Helen Hong

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.

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Well, it's good to see that your plan to get Tom Hanks to be a guest on our show is going so well, you went to a bookstore.

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So I have to ask, are donkeys dumb and stubborn, or have they been framed by fables? That's what we're gonna talk about right now.

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And I'm your zoologist geeky friend, Jo Wimpenny.

[laughs] We always ne- everyone needs a zoologist geeky friend.

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, from the Crawford at LAist in Pasadena, here's our moderator, J. Keith Van Straten.

Thank you so much.

All right, so if you or someone you know is Tom Hanks, please get in touch with us.

Thank you for your sacrifice.

Thank you, Helen Hong.

This has to work.

Today you heard Eric perform on the African percussion instrument, the balafon, accompanied by our Lions and Legends Orchestra.

Find a list of our guest musicians and learn more about the ballaphone at lionsandlegends.org. A big roar of thanks to today's terrific actors, Theodore Chin, Ryan Dallasung, GM Hakim, and Helen Hong, whom you kids may recognize from The Thundermans.

And you grownups may know from her celebrity trivia podcast, Go Fact Yourself, and the NPR News Quiz, Wait, wait, don't tell me.

Are you ready to show off your Lions and Legends pride? Visit the shop link at lionsandlegends.org to order your Lions and Legends t-shirts, Lions stuffies, engraved challenge coin, and a personalized message from me or Eric for your birthday or any occasion.