Decoder Ring

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111 Episodes

  1. The Wrongest Bird in Movie History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 7/17/2024
  9. Stuffed Animals Gone Wild

    Published: 7/3/2024
  10. Sex, Lies, and Hockey Pucks

    Published: 6/19/2024
  11. Captain Planet to the Rescue

    Published: 6/5/2024
  12. Why Are We Still Using Fat Suits?

    Published: 5/22/2024
  13. How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat

    Published: 5/8/2024
  14. From ‘The Last Archive’: Building an Automatic Songwriting Machine

    Published: 5/1/2024
  15. Making Real Music for a Fake Band

    Published: 4/24/2024
  16. Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

    Published: 4/10/2024
  17. Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore)

    Published: 3/27/2024
  18. Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet

    Published: 3/13/2024
  19. The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"

    Published: 2/28/2024
  20. Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?

    Published: 2/14/2024

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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.