The Dork Forest

Tom Rhodes likes dead people. He is a great comic and he goes to the graves of his heroes around the world as he travels and does his LOVELY standup comedy. is his website. @_TomRhodes on twitter. No reason not to full on enjoy this and learn stuff. Gee, did you know I have a new hour comedy video out at ? Cuz I do. $5 download. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux” because comedy is all about soul ;) … Own it today and forever. Thanks. (Limited Edition T-shirt of the cover art available too at ).  Speaking of They are the podcast network The Dork Forest is a part of. Plenty of other podcasts there if you’re looking for them. DONATE folks… I’m working over here. or You can donate directly, get t-shirts and CDs, and order from our Amazon Banner on . Also, full schedule of stand up shows and live TDF’s are listed. Thanks for tuning in folks. Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own Apps are available with the bonus contest:  or  NOTES

Annabelle Guwitch is hilarious. She’s an author (newest one out this week! Called I See You Made An Effort). She loves so much awesome girly stuff and we dork out about IT. Enjoy. Gee, did you know I have a new hour comedy video out at ? Cuz I do. $5 download. It’s called “This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux” because comedy is all about soul ;) … Own it today and forever. Thanks. (Limited Edition T-shirt of the cover art available too at ). Speaking of They are the podcast network The Dork Forest is a part of. Plenty of other podcasts there if you’re looking for them. DONATE folks… I’m working over here. or You can donate directly, get t-shirts and CDs, and order from our Amazon Banner on . Also, full schedule of stand up shows and live TDF’s are listed. Thanks for tuning in folks. Credits: Audio leveling by Music is by Website design by : who has his own Apps are available with the bonus contest:  or 

Eric Lampaert and I did a show and I was DELIGHTED to meet him. He loves Evolution. LOVES IT. I made him weed off and not evolve his theory fully. But it’s great.  NOTES: Eric's Podcast is called Coffee Ramblings on iTunes and linked off of his page. Tune the heck in. This month’s sponsor has been Jeff Fullmer! He wrote Firebird Jim and you can get it here (and, as a special, for the end of the month… it’s FREE to download!) I really dark and smart and fun. And…it’s episodic and I’m looking forward to the next one. DONATE folks… I’m working over here. or You can donate directly, get t-shirts and CDs, and order from our Amazon Banner on . Also, full schedule of stand up shows and live TDF’s are listed. Thanks for tuning in folks. is the podcast network The Dork Forest is a part of. Plenty of other podcasts there if you’re looking for them.

San Francisco Sketchfest is dorky goodness. I did a live Dork Panel with Todd Glass, Ron Funches and Janet Varney. Oh… I’ll have them back on individually because it was FASCINATING. Table setting, Dioramas and the PS4 are discussed. Not ENOUGH of any of it, but it was still super fun. Enjoy. NOTES Todd Glass is fantastic. Janet Varney of the Legend of  Korra rocks worlds. Ron Funches is happening. Janet's Podcast is The JV Club on Nerdist and iTunes Todd's Podcast is The Todd Glass Show ALSO on Nerdist and iTunes. This month’s sponsor of the show is Jeff Fullmer! He wrote Firebird Jim and you can get it here: I really fun and it's episodic. SO... more coming! DONATE folks… I’m working over here. or You can donate directly, get t-shirts and CDs, and order from our Amazon Banner on . Also, full schedule of stand up shows and live TDF’s are listed. Thanks for tuning in folks. is the podcast network The Dork Forest is a part of. Plenty of other podcasts there if you’re looking for them. Credits: Audi

Chris Mancin of s and the loves video games and we talk it up! Old games, new games, the games that we're ashamed to love, the games that got away. He also has a kickstarter to make a podcast documentary!! it's called . Check that out www.kickstarter.com/projects/comedyfilmnerds/ear-buds-the-podcasting-documentary This month's sponsor is Ranger Jeff Fullmer! He wrote and e-book that you can read on your computer, kindle, nook or via the skywiting! It's www.firebirdjim.com . It's actionpacked high schoolers meeting and greeting on aliens (good and bad) and it's 99c. AND it's serial! Get in on the ground floor! www.allthingscomedy.com is the podcast network I'm with and you should check it out because there's lots going on. NOTES:Ultima 4Red Dead RedemptionMass EffectHidden Shadows (find hidden objects among the murdered! "oh look, there's a golf club!" Is THAT the murder weapon?Hidden Worlds (find hidden stuff in Disney movies. MUCH nicer and the only hidden obj game that is, currently, working on my iPad).

Robert Hack @robert_Hack is an artist and and knows a GREAT DEAL about Doctor Who. This MIGHT be the episode you've been waiting for. If you've been waiting for me to know nothing about Doctor Who. It's Madness. Dorky dorky Madness. It's great. This month's sponsor is a Ranger of TDF. It's Jeff Fulmer and he's written an e-book that you can read on MANY different devices. It's available here: . I read it. I liked it. If you like high school with aliens and James Dean... get it! 99c! www.allthingscomedy.com is the podcast network I'm on and there's a lot of great podcasts there if you're looking. NOTES:Robert Hack's worked on Afterlife with Archie Ray Cusik www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21563344http://www.doctorwhomagazine.com/the Lodger episodeDouglas Adams - Tom Baker seasonSexton BlakePlanet of the Daleks - on Skaro with the ThallsWeb of FearRobot Yeti - image google that. too great. BlinkJonathon CreekEric Roberts British Television Games - QJ, MastermindSpire Comics (google Image)Al Hartle To

Who loves the good works of the Coen Brothers? Josh Gondelman does! He's a great comic, www.joshgondelman.com and @joshgondelman on twitter, and we talk politics and characters. I didn't think I had seen as many of their movies but it seems I HAVE. NOTE: There are SPOILERS for THESE MOVIES. DID YOU HEAR THAT? I'm Yelling. It's great and fascinating. This month's sponsor of The Dork Forest is ranger, Jeff Fullmer. Jeff has written a book and I read it! It's a really cool e book (that IS a SERIAL) http://firebirdjim.com and you can get it here: It's episodic and I'm looking forward to the next one! GET IT FOR YOUR KINDLE-like device! www.allthingscomedy.com is the podcast network The Dork Forest is part of and there's plenty of great other podcasts to listen to, including Al Madrigal's and Bill Burr's. DONATE folks... even though this month has a sponsor ... it would be great if you're liking the show, you donated. If you're broke just pass on the word! And thanks for any and all of it. You can also get t-sh

Kevin Seccia (@kevinseccia and www.kevinseccia.com) is a writer that loves to watch some Boxing, MMA and has spent some time thinking about who could beat up who. His blog www.howtobeatupanything.com is currently a great book - Punching Tom Hanks  - check that out It's good stuff. Enjoy.  Audible is sponsoring this episode of TDF. You know how you can get that deal - a free month and one free book if you join Audible from any number of sites? Well, it's true HERE now. SO. If you've been thinking about joining Audible go here and do it NOW. I have an audible account. It's how I listened to all of Sarah Vowell's books. Cuz they're funny but VERY smarty magoo. So, hearing the facts, told by her with timing was even better than reading it. www.allthingscomedy.com is the podcast network TDF is with and they have a lot of great podcasts and things happening over there. Check them OUT. Because there's a sponsor doesn't mean that you can't DONATE ... I'm working over here. www.dorkforest.com and www.jackiekashian

The World Champ Judah Friedlander (@JudahWorldChamp) www.judahfriedlander.com is a great comic, wonderful actor, decent human and loves him some Ping Pong. We talk it out. I learn things and then forget them almost immediately. The phone bonus reflects that. But it's so great. And it was LIVE at the Fontanas for the @NYCPodFest. So great It's January, so now' the time to start thinking about donating to The Dork Forest. I do the shows. Sometimes they're live. I buy mics and cords and travel and it's a lot of time... you should donate if you can. If you can't... talk it up to others. Pimp this dorky goodness. www.dorkforest.com and www.jackiekashian.com both have donation buttons. There's also an Amazon banner at www.jackiekashian.com to order from them and I get a kickback. You can order TDF shirts and CD's there as well as check my standup schedule. www.allthingscomedy.com is the podcast network and comedy building empire that TDF is a part of .. check it out over there for more fun pods and vids and comedy

Brian Thompson (@Amsci) of the podcast QUIT IT http://amateurscientist.org/ is a comedy writer (Feb 19 UCB-LA) and a self-admitted, literary nerd. We are gathered to speak fo Kurt Vonnegut, and we do, we dork out hardcore on books for the hour. I do weed off and sypathize with the witch in Tangled.  Brian goes with it and makes it all so fascinating. It's a good one. Enjoy. Feel free to DONATE again to the show. My dream is that, if you can, donate $100 over the course of the year. That's $8 a month. It just gives me cash to pay for the extraneous cost of doing the show and it REALLY makes me feel like you value the show and find it worthwile. So there's that. If you want to order TDF merch (T-shirts, CDs, Hoodies) do it where my standup schedule and links to all things are found, www.jackiekashian.com. There is also an AMAZON banner (white) on the front page that, if you go to amazon through that portal, order your stuff, I get a kickback. No additional cost to you. Very supportive. www.allthingscomedy.co

Corey Olsen (@TolkienProf) teaches in the English Department at Washington College (in Maryland). He has a podcast as The Tolkien Professor and we talk about The Hobbit movies v the books. You'll want it to go longer. Me too. We'll do it again.  Happy NEW YEAR! Feel free to donate to The Dork Forest at www.jackiekashian.com or www.dorkforest.com. Order merch from my standup website, check my standup dates and feel free to order from Amazon through the banner there as well. I get a kickback. I know that the intro and ads are still from December... so, sure, STILL go to www.geekiana.com and buy geeky cool stuff. For it IS really great. Go ahead and don't donate this week to TDF, donate to the food bank of your choice instead. Turns out people are still hungry and http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx will still help you find your local foodbank. All Things Comedy is the Podcast network I'm in and they're great. Check it out. www.allthingscomedy.com NOTES:The Tolkien Professor - his podcast, his hi

Greg Asdourian () is a San Francisco comic and loves suits and cigars and other trappings of Rodney Dangerfield's heyday. We talk it out and it's great. Enjoy. December sponsor is and she's got some pretty dorky, geeky, nerdy shirts, scarves and sweatshirts. You're going to like it. Use code "Ranger" and get 20% off! She also has her own podcast. Listen Up. Order Up! This month DO NOT DONATE to the show. INSTEAD, Find a local food bank and donate to THEM. In the USA? Go here and put in a ZIP code Not in the US? Google food bank and yer town. I believe in you. You can always order from T-shirts, CDs, Hoodies. You can always support the show by USING the Amazon banner on and ordering like normal. Doesn't cost you anything, I get a kickback. www.allthingscomedy.com is the powerful comedy network that The Dork Forest is a part of. It's cool. You should go check them out. Cuz there's lots of great podcasts happening over there. NOTES: Just so you know. CREDITS: Mike Ruekberg. Singer. Composer. Hero. Patric

Ben Aller (@zoofab) is a Zoo Guy! He makes prefab vines and rocks for the animals to climb on! He knows things. We walk around the San Francisco Zoo and talk it out. Dork Expedition at the ZOO! It's WINDY... Patrick has done as much as he could do. I hope it's not too windy for you all, cuz it's great. Enjoy. December's sponsor is www.geekiana.com. Leann Olsen was on TDFEP206 talking Doctor Who and, her story reflect that. Use the code "RANGER" and get 20% off. She also has her own podcast. LISTEN UP. ORDER UP. This month, it's still December! DONATE to your local food bank instead of TDF. Finde them in the US at If you want to order stuff (t-shirts, CDs, Hoodies) go to www.jackiekashian.com and do that. There's also an AMAZON banner there (white) on the front page. Click through when you order from Amazon, no additional cost to you, I get a kickback. Thanks for that help. www.allthingscomedy.com is the podcast network The Dork Forest is a part of where plenty of other podcasts there if you're looking for

Matt Mira (@MattMira) loves James Bond. I learn a lot. Like what he likes to do in hotel rooms after kicking some ass. Matt is on the Nerdist and another pod called James Bonding. Cuz he's a bit of a James Bond dork. Enjoy. I did. There's also another "find Jackie a thing and win something" contest. Good luck. December's sponsor is last episode's guest - www.geekiana.com  - She has a world of geekery that includes t-shirts, Doctor Who hoodies, scarves and sweatshirts. She also has a podcast! LISTEN UP! ORDER UP! Get 20% off with checkout code, "Ranger." Yeah... a deal. This month I do not ask you to donate to TDF... INSTEAD, find your LOCAL Food Bank and donate to THEM. In the US? Go here: http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx and search by your zip. Out of the US? I believe in your school systems... you can find them! You can probably still order this week and get stuff by Christmas if you're in the US. Tshirts, Zip Hoodies, CDs at www.jackiekashian.com. Also, PLEASE use the AMAZON banner on my

Leann Olsen () won the Laffster () contest wherein you get to be ON TDF. We talk crafting and Dr. Who. She's been listening to the show so long I think she KNOWS that, schedule permitting, you don't have to "win" to be on TDF... you just have to get me in the same room in the same town with some time. As it is... this episode is only about 40 minutes and it could have gone on much longer. But the standup show at ACME was about to start and so we went our separate ways. More will come to you from the tshirt designing, British television loving world of on twitter. Enjoy this until then.   This month DO NOT DONATE to the show. INSTEAD, Find you LOCAL Food Bank and donate to THEM. can help you find it. If you want to ORDER merch (tshirts, CDs, Hoodies) from me and the show for the holidays… go for it at   There’s an AMAZON banner (white) on the front page too… if you want to use that, I get a kickback. No additional cost to you. And that’s where I’m keeping my schedule for standup and live TDF. www.allthings

Brandi Brown (twitter @ItsTheBrandi) is, like most of us, a nesting doll of dorkdoms. We, eventually, get to her fascination with the current Supreme Court of the United States and local Canadian news. But we go through Justin Beiber, to SCOTUS, to Sesame Street. She really wants there to be a dramady where we watch 9 old people argue. It's Fun! Enjoy. This month DO NOT DONATE to TDF... INSTEAD, find your LOCAL Food Bank and donate to them. www.feedingamerica.or/foodbank-results.aspx if you're in the US. If you want to ORDER stuff (T-shirts, CDs or Hoodies - I have, in stock, one of each size of the hoodies and everything in Dork Forest shirts and Ranger Shirts). If you are ordering from AMAZON this month - and, really, who isn't? Use the Amazon banner on www.jackiekashian.com (white, right above my Conan set) and it'll take you to Amazon and TDF will get a kickback, no additional cost to you. NOTES: Brandi's Pod - www.blaxploitationpodcast.comBrandi's Blog - www.houseofprocrastination.orgBrandi's Fringe

Rhiannon Archer (twitter @RhiannonArcher) is a Toronto comic, hilarious lady and loves taxidermy. BUT... she doesn't love the idea of stuffing dead animals. So she makes trophy heads of stuffed animals. I'm not even kidding. IT'S the greatest thing EVER. She sent me pictures. I'm gonna try to post some! So great! Enjoy. I did. November and December is DO NOT DONATE to TDF months... Happy Thanksgiving you guys. FIND A LOCAL FOODBANK and give them a couple bucks. http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx will help you in the US... or just google it and your town. There WILL be one. I, sadly, promise. If you want to ORDER MERCH for the holidays... I got some hoodies in and I have the shirts and CDs and all that at www.jackiekashian.com  - That's also got the contact info, standup schedule and all that. There is, too, an AMAZON banner (white) on the front page too... use that to order from Amazon, which we all do, and I get a kickback. Very exciting. No additional cost to you. CREDITS: Mike Ruekberg co

Ryan Stout (@StoutRyan) is a great comic www.ryanstout.com adn a guy that is willing to "fight the man." We hash out the traffic justice system in this country, the Constitution and NONE of this is legal advice. Know that in your heart. It's funny, insightful and great. I'll stand by that forever. Enjoy. This month DO NOT DONATE to the show. INSTEAD, find your LOCAL food bank and donate to THEM. http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx can help you find it. If you want to ORDER something offa the site for the holidays... sure! If you want to use the AMAZON banner on www.jackiekashian.com and click on that to get to Amazon (I get a kickback, no additional cost to you) ... go for it. www.allthingscomedy.com continues to grow more podcasts and will start putting out original content soon. Go there!! NOTES: Demur - NOT Demure. Sigh. a couple times I say it wrong, don't do it right. Sigh. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demurMeyer Lansky - Mob Money Guy - wikipedia the guy. He's fascinating.Google Yo

This episode was LIVE Streamed through www.Laffster.com. Dana Gould (@DanJGould), Matt Weinhold (@MattWeinhold) and Shawn Sheridan talked with me about scary movies that might be palatable to me. I was inspired to see Evil Dead 2 for the first time, RIGHT after this... and, they were right. They're hilarious, but - as with some live shows... I make audio choices that are hard for Patrick to fix. SO... it's worth the slight buzzing... because these guys know TOO much and LOVE these movies so much. It's great. enjoy.  This month DO NOT DONATE to the show. INSTEAD, Find your LOCAL food bank and donate to THEM. http://feedingamerica.org/foodbank-results.aspx if you're in the US. If you're overseas... google it. I believe in you. If, however, you want to order something for the holidays to support the show... that can totally happen at www.jackiekashian.com (tshirt, CDs, Hoodies). And if you're ordering from Amazon, USE THE "Support the Show" Amazon Banner on www.jackiekashian.com. No additional cost to you. I ge

Jane Edith Wilson (twitter @JaneEdithWilson) is a great actress and a good person. She's in and we talk crafts. Cuz she loves a glue gun and to knit and she will BRING the adorable into your lives. This is great. Enjoy. This month DO NOT DONATE TO THE SHOW. Intead, DONATE to Your LOCAL Food Bank. Find them at and hook THEM up with some money. Good for them, good for you. If you want to Order presents for people for the holidays... that, too, can support the show and get you stuff. Dork Forest t-shirts, Jackie Kashian CD's, the TDF Hoodie is going to be ordered before the holidays.  You can ALSO, no charge, help the show by ordering your Amazon order by using the Amazon banner on www.jackiekashian.com. My schedule is also over there too. Live it up. NOTES:Check out Jane's work and upcoming projects at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933560/ CREDITS:Audio levelling and Teaser video compiling by Patrick BradyMusic by Mike RuekbergWebsite design by VilmosApps are available, with Bonus content for iPhone and Andr