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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 26: Lea Thompson & Sandeep Parikh

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Nerdy media of the past and present collide on this edition of Go Fact Yourself! Lea Thompson is an actress, perhaps best known for her role in the classic Back to the Future series. But lately, she’s developed a reputation for losing reality TV competitions to such illustrious pop culture fixtures like Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong and Alfonso Ribiero. But she’s ready to end that trend on this show! Competing against Thompson is Sandeep Parikh, star of the series The Guild. Growing up, he worked really hard to learn about things that would help him fit in and make friends. Luckily, that helped him gain knowledge that could help him win today's game. In this episode, we’ll learn about classic Hollywood movies, baseball and the color green. What’s the difference: Green What’s the difference between “jealous” and “envious”? What’s the difference between a grove and an orchard? Areas of Expertise Sandeep Parikh: The Boston Red Sox, Hindu Mythology, and the film The Princess Bride. Lea Thompson: Roseville Pottery, designing houses and the film Harold and Maude. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Sandeep Parikh Lea Thompson With guest experts: Dan Shaughnessy, sports columnist for the Boston Globe. Ellen Greer, actress who’s appeared in more than 100 projects across movies, television and theater. Go Fact Yourself was devised by Jim Newman and J. Keith van Straaten, and produced in collaboration with Maximum Fun. The show was recorded at The Angel City Brewery in Los Angeles. Theme Song by Jonathan Green 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?

0:07.0

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

0:12.0

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

0:18.0

Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:25.1

Hi, everyone, and welcome to go fact yourself, the show where we take the smartest people we know

0:31.3

and make them look dumb. And then smart again. I'm Helen Hong. And now, from the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles,

0:40.3

here's our moderator, Jay Keith Van Stratton.

0:43.0

Thank you, Helen.

0:43.8

Thank you, everybody.

0:45.8

What a nice crowd.

0:48.9

A little inside info.

0:50.3

Helen, I think you and I were both anxious about this crowd being responsive,

0:54.5

and they know to save it for when the recording starts.

0:57.1

They are fantastic.

0:58.2

They are fantastic.

0:58.8

I was doing a little warm-up comedy beforehand, and I'm not going to lie.

1:03.4

I was a little concerned about the crowd.

1:05.3

I gave them a B-minus as a crowd during the warm-up, but now that we've started the recording,

1:10.6

they've kicked it

1:11.2

into gear, and now you guys are an A-plus. Yay! Oh, amazing. I'm not going to take it personally at all.

1:19.7

That you guys were a B-minus during my jokes. And now that we're podcasting, you're like,

1:24.6

we're an A-plus now. Today, and go fact yourself, two guests will

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