Decoder Ring

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121 Episodes

  1. Captain Planet to the Rescue

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 2/14/2024
  11. 2024 Teaser

    Published: 2/7/2024
  12. The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery

    Published: 11/15/2023
  13. The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other

    Published: 11/8/2023
  14. Mailbag: The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs

    Published: 11/1/2023
  15. When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place

    Published: 10/25/2023
  16. The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance

    Published: 10/18/2023
  17. Fall 2023 Teaser

    Published: 10/11/2023
  18. Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts.

    Published: 8/9/2023
  19. The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft

    Published: 8/2/2023
  20. A Brief History of Making Out

    Published: 7/26/2023

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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.