The Dork Forest

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  

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). Jane

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 productio

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 t

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 OW

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 le

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, eati

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

  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,

  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,

  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 : wh

  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.

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’

    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

  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 twitt

  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: , ,

  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