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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 36: Allie Goertz & Jason Stuart

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Go Fact Yourself is part of a balanced breakfast of trivia and comedy! Allie Goertz is a writer who hosts the fellow Max Fun podcast "Everything’s Coming up Simpsons". As if that didn’t give her enough funny things to surround herself with, she’s also the first woman editor for MAD Magazine! She’ll explain why even the silliest MAD content requires a lot of hard work. Allie faces off against Jason Stuart! He’s a comedian and actor. He’s appeared in a number of films like Birth of a Nation stars in the new TV series "Smothered." He’s always been openly gay in his showbiz career. But these days he says he’s, "only gay on the weekends." He’ll explain. Our guests will discuss breakfast, math and seminal "Saturday Night Live" films. What’s the Difference: Make it Count What’s the difference between a number and a numeral? What’s the difference between arithmetic and mathematics? Areas of Expertise Jason Stuart: LGBTQ History, Barbra Streisand, and breakfast cereal. Allie Goertz: The Beatles movies, the film Wayne’s World and giving advice. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Allie Goertz Jason Stuart With guest experts: Penelope Spheeris, director of films such as The Decline of Western Civilization parts 1, 2 and 3 and Wayne’s World. Mikal Vollmer, cereal box collector, lecturer and historian and creator of the online zine about breakfast cereal Free Inside. 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?

0:05.0

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?

0:17.0

Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:30.1

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

0:40.3

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 Stratton.

0:41.2

Thank you, Helen.

0:42.2

Thank you, everybody.

0:43.2

What a lovely crowd.

0:44.7

Helen, how are you?

0:45.9

I'm very well, Jay Keith.

0:50.1

Now, Helen, I am a big game show fan, and obviously we were hosting this quiz show.

0:58.0

Have you ever actually been a contestant on a gamer quiz show? I have never been a contestant, but I did love watching The Prices Right as a kid. That was your favorite show, yeah.

0:59.0

Oh, I loved it so much.

1:00.0

And I did one time actually, um, spent time in the studio where they actually tape the

1:06.5

prices right.

1:07.5

In Television City?

1:08.5

Yes, in Television City.

1:10.0

And I was like walking through the

1:11.7

hallways on my way to the commissary and the, the giant wheel was just sitting there in the

1:17.3

hallway. And I touched it. Wow. What number did you touch? I didn't get to do the do, do, do, do,

1:23.6

I didn't get to spin it, obviously, because it was, like, not really in use. It was, like, kind of in storage sitting in the hallway, but I got to touch it, and I took a selfie, and I loved it.

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