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Thinking about starting to listen to the dork forest? Here’s the faves from 2012 (searchable on www.dorkforest.com, ep#’s for your convenience) 

THOUGH we all KNOW… they were ALL great. 

PODCAST Faves from 2011: 

Your votes are in…
Top 13 that you liked! (I went 13… eh)
# 55 Greg Proops – Making Baseball interesting           
# 67 Hardwick/Palascak – Harry Potter                      
# 46 Shrimp Ring (Matt Kudsen/Josh Harness)            
# 37 Karen Kilgariff  - Sandra Bullock                         
# 16 Dana Gould – Planet of the Apes                        
# 48 Aisha Tyler – girl on girl fandom                         
# 24 Jen Kirkman/ Karen Rontowksi – ghosts/UFO      
# 26 Greg/Dave – Reality TV/Music                           
# 5 PFT/Janie Haddad – Secrets/Accessories              
# 49 Dana/James - HOLLYWOOD                               
# 40 April/Vargus – TRIP TO MIDDLE EAST                  
# 41 Schmidt/Palascak - RAGE                                  
# 3 Madigan/Kilmartin – the KENNEDY’S 

My Personal (top 11)
#42 Maile Flanagan/Yuri Lowenthal - Animation
#50 Michelle McNamara – True Crime
#30 Ed Brubaker / Kermet Apio – Comics J
#14 Thrilling Adventure Hour – so many things
Origin Story – #69 Andy, #71 Maria
#73 Rich Sommer – Mad Men and Boardgames
#76 Ed Crasnick – Self Help
#77 Matt Weinhold/Ken Daly – Horror Movies
#82 Chad Daniels/David Huntsberger – just hilarious
#80 Bengt Washburn – Fine art

Most Specific! (top 13)
#51 Andrew Solmssen - IT
#57 Michelle Mikki - PUZZLES
#28 Eric Drysdale - VIEWMASTER
#19 Gold Series Guys - DnD
#58 Bees – uh, BEES
#63 Perfume – and, PERFUME
#22 James Urbaniak/Murray Valeriano – Charles Laughton!
#32 ATLAS – coffee
#36 Pat Francis/Troy Conrad – Autographs
#38 Bob Calhoun – wrestling and fandom
#44 Jim Coughlin – A4 Paper
#70 Jessica Mills /Stephanie Thorpe – Star Trek
#91 Trains!              

Podcast Faves from 2012: 

I have this list… it feels… incomplete. but, if you can’t find a topic or a person you like on these two lists… you are MADE OF STONE

TDF EP#95 – Live with Kevin Eastman (ninja turtles)
TDF EP#97 – Rose Abdoo and John Matta (tiny tiny ART! And The Thing)
TDF EP#99 – Asterios Kokkinos (Pokemon)
TDF EP#100 – PF Wilson – (football and the history of the various leagues) 
TDF EP#103 – Live with Andy Kindler (“indie” comic books)
TDF EP#104 – Merrill Markoe (I feel like we talked dogs mostly) 
TDF EP#110 – Patrick Brady (animation)  
TDF EP#120 – Erin Foley (NY Giants)
TDF EP#121 – Tom Franck (Art)
TDF EP#130 – Lois McMaster Bujold (I dork out AT her. She talks writing)
TDF EP#138 – Michael Everson (coding fonts for obscure languages)