Decoder Ring
- Category
- Narrative
- Publisher
- Slate Podcasts
- Host
- Willa Paskin
- Language
- English
Decoder Ring, hosted by Willa Paskin at Slate, takes one object or fad and reports it until the joke becomes a history.
A costume, a commercial, a fear that swept a suburb. Paskin is a critic, so the episodes are arguments as well as stories. Someone made the thing, and someone needed it.
The show is what cultural reporting sounds like when it refuses listicles. You get characters: the inventor, the fan, the person who was there when the meaning flipped.
Trust a title that names a single artifact.
Last episode listed in the official feed
Bridget in the Buff
Read from the publisher’s RSS on Oct 3, 2026 · Sep 23, 2026 ET. Audio is not hosted here.
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