I talked with Adam Gertler and Stirling Gardner 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 – Gua Sha – 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 iPhone App 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
Monthly Archives: October 2010
TDF Ep 7 – Beth Schumann and Mark Lee
Beth Schumann is one of the managers at Rooster T. Feathers – 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… Gillian’s Island!
Mark Lee featured (did the middle spot). MC (opening) spot was played by Mr. Red Scott (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 Ranger T-shirt 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:
Matches were invented.
Michigan hand map.
Wisconsin hand map.
Fuzzy Wuzzy might have been based on Kipling – third poem down – but LOOSELY.
Beth’s favorite Shakespeare’s Sonnet #130, because, as she says, “which I like to call ‘you may be ugly but I love you anyway’”
There IS an iPhone APP 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 Stitcher.
TDF Ep 6 – Jimmy Dore and Matt Knudsen
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
Matt Knudsen and Jimmy Dore on movies, motivational speakers, the entertainment industry, stand up comedy and, eventually… politics (Jimmy Dore’s true dorkdom).
Jimmy Dore – links to his two podcasts, his facebook/twitter/comedy schedule and all of it on his website and Matt Knudsen has a new CD; “The Comedy Stylings of Matt Knudsen” is available on iTunes and Amazon.
Notes:
1. Eric Stoltz was cast in Back to the Future
2. Seinfeld started in 1990
3. Pat McCurdy – Chicago musician – http://www.patmccurdy.com/
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. Eric Douglas heckled in London
6. Bill Maher’s fiction about standup: True Story (I’m still not reading it)
7. Jimmy’s thrill of Matt’s regular gig at the Playboy Mansion
8. Del Close – http://losangeles.ucbtheatre.com/schedule/
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:Mike Ruekberg 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!
TDF Ep 5 – Paul F. Tompkins and Janie Haddad Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins 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, Janie Haddad (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 Magic Castle 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:Mike Ruekberg 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!
TDF Ep 4 – Drew Droege and Shelagh Ratner
Drew Droege and Shelagh Ratner (that’s a link to her IMDB page as well, and I didn’t ask her ONE DAMN question about doing video game voice work on Vice City. Not one. Here is her website. Instead we talked about Halloween, acting, horror films, comedy and, weirdly, the NFL.
Notes:Gregory Mcdonald wrote Fletch (and Flynn – I’ve read them all 😉 Audition is a Japanese horror movie by Takashi Miike – came out last year. (corrected:thks Brian)Michael Vick has had a terrible hobby.
Stand Up shows on the calendar page on www.jackiekashian.com there’s a fancy iPhone app for TDF http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-dork-forest-podcast-app/id393602669?mt=8 and if you have a Droid or Palm or something like that: http://landing.stitcher.com/?srcid=541 – they’ll hook you up with the last episode.