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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 48: Jenny Jaffe & Jim Rash

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mysteries will be solved and species saved on this episode of Go Fact Yourself! Jenny Jaffe is a comedy writer who grew up with an obsession for 90’s Nickelodeon animated shows. Her career has now come full circle: she’s landed a gig to writing for the upcoming version of "Rugrats!" She’ll tell us about that and some of her other obsessions that haven’t been a part of her work.. yet. Jenny will take on actor/writer Jim Rash. Jim is a pretty accomplished guy. He’s known for his role as Dean Craig Pelton on NBC’s "Community." He’s also won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Descendants. But in spite of his success, he’s still not above searching for some quality advice on Instagram… even if he has trouble following it. You can hear Jim now as the voice of Gyro Gearloose on the new version "DuckTales." This week’s trivia topics include moisturizing, basket weaving and cuddly critters. This episode is sponsored by Fake Radio: America’s premier old-time-radio comedy troupe. To find out more about their show and how to attend their live performances, visitfakeradio.net/gofactyourself. What’s the Difference: It puts the lotion in the basket What’s the difference between lotion and ointment? What’s the difference between rattan and wicker? Areas of Expertise Jenny Jaffe: 90’s Disney movies, anxiety disorders and phobias, and pandas Jim Rash: Sid and Marty Krofft shows, The movie Clue, and giving advice to others that he doesn’t take. Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Jenny Jaffe Jim Rash With guest experts: Dr. David Kersey, professor of veterinary sciences and giant panda reproduction expert. Jonathan Lynn, director of the film Clue. 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 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. Go to gofactyourpod.com for information and tickets to the next recording of Go Fact Yourself!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you a real no-it-all?

0:07.0

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.

0:25.6

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

0:35.6

And then smart again.

0:38.3

I'm Helen Hong.

0:39.3

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

0:43.3

here's our moderator, Jay Keith Van Stratt.

0:45.3

Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Helen.

0:47.3

Oh, what a crowd. What a show we have for you in store.

0:50.3

Helen, how are you? What's going on in your exciting little world?

0:53.3

Jay Keith, we have people in the audience tonight who drove in from San Diego.

0:58.3

What? Our neighbor to the south? Yeah, but they drove in special. That's so wonderful. We find that

1:05.5

very flattering and we appreciate it very much. We love it when people drive in to see us.

1:09.2

That's right. We had someone drive in from Arizona

1:10.8

once before.

1:11.6

Not that that makes them

1:12.6

better than the San Diego people.

1:14.7

You know,

1:15.2

I mean,

1:15.5

good for you for living closer.

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