Summer 2023 Teaser
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
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 of seasoned concertgoers, hardcore punks and one heavy metal physicist help explain what’s going on inside mosh pits. Plus: a brief history of super sexy, on-the-mouth kissing. Hear these episodes and more in the new season of Decoder Ring. Launching July 12, 2023. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Willa Paskin, the host of Decoder Ring, Slate's podcast about cracking cultural mysteries. |
| 0:06.4 | And we're back with a new set of episodes. |
| 0:09.5 | We're looking at kissing, the romantic, sexy kind that's so ingrained, it seems like something people everywhere have always done. |
| 0:17.3 | But what do they haven't? |
| 0:18.6 | Wait, what? |
| 0:19.9 | What do they do? |
| 0:21.3 | Do they hug? |
| 0:22.6 | We're also going to dive into the mosh pit. |
| 0:24.9 | To find out if alongside the aggressive swirl of flying elbows, there might be some order. |
| 0:31.1 | Well, the first rule is, if you don't want to be in the goddamn mosh pit, get the hell out of the way. |
| 0:37.4 | And then we're going to sniff around one of Italy's best-known cheeses to be in the goddamn mosh pit. Get the hell out of the way. |
| 0:42.9 | And then we're going to sniff around one of Italy's best-known cheeses to ask a real doozy. |
| 0:48.1 | Where is the most authentic Parmesan in the world being made? |
| 0:52.9 | If you want to eat the original Parmigiano, like our great-great parents used to eat it, |
| 0:54.1 | you have to go to Wisconsin. |
| 1:00.5 | You can hear these episodes and more in the new season of decodering, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
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