Decoder Ring
A podcast by Slate Podcasts - Wednesdays

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121 Episodes
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Captain Planet to the Rescue
Published: 5/06/2024 -
Why Are We Still Using Fat Suits?
Published: 22/05/2024 -
How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat
Published: 8/05/2024 -
From ‘The Last Archive’: Building an Automatic Songwriting Machine
Published: 1/05/2024 -
Making Real Music for a Fake Band
Published: 24/04/2024 -
Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?
Published: 10/04/2024 -
Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore)
Published: 27/03/2024 -
Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
Published: 13/03/2024 -
The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
Published: 28/02/2024 -
Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
Published: 14/02/2024 -
2024 Teaser
Published: 7/02/2024 -
The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
Published: 15/11/2023 -
The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other
Published: 8/11/2023 -
Mailbag: The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs
Published: 1/11/2023 -
When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place
Published: 25/10/2023 -
The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance
Published: 18/10/2023 -
Fall 2023 Teaser
Published: 11/10/2023 -
Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts.
Published: 9/08/2023 -
The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
Published: 2/08/2023 -
A Brief History of Making Out
Published: 26/07/2023
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.