The Dork Forest

My guest is . A woman who loves to work on an unsolved crime. She has a website and talks regularly with police to figure it all out. Regularly. To Police. Again, I know almost nothing. And you can listen to the ice in our drinks too. Enjoy.   Notes: – answers.com is wrong. Many of these cases, I can’t find. Go to her . (I think she has a pro account J) RDI (Ramsey Did It), IDI(Intruder Did It), B...

  We are live at in Hollywood. My guests are and . I took notes and giggled a lot. Dork out. I did.   Notes: – singing starts 1:30 Mark Hamill – I’m not linking this. You KNOW. We’re the same age. I think, exactly. – I do not know when this was recorded   iPhone Bonus note: those are the birds OUTSIDE. Shouty birds. Dana Recommends: (starter monster) Creature From the Black Lagoon Revenge of the C...

My guest is , a traditional dork that has grown into a person that looks like she’s always been cool. Actress, Comic and, soon, host of her own dorky podcast. I just wish we were talking faster.   Notes: Don’t need a rooster. I think it said something about the embryo and the fridge. Aisha has been ! I’m just catching up with her career. Xbox… I said we have it, we don’t. – Roswell, GA (best pictu...

My guests are married and care a LOT about points to be received and redeemed for buying Air, Hotel and Car. I’m using this information for good. I promise. now has a travel info and is a comic and reaping the benefits of his wife’s extensive knowledge. Great Ep!   Notes: Price is Right Password – and – American Idol Spirit Airlines v Virgin Blue – 66 yrs old. – cheaper than supershuttle Lot B at...

Back from the hiatus! My guests are both stand up comics and . I swear, we mostly chat while we eat a 2lb shrimp ring Matt brought. It was seriously distracting. I enjoyed it. The conversation and the shrimp ring. I hope you do.   Notes: Shrimp Ring – you know what this is! Ring o’ shrimp from the grocery store. Dihatsu – Korean Car – his IMDB page. Beck and Morrissey mix up… I know NOW! – Barney...

My guests were booked separately but have known each other for a while. tells stories and loves and works in television. And loves terrible movies that are so bad they become, somehow, great. He has a great podcast called I talk about the same things again and my guests make me giggle a lot. Enjoy.   – 1984 – just mentioned – Yikes Chuck Klosterman on Abba – can’t find it in 7-11 Height Chart – ca...

My guests are paper dork, Jim Coughlin and Monique Moreau, fan of different orders of nuns. Yes. Nuns. And Paper. (Twitter feeds @xandrique and @mrjimcoughlin on twitter). Both are comics and Monique is the keyboardist for awesome dorkband™ Ogre Mage. That ™ isn’t real. Enjoy.   Notes: I SAY I get the whole A4 thing… but I don’t entirely. Taxidermy at Turkish Restaurant – picture on wallpaper J –...

Wendy is a marching band/TV dork and Scott loves 80’s music. Neither of them gets to talk much about their topics because there’s a technical problem early on and then we digressed so far off of their topics… and I didn’t get them back. So I will have them back on. I will say, it was fascinating to just listen to them. I hope you enjoy.   (uh… he was in the Winds of War. ha@! #dorkashian) Jeff Con...

My guests are both actors that do a LOT of really cool/dorky voice over work. @MaileFlanagan and @YuriLowenthal (on twitter). We could have talked for-ever. This was fun. I hope you enjoy!!   Notes: – Douglas Adams The Shining – commentary? (yes, Garret Brown, the creator of the steadicam, and Stanley Kubrick biographer John Baxter talk it up) (Carl) – Gimore Girls and Bridesmaids, for example (th...

My guests are stand up comic (just did Letterman!) and comic (who has a great podcast @the40yearoldboy). It’s easily the fastest hour fifteen ever! Mike loves chaos and comics (pre 1990) and Michael gets to talk somewhere near the end (cuz I talk a lot about chaos too) about Harry Potter and it’s awesome. I push again. Enjoy!   Notes: Bowie on stock market – can’t find this. founded by Phone cam o...

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,...

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. A...

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 boar...

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....

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 Jo...

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 rea...

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 a...

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...

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...

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,...

  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: Will...

  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” to...

  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 hi...

  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 door...

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. Woul...