Steve Young and Aparna Nancherla 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 The Mother Tongue. 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 Mike Ruekberg
Audio leveling by …Patrick Brady

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Boy do I NOT know about Heavy Metal. These guys do, though. I had the band Beatallica (www.beatallica.org) 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 iPhone App has extra content if you have that app. Thanks so much for the new donations I received this week!
I’m at the Comedy Attic 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 website for specifics.

Take care out there. Jackie – If you wanna see a sample of my comedy… this is fun.
Credits: as per usual… thanks to Mike Ruekberg , who did the intro and outro music and Patrick Brady, friend of comedy, who fixes the audio.

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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

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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.

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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!

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