The Dork Forest

Shelagh Ratner (@shelaghratner IG) is a comic w a new album “Comic Footprint” and is COMMITTED to this tile rummy game called Rummikub. Pronounced CUBE. I find things to ask about it. It sounds fun. Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of T...

Damon Sumner (comic @damonjr twitter/ @damonjr2 IG) has a favorite movie. That I have NEVER SEEN!! It’s Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans. Yes. I’m surprised I’ve never seen it either. This is a great deep dive. Hooray. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I...

Mooooore Star Trek!! It’s quarantine goodness with Adam Bozarth ( lefthandedradio.com and @lefthandedradio) talking TNG, Deep Space Nine and Voyager.  We also weed off. Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon...

Sand Castles with Shlomo Sher - 629 Uh. Sand Castle dork out. It·s epic. With Shlomo Sher ( ethicsandvideogames.com and @videogamesethics twitter/IG). You must enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes...

We dive too deep!! Secrets are spilled. Theories are speculated. The hour goes by almost immediately. Justin Mohareb (@thebitterguy) and I talk over each other about Marvel. A lot. It’s great. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” av...

Joyelle Johnson (@joyellenicole everywhere and her album “Yell Joy” is now available) has seen Gone with the Wind a LOT. And I have NOT. So she takes me through the plot, the people, the outfits and the drama onscreen and off for one whole hour. It is a DELIGHT. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at...

She LIVED in Korea you guys. So Korean food is discussed in depth. Yay. Aisha Alfa (@aishaalfa everywhere) has a new album out – ALL THE PARTS and a podcast called THE SHOUTOUT SHOW. She played international University Soccer and we now have a club to form that needs to go get Korean food. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email addres...

Jeanne Hospod (artist, animater and writer – has her info AND a post about her dorkdom!) Singer/Songwriter Scott Walker -who SOUNDS LIKE … DEAN MARTIN? Like CROONY. Wild. Lyrics DEFINITELY The 60s and 70s. Man outta time. This is fascinating. Made more so if you go check him out (via her blog which is THOROUGH!!). Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my em...

David Rees (Hulu’s DickTown animated series creator-w John Hodgeman and podcast host to ) has SO MUCH info about a sound thing. They’re called Effects Pedals and I LEARN THINGS. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” av...

Mark Saltveit (@taoish and palindromist.org loves him a frontways/backways pile of letters that say the same thing and WE GO BACK to the LATIN. This is amazing. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon...

San Francisco WAS the old west in 1856 - 622 Bob Calhoun (@bob_calhoun) is BACK! He’s got a new book out called “The Murders that Made Us” and we talk about San Francisco MURDERS mostly in the 1800s. It’s nuts. It’s great. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My curre...

The TV show Frasier. With Kelsey Grammar. Yeah. Holly Brown (@itshollybrown & @hollybrowncomedy on IG) LOVES it. Has Memorabilia because her dad worked on the show and what was dumb when she was a kid is now the thing she LOVES a LOT. This is great. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or ....

We all deal with Q-tine differently. Brian Swartz (@brianswartz, trumpet player w a new jazz album “To Be With You on distrokid.com ) LOVES him some M.A.S.H. Does it hold up? SOME of it 😊 YES. You will love this one. Ha@! Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am...

Ramon Rivas II @blazerramon has comedy chops all over the internet and IRL. Podcast (PreBaked, Albums – spotify/pandora) and he leads me through the epic Shakespearean drama that IS The Wire. It’s amazing. You will love. FULL OF SPOILERS.   Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My cu...

Alison Leiby @alisonleiby comic and cohost of @RuinedPodcast is my guest. We do a deep dive into what COULD, ambitiously, be called a charcuterie situation but is really “SNACK dinner.” You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This S...

STARDEW VALLEY. Ha@! It’s a more dramatic Animal Crossing. I love IT. And Katie McMillian is DIPPED. We get into it and I love it. I LOVE it. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want...

Halle Kiefer (@hallekiefer) loves horror tv, movie and will support anyone who does NOT love such things (she has a podcast called “RUINED” and makes it better for her friend Alison who can’t take it. Like Me. She’s great. Listen Up. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current a...

Arthur Gaus (@maniac_bowl twitter and IG) is a comic with a new album “Nice Jokes for Smart People” and we dork out hard on history and San Francisco history specifically. Enjoy Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amaz...

Briane Parise (@parisecomedy twitter and IG) is a comic with a new album “Last Wishes” and we dork out hard on his love of making pasta. This is fun. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes an...

Chris Fleming (@chrisfluming twitter and @chrisflemingfleming IG) is a comic that loves puppets and horror and they ALL help his anxiety. (Follow for zoom shows!). He is delightful. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on...

Kyle Ayers @kyleayers (comic w great album called “HAPPINESS” and podcast “Never Seen It”) loves a band. Which seems to be a woman named Annie Clark. And I learn about a BAND!! Yay music. St. Vincent the band. Not the thrift store. Sigh. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or ....

More baseball w Greg Proops: The Negro Leagues - 611 Greg Proops @gregproops is a great comic and we did the history of baseball TDF seasons ago. This ep is a deep dive (w pictures YOUTUBE) into the Negro Leagues. It’s fascinating and inspiring and eye opening. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at...

We get to the 1980s with Batman. I know. But with Scott Rogers @mightybedbug you get comics AND TV AND toys AND writers and artists and then ALMOST the movies. He’ll be back. This is great. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” avail...

Holding Ollie Barder to 5 of his fave Anime and getting to see some sick action figures makes this a must watch TDF. There are SPOILERS for shows FROM THE 1980s. FYI. Ollie is a game designer and toy reviewer for Forbes/Hobbylink and Mechadamashii.com . He’s @cacophanus on twitter and youtube and this ep is on fire. You will love. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal link...

Mike Drucker (comic @mikedrucker, head writer ofFull Frontal, author of new book Silent Hill2) will play a scary video game. In VR. I will HEAR about such things. But not play. Too Scary!! But Fascinating. Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest if you like the show. There’s paypal links and venmo my email address. Links to everything is at www.dorkforest.com or . Merch: My current album “I Am Not the He...