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.

John Siracusa and Jason Snell

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End theme lyrics written and sung by Lex Friedman. 🐸

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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.

John Siracusa and Jason Snell

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We May Never Find Out How Good Umpires Can Be

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

John Siracusa and Jason Snell

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

John Siracusa and Jason Snell

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Listener Kent is building actual killer robots.

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What makes a hat a hat?

John Siracusa and Jason Snell

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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.

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Spatulas, scrapers, flippers, and home economics.

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

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

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When is someone a musician? Are DJs musicians? And more importantly, are John and Jason musicians?

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