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It’s summertime and Matt & Emily want to know one thing: What’s your favorite fruit? In their first ever special episode, The Summer Spectacular, they asked several past and future guests to rank their top five fruits while they enjoy a variety of iced teas in Brooklyn’s beautiful Prospect Park. Special thanks to Alexis Lamper, … Continue reading The Summer Spectacular →

It’s Matt & Emily alone and they’re drinking Teavana’s pumpkin spice brulee oolong tea. This week, they’re going meta and the topic is…podcasts! Hear them talk about their firsts, favorites, and forgotten podcasts.

Matt and Emily welcome Andrew Bond to the podcast as they drink Teavana’s mint majesty tea. This week’s mini-topic, courtesy of Matt, is Ice Planet 2002, his all-time favorite Lego theme from the early 90’s. Andrew’s guest topic is remote places: sandy deserts, frozen tundra, islands, space, anywhere lightly or un-populated.

Matt and Emily welcome Michael Brantl to the podcast and drink DavidsTea’s Organic Cream of Earl Grey tea. They first talk about one of Emily’s most favorite topics, a throwback to episode 1 of the podcast, The Royal Wedding. Michael’s guest topic is to talk about first jobs. Both Michael and Emily started off in … Continue reading The Royal Wedding & First Jobs with Michael Brantl →

Matt and Emily enjoy Adagio’s gemini tea, representing both the zodiac sign of when this episode was released and symbolic of the “twins” in this week’s topic, The Shining. They talk about Matt’s theories, the unsettling and disorienting nature of the film, pop culture touchstones, whether the moon landing was faked, ghosts, if the movie … Continue reading The Shining →

Matt and Emily welcome Alex Royston to the podcast as they enjoy Harry & David’s Bing Cherry tea by The Republic of Tea! For her mini-topic this week, Emily brings up her favorite place to shop: Target! They talk about how all Targets have the same layout, what happens when they don’t follow that layout, … Continue reading Target & Queueing with Alex Royston →

Matt and Emily sit down with Alexis Lamper to enjoy some of DavidsTea’s Kenyan Tinderet black tea. They discuss Matt’s infamous AIM Running Man, conspiracy theories, and favorite teas. The mini-topic of the week is campfires, where we learn that Matt is really, really good at making them. Alexis’ guest topic is serial killers where … Continue reading Making Campfires & Serial Killers with Alexis Lamper →

Matt and Emily enjoy some rose petal black tea by The Tao of Tea as they talk music! Emily’s topic of the week is Lorde’s 2017 album, Melodrama. They also find time to talk about seeing Lorde in concert and her debut album, Pure Heroine.

For episode 008, Matt and Emily welcome Andrew Adams to the podcast to share a pot of masala chai tea! The mini-topic of the week is the TV show Gotham and becomes a discussion about Batman more generally. The guest topic of the week—just in time for the playoffs—is professional hockey! Soccer, baseball, basketball, and football all get roped into the discussion as well. As always, the topics can go anywhere!

Matt and Emily welcome Sasha Taran as their guest this week as they enjoy Sasha’s Sweet Tangerine Positive Energy tea by Yogi. They talk about reading and binge-watching television; could they get any two more different topics to discuss? Emily reminds everyone that reading is great! They talk about their favorite books from childhood, Ready … Continue reading Reading & Binge-Watching Television with Sasha Taran →