Decoder Ring

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123 Episodes

  1. Spring Break Forever

    Published: 4/9/2025
  2. How Books About Things That Changed the World… Changed the World

    Published: 3/26/2025
  3. Truck Nutz (Encore)

    Published: 3/12/2025
  4. Jerry Lewis’ Lost Holocaust Clown Movie

    Published: 2/26/2025
  5. The Scratch-Off Ticket’s Instant Win

    Published: 2/12/2025
  6. Jump, Jive and Fail: The ’90s Swing Craze

    Published: 1/29/2025
  7. I am Tupperware, I Contain Multitudes

    Published: 1/15/2025
  8. Introducing Planet Money: Can Money Buy Happiness?

    Published: 1/1/2025
  9. Mailbag: Fruit Snacks, Waterbeds, and Lobster Tanks

    Published: 12/18/2024
  10. Mystery of the Mullet (Encore)

    Published: 12/4/2024
  11. Reconsidering One of the “Worst” TV Shows of All Time

    Published: 11/20/2024
  12. A Feel-Good Story About the End of the World

    Published: 11/6/2024
  13. The Wrongest Bird in Movie History

    Published: 10/23/2024
  14. Selling Out (Encore)

    Published: 10/9/2024
  15. Calling Dick Tracy! It’s Warren Beatty Again

    Published: 9/25/2024
  16. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check?

    Published: 9/11/2024
  17. Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War (Encore)

    Published: 8/28/2024
  18. The Hysteria Over Mass Hysteria

    Published: 8/14/2024
  19. Standing Up for Sitting Down

    Published: 7/31/2024
  20. The Secret Life of Lawn Ornaments

    Published: 7/17/2024

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Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.