The Dork Forest

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

  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 i

  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!Musi

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:

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 W

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 Slaye

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

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

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 t

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.

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.