Ep. 1: Jimmy Pardo & Beth Littleford

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

Game Show, J. Keith Van Straaten, Quiz, Arts, Helen Hong, Comedy, Angel City, Trivia, Podcast

4.8 • 862 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It's the inaugural episode of Go Fact Yourself! Hosts J. Keith van Straaten and Helen Hong test whether comedians Jimmy Pardo ("Never Not Funny") and Beth Littleford ("Dog with a Blog") are as smart as they think they are about topics they love. For Jimmy, it's 1980s music, the band Chicago and Post-90s Chicago White Sox, while Beth professes in-depth knowledge of old school funk music, artificial sweeteners and therapy. Beth and Jimmy may say they know about these subjects, but DO they? To find out, J. Keith and Helen enlist the help of actual experts, and pepper them with fascinating, but useless, trivia questions about things they might know and things they should know along the way. Go Fact Yourself was devised by Jim Newman and J. Keith van Straaten, and produced in collaboration with Maximum Fun. The show is recorded at the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles. David McKeever is the Live Sound Engineer. Maximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher. The show is edited by Christian Duenas.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you a real know-it-all?
0:04.0	Do you annoy your family by shouting the answers while watching Jeopardy?
0:08.0	Do you drive people crazy when you start a sentence with,
0:12.0	well, actually.
0:14.0	Well guess what? You can go fact yourself.
0:18.0	Yes! Go Fact Yourself. Hi everyone, welcome to Go Fact Yourself, the show where we take the smartest people we know and make them look dumb.
0:31.6	And then, smart again.
0:33.6	I'm Helen Hong, and now from the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles, here's our moderator, Jay Keith Van Stratten.
0:41.3	Thank you so much. Thanks, everybody. Thank you, Helen. All right. Let's get right to it and meet today's guests. She was the original female correspondent on The Daily Show, The Mom on Dog with a blog,
0:55.5	and presently recurring on the CBS drama, Wisdom of the Crowd.
0:59.0	It's Beth Littleford!
1:01.0	Thank you.
1:04.0	Thank you.
1:08.0	Hello, Beth.
1:10.0	Hello, Jackie. Hello, Helen.
1:11.6	Wonderful to see you.
1:12.6	Yes, you too.
1:13.6	Now, you were on the Daily Show from way, way on back before they were doing...
1:16.6	So many decades ago.
1:18.6	I remember cranking up the old Marconi and listening to the Daily Show.
1:22.6	Yes.
1:23.6	It was good times.
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