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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 56: Jordan Morris

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

It’s another quarantine and redemption edition of Go Fact Yourself! Jordan Morris was on episode 24 of the show where he was quizzed on his love of the La Brea Tar Pits. Even though he aced his area of expertise, he came up just short of victory.  We’re giving him another shot at proving his trivia prowess as we have fun chats about drinking games, thinking games and cartoon fame! Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Jordan Morris With Guest Experts: Monique Powell, songwriter and lead singer of the band Save Ferris Yeardley Smith, actor who’s best known as the voice of Lisa Simpson. Go Fact Yourself was devised by Jim Newman and J. Keith van Straaten, and produced in collaboration with Maximum Fun.  Theme Song by Jonathan Green. Maximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher. The show is engineered and edited by Julian Burrell. Go to gofactyourpod.com for information and tickets to the next recording of Go Fact Yourself … whenever that is! Get our Go Fact Yourself t-shaped shirt! Visit us @gofactyourpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. And wash your hands!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you a real no-it-all? Do you annoy your family by shouting the answers while watching

0:11.5

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

0:18.9

You can go fact to yourself.

0:21.8

Hi, everyone.

0:22.9

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

0:28.5

And then smart again.

0:30.1

I'm Helen Hong, recording from my closet with no pants on.

0:35.1

And now socially distancing from our homes in Los Angeles, here's our moderator,

0:39.7

Jay Keith Van Stratton. Thank you, Helen. Thank you for that lovely visual image of being in

0:45.0

your closet without pants. Yes, this is our second remote episode. How have you been doing during

0:49.9

this quarantine time? I actually feel like I was built for this because I'm, yeah, yeah, I just

0:57.0

love doing nothing and sleeping in and watching a lot of Netflix and Hulu. And I have a dog now,

1:04.4

and that's really great. And, you know, I'm one of those people who thinks that dogs are better

1:09.1

than people. I've been thriving, actually.

1:12.3

I have to say decades of depression and social anxiety have really prepared me for this moment.

1:17.5

Yeah, same.

1:18.1

It's my time to shine.

1:19.5

Same.

1:19.9

The secret introvert's time to shine.

1:22.5

No, I'm glad to hear you're doing well.

1:24.4

I've set up a little recording studio on my dining room

1:27.5

table. By recording studio, I mean my girlfriend cut up a memory foam pillow, lined an Amazon cardboard

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