Episode 676-With Jenna “Dingo” Woldenga and Avery Howett from Fool’s Gold

The Functional Nerds Podcast

This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Jenna “Dingo” Woldenga and Avery Howett, part of the team behind the Fool’s Gold: Death by Karaoke Graphic Novel.

About Fool’s Gold: Death by Karaoke Graphic Novel: Have you ever sung karaoke so badly that you unleashed the apocalypse? Well, that’s an average day for the Fool’s Gold crew: a group of traveling magical rejects. Join the chaos of experiencing tabletop role-playing games with this group of chaotic friends and their even more chaotic characters as they dare to take on the world’s deadliest jungle known as the Bellowing Wilds. See them fall headfirst into triggering an apocalypse, tangle with a swamp witch, indulge in spa days, and deal with a rogue mechanical dragon. It will take intelligence, wisdom, and true bravery to survive this adventure…too bad they have none of these things. May the dice be on their side, ’cause they’re gonna need them!

About Jenna “Dingo” Woldenga: Jenna “Dingo” Woldenga is a storyteller, animator, illustrator, voice actress, and webcomic artist. She started the DingoDoodles YouTube channel in 2017 to tell stories from her life and friends. Eventually, she started retelling the story of the Fool’s Gold D&D campaign she played with Felix and their friends, and nobody has really told her to stop yet, so here we are! Her animated videos have amassed millions of views and single-handedly made Fool’s Gold into the success it is today.

Dingo is a master comedic storyteller and loves to get lost in her own worlds. She’s inspired by some of her favorite shows like Avatar: The last Airbender, Inuyasha, and Futurama, and she won’t stop until she makes an animated TV show worthy of standing beside her inspirations.

About Avery Howett: Avery is an illustrator, character designer, comic artist, and dinosaur enthusiast. She began her D&D hobby after meeting Dingo and Felix in college and went on to play Gothi in the first Fool’s Gold game.

Years later, she evolved from designing the looks of the Fool’s Gold crew at the table in her notebook, to becoming the lead artist for the Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds D&D supplement. Now she is a full-time illustrator with the team, following the fun into the next projects. She is also the lead illustrator and director of the Fool’s Gold graphic novels! In her spare time Avery pursues her comic passion by working on her webcomic Vamps.

About The Fool’s Gold: Sands podcast: Fool’s Gold is one of the most hilarious and dramatic D&D tabletop roleplaying shows on the internet! Join our cast of professional chaos goobers as they explore a winding world full of absurd monsters, moral dilemmas, legally-distinct-franchises, and emotional damage. Available in two flavors: The Fool’s Gold: Sands podcast, and the animated Fool’s Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds show on YouTube. Episodes are edited into snappy 1 hour chunks.

Links:

• Jenna “Dingo” Woldenga on Instagram
• Avery Howett’s VAMPS
• The Fool’s Gold: Sands podcast
• Tracy Townsend on BluSky
• Patrick Hester on Instagram
• The Functional Nerds Patreon Page

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