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Preview: Decoder Rings Back | Duck, Duck, Jeep
Earlier this year we debuted Decoder Rings Back, our new feature exclusively for Decoder Ring Plus subscribers. In each installment, Willa gets a lis…
4 months, 1 week ago
No Pulp: The Killing of the Florida Orange
Episode 130
Like the palm tree, the Everglades, Disney World, and the “Florida Man,” the orange is a classic symbol of the Sunshine State. But maybe not for much…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Mailbag: Spooky Strings, Phone Menu Options, and Eye Rolls
Episode 129
We are lucky to get fantastic questions from our listeners here at Decoder Ring, and in this episode, we’re going to open up our mailbag to answer th…
5 months ago
How to Make Dollars Make Sense
Episode 128
Money is everywhere. Money influences just about everything. We think about money all the time. But how much do we really know about it? In this epis…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
One Year: 1995 | Hitting the Spot
Last week we aired an episode about lonelygirl15, one of the first proper YouTube stars, and perhaps the most famous example of playing around with t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Who Was Lonelygirl15?
Episode 127
In the summer of 2006, a teenage girl began posting video diaries to a then-new site called YouTube under the handle lonelygirl15. Within weeks she w…
6 months ago
The Johnlock Conspiracy (Encore)
For over a century, fans of Sherlock Holmes have been analyzing, debating, and creating new texts with Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters. But when a fa…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Was "Eyes Wide Shut" a Warning?
Episode 126
When Eyes Wide Shut opened in the summer of 1999, it was widely considered a disappointment. This final film from legendary director Stanley Kubrick …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
A Prune by Any Other Name
Episode 125
The delicious, healthful prune has long had a cross to bear: It’s best known for making people poop. In the late 1990s, the California Prune Board se…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Making Coal Cute Again
Episode 124
Three weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum shared an unusual tweet: a cartoon image of himself with his arm draped around a giant, a…
7 months, 4 weeks ago