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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 14: John Ross Bowie & Jackie Kashian

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we learn about the time Jackie Kashian’s father hit on Maria Bamford. It was at Jackie’s wedding. To find out how Maria reacted, take a listen. Also, if anyone books a guest-starring role on NBC’s Speechless, John Ross Bowie will not only have your back, but he’ll show you where the craft service table is on set. Plus, if you ever wondered, “What’s it like growing up in the Theater District in New York?”, you’ll soon find out. Do YOU Know the Difference? Areas of Expertise John Ross Bowie: The West Wing, Stephen Sondheim and 1986 New York Mets Jackie Kashian: Marvel Comics since 2004, romance novels, and chicken. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong John Ross Bowie Jackie Kashian With guest experts: Former baseball player and current podcaster, Bobby Ojeda. Comic book writer, Mark Waid. 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. Theme Song by Jonathan Green David McKeever is the Live Sound Engineer. Maximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher The show is edited by Julian Burrell

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you a real know-it-all?

0:05.0

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

0:10.0

Do you drive people crazy when you start a sentence with, well, actually?

0:15.0

Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:19.0

Hi everyone, welcome to GoFactor You can go fact yourself.

0:28.6

Hi everyone, welcome to go fact yourself, the show where we take the smartest people we know and make them look dumb. And then smart again. I'm Helen Hong and now from the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles, here's our moderator, Jay Keith Van Stratton.

0:36.6

Thank you, Helen. Thank you, everybody. What a very,

0:39.4

very nice crowd. Hello, Helen. Hi, Jay Keith. Helen, do you have any exciting banter for us to begin

0:44.7

the show with this evening? Let's see. I'm going to be doing a lot of international travel coming up.

0:49.9

Oh, very excited. Where are you headed? I'm going to Turkey to do a U.S.O. tour. Oh, very excited. Where are you headed? I'm going to Turkey to do a U.S.O tour. Oh, very nice.

0:55.1

Where I intend to come back with a husband or a wife or an STD or, you know.

1:01.1

I bet you can get two of those at least.

1:04.5

And then later in the summer, I'm probably going to Kuala Lampur.

1:08.1

Oh, our neighbor to the east.

1:09.9

Yes.

1:10.7

West, probably west. If you keep going,

1:12.6

you get them either way. Yeah. Well, if you look on a map, it's kind of, you know, it's dealer's choice,

1:17.7

because eventually you will get there. I am doing some international traveling as well.

1:21.6

Where are you? I will be headed to Singapore in a few weeks. And you know what I love about that is I saw you post that on Facebook

1:28.4

because you said some airline is just doing a crazy deal

1:31.4

and you're just like, I'm just going to Singapore.

1:33.7

I pretty much am, but I'm really looking forward to

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