Are you a real no-it-all?

Do you annoy your family by shouting the answers while watching Jeopardy?

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

Well, guess what? You can go back to yourself. Hi everyone, actually. Well, guess what? You can go fact yourself.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to Go Fact Yourself,

the show where we quiz the smartest people we know

and find out why they love what they love.

I'm Helen Hong.

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

Jay Keith Van Stratton. Thank you. Helen, wonderful to see you, as always. Nice to see you.

Oh, Helen, we are approaching what I believe they call the holiday season. Is that an... I was going to ask,

is that an exciting time for you, and instead I got a hook? So how you doing?

How are you holding up?

Well, as you know, I have an infant in my household, which is making us all very tired

and sort of short emotionally a little bit on the edge.

And to pile on, my parents are threatening to come to town and spend a month here.

The nerd. Oh, wait, a month here. The nerve.

Oh, wait, a month.

I was, I was going to give you a hard time about your parents having the nerve to visit you for the holidays, but staying with you for a month.

A month.

That's a lot.

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