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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 38: Mindy Sterling & Dylan Brody

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Are you a true fashionista? Are you surrounded by the lore of classic comics? Do you just want to laugh and learn some great trivia? Whether you check one or all of those boxes, this episode of Go Fact Yourself is for you! Mindy Sterling is an actor who’s perhaps best known for her role in the Austin Powers films. She’s also had several TV roles, earning her two Emmy nominations! The only problem was that those two nominations happened in the same year… and in the same category. You can find Mindy on Twitter and on Instagram. Mindy will face off against author and humorist Dylan Brody! Dylan has made a career out of being funny. But he’ll explain why that’s changed in that profession as he got older. These days, he’s also interested in helping other people overcome their creative barriers to make what they’ve always wanted. To learn more, go to his website. Our guests will discuss their passions, kitchenware and the finer points of telling jokes as a grown-up. What’s the Difference: Home on the Range What’s the difference between an oven and a range? What’s the difference between a deer and an antelope? Areas of Expertise Mindy Sterling: How to put on makeup, decorating your apartment and "Project Runway." Dylan Brody: Nikola Tesla, Korean Martial Arts and the John Byrne/Chris Claremont era "X-Men" comics. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Mindy Sterling Dylan Brody With guest experts: Kentaro Kameyama, fashion designer who won season 16 of "Project Runway." Chris Claremont, New York Times bestselling author and writer of the bestselling comic book issue of all time. 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.

0:16.0

Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:20.0

Hi everyone. Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

0:29.9

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

0:40.0

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.

0:46.2

Thank you, Helen. Thank you, everybody. What a lovely, lovely crowd. That guy's applauding on his leg.

0:53.7

He's holding a beverage, but he still gets the spirit of things, and so he's slapping his, it's a knee-slapping good time.

0:57.8

Jay Keith, it's priorities. If you're holding a beer, you can't clap because you can't put the beer down. I feel like there's a shark tank invention in there. Like, someone needs to

1:01.3

invent a way that you can clap and as well as holding your beer. Yeah, because for a while

1:06.0

we were snapping and it's just, it just doesn't, it just doesn't sound as good. And for that reason, I'm out.

1:12.2

Helen, how are you?

1:13.4

I'm very well, Jake.

1:14.8

You've got some exciting news.

1:19.0

Helen has been mentioning on our episodes that she's been auditioning for pilot season,

1:20.6

and she booked a pilot.

1:21.4

I booked a pilot!

1:29.6

I booked a network television pilot for ABC.

1:32.0

One of our top five networks.

1:32.7

Correct.

1:33.9

That's correct.

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