Professional Geek Podcast

Hosts Mark Beers and Blaire Knight-Graves interview Paul Tassi, science fiction author and video game, technology & pop culture journalist for Forbes. Paul has taken his long time passion for all things pop culture and transformed that into a career where he criticizes or praises pop culture content. His work has appeared on IGN, The Daily Dot and The Colbert Report. Paul is also the author of the science fiction Earthborn trilogy, and has a new book coming soon.

In this episode, hosts interview Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Correspondent at The Field Museum & host of the educational YouTube channel “The Brain Scoop”. On her show, Emily brings an infectious enthusiasm as she shares the work that goes behind the scenes at not only The Field Museum, but other museums & science communities around the country. Learn more at www.professionalgeekpodcast.com.

In this episode, we interview Hank Pearl, photographer and owner of Black Pearl Photo. Hank specializes in event photography, album cover photography, and product photography with a focus on all things subculture. His photography skills have been tapped by Red Bull, Cirque du Soleil, Decibel Magazine, Wizard World. But Hank’s passion is for photographing all things weird and what he calls alternatively authentic people: burlesque, LGBTQIA* events and pride festivals, metal concerts and other odd gathering

And we’re back for season 2! We’re putting the finishing touches on our guest lineup for this upcoming season, but we wanted to start the season off with a retrospective on season one and a conversation about our philosophy with an interview with our Executive Producer and Host. In this episode, co-host Mark Beers interviews host Blaire Knight-Graves to discuss the benefit of a single-gender education, Blaire’s professional life and career track, her geeky obsessions with dungeons and dragons, television, and film, and the philosophy behind Professional Geek Podcast: Where the idea came from and why we keep going, as the co-hosts reminisce on their first season together. To learn more about Blaire and our podcast, visit www.professionalgeekpodcast.com

In this special bonus episode of Professional Geek Podcast, Professional Geek Podcast's blog manager Zach Weiss interviews the cast of Cracked's "After Hours" webseries on the con floor of C2E2 2017 at Chicago's McCormick Place. Featured in this episode are Katie Willert, Michael Swaim, Soren Bowie, and Daniel O'Brien. This episode was not recorded in our studio, and as such background noise can be heard in these interviews. For more information, visit www.professionalgeekpodcast.com.