123 Episodes

  1. Stuffed Animals Gone Wild

    Published: 3/07/2024
  2. Sex, Lies, and Hockey Pucks

    Published: 19/06/2024
  3. Captain Planet to the Rescue

    Published: 5/06/2024
  4. Why Are We Still Using Fat Suits?

    Published: 22/05/2024
  5. How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat

    Published: 8/05/2024
  6. From ‘The Last Archive’: Building an Automatic Songwriting Machine

    Published: 1/05/2024
  7. Making Real Music for a Fake Band

    Published: 24/04/2024
  8. Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

    Published: 10/04/2024
  9. Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore)

    Published: 27/03/2024
  10. Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet

    Published: 13/03/2024
  11. The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"

    Published: 28/02/2024
  12. Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?

    Published: 14/02/2024
  13. 2024 Teaser

    Published: 7/02/2024
  14. The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 9/08/2023

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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.

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