The Dork Forest

    and are my guests and they are in a BAND! A dorky dorky band called . The rest of the band will be on another day – but they are all comics and sketch actors. We covered a LOT of ground. Lots o' notes.   – New D&D approved adventure RISK-, , – boardgames – website and podcast – D&D monster – Rankin/Bass' "Return of the King" – – Grr Who! – he kept saying Mel… but this is Musical DirectorFortre...

  My guests this episode are (stand up comic and host of ) and (writer, stand up comic and regular on the Chelsea Handler show). Get this – they both love ghosts and UFO’s and Tarot cards and Karen does a real Tarot card reading. This is a great episode.   Note: For those of you who believed Mazes & Monsters, Tarot card reading is also non-threatening. Remember, everything on TDF is about choice a...

  My guest this episode is , host and creator of the fantastic podcast . He's such a fascinating comic that it took most of the show for me to get to the fact that he’s a Fantasy Baseball dork. Fantasy Baseball seems to be that you get a list of players and you WATCH their stats for the season. Fascinating! You will note how much I like Jimmy because I won’t let him talk. I beginning to see it as...

  My guests this episode are , (follow on twitter @jamesurbaniak) actor and the voice of Dr. Venture on and comedian and comedy writer (follow on twitter @murrayv). We talked the heck out of old Hollywood and acting. Animation and children’s music were lightly touched upon but the works of Charles Laughton were full on dorked out upon to the point that I’ve added some movies to my Netflix Queue.  ...

  New York comics Rob Stern (twitter @actionstern) and stop in to talk about their obsessions with Action Figures, Video Games, Dinosaurs and Yoga. And Abigoliah’s Mom let her change her name when she was about 13. How many of us can say THAT? They have a podcast called that I am going to be on at some point and, on that, they talk about stand up comedy – a LOT.   Credits: Audio leveling by Patric...

Two stand-up comics stop by and we talk it out. Dinosaurs, Pro-Wrestling, Zombies, and comics… and are very nice and super dorky.   s - iPhone game demonstration – SNES (at about 3:11) – awesome comic – dirty comic Michael May – - their friend’s web comic J is the dork thing… the other thing is … you can look that up. Also, if you know – DON’T tell me. Thank you. Those books again Alt Wrestling Sn...

Andrew Deutsch and David Nett are this week's guests. They've made a dorky dorky show for the internet called GOLD - an RPG web series. . We talked Dungeons and Dragons and Board Games and, in the end... found that another episode of TDF is going to be needed to talk about comic books and FONTS... the exciting world of Kerning MUST be examined! Reccomended reading from David, George RR Martin -  a...

My guest is – Emmy award winning writer, comic, actor and fellow Wisconsinite. He is a Midwestern History fan and Band/Orchestra dork.  I’m a Jeff Cesario dork. It was great.   Novel Recommended by Jeff: Series again recommended by me: Brave New Dad –  (Waylon's not in this but he's working that puppet)     Jeff Cesario’s Funny or Die show: DVD   Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady and the So...

  My guests are ladies... so they talk soft like ladies... not a lot even Patrick Brady could do about it without making it all sound weird. So, it soft -and ladylike. That’s what’s up. They are both on facebook and twitter find them and follow: @WendyLiebman and @JudeTheUnsure. It's a girly episode... I hope you enjoy a lovely hour with two funny, smart lady-friend dorks. Also, I lose my card whe...

  It’s one on one dork dialog this episode.   (follow him on twitter @danajgould ) is a great , and one of the first comics I knew who committed to what I call, at this writing, dorkiness, in his act. His material is always personal and family related but it also has always gone to his favorite films and games. His love of Science Fiction and Horror has a nice sense of depth in his act, and when y...

  For the first time I think I’m out chatted. owns his dorkdom with a dignity that I truly admire and is a fascinating man in search of his muse. Together their enjoyment of the minutia of life, from twitter to game shows, defines what I really think of when I think of dorkdoms. This episode is cussy – just so you know.   Vagaries discussed (new Muppet Movie Eddie is in. And I knew Amy Adams was o...

twitter: and twitter: , creators of are on the show this week and, they are serious media dorks. They have lists and lists of movies and books and comic books and music in their heads. We could have kept going for another hour. And again, I’m a dork FOR the guests… so much so that we talked about LAST episode, so I’m still dorking out to Marcia Wallace.   Regarding audio: I didn't check the levels...

Yeah - that - from Bob Newhart and Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons and the wacky maid on That's My Bush!  - so cool. So I dork out on her a bit until we both get excited about Mr. - comic, storyteller, musician and all around hard-working good guy.   We discuss the nature of trying that edge of comedy and how it doesn't always work - so beware, bad words are said. Know that they were attempts at co...

A LOT of whispering. This week’s Dork Forest has a lot of whispering. Hopefully Patrick can make it not matter in the fix. Me, and are also - ill prepared. Merry busiest season of the year. We do find out Mike is a travel dork, and we didn’t get into it ENOUGH for my tastes. He’ll be back. And Mary Lynn updated her racecar story from the last episode she was on, enjoys her dogs and some guilty ple...

Episode 11   and talked a lot about games. Brian has a one-act play about World of Warcraft that you can see this weekend, and then we all recommend what board games are great gifts!   Obviously, shoppers, my website has gifts. For those who don’t have a Ranger of the Dork Forest t-shirt or either of my CD’s. Notes:  (friend of the show). More info than you ever thought you’d get. Brian's Tabletop...

Episode 10   and talk about words and reading and writing. We find out that Steve’s true dorkdom is murder sites here in Los Angeles. I tell some more of the same stories and neither of us let Aparna talk enough. Gotta get her back on. We never get to hear about one of Steve’s favorite books   But we learn, again, that I know less than nothing about music. It’s a good one. Tune the heck in!   Cred...

TDF Ep 9 – the band…   Boy do I NOT know about Heavy Metal. These guys do, though. I had the band Beatallica () in my living room. They are a Beatles/Metallica live mash up band. Live – they play all the music, the lead singer sounds JUST like the lead singer of Metallica and they have taken their dorkdom to success all over the country and in Europe. They just played LA.   They are really gifted...

I talked with  and  about food, self improvement and more food. Adam is so specifically a food dork I forget he loves comics and graphic novels. Gotta get him back on to talk of those things. But he had a great, simple butternut squash soup recipe so I got distracted :) And I gave him a couple squash from the garden in return. Stirling took a big handful of Kale... he didn't tell me how he's going...

Episode 7     Beth Schumann is one of the managers at – a comedy club I played at last week – and she likes Shakespeare… a lot. She studied for a masters in it and it all began with…   featured (did the middle spot). MC (opening) spot was played by (who has a really nice website. These kids!)   Mark loves him some rafting. I keep trying to insist it’s because of Huck Finn. It is not. Fun was had!!...

Today’s guests have “other” dorkdoms and we FINALLY get to it at the end of the show – but we mostly discussed how much we like standup comedy. Because what the three of us really are, are comedy dorks. So, it’s another great show about how much we love standup comedy. J    and on movies, motivational speakers, the entertainment industry, stand up comedy and, eventually… politics (Jimmy Dore’s tru...

is a great stand up comic and actor and OBVIOUS accessory dork. As long as I've known him, he has always been a snappy dresser. I thought his wife was a "magic dork" but we will find out - because, Paul's wife, an actress and lovely human being herself, (Tompkins for family purposes) has a love of the unknown perk. A perk you didn't know was there... hence her love of LA's  and other restaurants a...

 and  (that's a link to her IMDB page as well, and I didn't ask her ONE DAMN question about doing video game voice work on Vice City. Not one. Here is her .  Instead we talked about Halloween, acting, horror films, comedy and, weirdly, the NFL. Notes: wrote Fletch (and Flynn - I've read them all ;) Audition is a Japanese horror movie by Takashi Miike - came out last year. (corrected:thks Brian)Mic...

The new theme song is by . It is adorable, fun to sing and fantastic.  and  had the longest conversation, before this, at the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach two weeks ago. They learned that they were Kennedy dorks. And here they are REALLY talking about the Kennedys. It was fascinating and quite perfect for TDF. They are also hilarious and you should see them do standup out there. Notes on...

Well - it's a brave new world. Audio… still working on levels.  Me… learning what I’m LIKE in podcasty “conversation.” Huh. Compared to these two I am the coarsest human on the planet. They are ADORABLE!   Johnny Pemberton loves JAZZ. Weird. Good to finally meet someone who had reasons. Margie Kment is from Iowa but knows a LOT about Broadway. We scratch the surface but I learn that I don't know w...

With  the Songwriter, Musician and meticulous man. He helped me (he claims that this is VERY rudimentary) set up the Dork Forest as a Pre-Recorded Podcast. And stand up comic and founding member of a GREAT sketch comedy troupe called Oh, You and Your Bone Spurs. Mike helped me with the taping and casually sung a couple songs. Because he’s a songwriter. He’s going to write a more standardized tune...