Decoder Ring

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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
  • The Laff Box (Encore)
    Jun 4, 2025 – 38:17
  • The Glaring Problem with Headlights
    May 21, 2025 – 46:17
  • Off-the-Wall Stories of Off-Label Use
    May 7, 2025 – 54:01
  • How “Chicken Soup” Sold Its Soul
    Apr 23, 2025 – 50:49
  • Spring Break Forever
    Apr 9, 2025 – 50:08
  • How Books About Things That Changed the World… Changed the World
    Mar 26, 2025 – 58:24
  • Truck Nutz (Encore)
    Mar 12, 2025 – 41:29
  • Jerry Lewis’ Lost Holocaust Clown Movie
    Feb 26, 2025 – 58:52
  • The Scratch-Off Ticket’s Instant Win
    Feb 12, 2025 – 40:18
  • Jump, Jive and Fail: The ’90s Swing Craze
    Jan 29, 2025 – 01:06:01
  • I am Tupperware, I Contain Multitudes
    Jan 15, 2025 – 46:09
  • Introducing Planet Money: Can Money Buy Happiness?
    Jan 1, 2025 – 30:02
  • Mailbag: Fruit Snacks, Waterbeds, and Lobster Tanks
    Dec 18, 2024 – 52:38
  • Mystery of the Mullet (Encore)
    Dec 4, 2024 – 54:18
  • Reconsidering One of the “Worst” TV Shows of All Time
    Nov 20, 2024 – 01:04:20
  • A Feel-Good Story About the End of the World
    Nov 6, 2024 – 43:36
  • The Wrongest Bird in Movie History
    Oct 23, 2024 – 51:41
  • Selling Out (Encore)
    Oct 9, 2024 – 53:19
  • Calling Dick Tracy! It’s Warren Beatty Again
    Sep 25, 2024 – 48:58
  • If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check?
    Sep 11, 2024 – 39:03
  • Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War (Encore)
    Aug 28, 2024 – 51:12
  • The Hysteria Over Mass Hysteria
    Aug 14, 2024 – 39:42
  • Standing Up for Sitting Down
    Jul 31, 2024 – 41:20
  • The Secret Life of Lawn Ornaments
    Jul 17, 2024 – 51:06
  • Stuffed Animals Gone Wild
    Jul 3, 2024 – 40:23
  • Sex, Lies, and Hockey Pucks
    Jun 19, 2024 – 37:55
  • Captain Planet to the Rescue
    Jun 5, 2024 – 43:09
  • Why Are We Still Using Fat Suits?
    May 22, 2024 – 36:24
  • How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat
    May 8, 2024 – 32:38
  • From ‘The Last Archive’: Building an Automatic Songwriting Machine
    May 1, 2024 – 53:52
  • Making Real Music for a Fake Band
    Apr 24, 2024 – 41:45
  • Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?
    Apr 10, 2024 – 37:05
  • Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore)
    Mar 27, 2024 – 54:16
  • Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
    Mar 13, 2024 – 42:54
  • The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
    Feb 28, 2024 – 43:48
  • Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
    Feb 14, 2024 – 33:59
  • 2024 Teaser
    Feb 7, 2024 – 01:02
  • The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
    Nov 15, 2023 – 47:23
  • The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other
    Nov 8, 2023 – 37:35
  • Mailbag: The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs
    Nov 1, 2023 – 40:50
  • When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place
    Oct 25, 2023 – 41:34
  • The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance
    Oct 18, 2023 – 45:43
  • Fall 2023 Teaser
    Oct 11, 2023 – 01:00
  • Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts.
    Aug 9, 2023 – 40:23
  • The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
    Aug 2, 2023 – 42:20
  • A Brief History of Making Out
    Jul 26, 2023 – 36:59
  • What's Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?
    Jul 19, 2023 – 33:50
  • The Great Parmesan Cheese Debate
    Jul 12, 2023 – 44:18
  • Summer 2023 Teaser
    Jul 5, 2023 – 01:01
  • Who Owns the Tooth Fairy?
    May 10, 2023 – 38:07
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