Decoder Ring
A podcast by Slate Podcasts - Wednesdays

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121 Episodes
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Truck Nutz (Encore)
Published: 3/12/2025 -
Jerry Lewis’ Lost Holocaust Clown Movie
Published: 2/26/2025 -
The Scratch-Off Ticket’s Instant Win
Published: 2/12/2025 -
Jump, Jive and Fail: The ’90s Swing Craze
Published: 1/29/2025 -
I am Tupperware, I Contain Multitudes
Published: 1/15/2025 -
Introducing Planet Money: Can Money Buy Happiness?
Published: 1/1/2025 -
Mailbag: Fruit Snacks, Waterbeds, and Lobster Tanks
Published: 12/18/2024 -
Mystery of the Mullet (Encore)
Published: 12/4/2024 -
Reconsidering One of the “Worst” TV Shows of All Time
Published: 11/20/2024 -
A Feel-Good Story About the End of the World
Published: 11/6/2024 -
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
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.