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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 7: Kirsten Vangsness & Jason Kravits

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.8862 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, J. Keith and Helen play host to Kirsten Vangsness (Penelope Garcia on Criminal Minds) and Jason Kravits, who is very recognizable from his many many appearances on the big screen and the small screen, as well as Broadway. We learn that Kirsten considers herself an expert on Duran Duran, female sexual anatomy, and vegetarian food. Jason fancies himself an expert of intercontinental geography, crossword puzzles and Young Frankenstein. Will Kirsten be able to name the differences between apes and monkeys? Will Jason know the difference between “imply” and “infer”? Find out on this episode of Go Fact Yourself! Appearing in this episode: J. Keith van Straaten Helen Hong Jason Kravits Kirsten Vangsness With guest experts: Lyndsey Parker, Author of the book Careless Memories of Strange Behavior: My Notorious Life as a Duran Duran Fan Actor Danny Goldman of Young Frankenstein Go Fact Yourself was devised by Jim Newman and J. Keith van Straaten, and produced in collaboration with Maximum Fun. The show is recorded at the Angel City Brewery in downtown Los Angeles. Theme Song by Jonathan Green David McKeever is the Live Sound Engineer. Maximum Fun's Senior Producer is Laura Swisher The show is edited by Christian Dueñas

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you a real know-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.

0:23.8

Hi, everyone.

0:25.6

Welcome to Go Fact Yourself,

0:27.9

the show where we take the smartest people we know and make them look dumb.

0:29.6

And then smart again.

0:31.3

I'm Helen Hong,

0:32.3

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

0:35.6

here's our moderator, Jake Keith Van Stratton.

0:38.4

Thank you, Helen Hunk. Thanks, everybody. My goodness. What a wonderful crowd. Helen, how are you doing?

0:44.2

I'm doing very well, Jay Keith. Thanks for asking. Well, you're welcome. What have you been up to since our last show?

0:48.8

I just got back from Chile, Chile, Canada. Oh, I thought at first you meant chili, because I believe there's a country with that name.

0:55.8

No.

0:56.3

I was referring to chili as in frosty.

0:59.6

Oh, okay.

1:00.4

Frosty, Chile, Canada.

1:01.8

I was in Montreal, which is lovely.

1:04.1

It's a beautiful city.

1:05.2

What I appreciate about Montreal is it's so much like America, and yet nothing like America.

1:10.8

People were trying to speak French to me and saying things,

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