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Summer 2023 Teaser
Join Decoder Ring as we unlock a whole new season of cultural mysteries. First, we’ll sniff around Italy’s best-loved cheese to test an incredible claim: Is the most authentic parmesan being made not in Parma—but in Wisconsin? Next, a group
Who Owns the Tooth Fairy?
We pride ourselves on being grounded, rational beings, but flitting amongst us is a mystery: the Tooth Fairy. This flying piece of folklore is alive and well in the 21st century, handed down to kids in whatever way their parents see fit. In
Why You Can’t Find a Damn Parking Spot
Parking is one of the great paradoxes of American life. On the one hand, we have paved an ungodly amount of land to park our cars. On the other, it seems like it’s never enough. Slate’s Henry Grabar (https://slate.com/author/henry-grabar) h
The Artist Who Was Both Loved and Disdained
We bring you a special episode from Sidedoor (https://www.si.edu/sidedoor), a podcast about the treasures that fill the vaults of the Smithsonian. This story is inspired by “Big Band (https://americanhistory.si.edu/leroy-neimans-big-band-no
The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 2
Last week (https://slate.com/podcasts/decoder-ring/2023/04/columbo-and-his-cold-war-message-to-romania), we put on the proverbial raincoat and made like Columbo to investigate Peter Falk’s claim that he recorded a special Cold War message t
The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 1
Not too long ago an old clip (https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/1403200640436801536?lang=en) surfaced of Peter Falk on David Letterman, in which he told an intriguing tale about recording a special Cold War message for Romanian sta
Spring 2023 Teaser
Decoder Ring is back with a new season of cultural mysteries to crack. We'll kick things off with a proper Cold War caper....did Peter Falk, star of the old TV show Columbo, really team up with the U.S. Government to help quell a communist
Slate Plus Exclusive: The Making of This Season
Host Willa Paskin and producer Katie Shepherd discuss how this season of Decoder Ring came together. Slate Plus members have access to this whole interview. Sign up for Slate Plus (https://slate.com/podcast-plus?utm_medium=audio&utm_campaig
The Mailbag Episode
We’re really lucky to get a lot of listener emails, suggesting topics for the show. In this episode, we’re going to dig into a handful of the most fascinating ones that we’ve yet to tackle on the show. We’re taking on five listener question
Encore: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Got It Wrong
(This episode originally aired in March 2020.) The 1998 romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, is about the brutal fight between a beloved indie bookstore, the Shop Around the Corner, and Fox Books, an obvious Bar
