Devo-teas

A quick announcement! Gonna take another break. See you all soon <3

This week is a conversation between eden and their sister-in-law Maile about being a micro-influencer over some rooibos tea. They talk about Maile's experiences, what she likes about it, why she's hoping to grow her audience, and some of her plans to find a niche without getting  too  specific at the cost of potential audience.

We're back! After a recuperative break, eden is back with a new episode, talking with their brother-in-law about fast food franchises and why they love them. The big focus is the reputational recovery that Arby's has been on, and how Wendy's has gone down the toilet, but they venture plenty of other places too.

Hi listeners. I guess this has become a sort of depressing (but also weirdly beautiful?) running theme, but another of my dogs, Loki, passed away recently. So in his honor, here are some sounds of the rain on the porch, alongside a quiet tea session in Loki's memory. If you want, feel free to make yourself a bowl and relax, or meditate on love, loss, and how we move on through our grief. Thanks, a...

It's the finale for season two! Jackson's back to finish telling us tales of Mountain Dew, alongside a very silly experiment: eden decides to steep some dan cong oolong in Mountain Dew for the tea this week. (Spoiler alert: it's not very good!) Plus some other surprises. We'll be back in a few weeks with season three!

Host eden sits down with their friend Jake over some shou pu'er to chat football, or soccer, or whatever you wanna call it (as long as you're not doing that dismissive thing non-sports-people like to do where they call it "sportsball"). They talk world cup, Jake's favorite team, how he got into soccer, and why he's still so captivated by the sport.

Host eden sits down with their friend Claire over some bowls of Anxi Hairy Crab Mao Xie Fujian oolong tea to talk about books: why we read them, how we keep track of what we've read, and Claire's book journal. Other conversational culs-de-sac include dirty sodas, Mormons, Stolen Roller Derby Valor™️, and more.

This week, eden sits down with their friend Dan to talk all about the PBS docuseries American Experience . They talk about why Dan got so interested in it, his historical interests, and go down some other discussionary culs-de-sac as well.

This week, eden sits down with their friend Nicole over some bowls of dan cong oolong to discuss reality television, specifically through the lens of Love Island. They talk about why they like reality tv, what they get out of it, why tv dating shows are so entertaining, and how storytelling still has a place in an unscripted television world.

Host eden sits down with their friend Drew over some bowls of Mojiang golden bud black tea to talk about roller derby: how Drew got into it through his spouse, how he became the announcer for the team, our experiences with sports fandom, and eden tells the story of meeting their father-in-law for the first time.

This week, eden sits down with their friend Jeremy over some bowls of imperial pure bud black tea to talk about DJing: how Jeremy got into it, what kind of flavor he brings to his sets, his gear, DJs he likes, and then they start talking further afield, about house music, neoclassical music, and how we listen to our music.

This week, eden sits down with their friend Nathan over some bowls of sticky rice shou pu'er to talk about wrestling, American cultural production and hegemony, how wrestling as an art form has evolved over the decades, where it sits in the USian milieu, alongside other so-called "low" cultural products like soap operas and comic books.

This week, eden sits down with their friend John over some bowls of rooibos to talk about the creative process: John runs Candle Light Press, an independent press that publishes zines, comics, and books. The two discuss making things, the academy, Lucian of Samosata, creative collaboration, FATE Magazine, and writing as a method to channel one's energies.

This week, eden sits down with their friend Elle to talk about magical girls as a locus for gender thoughts, expressions, and feelings. They talk about Elle getting into Tokyo Mew Mew and Sailor Moon at a young age, how the overt femininity of the magical girl allowed them to think about their own gender and how they wanted to engage with it. eden gushes about how Elle needs to watch Revolutionary...

This week, host eden sits down with their friend John over some bowls of an ancient tea tree black tea to talk about all sorts of things: our coffee orders, our tea habits, the 2025 War of the Worlds movie, how John got into both playing and listening to music, 60s TV like Bonanza and more.

Welcome back to season 2 of Devo-teas! Today host eden sits down with their friend Luna over some bowls of bi luo chun jasmine green tea to talk a lot about video games: how are they made accessible to players, how does tutorialization work, and what attracts us to different game types. Some other fun things that come up are cheat codes (eden remembered after the fact that the money cheat in Starc...

Hi Devo-teas listeners. We're still on a short break between seasons one and two, but in the meantime: my dog Jack passed away last week, and there are few things he liked more than hanging out in the yard and listening to the bird sounds. So here's some bird sounds, recorded in my backyard, on a nice sunny morning last week, alongside the occasional sounds of a few good steeps of tea in Jack's ho...

This week, eden sits down with returning guest Mike to talk more about space and specifically: the Artemis II spaceflight mission, which passed the moon just yesterday. They mostly talk space exploration, what the Artemis project's long term goals are, and why people want to put humans on Mars, but there are the usual digressions and conversational culs-de-sac you've come to expect from an episode...

This week, eden sits down with Justin over some bowls of Nuo Mi Xiang Cha to discuss everyone's favorite fast hedgehog, Sonic. The vibes are loose and the tea is ricey as they discuss video games, Branson, and all sorts of other topics.

This week, eden sits down with Gabi over some bowls of ya shi xiang dan cong oolong for a wide-ranging conversation that in theory was supposed to be about experimental music but really just became a chat about wherever our druthers took us. Wapeach? Party busses to go to NYC? Flip phones? Influencers? All that and more. Pour yourself a cup and let the conversation wash over you.

This week, eden sits down with their friend JD over some bowls of Revenant shou pu'er to talk about death. Mortality, atheism, pet death. Friendship. Reasons to keep living even though things can be hard. It's a heavy one, but it's a really good convo. Trigger warnings for death, pet death, family member death, suicidal ideation.

This week, eden sits down with Kaitlyn & MK over some bowls of Wu Liang Hong Mao Feng black tea to talk about their Year of Glee project: where they've picked out 52 musical artists and are working their way through their discographies, one week at a time. They talk about who they've been most surprised by, who they're excited to listen to in the future, and where this project will go moving f...

This week, eden sits down with Mike over some bowls of wild arbor white tea as they discuss megastructures, the Metabolist movement, Archigramists, arcologies, Paolo Soleri, the paradoxical nature of utopian thinking, and why it's important to find ways to make meaning of our lives and not give into despair in difficult times. 

In this episode, host eden sits down with their friend Anastasia over some bowls of Wu Liang Hong Mao Feng black tea to talk about knitting vs. crochet, how clothes should cost more, whether audiobooks are reading or not, making intergenerational friendships, and Heated Rivalry. 

In this episode, host eden sits down with their friend Caroline over some bowls of Imperial Pure Bud black tea to talk about how the proliferation of conspiracy theory debunking media actually causes growth in the belief in conspiracies, the academic review process, why it's okay for things to be hard sometimes, and how we can try and find good information in the era of misinformation.