Robot or Not?
Hosted by John · John Siracusa and Jason Snell
4.8from 133 ratings
- 368
- Episodes
- 75
- Transcribed
- 133
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About Robot or Not?
Jason Snell asks John Siracusa to rule on the meaning of various words and concepts. It’s not just about robots anymore. Have a question for John? Email robot@theincomparable.com.
- Publisher
- John Siracusa and Jason Snell
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Apr 2015
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
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75 of 368 episodes have a transcript.
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365: Several
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Did we talk about both of these things in previous episodes? Because this sounds very familiar. Maybe we just talked about the seven is several thing offline or something. Maybe. I didn't think so. Well, if we did, we're doing it again. So the seven is several is fun because seven sounds like several. And it's one of those that would fall into the category of a rective secret weird thing. You spend your whole life thinking seven and several like that. They share word origins because they sound similar and therefore several means seven. But it doesn't. Nope. I see what the teacher is going for here. […]
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- 126 ratings
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- 3.9 / 5
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