Host of @Slate's Decoder Ring podcast
NYC
Joined March 2008
- Tweets4.3K
- Following1.3K
- Followers14.5K
- Likes7.1K
Seven years ago, @willapaskin began asking questions and (thankfully) never stopped. 🔎
Happy anniversary to the cultural investigative show, Decoder Ring from @Slate.
apple.co/DecoderRing
Willa Paskin retweeted
For months, I’ve been investigating a heinous crime: the wrongest bird in the history of cinema. Today I finally release the results of my investigation. (🧵)
slate.com/podcasts/decoder-r…
In these serious times, Decoder Ring asked @ForrestW to go on a serious investigation: How did the 2000 film Charlie's Angel's F*@k up its bird so badly?????
slate.com/podcasts/decoder-r…
nothing in the world makes the impossible cost of doing local reporting—from City Hall to the sports desk— more stark than the only truly thriving American newspaper refusing to do it anymore
Compelled to come out of TV critic retirement for Brenda
slate.com/culture/2024/07/sh…
i think if i were really brave i would do an episode on... why men have turned sitting on the toilet into a 30 minute ritual
Willa Paskin retweeted
it's so good ! listen and also — if you don't yet subscribe to Slate Plus, do it for this! not only does membership support this kind of (incredibly labor intensive, meaningful) work, you will get the first 5 episodes this week and the final 2 next week ! xitter.cf/Slate/status/179329194…
1/ OUT NOW: Slow Burn Season 9: Gays Against Briggs
Host @c_cauterucci explores one of the most consequential civil rights battles in American history: the first-ever statewide vote on gay rights.
🎧link.chtbl.com/yxMeVIiA
ALT Slow Burn cover art: a powerful image of a street protest with signs like "Help Stop Briggs" and "No! On the Briggs Initiative" with an activist in the center under the "Slow Burn" artwork with their fist in the air.
Latest Decoder Ring is a fantastic, searing, vulnerable, smart, moving one from @katie_shep about the fat suit, its history, prevalence, persistence and all around wtf-ness. It'll stay with you.
slate.com/podcasts/decoder-r…
Willa Paskin retweeted
Extremely NYC specific story:
Central Park is introducing new pizza box shaped recycling bins so people can recycle their pizza boxes, in an effort to stem the rat tide
nbcnewyork.com/news/local/ny…
New Decoder Ring: @dadjmi and @butlerwills, the playwright and composer of the new play Stereophonic, came and talked to us all about how to make (dope) music for a fake band. This one sounds real good! slate.com/podcasts/decoder-r…
Not to be all teacher teacher but I think just about anyone interested in magazines and/or who works in media will learn something they did not know about the business from the latest Decoder Ring slate.com/podcasts/decoder-r…
Just a couple decades ago stylists were rare—and secretive. Now, well, you know. @trufelman told us how it all changed: it involves Hollywood getting pissy with French couture, Joan Crawford's shoulder pads, Joan & Melissa Rivers and us laughing
slate.com/podcasts/decoder-r…
Willa Paskin retweeted
What exactly does a Celebrity Stylist do? And where does this job come from?
It was a surprising answer. And it involved talking to the one and only Melissa Rivers.
I was so honored to make this story with @willapaskin and @Slate on Decoder Ring!
articlesofinterest.substack.…
Willa Paskin retweeted
We are so excited to have Decoder Ring featured in Times Square this week. Thank you to @PlayMorePods!
You can hear new stories ad-free every week on @PlayMorePods, where you can find Decoder Ring and all your Slate favorites without the ads!
🎧 music.amazon.com/podcasts/2f…
ALT Image of Times Square billboard that reads "Cracking cultural mysteries at Slate" on a pink background with Decoder Ring's cover art to the right.
Willa Paskin retweeted
"@willapaskin knows the secret potential of trivial cultural phenomena: If not a window into the soul of a society, per se, then a good yarn to share at a cocktail party."
Thanks to @nytimes & @uugwuu for naming Decoder Ring a best podcast of 2023!
nytimes.com/2023/12/04/arts/…
Last Decoder Ring of the year is a good one, about a forgotten video game and a past that's never really past slate.com/podcasts/decoder-r…
