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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 37: Margaret Cho & Jamie Kaler

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Dolphins and music and sports, oh my! It’s a brand new episode of Go Fact Yourself! Margaret Cho is a comedian and actress, known for her role in "30 Rock" as Kim Jong-il, for which she received an Emmy nomination. Margaret is also heavily tattooed, but she’ll explain why she’s ready to slow down the body art now that she only has space on her bodies that would be painful. You can find her tour schedule on her website. Margaret will face off against fellow comedian and actor Jamie Kaler! He rose to prominence for his role in the TBS series "My Boys." He’s also a former Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He’ll explain why the punctuality he developed as a Navy man was a poor preparation for a career in Hollywood. Jamie can be found in the YouTube series "Dads in Parks" and the "Father Time" podcast Our guests will reminisce about their careers and answer trivia questions about marine life, basketball and celebrities from the ‘80s and ‘90s. What’s the Difference: Something fishy What’s the difference between a seal and a sea lion? What’s the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise? Areas of Expertise Margaret Cho: Korean revenge movies, YouTube beauty wars and The Beach Boys Jamie Kaler: The Dirty Harry film series, the basketball player Larry Bird and potty training. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Margaret Cho Jamie Kaler With guest experts: Gary Holland, longtime high school basketball coach, whose players included Larry Bird. Gary Griffin, keyboardist, vocalist and music producer who’s played with The Beach Boys. 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?

0:12.0

Do you drive people crazy when you start a sentence with, well, actually?

0:17.0

Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:25.2

Hi, everyone.

0:30.7

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

0:32.5

And then smart again.

0:34.1

I'm Helen Hong.

0:39.3

And now, from the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles, here's our moderator,

0:44.7

Jay Keith Van Stratten. Thank you, Helen. Thank you, everybody. What a lovely crowd. Helen, how are you?

0:48.7

I'm very well, Jay Keith. Helen, you actually have some special guests in the audience tonight.

0:54.7

I sure do. My parents are here. Oh, how exciting. Are they the two older Korean couple who was waving to everybody?

0:58.8

Yeah, that's a clue.

0:59.8

Okay.

1:00.5

What gave it away?

1:01.9

Yeah.

1:02.1

Yeah, they're the very stylish older Korean folks.

1:06.4

Absolutely, very stylish.

1:07.4

Yeah, are here in the audience.

1:08.8

They're not fans of the podcast, but, you know, they're in town, and they were like, we want to see your face, or here in the audience. They're not fans of the podcast.

1:10.9

Oh.

1:15.2

They're in town and they were like, we want to see your face, so I guess we'll come.

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