The Dork Forest

Doug Mellard is an Austin comedian and HE, , enjoys the wonderful world of MAGNUM P.I. And we talk about it. We weed off into the world of Sega Genesis briefly. Heh. Enjoy.   This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. I have a new hour comedy video out at   $5 download. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcru...

Rhea Butcher (@rheabutcher) () is a Chicago comic and also has podcasts. Fun. PYHT and a Maximum Fun podcast, WHAM BAM POW on iTunes. She loves her some Back to the Future. A Lot. Let's do this. This month's sponsor is my sister. Respectable, socially responsible financial advisor Darla Kashian. www.darlakashian.com She is smarter than I am and funnier than her ad. So give it a whirl. www.allthing...

Eric Hollerbach (@erichollerbach) is a comic, podcaster (Highway Diary – we record his right after this, wherein he has found every embarrassing thing I’ve said online and asks me about it . HE dorks out about Whose Line is it Anyway which leads to his love of improv and standup. Then we weed the heck off into conspiracies and I think about the definition of a safe space. It’s all great. Enjoy! Th...

I’m still A-Kon. Andy () taught a game design workshop at A-Kon and Josh Jordan () LIVES in Dallas and makes, as a hobby SO FAR, tabletop RPGs. So the two of them dork out about game mechanics, table top RPGS and storyline in gaming. It’s a good one. Enjoy. This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. I have a new hour...

Helen McCarthy (@tweetheart4711 & ) is, possibly, the GREATEST guest that has been. And that is saying a lot! We talk romance novels. She is a little quiet on the mic but it's totally worth it. She is an anime historian and is FASCINATING! Yay her. Hooray for us. Enjoy.   Darla Kashian sponsoring the show for the foreseeable future! How does she do it? By being a GREAT financial advisor to others...

Kristen McGuire (@kriscomics on twitter ) makes manga, watches manga, does voice work and this is a weird audio filled challenge. But Manga, My Little Pony and all things tiny and adorable are discussed. So I think it’s worth going for, if only to hear me trying to keep it together with ONE mic. Blow it off if you must and I’ll have her back on. But she’s great… enjoy. I have a new hour comedy vid...

Wil Anderson (@Wil_Anderson) is a great comic, has a fun podcast TOFOP on All Things Comedy () and we talk a LOT about Batman. The movies. And the superhero. THEN it’s all AFL (Australian Rules Football). So great. This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. I have a new hour comedy video out at   $5 download. It’s ca...

Emo Philips is one of the greatest writers of the standup comedy EVER. A silly, happy man. He’s on. But Nathan and Jonathan and I dork out AT Emo for a glorious 40min episode. I am clearly excited. Clearly. I sing the song TOO MANY TIMES. But he plays the recorder and I wanted him to like me. Hear the desperation. Tune the hell in. I have a new hour comedy video out at   $5 download. It’s called “...

Mark Alan Miller (@markalanmiller) likes Horror, scary stuff and has collected MANY of them on that genre known as V.H.S. Mark writes, produces, and directs original content alongside master of horror Clive Barker. Hellraiser, Next Testament. It's a lil' creepy. He's great! Enjoy. This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! www.darlakashian.com She reads H...

Julie Klausner (@julieklausner on twitter) is a funny writer, podcaster and hellova smart woman. http://julieklausner.com/ for links to her podcast (How Was YOUR Week?), her upcoming pilot and all the great things about her. This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! www.darlakashian.com She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. I have a new hour comedy vide...

Myq Kaplan (@myqkaplan on twitter) is comedian, podcaster and wordsmith! He loves him some letters that form words that make sentences and we talk about them. Using words of our own. Podcast: http://www.keithandthegirl.com/hang-out-with-me/ Website: www.myqkaplan.comThis month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! www.darlakashian.com She reads HER OWN AD. Heh....

Live from Austin, TX Moontower Comedy Fest - Randy and Jason Sklar, Erin Foley (@sklarbros and @erinfoleycomic on twitter) talk about baseball and sports and it makes me WANT to want to get INTO it!! Another Dork Forest guest WIN! This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. I have a new hour comedy video out at   $5 d...

W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell on twitter) and wkamaubell.com is a great comic and a fine advocate for the movie Rocky 2. So great an episode. Then we weed off into the world of Bruce Lee. You will enjoy. ADRIENNNNNNEEE! This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, helper Magoo Darla Kashian! She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. I have a new hour comedy video out at   $5 download. It’s...

Emily Gordon (@thegynomite on twitter,) is the co-host of The Indoor Kids on Nerdist.  We dork out about breakfast. It's good times. Tune in and enjoy. This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Advisor, Helper Magoo Darla Kashian! www.darlakashian.com She reads HER OWN AD. Heh. Enjoy that. I have a new hour comedy video out at www.allthingscomedy.com/records  $5 download. It's called "This...

Michael Dorsher (@dorsher on twitter) is my guest. He’s a comic and comedy producer and we talk Hong Kong and then  We are live in HK, the intro got cut off… but we’re at the FIRST Hong Kong Podcast Festival. The interview is WELL recorded. The Audience is not. It takes FOREVER for me to allow him to talk. Let’s have him on again. He’s GREAT. This month our sponsor is MY SISTER!!! Financial Adviso...

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...