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Podcast episode featuring Tim Russ - Go Fact Yourself episode 170 (maximumfun.org)
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This is my favourite podcast. It features two contestants who are minor celebrities and asks them for three topics outside their field of work in which they are experts in, and then crafts a trivia quiz for them. Finally they bring in an expert to evaluate their responses, and the show is able to get some amazing experts who are a joy to listen to and usually the response from the contestent meeting the expert is incredibly wholesome.

This episode features Tim Russ so I thought the TenForward community might like it. There also some additional Star Trek trivia and personalities even during the part of the episode that features the other contestant Amber Nelson.

Tim Russ's three topics are - Astronomy, Alien invasion movies of the 1950s and 60s, and World War II. You can find out more about why Tim was intereted in these topics.

Also noteable quote from the episide: "I think Tim might be the center of the universe!"

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[–] klu9 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've listened to it now, it was fun. Thanks for introducing me to it :)

And going back through previous episodes, I see other Trek regulars:

Trek guests:

  • 147: Andy Richter
  • 134: Ed Begley, Jr.
  • 107: Richard Kind
  • 95: Alicia Coppola
  • 70: Rachel Dratch
  • 42: Jim Beaver
  • 29: Scott Thompson
  • 15: Paul F. Tompkins
  • 8: Paul Scheer
  • 2: Phil LaMarr

Other scifi:

  • 168: Jerry O'Connell (Sliders)
  • 166: Adam Savage (The Expanse)
  • 161: Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black)
  • 158: Cory Doctorow (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom)
  • 144: Sarah Wayne Callies (Colony)
  • 140: Ever Carradine (Eureka; The Handmaid's Tale)
  • 124: Bruce Vilanch (Star Wars Holiday Special)
  • 102: John Hodgman(Favorite Episode of The Next Generation podcast)
  • 75: Yeardley Smith (Maximum Overdrive)
  • 68: Michael Peña (Battle: Los Angeles)
  • RERUN/21: Grant Imahara (Star Trek Continues)
  • 50: Kelly Hu (X2)
  • 48: Jim Rash (Rick and Morty)
  • 28: Elliot Kalan & Felicia Day (MST3K revival, Eureka)
  • 26: Lea Thompson (Back to the Future)
  • 13: Fred Willard (Space Force 1978)
  • 4: Maz Jobrani (Better Off Ted)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Other scifi: 168: Jerry O’Connell (Sliders)

Ahem...

[–] klu9 2 points 5 days ago

{Damn, did I just reveal that I slid in from a universe where he wasn't in Trek?}

[–] Albbi 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Wow that's a great sci-fi summary for the show! Glad you liked it.

Geez, did I miss the Wil Wheaton episode? I think I'd remember that.

The Denise Crosby episode was really good. Walter Koenig came on as an expert one episode then he was a contestant the next episode so I think he really liked the show. Cirroc Lofton was alright and had a few trivia bits about his time on DS9 that was interesting, but I'd say it wasn't great overall.

Anthony Rapp is just amazing. I think he talked more about Rent than Star Trek, but it was only then that I realized that I had seen him in both.

[–] klu9 2 points 6 days ago

Already got a bunch downloaded. Lots to look forward to!

[–] klu9 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for the interesting link.

Unfortunately that episode does not feature Tim Russ. Because the guy in the picture is... old. Like, elderly. So it can't be Tim Russ, because if he's elderly, then that would mean I'm at least... 8-O

Hence, QED, unpossible!

[–] klu9 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Got me looking up Tim Russ's age, born in 1956 already!

Found what I think is the Trek "Class of '56"

[–] Albbi 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, Tim states in the podcast that he's been an Astronomer for 35 years! It's weird to see that the "Next Generation" of Star Trek actors are getting up there now.

[–] klu9 4 points 1 week ago

He just didn't strike me as already in his forties when VOY was running.

And the fact that the guy who ditched high school with Ferris Bueller is turning 69 in two months... what the actual F???