life. This is a short footnotes episode to give some context.
2021-11-1708 minTea & VulgarityThe Autobiography of a Flea: Chapter 2The Flea witnesses Father Ambrose (Count Frolo, Mister Tumnus, & the Hot Priest rolled into one) helping Bella...um...atone...for her sins. Bella ascends to the Heavens. Lady Axewound joins again to spill some flea tea.
Featuring Jillian Leff.
2021-10-1936 minTea & VulgarityThe Autobiography of a Flea: Chapter OneLady Taintbury returns with Lady Letitia to read the 1887 erotic novel The Autobiography of a Flea. In this first chapter, we learn of this "most exalted" flea (whom we envision as PT Flea) and his "host," the lovely Bella.
Somehow, A Bug's Life, Fleabag, and Veggie Tales all find their way into this world.
Featuring Molly Wagner
2021-09-2644 minTea & VulgarityOlden Songs: "9 Inch Will Please a Lady" & "The Lusty Young Smyth"The Countess of Clitterdown arrives to revel in song! This episode focuses on naughty chansons, both Victorian and earlier. (The Countess is, in fact, a professional cellist by trade.) Lady Letitcia toots her pennywhistle for us.
2021-06-2924 minTea & VulgarityFootnotes: AstrologyBody Politic member, sex-therapist-in-training, and astrology buff Lida Rubanava discusses the connection between the planets and our relationships.
Book featured: The Astrology of Love &Sex: A Modern Compatibility Guide, by Annabelle Gat
Check out: wearebodypolitic.com
2021-06-0125 minTea & VulgarityNonfiction: The Directory of Covent Garden Sex WorkersIn the late 1700s, an enterprising fellow put together a list of the sex workers of Covent Garden. This book, known as Harris' List, is the inspiration behind the television series "Harlots." Miss Carmilla Godeminche is a bastion of knowledge about this book and does some lovely reading of excerpts. Carmilla is also the name of a lady vampire whose tale pre-dates Dracula.
Featuring Ashleigh Becker
2021-05-2020 minTea & VulgarityGamahuche My Cooch!Thank Venus we brought in Lady Shagsworth. She does a MARVELOUS American accent -- who knew? Today we get philosophical with some Dr Johnson, discuss the origins of "gamahuche," read "The Origin of Copulation," tell a bit of gossip about American women, and revel in how Lady Pokingham seduces a servant.
Featuring Raven Pierson
2021-05-0822 minTea & VulgarityFootnotes 3: A Family AffairJillian Leff (aka Lady Axewound) has read some INTERESTING literature, and Talley discovered something shocking about one of the more prolific women poets. Listen as we but scratch the surface of lesbian writers, familial outlooks on sex, and how [upperclass] Victorian society viewed queerness.
2021-04-2224 minTea & VulgarityASMR bonus episodeFor, indeed, why ever not? Some of Lady Letitcia's favorite excerpts, read in intimate manner...
ASMR: Autonomous sensory meridian response. Meaning certain sounds make your body get all tingly.
2021-04-1703 minTea & VulgarityA Man's Perspective: God Save the Queen!The salacious Sir Cocksworth Pennythrift joins to sing a ravishing rendition of God Save the Queen, revel in the provocative prose of La Rose D'Amour, and correct Lady L's pronunciation of "indefatigable."
Featuring Jack Wallace.
2021-04-1425 minTea & VulgarityLesbians, or, The Reprise of MossyThis episode is the first of several dedicated to women loving women. The selections are naughty but also frequently sweet. We also include some non-Anglo works.
Did you know the woman who wrote "In the Bleak Midwinter" also wrote a homoerotic nursery rhyme? BY MY TROTH, SHE DID.
With Lady Axe-wound, aka Jillian Leff
2021-03-2318 minTea & Vulgarity"And flourishes her jutting arse"Lady Axewound makes her teatime debut! Along with Lady Letitcia, she indulges in: "Arithmetician: a Fact," an ode to an opera dancer, a couple dirty acrostics, more Lady Pokingham (a derriere affair), and a warning to ladies about violet powder. Unbutton your bustiers!
Featuring Jillian Leff
2021-03-1720 minTea & VulgarityFootnotes 2: Art, Seattle, Strange LawsMolly Wagner joins Talley again for more thoughtful footnote talk. Queen Victoria was a racy lady. Have we "cleaned up" our interpretation of the nude in Western art? Seattle thrives all thanks to a Madame.
2021-03-0920 minTea & VulgarityHot Priest: A Man of the Cloth is Still a ManSins of the flesh? My dear child! The Venerable Reverend Myakovsky graces Lady LeTITcia's parlour and incandescently illuminates the dogmas of toys, anal sex, cigars, STIs, and the best time of life to ascertain one's predilections. He also enjoys lifting his voice in dulcet tones to the heavens.
Featuring Matthew Duncan
2021-03-0427 minTea & VulgarityWhere's My Barrister?The tireless Lady Taintbury is back to nosh crumpets and spill the tea with Lady Letitcia. Our friends recite poetry and read more about Lothair, who's gamahuching before he becomes a man of the cloth. Lady T fills us in on her own sordid past. Lady L hopes Dave's Killer Bread won't sue her.
Featuring Molly Wagner!
2021-02-2416 minTea & VulgarityFootnotes 1: Other Racy PublicationsTHE PEARL wasn't the only publication the Victorians salivated over. Molly Wagner (aka Lady Taintbury) joins Talley in the first of our "educational real-talk" episodes to discuss the other...um...literature published during this period.
2021-02-1415 minTea & VulgaritySpeculum in BatchesLady PlumPudding (from the penal colony) attends tea with Lady Letitcia to read a letter, muse on syphilis (let's bring it back!), and dissect a ballad about the Contagious Diseases Act.
Featuring Amy Nasseri of Orgasm Lab
2021-02-0322 minTea & VulgarityVibrator ChairLady Blossombosom reluctantly joins Lady LeTITcia to sing a bawdy song to the tune of an old hymn.
Featuring Ian Katee Gale.
All music under a Creative Commons License.
2021-01-2918 minTea & VulgarityMossyLady Taintbury, an old schoolfellow of Lady LeTITcia's, puts her wit to work reading about Mister Pego, moss, beavers, and other names for our genitalia.
Featuring Molly Wagner
All music under a Creative Commons License.
2021-01-2914 minTea & VulgarityCrumpetWelcome to Tea & Vulgarity! Grab your smelling salts, and be ready to meet Ladies Letitcia and Blossombosom as they read tittilating tales from Victorian England.
Music: Musicians from the Ravinia Festival Stean's Intstitute; Benjamin Moser; BNTT
2021-01-2314 min
She ExploresVoices from PGM ONEWhat changes about the environmental movement when people of color are both the leaders and the audience? We teamed up with REI to send writer Amanda Machado to the third annual PGM ONE Summit in Philadelphia to answer that question first hand.
Recorder in hand, Amanda talked to outdoor educators, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit workers, artists, healers, and activists. She shares what was healing for the attendees, why this conference (and others like it) is a necessity for the environmental movement, what they want those who didn't attend to know, and how we can all learn from the...
2019-06-1049 min
Doing the Work with Matthan BlackEpisode #119: Doing the Work with Talley GaleThis week we have Talley Gale on the podcast! Talley is a terrifically skilled actor living here in New York who just happens to be related to my first voice teacher! Talley and I are currently working on a film project together and I thought it would be nice to catch up after so many … Continue reading Episode #119: Doing the Work with Talley Gale →
2019-02-2100 min