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Go Fact Yourself

Ep. 85: David Pogue & Nancy Giles

Go Fact Yourself

MaximumFun.org

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

4.6786 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a brand new episode of Go Fact Yourself! “CBS Sunday Morning” regulars David Pogue and Nancy Giles go head to head and answer questions about their books, the magic of movies, superheroes and witches!

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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?

0:12.0

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

0:18.0

Well, guess what? You can go fact to yourself.

0:22.9

Hi, everyone.

0:24.1

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

0:30.3

And then, smart again.

0:32.4

I'm Helen Hong.

0:34.0

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

0:38.9

Jay Keith Van Stratton. Thank you, Helen. Great to see you again. Hello. Hello.

0:43.2

We have a lot of updates since the last time we recorded. This is our first recording we've done

0:47.1

since the Max Fun Drive. So first of all, I want to thank everybody who supported us in the Max Fun Drive.

0:52.0

I hope you are enjoying your perks or will enjoy them

0:55.2

when you receive them. Our stretch goal was that if we reached a certain threshold, we record a special

0:59.4

mini episode with listeners as the guest. Unfortunately, we did not meet that stretch goal, so we're

1:04.0

not going to do that this year, but it gave me some great ideas for how to do that on a more

1:08.8

approachable level next year, and I'm very excited for that.

1:11.6

And we thank you all for your interest and support.

1:14.3

The good news is, though, because of the contributions of our listeners, I was able to make a

1:19.2

donation in your honor to Hollywood Food Coalition of nearly $350.

1:25.8

So thank you so much.

1:27.2

That's going to provide a lot of fresh, hot meals for our unhoused community here in Los Angeles.

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