The Incomparable

A tale of dishwashers and large sinks.

Previous Episodes

• April 15, 2024

  285 Theme Songs / Skip Intro

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  We follow up on some feedback about our theme songs, and theme songs in general, while taking on whether we use the Skip Intro button when we should be listening to TV theme songs.

• March 28, 2024

  284 ⚾️ Robot Umps ⚾️

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  It’s baseball’s Opening Day, so here’s our discussion of automated balls and strikes, also known as “Robot Umps,” how they relate to automated Hawk-Eye tennis calls, and why we won’t ever know how good human umpires could actually be.

• March 14, 2024

  283 (Pizza) Pie

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  Fresh out of the oven for Pi Day, here’s a discussion of who exactly thinks pizza is a pie.

• March 4, 2024

  282 Places You’ve Been

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  Do you have to leave the airport or get out of the car to claim you’ve been somewhere? (And are you under oath?)

• February 19, 2024

  281 Killer Robot

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  Listener Kent is building actual killer robots.

• February 5, 2024

  280 Hat

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  What makes a hat a hat?

• January 22, 2024

  279 Streets

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside. Sometimes the streets have no name, but other times they are named roads, or avenues, or boulevards, or drives. What does it all mean? Does Jason live on a road or a drive? When we go there, we go there with you. It’s all we can do.

• January 8, 2024

  278 Spatula

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  Spatulas, scrapers, flippers, and home economics.

• December 25, 2023

  277 Coffee

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  A question about cold brew coffee makes us question everything about coffee. Is everything coffee? Probably not.

• December 11, 2023

  276 Italian Ice

  Hosts John Siracusa and Jason Snell

  A perfectly normal discussion of Italian Ice takes a left turn and goes into outer space, where other ices are available.