Listener Tom really wants us to explain what it means if someone is “out of pocket.” This leads to some existential questions about the pocket and the people who may not be in it.

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Listener Niels follows on from the logical question of if a glass can be made of plastic to ponder what makes a can a can.

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Listener Justin tries to get us to stretch the definition of “facial hair” beyond the beard.

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Listener Roy brings us into his debate with his teenage son about what makes a shirt a shirt.

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Listener Jack wants to know if a few famous gates and statues are also buildings.

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Brandenburg Gate (DW)

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Listener Gregory thinks Pop-Tarts are pies. We have ratio questions. Also: We remember so many burned palates caused by calzones and McDonald’s fruit pies.

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Listener Gregory tries to confuse us with a question about open-faced sandwiches and pizza. We largely ignore him and talk about different ways to eat things that are like pizza, but aren’t quite pizza.

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See also: Pizza

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Listener Scott’s wife sure has a strange definition of which way is up.

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See also: Swiping Right

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Listener Joel has discovered some Canadians referring to the first floor of a two-story house as a “basement.” Does this defy all reason? How low must you go to be a basement?

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Host John Siracusa asks himself to discuss the difference between Supercars and Hypercars, while Jason looks on.

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The difference between a slegh and a sled.

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Sleigh v. Sled, what's the difference?

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