The Dork Forest

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 right - and Pat Brady (not Grady - there's a fascinating tale of ..zzzzz) did amazin work - so hopefully all things can be heard. 

 

Here is the longest list of notes/links to the many things we touched on:

 

– I’m actually ON a current episode.

 

Comics

– Bendis arc…

– (I mentioned they loved Ultimates and Andy handed me 40 comics to read)

 

Ben Blacker’s Top Three Movie Comedies

(not on Ben Acker’s List)

 

Favorite Christmas Movies

 

More Media from Ben Blacker

 

Ben Acker Top Three Movie Comedies

 

Fave podcast besides Marc Maron’s -

Fave Webcomics:

 

Kyle Baker Artist/Author Talk:

– did the art, but great

 

Fiction

 

I can’t find the Model Airplane Dork Forest EP from the … dang… can’t find it. If YOU find it – email me:

 

And in the last five minutes we start a NEW topic that needs to last a half hour – I will have them back! They are great!

 

If you can’t find something to read, watch or stare at after this list (which is not complete), I’m exhausted and can’t help you. You are loved and thanks for listening… Happy New Year!

 

Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady!Music by

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 comedy and sometimes, to get to art, you go through obnoxious, not funny things. You'll get over it.

 

NOTES: (the reason King Edward VIII abdicated the British throne in the 1930's) came up because we were going to discuss  - which Marcia really liked but we didn't get into it.

(well, I looked him up and I know NOW - but this link is Wiki, I'll get a second source for my "paper") did and he's incredible. I think I'll buy an album. See? I can be taught.

 - "greenies" and the link is NO ONE I KNOW but an incredible dialog about taking this drug. Good grief.

- Trailer. heh... found it.

 - autobiography by Marcia Wallace.

- the show on Showtime that Gary is on and here is the book that his monthly show is based on:  - follow him on twitter to get dates when he's doing sets. Because he's great. 

- Marcia Wallace plays the mother-in-law in this Soprano/Vampire spoof web series. Watch it! 

 - the chorus is quite painful.

 

Have a great week folks - more dorkdom coming,

 

xo, Jackie

 

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Credits: Audio leveling by Patrick Brady!Music by  

DorkDorkDork by Mike Upchurch

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 pleasures in unathorized autobiography. And, there is plenty of me dorking out about many things. Enjoy.

 

Blackberry inventor - Mike Lazaridis

Russell Brand –

Linda Barry -

Malcolm Gladwell –

– I’m sure there’s a better version – minute 6:50 to 7:50

video Mary Lynn did which may or may not be safe for work.

 

Credits:

Audio leveling by Patrick Brady!Music by

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 RPG suggestion: Graphic Novel suggestion: Board game suggestion: Pauls’ board game suggestion: Jackie's board game suggestions: ,

Happy Merry and be good to each other out there.

Credits:Intro and Outro Music by Audio leveling by Patrick Brady

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!

 

Credits:Intro and Outro Music by

Audio leveling by ...Patrick Brady

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 musicians and… I used to babysit the lead singer’s little sister. So, I knew him when he was just a foot soldier in the Kiss Army. They are all from Milwaukee, as am I, and we digress on that for a while.

 

I try to keep up and, as usual, when the dorkdom is music, it’s best when I just leave them to it. I learned a lot. I hope you do too.

 

Check out their website, their live shows are amazing and I will check out their suggestions. These ones fascinated me: Drain STH, The Sword, Blind Gaurdian, Voivad. And we created a suggested starter short playlist: Körgull the Exterminator by Voivod, Reign in Blood by Slayer, The Prisoner by Iron Maiden, and Warp Riders by The Sword.

The   has extra content if you have that app. Thanks so much for the new donations I received this week!

I’m at the in Bloomington, Indiana this week. Come on down if you live near there. And on Bob and Tom on Thursday - check the tour page on my for specifics.

 

Take care out there. Jackie - If you wanna see a sample of my comedy... is fun.

Credits: as per usual… thanks to , who did the intro and outro music and Patrick Brady, friend of comedy, who fixes the audio.

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 to prepare them. Adam has his current show on Food Network - Kid in a Candy Store and Will Work For Food is in rerunning rotation.

Stirling has had a wide and varied obsessive life and it took me most of the show to pinpoint that he loves him some self help body and mind work. We spoke of the spoon treatment to his back - - and he sent me a picture of his back but it looks pretty bad... why don't you just Google it. Adam and I were disturbed. YET... intrigued. That's what LA will do to you. And the Dork Forest... you end up intrigued about "body treatments."

Then it was CRAZY... Stirling worked on some Tony Robbins seminars and how you can use your powers for good or evil. I got creeped out and made Adam tell me about the Reeses Peanut Butter Cup factory.

The  finally has extra content. Me telling Andy about the show, essentially and me trying to explain the difference and sameness of the Beer Koozie, Beer Cozy, Cozies, Cozie and Coozy. Tell me how you like it if you have the app!

Thanks for tuning in! I'm in Minnesota this week and Indiana next week - check the tour page on my website for specifics. Take care out there. Jackie

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!! Listen up!

 

Note about minute 12: hi… I say, by name, the three “super-fans” (a word that I'm sure is not real) and I edited their full names out of the podcast with my shitty shitty editing skills. I thought they didn't need their full names revealed. I thanked them a lot of course.

 

For the record, three people donated over $100, four donated $20-25, and one donated $50. It paid for the equipment – but not the website. SO… if you wanna donate – I need about $200/yr for website. And. Sure. If you donate $100 I’ll send a and both CDs as a “gift.” That you paid for, as well as paying for/towards the podcast. Hit the donate button and write me a note and I’ll ask you want you want - in any case, you are loved and thanks.

jkNotes in no particular order:

were invented.

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might have been based on Kipling – third poem down – but LOOSELY.

Beth’s favorite  , because, as she says, “which I like to call 'you may be ugly but I love you anyway'”

 

There IS an that you buy and gets you all the shows and, soon, EXTRA content.(like andy’s suggestion that you read/see Hamlet BEFORE you see R&G are Dead). If you have a Droid/Palm/Blackberry – you can get the latest ep at .

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 true dorkdom).

 

– links to his two podcasts, his facebook/twitter/comedy schedule and all of it on his and has a new CD; “The Comedy Stylings of Matt Knudsen” is available on iTunes and Amazon.

 

Notes:

1.

2. Seinfeld started in 1990

3. Pat McCurdy – Chicago musician -

4. I actually did want to be a Park Ranger in high school. I guess I’ve embarrassed myself with aspirations from childhood. I don’t even know how to camp.

5.

6. Bill Maher’s fiction about standup: (I’m still not reading it)

7. Jimmy’s thrill of Matt’s regular gig at the Playboy Mansion

8. Del Close -

 

Sound note: I don't think the sound taped through the board, it came right out of the ZOOM. Live and learn. Also, I'm building character: Listening to my own podcast is ... a learning experience. I think that Chicago comics like Jimmy Dore bring my Wisconsin/Chicago accent back with a vengence.

 

It ends and then it doesn’t… much like leaving a party. Keeping with the immediacies of being in the room of a podcast: there is a lot of chewing going and my phone rang twice during the show and I weeded off for more coffee. It felt wrong to edit it out. So, feel free to email me if you’d like more of something. Take care out there, Jackie

Credits: did the intro and outro music (that Mexican Hat Dance just makes me happy to listen to, so I'm closing the show with it for now).

Patrick Brady, friend of comedy and TDF knows how to use audio software and fixed the audio. I'm hoping to learn how to do it myself, but he said he LIKES doing it. So thank you and FUN!

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 and bars and venues that are little known gems out in the world. We talk of these things... and fashion. It's a good one - enjoy.

Credits: did the intro and outro music (that Mexican Hat Dance just makes me happy to listen to, so I'm closing the show with it for now).

Patrick Brady, friend of comedy and TDF knows how to use audio software and fixed the audio. I'm hoping to learn how to do it myself, but he said he LIKES doing it. So thank you and FUN!