A little background on what's going on with this episode.

We hoped that when Tea Room Dialogs is on hiatus, we would periodically post some random extra episode as a mid-season break special. But with everything else going on at The Estate lately, we haven't had much time.However, we did come across this sporadic audio recording from one of our Estate Caretakers. We decided it's a fascinating snapshot into ... let's call it, a bit of Estate lore.

We don't know the actual date of the recording. There's consensus that it was a pre-Obama era, but whether it was before or after the election is unclear.

What we can say for certain is that at some point in what we believe mid-to-late 2008, The Estate's very own Ada King found herself on a tour bus with Amanda Palmer and a cell phone with a voice recorder.

We feel this is infor ...