Decoder Ring
A podcast by Slate Podcasts - Wednesdays
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111 Episodes
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The Wrongest Bird in Movie History
Published: 10/23/2024 -
Selling Out (Encore)
Published: 10/9/2024 -
Calling Dick Tracy! It’s Warren Beatty Again
Published: 9/25/2024 -
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check?
Published: 9/11/2024 -
Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War (Encore)
Published: 8/28/2024 -
The Hysteria Over Mass Hysteria
Published: 8/14/2024 -
Standing Up for Sitting Down
Published: 7/31/2024 -
The Secret Life of Lawn Ornaments
Published: 7/17/2024 -
Stuffed Animals Gone Wild
Published: 7/3/2024 -
Sex, Lies, and Hockey Pucks
Published: 6/19/2024 -
Captain Planet to the Rescue
Published: 6/5/2024 -
Why Are We Still Using Fat Suits?
Published: 5/22/2024 -
How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat
Published: 5/8/2024 -
From ‘The Last Archive’: Building an Automatic Songwriting Machine
Published: 5/1/2024 -
Making Real Music for a Fake Band
Published: 4/24/2024 -
Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?
Published: 4/10/2024 -
Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore)
Published: 3/27/2024 -
Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
Published: 3/13/2024 -
The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
Published: 2/28/2024 -
Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
Published: 2/14/2024
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.