Dork Matters

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 Sols…

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, m…

Get your dice bag out! We dork out about dungeons and dragons, talk about how we started playing, share our favourite tabletop rpg pods/shows, and roll some characters for a special upcoming episode!…

We’re dorking out about Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon! What does each show do great? Who is the best sailor scout? Why is Tuxedo Mask the worst? This episode is dedicated to Lizzo (she knows what's up)…

Lexi & Ben are joined by fright flick expert Laura O'Connor as they conjure up the most harrowing horror and Halloween films to put a chill in your All Hallows' evening. They also talk ferrets, Retur…

We dork out about our favourite cryptids! We also talk breakfast cereal, almond milk, potty (training?) humour, ghosts, storytelling, colonialism, terrible medieval art, cultural appropriation and cr…

Okay...so there is a lot of burping in this episode. Consider yourself warned - we never promised that we were classy, only that we are dorks and do dork things. What began as an artsy attempt to rem…

Your dorky hosts, Lexi Hunt and Ben Rankel, return to Stardew Valley. This time we're talking about game mods, spatial empathy, cult of the Lamb, Amber Hageman, Blood, Sweat & Pixels, the Stardew fan…

Season 2 of Dork Matters begins September 28, 2022 with Return to Stardork Valley: Take 2 & bonus episode Return to  Stardork Valley: Take 1, The Burpenning!

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It's been one heck of a year. Lexi Hunt and Ben Rankel reminisce about the last 30 episodes of Dork Matters with editor/producer Jess Schmidt in an extra-special, extra-long, anniversary episode. We …

This week we dig deep into the saddest, most morose, most heartbreaking, terrifying and all around scarring flicks from our childhood. We also talk jujubes, cossacks, Garbage Pail Kids, IKEA commerci…

Start your engines! Lexi & Ben welcome guest host and Drag Race expert, Kai to the show! Dork out about soda pop, UK Hun, favourite queens, Drag Race controversies and more! Shante, you stay!

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Warp through the very best holodeck episodes that Star Trek has to offer as Lexi & Ben chat with guest and massive Trekkie Stephanie Gerk. Other topics include Hackers, swearing poorly, Toronto, Neel…

In the Muppet justice system, the Muppets are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups: the podcasters who investigate the crimes, and the other podcasters who prosecute the Muppet o…

Canadian content warning: maple syrup, timbits, toques and nostalgia ahead! We’re talking the best of Canadian TV: The Odyssey, Heartland, The Raccoons, Fred Penner's Place, Road to Avonlea, The Urba…

Let’s dork out about comics! Lexi & Ben share their essential comic reads from monthlies, graphic novels, comic strips, and webcomics: Lynda Barry, Osamu Tezuka, Hergé, Trudy Cooper, Gary Larson, Bil…

Hogwarts, Xavier's, Degrassi, Sunnydale: Lexi & Ben are giving the third degree to a few of the most notable schools from pop culture. We're also talking about sleep deprivation, aging, dog headaches…

Not all that gamers is good. Lexi & Ben dork out about the video games we all love to hate with their first ever guest host: Jordan Lane from the Holy Shit I Have ADHD podcast. We also have a very be…

What's the very best Pixar film? Lexi & Ben are gunna sort it out all while dorking out about history, factoids and tangenitals related to the house that's now owned by the mouse. 

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Author Ryan Estrada joins Lexi and Ben to discuss his experience working on Banned Book Club with his wife, Kim Hyun Sook, about her life and education during South Korea’s Fifth Republic, a military…