The Dork Forest

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 a...

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...

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...

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 ever...

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...

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 . U...

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...

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 sh...

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 US...

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...

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 everythi...

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...

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...

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 goodnes...

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 goodne...

 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...

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...

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 al...

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 g...

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.  Mer...

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 you...

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...

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 curre...

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...

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 n...