The Dork Forest

Dr. Katz, Home Movies and Bob’s Burgers. Charlie Hester (@alittleoffcolor and www.charliehestercomedy.com ) is a comic from Illinois and loves and has always loved a weirdo, adulty, cartoon. Let’s get into IT!! Enjoy. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album available on Amazon and iTunes now and later. “I Am Not the Hero of This Story.” Real CD on the website. Premium eps are taped live and avail...

Finally, someone who gets me. Chicken. Bryan Cook (@Bryancooking) is a great comic, creates great live/recorded show like Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction and Reunited. And has a weekly show at The Virgil here in LA. Find him, he makes really good chicken. Enjoy. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album available on Amazon and iTunes now and later. “I Am Not the Hero of This Story.” Real CD on the w...

So this, as with all the premium eps, is in addition to the regular podcasts. What you will hear here is Andy and I talking about the ep. The full episode is at   https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/   for $2. No obligation, hundreds of free eps are also here… this defrays cost and is, essentially, a bonus ep. LIVE in Portland, OR at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival w MANY local dork luminaries. Open...

The Art of THE DANCE! Renee Camus (@camusr6 www.reneecamus.com and www.aliveandkickingfilm.com )! I MET her because and on the jococruise and she lives here and dances and teaches dancing and we talk a bunch about dancing. I don’t know anything about dancing. You will hear. Enjoy. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album available on Amazon and iTunes now and later. “I Am Not the Hero of This Stor...

Jack Reacher NOVELS. Oh yeah. Al Madrigal (@almadrigal) is learning to chill out with a book. He’s chosen the Jack Reacher novels. YESSSSS. He is a great comic (new special on Showtime “Shrimpin Ain’t Easy”) actor (“I’m Dying Up Here” also Showtime) and his website has a free album of his standup www.almadrigal.com . This one is great. I swear. DO EET. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album avai...

Boardgames and Star Wars ACTION FIGS!! Scott Rogers (@mightybedbug) has been on the show before and has SO many dorkdoms. We talk HIS Boardgame: Rayguns and Rocketships ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/idwgames/rayguns-and-rocketships?token=5395840f ) and his beloved Star Wars action figures. It’s some great deep dorkdoms here. You will love. Enjoy. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album a...

Animation. David Huntsberger (@huntsbergerjunk and http://www.davidhuntsberger.com/news/ ) is a great comic and loves to, when he’s IN IT, do animation. So I learned stuff. He’s a great comic (who is touring the west this month of May 2017) and has his own podcast called The Space Cave. It and preordering his podcast is all available on his website. Enjoy!   WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Albu...

Musicals. Rebecca Sugar (@rebeccasugar) is the creator and executive producer of Steven Universe and is ALSO working this nerd cruise https://jococruise.com/ ). She writes music (Adventure Time and her own show) and we get into some REAL Musicals and some big issues. It is wonderful. She is a delight. You will love it. I insist. But I don’t need to. Enjoy. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album...

Geneology. Julie Dixon Jackson (@joolsjackson) is ON THIS NERD CRUISE https://jococruise.com/ ). We go down a rabbit hole of ancestry chromosomes and centimorgans and, while we don’t find any Midichlorians… progress is made. Fascinating and revealing… You will love. Enjoy. NOTE: We Are All Famous To A Few People= http://joewilsontv.tumblr.com/ WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album available on...

Saturday Night Live. Hal Lublin (@hallublin) knows the beloved show SNL and is ALSO working THIS NERD CRUISE https://jococruise.com/ ). We’ve been trying to do this for years and now we have time AT SEA for us to bond and me to learn about 42 years of sketch comedy from a REALLY funny, talented guy. He’s got 3 podcasts!! We Got This: Tights and Fights: Surprisingly Nice. And you can hear and watch...

Escape Rooms. Tyler Hinman (@thatpuzzleguy) loves a puzzle and is ON THIS NERD CRUISE https://jococruise.com/ ). He likes to be “locked” in a room with friends or even strangers; be told a story and given an hour to get out of that room. As a puzzle guy… Tyler is hooked and he is IN THE KNOW. This was fascinating and you will love it.  WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album available on Amazon a...

Scuba Diving. Jason Hatrick (@JasonHatrick) is a comic and is ON THIS NERD CRUISE https://jococruise.com/ ). He opened for me in Montreal and he happens to be a giant Jonathon Coulton Nerd Cruise guy and I asked if he’d explain his love of being “under the sea” to me. It’s great. You will love. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album available on Amazon and iTunes now and later. “I Am Not the Her...

Photography. John Scalzi (@johnscalzi and Scalzi.com ) known for being a great science fiction writer (REDSHIRTS) takes pictures and they are very good. Check them out: https://www.flickr.com/photos/scalzi/   I ask and he enthusiastically answers my VERY simple tech questions. It’s a great ep on the really fun JoCo Cruise ( https://jococruise.com/ ) WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album availab...

Harry Potter. Michael Palascak (@MichaelPalascak and has a NEW album THAT ONE THING) finally gets to talk about Harry Potter as much as I’ll not talk over him! He has new insights for me and we bond. Deeply. About JK Rowling. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album available on Amazon and iTunes now and later. “I Am Not the Hero of This Story.” Premium eps are taped live and available here: https...

Ayahuasca. Myq Kaplan (@myqkaplan) noted comic and wordsmith (has a new album NO KIDDING) finally gets to tell me about the JOURNEY that is this South American tea that (can) blow one’s mind. I learn a lot and get envious. Enjoy. Photo credit: Mindy Tucker WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album available on Amazon and iTunes now and later. “I Am Not the Hero of This Story.” Premium eps are taped...

YouTube Instructional Videos. Henry Phillips (@henlips and his new movie Punching Henry https://www.facebook.com/punchinghenry/ ) is a great comic and we talk about his LOVE of Amateur Instructional Videos on YouTube.  It is outstanding. Heh. Enjoy. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. New Album March 3, 2017 available on iTunes and Amazon now and later. “I Am Not the Hero of This Story.” Premium eps ar...

President Psycho’s twitter account. Alycia Cooper @alyciacooper is a great standup comic with a new podcast @hot10withAlycia / http://www.alyciacooper.com/ and is obsessed with the trainwreck that is our federal government. We talk about the crazy; the details and the implications. Warning… real actual current affairs talk here. Let’s take it in and help each other out here. WELCOME to year ELEVEN...

Boardgames. More freaking boardgames. But Chris Mancini ( www.comedyfilmnerds.com @chrisjmancini) loves the KICKSTARTER boardgame experience. We know that we WANT the fancy minifigs, but do we NEED them for the game. NOTE: Ear Buds, the Documentarty about podcasting is his and it’s OUT!! http://store.comedyfilmnerds.com/Ear-Buds-The-Podcasting-Documentary/ This is a really interesting, and a milli...

Antique Watches. John Opdycke (@jdopdycke and www.openprimaries.org ) collects antique watches and he’s wearing one and I got to see a 1961 Rolex and we talked about WW1 watches and Soviet watches. Then we got into his work with grassroots politics. Both fascinating. You will love. Get on it. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. Premium eps are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandca...

Motorcycles. Greg Fideler (comedy writer and producer) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2345328/ loves him a motorcycle and I get to hear ALL about it. It was GREAT and you will like. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. Premium eps are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ I have an hour comedy special out called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux” because my soul is in it. You...

Prince. Tim Harmston (@timharmston) is a comic from Minneapolis and he LOVES that Prince stayed in Minneapolis and created music non stop for his hard core fans. Tim is such a fan. Enjoy. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. Premium eps are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ I have an hour comedy special out called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux” because my soul is...

More boardgames you guys. It’s John Kovalic (@muskrat_john and www.dorktower.com ), artist to the stars of game design (Apples to Apples and Muchkin) … has a love of Warhammer, DnD, boardgames and all nerdy dorky things. He’s a local Wisconsin dork luminary and he is great. Read his comic, Dork Tower. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. Premium eps are taped live and available here: https://thedorkfore...

It has begun. Here’s the most classically dorky of my siblings. Phil Kashian introduced me to Hobbit and LOTR. My brother Phil is a diamond of dorkdoms… so many facets…but we talk here, first, about Tolkien. WELCOME to year ELEVEN of TDF. Premium eps are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ I have an hour comedy special out called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux”...

The Minnesota State Fair. Brandi Brown (@itsthebrandi) is a great comic and has an eclectic pile of dorkdoms. We picked a couple. The state fair and her diving into the caucus system here in MN during the caucuses. It's fascinating. Enjoy!! Welcome to year ELEVEN of TDF. Premium eps are taped live and available here: www.thedorkforest.com.bandcamp.com (download the bandcamp app for EASIEST way to...

Roald Dahl. Caitlin Gill (@robotCaitlin on twitter @Caitlinistall on Instagram) loves the works. Knows the flaws of the man. Teaches me how prolific the guy WAS. She’s a great comic and this is a great ep. Enjoy. NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER PLEASE do NOT donate to TDF. DONATE to your LOCAL foodbank. FeedingAmerica.org is good if you’re in the US. OR… google the name of your town and the words “food bank...