Episode 589 - Chris Duffy

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Comedy

4.8 • 715 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Comedian/host/author Chris Duffy (@chrisiduffy) returns to the show to talk with Jesse, Andy and Matt about his new book Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy, his radio show/podcast You're The Expert, his TED podcast How To Be a Better Human, the unintentionally phallic Covid-era Terry Crews video Chris worked on with Matt and Andy, prescribing standup to improve mental health, training Swedish crows to pick up cigarette butts and a frozen worm revived after 46,000 years.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to Probably Science.
0:13.2	I'm your host, one of three, in fact.
0:15.0	I'm Jesse Case.
0:16.2	I'm Andy Wood.
0:17.8	Matt Kirshan here.
0:18.9	How are you, everyone?
0:20.4	Good, good. Happy Yuletide. Thank you. Thanks for remembering. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, I'll see you guys. I was trying to figure out what the joke is there with our Jewish co-host in Yuletide. There was no joke. It was just... Are we on day... day, we're on day seven, day seven of, uh, Hanukkah. We're on day, yeah. Night eight tonight. I think so. Final night. Final night. Who's that voice? Yeah. I should know. I should know. But I think, well, except also weirdly, it goes, it runs to eight outside of Israel. What? Doesn't it run to eight everywhere? Wait, hang on, wait, no, hang on. Have I fucked that up? Yeah, that's not true. Passover runs to eight outside of Israel. What am I talking about? Yeah, it's because there's a bunch of stuff in Judaism that predates modern science and communication where they're like the message couldn't
1:12.0	come out of would take an extra day to come from Israel and you wouldn't know exactly when
1:16.0	the right day was and it's not like now where you can just WhatsApp someone and it arrives
1:20.4	within milliseconds.
1:21.7	Mm-hmm.
1:22.6	Mm-hmm.
1:23.6	Classic problem in religion when you didn't foresee the invention of WhatsApp. What is this podcast? Haunted. We got a voice happening. Who is that? What's that half-Jewish unannounced voice that's speaking here? Who is it? Guys, we have a guest. We have a guest for our night eight slash winter solstice saturnalia, our Saturnalia episode um we've got a guest and it's chris duffy
1:45.8	how you doing man hi i'm doing so great i'm thrilled to be here for yule saturnalia and the final
1:53.2	night of honica so so we were talking before the show recorded that chris christ andy and i all
2:00.5	worked on a we've worked on a couple of
2:03.2	things together, but sometimes science adjacent, sometimes not science adjacent. We worked on a show
2:07.7	during lockdown in the early days of, holy shit, what are we doing? How do we have stuff happening?
2:15.1	Where, was it, celebrities,t was the show we worked on together
2:19.8	Celebrities taught lessons to students who were trying to learn remotely
2:24.0	But it was a TV show and it was fun
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