The Dork Forest

My guests were booked separately but have known each other for a while. tells stories and loves and works in television. And loves terrible movies that are so bad they become, somehow, great. He has a great podcast called I talk about the same things again and my guests make me giggle a lot. Enjoy. – 1984 – just mentioned – Yikes Chuck Klosterman on Abba – can’t find it in 7-11 Height Chart – can’t find a picture, now must go to a 7-11 – friend of the show (w Doug Benson EP15) / My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, merch page (CD/T-shirt opportunities) and the donation button: or .The , s are available. Stitcher is no longer available. If you hate the $2 spent on the app, I’ll give you $2 off a CD or T-shirt at a show. Or e me. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY)The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating).

My guests are paper dork, Jim Coughlin and Monique Moreau, fan of different orders of nuns. Yes. Nuns. And Paper. (Twitter feeds @xandrique and @mrjimcoughlin on twitter). Both are comics and Monique is the keyboardist for awesome dorkband™ Ogre Mage. That ™ isn’t real. Enjoy. Notes: I SAY I get the whole A4 thing… but I don’t entirely. Taxidermy at Turkish Restaurant – picture on wallpaper J – it’s a sociology game! Weird. - Now I must learn piano! …… My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, merch page (CD/T-shirt opportunities) and the donation button: or .The , s are available. Stitcher is no longer available. If you hate the $2 spent on the app, I’ll give you $2 off a CD or T-shirt at a show. Or e me. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY)The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating).

Wendy is a marching band/TV dork and Scott loves 80’s music. Neither of them gets to talk much about their topics because there’s a technical problem early on and then we digressed so far off of their topics… and I didn’t get them back. So I will have them back on. I will say, it was fascinating to just listen to them. I hope you enjoy. (uh… he was in the Winds of War. ha@! #dorkashian) Jeff Conaway craziness? Looks like it might have been. – this looks great! And if you come to LA… famous people! Dorking out on the 80’s LA Style! I have no images… there are so many. – it got POLITICAL! This one goes short and I’ll have them back! My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , s are available. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY)The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

My guests are both actors that do a LOT of really cool/dorky voice over work. @MaileFlanagan and @YuriLowenthal (on twitter). We could have talked for-ever. This was fun. I hope you enjoy!! Notes: – Douglas Adams The Shining – commentary? (yes, Garret Brown, the creator of the steadicam, and Stanley Kubrick biographer John Baxter talk it up) (Carl) – Gimore Girls and Bridesmaids, for example (this lineup looks amazing) (random pic) Porny Naruto… look it up yerself. – Yuri STARS in that one. Sigh. – Green Hornet Read, according to Yuri: Read, according to Maile: Read, according to Jackie: Indigo Girls… I have no defense. – the Acker/Blacker duo’s show! (and… TDF EP14!) Oh… we’ll be having them both back. My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , are available for $2. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY)The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

My guests are stand up comic (just did Letterman!) and comic (who has a great podcast @the40yearoldboy). It’s easily the fastest hour fifteen ever! Mike loves chaos and comics (pre 1990) and Michael gets to talk somewhere near the end (cuz I talk a lot about chaos too) about Harry Potter and it’s awesome. I push again. Enjoy! Notes: Bowie on stock market – can’t find this. founded by Phone cam of Mike? Or Cheerleader? – btw IMO Guy not “within his rights” reads the British Harry Potter (#2) – was on - Dec 5th 2008 – Michael Palascak Mike Schmidt is at MELTDOWN’S cool LA show: My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app for the are available. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY)The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

My guests were my traveling companions for the last couple weeks in Africa and the Middle East. was the author of this tour and then got hurt and had to fly home before the end of the tour. So we're debriefing him a bit... and, not on this episode, our other traveling companion, kept on. Because, in the military, it's "no one left behind." In comedy, it's "sure. We’ll go on." and then, belatedly, "the show must go on." Alycia will have rebuttal time when I’m in NY or figure out to record via Skype! Disclaimer… I express opinions about other people’s standup comedy and, as we know… all comedy is awesome and everyone’s journey is fantastic. But podcasts are people occassionally saying things they regret. When it was live there was all kinds of that... it seems cheating to edit it out. So, welcome to a less attractive part of my brain. I just love some things that were said OFF stage that I wish, and I get to wish, would be said ON stage. Thanks for listening. Take care of each other out there, Jackie Notes: Hotel There is video of Vargus… uh… that’s up to him to post. – this MIGHT be the show April speaks of My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app for the are available. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY)The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

It’s another Dork Expedition out and about. We meet dorks in their natural habitat! works at and her mom (Janet Winter) owns . We wander. I didn’t edit this AT ALL before going to the Middle East. My use of language in this episode is randomly inaccurate. Fantastic. I just let Pat sound fix this so it’s more meander-y than I might have let it be if I edited. I hope you enjoy it. I had a blast. At Image it’s chatty with a lot of us talking … and I have a hard time leaving and it digresses into lunch talk. Then we go to the toy store and talk about toys. At length. At the end of the interview we find out that Janet designs costumes and then it’s back to CONS… more convention talk. Obviously... sitting down with Branwyn's mom, in the future, to get some dork history, is in order. Notes: (video of a baby doing this) We lunch in Berkley at a great restaurant: – Don sells dice. (actually a chain of motels) . (Drew Oliver is the owner & I bought friends syphilis and penicillin). Janet Winter’s costume books - and And… it ends abruptly. There’s gonna be a learning curve on these expeditions. Thanks for listening! Take care out there. Jackie My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app for the are available. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY)The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

I’m in the dining room of Convention dork and his lovely wife , who used to write a LOT of Fan Fiction… based on characters that Russell Crowe played. I love it when I pretend to know things. There was so much we didn’t get to… got to have them back! Notes: – Henry Winkler Toronto Dome: Rogers Centre Fan Fiction – the link from Rosie is just a R.C. FF site – movie – the Russell Crowe fanfic board! I can’t find the LDS writer’s program. – and it gets creepy. … National Association of Music Merchants He must come back on and tell me about more conventions! Bob suggests Rosie is reading: And both of them … App Bonus Note: I think I use the word “extrapolated” wrong… you can get the app and listen to the two minutes that IS bonus…and tell me. Sigh. My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app for the are available. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY)The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

My guest today is Stand Up Comic, Musician and Writer… check out the links… It turns out she is great imaginary friends with Sandy Bullock. She’s hilarious and fascinating. I try to out talk her. She held her own, so it’s a good one. Notes: – I love the “hot” friend who has to act dumb but is smart. – Uh… The Hills. Okay. Headshots – what I MEANT was hard copies of headshots. I have , of course. I still can’t remember the NBA player I’m thinking of who gambles. – no picture!

Today I talk with and about autographs, bands, religion and serendipity. It’s a good one. I know I say that every time. This even ran long! Notes: – VH1 – – weirdly Eric Johnson who played Flash, was on Smallville! – PS3 or Wii will also work with Netflix. – not enough scientific information in this… Scientology – I’d link it but I feel like there’d be a knock on my door. I bring up again and Jon Hamm came up again. Troy Conrad recommends Pat Francis recommends . I’m reading – it’s pretty great. Seriously… we could have kept going for another hour. I gotta have both of them back! Thanks for listening. Take care of each other out there, Jackie App Bonus Note: I stopped recording and Andy went and pounded on the door. Scared me a bit. Oh, the hilarity of men. He is, if you don't know, outstanding in his field. My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app for the are available. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY)The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

My guests today are, voice actor and cartoon dork , and local guy and VH1 talking head show dork, . We bonded on film, the joy of diners and then… we talk about comedy. Again. And I enjoyed it. Notes: – Bradley Whitford I said “percentage of the watchers” fantastic. English is my first Language. - where is she now? Tony Dimond’s FIRST great invention? I forgot to ask during the show and the real answer is, according to Tony is… Direct Deposit! – owned by the Indigo Girls Tony recommends … a website that gathers information Mike recommends , and soon: Thanks for listening. Take care of each other out there, Jackie My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app for the are available. Credits: Audio leveling by (part of a great production company in NY).The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

My guests are (who plays Jeff Barnes on Chuck) and my friend , standup comic and fan of mini-donkeys from Wisconsin. This is a morning edition of The Dork Forest; we’re all punchy because we’re comics, we weed off a LOT. Good times. Notes: – I wasn’t certain this was real. My PARENTS told me about them. - found a recipe, your call. – who knows if we get back to this. – I can’t find information about herding donkeys – inventions that came true! – sadly closed! Fascinating tale of chapstick, vaseline and carmex – Mary Mack recommended DVD. – Scott Krinsky recommended book. – Head, Heart, Hands, Health Thanks for listening. Take care of each other out there, Jackie My website has everything. A player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button. The , , and a very basic FREE app for the are available. The apps you buy have “extra content.” Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

Back in my living room with my guests, (Warhammer gaming dork… got to have him back to talk it up some more) and , who loves her a “nutritional mineral.” Notes: – I knew Joss Whedon was a musician, that’s who knew. – according to THIS website. – this book is coming up again next episode. Sigh. – again I bring this book up. – Julia Child’s – wiki link… so take it with a grain. – this link is how to make yer own J - again. Hmm. – is in the new show The Borgias Rupert Holmes - Richard Marx – Michael Bolton – – it’s REAL? Watch with... and We go to a “what to do with people in prison” place. With no talk of rehab. It’s all punishment. Even from me. I regret this patch. But… podcast, little or no editing… so you get warts and all. Sigh. Thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app for the are available. Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady The Music is by . My Website was redone by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

This is a walking dork expedition to in Seattle with Craig Holt. knew I would be fascinated. And so it came to pass. It might be loud, but it’s awesome. Because of the guerilla nature of the taping, there is background noise and I would love your feedback. Do you like the dork expedition idea… it should be able to be done better with other equipment (Patrick had suggestions). Notes: (Oh… if it’s good to know, I want to know it) – 1615? (SCAA not SCAJ) – and its retreat I was going to end it there… and then… we just kept talking J – where we had lunch. I’ve deleted us ordering. It was excellent. - Silverlake coffee shop Craig likes. (there are some in other cities too). - West Hollywood coffee shop and restaurant. Fancy. Nice. David Crowe knows about Nuclear power! . Feel free to play the game where you try to hear the waitress’s political opinion in the background. – too much info and, certainly not all of it Okay – seriously, I could have kept recording Craig and Dave and, probably, eating, forever. But we’re at an hour. I’ll have him on again, because he’s fascinating. And not just about coffee. I sense untapped depths. I’d also like to have David talk about his copious number of hobbies and stand up. Thanks for listening to this expedition out into the world to find Dorks in their natural habitats. Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care of each other out there, Jackie My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app forthe are available. Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady The music is by . My Website is designed by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating)

This is the second LIVE Dork Forest taped in Seattle, before a live audience. I talked with and . Peter’s a comic book author and we find out 40 minutes in that Peter still goes to Myspace. I don’t take advantage of the topic. This episode was a learn-to-do-live-TDF. Notes: – given to me in 1986, framed in my bathroom J Can You Imagine?– to hear clips and buy on . fan group. Rachel & Michelle, Sue Merrill & not on the show but in the band – I meant boys. – Webcomic that Peter really likes that was mentioned earlier. Dork Forest Extras App Note: My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app forthe are available. Credits: Live show put up by and Photos by Audio leveling by Patrick Brady The Music is by . My Website was redone by : who has his OWN (road comic interviews… fascinating) Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie

This is the first LIVE Dork Forest. In Seattle, before a live audience, I talked with and . Ed is a multi-Eisner Award winning writer of many of the comic books I read. I dork out about HIM a bit and we talked movies and comics and politics and television. It was awesome. Kermet is a great comic (winner of the Great American Comedy Festival) and you should go watch him do it a lot. Notes: Willow-I’m kidding. I like Willow and have issues with LOTR but, I’m kidding All crushes on drawings are that “asexual crushes” “weird warmness.” Same with my adolescent crushes on Bam Bam and Racer X. Archies – Betty and Veronica – actual Seattle Superhero Portland – I was told by a Seattle comic, , that “Seattle has the same signs, they are just printed and laminated” – Sarah Vowell – I believe this is the show he speaks of J – David Sedaris - program to turn off the internet Robbie Benson – – North Korean/Chinese – the terrible movie! – the MOVIE!! My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or .The , , and a very basic free app forthe are available. Credits: Live show put up by and Photos by Audio leveling by Patrick Brady The Music is by . My Website was redone by : who has his OWN (all road comic interviews… fascinating) Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie

My guests are (loves deep breathing and all that that implies from her San Francisco upbringing) and (language and travel dork!). I talk a lot and VERY fast on this show. We bonded nicely though and it’s a fun one. Notes: Swath - Definition and a tiny history. It seems to be agriculture related to clearing a space. – Pismo Beach – (there used to be a lot of clams, then they were “harvested” too much. Awww, I judge.) – comic, writer and . - comic – comic – outside Bangkok Listen… note to SELF – this is A website, not THE website – 1997 record holder for circular breathing. Again with the Rolfing. And Heller Work. – comic Japanese Internment Camps in USA during WW2 – My website has a player, standup schedule and videos, the merch (CD/T-shirt opportunities), the donation button: or . Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady The Music is by . My Website was redone by : who has his OWN (all road comic interviews… fascinating) Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie

writes for and I wasn’t too dorky about that. But I wanted to be. Instead I let him dork out about his freaking love of 3D and the Viewmaster and how it’s all come together for a live show that he does (here in LA March 16, 2011 downtown, details on the website). You can also just get a viewmaster and the “reels” on that website to enjoy in your own home. I learned stuff about cameras and the history of the Viewmaster. It’s a great ep. Notes: (wiki, origin story) – Fisher Price What Eric enjoyed recently that might interest you: And I talk about this book I enjoy a great deal: – Stephen Mitchell My show schedules, videos of my stand up, Ranger T-shirt and the donation button are all on the websites: and and probably the facebook fan page. Do you live in Seattle? Stand Up Show now available (March 28th) WITH Rylee NewtonJ! Also… LIVE taping of (March 27th, 5pm) with fun guests. Heh. Fun. Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady The Music is by . My Website was redone by : who has his OWN (all road comic interviews… fascinating) Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie

My guests are Gariana Abeyta, projectionist at the ArcLight Cinema and the Silent Movie Theatre, (@garianaabeyta on twitter) and twitter monster Alison Agosti (@Just_Alison on twitter). This show is a little GRAPHIC. It is not Gariana’s fault. It’s Alison’s fault. And… my own. This is an admittedly weird ep. I kinda love it. Not even kinda. BTW: THE DOORBELL RANG… at 5:35ish… you hear the doorbell ring, I say, “I never do this… I’m going to PAUSE the show” and then… I DIDN’T hit record again and it’s 20 minutes later when I realize. THEN... BONUS: you hear Patrick Brady with the explanation! He's GREAT. Let's all admit it. Also, In this ep, I prove again that I still don’t know who anyone is. – this is “the man’s” version (or you could see ) – sheriff (there’s “”) Yeah. It does look fantastic. – streaming on Netflix Placenta Hippie eating thing – I thought about linking it … you can Google if you want cuz it’s too graphic already. 15 min of taping… I pour coffee loud, Gariana stirs too loud. M. Night Shyamalan – is from India has control over his bodily functions. – watch Xbox – – Alison’s old podcast that you can listen to lots! My show schedules, videos of my stand up, Ranger T-shirts, the CD page, the donation button are all on the websites: and and probably the facebook fan page. Do you live in Seattle? Stand Up Show now available (March 28th) WITH Rylee NewtonJ! Also… LIVE taping of (March 27th, 5pm). Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady (and fantastic "interlude" announcement)The Music is by . My Website was redone by : who has his OWN (all road comic interviews… fascinating) Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie

and are my guests. They are really funny comics and have their own podcast . This is, if I may say, another great episode MOSTLY about stand up. We all, really, say TOO much. Also, this was taped March 3rd… perhaps I am the only person who didn’t know who Snooki was or is and what #winning meant… but I feel somehow stronger because of it. I was reminded how to grow brussel sprouts this week. Would tiger blood be a good fertilizer? Greg is at , WA this weekend Dave is at Comedy Club in San Francisco this weekend Do you live in Seattle? Stand Up Show now available for my March 28th show w Rylee NewtonJ! Also… LIVE taping of (March 27th, 5pm) Ticket info Coming! Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady The Music is by . My Website was redone by : who has his OWN (all road comic interviews… fascinating) Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie Notes: – book Greg co-wrote that “sucked him into the self-help world” – Dave’s fave Soccer team. – the adorable thing they refer to their OWN podcast as… – the joke was actually *8* things I ignore… Van Halen – the story of when Greg Met Him (yes I will have him on again to tell that story) – Yeah… I didn’t know. – Patton’s movie – Matt Fraction (I meant “an AA meeting” Mini Indi 500 – actually called Hi Todd! I think you’ll still listen and I love that I weeded off… but was still chatty. Sigh. – Dave Anthony recommended fun show! – Stephenie Meyer (Dave and Greg lose their minds about vampires) – San Fran venue – I WILL do a road version of TDF there next year (Stan Hansen is not real) – not the rescue bit (can’t find the right ep of THIS show – but this is a great set too!) – Greg doesn’t mean You (“dog people”) LA Jobs… my favorite bit that doesn’t work. The history of Waiting tables… Uh… I can’t find anything. gets paid to tweet? too? – Dave book recommended! – – Greg’s book recommendations – recommended music from Greg My show schedules, videos of my stand up, merch page and the donation button are all on the websites: and and probably the facebook fan page.

and are my guests and they are in a BAND! A dorky dorky band called . The rest of the band will be on another day – but they are all comics and sketch actors. We covered a LOT of ground. Lots o' notes. – New D&D approved adventure RISK-, , – boardgames – website and podcast – D&D monster – Rankin/Bass' "Return of the King" – – Grr Who! – he kept saying Mel… but this is Musical DirectorFortress of Safety is not on FB but is on their fb page – Travis Randall – tiny child music program. – self diagnosed Tom problem. – Tom went to college here I feel the bands they mentioned were EARLY 70’s… but it’s all cool. – Atlanta Hip Hop Group – comic, actor and friend of the show – I went to college here - Naruto - Funhouse – I REALLY do love these books. – Confederate General and founder of KKK – Civil War Historian – WW2 “Alien” Battle in Los Angeles (btw, now a – the trailer… yikes! Comic BooksBatgirl, Birds of Prey, Secret Six – I think I just like - #1 JUST came out – you can get in on the groundfloor of this :) Stand up comics! PhoneAppBonus Note: Seattle: LIVE taping of (March 27th, 5pm) and (March 28th) WITH Rylee NewtonJ Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the Songs are by . My Website was redone by : with is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links to his good work. My show schedules, videos of my stand up and the donation button are all there as well. Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie

My guests this episode are (stand up comic and host of ) and (writer, stand up comic and regular on the Chelsea Handler show). Get this – they both love ghosts and UFO’s and Tarot cards and Karen does a real Tarot card reading. This is a great episode. Note: For those of you who believed Mazes & Monsters, Tarot card reading is also non-threatening. Remember, everything on TDF is about choice and support. Safe space people. I nominated my collaboration with Greg Franklin for an online comedy award... feel free to nominate it as well (can't hurt,right?): this if you wish at – when I looked for this app I found this in a comment section (about something else), “I downloaded the Facebook and Visual Voicemail apps to my Droid and then uninstalled them. However, the icons are still on my phone” duh duh dum! So beware! (I’m kidding) – book that Karen refers to by two different titles but this was the correct one… she says it’s great! and , MA – I can’t find a but… perhaps @jenkirkman on twitter can find it J Vegas UFO – I can’t find a reference to the Art Bell story. Grr. – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (this is a great read. Quick, funny, smart… great book). Tarot Deck – … take with grain o’ salt. – Karen recommends this place – show Jen enjoys. – Jen Kirkman suggested book to read - Book that Karen recommended Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the Songs are by . My Website was redone by : with is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links to his good work. My show schedules, videos of my stand up and the donation button are all there as well. Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie

My guest this episode is , host and creator of the fantastic podcast . He's such a fascinating comic that it took most of the show for me to get to the fact that he’s a Fantasy Baseball dork. Fantasy Baseball seems to be that you get a list of players and you WATCH their stats for the season. Fascinating! You will note how much I like Jimmy because I won’t let him talk. I beginning to see it as a symptom of something. I sound like I still have some sort of head infection, don’t I? Boo. I had an ear infection and it’s moved to my sinuses (as my acupuncturist said - English not her first language – though MUCH better than my Cantonese, “behind your face is one piece of meat.” i.e. the infection has spread). My Ear, Nose and Throat doctor tested my hearing and I’ve lost 30% in my right ear. But he doesn’t know what to do about it. His recommendation? That I send a video to SNL to audition for them. i.e. I need a new ENT guy. Topics covered: Morning Radio: , (Austin, TX), , (Detroit), , Musicals: , , , Television and Movies: , – MUSIC! …of a sort. The video for Hot Mess feels very 1983. – Jimmy: not political, but does have an opinion.(Website proves our point). Jon Krakauer - , . (Pardo’s friend and great comic) – writer, comic, married to Jimmy. – Yeah… I have to have him back on to talk about this!! – my joke animated by Greg Franklin – full disclosure: Andy designed some of the levels of this game! – baseball dork, actor and really funny comic. Jimmy’s website and links to his schedule and merch at the top of the page I like that we think we’re done at 59min and then… we go for another 9 minutes… Because I like Jimmy Pardo. I hope you do too. Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the Songs are by . My Website was redone by : with is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links to his good work. My show schedules, videos of my stand up and the donation button are all there as well. Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie

My guests this episode are , (follow on twitter @jamesurbaniak) actor and the voice of Dr. Venture on and comedian and comedy writer (follow on twitter @murrayv). We talked the heck out of old Hollywood and acting. Animation and children’s music were lightly touched upon but the works of Charles Laughton were full on dorked out upon to the point that I’ve added some movies to my Netflix Queue. (Ruggles of Red Gap has been added, a fitting sequel to my . Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the Songs are by . My Website was redone by : with is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links to his good work. My show schedules, videos of my stand up and the donation button are all there. Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening. Take care out there! Jackie

New York comics Rob Stern (twitter @actionstern) and stop in to talk about their obsessions with Action Figures, Video Games, Dinosaurs and Yoga. And Abigoliah’s Mom let her change her name when she was about 13. How many of us can say THAT? They have a podcast called that I am going to be on at some point and, on that, they talk about stand up comedy – a LOT. Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the Songs are by . My Website was redone by : with is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links to his good work. My show schedules, videos of my stand up and the donation button are all there. Thanks for the orders and the donations this week and, as always, thanks for listening and take care out there! Jackie

Two stand-up comics stop by and we talk it out. Dinosaurs, Pro-Wrestling, Zombies, and comics… and are very nice and super dorky. s - iPhone game demonstration – SNES (at about 3:11) – awesome comic – dirty comic Michael May – - their friend’s web comic J is the dork thing… the other thing is … you can look that up. Also, if you know – DON’T tell me. Thank you. Those books again Alt Wrestling Snob - (We can have an Ultimate Fighter Dork on later) – a great comic book written by Stephen King’s son. Who hates being referred to as “Stephen King’s son.” – (Joe Starr’s last read?) (a book of short stories that one of my stories is in – I read it on the audio version). Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the Songs are by . My Website was redone by : with is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links and show schedules, videos of my stand up and the donation button. Thanks for listening and take care out there! Jackie

Andrew Deutsch and David Nett are this week's guests. They've made a dorky dorky show for the internet called GOLD - an RPG web series. . We talked Dungeons and Dragons and Board Games and, in the end... found that another episode of TDF is going to be needed to talk about comic books and FONTS... the exciting world of Kerning MUST be examined! Reccomended reading from David, George RR Martin - and listening from Andrew, The Sountrack to How to Train Your Dragon. Which I cannot find for sale. Awww.... ask Andrew on Twitter (@rollandglass) and then for fun... @davidnett is on twitter too! Fun! I'm in this week at ACME Comedy Company Downtown if you're around. Come say hi. Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the Songs are by . My Website was redone by : with is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links and show schedules, videos of my stand up and the donation button. Thanks for listening out there, take care out there! Jackie

My guest is – Emmy award winning writer, comic, actor and fellow Wisconsinite. He is a Midwestern History fan and Band/Orchestra dork. I’m a Jeff Cesario dork. It was great. Novel Recommended by Jeff: Series again recommended by me: Brave New Dad – (Waylon's not in this but he's working that puppet) Jeff Cesario’s Funny or Die show: DVD Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the Songs are by . My Website was redone by : with is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links and show schedules, videos of my stand up and the donation button. I’m in the first week of February – check the for deets. Take care out there!

My guests are ladies... so they talk soft like ladies... not a lot even Patrick Brady could do about it without making it all sound weird. So, it soft -and ladylike. That’s what’s up. They are both on facebook and twitter find them and follow: @WendyLiebman and @JudeTheUnsure. It's a girly episode... I hope you enjoy a lovely hour with two funny, smart lady-friend dorks. Also, I lose my card when I don't know who is... Topics I regret not finding out more about FANCY YARN from Jude. (well, now I know the song) (adorable!) (go read Eric Powell for sure though) Hah! Oprah! What a crazy girl show! Let’s do this! Ricky Gervais – and we don’t end up talking about it (I knew who HE was ;) Previous Lives… I like that it took an hour to get to this… because it's crazy. Correction: UM… it was NOT the it was the train. The train. And now I can’t find a link for which train. Sigh. I've been saying subway for months. It was a train. More Kashian on the web: Podcasts: , (ep 2), (be up soon) Standup out and about - first week of FEB: ACME Comedy Company Minneapolis, MN (details on my calendar ) Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the Songs are by . My Website was redone by : with is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links and show schedules, videos of my stand up and a donation button. Knock yourselves out.

It’s one on one dork dialog this episode. (follow him on twitter @danajgould ) is a great , and one of the first comics I knew who committed to what I call, at this writing, dorkiness, in his act. His material is always personal and family related but it also has always gone to his favorite films and games. His love of Science Fiction and Horror has a nice sense of depth in his act, and when you talk to him. This is a great episode. Enjoy! show Dana and Blaine Capatch crack wise on regularly. Planet of the Apes Statues - , Dana Gould recommended watching and reading: – BBC One – I can’t find it on BBC America – BBC One by the same guy, also not currently airing… but abound from Netflix in both cases. HBO Upcoming, he recommends: And… when I pressed him for old Dracula movies: Magazine It’s a new year – feel free to donate if you haven’t. And… take care of each other out there. For crying out loud. Jackie Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady!Music by ! My Website is and is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links and show schedules, videos of my stand up and a donation button. Knock yourselves out.

For the first time I think I’m out chatted. owns his dorkdom with a dignity that I truly admire and is a fascinating man in search of his muse. Together their enjoyment of the minutia of life, from twitter to game shows, defines what I really think of when I think of dorkdoms. This episode is cussy – just so you know. Vagaries discussed (new Muppet Movie Eddie is in. And I knew Amy Adams was once I saw her picture). (A great TV show that was cancelled) (I’m sure it’s important-I can’t figure an average. Mostly b/c I can’t care). (SNL and Woody Allen producer) (Tibetan Buddhism Teacher) (Kevin Pollack Hosted new game show) (One Night in Bangkok) (theater in Glendale) (I love what she says after 5:00) (Netflix Streaming) (4th paragraph on this link has the car crushing story) Books recommended Eddie – Chris Hedges Hollywood Writers from 1950-1985 (find Eddie on twitter and ask him which of a million versions of this title) Doug Jackie Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady!Music by My Website is and is an offshoot of it and they both have players and links and show schedules, videos of my stand up and a donation button. Knock yourselves out.

twitter: and twitter: , creators of are on the show this week and, they are serious media dorks. They have lists and lists of movies and books and comic books and music in their heads. We could have kept going for another hour. And again, I’m a dork FOR the guests… so much so that we talked about LAST episode, so I’m still dorking out to Marcia Wallace. Regarding audio: I didn't check the levels right - and Pat Brady (not Grady - there's a fascinating tale of ..zzzzz) did amazin work - so hopefully all things can be heard. Here is the longest list of notes/links to the many things we touched on: – I’m actually ON a current episode. Comics – Bendis arc… – (I mentioned they loved Ultimates and Andy handed me 40 comics to read) Ben Blacker’s Top Three Movie Comedies (not on Ben Acker’s List) Favorite Christmas Movies More Media from Ben Blacker Ben Acker Top Three Movie Comedies Fave podcast besides Marc Maron’s - Fave Webcomics: Kyle Baker Artist/Author Talk: – did the art, but great Fiction I can’t find the Model Airplane Dork Forest EP from the … dang… can’t find it. If YOU find it – email me: And in the last five minutes we start a NEW topic that needs to last a half hour – I will have them back! They are great! If you can’t find something to read, watch or stare at after this list (which is not complete), I’m exhausted and can’t help you. You are loved and thanks for listening… Happy New Year! Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady!Music by

Yeah - that - from Bob Newhart and Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons and the wacky maid on That's My Bush! - so cool. So I dork out on her a bit until we both get excited about Mr. - comic, storyteller, musician and all around hard-working good guy. We discuss the nature of trying that edge of comedy and how it doesn't always work - so beware, bad words are said. Know that they were attempts at comedy and sometimes, to get to art, you go through obnoxious, not funny things. You'll get over it. NOTES: (the reason King Edward VIII abdicated the British throne in the 1930's) came up because we were going to discuss - which Marcia really liked but we didn't get into it. (well, I looked him up and I know NOW - but this link is Wiki, I'll get a second source for my "paper") did and he's incredible. I think I'll buy an album. See? I can be taught. - "greenies" and the link is NO ONE I KNOW but an incredible dialog about taking this drug. Good grief. - Trailer. heh... found it. - autobiography by Marcia Wallace. - the show on Showtime that Gary is on and here is the book that his monthly show is based on: - follow him on twitter to get dates when he's doing sets. Because he's great. - Marcia Wallace plays the mother-in-law in this Soprano/Vampire spoof web series. Watch it! - the chorus is quite painful. Have a great week folks - more dorkdom coming, xo, Jackie iPhone and Android apps for sale and a free app (without extra content is available for iPhone, Android, Palm and Blackberry from Sticher - links on my website. My website just got redone by if you're looking for good work to be done for you. And the websites are: and (that Donation button is there if you'd like to help out or you could buy some and get stuff and support the show. You are swell in ANY case). Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady!Music by DorkDorkDork by Mike Upchurch

A LOT of whispering. This week’s Dork Forest has a lot of whispering. Hopefully Patrick can make it not matter in the fix. Me, and are also - ill prepared. Merry busiest season of the year. We do find out Mike is a travel dork, and we didn’t get into it ENOUGH for my tastes. He’ll be back. And Mary Lynn updated her racecar story from the last episode she was on, enjoys her dogs and some guilty pleasures in unathorized autobiography. And, there is plenty of me dorking out about many things. Enjoy. Blackberry inventor - Mike Lazaridis Russell Brand – Linda Barry - Malcolm Gladwell – – I’m sure there’s a better version – minute 6:50 to 7:50 video Mary Lynn did which may or may not be safe for work. Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady!Music by

Episode 11 and talked a lot about games. Brian has a one-act play about World of Warcraft that you can see this weekend, and then we all recommend what board games are great gifts! Obviously, shoppers, my website has gifts. For those who don’t have a Ranger of the Dork Forest t-shirt or either of my CD’s. Notes: (friend of the show). More info than you ever thought you’d get. Brian's Tabletop RPG suggestion: Graphic Novel suggestion: Board game suggestion: Pauls’ board game suggestion: Jackie's board game suggestions: , Happy Merry and be good to each other out there. Credits:Intro and Outro Music by Audio leveling by Patrick Brady

Episode 10 and talk about words and reading and writing. We find out that Steve’s true dorkdom is murder sites here in Los Angeles. I tell some more of the same stories and neither of us let Aparna talk enough. Gotta get her back on. We never get to hear about one of Steve’s favorite books But we learn, again, that I know less than nothing about music. It’s a good one. Tune the heck in! Credits:Intro and Outro Music by Audio leveling by ...Patrick Brady

TDF Ep 9 – the band… Boy do I NOT know about Heavy Metal. These guys do, though. I had the band Beatallica () in my living room. They are a Beatles/Metallica live mash up band. Live – they play all the music, the lead singer sounds JUST like the lead singer of Metallica and they have taken their dorkdom to success all over the country and in Europe. They just played LA. They are really gifted musicians and… I used to babysit the lead singer’s little sister. So, I knew him when he was just a foot soldier in the Kiss Army. They are all from Milwaukee, as am I, and we digress on that for a while. I try to keep up and, as usual, when the dorkdom is music, it’s best when I just leave them to it. I learned a lot. I hope you do too. Check out their website, their live shows are amazing and I will check out their suggestions. These ones fascinated me: Drain STH, The Sword, Blind Gaurdian, Voivad. And we created a suggested starter short playlist: Körgull the Exterminator by Voivod, Reign in Blood by Slayer, The Prisoner by Iron Maiden, and Warp Riders by The Sword. The has extra content if you have that app. Thanks so much for the new donations I received this week! I’m at the in Bloomington, Indiana this week. Come on down if you live near there. And on Bob and Tom on Thursday - check the tour page on my for specifics. Take care out there. Jackie - If you wanna see a sample of my comedy... is fun. Credits: as per usual… thanks to , who did the intro and outro music and Patrick Brady, friend of comedy, who fixes the audio.

I talked with and about food, self improvement and more food. Adam is so specifically a food dork I forget he loves comics and graphic novels. Gotta get him back on to talk of those things. But he had a great, simple butternut squash soup recipe so I got distracted :) And I gave him a couple squash from the garden in return. Stirling took a big handful of Kale... he didn't tell me how he's going to prepare them. Adam has his current show on Food Network - Kid in a Candy Store and Will Work For Food is in rerunning rotation. Stirling has had a wide and varied obsessive life and it took me most of the show to pinpoint that he loves him some self help body and mind work. We spoke of the spoon treatment to his back - - and he sent me a picture of his back but it looks pretty bad... why don't you just Google it. Adam and I were disturbed. YET... intrigued. That's what LA will do to you. And the Dork Forest... you end up intrigued about "body treatments." Then it was CRAZY... Stirling worked on some Tony Robbins seminars and how you can use your powers for good or evil. I got creeped out and made Adam tell me about the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup factory. The finally has extra content. Me telling Andy about the show, essentially and me trying to explain the difference and sameness of the Beer Koozie, Beer Cozy, Cozies, Cozie and Coozy. Tell me how you like it if you have the app! Thanks for tuning in! I'm in Minnesota this week and Indiana next week - check the tour page on my website for specifics. Take care out there. Jackie

Episode 7 Beth Schumann is one of the managers at – a comedy club I played at last week – and she likes Shakespeare… a lot. She studied for a masters in it and it all began with… featured (did the middle spot). MC (opening) spot was played by (who has a really nice website. These kids!) Mark loves him some rafting. I keep trying to insist it’s because of Huck Finn. It is not. Fun was had!! Listen up! Note about minute 12: hi… I say, by name, the three “super-fans” (a word that I'm sure is not real) and I edited their full names out of the podcast with my shitty shitty editing skills. I thought they didn't need their full names revealed. I thanked them a lot of course. For the record, three people donated over $100, four donated $20-25, and one donated $50. It paid for the equipment – but not the website. SO… if you wanna donate – I need about $200/yr for website. And. Sure. If you donate $100 I’ll send a and both CDs as a “gift.” That you paid for, as well as paying for/towards the podcast. Hit the donate button and write me a note and I’ll ask you want you want - in any case, you are loved and thanks. jkNotes in no particular order: were invented. . . might have been based on Kipling – third poem down – but LOOSELY. Beth’s favorite , because, as she says, “which I like to call 'you may be ugly but I love you anyway'” There IS an that you buy and gets you all the shows and, soon, EXTRA content.(like andy’s suggestion that you read/see Hamlet BEFORE you see R&G are Dead). If you have a Droid/Palm/Blackberry – you can get the latest ep at .

Today’s guests have “other” dorkdoms and we FINALLY get to it at the end of the show – but we mostly discussed how much we like standup comedy. Because what the three of us really are, are comedy dorks. So, it’s another great show about how much we love standup comedy. J and on movies, motivational speakers, the entertainment industry, stand up comedy and, eventually… politics (Jimmy Dore’s true dorkdom). – links to his two podcasts, his facebook/twitter/comedy schedule and all of it on his and has a new CD; “The Comedy Stylings of Matt Knudsen” is available on iTunes and Amazon. Notes: 1. 2. Seinfeld started in 1990 3. Pat McCurdy – Chicago musician - 4. I actually did want to be a Park Ranger in high school. I guess I’ve embarrassed myself with aspirations from childhood. I don’t even know how to camp. 5. 6. Bill Maher’s fiction about standup: (I’m still not reading it) 7. Jimmy’s thrill of Matt’s regular gig at the Playboy Mansion 8. Del Close - Sound note: I don't think the sound taped through the board, it came right out of the ZOOM. Live and learn. Also, I'm building character: Listening to my own podcast is ... a learning experience. I think that Chicago comics like Jimmy Dore bring my Wisconsin/Chicago accent back with a vengence. It ends and then it doesn’t… much like leaving a party. Keeping with the immediacies of being in the room of a podcast: there is a lot of chewing going and my phone rang twice during the show and I weeded off for more coffee. It felt wrong to edit it out. So, feel free to email me if you’d like more of something. Take care out there, Jackie Credits: did the intro and outro music (that Mexican Hat Dance just makes me happy to listen to, so I'm closing the show with it for now). Patrick Brady, friend of comedy and TDF knows how to use audio software and fixed the audio. I'm hoping to learn how to do it myself, but he said he LIKES doing it. So thank you and FUN!

is a great stand up comic and actor and OBVIOUS accessory dork. As long as I've known him, he has always been a snappy dresser. I thought his wife was a "magic dork" but we will find out - because, Paul's wife, an actress and lovely human being herself, (Tompkins for family purposes) has a love of the unknown perk. A perk you didn't know was there... hence her love of LA's and other restaurants and bars and venues that are little known gems out in the world. We talk of these things... and fashion. It's a good one - enjoy. Credits: did the intro and outro music (that Mexican Hat Dance just makes me happy to listen to, so I'm closing the show with it for now). Patrick Brady, friend of comedy and TDF knows how to use audio software and fixed the audio. I'm hoping to learn how to do it myself, but he said he LIKES doing it. So thank you and FUN!

and (that's a link to her IMDB page as well, and I didn't ask her ONE DAMN question about doing video game voice work on Vice City. Not one. Here is her . Instead we talked about Halloween, acting, horror films, comedy and, weirdly, the NFL. Notes: wrote Fletch (and Flynn - I've read them all ;) Audition is a Japanese horror movie by Takashi Miike - came out last year. (corrected:thks Brian)Michael Vick has had a terrible hobby. Stand Up shows on the calendar page on there's a fancy iPhone app for TDF and if you have a Droid or Palm or something like that: - they'll hook you up with the last episode.

The new theme song is by . It is adorable, fun to sing and fantastic. and had the longest conversation, before this, at the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach two weeks ago. They learned that they were Kennedy dorks. And here they are REALLY talking about the Kennedys. It was fascinating and quite perfect for TDF. They are also hilarious and you should see them do standup out there. Notes on this show: 1. The picture on this show is of Rosemary Kennedy. This photo is mentioned on the show. I could not find a workable family tree image in the heartbeat I looked if you want to "play along." 2. John Winthrop and Anne Hutchinson are the Puritans that I refer to - not by name - that are the ancestors of John Kerry and George W. Bush. 3. Around minute 102:00 Laurie Kilmartin announces her new job!! First place to be announced! (except to loved ones I assume). 4. Right after that I run out of memory on my flash card. So... min 104:00 ish... smash cut to us wrapping it up. I will buy a larger one... and... 5. The show ends with me wandering in my mind about things and a reprise of Mexican Hat Dance by by request. Thanks for listening! Jackie P.S. - has a free APP for you if you have a nice phone and want to listen to TDF on it... Review the show on iTunes and maybe someone over there will care... I know I will :) My websites are and and my standup calendar is on my

Well - it's a brave new world. Audio… still working on levels. Me… learning what I’m LIKE in podcasty “conversation.” Huh. Compared to these two I am the coarsest human on the planet. They are ADORABLE! Johnny Pemberton loves JAZZ. Weird. Good to finally meet someone who had reasons. Margie Kment is from Iowa but knows a LOT about Broadway. We scratch the surface but I learn that I don't know what Le Mis is about and “Easy A” is the name of the teen sex romp that uses the Scarlet Letter. It might be too soon to review the new format on iTunes... but I think even BAD reviews count. Also, not sure these notes should go HERE. You are loved. xo, jk PS and a Correction: It's Ben Acker and Ben Blacker actually, my mind is obviously in Austin, TX in 1996.

With the Songwriter, Musician and meticulous man.He helped me (he claims that this is VERY rudimentary) set up the Dork Forest as a Pre-Recorded Podcast. And stand up comic and founding member of a GREAT sketch comedy troupe called Oh, You and Your Bone Spurs. Mike helped me with the taping and casually sung a couple songs. Because he’s a songwriter. He’s going to write a more standardized tune as intro and outro for the show. Because he's awesome. I didn't clear the memory from the digital device used so it ENDS abruptly. Yeah. Work in progress Americans. And I (me) edited it. Not a lot. I liked the un-edited - now the sound will just be better. That's the point of this. We can all hear better now. You're welcome. It will get better as we go, but I had a great time doing this. Thanks for listening.