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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 33: Sara Schaefer & Kurt Braunohler

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Grab your favorite science-fiction novel and settle into your 1400's English outfit for this episode of Go Fact Yourself! Sara Schaefer is an accomplished comedian and writer. She won an Emmy for her time as a blogger on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." And yes, you can win an Emmy for blogging! But that was not her first Emmy nomination, that came during her time as a writer for a show that might help her out today: "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Sara's new comedy album "LIVE LAUGH LOVE" is available now. Sara's opponent is Kurt Braunohler! He's the host of the Los Angeles comedy show "Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen". These days, he's got a pretty great professional life, but that wasn't always the case. He'll recount some of the roughest parts of his career, including when he performed an hour of stand-up to an audience of three people. You can see Kurt in the Showtime series "Black Monday" As our guest's trivia prowess is pushed the limit, we'll learn more about the postal service, barnyard animals and the two Coreys. What’s the difference: Mail/Male What’s the difference between certified mail and registered mail? What’s the difference between a bull and an ox? Areas of Expertise Sara Schaefer: Joni Mitchell, crafting and Tudor England Guy Branum: Science-Fiction literature, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and movies that feature both Coreys Haim and Feldman. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Sara Schaefer Kurt Braunohler With guest experts: Dr. Muriel C. McClendon, UCLA professor whose area of research is Tudor England. Larry Niven, author of numerous science-fiction books, including the Ringworld series. This episode is sponsored by CA Trusts. 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.

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0:00.0

Are you a real no-it-all?

0:07.3

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.

0:17.6

Well, guess what?

0:18.5

You can go fact yourself.

0:30.3

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

0:39.6

And then smart again. I'm Helen Hong. And now, from the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles, here's our moderator, Jay Keith Van Stratten. Thank you, Helen. Thank you, everybody. We have got a more compact but very mighty

0:47.2

crowd today. Very mighty crowd. Yes. We're happy to have you. Helen, how are you? I'm very well,

0:52.8

Jay Keith. Now, Helen, I should note that we get feedback from our listeners.

0:56.3

We're very grateful for our listeners and when they send us tweets.

0:59.5

And I got a tweet recently that I thought would lead me to clearing something up.

1:04.1

Someone said, I love the show, and well, of course, then thank you.

1:08.6

But they said, when are Jay anden going to do a show where they

1:11.9

compete against each other uh oh and i wrote back as soon as j keith changes his name to jay yeah uh because

1:17.5

apparently which i didn't mean is to be as as snarky but the person says person seemed to be gobsmacked

1:22.8

not knowing that my my name is not jay they thought it was J-A-Y. Oh. So I thought perhaps it would be a chance

1:28.4

to clear something out.

1:29.4

I could see why there's some confusion there.

1:31.2

Right.

1:31.4

If you're just listening via audio,

1:34.2

you might think J-Keth is J-A-Y-Keeth.

1:37.4

Right.

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