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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 27: Cara Santa Maria & Glen Weldon

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Happy National Trivia Day! Let’s celebrate with a collision of journalists who also host podcasts! Cara Santa Maria is the host of the podcast Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria. She’s also a science communicator and there’s a chance that her proficiency in STEM will lead her to victory in this trivia battle. Her opponent is Glen Weldon, panelist on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He’s written the book on Batman and Superman (literally) but will that knowledge be enough to guide him to victory? In this episode, we’ll learn about fashion, drag queens and art with deceased creatures. What’s the difference: Top and Bottom What’s the difference between a shirt that is “button-up” and “button-down”? What’s the difference between “below” and “under”? Areas of Expertise Cara Santa Maria: Hold ‘em poker, the artist Christopher Marley and the Olive Garden menu. Glen Weldon: Wine tasting, Rupaul’s Drag Race and Catherine O’Hara. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Cara Santa Maria Glen Weldon With guest experts: Christopher Marley- international artist. Brian Firkus- actor, singer and embodiment of drag-queen Trixie Mattel. 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 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, welcome to GoFact. Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:23.7

Hi, everyone.

0:25.6

Welcome to Go Fact Yourself,

0:27.9

the show where we take the smartest people we know and make them look dumb.

0:29.5

And then smart again.

0:31.3

I'm Helen Hong.

0:32.6

And now, from the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles,

0:36.4

here's our moderator, Jay Keith Van Stratton.

0:39.0

Thank you, Helen.

0:39.6

Thank you, everybody.

0:41.7

Woo.

0:43.4

Helen, how are you?

0:44.8

I'm very well, Jay Keith.

0:45.9

How are you?

0:46.4

I'm very well.

0:47.6

I'm trying to stay very present

0:49.0

because as soon as this show is done,

0:50.6

I'm headed to the airport to go to Australia.

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