The Dork Forest

Barbara Holiday (@flapperscomedy) cannot wait to get trapped in a small room again. I KNOW. But it’s escape rooms and it’s SUPER SPECIFIC. So it is great. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio and Video by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Robert Jenkins (@robjcomedy) is a great comic and we have worked some weird gigs and he’s a lawyer and his experiences make him a safe and serious dork about guns. We talk about that safety and seriousness. And we laugh. We LAUGH. You will enjoy. He has a very new, cool, podcast called How to Survive In America () it’s on Google too. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio and Video by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Grover Cleveland (not his real first name) and Benjamin Lay are very different leaders… and I learn a bunch about them from Alex Schmidt (@AlexSchmidty and https://www.alexschmidty.com/). It’s a good one. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio and Video by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Ron Funches (@ronfunches @ronfunch IG) IS King Shark. But we talk wrestling and video games. This ANIMAL CROSSING draws my attention. He is the best. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio and Video by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Robert Hurt (@astrorob - astrophysicist and artist who does the astrovisualization of telescope data for NASA) IS BACK. This time? Babylon 5. I’ve never seen it and NO SPOILERS I wanna see it. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Nelly Thomas has a joke about Michel Foucault’s name and then it’s a wordplay pronunciation thing and then we get real. Did you know about the relationship between power and knowledge? Yeah… I didn’t. I learned stuff. YAY ME. Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Pamela Walt (@houseofpamcakes twitter) is a comic and we talk about so many things and we KEEP coming back to Groundhog Day! We meander and it’s hilarious. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Peter Falk was better looking than Columbo. I talk with JimWoster-of EPISODE ONE of the prerecorded fame-about the well written mystery. This one was an exciting use of USB sticks and the US Mail. It took a sec. There’s a SLIGHT overlap because Quarantine dorkout. You will love it anyway. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Dominic Ferrantelli is NOT on yer social MEDIA! Yeah. He is watching Laser Disks and playing old video games and pinball. AND explaining Cathode rays to ME. Oof. I learned so much a lot of it leaked out. But it is fascinating and great. Enjoy!! Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Maria Bamford (@mariabamfoo and Amazon et al Weakness is the Brand) loves a reality show and the BEST are CANADIAN reality shows. I hear about it. In the end, it isn’t the PROBLEM.. it’s the humanity that fascinates. Oh yes. Hard Agree. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

The fiction of Godzilla ruins the reality of Dinosaurs for JUST a second. And then ongoing in the life and times of Steve Mandel (@nevativsteve). Then he’s back with more SCIENCE. We talk MONSTERS and now I want to try again to watch them all!! Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Matt Kirshen (@mattkirshen / @matt_kirshen) and Myq Kaplan (@myqkaplan) both wanted to talk advice columns and it came up THE SAME WEEK. So we ALL did it. Dork Panel!! Myq has a new album coming out May 8th and you should all pre-order it April 17th (A.K.A.) and Matt has a podcast called “Probably Science” that you should check out. This is fascinating. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or www.jackiekashian.com. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Get ready for another Great Depression! This time with Turmeric! My sister (@bossymagoo) Darla Kashian can make a meal out of any found items. She LIKES nice items but she cooks like the depression mom she was raised to be. Let us learn. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or USE THE AMAZON link on the front page of my and the 'cast websites when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

I met Luisa Rebull (@lrebull – CalTech Astronomer) working on UniverseUnplugged.org and we got to talk for 15 minutes. I wanted to ask my simple space and science questions for another hour. So here we are. It’s GREAT. Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

When last we visited with Robin Ryan (@robinryan200) she dorked out about Rollerderby (EP 360) but here we get the grit and hope and dark humor that is her job – teaching High School/GED in a California Men’s Prison. It’s fascinating. People are still people. Don’t Bet on The Rapture. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Guy Branum (@guybranum) knows so many things and these six British aristocratic sisters are FASCINATING. I wish to make a mitigating pun. I will not. This ep is recorded via skype bc of the ‘rona. Take care out there. Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

The dorkdom is Improv and, yes, and we hash out the art, the community, the silly and the terribleness of Improv. Sean Conroy (@seanconroy has a new ‘cast Sean Conroy gets Happier). He’s hilarious and fascinating. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Aldrin Cornejo (@acornayho) loves all the games and a LOT of animation (he works at American Dad!) but this episode is all about the tabletop game The Vampire Masquerade. HE KNOWS SO MUCH!! Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Niceole Levy (@niceolecookies writer from Cloak&Dagger, and new movie The Banker) explains the good time that IS Janet Jackson. I came in knowing SOME THINGS. It’s a good one. You will love it. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

It’s a glimpse into ANOTHER band I don’t know anything about, but Sarah Mowrey (@sarahmowrey) does. OH DOES SHE. I am shocked and enthralled. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Diana’s cousins’ needed to learn English so she listened AND LOVED a lot of K-Pop. I learn what that is 😊 AND… Let me say that, first, that it’s DIANA Hong (@wellhongd) not Diane. Hi. And I learn that there’s casting in K-POP. And that yer parents may SEND you to Korea to learn Korean, but your cousins insist they work on their English. K-Pop! Diana Hong! It’s a dorky delight. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

More Marvel with comic John Poveromo (@johnpoveromo) – we talk tv, movies and comics and get into some specifics of Cyclops’ powers. Just good clean fun here, folks. Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Leah Mansfield (@leahmansfield) is a comic who was in the Air Force and worked with NUKES. And we talk about the dorky world of world annihilation. And I FINALLY realize how rockets work. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

He was a flawed hero and Dawn Brodey (@dawn_brodey) KNOWS IT. We go into some revolutionary war minutia and it was fun. You will love. AD: for 15% off your first order!! Use the code: Dork. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

It doesn’t SEEM funny, but it is. Learn how much Amanda Cohen (@amandacohen27, comic and rights activist) and I DO NOT know about how women’s bodies work. Also men’s. But that’s less surprising. This was great. Heh. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

SO MANY SHOWS! Keith (@J_Keith and the @gofactyourpod) loves Broadway and we GET INTO IT. I wish I loved actors DOING it as much as Keith. Enjoy and learn. I did. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Andy and I saw Rise of Skywalker and had to TALK ABOUT IT IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS SO SPOILERY... so only listen if you've SEEN IT. Or DO NOT CARE. Both are acceptable to us. Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

People don’t just grow their nails real long. Mary Basmadjian (@maryb626 on IG) explains the how and the WHY of it. Then it’s Armenian food which leads to a Korean Youtube thing called Mukbang. Fascinating. It is DECEMBER and in December I ask you not to donate to The Dork Forest but to use the cash you MIGHT have sent to go to or google your town’s name and the words “food bank.” January. Gimme money again in January. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Mariah Carey is a very famous singer/songwriter and Danielle Perez (@divadelux) explains the decade’s worth of music I’ve probably heard. It’s a music ep and it holds MUCH information for me. And you get to hear Danielle explain it to me. Enjoy. I did. It is DECEMBER and in December I ask you not to donate to The Dork Forest but to use the cash you MIGHT have sent to go to or google your town’s name and the words “food bank.” January. Gimme money again in January. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Tig Notaro (@therealfluffNotaro on IG) is Vegan. AND IT’S WORKING OUT!! You should totally try it. If you want. No pressure. I’ve tried it. Between meals. But I loved this conversation. You will too. Get in on it. AD: SimpleHealth.com is birth control delivered TO YOUR DOOR. It's easy. It's a right. Live by a code, Dork. It is DECEMBER and in December I ask you not to donate to The Dork Forest but to use the cash you MIGHT have sent to go to or google your town’s name and the words “food bank.” January. Gimme money again in January. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Dueling Pianos actually DUET. Martha Boles (@ms.marthaboles on IG) has MANY interests but she told me that’s her dayjob RIGHT before the show started so it’s DUELING PIANO’S. She is a delight and you will love her. It is DECEMBER and in December I ask you not to donate to The Dork Forest but to use the cash you MIGHT have sent to go to or google your town’s name and the words “food bank.” January. Gimme money again in January. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Thom Tran (@_thomtran Sex Jokes Rock n Roll Podcast) loves ALL the ways The Flash is repped. I learn about the Flash! I want to now see… The Flash. You will enjoy this episode. Listen at your own pace. AD: for a FREE subscription for Birth Control. DO THIS. What a great idea. Delivered to your door. It is DECEMBER and in December I ask you not to donate to The Dork Forest but to use the cash you MIGHT have sent to go to or google your town’s name and the words “food bank.” January. Gimme money again in January. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Adam Conover (@adamconover of Adam Ruins Everything and the Factually Podcast) loves Nintendo but I got him weeding off on Miyazaki. It is a wonderful wander thru the love of food and popular art. You will love the heck out of this. It is NOVEMBER and in November and December I ask you not to donate to The Dork Forest but to use the cash you MIGHT have sent to go to or google your town’s name and the words “food bank.” January. Gimme money again in January. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

You know when you major in Chinese and then get accounting clients in Singapore and it’s Death Month? Mary Becquet (@becquetSQ & IG @maryb3) LOVES it. Recorded Halloween day made for youtube Chinese Vampire Movie watching later PERFECT. You will love. It is NOVEMBER and in November and December I ask you not to donate to The Dork Forest but to use the cash you MIGHT have sent to go to or google your town’s name and the words “food bank.” January. Gimme money again in January. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

British Reality Shows-The longboxes of Netflix with Sharon Houston (@sharon_houston and IG @sharonhouston). She’s a comic and, sure she watches The Great British Bakeoff but have you seen of Nightmare Tenants/Slum Landlords? UH ME EITHER. Fascinating. Hilarious. You will love. Then I learn more about EDM. That’s music. She has a youtube show: The Bob and Donna Show: It is NOVEMBER and in November and December I ask you not to donate to The Dork Forest but to use the cash you MIGHT have sent to go to or google your town’s name and the words “food bank.” January. Gimme money again in January. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

UK comic Tiff Stevenson @tiffstevenson and @tiffstevensoncomic is in LA and she loves so much about Buffy. And, interestingly… the college years! We also dork out about comedy, los angeles and a memoir by Eve Babitz that’s a love letter to LA. We are also interrupted a LOT and I don’t take it well. Welcome to real life. You will enjoy. Listen. It is NOVEMBER and in November and December I ask you not to donate to The Dork Forest but to use the cash you MIGHT have sent to go to or google your town's name and the words "food bank." January. Gimme money again in January. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

The 80s and 90s had a wealth of Star Wars for them that needed it. And Dan Telfer (@dantelfer of Nerd Poker and DnD Beyond) was that demographic. We get INTO it. There’s so much we don’t get to. More later. Enjoy AD: Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Villains of History is Cat Alvarado’s @thecatalvarado podcast (I did Pol Pot on it). She’s come to talk Latin American despots. I am reminded of the 70s and 80s and beyond. But not like a radio station. Fascinating. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Brian Jacobovitz @brianjacobovitz got into the game, then into the stories. HP Lovecraft is weird, you guys. No, really. But he inspires an awesome bunch of games. You will love. AD: Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Without the benefit of copyright is Kira Soltanovich @kiracomedy talking to me about how she CAN CURE YOU. MAYBE. With Homeopathic Medicine. And she’d love to try. In other news, watch LET’S GET SWEAT! Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Dave Ross will save Zelda and they will BE FRIENDS. Over and over. We talk about the cooking sitch in Breath of the Wild for a weirdly long time. This is great. You will LOVE! He has a new album called “The Only Man Who Has Had Sex” – GET IT. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Books and rocks and learning about what to do NEXT with Rebecca Rush (@rebeccarush639) – she has a book podcast that I did right after THIS ONE 😊 ComicsBookClub Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Courtney Joyner (@courtneyjoyner) is a WELLSPRING of information. There’s not just ONE dorkdom. He has a new Boardgame out/coming out… request it at your Game Store “NEMO RISING.” Andy wanted in. Check out the bonus. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Prince is from MN and he did that song about a corvette. Christopher Titus (@titusnation) might have the REST of the information about him. I learn stuff and get a list to listen to. NOTE: Most Beautiful Girl in the World, Pussy Control, When Will We Be Paid, Colonized Mind, Pink Cashmere, Erotic City, Shockadelica, Friend Lover Sister Mother/Wife, and the whole of an album called The Truth. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Andrew Solmssen (@solmssen and @andrewsolmssen) is a hiking monster. He’s turned his, considerable, attention span to walking up and around Los Angeles. There’s tech talk too. Because it’s Andrew. Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Artistic Women’s Gymnastics; mostly 1980s and 90s. Not RHYTHMIC gymnastics and, currently, while still psyched, Lindsay Guzzardo has issues with the “changes.” This was GREAT. She’s on linked in. You don’t know her. YET. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Brian Posehn @brianposehn, famously, dorks out about heavy metal and has a Dnd Podcast and I get to learn SO MUCH. Heavy Metal. Thrash Metal. A band called UFO. Let’s do this. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Robert Hurt (@AstroRob IG: @AstroRobLA ) returns!! Astrophysicist and an ENORMOUS fan o the Trek… we get deep into Deep Space Nine. See that word usage? The show is much better than that sentence. (he publishes artist concepts of the Spitzer Space Telescope among other things. He is the coolest dork). You will love this so much you’ll find the other two episodes with him. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

My BROTHER Phil is back on the show to tell tales of riding the non-rails. Phil Kashian is apart of the TDF Ranger group if you want to talk to him. This was fun. It’s like getting to know my OWN BROTHER. You will enjoy. AD: www.FunctionofBeauty.com/dork for 20% off personalized shampoo and conditioner that, i SWEAR, works. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at or . USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

So many things were learned. The age appropriateness of Jessica Fletcher’s love interests. Caitlin Gill (@RobotCaitlin – NEW ALBUM Aug 2nd!! MAJOR) is a great comic and a delight. You will love this even if Murder She Wrote is not your jam. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or www.jackiekashian.com. USE THE AMAZON link on the front page when you order your own dorky goodness. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has a bunch of stuff too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos