Are you a real no-it-all?

Do you annoy your family by shouting the answers while watching Jeopardy?

Do you drive people crazy when you start a sentence with?

Well, actually.

Well, guess what? You can go fact to yourself.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Go Fact Yourself, the show where we quiz the smartest people we know and find out why they love what they love.

I'm Helen Hong. And now from the Carl Sagan and Andrian Theater at the Center for Inquiry West in Los Angeles,

here's our moderator, Jay Keith Van Stratton. Thank you so much. Thank you, Helen. Wonderful to see you. Nice to see you, Jakey. Now, some of our audience here will know, and I don't think our listeners will

know, that we were supposed to do this show about 10 days ago. That's right. We had to reschedule.

For a very obvious reason being here in Southern California, which was a hurricane.

That's right, a hurricane quake.

Well, the quake part was unexpected, but just a really lovely bonus from Mother Nature.

But yeah, we actually had an honest to goodness hurricane warning and thought it was best

to reschedule the show.

Now, Helen, you are homeowners, we've discussed before.

How was your home in the hurricane?

My home was fine, and I'm actually a little bit peeved because, you know, the local

news made such a big deal.

There's a hurricane.

There's a hurricane coming to Southern California. The last time

this happened, people died. And I was like, ah. So I spent all day just putting stuff into the

garage that could slam into my house and break the windows or something. And then nothing happened.

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