Decoder Ring
Slate Podcasts
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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.
Recent Episodes
APR 10, 2024
Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?
Why is there a magazine all about Robert Redford in the CVS checkout lane?
37 MIN
MAR 27, 2024
Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore)
Why did America’s favorite artist hide 240 pieces of artwork from his wife?
54 MIN
MAR 13, 2024
Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
Avery Trufelman and Melissa Rivers on what the fashion police hath wrought.
42 MIN
FEB 28, 2024
The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
Thirty years ago, OK Soda arrived in select stores and offered up a fizzy irony.
43 MIN
FEB 14, 2024
Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
Algorithms are shaping our world, even down to latte art.
33 MIN
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