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.

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

Hey, thank you so much.

I'll be the stringy situation and you'll be the round situation.

All right, well, this segment needs to be thrown against the wall to see if it sticks.

Let's go to Helen Hong at the judges' table for the facts.

Here are the facts.

I'm J. Keith Van Straten.

And I'm Helen Hong.

Trick or trivia, ghost ghouls and goblins.

Welcome to Go Fact Yourself's Best of Scaries Special.

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Welcome back to the Best of Scaries special on Go Fact Yourself.

I'm Helen Hong.

And I'm J. Keith Van Straten.

Have spiders been framed by fables? We're gonna talk about it.

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I'm Miguel Oriñana, wildlife biologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

I'm Dr. Ida Gorbis, an expert of OCD and all anxiety disorders, a founder of Westwood Institute for Anxiety Disorders back in 1994.

We have cool projects that help the community get in touch with local wildlife in Southern California, and one is called SoCal Webs, organized by our entomology department, that helps us learn about where spiders are and aren't in LA and how we, so we can respond, um, and help them out if they need help.

Thank you so much, doctor.

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That's Funny Helen Hong, because there's, you know, there are some other Helen Hongs running around out there.