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Willa Paskin hosts the popular Slate podcast “Decoder Ring” about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, Willa takes a cultural question, object, or habit ...

Since 2018, Slate critic Willa Paskin has explored bizarre and delightful cultural phenomena from “Baby Shark” to Chuck E. Cheese to try to understand what makes people obsessed with arbitrary ...

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