Dork Matters

For your ears only: we're dorking out about Bond, James Bond. Who was the best? Who was the worst? Who should be next? We get into all that we love, hate, and love to hate about 007 while dipping in to the best Bond song, colonialism, masculinity, ghost fellatio and more. Diamonds are forever but this podcast comes in at about an hour so there's no time to die.

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• Sean Connery (1962–1967, 1971, 1983)
• George Lazenby (1969)
• Roger Moore (1973–1985)
• Timothy Dalton (1987–1989)
• Pierce Brosnan (1995–2002)
• Daniel Craig (2006–2021)

BONUS CONTENT:

• Barry Nelson (1954)
• David Niven (1967)

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit

Help spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods!

"Mr. Bond! We can do a deal! I'll buy you a delicatessen! In stainless steel!" -Ernst Stavro Blofeld

P.S. Amar Chadha-Patel for the next James Bond

B-b-b bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word! We’re dorking out about birds! Seriously! Shittiest, tastiest, dumbest, best, and most dangerous. We also dork out about ortolan buntings, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Sound of Music and more! This episode is for the birds!

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• Radiolab explains an inexplicable comedy act
• Why Jess' pick for best bird is the flamingo!
• Dodos were not that dumb

BONUS CONTENT:

• B-b-b-b
• B-b-b-b
• Bird is the word is the bird

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit

Help us out by giving Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods!

“Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling." -Matthew Mercer

Episode Notes

Detect magic! Lexi & Ben bring back dungeon daddy deluxe, Jason Mehmel, to talk consent and safety in tabletop RPGs and to run an actual play episode of Dungeons and Dragons with your favourite dorks. Folka, Chark & Mucho are tasked to track down some missing messengers on a magicians mountain but they just may find more than they were looking for. The adventure begins!

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

• Dungeons & Daddies
• Hello From the Magic Tavern
• House of Bob
• Mission to Zyxx

BONUS CONTENT:

• You can find guest host Jason Mehmel at jasonmehmel.com, instagram, and twitter.
• Get your own game started with DND basic rules!

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit

Help us out by giving Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods!

“Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling." -Matthew Mercer

On the first dork of Christmas my true dork gave to me: a holiday dork special! Lexi & Ben run down the best and worst holiday music, food, movies, characters, traditions and alternatives. Happy Solstice!

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

The 12 Dorks of Christmas:

Best:

• Food: Stuffing (Ben), Nuts & Bolts (Lexi)
• Movie: Muppet Family Christmas (Lexi), A Muppet Christmas Carol (Ben)
• Song: I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas by Gayla Peevey (Lexi), Carol of the Bells (Ben)
• Character: Zero from Nightmare Before Christmas (Lexi), Ice-Type Jesus (Ben)
• Tradition: Opening one gift on Christmas Eve (Ben), Christmas morning (Lexi)
• Alternative: Solstice (Lexi & Ben)

Worst:

• Food: Cheap Christmas candy (Lexi), Gingerbread House kits (Ben)
• Movie: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Lexi), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Ben)
• Song: I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas by Gayla Peevey (Ben), I'm Getting Nuttin' For Christmas (Lexi)
• Character: Billy Bob Thornton as Bad Santa (Lexi), Tim Allen as Santa Claus (Ben)
• Tradition: Pictures with mall Santas (Lexi), Getting together with family (Ben)
• Alternative: Sitting at home crying (Ben), Being sick for Christmas (Lexi)

BONUS CONTENT:

Jess' picks:

Best:

• Food: Sticky buns (Christmas Day breakfast since I was a kid)
• Movie: Nightmare Before Christmas
• Song: Christmas Without You by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
• Character: The Grinch
• Tradition: My mom gives everyone really elaborate stockings with little trinkets and snacks and we open them all together - it's v cute
• Alt: Hanukkah (one of my aunts and my cousins are Jewish and I think it's a dope holiday)

Worst:

• Food: chocolate oranges
• Movie: Jingle All the Way (one of the worst movies I've ever seen, period)
• Song: All I Want For Christmas Is You - I can't really describe why but something about this song just is like nails on a chalkboard to me
• Character: Frosty the Snowman (just like so cloying in every interpretation)
• Tradition: My family plays Monopoly on Christmas Day and it's SO LONG AND TERRIBLE
• Alt: Boxing Day

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit

Having fun dorking out with Lexi & Ben? Help us get the word out by giving Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods. We'd appreciate it!

“I'm going to tear off your skin like wrapping paper and deck the halls with your guts!” - Robot Santa

You better watch out! Scare savant Laura O'Conner joins Lexi & Ben yet again to dork out about her favourite ho-ho-horror sub-genre: holiday! We've got slasher Santas, festively frightful folklore, merry mutilations, and more. You better not cry!

FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:

Our holiday-horror reviews:

• Gremlins: recommend
• Santa's Slay: recommend
• Anna and the Apocalypse: recommend
• Krampus: Laura recommends, but I think Lexi and Ben don't???
• Rare Exports: recommend
• Christmas Evil: recommend
• Silent Night, Deadly Night: recommend if you like Christmas Evil
• Nightmare Before Christmas: Not horror, but recommend as a Christmas movie

BONUS CONTENT:

• You can find guest host, Laura O'Connor at @laurajoc and laurao.ca
• The Flop House Podcast
• Six well-known actors who totally got their dongs out in a film (NSFW) (Thanks, Lorna!)
• Why are so many god-awful Christmas movies filmed in Edmonton?
• How Ghost Stories Became a Christmas Tradition in Victorian England (Thanks, Jess!)

SOCIALS:

Here's where you can find us!

• Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagram
• Ben Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade Arts
• Jess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagram
• Dork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and reddit

Having fun dorking out with Lexi & Ben? Help us get the word out by giving Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods. We'd appreciate it!

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