September 10, 2025 • 19 mins
Hello, Puzzlers! Puzzling with us today: stand-up comedian Chris Duffy!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello puzzlers. I thought we could start with a quick puzzle.
Today's amuse boush puzzle. It's in honor of our guest,
Chris Duffy, whose last name has double f's. Two f's
and Chris Duffy. Two f's is a pretty good amount
of f's. But my challenge to the folks at home
is to think of words that contain more than two f's,
(00:25):
like fisticuffs, which has three f's. So I'm looking for
words with three f's like fisticuffs, or even four f's.
If you can get four f's, that's an a plus
in my book. In my research, I was actually only
able to find two words that contain four fs. One
(00:47):
is a word that you've probably heard of. The other
is a word that you've heard of if you are
a professional or anithologist. So oddly, both quadruple F words
are in the form if alf. They rhyme with like
ziff zaff, which is not a word, but if af,
so think on that and the answer is a more
(01:08):
puzzling goodness. After the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to
the Puzzler Podcast. The vase in your puzzle optical illusion
or is it the two silhouetted faces, illusion, where's it both?
(01:30):
I'm your host, Aja Jacobs, and I'm here of course,
the she puzzle officter Greg Pliska Greg. Before the break,
we asked about words that contain multiple f's, three or
four f's, So let's start with three f's. Did you
come up with any?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Do you know what I wrote down?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I wrote down two things that have three f's in
a row.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Mmm, I love it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I wrote down snuff film.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh boy, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And I know if this is an actual thing?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Staff function as a one word both two words.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
None of those are single words, got it?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Uh? Well, those are excellent for triple for actual one words.
Did you come up with anything that well?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Like fluff, fluffer, fluffer, fluffy.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Cape ite cape it g rated here.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm thinking of fluffer, nutter, fluffer nutter, peanut, butter, sandwich cookie.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
What were you thinking of?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
My favorite changing the topic was hassan feffer one highly
seasoned rabbit meats too.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You can eat with a fluffer, nuff, fluffer, nutter cookie.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
They go together great.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Also, a good long one is chief financial officer, which
has four fs in it. Now it's a nice one
multiple word phrase, but dictionary nature phrase.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So tell me about the four your.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Clue one way, riff raff is one of them.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, but you hear the other riff raff the.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well, when you said bird, I thought of the half inch,
which is a kind of bird that has two f's.
And then when you gave the if af, I thought
maybe it's chiffchaff.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You thought you thought correctly, that is exactly right. It
makes it sound like a chiffchaff. So there's a chiff
chaff because chiffchaff, chiffchaff. I do like the idea. I'm
hoping someone in history has used the sentence about disreputable chiffchaffs.
So the riff raff of theft.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's from yesterday, buzzle that things that rhyme raff chiffchaff
tift in the tifftaff all right.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Anyway, the reason we are talking multiple fs is because
our guest, as I mentioned, is Chris Duffy with two f's.
He's a hilarious comedian and host of the podcast produced
by the Folks that Ted called How to Be a
Better Human, where you learn all sorts of ways to
be a better human. Welcome Chris Duffy.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Thank you so much for having me. What a what
a pleasure it is to be here.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Ah, well you are delighted. Well today we have Greg
plus got chief puzzle officer that is previously mentioned, who.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Has no riffraff here.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
He is No, he is not riffraff. He is not
Hoy Paloy. He is the Kreme de la crem and
he is here to give you a puzzle. So I'm
going to turn it over to Greg.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right, thank you, Aja, and great to have you back.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Chris, you're the creator, are the host and writer of
Wrong Answers Only Correct?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That's right, a science comedy game show.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, describe how that game works.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
So it's it's three comedians on a panel and a
distinguished scientist of some kind and they try and guess
what they do all day and learn more about their research.
So we play a bunch of games and at the
end we learn a bunch of real science. So talk
about all sorts of different topics.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I watched the one about yeast, which is one of
the older ones, which was very yeah and uh again, Yeah,
it's fun watching three four funny people just go, you know,
come up with funny things to say about whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Top it comes up.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, and you always leave with something. I always leave
having learned something interesting that I hadn't thought about before,
which is fun.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And we are a family show, Chris, so I don't
go into too much detail. But do you remember anything
about how the urchins have sex?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I think that, honestly, it is. It is more g
rated than you would imagine. I believe that a lot
of it is just releasing into the wild and hoping
that it lands on another sier. I think there's very
little contact between the two spiky balls.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's different from how humans do it.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I no, I mean, Greg, it's a family show, so
I can't fully explain it to you.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But let's talk offline.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
In honor of wrong Answers Only, we've created a game
that we're calling Prong Answers Only. Oh, it's a game
about game shows that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Are all spelled wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Changed one letter in the name of a popular game
show and then written a description of that changed name.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Also a fact that you may or may not know
about me, is I have been on any game shows.
I was a loser on Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire and one hundred thousand dollars parramid.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Wow. No wait, Greg, I have also been on the
Who Wants to Be Familiar? And Greg has fact check
or as a.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Fact checker for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Really? Oh wow?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I became a still image of my face during one
of the questions. Became a meme like twelve years ago
that still goes viral every six months and the name
of the meme is clueless white guy. Yeah, it's my face.
While the question is like boasting a guest verse from
Doctor Dre what nineties R and B hip hop song
features the verse? I like the way you work it,
(06:37):
and then it's like no diggity, some digity, hardly any
diggity or an overwhelming surplus of diggity, And I was
delighted by the question. So I made this kind of
like well face, but that screenshot online is like everyone comments,
no way this guy got that, and I'm like, that's
one of the only questions I did get right.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And the answer, of course is.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
An overwhelming surplus of digity.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Of course no diggity.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
That is hilarious. I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
The way this game will work, I might give you
this description. I would say this game show hosted by
Chris Duffy, features three comedians and a scientist who pokes
them with a fork every time they respond to a
question incorrectly. Aha, prong answers to that would be prong
answers only exactly exactly. So that's how this works, right,
change one letter, just one letter, one letter changes.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
That's it all right.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
This show, which was originally hosted by Monty Hall, asks
contestants to choose what's behind door number one, door number two,
or a large aquatic mammal doing ball tricks.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Oh, let's make a seal.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Let's make a seal exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Let's make a deal. Let's make a seal.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
That is that's also kind of like a fun like
Island of Doctor Zivago type of.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Creation of an animal Island of no Doctor Moriarty.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I'm talking about the wrong Doctors animals together, Island of
Doctor Moreau.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
But a lot of doctors out there.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We have.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We sometimes play a game called Gorillas in the Mystic
Pizza and that is a perfect one for it. Oh,
the Island of Doctor Chivago.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, we've short circuited the mashup in that, but it's good.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I think we should do that. The Island of doctor Zayas.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Going back to our previous em Okay, all right, all right,
here's the here's.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The next one, Martin.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Uh yeah, well, Martin Short is the latest to host
this show. Uh, where contestants try to guess which John
Philip SUSA composition the celebrity guests are thinking of as
they parade across the stage.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Huh. I don't know that one, I haven't say.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Originally hosted by Gene Rayburn, I'm gonna work off of
the John John Marching Band.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, John SUSA wrote a lot of marches.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Marches. Uh, guess that.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You're trying to guess that trombone.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I'm guess that name that tune in.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
The original in the original game, you're trying to fill
in a blank in a in a phrase. You know,
Doctor doctor Zayas is so dumb. He used to say,
I don't know how to blank.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
It's not now it can't be with of Fortune, so no,
it's not where game a J Do you know.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
What this one is?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I do, but again only because I watched it when
I was sick at home young and I think it's
match game, right or March game.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
March game becomes March game.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Yes, I don't think I've ever seen match game.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh, it was very funny back in the day. It
might be funny, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I think Martin Short is great. Yeah, and I also
love Trombones. There's a perfect I'm a fan of Mark
Phillips Susan as well.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Here's another one.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Two groups of people with the same last name face
off against each other trying to eat everything that one
hundred survey respondents also eight.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Oh okay, family food.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It kind of sounds the same.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
But you just got to change a letter in feud
to make a slightly different word.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I give it to him.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I mean, it's not family food.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's not family food.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's past ten.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So it's not even family. It's just a different word
that changes one letter in feud.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You got it, though, because it's all about food, and.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
When you oh, I see, it only can change one letter.
I understand family feed family exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Family feed, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I like to imagine them just going at it.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, family feed is really something about the
difference between family food. Sounds more like a gameshow on
family feed does sound much more like an active gobbling
at the trough exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You just line them up in front of their big
long trough and in they go.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
In this show, contestants try to guess the cost of
various products, each time naming a number that is divisible
only by one and itself.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Ooh, the prime.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Is right, The prime is right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's a huge hit with Loving.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Sponsored sponsored by Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Ah, you could go over or under, but you have
to get a prime number.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Whatever you get.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
All right in this one. This This woman starred in
the film Fire Island and played Kim jong Ill on
thirty Rock and now she's fielding trivia questions from Regis
Philbin trying to become rich.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Huh, I don't know the reference to this. I know
the game show.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's a comedian named Margaret.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Oh now, it's the Regis Philbin game show. Okay, so
I know what it is. But I'm just trying to
think how to change the letters?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Change one letter, doesn't it's not going to rhyme when
you change the letter.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You know the comedian named.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Margaret, Yes, Margaret Choe.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
But how do I get millionaire and Choe together?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, what's the full name of the show.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Who wants to cho wants to be a million. I
was literally like, I don't think I can change millionaire
into margaret with just one letter. That's gonna take. That's
gonna take some serious effort. Who wants to be a Margaret?
Was good? Where I wanted to go to a millionaire?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Is great? That's the one.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
It also sounds like a Noah Bomback film.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It does.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Maybe maybe it.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Will be, it should be. She's great?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
All right. A couple more In this show, contestants viy
to identify Albacore, Bluefin, and skip Jack by the fewest
numbers of scales.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Hmmm.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
By this, okay, I certainly know what we're One of
the words here is is tuna. But I'm trying to
figure out what is the game show?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I think you said earlier?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, you mentioned this game show earlier when you were
Wheel of Fortuna.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Why not now this?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I can identify that tuna in in only three scales.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Name that tuna.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yeah, there, although Wheel of Fortuna. I'm I know that
was my own thing, but I do like that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Fortuna, Wheel of Fortune. Same shame show, different different.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, you host a game show, you can use it.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I can use that absolutely, I could.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I could be the host of Wheel of Fortuna, all right,
your last give me two more.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
A group of players try to finish an ice cream
cone together. After each round, one player is kicked out.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Oh, okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's not a strong player.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I would I would guess that it's Oh, oh, I
was gonna say squid game, but I actually think it's not.
You didn't say that they were eliminated by being killed,
So I think we're actually talking about you are the
weakest link. So let's see you are the.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Weakest finishing an ice cream cone.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Lick the weakest lick.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
The weakest lick is oh, actually quite graphic of a
two sentence of a two word phrase. The weakest lick
is really quite a graphic sentence to that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I thought we were a family show.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I'm just imagining a whole group of people holding the
same ice cream cone, and.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh, they're all licking one ice cream cone. Sure, I
thought it was they each have their own ice cream cone. Well, honestly,
i'd watch the show exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
It kind of gets that sweet spot that Love Island does.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Actually the tagline is it hits that sweet spot that
is sure that's on the poster.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We're done, all right, your last one. Contestants take turns
spinning a random game board by yelling no whammies and
squashing a water foul. Now, this is an old game show,
an old classic.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Okay, smashing waterfowl.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah okay, dug like yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Duck goose swan, No, you.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Had you had the right one, duck uh aj. Do
you know what this show is?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh right, yes, I know it because it's one of
my favorite game show stories. The guy, one of the
contestants broke the game. Oh memorized We're supposed to be
a random series of uh of lights and he broke
and he like one millions of dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yes, I remember hearing this story, but I cannot put
my finger on what the name of the show was.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well, how about this, how about we break it down.
Meet the Blank, which is not a game.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Show, Meet the Parents.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It's like a news show. I think on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Oh, meet the Press, right, Press that duck.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I'll take it again. You said it with the conviction
that it's real.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Press that duck, the game show that has been broken
by a man who memorized every duck in the world exactly. Okay,
what is Oh, press your luck, pressure duck, press your exactly,
press your duty, press your duck exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's a kind of Gratu Mars thing.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Again, Well, that was great. Well, there is one other
thing I want them to leave with, which has nothing
to do with the show, but you told it right
before we started, and I feel it's imperative to bring
it up, which is that you grew up in an apartment.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yes, I grew up in the exact same apartment that
Christian Slater also grew up in. So we were saying
before the show, my best case scenario for my career
is that I could be the second most famous Chris
to leave my apartment. There's no way I'm going to
be first.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But against second best. I mean, we wouldn't like to
be second best at something. And you guaranteed yourself that slot.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Ye, yes, you are right there. You are right there.
And he's you know, Heather's he was awesome and heatherst.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
He's doing really well. So I'll take second to Christian
Slater for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well, thank you, Chris. And we loved having it. We
loved hearing about everything from sea ears and sex to
Christen Slater and congratulations again on the new Duffy in
the world. Or is it a Duffy hyphen.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Or is it it's just a suffy.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And yes, we'll have you back when your book comes
out in January, so we'll look forward to that.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Thank you so much. This was an absolute pleasure. You
guys are great.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Thank you. Before we go, Do you have an extra credit?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I have an extra credit.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
This nineteen fifties game show featured notable panelists like Arlene
Francis and Steve Allen, all trying to identify a mystery
guest from the dust found in that person's trouser pockets.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Interesting to laugh.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Oh, slightly fake laugh, but I'll buy it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
No, No, I like that talus real.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
All right, Well think on that. And in the meantime,
there's more puzzles out there at Hello, puzzlers, go on Instagram.
We have visual puzzles, puzzle news, breaking puzzle news, We
got all sorts of stuff, and of course we'll see
here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Hey puzzlers, it's Greg Plis, go, your chief puzzle officer
here once again with the extra credit answer from our
previous episode, Chris Dovey played another Ted related game we
called ted head in bed. Every answer is three rhyming
words of that same form blank, blank in blank. Your
extra credit clue is this an impolite, sexually repressed person
(18:53):
in the buff little little wild there, little risque aj.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
But we loved it.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
That is a root fod prude in the nude.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
And you know what, we don't care if you're rude,
prude or in the nude.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, actually we do care if you're rude, don't be rude,
but you can be a prude in the nude if
you want, and listen to the puzzler.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
We'll catch you here next time.
Hello puzzlers. I thought we could start with a quick puzzle.
Today's amuse boush puzzle. It's in honor of our guest,
Chris Duffy, whose last name has double f's. Two f's
and Chris Duffy. Two f's is a pretty good amount
of f's. But my challenge to the folks at home
is to think of words that contain more than two f's,
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like fisticuffs, which has three f's. So I'm looking for
words with three f's like fisticuffs, or even four f's.
If you can get four f's, that's an a plus
in my book. In my research, I was actually only
able to find two words that contain four fs. One
(00:47):
is a word that you've probably heard of. The other
is a word that you've heard of if you are
a professional or anithologist. So oddly, both quadruple F words
are in the form if alf. They rhyme with like
ziff zaff, which is not a word, but if af,
so think on that and the answer is a more
(01:08):
puzzling goodness. After the break, Hello puzzlers, Welcome back to
the Puzzler Podcast. The vase in your puzzle optical illusion
or is it the two silhouetted faces, illusion, where's it both?
(01:30):
I'm your host, Aja Jacobs, and I'm here of course,
the she puzzle officter Greg Pliska Greg. Before the break,
we asked about words that contain multiple f's, three or
four f's, So let's start with three f's. Did you
come up with any?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Do you know what I wrote down?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I wrote down two things that have three f's in
a row.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Mmm, I love it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I wrote down snuff film.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh boy, we'll take it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And I know if this is an actual thing?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Staff function as a one word both two words.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
None of those are single words, got it?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Uh? Well, those are excellent for triple for actual one words.
Did you come up with anything that well?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Like fluff, fluffer, fluffer, fluffy.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Cape ite cape it g rated here.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I'm thinking of fluffer, nutter, fluffer nutter, peanut, butter, sandwich cookie.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
What were you thinking of?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
My favorite changing the topic was hassan feffer one highly
seasoned rabbit meats too.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You can eat with a fluffer, nuff, fluffer, nutter cookie.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
They go together great.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Also, a good long one is chief financial officer, which
has four fs in it. Now it's a nice one
multiple word phrase, but dictionary nature phrase.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So tell me about the four your.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Clue one way, riff raff is one of them.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, but you hear the other riff raff the.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well, when you said bird, I thought of the half inch,
which is a kind of bird that has two f's.
And then when you gave the if af, I thought
maybe it's chiffchaff.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You thought you thought correctly, that is exactly right. It
makes it sound like a chiffchaff. So there's a chiff
chaff because chiffchaff, chiffchaff. I do like the idea. I'm
hoping someone in history has used the sentence about disreputable chiffchaffs.
So the riff raff of theft.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That's from yesterday, buzzle that things that rhyme raff chiffchaff
tift in the tifftaff all right.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Anyway, the reason we are talking multiple fs is because
our guest, as I mentioned, is Chris Duffy with two f's.
He's a hilarious comedian and host of the podcast produced
by the Folks that Ted called How to Be a
Better Human, where you learn all sorts of ways to
be a better human. Welcome Chris Duffy.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Thank you so much for having me. What a what
a pleasure it is to be here.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Ah, well you are delighted. Well today we have Greg
plus got chief puzzle officer that is previously mentioned, who.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Has no riffraff here.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
He is No, he is not riffraff. He is not
Hoy Paloy. He is the Kreme de la crem and
he is here to give you a puzzle. So I'm
going to turn it over to Greg.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right, thank you, Aja, and great to have you back.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Chris, you're the creator, are the host and writer of
Wrong Answers Only Correct?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That's right, a science comedy game show.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, describe how that game works.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
So it's it's three comedians on a panel and a
distinguished scientist of some kind and they try and guess
what they do all day and learn more about their research.
So we play a bunch of games and at the
end we learn a bunch of real science. So talk
about all sorts of different topics.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I watched the one about yeast, which is one of
the older ones, which was very yeah and uh again, Yeah,
it's fun watching three four funny people just go, you know,
come up with funny things to say about whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Top it comes up.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah, and you always leave with something. I always leave
having learned something interesting that I hadn't thought about before,
which is fun.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And we are a family show, Chris, so I don't
go into too much detail. But do you remember anything
about how the urchins have sex?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I think that, honestly, it is. It is more g
rated than you would imagine. I believe that a lot
of it is just releasing into the wild and hoping
that it lands on another sier. I think there's very
little contact between the two spiky balls.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's different from how humans do it.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
I no, I mean, Greg, it's a family show, so
I can't fully explain it to you.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
But let's talk offline.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
In honor of wrong Answers Only, we've created a game
that we're calling Prong Answers Only. Oh, it's a game
about game shows that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Are all spelled wrong.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Changed one letter in the name of a popular game
show and then written a description of that changed name.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Also a fact that you may or may not know
about me, is I have been on any game shows.
I was a loser on Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire and one hundred thousand dollars parramid.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Wow. No wait, Greg, I have also been on the
Who Wants to Be Familiar? And Greg has fact check
or as a.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Fact checker for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Really? Oh wow?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I became a still image of my face during one
of the questions. Became a meme like twelve years ago
that still goes viral every six months and the name
of the meme is clueless white guy. Yeah, it's my face.
While the question is like boasting a guest verse from
Doctor Dre what nineties R and B hip hop song
features the verse? I like the way you work it,
(06:37):
and then it's like no diggity, some digity, hardly any
diggity or an overwhelming surplus of diggity, And I was
delighted by the question. So I made this kind of
like well face, but that screenshot online is like everyone comments,
no way this guy got that, and I'm like, that's
one of the only questions I did get right.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And the answer, of course is.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
An overwhelming surplus of digity.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Of course no diggity.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
That is hilarious. I love it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
The way this game will work, I might give you
this description. I would say this game show hosted by
Chris Duffy, features three comedians and a scientist who pokes
them with a fork every time they respond to a
question incorrectly. Aha, prong answers to that would be prong
answers only exactly exactly. So that's how this works, right,
change one letter, just one letter, one letter changes.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
That's it all right.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
This show, which was originally hosted by Monty Hall, asks
contestants to choose what's behind door number one, door number two,
or a large aquatic mammal doing ball tricks.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Oh, let's make a seal.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Let's make a seal exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Let's make a deal. Let's make a seal.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
That is that's also kind of like a fun like
Island of Doctor Zivago type of.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Creation of an animal Island of no Doctor Moriarty.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I'm talking about the wrong Doctors animals together, Island of
Doctor Moreau.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
But a lot of doctors out there.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We have.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
We sometimes play a game called Gorillas in the Mystic
Pizza and that is a perfect one for it. Oh,
the Island of Doctor Chivago.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, we've short circuited the mashup in that, but it's good.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I think we should do that. The Island of doctor Zayas.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Going back to our previous em Okay, all right, all right,
here's the here's.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The next one, Martin.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Uh yeah, well, Martin Short is the latest to host
this show. Uh, where contestants try to guess which John
Philip SUSA composition the celebrity guests are thinking of as
they parade across the stage.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Huh. I don't know that one, I haven't say.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Originally hosted by Gene Rayburn, I'm gonna work off of
the John John Marching Band.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, John SUSA wrote a lot of marches.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Marches. Uh, guess that.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You're trying to guess that trombone.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I'm guess that name that tune in.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
The original in the original game, you're trying to fill
in a blank in a in a phrase. You know,
Doctor doctor Zayas is so dumb. He used to say,
I don't know how to blank.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
It's not now it can't be with of Fortune, so no,
it's not where game a J Do you know.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
What this one is?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I do, but again only because I watched it when
I was sick at home young and I think it's
match game, right or March game.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
March game becomes March game.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Yes, I don't think I've ever seen match game.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Oh, it was very funny back in the day. It
might be funny, I haven't.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I think Martin Short is great. Yeah, and I also
love Trombones. There's a perfect I'm a fan of Mark
Phillips Susan as well.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Here's another one.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Two groups of people with the same last name face
off against each other trying to eat everything that one
hundred survey respondents also eight.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Oh okay, family food.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It kind of sounds the same.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
But you just got to change a letter in feud
to make a slightly different word.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I give it to him.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I mean, it's not family food.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It's not family food.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's past ten.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So it's not even family. It's just a different word
that changes one letter in feud.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You got it, though, because it's all about food, and.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
When you oh, I see, it only can change one letter.
I understand family feed family exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Family feed, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I like to imagine them just going at it.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, family feed is really something about the
difference between family food. Sounds more like a gameshow on
family feed does sound much more like an active gobbling
at the trough exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
You just line them up in front of their big
long trough and in they go.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
In this show, contestants try to guess the cost of
various products, each time naming a number that is divisible
only by one and itself.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Ooh, the prime.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Is right, The prime is right, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's a huge hit with Loving.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Sponsored sponsored by Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Ah, you could go over or under, but you have
to get a prime number.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Whatever you get.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
All right in this one. This This woman starred in
the film Fire Island and played Kim jong Ill on
thirty Rock and now she's fielding trivia questions from Regis
Philbin trying to become rich.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Huh, I don't know the reference to this. I know
the game show.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's a comedian named Margaret.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Oh now, it's the Regis Philbin game show. Okay, so
I know what it is. But I'm just trying to
think how to change the letters?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Change one letter, doesn't it's not going to rhyme when
you change the letter.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You know the comedian named.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Margaret, Yes, Margaret Choe.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
But how do I get millionaire and Choe together?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, what's the full name of the show.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Who wants to cho wants to be a million. I
was literally like, I don't think I can change millionaire
into margaret with just one letter. That's gonna take. That's
gonna take some serious effort. Who wants to be a Margaret?
Was good? Where I wanted to go to a millionaire?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Is great? That's the one.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
It also sounds like a Noah Bomback film.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It does.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Maybe maybe it.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Will be, it should be. She's great?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
All right. A couple more In this show, contestants viy
to identify Albacore, Bluefin, and skip Jack by the fewest
numbers of scales.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Hmmm.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
By this, okay, I certainly know what we're One of
the words here is is tuna. But I'm trying to
figure out what is the game show?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I think you said earlier?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, you mentioned this game show earlier when you were
Wheel of Fortuna.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Why not now this?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I can identify that tuna in in only three scales.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Name that tuna.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yeah, there, although Wheel of Fortuna. I'm I know that
was my own thing, but I do like that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Fortuna, Wheel of Fortune. Same shame show, different different.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, you host a game show, you can use it.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I can use that absolutely, I could.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I could be the host of Wheel of Fortuna, all right,
your last give me two more.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
A group of players try to finish an ice cream
cone together. After each round, one player is kicked out.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Oh, okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's not a strong player.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I would I would guess that it's Oh, oh, I
was gonna say squid game, but I actually think it's not.
You didn't say that they were eliminated by being killed,
So I think we're actually talking about you are the
weakest link. So let's see you are the.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Weakest finishing an ice cream cone.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Lick the weakest lick.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
The weakest lick is oh, actually quite graphic of a
two sentence of a two word phrase. The weakest lick
is really quite a graphic sentence to that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I thought we were a family show.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I'm just imagining a whole group of people holding the
same ice cream cone, and.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh, they're all licking one ice cream cone. Sure, I
thought it was they each have their own ice cream cone. Well, honestly,
i'd watch the show exactly.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
It kind of gets that sweet spot that Love Island does.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Actually the tagline is it hits that sweet spot that
is sure that's on the poster.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
We're done, all right, your last one. Contestants take turns
spinning a random game board by yelling no whammies and
squashing a water foul. Now, this is an old game show,
an old classic.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Okay, smashing waterfowl.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah okay, dug like yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Duck goose swan, No, you.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Had you had the right one, duck uh aj. Do
you know what this show is?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh right, yes, I know it because it's one of
my favorite game show stories. The guy, one of the
contestants broke the game. Oh memorized We're supposed to be
a random series of uh of lights and he broke
and he like one millions of dollars.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Yes, I remember hearing this story, but I cannot put
my finger on what the name of the show was.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Well, how about this, how about we break it down.
Meet the Blank, which is not a game.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Show, Meet the Parents.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It's like a news show. I think on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Oh, meet the Press, right, Press that duck.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I'll take it again. You said it with the conviction
that it's real.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Press that duck, the game show that has been broken
by a man who memorized every duck in the world exactly. Okay,
what is Oh, press your luck, pressure duck, press your exactly,
press your duty, press your duck exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's a kind of Gratu Mars thing.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Again, Well, that was great. Well, there is one other
thing I want them to leave with, which has nothing
to do with the show, but you told it right
before we started, and I feel it's imperative to bring
it up, which is that you grew up in an apartment.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yes, I grew up in the exact same apartment that
Christian Slater also grew up in. So we were saying
before the show, my best case scenario for my career
is that I could be the second most famous Chris
to leave my apartment. There's no way I'm going to
be first.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
But against second best. I mean, we wouldn't like to
be second best at something. And you guaranteed yourself that slot.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Ye, yes, you are right there. You are right there.
And he's you know, Heather's he was awesome and heatherst.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
He's doing really well. So I'll take second to Christian
Slater for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well, thank you, Chris. And we loved having it. We
loved hearing about everything from sea ears and sex to
Christen Slater and congratulations again on the new Duffy in
the world. Or is it a Duffy hyphen.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Or is it it's just a suffy.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And yes, we'll have you back when your book comes
out in January, so we'll look forward to that.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Thank you so much. This was an absolute pleasure. You
guys are great.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Thank you. Before we go, Do you have an extra credit?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I have an extra credit.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
This nineteen fifties game show featured notable panelists like Arlene
Francis and Steve Allen, all trying to identify a mystery
guest from the dust found in that person's trouser pockets.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Interesting to laugh.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Oh, slightly fake laugh, but I'll buy it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
No, No, I like that talus real.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
All right, Well think on that. And in the meantime,
there's more puzzles out there at Hello, puzzlers, go on Instagram.
We have visual puzzles, puzzle news, breaking puzzle news, We
got all sorts of stuff, and of course we'll see
here tomorrow for more puzzling puzzles that will puzzle you puzzlingly.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Hey puzzlers, it's Greg Plis, go, your chief puzzle officer
here once again with the extra credit answer from our
previous episode, Chris Dovey played another Ted related game we
called ted head in bed. Every answer is three rhyming
words of that same form blank, blank in blank. Your
extra credit clue is this an impolite, sexually repressed person
(18:53):
in the buff little little wild there, little risque aj.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
But we loved it.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
That is a root fod prude in the nude.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
And you know what, we don't care if you're rude,
prude or in the nude.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, actually we do care if you're rude, don't be rude,
but you can be a prude in the nude if
you want, and listen to the puzzler.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
We'll catch you here next time.
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