The Dork Forest

She’s BACK! Kelly Anneken (@thefatling) LIVE at the Green Gravel Comedy Festival in Toledo IOWA. Yes, Iowa. Kelly gets into American Girl Dolls. SO much. So great. Her website is Up Yours Downstairs (a proletariat celebration of Downton Abbey)   This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. Gee, did you know I have a ne...

Jeopardy winner, author and personable dork… Ken Jennings! @kenjennings is so fascinating. Geo-caching. This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial planner, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. Gee, did you know I have a new hour comedy video out at www.allthingscomedy.com/records? Cuz I do. $5 download. It's called "This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux" because c...

Slow Clap Jock (supporter of nerds and dorks everywhere), Jay Mohr (@jaymohr37)  comes into The Dork Forest! He’s a guy that is THERE for the nerd who “does it right.” All of this is me extrapolating. He’s great. His dorkdom: Presidential Biographies… this is fun. Enjoy. This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. NEW...

For so long… I’ve been trying to get John Roy () on the show. Warhammer. Comic Books. We talk at about a MILLION miles an hour. Good luck. It’s great. This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. Gee, did you know I have a new hour comedy video out at ? Cuz I do. $5 download. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Ho...

Louise Palanker and I talk music, documentaries and psychology. She’s a freaking dork diamond and is all over the place. She has a book, directed a movie, has an album and runs a website for wayward, and perfectly not wayward, children. She’s great and you will love her too. Gee, did you know I have a new hour comedy video out at ? Cuz I do. $5 download. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Ho...

Tom Rhodes likes dead people. He is a great comic and he goes to the graves of his heroes around the world as he travels and does his LOVELY standup comedy. is his website. @_TomRhodes on twitter. No reason not to full on enjoy this and learn stuff. Gee, did you know I have a new hour comedy video out at ? Cuz I do. $5 download. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux” because comedy is a...

Annabelle Guwitch is hilarious. She’s an author (newest one out this week! Called I See You Made An Effort). She loves so much awesome girly stuff and we dork out about IT. Enjoy. Gee, did you know I have a new hour comedy video out at ? Cuz I do. $5 download. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux” because comedy is all about soul ;) … Own it today and forever. Thanks. (Limited Edition...

Eric Lampaert and I did a show and I was DELIGHTED to meet him. He loves Evolution. LOVES IT. I made him weed off and not evolve his theory fully. But it’s great.  NOTES: Eric's Podcast is called Coffee Ramblings on iTunes and linked off of his page. Tune the heck in. This month’s sponsor has been Jeff Fullmer! He wrote Firebird Jim and you can get it here (and, as a special, for the end of the mo...

San Francisco Sketchfest is dorky goodness. I did a live Dork Panel with Todd Glass, Ron Funches and Janet Varney. Oh… I’ll have them back on individually because it was FASCINATING. Table setting, Dioramas and the PS4 are discussed. Not ENOUGH of any of it, but it was still super fun. Enjoy. NOTES Todd Glass is fantastic. Janet Varney of the Legend of  Korra rocks worlds. Ron Funches is happening...

Chris Mancin of s and the loves video games and we talk it up! Old games, new games, the games that we're ashamed to love, the games that got away. He also has a kickstarter to make a podcast documentary!! it's called . Check that out www.kickstarter.com/projects/comedyfilmnerds/ear-buds-the-podcasting-documentary This month's sponsor is Ranger Jeff Fullmer! He wrote and e-book that you can read o...

Robert Hack @robert_Hack is an artist and and knows a GREAT DEAL about Doctor Who. This MIGHT be the episode you've been waiting for. If you've been waiting for me to know nothing about Doctor Who. It's Madness. Dorky dorky Madness. It's great. This month's sponsor is a Ranger of TDF. It's Jeff Fulmer and he's written an e-book that you can read on MANY different devices. It's available here: . I...

Who loves the good works of the Coen Brothers? Josh Gondelman does! He's a great comic, www.joshgondelman.com and @joshgondelman on twitter, and we talk politics and characters. I didn't think I had seen as many of their movies but it seems I HAVE. NOTE: There are SPOILERS for THESE MOVIES. DID YOU HEAR THAT? I'm Yelling. It's great and fascinating. This month's sponsor of The Dork Forest is range...

Kevin Seccia (@kevinseccia and www.kevinseccia.com) is a writer that loves to watch some Boxing, MMA and has spent some time thinking about who could beat up who. His blog www.howtobeatupanything.com is currently a great book - Punching Tom Hanks  - check that out It's good stuff. Enjoy.  Audible is sponsoring this episode of TDF. You know how you can get that deal - a free month and one free book...

The World Champ Judah Friedlander (@JudahWorldChamp) www.judahfriedlander.com is a great comic, wonderful actor, decent human and loves him some Ping Pong. We talk it out. I learn things and then forget them almost immediately. The phone bonus reflects that. But it's so great. And it was LIVE at the Fontanas for the @NYCPodFest. So great It's January, so now' the time to start thinking about donat...

Brian Thompson (@Amsci) of the podcast QUIT IT http://amateurscientist.org/ is a comedy writer (Feb 19 UCB-LA) and a self-admitted, literary nerd. We are gathered to speak fo Kurt Vonnegut, and we do, we dork out hardcore on books for the hour. I do weed off and sypathize with the witch in Tangled.  Brian goes with it and makes it all so fascinating. It's a good one. Enjoy. Feel free to DONATE aga...

Corey Olsen (@TolkienProf) teaches in the English Department at Washington College (in Maryland). He has a podcast as The Tolkien Professor and we talk about The Hobbit movies v the books. You'll want it to go longer. Me too. We'll do it again.  Happy NEW YEAR! Feel free to donate to The Dork Forest at www.jackiekashian.com or www.dorkforest.com. Order merch from my standup website, check my stand...

Greg Asdourian () is a San Francisco comic and loves suits and cigars and other trappings of Rodney Dangerfield's heyday. We talk it out and it's great. Enjoy. December sponsor is and she's got some pretty dorky, geeky, nerdy shirts, scarves and sweatshirts. You're going to like it. Use code "Ranger" and get 20% off! She also has her own podcast. Listen Up. Order Up! This month DO NOT DONATE to th...

Ben Aller (@zoofab) is a Zoo Guy! He makes prefab vines and rocks for the animals to climb on! He knows things. We walk around the San Francisco Zoo and talk it out. Dork Expedition at the ZOO! It's WINDY... Patrick has done as much as he could do. I hope it's not too windy for you all, cuz it's great. Enjoy. December's sponsor is www.geekiana.com. Leann Olsen was on TDFEP206 talking Doctor Who an...

Matt Mira (@MattMira) loves James Bond. I learn a lot. Like what he likes to do in hotel rooms after kicking some ass. Matt is on the Nerdist and another pod called James Bonding. Cuz he's a bit of a James Bond dork. Enjoy. I did. There's also another "find Jackie a thing and win something" contest. Good luck. December's sponsor is last episode's guest - www.geekiana.com  - She has a world of geek...

Leann Olsen () won the Laffster () contest wherein you get to be ON TDF. We talk crafting and Dr. Who. She's been listening to the show so long I think she KNOWS that, schedule permitting, you don't have to "win" to be on TDF... you just have to get me in the same room in the same town with some time. As it is... this episode is only about 40 minutes and it could have gone on much longer. But the...

Brandi Brown (twitter @ItsTheBrandi) is, like most of us, a nesting doll of dorkdoms. We, eventually, get to her fascination with the current Supreme Court of the United States and local Canadian news. But we go through Justin Beiber, to SCOTUS, to Sesame Street. She really wants there to be a dramady where we watch 9 old people argue. It's Fun! Enjoy. This month DO NOT DONATE to TDF... INSTEAD, f...

Rhiannon Archer (twitter @RhiannonArcher) is a Toronto comic, hilarious lady and loves taxidermy. BUT... she doesn't love the idea of stuffing dead animals. So she makes trophy heads of stuffed animals. I'm not even kidding. IT'S the greatest thing EVER. She sent me pictures. I'm gonna try to post some! So great! Enjoy. I did. November and December is DO NOT DONATE to TDF months... Happy Thanksgiv...

Ryan Stout (@StoutRyan) is a great comic www.ryanstout.com adn a guy that is willing to "fight the man." We hash out the traffic justice system in this country, the Constitution and NONE of this is legal advice. Know that in your heart. It's funny, insightful and great. I'll stand by that forever. Enjoy. This month DO NOT DONATE to the show. INSTEAD, find your LOCAL food bank and donate to THEM. h...

This episode was LIVE Streamed through www. Laffster.com. Dana Gould (@DanJGould), Matt Weinhold (@MattWeinhold) and Shawn Sheridan talked with me about scary movies that might be palatable to me. I was inspired to see Evil Dead 2 for the first time, RIGHT after this... and, they were right. They're hilarious, but - as with some live shows... I make audio choices that are hard for Patrick to fix....

Jane Edith Wilson (twitter @JaneEdithWilson) is a great actress and a good person. She's in and we talk crafts. Cuz she loves a glue gun and to knit and she will BRING the adorable into your lives. This is great. Enjoy. This month DO NOT DONATE TO THE SHOW. Intead, DONATE to Your LOCAL Food Bank. Find them at and hook THEM up with some money. Good for them, good for you. If you want to Order prese...