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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 32: Guy Branum & Emily Heller

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the #MaxFunDrive, Go Fact Yourself presents a special network crossover! Guy Branum is a comedian and host of the podcast "Pop Rocket". He's also a pop culture savant, as detailed in his book My Life as a Goddess. If you want to know more about the pop culture he loves, you'll have to read the book… but he's happy to provide a glimpse through some of his answers today. His opponent is a fellow comedian for whom he has a lot of respect (and fear): Emily Heller! You can hear her as the host of the podcast "Baby Geniuses". Her show is all about explaining things. Today she’ll key in on a very important topic: Martha Stewart's barnyard animals. From personal heroes to classic television to the subtleties of regional coffee pot designs, this episode has it all. This show is directly funded by our Maximum Fun Members. As part of our annual #MaxFunDrive, you can sign up for as little as $5 a month at maximumfun.org/donate to help support this and other Max Fun shows you listen to AND earn great gifts in the process! What’s the difference: Coffee/Coughy What’s the difference between a teapot and a coffee pot? What’s the difference between phlegm and mucus? Areas of Expertise Emily Heller: The TV show "Frasier", the musical group Indigo Girls and how to have a good time at Disneyland. Guy Branum: Academy Award nominees for best actress, the TV show "30 Rock" and grains. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Guy Branum Emily Heller With guest experts: Emily Saliers, Grammy Award winning musician and one-half of Indigo Girls. Margaret Cho, comedian and actress. 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.

0:24.4

Hi, everyone.

0:26.1

Welcome to Go Fact Yourself,

0:27.8

the show where we take the smartest people we know

0:30.0

and make them look dumb.

0:31.7

And then smart again.

0:33.5

I'm Helen Hong.

0:34.9

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

0:39.2

here's our moderator, Jay Keith Van Stratten.

0:42.1

Thank you, Helen. Thank you, everybody. What a wonderful crowd.

0:45.6

Lovely crowd. Helen, how are you?

0:47.8

I'm very well, Jay Keith. How are you?

0:49.4

I'm very well as well. What is going on in your exciting world?

0:52.0

I've been doing a lot of meditating lately.

0:55.5

Oh, very on trend.

0:57.1

Yeah, very on trend.

0:58.5

It's very unlike me.

1:00.0

I'm sort of the least mindful, self-helpy human being.

1:05.9

I like to solve my problems with vodka.

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