Ep. 79: Lewis Black & Helen Zaltzman
Go Fact Yourself
MaximumFun.org
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start the show, we've got a special announcement. |
| 0:03.0 | You know, facts took a bit of a beating in 2020. |
| 0:05.7 | I think it's time we turn the page and celebrate the truth. |
| 0:08.3 | And do we have a fun way to do it? |
| 0:10.8 | We do. |
| 0:11.6 | PolitiFact, the nation's leading political fact checker, is hosting its first ever festival of facts |
| 0:17.1 | to celebrate fact checking and to feature some of the most important voices in media, |
| 0:22.1 | health care, politics, and technology. And it's called the United Facts of America. |
| 0:30.9 | And unlike that, which was not United, but it's called the United Facts of America. Tell them |
| 0:35.5 | about it, Helen. The virtual festival can be viewed entirely online and includes the nation's leading health care and political journalists, |
| 0:43.3 | like CNN's Bryant Stelter, Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling, and Dr. Anthony Fauci. |
| 0:51.2 | Woo-hoo! |
| 0:52.1 | It also includes us. |
| 0:54.0 | Helen and I are scheduled to host a special game that will likely appeal to listeners of GoFact |
| 0:58.4 | Yourself, and you can watch. |
| 1:00.1 | The event is held online, May 10th through the 13th, and sessions will be recorded in case |
| 1:05.5 | you can't attend every live event. |
| 1:07.5 | That's right. |
| 1:07.9 | Tickets are $50, which sounds like a lot, but go fact yourself listeners |
| 1:11.8 | can save $15 today by using the promo code, Fax 2021 at checkout. Helen, what's that code? |
| 1:19.3 | Fax 2021 at checkout. Tickets and more details are available at Politifact.com slash fax-hyphen-fest. That's Polytifact.com slash facts hyphen fest. That's politifact.com slash facts hyphen fest. |
| 1:31.1 | And use the promo code. Facts 2021. Yay, facts. Yay, facts. |
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