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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 3: Pamela Ribon & Frank DeCaro

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.8 • 862 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, comic book author and Moana screenwriter Pamela Ribon faces off against former Daily Show correspondent and host of The Frank DeCaro Show, Frank DeCaro. Ribon’s three areas of expertise are: The Goonies, The Outsiders, and Beastie Boys lyrics. DeCaro professes a deep knowledge of The Munsters, the original Batman TV series, and Broadway musicals. Who’s the better expert? Find out. Plus, J. Keith and Helen Hong ask the question that’s on EVERYBODY’S mind: What’s the difference between continual and continuous? If you don’t know the answer, drop everything and listen to the show. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Pamela Ribon Frank DeCaro With guest experts: Robert Skir, TV writer whose credits include X-Men Evolution, Disney's Gargoyles and Batman: The Animated Series. Jeff B. Cohen, Former Goonie and Cofounder of the entertainment law firm Cohen Gardner LLP. 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 Christian Dueñas

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Are you a real know-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.

0:22.6

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

0:29.6

And then smart again.

0:31.6

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

0:38.3

Thank you, Helen. Thank you everybody. Nice to see ya. Today on GoFact Yourself, two guests

0:45.3

will compete to answer questions about facts they know, facts they might not know, and frankly,

0:50.3

facts they should know. Plus, we'll meet actual experts on two very different topics, and finally

0:55.0

we'll declare one of our guests the winner of today's show. Let's get started and meet the

0:59.2

first of today's guests. Helen, who's up first? He was a correspondent on the Daily

1:04.1

show, a host of his own Sirius XM Radio show, and currently towards the country as the opening

1:10.2

act for Lisa Lampinelli, it's Frank

1:12.7

DeCaro!

1:13.7

Frank DeCaro!

1:18.0

Hello, Frank!

1:19.9

Yay!

1:21.8

Welcome, Frank.

1:22.9

Hello!

1:24.4

Great to see you.

1:25.4

Nice to see you.

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