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Go Fact Yourself

Ep 21: Maria Bamford & Grant Imahara

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Maria Bamford is a comedian, and star of the Netflix series Lady Dynamite. She’s normally not one for small talk, but this podcast has just the right amount of organized conversation to make her feel comfortable. Grant Imahara is a former member of the B-Team on Mythbusters, and can currently be seen on Netflix’s White Rabbit Project. He’s a HUGE robotics fan. Why? Two words: Star Wars. In this episode, we’ll get an answer to what happens when a bull is actually let loose in a china shop and learn about the robots Grant has created--including a BB-8 that he has at his shop. What’s the difference? What’s the difference between “magma” and a “lava”? What’s the difference between “baking” and “roasting?” Areas of Expertise Maria Bamford: 12 step programs, self-help and pug aging. Grant Imahara: Star Trek, X-Men comics and “La Di Da Di” by Doug E. Fresh. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Grant Imahara Maria Bamford With guest experts: Dr. Christine Dresser, pug breeder and health liason for the Pug Dog Club of America. Gabriel Koerner, digital effects artist who appeared in the documentaries Trekkies and Trekkies 2. 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?

0:07.0

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.

0:22.3

Hi, everyone.

0:27.7

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

0:29.2

And then smart again.

0:35.9

I'm Helen Hong, and now from the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles, here's our moderator, Jay Keith Van Stratton.

0:37.2

Thank you, Helen.

0:37.7

Thank you, everybody. What a lovely crowd. Today on GoFact Yourself, two guests will compete to answer

0:42.3

questions about facts they know, facts they might not know, and frankly, facts they should know.

0:46.5

Plus, we'll meet actual experts on two very different topics. And finally, we'll declare

0:50.1

one of our guests the winner of today's show. Let's get started and meet today's guest, Helen, who is up first?

0:55.1

She is a comedian who tours the country and star to the Netflix show Lady Dynamite.

0:59.8

It's Maria Bamford.

1:01.2

Yay!

1:02.9

Thank you so much.

1:04.8

Thank you for having me on the program, Jay Keith and Helen.

1:09.8

So delighted.

1:11.9

Hi, Maria.

1:12.5

How are you?

1:14.9

...to pontificate on any number of... Three topics.

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