The Dork Forest

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    for $2. No obligation, hundreds of free eps are also here… this defrays cost and is, essentially, a bonus ep. Live EP at the Monotower Comedy Festival in Austin, TX w Martha Kelly (@marthakelly3), Erin Foley (@erinfoleycomic) and Janelle James (@janellecomic). When they met (in this black box theater) IT WAS MURDER.  They are all OUTSTANDING Comics and writers and you will love it. Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are recorded live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness.  Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

  Keith(@keithmalley) and The Girl(@chemda) have been podcasting the LONGEST. And they never do GET TO talk about the history of how it all happened, @keithandthegirl #myopeningline so we dork out about PODCASTING. You know. YOU GET IT. Listen up and enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness.  Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

Emergency rewatch of the show ER! Mandy Stadtmiller stopped the voices in her head (@mandystadt) with LOST and now ER while writing. She’s got a new book Unwifeable () and we talk about that and go DEEP into what binge television is FOR. Enjoy.   Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

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    for $2. No obligation, hundreds of free eps are also here… this defrays cost and is, essentially, a bonus ep. Grocery Stores with Maggie Maye (@maggiemayehaha). Freaking Grocery Stores. I didn’t know this is ALSO my own dorkdom. Live EP at the Bird CityC Comedy Festival with Maggie Maye knows things and loves things. We talk Groceries; we talk candy. We talk dolls. SO GREAT. SO CHARMING. YOU WILL LOVE.    Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

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 EP at the Vermont Comedy Club. Ryan Miller (@Guster) is Vermont’s local band dork luminary and he, essentially, interviews me. But he DOES collect Vinyl Albums and he DOES love Reddit! So we have a lovely discussion. Because he’s an INTERVIEWER. “Making Friends with Ryan Miller” on PBS. Donate to The Dork Forest at www.dorkforest.com or www.jackiekashian.com My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own

Bonus ep!! Black Panther SO FULL of SPOILERS. Great comic Joyelle Johnson @joyellenicole and I have been trying to dork out about ANYTHING forever. It’s not a full hour but it’s FULL OF JOY. Oh. That is also a pun on her name. She’s Great. Enjoy. There is ALSO some hilarious celebration of name dropping. Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

Remember Charmed? I LOVED Charmed. Not as much as Kendra Zzyzwyck (@gingerblivet) because she really loves it. The chemistry of the sisters and, still fascinated, but not as beloved… the clothes. Heh. She has a Charmed podcast. @charmedchatspod GET IT. THERE's A BUZZ. I think it was the cables. I just bought new cables. I'm sorry. The show IS free. Good luck. And... hey... Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

ALL THE PUZZLES! Pavel Curtis () is on board with all the puzzles. Mechanical. Logic. Escape Rooms. Jigsaw. Those just as lighter dorkdom. Oh he is dipped. You will love this. #jococruise Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest at or 11:00 (plus intro time) Physical Puzzles    21:00 various cons and IS there overlap? 28:30 5 Card Nancy My album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

Ikea and Home Depot are a dorkdom I did NOT see coming. Jean Grae ( – her new album “Everything’s Fine” just came out! Get it.) is such a delight I CLAIM I will go to an IKEA. Wait for it. I learn about curtains. You will be CHARMED. #jococruise Enjoy. AD: Secret Active. (you guys… they got the domain name secret.com. AWESOME). Donate to The Dork Forest at or 11:35 Home Depot    20:35 The Zombie Apocalypse and the use of “Shelf Bits” 36:35 Jean solves my Kitchen Curtain Rod issues. My album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www. album “Everything’s Fine” just came out! Get it.) is such a delight.

It’s ALMOST outsider movies. Greg Benson (@mediocre films ) loves a movie where so much effort has been made but there’s NOTHING THERE. Not Camp. Showgirls. We see how Yeshmin came to be.  #jococruise Enjoy. AD:  PROMO CODE: JK Donate to The Dork Forest at or 8:20 Showgirls 21:30 Manos the hands of fate    42:00 Mac and Me 50:00 The Room My album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

Such good intentions to discuss the fancy foods to aspire to but Anita Sarkeesian (@femfreq @anitasarkeesian) and I discover that we really want to dork out about being Armenian. And so it came to pass. She’s got a great site dedicated to looking at pop culture from a feminist angle which, since it’s never done that way… is fascinating. You will come for Anita and stay for the beginning of friendship.  #jococruise Enjoy. AD: use DORK on checkout and get $50 off selected Mattresses. You gotta WANT IT. I WANT IT. Donate to The Dork Forest at or 14:50 Swedish Bread.  63:30 Armenian Comedy   My album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

We dive off the third rope into a couple of Open Mike Eagle’s (@Mike_Eagle) favorite wrestlers. I learn a LITTLE bit more about wrestling. He’s got a new album out (Brick Body Kids Still Daydream) and a wrestling pod (it looks so SILLY and great rivalling, perhaps the genre itsveryself. #jococruise Enjoy. Donate to The Dork Forest at or 13:00 famous Ref! 15:30 Sensational Sheri “Sexy Boy” … a rendition.    46:00 Independent Wrestling the – Kenny Omega My album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

There’s series of novels Erica Burns (@blondechick80) has NOT read, but I feel like there’s more she WILL. WE dork out hard on Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, Outlander. We scratch a SURFACE. #jococruise Listen up. Simple Contacts: $30 off your reorder of your contact lenses prescription! There’s an app with a free double check vision test and everything.   USE CODE: DORKFOREST on checkout 16:00 Pro tip for audio books from the Library! 25:45 Jack Reacher Novels 32:50 Outlander the books. The show. The time travel. The ad. Then SO MUCH MORE outlander. Hee. Donate to The Dork Forest at   or   My album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design

Stu Anderson (@andest01) knows about the elusive brown trout. He made an app! troutspotr for the website and downloadable, free app about FISHIN! I learn from the ground UP about these water based animals and how to catch them. It’s an amazing conversation for real!! He ties his own flies. Get in there. Two ADS you guys: Stamps.com: A TRIAL month at (then if you like it – and it really is convenient if you use the post office like I do – it’s $15.99 a month AND KNOW they retcon you $16 for the first month). USE CODE: JK on checkout. Simple Contacts: $30 off your reorder of your contact lenses prescription! There’s an app with a free double check vision test and everything. USE CODE: DORKFOREST on checkout Donate to The Dork Forest at or 8:22  DIFFERENT TROUTS splained! 35:12 Lines… fishing lines, tippets … other things. Couple of great reads!! Curtis Creek Manifesto The Little Red Book of Fly Fishing My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on t

Chery Jones (of @moviesmademepod ) is SO GREAT. She loved a movie, so she learned to sail. She read a bunch of books about sailing and then got her masters. What? Yes. Listen up. THERE’S AN AD FOR A FREE MONTH OF EHARMONY! Get this… the promo code is LAKERS. Yes. It’s WATER based? How did they know? USE CODE: Lakers on checkout. 9:55 She saw that movie in 2003 13:50 Pirates turn into THE NAVY, Learning to sail Tall Ships 26:00 I fall in LOVE with Cheryl Jones. 47:00 SCURVY Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness.  Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

Labyrinth is that Bowie/Jim Henson movie I saw once. Virginia Jones (@badiniadones),  standup comic and delight, has seen it A LOT. I learn Jennifer Connelly invented Cosplay. Holy smokes with this movie. I learn stuff I didn’t know about Goth. It’s a delight. 2:30 RIGHT away we find out about “Dark Nerds” and the game “REAL DOG/PUPPET DOG” 16:30 we Weed off into discussing our opinion of Birds. 39:13 Me with a great question, as Bowie is musician, “is there a soundtrack?” Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness.  Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www. Feb intro Phone Bonus.

The woman behind the man is usually right next to him getting her name removed from the research paper when they stop being married. Cathryn Michon (@thegrrlgenius) is a writer and director and she is great. She loves a tale of an underdog. And the women who inspire her to keep going. This one will make you mad and remind you about the Cotton Gin. Bring It. 11:19 Catherine Littlefield Green invented the Cotton Gin 24:42 a VERY intense conversation about Oprah running for President to 30min in. At least. Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

Martha Gellhorn was inspirational to Julie Seabaugh (@julieseabaugh). Inspiring her to write what she wanted to write about (Julie is a freelance comedy writer) and, just as telling, get the hell out of St. Louis for a minute. I’d never heard of her. It’s a good one!! 15:30 D Day! 22:00 Martha TRIED to write fiction. She’s no Hemingway. 34:00 book BY Martha to start off your own travels. Donate to The Dork Forest at or My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on , and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here:   USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady  Music is by Mike Ruekberg  Website design by Vilmos: www.

If you’re alive to read this; projectionist by trade maybe created Gariana Abeyta’s (@garianaabeyta) cross section of SO many movies she’s willing to love. It’s her birthday week and wish her happy birthday and watch a doco she’s in called “Out of Print” on Netflix and everywhere. 12:25 Why she wanted to BE a Projectionist. She Got to Wear Her Own Shoes. 43:42.40 Have Gariana every cheered in front of a painting? 47:20 the Movie Purple Rain from the projectionist booth. THAT EXPERIENCE. 1:18.20 SHE’S STILL TALKING. I’M ENDING THIS THING. SHE’S SO GREAT. Donate to The Dork Forest at www.dorkforest.com or www.jackiekashian.com My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Bra

It’s a science and it’s about helping each other. Dorking out about The Great British Bakeoff with Carlos Delgado (@cevichepapi delgadocomedy.com and has his own show POD DAMN AMERICA) is a sweet sweet treat. Enjoy. 8:30 What Carlos would like you know KNOW about the Great British Bake Off. 18:15 Carlos helps me know what the hell a “sponge” is and I make him say it a lot. 45:45 I guess there’s a Great British Bakeoff Master Class – Paul and Mary face off?! Donate to The Dork Forest at www.dorkforest.com or www.jackiekashian.com My new album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ USE THE AMAZON banner when you order your own dorky goodness. Audio leveling by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos: www.hiredguncoding.com