Willa Paskin

@ankurb @Slate Thanks for the flag and sorry about this—we are doing something on our backend so... might be that

@willapaskin @slate I don’t know what just happened, but every single Decoder Ring episode since 2018 just got pushed to my Spotify podcast feed as a “new” episode (including many that I definitely had marked as listened). Maybe it’s a Spotify bug (if it happens with other podcasts), but if not, maybe someone at Slate republished too many files?

I still can’t believe I got to make an episode of Decoder Ring on my favorite topic : teeth! Specifically, why do Americans bad-mouth British teeth? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Lol x.com/ApplePodcasts/…

@TheeGiantess absolutely!

@willapaskin So late to the decoder ring party—so good! Do you accept show topic ideas?

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/decod…

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/decod…

@austinkleon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minuscule…

A bunch of folks asked for the full rundown of the movies I’ve watched with my two boys, so here are my pizza + movie logbooks 2021-2024 More about our Friday night ritual here: austinkleon.substack.com/p/pizza-night-…

So, we’ve been doing pizza night and a movie for about 4 years now, and, I’m sorry, you can disagree, but there just aren’t that many knockout movies for kids under 10 out there

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

@Petit_Smudge @SlatePodcasts it's true! when we did the Jane Fonda ep we came across some insane stat, that like well over 50 percent of beds sold some year in the late 1970s were water beds. Seemed... implausible! but made me curious

Waterbeds are just SCREAMING to get their own decoder ring ep @willapaskin @SlatePodcasts

Compelled to come out of TV critic retirement for Brenda slate.com/culture/2024/0…

@jatomic 😊 thank you!!

@NickMalawskey @nikkithekid we know :)

@nikkithekid @willapaskin It’s a ruse. We’re all just scrolling Reddit

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

@tinymediaempire lol

@willapaskin Daniel Danger, repeat guest.

@whittlz LOL 🤮

@cristinamarras Quince?

@willapaskin how on earth do you spell this week's sponsor? Is it Queens? Quins? Ku-ins? Oh please, do give spelling! Cannot find it anywhere! 😭 English (unlike Italian or Japanese) is NOT a phonetic language, there are many ways to spell the same sound. Please!

@mayoknave ❤️

@willapaskin Yeah! I imagine. I was born in 1970 so that show was not on my radar. I feel like we are all in the same boat of trying to balance cynicism with doing whatever little we can these days compared to back then. So, I think the show did its job.

@willapaskin Hey! I really liked the way you wrapped up that Captain Planet episode. Really well written and compelling. Thanks for that.

@mayoknave It was kind of a hard a needle to thread tbh

@mayoknave Thank you!

@Emma07Emr !! ❤️

@willapaskin Wanted to express my love for the podcast by practicing in After Effects. I mixed the Riviera song with the Decoder Ring theme song. 🤣