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Go Fact Yourself

Ep 15: Paul F. Tompkins & Susan Orlean

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Susan Orlean is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of books like The Orchid Thief. Paul F. Tompkins is a comedian whose voice you’ll recognize as the character Mr. Peanutbutter on Bojack Horseman. In this episode, we learn about why Paul can’t stop spoiling upcoming episodes of Bojack Horseman for his wife, and why he should be considered the king of coining new catchphrases. And we’ll also learn which animals in Susan’s life have been named after characters from Bojack(hint: not horses), and why it’s important to learn the title of an author’s book before interviewing her in a public forum. Plus, Susan explains more about her upcoming book and Paul discusses what makes him love podcasting so much. Do YOU Know the Difference? What’s the difference between a “Labyrinth” and a “Maze”? What’s the difference between “Distinguish” and “Discern”? Areas of Expertise Susan Orlean: Women’s fashion, 80’s music from the Congo and chicken husbandry Paul F Tompkins: SCTV, Neil Gaiman’s comic The Sandman and the film Jaws Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Paul F. Tompkins Susan Orlean With guest experts: Dr. Linnea Newman, Director of Global Technical director of poultry for Merck Animal Health Carl Gotlieb, Screenwriter of Jaws and author of The Jaws Log. Go Fact Yourself is coming to New York for two live tapings on July 21st and 22nd at Caveat NYC! For information on guests and to buy tickets go to gofactyourpod.com. 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 no-it-all?

0:05.0

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

0:11.0

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

0:16.0

Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:20.0

Hi, everyone. Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:29.6

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Go Fact Yourself, the show where we take the smartest people we know and make them look dumb.

0:38.5

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.

0:41.0

Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Helen Hong.

0:43.9

Oh, what a great crowd.

0:45.0

Helen, how are you?

0:46.7

What have you been up to since our last recording?

0:51.1

I have been trying to learn useful phrases in Turkish.

0:51.8

Oh.

0:55.0

Such as I don't eat animals with four legs. Okay, and how does that sound?

0:57.0

Darn if I know.

0:59.0

Oh, right.

1:00.0

I learned, I've actually learned in the past week that Turkish is one of the hardest

1:04.0

languages to actually speak.

1:06.0

Okay, and why are you learning it, by the way?

1:09.0

I should point that out.

1:10.0

Because I'm going to Turkey.

1:11.0

She's going to Turkey in four hours.

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