The Dork Forest

Lizz Winstead is my guest and she has a out that feels "origin story-esque." And, surprise, guess who is into politics? A lot? , Minneapolis comedian, creator of The Daily Show and Air America. She knows more than I will EVER know about politics. I couldn’t sound less informed, tune in. She has a new book out … Get it. Enjoy this.   Donation Button, if you would, is on or   NOTES:This is the last...

and I are at in Portland Oregon and I re-learn some ! Warning: You’re listening to us chat about this and other things while we play. And… I just realized that he let me win the first game! heh! It's a dork expedition to a game store with all the audio hijinks that that involves. I hope you enjoy.   NOTES: For Links to these notes come to   Browse every card ever made - Patrick made me a green for...

 and and I are at the. Jesse teaches game design at Carnegie Mellon, has his own company, and has great dork cred in the world of other hobbies: Harmonica, juggling. Andy Ashcraft and he talk for real about games… I ask for a lot of clarification. It’s a good one. Enjoy! In an ongoing effort to make the links work... here there are - visible. Donate and I'll hire someone to make this right. If suc...

was on … and she LOVES Biblical Archeology… what? I think she’s a Hebrew-o-phile! And… there are dick jokes. closes with stand up. It’s great. Enjoy, Rangers.  Donation Button, if you would, is on NOTES:– it’s not in Lebanon!! It’s in Jordan! JORDAN. @AncientAliens - twitter@marybirdsong – twitter Credits: Live Audio by Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own Apps are ava...

. We’re in a coffeeshop in the village in NYC – it’s LOUD at this coffeeshop. Tomorrow, Jim's downloadable hour becomes available for $5. $5 an hour of his comedy... don't steal it. You have $5. It’s interviewy we talk comedy a lot. And some news personality dorkdoms. But it’s a lovely conversation. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  Credits on the app bonus chitter chat. OR... below you!! Don...

Do you feel like his name is familiar? He fixes the audio every show!  is part of a great production company in NYC and we dork out about audio. You will notice he sounds GREAT. But we quickly go into animation forever. Patrick is over prepared and it’s fantastic. Prepare to learn a LOT about the history of animation. We are in NYC and we talk Hari’s subway woes briefly. I encouraged Patrick to ad...

(@KevinAvery) and (@kleethepimp) are standup comics and are real, dyed in the wool, Star Wars fans. Klee could probably act out the whole series. I need to have them back separately so that Klee and I allow Kevin to talk. This ep weeds off into TV, movies and actors. I get another recommendation of a movie I will never see on purpose. They both just did a short film, . Look into it. Tell me if the...

 is a correspondent on The Daily Show. We recorded in his office, in NY, at The Daily Show. I was very cool about it. He’s a great comic and he’s BEEN that guy in ! I am more than matched in my sales knowledge. And he watches a LOT of cartoons with his kids. Heh. Enjoy. NOTES: – LOUD website – LOUD website – LOUD website Lil Hammer – I actually couldn’t find a reference to that. Credits: Audio: ,...

Glee ! Just listening to TDF made Janine Schatz KNOW that she could be a guest. She is correct. And fascinating. We have dinner in Brooklyn (Japanese). So, you get to hear more restaurant noise! To read her fan fic; follow the twitter feed   Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own     Apps are available with the bonus contest: or My websites are and Review the sh...

(Twitter @harithecomic) is a great comic and I subletted his apartment in my recent trip to NYC! We talk of his love of Seattle, international comedy and then... more on Seattle. Here’s a clip from his – he’s great. Listen Up.   Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own     Apps are available with the bonus contest: or My websites are and Review the show on Feel fr...

is a lawyer (not practicing), actor (practicing), and giant gamer (practicing)! We dork out about acting and gaming - and he’s now. And he has a that you can donate to. Listen up, more Boardgame fun!!   Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own     Apps are available with the bonus contest: or My websites are and Review the show on Feel free to e me.   NOTES: Podca...

is on the show. She has a new and you should know who she is, really. Best known for working on Letterman, making up stuff like Stupid Pet Tricks, she’s written . I talk too much but I learn stuff too. It’s so good.   Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own     Apps are available with the bonus contest: or My websites are and Review the show on Feel free to e me....

is hilariousdorkdom is to dissect famous people’s careers. He also loves an indie comic book. This is the snarkiest episode of the dork forest. Man… it’s so great. We get political and Then does his LCS audition and his George Lopez set. Oh Hollywood. Heh. Enjoy.   Credits: Live Recording by Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own     Apps are available with the bonus con...

is a Chicago comic and writer and total fan o’ science! That thing that historians loved so much and some modern folk have so many issues about. are just the tip of the iceberg here, folks. We taped early in the day and I’m just awake! Heh. This is a great dork on dork dialog. He’s great and you should see him live! Enjoy.   Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his ow...

Vilmos is a , and . It’s road comedy stories and Mitch Hedberg is talked about like he was a man. A human who was fallible and funny and a goof. Vilmos loves comedy and, we find out, drumming! Enjoy.     Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own     Apps are available with the bonus contest: or My websites are and Review the show on Feel free to e me.   NOTES: Tree...

is a writer and podcaster. He loves defunct football leagues and the history of the NFL. Are you sad because football season is over? Re-visit American Football with P.F. going into the minutia of the history of football leagues. I say “yeah?” “yeah” a lot. He’s great. Enjoy!     NOTES: – what I could find Jack Kelly – city councilman Philadelphia   General websites:   Books to Read:

is a comic and a writer and, really, a dork. Awesomely committed to Star Wars, Star Trek, Pokémon, it just goes on. I admit that I heard him do 5 minutes on Pokémon and needed to hear him talk about anything and everything. We realize that Pokémon is JUST like Sex in the City. Enjoy.   Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own   Apps are available with the bonus co...

These guys are comics and musicians and film makers and a couple of my favorites. (youtube series , Netflix streaming ) and (Critically acclaimed and did a Half Hour Special on Comedy Central with Hardwick as ). You can totally tell I love these guys.   Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own   Apps are available with the bonus contest: or My websites are and Rev...

I’m back and my house! and are with me and they are great. He has 300 Ben/Grimm figures and she makes TINY plates of food. Here’s a picture of the tiny food. It’s on . Below is tumblr and etsy links.       NOTES: Captinis – , , – read it – read it – do not read…ooh she was cut off at two - worst book ever. A FLUKE.

I’m in Aspen about to perform at the Wheeler Opera House for the eve of New Year’s Eve and the staff offered me a local dork luminary. came to Aspen to see Bonnie Raitt and then stayed. He’s a charmer. He’s a lucky lucky guy and he’s a talespinner. Enjoy.   Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own   Apps are available with the bonus contest: or My websites are and...

We are at in the with Kevin Eastman. Co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I ask him all the questions he’s answered before and he was patient and interesting and awesome. I recognize many names and say “wow” every time. There’s a drinking game for you. Doesn’t mean I know who they are, but it was really neat to know. His show at is still going! Then Baron Vaughn was sposed to do standup...

I’m in Austin, TX at and I’m talking to , from MST3K and , who wrote a book I just read called and it’s all awesome. She is my friend. We talk a LOT about what general dorks we are. I get a little TOO excited at the end. It’s pretty great. You’ll enjoy.   Credits: Live recording by: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own   Apps are available with the bonus contest: or My...

I’m in Austin, TX at and I’m talking to , who wrote a book I just read and it’s all awesome. I’m a super chatty. Lots of sales stories of my youth for no reason except me, obviously, wanting him to like me. But he’s gets in some good stories and that book is GREAT. Go read it. I hope you have as much fun as I obviously am. Enjoy.   Credits: Live recording by: Audio leveling by Music is by Website...

I’m in Austin, TX with , friend of the show. He hooked me up the comic book store here in Austin and, no surprise; he is a HUGE comic book dork. He explains Bendis to me. And I want to hear it!! I could NOT be punchier in this episode. We're recording around a lady vacuuming in the bar and it's just like being there. Enjoy!   Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his o...

I’m in Ann Arbor with Fritz Milhaupt, friend of the show. He asked if I’d like to meet his friends who (with him) play trains. They are part of the Operations Road Show project, an offshoot of They’ve been modeling the Wabash Railroad between Layfayette, Indiana and Peru, Indiana between Labor Day and Sept 25th, 1964. Yeah. They are train dorks AMONG train dorks. Yeah.   December Donation Button:...